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By Terray Sylvester and Steve Holland
PARADISE, Calif. (Reuters) – The weather forecast on Sunday announced rain in northern California burned by fire and burned by smoke, forecasters said.
The fires have already left at least 76 dead and the number of missing has risen from 1,276 to 1,276, despite authorities that have located hundreds of people who have dispersed when the camp's fire devastated the mountainous city from Paradise.
It is expected that it will rain until four inches of rain late Tuesday to Friday in the foothills of the Sierra, announced the weather forecast center of the National Meteorological Service, including in Paradise , which was virtually wiped out by the camp fire.
"No one could have imagined that this would ever happen," President Donald Trump told reporters during his visit to Paradise Saturday amidst the charred wreck of the Skyway Villa Mobile Home & RV Park. from the city.
The forensic recovery teams were to continue to examine the charred wreck Sunday, relying on DNA to confirm their identities.
The rain will also fall on San Francisco, helping to clear the air laden with unhealthy smoke from the campfire located about 280 km to the north.
Some sporting events were canceled Saturday in the San Francisco Bay Area, while the Environmental Protection Agency had measured "unhealthy" air quality, the San Francisco Chronicle and other media reported. Elderly people and children were asked to stay indoors.
The rain will help solve this problem, said Patrick Burke, forecaster at the National Meteorological Service's Weather Prediction Center in College Park, Maryland.
However, the rain will be a "two shots," he said.
"This will provide much-needed relief for firefighters and air quality, but dangerous mudslides can occur every time vegetation is burned on slopes and hills," he said. .
"The rain will be steady until Friday with about three inches and places that can get at least four inches of rain," he said. "And here again, wherever the vegetation is destroyed, there is not much to keep the soil and debris in place."
Rainfall of up to two inches of rain is also expected to hit southern California this week, including north of Sacramento, where the so-called Woolsey fire has killed at least three people, Burke said.
On Saturday, two forensic anthropologists from the University of Nevada, Reno, were helping firefighters sort through the debris of a mobile home park for seniors in Paradise.
Firefighters detached the sheet from a collapsed roof while anthropologists were recovering visibly calcined bone fragments, sorting them into paper bags.
Roger Fielding, deputy chief coroner for the Martin County Sheriff's Office, said that each site was treated like a crime scene and that every step of his recovery was documented with photographs.
"Our job is to pick up everything that can reflect the person's identity," he said.
During his visit on Saturday, California Governor Jerry Brown and Governor-elect Gavin Newsom accompanied Trump. Brown said the federal government was doing what it needed to do, including supporting first responders and helping clean up and search for victims.
Trump blamed the recent wave of fires for the mismanagement of the forest, and said he discussed the issue with Brown and Newsom during their trip to paradise.
More than a week later, firefighters were able to carve containment lines around 55% of the perimeter of the fire.
In addition to the loss of life, the material damage caused by the fire has made this fire the most destructive in California's history, posing the additional challenge of providing long-term shelter for thousands of displaced residents.
(Reports by Terray Sylvester and Steve Holland, additional reports by Alex Dobuzinskis in Los Angeles, Brendan O-Brien in Milwaukee, Peter Szekely in New York and Rich McKay in Atlanta, edited by Susan Fenton)
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