Forty people are now dead in what have become the deadliest and most destructive fires in California's history.
The fires have consumed nearly 214,000 acres north of San Francisco, with the state's governor Jerry Brown describing the scene as a "horror that no one could have imagined".
He said: "This is truly one of the greatest tragedies that California has ever faced.
"The devastation is just unbelievable."
The victims were aged between 14 and 100, most of them elderly.
Many of them were thought to have died between late 8 October and early 9 October, when the fires emerged and took many people by surprise.
There are still around 300 people missing but authorities are confident many of these will be found alive.
Sonoma County accounted for 22 of the fatalities and more than 200 of the missing.
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