At least 31 people have died in connection with the fast moving wildfires in Northern California.
- Prison inmates help fight fires
- Hundreds of people still missing
This makes it the deadliest week of wildfires in the state's history.
Hundreds of people are still missing and firefighters are struggling to battle the flames.
"This is absolutely the worst fire I've ever seen in California. I think it's because the amount of people affected. You have whole swaths of neighborhoods it looks like a bomb has gone off. It looks like we've been bombed," said Capt. Andy Bozzo of the Contra Costa County Fire Protection District.
Fire rescue officials are being worked so hard that they had to turn to inmates to help battle the flames.
So far, almost 4,000 inmates have been assigned to help.
Real recovery would have to wait for firefighters to bring under control the 21 wildfires spanning more than 300 square miles (777 square kilometers). Most were less than 10 percent contained.
New evacuations were still being ordered for fires that broke out on Sunday night.
The Associated Press contributed to this story.