John Locher, The Associated PressSearch and rescue workers search for human remains at a trailer park burned by the Camp Fire, Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2018, in Paradise, Calif.
Hector Amezcua, The Sacramento Bee via APJoseph Grado and his wife, Susan Grado, embrace while staying at a shelter for fire victims at East Avenue Church, Monday, Nov. 12, 2018, in Chico, Calif. They lost their Paradise home in the Camp Fire. The shelter is staffed by a doctor and nurses from Feather River Hospital, who are volunteering despite being fire victims themselves.
Gillian Flaccus, The Associated PressMessages are shown on a bulletin board at The Neighborhood Church in Chico, Calif., on Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2018. Numerous postings fill the message board as evacuees, family and friends search for people missing from the northern California wildfire.
Gillian Flaccus, The Associated PressWildfire evacuee Greg Gibson looks for information about his missing neighbors at The Neighborhood Church in Chico, Calif., on Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2018. The fire exploded so quickly, Gibson said, that he first noticed the bottom of a shed burning about one-quarter of a mile from his house and by the time he reached the home he shares with an elderly woman, the fire was on all sides. He helped his 79-year-old roommate into her car and they fled.
Gillian Flaccus, The Associated PressLinda Rawlings, a wildfire evacuee, sits outside a hotel in Corning, Calif., after finding out that her home in Magalia is gone.
Marcus Yam, Los Angeles Times via TNSJessica Sijan, whose family is from Paradise and lost everything to the Camp Fire, volunteers to sort out clothes for evacuees gathered at a Walmart parking lot in Chico, Calif., on Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2018.
John Locher, The Associated PressNews reporters stand in an area burned by a wildfire, Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2018, in Paradise, Calif.
Marcio Jose Sanchez, The Associated PressCapt. Adrian Murrieta with the Los Angeles County Fire Dept., hoses down hot spots on a wildfire-ravaged home Saturday, Nov. 10, 2018, in Malibu, Calif. Scores of houses from ranch homes to celebrities' mansions burned in a pair of wildfires that stretched across more than 100 square miles of Southern California, authorities said Saturday.
Frederic J. BROWN , AFPKatherine Marinara and her son Luca find what they came back to look for, old family photographs, at their burnt down house resulting from the Woolsey Fire on Busch Drive in Malibu, California on Nov. 13, 2018. - At least 44 deaths have been reported so far from the late-season wildfires and with hundreds of people unaccounted for the toll is likely to rise, as thousands of weary firefighters waged a pitched battle against the deadliest infernos in California's history. FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP/Getty Images
Frederic J. BROWN , AFPTOPSHOT - Katherine Marinara and her son Luca return to their fire-ravaged home along Busch Drive in Malibu, California on Nov. 13, 2018, as they search for belongings. - At least 44 deaths have been reported so far from the late-season wildfires and with hundreds of people unaccounted for the toll is likely to rise, as thousands of weary firefighters waged a pitched battle against the deadliest infernos in California's history. FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP/Getty Images
John Locher, The Associated PressSarah Gronseth kisses her dog Branch in the bed of a truck in a parking lot, Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2018, in Chico Calif. Gronseth, a teacher, evacuated some of her high school students in her truck as the fire bore down on the high school in Paradise, Calif. She lost her home in the fire.
Marcus Yam, Los Angeles Times, TNSLA County firefighter Battalion 13 Captain Victor Correa helps put out hotspot in a neighborhood razed by the Woolsey fire on Harvester road in Malibu, Calif., on Nov. 12, 2018.
John Locher, The Associated PressShawn Slack carries a chainsaw after felling trees burned in the Camp Fire, Monday, Nov. 12, 2018, in Paradise, Calif.
Ringo H.W. Chiu, The Associated PressA firefighter battles a fire along the Ronald Reagan Freeway, aka state Highway 118, in Simi Valley, Calif., Monday, Nov. 12, 2018.
Ringo H.W. Chiu, The Associated PressAn air tanker drops water on a fire along the Ronald Reagan (118) Freeway in Simi Valley, Calif., Monday, Nov. 12, 2018.
Kent Nishimura, Los Angeles Times, TNSFirefighters working to put out hotspots in and around structures destroyed by the Woolsey fire watch as a plume of smoke rises from near the Chatsworth reservoir in West Hills, on Sunday, Nov. 11, 2018 in Los Angeles, Calif.
Calvin Alagot, Los Angeles Times, TNSA helicopter battle the Woolsey wild fire in the hills above Pepperdine University in Malibu, Friday, Nov. 9, 2018.
John Locher, The Associated PressA sign stands at a community destroyed by the Camp fire, Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2018, in Paradise, Calif.
John Locher, The Associated PressMembers of the Sacramento County Coroner's office look for human remains in the rubble of a house burned at the Camp Fire, Monday, Nov. 12, 2018, in Paradise, Calif.
Marcus Yam, Los Angeles Times, TNSResidents watch from their roofs as firefighters stop the forward progress of the Peak Fire which temporarily affect traffic on the 118 freeway in Simi Valley, Calif., on Nov. 12, 2018.
John Locher, The Associated PressA spiral staircase stands in the remains of a burned out home from the Camp Fire, Saturday, Nov. 10, 2018, in Paradise, Calif.
Noah Berger, The Associated PressSheriff's deputies recover the remains of a victim of the Camp Fire on Saturday, Nov. 10, 2018, in Paradise, Calif.
Paul Elias, The Associated PressCathy Fallon sits near her dog Shiloh, a 2-year-old golden retriever, whose face was burned in the fire in Paradise, Calif. Saturday, Nov. 10, 2018. Shiloh needs veterinarian treatment. But she can't leave her property because authorities won't allow her to return to Paradise, since the entire town is still under an evacuation order. Fallon and Shiloh are spending nights in this horse trailer because the family home burned.
John Locher, The Associated PressKrystin Harvey, left, comforts her daughter Araya Cipollini at the remains of their home burned in the Camp Fire, Saturday, Nov. 10, 2018, in Paradise, Calif. The blaze that started Thursday outside the hilly town of Paradise has grown and destroyed more than 6,700 buildings, almost all of them homes, making it California's most destructive wildfire since record-keeping began. But crews have made gains and the fire is partially contained, officials said Saturday.
Noah Berger, The Associated PressAbandoned cars, scorched by the wildfire, line Pearson Rd. in Paradise, Calif., on Saturday, Nov. 10, 2018. Not much is left in Paradise after a ferocious wildfire roared through the Northern California town as residents fled and entire neighborhoods are leveled.
Noah Berger, Associated Press fileIn this Thursday, Nov. 8, 2018, file photo flames consume a home as the Camp Fire tears through Paradise, Calif.
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Search and rescue workers search for human remains at a trailer park burned by the Camp Fire, Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2018, in Paradise, Calif.
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