The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department is working to locate and identify dozens of missing persons from the wildfires.

Well over a week after wildfires quickly spread across Southern California causing chaos and forcing last-minute evacuations, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department is working to identify and locate dozens of missing people.

The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Homicide Bureau has released the identities of at least 17 people who are still at-risk, missing since the start of the wildfires in Southern California. A total of 31 missing person cases are still actively being investigated.

A quick-strike crew of Native American firefighters and journeymen utility workers from the Navajo Nation are helping Los Angeles residents cut through landslides, mangled trees and charred debris of

Dozens of people are believed to have died in the Palisades and Eaton fires, which have burned down whole swaths of communities