The death toll in massive wildfires in the US state of California have risen to 38 with hundreds of people still missing. Fast-moving fires spread by shifting winds forced some 100,000 people from their homes, including 3,000 evacuated yesterday from the city of Santa Rosa, about 80 km north of San Francisco, and another 250 from nearby Sonoma city. <br/><br/>About 10,000 firefighters supported by air tankers and helicopters overhead were battling 16 major wildfires, some encompassing several smaller merged blazes, in areas north of San Francisco that have consumed nearly 214,000 acres over seven days, an area larger than New York City.<br/><br/>The fires have damaged or destroyed about 5,700 structures, reducing homes and businesses to ash. The fires death toll surpassed the 29 deaths from the Griffith Park fire of 1933 in Los Angeles.