The death toll from the Northern California wildfire climbed to 29 on Sunday, local officials announced, matching the deadliest wildfire in state history.
![An American flag is draped over the charred remains of an old pickup truck entering Point Dume along the pacific coast highway in Malibu, Calif., on Sunday Nov. 11, 2018. [Photo: AP/Richard Vogel]](https://imedia-peoplesdaily.oss-cn-beijing.aliyuncs.com/oss_image/2018/11/12/chinaplus.cri.cn/32826113-1663-43ef-b46c-46f7fe46d385.jpg)
An American flag is draped over the charred remains of an old pickup truck entering Point Dume along the pacific coast highway in Malibu, California, on Sunday Nov. 11, 2018. (Photo: AP)
The statewide death toll stood at 31 and appeared certain to rise with fires continuing to rage both ends of the state.
The so-called Camp fire that ravaged a swath of Northern California was the deadliest.
A total of 29 bodies have been found so far from that fire, Butte County Sheriff Kory Honea told a news briefing Sunday evening.
He said 228 people were still unaccounted for.
At least five search teams were working in Paradise - a town of 27,000 that was largely incinerated on Thursday - and in surrounding communities.
Authorities called in a mobile DNA lab and anthropologists to help identify victims.
