Los Angeles: The Oakland Raiders’ NFL home game against the Los Angeles Chargers is set to be played as scheduled on Sunday despite the poor air quality caused by fires raging in Northern California.

“Sunday’s game against the Chargers remains scheduled for 1.25 pm at the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum,” the Raiders said in a statement posted on their website.

More than 30 people have died in the fires that have swept through California’s wine country, leaving thousands of people homeless and burning more than 76,000 hectares of land.

A pall of smoke has reached south to Oakland, where the Raiders cut their training short for a second day in a row on Thursday because of poor air quality. Some players wore masks under their helmets as they practiced.

The NFL said on Thursday it was in close communication with both teams as it continued to monitor air quality in the Bay Area.

Meanwhile, Dallas owner Jerry Jones called the court decision that reinstated the NFL’s six-game ban of Cowboys running back Ezekiel Elliot a “setback” and said he didn’t think the player had been treated fairly.

The fifth US Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans voted 2-1 in favour of the NFL in a ruling on Thursday that a court in Texas couldn’t block the suspension.

The NFL promptly said the ban was in effect, although Elliott, his lawyers and the NFL Players Association were expected to make further challenges.

Jones, speaking on a Dallas radio programme, said NFL commissioner Roger Goodell had the authority to impose suspension, but reiterated his belief that the process in Elliott’s case wasn’t fair.

“The question was ultimately going to be does [Goodell] have to follow in practice a fair way, and Zeke and his team and the Cowboys do not think that it was done in a fair way,” Jones said. “We are trying to get that looked at, and we got a setback yesterday.”

Jones said the team will support Elliott as the running back seeks to have his suspension overturned.

“It’s not the thing to do right now to get into how we will respond, but we support Zeke,” Jones said. “I’m very familiar with all of the facts and details of this case. Very familiar. More than anything I’ve ever done regarding law. Zeke did not get treated fairly here.”