PARADISE, California – Latest news on California wildfires (local time):

2:40 p.m.

A newspaper reports that firefighters and state employees remove scrub and spread water to avoid damaging a reservoir and dam in northern California in the event of a forest fire.

The San Francisco Chronicle reports that work was underway Monday at Oroville Lake, while the fire is still about 10 miles from the power stations and water supply facilities.

State Water Department spokeswoman Erin Mellon said officials were closely monitoring the fire. The fire killed at least 29 people and destroyed the city of Paradise.

Oroville dam weirs, 200 meters high, collapsed and fell under the heavy rains of early 2017, causing thousands to flee, fearing catastrophic water release.

A $ 1.1 billion reconstruction project was completed last month.

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2:20 p.m.

A woman who owns a property near the place where a deadly fire started in northern California said she received an email from Pacific Gas & Electric Co. last week. Crews had to come on his property because their transmission system caused sparks.

It is still unclear what caused the huge fire that killed 29 people. PG & E said Thursday it encountered a problem on an electric transmission line near the massive fire site a few minutes before the start of the fire.

This began in the area of ​​64 acres of land located in Pulga California and owned by Betsy Ann Cowley.

She said she received an e-mail on Wednesday, the day before the start of the fire, stating that the teams had to go to her home.

Cowley stated that the email indicated that the crews were coming to work on the high-voltage lines because "they had spark problems".

PG & E declined to discuss e-mail when it was contacted by Associated Press.

Fire investigators in California were at Cowley's on Monday.

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1:15 p.m.

Fire officials in northern California said the firefighters were battling two fires in the south of the city, ravaged by a fire that killed at least 29 people.

Cal Fire's deputy chief of operations, Monty Smith, said a dense, dry vegetation fed localized fires Monday on either side of Lake Oroville.

Jonathan Pangburn, a fire behavior specialist at Cal Fire, said earlier that high winds, combined with a dry weather drought, had allowed the fire to jump over the lake on Sunday night.

Gusts of up to 64 km / h are expected to occur in the near Paradise area by Monday night.

Smith says firefighters are working on building an emergency line to prevent the fire from reaching Oroville, a city of 19,000 residents.

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12:10

Los Angeles County Fire Chief Daryl Osby said he expects new damage assessments to show that hundreds more homes have been lost, in addition to the 370 already listed among the huge fires that have erupted in southern California.

Osby also pointed out Monday that nearly 57,000 homes had been saved from the Woolsey fire, which had burned along a path of about 32 kilometers long and one year old. width of 22.5 kilometers.

Residents have been allowed to return to their homes in some areas, but according to Osby, at least 200,000 remain evacuated.

The cause of the fire remains in the study. Osby says nothing has been ruled out.

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11:30 am

A public service is increasingly criticized as a result of a deadly fire that destroyed a city in northern California and killed at least 29 people.

Pacific Gas & Electric Co. told state control authorities last week that it detected a problem on an electricity transmission line near the city of Paradise, minutes before the fire which broke out Thursday.

Paradise resident Jim Flint told KHSL / KNVN TV in the neighboring town of Chico that he was expelled from a community meeting on Sunday night after he asked a PG & E manager whether company was responsible for this deadly fire.

Flint says that he has been living in paradise for 29 years and that the threat of a forest fire has always existed, but that "the problem concerns power lines."

He adds that "we need answers from these people".

The fire destroyed more than 6,000 homes. A cause has not been determined.

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11:25

Barbara Hall calls the sheriff's shelters and office in the hope of knowing whether her aunt, Arlene and her husband, Paul Bickel, have left their homes in a retirement community in the city of Paradise, where a major fire has killed at least 29 people.

Until here, Hall was not lucky. His parents are between 80 and 90 years old and Hall is not allowed to go to heaven to see if his car is in front of a broken down house.

Hall asks, "Did they get in their car, did they leave, did their car go somewhere on the edge of a mountain, I just do not know."

Hall made a phone with her daughter's mobile phone from Redding, where her daughter lives.

The couple only had a landline in which phone numbers had been programmed and calls were not going through.

Hall says that his aunt's parents adopted his father when he was a child and that she is like a big sister.

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11:20

Gusty Santa Ana winds are reborn in southern California and firefighters are battling two new wildfires.

According to officials, fires Monday morning in the west of Los Angeles, in the Rocky Peak and Thousand Oaks areas, show that the risk of additional fires is high.

Ventura County Fire Chief Mark Lorenzen said the Rocky Peak fire covered about 8 acres and had forced the closure of State Highway 118.

The fire is bombarded with drops of water and ground crews are on the scene.

This fire began not far from the area's huge fire in Woolsey last Thursday.

The new Thousand Oaks fire extends over about 6 acres and Lorenzen thinks it will be quickly mastered.

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9am

Authorities have more than doubled their estimates of destroyed buildings in the huge forest fire of Southern California.

Officials said Monday about 370 structures had been burned and only 15% of their damage estimate had been completed.

They said over the weekend that 177 buildings had burned, while further damage assessments would be planned.

The size of the fire has also increased to more than 370 square kilometers and has been controlled to 20% Monday morning.

The blaze erupted last Thursday under the dry gusts of Santa Ana and quickly spread to communities in northwestern Los Angeles at the Malibu coast.

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7:55

California fire officials said a fire in northern California had wiped out a city and killed at least 29 people. Strong winds that could fan the flames are again expected in the area by Monday afternoon.

The California Department of Forests and Fire Protection announced Monday that the fire that began Thursday near the city of Paradise had increased by 8 km2 to extend over 303 km2. It remains content at 25%.

According to Jonathan Pangburn, fire behavior specialist at Cal Fire, the fire has been active all night and has crossed at least three times a distance of 90 meters (300 feet) in a portion of Oroville Lake .

According to officials, more than 4,500 firefighters will participate on the fourth day of their battle against the fire.

After a lull in high winds leading to dangerous fire conditions, the area near Paradise will experience gusts of wind reaching 40 mph (64 km / h) by Monday night.

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6:50

Some of the thousands forced to leave many communities because of the huge Southern California wildfire are allowed to return home.

The authorities have also reopened the American 101. It is a major artery of the highway through the fire zone of Los Angeles County and southeastern Ventura County.

Positive developments occur even though Monday's forecast is to maintain a critical fire hazard due to Santa Ana bursts and extremely low humidity levels. These conditions should last until Tuesday and maybe even Wednesday.

By Sunday evening, the fire had reached more than 334 km2 (15 km 2) and was under control at 15%.

Over the weekend, the authorities announced that 177 buildings had been set on fire, but hoped that this number would increase when new damage assessments were announced on Monday.

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12

At least 31 people died in forest fires in California. Twenty-nine people were confirmed dead and another 228 were missing in a single fire in northern California.

Ten research teams were working in the city of Paradise, largely cremated last week, and in the surrounding communities of the Sierra Nevada foothills. Authorities used a DNA lab and teams of anthropologists to help identify the victims.

Across the state, 150,000 people are still displaced as more than 8,000 members of firefighting teams fought forest fires that devastated 400 square miles (1,040 square kilometers), and that external teams continue to arrive. Fire officials warn that strong winds and minimal drought conditions threaten to multiply areas by the rest of the week.

Governor Jerry Brown declared the state of emergency and said that California was seeking the help of the Trump administration. President Donald Trump attributed the fires to the "poor" management of the forest. Brown said federal and state governments needed to do more forest management, but climate change was the main source of the problem.