AMNA NAWAZ: With calmer winds, fire crews are making progress on containing some of the major fires around the Los Angeles area.

But dry conditions and forecasts of strong winds next week suggest more dangerous conditions ahead for weary Angelenos and firefighters.

New video shows the depth and scope of the fire devastation along the Malibu coast.

More than 80,000 people remain evacuated, and some are growing frustrated they can't return to check on their homes.

Local authorities said today that residents may not be able to do so for at least another week.

ROBERT LUNA, Los Angeles County, California, Sheriff: There are areas that we are holding because we believe there may be deceased victims there.

We have to hold for the right time and the right resources to process the scene correctly, and that's going to take a little while.

AMNA NAWAZ: So far, at least 25 people are dead and dozens still missing.

While the fires have brought vast destruction and loss, we have also witnessed the best of humanity, Californians stepping up to help their neighbors in any way they can.

We spoke to many of those people working around the clock to help those affected.

Here is some of what they told us.

BRITTANY THORN, Executive Director, Best Friends Animal Society: My name is Brittany Thorn and I'm the executive director for Best Friends Animal Society in Los Angeles.

The last week has all felt pretty chaotic, from when we first saw the flames from the roof of our building.

We have been going out to any of the local shelters that are being impacted by these awful fires.

That would be the L.A. County shelters, L.A.

Animal Services, as well as, of course, Pasadena Humane.

And we have been pulling in animals that were already in their standing population.

So these are not animals that are currently being displaced by the fires, but we know that those animals are coming in and so we wanted to create as much space as possible in the shelters.

If we are able to get animals out on a flight to our sanctuary in Utah, and then from there they will be sent to other rescue organizations as well.

VICTOR DOMINGUEZ, President and CEO, YMCA of Metropolitan Los Angeles: My name is Victor Dominguez, and I am the president and CEO for the YMCA of Metropolitan Los Angeles.

Almost immediately, we started 15 distribution sites across the county of Los Angeles.

We have engaged more than 20,000 volunteers in less than a week.

We opened up all of our facilities free of charge so that if anyone needed to take a shower, anyone needed family time, anyone needed well-being time, that they had access to any of my 27 YMCAs across the county.

JACKIE FILLA, President and CEO, Hotel Association of Los Angeles: My name is Jackie Filla, and I'm the president and CEO of the Hotel Association of Los Angeles.

We wanted to make sure people understood, number one, rooms were available and we also wanted to have kind of a one-talk shop, so they weren't calling around and trying to figure out what was available in the area they wanted to be, in the type of accommodation they wanted to be.

Me and my mighty team of one other person, Veronica (ph), we wanted to create this document with access to what are legitimate special offers being offered at the hotels.

Our goal was to centralize as much information about accommodation as quickly as possible and to push it out to folks.

FIRAS AYYAD, No Res Gourmet: My name is Firas Ayyad, and, along with Erik Armstrong, we are the founders and operators of No Res Gourmet.

We are a 501(c)(3) nonprofit.

And our mission is to address hunger in the United States.

We cook meals and we distribute to those in need.

So this is a similar idea, but, obviously, on a much larger scale, which required the activation of as many people as possible.

Many, many people made those $25 donations, which supported a lot of the expenses for the groceries and things we needed.

There's forms for people to request supplies and food.

We had to track volunteers, who's doing what, and then it was multiple locations.

This church that we're talking from right now, Grace Church of Glendora, where the main kitchen is operating.

There's another kitchen in Gardena, and we're kind of overseeing all of that.

ANDREW GRUEL, Calico Fish House: My name is Andrew Gruel.

I'm the owner and chef at Calico Restaurant with my wife, Lauren Gruel.

I think it was Wednesday or Thursday and I said anybody who needs a place to stay just for a temporary period of time, come down.

We have got 80 parking spots in our restaurant.

And then when Lauren put out that call to action the donations, it's funny because we're like, oh, it's going to be two boxes worth.

And fast-forward, what, like 12 to 24 hours later, we had three full Amazon trucks full of products that immediately got delivered.

We had volunteers on every part of the political spectrum, people dressed in MAGA gear and then people who were dressed in like the opposing gear all coming together helping each other out, loading trucks up.

Like, it was -- it's just the greatest feeling.

LAUREN GRUEL, Calico Fish House: We have had kids as young as 6 to individuals in their 70s coming to volunteer.

ANDREW GRUEL: Yes.

LAUREN GRUEL: So it's really everybody is coming -- is coming together to help.