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

The death toll from the Los Angeles wildfires rose to 25 on Thursday, while at least 36 people remain missing, city and county authorities said.

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.

As the death toll from wildfires in Los Angeles County climbs to 27, officials with the sheriff’s department announced that 31 active missing persons cases remain under investigation. In a news release,