The death toll from the deadliest and most destructive wildfire in California's history rose further yesterday to 77, according to the the local sheriff's office.
The number of people unaccounted for has fallen to 993, down from a peak of more than 1,200, a statement from the Butte County Sheriff said.
More than 12,000 homes have been destroyed in the blaze which has destroyed an area roughly the size of Chicago, and essentially wiped the community of Paradise off the map.
Thousands fled and many found temporary refuge at churches or in tents.
President Donald Trump surveyed the remains of Paradise during a visit on Saturday, and also toured the damage from another fire further south in Malibu, where three people died.
By early yesterday, the blaze was 60% contained, said authorities.
Full containment is expected by Thursday, which is Thanksgiving in the US.
Rain is forecast for the area this week, potentially helping douse the flames but raising the risk of flooding and mudslides, adding to the misery of 46,000 people under evacuation orders.
While many people affected have gone to stay with family and friends elsewhere, others have pitched tents or started to camp out of their vehicles.
The death toll far surpasses the previous fatality record from a single California wildfire - 29 in the Griffith Park fire of 1933 in Los Angeles - and already ranks among the deadliest US wildfires since the turn of the last century.
Eighty-seven people perished in the Big Burn firestorm that swept the Northern Rockies in August 1910.
Minnesota's Cloquet Fire in October 1918 killed 450 people.
In Paradise, the flames moved so fast that some victims died in their cars in a chaotic evacuation as gridlock formed on the two exit routes out of town.
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The Butte County Sheriff's Office said the list of the missing is compiled using information received from a special hotline, as well as emails and emergency-911 calls that came in during the first chaotic hours of the blaze.
Authorities said some of those listed likely survived but have not yet notified family or officials, either because they lack phone service or were unaware anyone was looking for them.
In Paradise, which was home to nearly 27,000 people before the Camp Fire struck, two forensic anthropologists for the University of Nevada were helping firefighters on Saturday sort through the wreckage at a mobile home park for senior citizens.
Firefighters peeled back the metal sheet of a collapsed roof as the anthropologists picked up charred bone fragments, sorting them into paper bags.
Roger Fielding, chief deputy coroner with the Martin County Sheriff's Office, said each site was treated as a crime scene, with every step of recovery documented with photographs.
"Our job is to pick up any items that might reflect who this person might be," he said.
Besides the toll on human life, property losses from the blaze make it the most destructive in California history, posing the additional challenge of providing long-term shelter for many thousands of displaced residents.
Up to 10cm of rain is expected to fall from tomorrow through Friday in the Sierra foothills, the National Weather Service's Weather Prediction Center said.
Rain will also drop on San Francisco, helping to clear the air filled with unhealthy levels of smoke.
