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More than 100 firefighters are tackling the flames, which have sent large clouds of grey smoke into the air.

Sources familiar with the investigation say much of the focus has been on whether an eight-acre blaze sparked by fireworks a week earlier that firefighters thought they had extinguished in the same area had reignited.

The Fire Department remains committed to diversity, including the recruitment of more female firefighters, she said.

As well as firefighters, local volunteers worked around the clock to try to keep the wildfire under control.

Others showed firefighters working among toppled and blackened cargo containers, and carrying out the body of a victim.