The death toll in California continues to rise in the aftermath of the nation’s deadliest wildfires to date. At least 74 people are reported dead with more than 1,000 still reported missing. The Golden State will never be the same in the wake of the Woolsey Fire, Camp Fire and Hill Fire that ravaged its iconic landscape. The Associated Press reports that currently over 650 structures, predominantly private residences, are gone.
Memories are the only thing left in some areas like Paradise. The former gold-mining camp, which was a popular town for retirees and visitors alike, has been leveled to nothing but a pile of debris. Other areas like Malibu and Agoura Hills are unrecognizable. While celebrities like Gerard Butler and Miley Cyrus have lost their homes entirely, it’s the locals who have lost generations of memories.
Furthermore, smoke from the wildfires “is creating a health hazard that experts say could lead to an increase in serious health problems, especially for children and the elderly,” reports the Associated Press. The San Francisco skyline is barely visible through the smog, while the state capitol building in Sacramento is shrouded as well. New images show locals walking around affected areas in gas masks as health concerns grow strong. In Chico, hundreds of people are already waiting in line in hopes of receiving federal aide.
We rounded up new photos of the heartbreaking aftermath as California looks to put the pieces back together. Check back for updated pics as fire-related news unfolds through out the weekend.
See new photos of California after the fires below:
Saturday Nov. 17, 2018
President Donald Trump talks to Mayor Jody Jones as he visits a neighborhood impacted by the wildfires in Paradise, CA. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
President Donald Trump visits a neighborhood impacted by the Woolsey Fire in Malibu, CA. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
President Donald Trump talks with from left, Gov.-elect Gavin Newsom, California Gov. Jerry Brown, Paradise Mayor Jody Jones and FEMA Administrator Brock Longduring a visit to a neighborhood destroyed by the wildfires in Paradise, CA. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
President Donald Trump arrives at Beale Air Force Base for a visit to areas impacted by the wildfires in California. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Friday Nov. 16, 2018
The Golden Gate Bridge is obscured by smoke and haze from wildfires Friday, Nov. 16, 2018, in this view from Fort Baker near Sausalito, CA. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)
A couple wears masks while walking at Fisherman’s Wharf through smoke and haze from wildfires in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)
Aquatic Park and Ghirardelli Square in the background is obscured by smoke and haze from wildfires in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)
A firefighter searches for human remains in a trailer park destroyed in the Camp Fire in Paradise, CA. (AP Photo/John Locher)
A search and rescue dog searches for human remains at the Camp Fire in Paradise, CA. (AP Photo/John Locher)
People sit by their tents at a makeshift encampment outside a Walmart store for people displaced by the Camp Fire in Chico, CA. (AP Photo/John Locher)
Tera Hickerson, right, and Columbus Holt embrace as they look at a board with information for services at a makeshift encampment outside a Walmart store for people displaced by the Camp Fire in Chico, CA. The two, from Paradise, CA., escaped the fire and don’t know if their house is still standing. (AP Photo/John Locher)
Thursday Nov. 15, 2018
The skyline is obscured by smoke and haze from wildfires as a tour boat makes its way along the waterfront in San Francisco. Recurring wildfires are sparking concern among medical experts about potentially major health consequences. Worsening asthma, lung disease and even heart attacks in heart disease patients have all been linked with previous fires. But blazes that used to be seasonal are happening nearly year-round and increasingly spreading into cities. That’s exposing many more people to choking smoke that contains many of the same toxic ingredients as urban air pollution. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)
Residences leveled by the wildfire line a neighborhood in Paradise, CA. The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection said Thursday the wildfire that destroyed the town of Paradise is now 40 percent contained, up from 30 percent Wednesday morning. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)
Smoke hangs over the scorched remains of Old Town Plaza following the wildfire in Paradise, CA. The shopping center housed a Safeway and other businesses. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)
A before photo is placed on the remains of a building leveled in the Woolsey Fire at decimated Paramount Ranch during U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke’s visit to the ranch in Agoura Hills, CA. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
A before photo is placed on the remains of a building leveled in the Woolsey Fire as U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke casts a shadow while talking to firefighters at decimated Paramount Ranch in Agoura Hills, CA. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
A sheriff’s deputy recovers the remains of a Camp Fire victim from an overturned car in Paradise, CA. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)
Gloves rest in a scorched car after the Camp Fire burned through Paradise, CA. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)
Investigators recover human remains at a home burned in the Camp Fire in Magalia, CA. Many of the missing in the deadly Northern California wildfire are elderly residents in Magalia, a forested town of about 11,000 north of the destroyed town of Paradise. (AP Photo/John Locher)
Volunteer rescue workers search for human remains in the rubble of homes burned in the Camp Fire in Paradise, CA. Dozens of people died and perhaps several hundred are unaccounted for in the nation’s deadliest wildfire in a century. (AP Photo/Terry Chea)
U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke, center, visits decimated Paramount Ranch Thursday in Agoura Hills, CA. The landmark film location was burned to the ground by the Woolsey Fire. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
Many people don masks to deal with the smoke from the Camp Fire in Sacramento, CA. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)
A light-rail train passes in front of the smoke shrouded state Capitol in Sacramento, CA. Smoke from the Camp Fire that burned through the Butte County city of Paradise is creating a health hazard that experts say could lead to an increase in serious health problems, especially for children and the elderly. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)
Wednesday Nov. 14, 2018
Denise Chester, an evacuee of the Camp Fire, hugs her son Antonio Batres as she volunteers sorting clothes at a makeshift shelter in Chico, CA. Chester, who doesn’t want to know yet whether her home survived, said “I want to help. I don’t want to shut down.” (AP Photo/Noah Berger)
A sign hangs beside a tent at a makeshift shelter for evacuees of the Camp Fire in Chico, CA. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)
Suzanne Kaksonen, an evacuee of the Camp Fire, and her cockatoo Buddy camp at a makeshift shelter outside a Walmart store in Chico, CA. Kaksonen lost her Paradise home in the blaze. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)
Eric Bass, left, and Troy Bledsoe, evacuees of the Camp Fire, spend time at a makeshift shelter outside a Walmart store in Chico, CA. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)
Members of the California Army National Guard search a property for human remains at the Camp fire in Paradise, CA. (AP Photo/John Locher)
Tape marks a spot where sheriff’s deputies recovered the body of a Camp Fire victim in Paradise, CA. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)
Tuesday Nov. 13, 2018
Roger Kelton, 67, wipes his tears while searching through the remains of his mother-in-law’s home burned down by the Woolsey Fire in Agoura Hills, CA. “We saw the pictures Friday of the house on fire,” said Kelton. “We knew it was gone but still haven’t had my good cry yet. I’ve been trying to be strong for my daughter, my wife and my mother-in-law.” (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
Roger Kelton searches through the remains of his mother-in-law’s home burned down by the Woolsey Fire. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
A melted fence runs along a hillside in Agoura Hills, CA after the area was ravaged by the Woolsey Fire. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
A mansion burned down by the Woolsey Fire sits on a hilltop overlooking the Santa Monica Mountains in Agoura Hills, CA. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
A sign stands at a community destroyed by the Camp fire in Paradise, CA. Most homes are gone, as are hundreds of shops and other buildings. The supermarket, the hardware store, Dolly-O-Donuts & Gifts where locals started their day with a blueberry fritter and a quick bit of gossip, all gone. The town quite literally went up in smoke and flames in the deadliest, most destructive wildfire in California history. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)
Above shows the remains of the Gold Nugget Museum, which was totally demolished by the Camp Fire, in Paradise, CA. (AP Photo/Martha Mendoza, File)
Above, news reporters are seeing standing in an area burned by a wildfire, in Paradise, CA. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)
A search and rescue workers searches a car for human remains at a trailer park burned out from the Camp Fire in Paradise, CA. (AP Photo/John Locher)
Southern California Edison crews work to replace burned power poles and lines destroyed by the Woolsey Fire over a burned-over hillside along Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu in Southern CA. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)
The Gold Nugget Museum, which was totally demolished by the Camp Fire, is shown above in Paradise, CA. (AP Photo/Martha Mendoza)
The Malibu, CA., villa of German TV presenter Thomas Gottschalk lies in ruins from the Woolsey fire. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)
A long line of residents seeking to return to Malibu, Calif., in Southern California wait at a checkpoint on Pacific Coast Highway after Woolsey Fire evacuation orders were lifted for the eastern portion of the city. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)
Messages are shown on a bulletin board at The Neighborhood Church in Chico, CA. Numerous postings fill the message board as evacuees, family and friends search for people missing from the northern California wildfire. (AP Photo/Gillian Flaccus)
Monday Nov. 12, 2018
A pair of deckhands on a commuter ferryboat talk as the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge is obscured by wildfire smoke and haze in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)
A member of the Sacramento County Coroner’s office looks for human remains in the rubble of a house burned at the Camp Fire in Paradise, CA. (AP Photo/John Locher)
Members of the Sacramento County Coroner’s office look for human remains in the rubble of a house burned at the Camp Fire in Paradise, CA. (AP Photo/John Locher)
Fire crews clear rubble from the road near a building burned in the Camp Fire in Paradise, CA. (AP Photo/John Locher)
Sunday Nov. 11, 2018
The sign is all that remains of Kristy’s Roadhouse Malibu restaurant, Sunday, Nov. 11, 2018, after flames tore across hillsides in canyon areas in Agoura Hills, CA. Strong Santa Ana winds returned to Southern California on Sunday, fanning a huge wildfire that has scorched a string of communities west of Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Christopher Weber)
A burned out hot tub and a fireplace are all that remains of a house in Point Dume, Malibu, CA. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel)
An American flag is draped over the charred remains of an old pickup truck entering Point Dume along the pacific coast highway in Malibu, CA. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel)
Burned trees surround a destroyed home leaving only the fireplace in Point Dume in Malibu, CA. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel)
Saturday Nov. 10, 2018
A deer walks past a destroyed home on Orrin Lane after the wildfire burned through Paradise, CA. (AP Photo/Noah Berger, File)
Patrick Knuthson walks along his property near trees burned in the Camp Fire in Paradise, CA. Knuthson a fourth-generation local struggled to make sense of what he was seeing. He pointed out what used to be a saloon-style pub, his favorite Mexican restaurant, a classic California motel, the pawn shop, a Real Estate office, a liquor store, entire trailer parks and other places. (AP Photo/John Locher)
Firefighters Jason Toole, right, and Brent McGill with the Santa Barbara Fire Dept. walk among the ashes of a wildfire-ravaged home after turning off an open gas line on the property in Malibu, CA. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)
Vehicles and a home are in ruins, one of at least 20 homes that were lost on Windermere Drive in the Point Dume area of Malibu, CA. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)
Lead image by AP Photo/Eric Risberg