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Napa - 9 October 2017

1. Flames raging ++NIGHT SHOT++

2. The sun rises over wildfires

3. Various of entire houses being eaten by the flames

4. Grape vines sit among the scorched ground ot the Robert Sinskey Vineyard

5. A small flame is all that remains from the flames that burned to the edge of the Robert Sinskey Vineyard

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east of Napa - 9 October 2017

6. House on fire

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Santa Rosa - 9 October 2017

7. Various of fire at the Hilton Sonoma Wine Country hotel ++DAY AND NIGHT SHOTS++

8. A firefighter sprays a Keysight Technologies building

9. Firefighters hose down a burning tree

10. Two women hug as they watch houses burn ++NIGHT SHOT++

11. Kristine Pond reacts as she searches the remains of her family's home destroyed by fires

12. Mark Pedersen and his son Ben, left, look through the remains of their home destroyed by fires

13. Michael Pond, left, looks through ashes as his wife Kristine, center, gets a hug from Zack Thurston, their daughter's boyfriend, while they search remains of their home destroyed by fires

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Napa - 9 October 2017

14. AERIAL of hundreds of homes destroyed in wildfires

STORYLINE:

An onslaught of wildfires across a wide swath of Northern California broke out almost simultaneously then grew exponentially, swallowing up properties from wineries to trailer parks and tearing through both tiny rural towns and urban subdivisions.

At least 10 were dead, at least 100 injured and at least 1,500 homes and businesses have been destroyed, authorities said. All three figures were expected to surge in the coming days as more information is reported.

Taken as a group, the fires are already among the deadliest in California history.

Residents who gathered at emergency shelters and grocery stores said they were shocked by the speed and ferocity of the flames.

Some of the largest of the 14 blazes burning over a 200-mile region were in Napa and Sonoma counties, home to dozens of wineries that attract tourists from around the world.

They sent smoke as far south as San Francisco, about 60 miles (96 kilometres) away.

Sonoma County said it has received more than 100 missing-person reports as family and friends scramble to locate loved ones.

Much of the damage was in Santa Rosa, a far larger and more developed city than usually finds itself at the mercy of a wildfire.

The city is home to 175,000 residents.

Hundreds of homes of all sizes were levelled by flames so hot they melted the glass off of cars and turned aluminum wheels into liquid.

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Santa Rosa - 10 October 2017

1. STILL Various aerial images showing a neighbourhood that was destroyed by a wildfire

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Napa - 10 October 2017

2. STILL Flames fed by a gas line, burns in the debris of a fire ravaged home

3. STILL Firefighter Nick Gonzalez-Pomo, of the San Rafael Fire Department, waters down smoldering ashes on a garage

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Napa - 10 October 2017

4. STILL Smoke from wildfires in the Sonoma Valley makes its way toward the Napa Valley

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Santa Rosa - 10 October 2017

5. STILL The sun shines through smoke and haze from wildfires over Santa Rosa

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Napa - 10 October 2017

6. STILL A rack of burned bottles of wine are seen at the Signorello Estate winery

7. STILL The remains of burned bottles of wine are seen at the Signorello Estate winery

STORYLINE:

At least 17 people have died and at least 2,000 homes, businesses and other structures have been destroyed in wildfires in Northern California.

A carelessly discarded cigarette, a downed power line, a car's backfire or a chainsaw's pull.

Just about anything could have started any one of the wildfires now tearing through Northern California, authorities have said.

Investigators are looking into the causes, but no determination has been made at any of the 17 sites of major wildfires blazing in the state.

Conditions were ripe for wildfires in California wine country after record rains last winter created an abundance of dry vegetation, which combined with low humidity and unusually high winds to create fast-moving infernos.

None of the major fires has been contained.

They are spread over a 200-mile (321 km) region north of San Francisco from Napa in the south to Redding in the north, taxing firefighting resources.

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The flames that raced across California wine country left little more than smouldering ashes and eye-stinging smoke in their wake.

House after house was gone, with only charred debris to mark sites that were once family homes.

Newly homeless residents of Northern California took stock of their shattered lives Tuesday while the blazes that have killed at least 15 people and destroyed more than 2,000 homes and businesses kept burning.

Hundreds more firefighters joined the battle against the uncontained flames.

The wildfires already rank among the five deadliest in California history, and officials expected the death toll to increase as the scope of destruction becomes clear.

Kenwood, California - 10 October 2017

1. Police tape blocking entrance to Chateau St. Jean winery entrance

2. Singed vines surrounding Chateau St. Jean sign

3. Fire truck parked in front of fire on winery property

4. Fire burns next to winery production facility

5. Flames

6. Pan down from metal wine storage containers to flames

7. Two firefighters using hand tools to cut lines around fire

8. Close of firefighter using hand tool on flames on burning brush

9. Firefighter raking brush back away from fire

10. Fire burning next to wood crates and winery equipment

11. Firefighter watching brush fire burn itself out

12. Firefighter using hose to extinguish fire

13. Firefighter with hose spraying around winery equipment

14. Grape vines in foreground, firefighter in background

15. Firefighters spraying water on winery maintenance building

16. Firefighter breaking hole into roof

17. Various of firefighter using hose

18. Two firefighters fight fire inside maintenance building

19. Firefighter poking hole through ceiling

20. Firefighter spraying water inside building

21. Smoke billowing behind vineyard

22. SOUNDBITE (English) Mark Trombetta, Evacuated resident:

"All we've heard is that our barn is gone for sure. Which I can assume our house is also gone. It's all Facebook stuff."

23. Pan from fire station to group waiting to hear about their homes

24. SOUNDBITE (English) Mark Trombetta, Evacuated resident:

"This fire was fast. It started in Kenwood and came up about three miles up that ridge just in no time at all."

25. People waiting near fire station to try to get word on their homes

26. SOUNDBITE (English) Mark Trombetta, Evacuated resident:

"Just waiting to find out so I can call the insurance to see if it's a complete write-off, which I assume it is. (Reporter - have they given you any indication when you are able get back in now?) No, they have given us no indication, because it's not contained, as we speak it's not contained. They don't want to let anybody in there. I don't blame them."

27. House exterior

28. Various of officers walking around a house (checking for looters, victims)

29. Officers checking out a burned car in the drive way

30. Officers walking down drive way and leave property

HEADLINE: Growing Calif. blaze forces thousands to flee

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CAPTION: A wildfire in California's Santa Cruz Mountains is forcing about 2,400 people from their homes. Authorities issued a mandatory evacuation order Thursday for the entire community of Bonny Doon which includes several wineries. (Aug. 13)

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(locator - Bonny Doon, CA)

MORE THAN TWO THOUSAND PEOPLE WERE FORCED TO FLEE THEIR HOMES THURSDAY AS A THREE THOUSAND ACRE WILDFIRE BURNED TOWARDS THEIR CENTRAL CALIFORNIA COASTAL TOWN. HOMEOWNERS ONLY HAD TIME TO GRAB THEIR MOST IMPORTANT BELONGINGS, LIKE COMPUTER HARD-DRIVES, LIVESTOCK AND PETS.

Christine Esminger, Evacuated Resident, says: "It's a little scary and exciting and the cats are nervous. They know something's going on. Just thanking the place I've been living in and hoping it'll be okay."

THIS WOMAN GRABBED HER GUITARS.

Suzy Martin, Evacuated Resident, says: "We're musicians and they're kind of like our children to us. We're getting alot of smoke we weren't getting before and you can just feel it in your lungs."

BEFORE THEY LEFT, MANY HOMEOWNERS PUT SPRINKLERS ON ROOFTOPS. THIS WINERY DID THAT AS WELL AND LET CUSTOMERS KNOW THEY WERE EVACUATING.

Lindsay Harris, Beauregard Winery, says on the phone: "We'll see. Hopefully we'll come out of this looking good but I know there's some big fires."

Sheriff's Deputy says to homeowner: "How many folks live here? Two? And you're both leaving?"

SHERIFF'S DEPUTIES WENT FROM HOUSE TO HOUSE AND TIED YELLOW POLICE TAPE TO HOMES THAT HAD BEEN EVACUATED.

Haven Daley, Associated Press, says: "The wildfire is burning along Central California's rugged and windy coastline making things very difficult for firefighters."

Mike Mohler, CalFire Spokeman, says: "We get different wind influences throughout the day. Also we have higher temperatures and lower humidity which increases the fire activity and makes it an even more difficult firefight."

THOUSANDS OF FIREFIGHTERS HAVE BEEN CALLED TO THE SCENE FROM ALL OVER THE STATE. AS OF THURSDAY NIGHT, NO INJURIES HAD BEEN REPORTED, NO BUILDINGS WERE DESTROYED AND THE WILDFIRE REMAINED UNCONTAINED. THE CAUSE OF THE FIRE IS NOT YET KNOWN. HAVEN DALEY, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, BONNY DOON, CALIFORNIA.

Local authorities in the Napa County in Northern California issued a new order on Wednesday for all residents in town to evacuate as the wildfires continued to set their homes ablaze.

The wildfires killed 21 and forced more than 20,000 people to flee their homes, according to the authorities.

"The homes here, you know, are all beautiful homes. Now you look around you see nothing but char," said Kevin Ridling, an electroencephalogram-graph (EEG) technician.

Ridling's team is trying to restore mobile and internet connectivity to the Silverado Trail area, one of the hardest hit in Napa Valley.

Silverado is still off limits to residents.

There are more than 200 wineries in the Napa Valley, some of which did not escape the flames.

The Napa Valley Vintners said at least nine of its members reported some damage to either their wineries or vineyards. And at least four suffered extensive damage. One of the hardest hit is Signorello Estate.

"I mean you can just see, there is nothing really even standing. All the other walls, the roofs are gone. There's nothing left," said Raymond Signorello, owner of the Signorello Estate.

Signorello Estate suffered millions of dollars in damages -- losing offices and a hospitality center. But once Raymond knew his family and staff were safe, his next concern became the vineyard.

"The vineyard team, the wine making team showed up, and used all the water we had on the property, you know the hoses, and basically tried to get everything wet, hose down, tried to fight the flames as best they could, but they just got overtaken and they retreated," said Signorello.

"I couldn't sleep, thinking, 'cause I know the buildings probably gone cause I saw the pictures of flames but you just don't know are the vineyards gone because these vineyards are 28 years to 38 years old. And you know you can't replace that. There is a silver lining there that nobody was hurt. We still have all our vines. It looks like our wine, most of our wine if not all of it, should be intact," Signorello added.

Napa County, northern California, USA - Oct 10, 2017

1. Various of road, vehicles

2. Various of burnt trees, houses

3. SOUNDBITE (English) Kevin Ridling, an electroencephalogram-graph (EEG) technician:

"The homes here you know are all beautiful homes. Now you look around you see nothing but char."

4. Various of burnt road sign, bottles

5. SOUNDBITE (English) Raymond Signorello, owner of Signorello Estate (starting with shot 4, ending with shot 6):

"I mean you can just see is nothing really even standing. All the other walls, the roofs are gone. There's nothing left."

6. Burnt rooms

7. Logo of Signorello Estate

8. Burnt Signorello Estate

9. SOUNDBITE (English) Raymond Signorello, owner of Signorello Estate:

"The vineyard team, the wine making team showed up, and used all the water we had on the property, you know the hoses, and basically tried to get everything wet, hose down, tried to fight the flames as best they could, but they just got overtaken and they retreated."

10. Various of burnt chateau, bottle, vineyard

11. SOUNDBITE (English) Raymond Signorello, owner of Signorello Estate (partially overlaid with shot 12):

"I couldn't sleep, thinking, cause I know the buildings probably gone cause I saw the pictures of flames but you just don't know are the vineyards gone because these vineyards are 28 years to 38 years old. And you know you can't replace that. There is a silver lining there that nobody was hurt. We still have all our vines. It looks like our wine, most of our wine if not all of it, should be in tact."

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12. Various of trees in vineyard

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13. Various of burnt chateau, vineyard

More than a dozen wildfires whipped by powerful winds swept through California wine country on Monday, killing at least 10 people, destroying more than 1,500 homes and businesses and sending thousands fleeing.

Flames raged unchecked through high-end resorts, grocery stores and tree-lined neighbourhoods and were burning "at explosive rates" because of 50 miles per hour (80 kph) winds, according to the state's Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.

The fires broke out nearly simultaneously and then exploded overnight, sending residents fleeing as embers rained down and flames raged around them.

The ferocity of the flames forced authorities to focus primarily on getting people out safely, even if it meant abandoning structures to the fire.

Two hospitals in Santa Rosa, the largest city in the region with 175,000 people, were forced to evacuate patients.

Later in the day, fires from ruptured gas lines dotted the smoky landscapes of blackened Santa Rosa hillsides.

The fire area covered more than 100 square miles (160 square kilometers) over eight counties.

Some of the largest blazes were in Napa and Sonoma counties, home to dozens of wineries that attract tourists from around the world.

Those fires sent smoke as far south as San Francisco, about 60 miles (96 kilometers) away.

Fires also burned in Yuba, Butte and Nevada counties - all north of the state capital.

The scale of the fires prompted the governor to declare a state of emergency in Napa, Sonoma, Butte, Lake, Mendocino, Nevada and Yuba counties.

Authorities imposed a sunset-to-sunrise curfew in Santa Rosa, saying they were on the lookout for looters,

The fires throughout the region were among the deadliest in California history, and fire officials expected the number of fatalities to increase.

It was unusual to have so many fires take off at the same time, fire officials said, though October has generally been the most destructive time of year for California wildfires.

Napa, California - October 9, 2017

1. Signorello winery destroyed by wildfire

2. Fire burns around main entrance to gutted winery

3. Pan from pool and deck seating to burned winery

4. Fire burns up side of row of charred wine bottles

5. Close up of blackened wine bottles

6. Melted bottles on another rack

7. Private residence next to winery in flames

8. Smoking wooden fence in front of grape vines

Sonoma, California - October 9, 2017

9. Smoke fills air above Gundlach Bundschu Winery

10. Flames rising above Gunlach Bundschu

11. SOUNDBITE (English) Tom Willis, Maintenance Worker - Gundlach Bundschu Winery

"It's right behind the main office. It's working its way down the hillside. What can I say? It's slowly working its way in."

12. Smoke rises above Gunlach Bundschu vineyards

13. SOUNDBITE (English) Tom Willis, Maintenance Worker - Gundlach Bundschu Winery

"We had a fire truck come in. Gave us pointers on what to do and then they left and went on to another property. Other than that, we haven't seen anybody. There's so much going that the resources are short. Contractor brought his water truck in to stand by for us. We're hoping for the best."

14. Willis talks with contractor

15. SOUNDBITE (English) Tom Willis, Maintenance Worker - Gundlach Bundschu Winery

"Everybody's been coming by wanting to help. There's not a whole bunch to do. They just keep coming by checking on us, offering us food, water, whatever. The community's been remarkable."

16. Scorched earth in front of Nicholson Ranch Winery

17. Owner's residence at Nicholson Ranch destroyed, winery was sparred

18. Dairy processing plant in wine country destroyed

19. Smoke rising from dairy farm

20. American flag flies in front of smoking vineyard

A wind-whipped wildfire roared through a northern California town threatened by a devastating blaze, wiping out more than 100 houses and businesses and forcing thousands of people to flee, authorities said on Monday.

The fire seemed to be calming on Sunday before gusts kicked up the flames that tore through neighbourhoods in Lower Lake, a rural town about 145 kilometres (90 miles) north of San Francisco.

No one was injured, but it reached the town's Main Street and damaged the post office, a winery, an antiques store, a historic firehouse and the local Habitat for Humanity office.

The blaze was one of 11 large wildfires in the state, where high temperatures and parched conditions brought on by a five-year drought raised the risk of fire.

In central California, a two-day-old wildfire destroyed 12 structures, damaged others and threatened 200 houses.

Last September, one of California's most destructive wildfires ravaged a series of small towns near Lower Lake, whose residents were forced to evacuate.

Four people were killed and more than 1,300 properties in nearby communities were destroyed.

Lower Lake, where the new fire struck, is a town of about 1,300 that attracts working-class families and retirees with housing prices lower than the San Francisco Bay Area.

The fire broke out on Saturday afternoon and expanded to nearly 13 square kilometres (five square miles) as it fed on bone-dry vegetation.

Besides the wind, temperatures of around 38 degrees Celsius (100 degrees Fahrenheit) hindered firefighters as they struggled to get a handle on the largely out-of-control blaze.

Residents who thought conditions were improving on Sunday went on errands in town and came back to towering flames and smoke.

Some used hoses or water from their pools to try to protect their houses.

At least 175 structures were destroyed.

Lower Lake, California - August 15, 2016

1. Sign reading (English) "No trespassing" in front of smoldering remains of a house

2. Various of fire damage to houses

3. Mark Giberson, resident who lost house and a storage unit, talking on mobile phone in front of his destroyed storage unit, which housed antique musical instruments and other valuable memorabilia

4. SOUNDBITE (English) Mark Giberson, resident who lost house and a storage unit:

"I lost a collection of California history in there, and then also, about five houses down this way, I had another old house built in 1888, and that's gone too."

5. Close of burnt out vehicle with Giberson standing next to it

6. SOUNDBITE (English) Mark Giberson, resident who lost house and a storage unit:

"I haven't quite lost it (his composure) yet over the whole thing. Pretty much my whole life was inside that building there."

7. Various of firefighters spraying water on smouldering remains of house

8. SOUNDBITE (English) Jody Barnes, resident whose house was not destroyed:

"It's so beyond tragic. There was no way to save these homes. They all burnt in a row up there. The winery burned - places I've known for many years and knew the people who owned these places."

9. Flames on hill side

10. Firefighters with smoke in background

11. Various of firefighters

12. Helicopter filling bucket with water from lake

13. Helicopters in the sky

14. Tracking shot of helicopter collecting water and moving towards smoke in the distance

15. SOUNDBITE (English) Paul Lowenthal, assistant fire marshal and public information officer:

"In this particular case, we had everything. We had grass burning, we had vegetation burning, homes, businesses, a fire that moved into downtown Lower Lake. So we had everything. Propane tank explosions. It's really been a combined effort of our forces in the air and on the ground to get this out as quickly as possible."

16. Firefighters walking

17. Firefighter walking past burnt out truck

18. Firefighter extinguishing fire

19. Burnt vehicle with firefighters in background

20. Various of firefighters working

21. Pacific Gas and Electric Company workers repairing damage to utilities infrastructure

At least 17 people have died and at least 2,000 homes, businesses and other structures have been destroyed in wildfires in Northern California.

A carelessly discarded cigarette, a downed power line, a car's backfire or a chainsaw's pull.

Just about anything could have started any one of the wildfires now tearing through Northern California, authorities have said.

Investigators are looking into the causes, but no determination has been made at any of the 17 sites of major wildfires blazing in the state.

Conditions were ripe for wildfires in California wine country after record rains last winter created an abundance of dry vegetation, which combined with low humidity and unusually high winds to create fast-moving infernos.

None of the major fires has been contained.

They are spread over a 200-mile (321 km) region north of San Francisco from Napa in the south to Redding in the north, taxing firefighting resources.

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Santa Rosa - 10 October 2017

1. STILL Various aerial images showing a neighborhood that was destroyed by a wildfire (ID Ref Nos 17283836351299, 17283836385637, 17283850929199, 17284006017235, 17284089297502 + 17284058184827)

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Napa - 10 October 2017

2. STILL Flames fed by a gas line, burns in the debris of a fire ravaged home (ID Ref No 17284084337548)

3. STILL Firefighter Nick Gonzalez-Pomo, of the San Rafael Fire Department, waters down smoldering ashes on a garage (ID Ref No 17284083919547)

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Napa - 10 October 2017

4. STILL Smoke from wildfires in the Sonoma Valley makes its way toward the Napa Valley (ID Ref No 17284094977350)

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Santa Rosa - 10 October 2017

5. STILL The sun shines through smoke and haze from wildfires over Santa Rosa (ID Ref No 17284024752527)

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Napa - 10 October 2017

6. STILL A rack of burned bottles of wine are seen at the Signorello Estate winery (ID Ref No 17284013553335)

7. STILL The remains of burned bottles of wine are seen at the Signorello Estate winery (ID Ref No 17284013372551)

The same fires that destroyed Northern California wineries and threatened to taint grapes still on the vine also took a toll on the region's marijuana farms, which were about to begin an important harvest less than three months before the nation's largest recreational pot market opens for business in January.

Marcos Morales and the workers who made it around the roadblocks Sunday continued to cut down smoke-damaged plants, which will he said will be worth far less than the top dollar he had hoped to get for premium bud.

His operation in Glenn Ellen and other pot farms nearby were still in a fire zone that was off limits to all but emergency personnel a week after flames tore through the area.

At least 34 marijuana farms were destroyed and many more damaged, according to the pot industry's California Growers Association.

That number is expected to rise significantly once evacuation orders are lifted and farmers are allowed back to their property.

Unlike neighbouring wineries, marijuana farmers do not have crop insurance because the plant is still listed as an illegal drug under federal law, which keeps financial institutions out of the industry.

The estimated losses do not count indoor grows, backyard greenhouses and converted garages lost to the fire in hard-hit Santa Rosa, the centre of Sonoma County's blossoming marijuana industry.

The industry figure also does not account for illegal growers who want no part of legalisation and operate as far undercover as possible even in a region where toking up on the sidewalk is as socially acceptable as popping a bottle of red in a park.

At Morales' Legion of Bloom farm, a drying barn with 1,600 pounds of ready-for-market bud was destroyed, and smoke damaged 2,500 plants still in the ground, Morales said.

Many of the farmers who suffered the greatest losses were working to obtain licences to grow recreational pot once state regulators starting issuing permits on Jan. 1.

Farmers with local permits to grow medical marijuana are expected to receive the first licenses.

But those damaged by fire are now concerned they may lose out if they don't get back up and running quickly.

Many of them have already paid fees and lawyers in their efforts to go legitimate.

Overall, the damage is expected to have little impact on the state's marijuana economy because thousands of growers were unaffected by the fires, especially in the so-called Emerald Triangle of Humboldt, Trinity and Mendocino counties.

Glen Ellen, California— 15 October 2017

1. Entrance to Legion of Bloom cannabis farm

2. Various of cannabis rows, up to 2,500 plants in this section, many damaged and not sellable because of fire

3. SOUNDBITE (English) Marcos Morales; Co-Founder, Legion of Bloom:

"My name is Marcos Morales and I'm the co-founder of the Legion of Bloom and right now we've been going through the toughest fires I've ever seen in Sonoma County. I've been here for a decade now and I've never seen anything like this."

4. Mature marijuana bud, the part of the plant harvested

5. SOUNDBITE (English) Marcos Morales; Co-Founder, Legion of Bloom:

"The Legion of Bloom is a cannabis brand, we do everything from cultivation through extractions and distribution. We sell products all over the market here in California and are just now expanding to Las Vegas and Nevada."

6. Various of greenhouse, ventilation, plants, damage to water cooler

7. SOUNDBITE (English) Marcos Morales; Co-Founder, Legion of Bloom:

"I'm not a fire expert, but it got hot around here, it got way hot. All that is going to affect the taste, and it's been smoky for a week."

8. Farm workers hanging harvested cannabis for drying

9. SOUNDBITE (English) Marcos Morales; Co-Founder, Legion of Bloom:

"So this is something of the cannabis we've been able to salvage for extracts. We're going to have to send it off for testing before we do process at all just to make sure it clears for any type of contamination."

10. SOUNDBITE (English) Marcos Morales; Co-Founder, Legion of Bloom:

(++camera focused on buds in his hand++)

"Right now the only thing we're harvesting is stuff that looks to the visual eye OK, healthy and unaffected."

11. Various of destroyed drying barns, reason why workers are re-hanging buds in barn still standing

12. SOUNDBITE (English) Marcos Morales; Co-Founder, Legion of Bloom:

"I mean the loss is this entire farm for the most part. We have a lot of bills to pay, a lot of employees so whatever we salvage can hopefully pay that part of the overheard. But the entire farm for this year is a loss."

13. Various tight of cannabis hanging

14. SOUNDBITE (English) Marcos Morales; Co-Founder, Legion of Bloom:

"I haven't slept in…when I do sleep, I have to turn on the alarm to wake up every hour or two, just because we are in the high-risk area, so you can't really, you have to always be on high alert…(++his phone is ringing++) there's my mom calling me again so… you know how that is…"

15. Various of farm, plumes of smoke rise and hector the skyline in proximity to the farm

Sacramento, California— 17 October 2017

16. SOUNDBITE (English) Hezekiah Allen, California Growers Association:

"My name is Hezekiah Allen and I'm the executive director of the California Growers Association. We represent about 1,200 of the estimated 50,000 or so cannabis growers and businesses here in the state."

17. Allen during interview, capitol in background

18. SOUNDBITE (English) Hezekiah Allen, California Growers Association:

"You know we've actually, we've confirmed about 34 farms with damages similar to what you were able to see in six different counties at this point so really up and down the state we're seeing damage, really severe and widespread damages."

Glen Ellen, California— 15 October 2017

19. Various of rows of cannabis drying

Sacramento, California— 17 October 2017

20. Allen walks past, capitol in view

21. SOUNDBITE (English) Hezekiah Allen, California Growers Association:

"I could say easily we're talking tens of millions. We don't have an estimate, we've started documenting and cataloging direct impacts, people who lost crops directly to flames, but we haven't started looking at is the amount of smoke damage that might be out there. Products will lose value if they're contaminated with toxins and smoke from these fires, we'll be looking carefully at that, it will probably be a couple of months before we get a picture of the losses."

Glen Ellen, California— 15 October 2017

22. Hemp leaves

The same fires that destroyed Northern California wineries and threatened to taint grapes still on the vine also took a toll on the region's marijuana farms, which were about to begin an important harvest less than three months before the nation's largest recreational pot market opens for business in January.

Marcos Morales and the workers who made it around the roadblocks Sunday continued to cut down smoke-damaged plants, which will he said will be worth far less than the top dollar he had hoped to get for premium bud.

His operation in Glenn Ellen and other pot farms nearby were still in a fire zone that was off limits to all but emergency personnel a week after flames tore through the area.

At least 34 marijuana farms were destroyed and many more damaged, according to the pot industry's California Growers Association. That number is expected to rise significantly once evacuation orders are lifted and farmers are allowed back to their property.

Unlike neighboring wineries, marijuana farmers do not have crop insurance because the plant is still listed as an illegal drug under federal law, which keeps financial institutions out of the industry.

The estimated losses do not count indoor grows, backyard greenhouses and converted garages lost to the fire in hard-hit Santa Rosa, the center of Sonoma County's blossoming marijuana industry.

The industry figure also does not account for illegal growers who want no part of legalization and operate as far undercover as possible even in a region where toking up on the sidewalk is as socially acceptable as popping a bottle of red in a park.

At Morales' Legion of Bloom farm, a drying barn with 1,600 pounds of ready-for-market bud was destroyed, and smoke damaged 2,500 plants still in the ground, he said.

Many of the farmers who suffered the greatest losses were working to obtain licenses to grow recreational pot once state regulators starting issuing permits on Jan. 1.

Farmers with local permits to grow medical marijuana are expected to receive the first licenses. But those damaged by fire are now concerned they may lose out if they don't get back up and running quickly. Many of them have already paid fees and lawyers in their efforts to go legitimate.

Overall, the damage is expected to have little impact on the state's marijuana economy because thousands of growers were unaffected by the fires, especially in the so-called Emerald Triangle of Humboldt, Trinity and Mendocino counties.

Glen Ellen, California— 15 October 2017

1. Entrance to Legion of Bloom cannabis farm

2. Various of cannabis rows, up to 2500 plants in this section, many damaged and not sellable because of fire, close on undamaged buds

3. SOUNDBITE (English) Marcos Morales, Co-Founder, Legion of Bloom:

"My name is Marcos Morales and I'm the co-founder of the Legion of Bloom and right now we've been going through the toughest fires I've ever seen in Sonoma County. I've been here for a decade now and I've never seen anything like this."

4. Tight on mature marijuana bud, the part of the plant harvested

5. SOUNDBITE (English) Marcos Morales, Co-Founder, Legion of Bloom:

"The Legion of Bloom is a cannabis brand, we do everything from cultivation through extractions and distribution. We sell products all over the market here in California and are just now expanding to Las Vegas and Nevada."

6. Various greenhouse, ventilation, plants, damage to water cooler

7. SOUNDBITE (English) Marcos Morales, Co-Founder, Legion of Bloom:

"I'm not a fire expert, but it got hot around here, it got way hot. All that is going to affect the taste, and it's been smoky for a week."

8. Farm workers hanging harvested cannabis for drying

9. SOUNDBITE (English) Marcos Morales, Co-Founder, Legion of Bloom:

"So this is something of the cannabis we've been able to salvage for extracts. We're gonna have to send it off for testing before we do process at all just to make sure it clears for any type of contamination."

10. (camera focused on buds in his hand) SOUNDBITE (English) Marcos Morales, Co-Founder, Legion of Bloom: "Right now the only thing we're harvesting is stuff that looks to the visual eye OK, healthy and unaffected."

11. Various of destroyed drying barns, reason why workers are re-hanging buds in barn still standing

12. SOUNDBITE (English) Marcos Morales, Co-Founder, Legion of Bloom:

"I mean the loss is this entire farm for the most part. We have a lot of bills to pay, a lot of employees so whatever we salvage can hopefully pay that part of the overheard. But the entire farm for this year is a loss."

13. Various tight of cannabis hanging

14. SOUNDBITE (English) Marcos Morales, Co-Founder, Legion of Bloom:

"I haven't slept in…when I do sleep, I have to turn on the alarm to wake up every hour or two, just because we are in the high risk area, so you can't really, you have to always be on high alert…(his phone is ringing) there's my mom calling me again so… you know how that is…"

15. Various of farm, plumes of smoke rise and hector the skyline in proximity to the farm

Sacramento, California— 17 October 2017

16. SOUNDBITE (English) Hezekiah Allen, California Growers Association: "My name is Hezekiah Allen and I'm the executive director of the California Growers Association. We represent about 1200 of the estimated 50-thousand or so cannabis growers and businesses here in the state."

17. Allen during interview, wide shot with capitol in background

18. SOUNDBITE (English) Hezekiah Allen, California Growers Association:

"You know we've actually, we've confirmed about 34 farms with damages similar to what you were able to see in six different counties….really up and down the state we're seeing damage, severe and widespread damages."

Glen Ellen, California— 15 October 2017

19. Rows of cannabis drying, various

Sacramento, California— 17 October 2017

20. Allen walks past frame, capitol in view

21. SOUNDBITE (English) Hezekiah Allen, California Growers Association:

"I could say easily we're talking tens of millions. We don't have an estimate, we've started documenting and cataloging direct impacts, people who lost crops directly to flames, but we haven't started looking at is the amount of smoke damage that might be out there. Products will lose value if they're contaminated with toxins and smoke from these fires, we'll be looking carefully at that, it will probably be a couple of months before we get a picture of the losses."

Glen Ellen, California— 15 October 2017

22. Medium view of hemp leaves

The same fires that destroyed Northern California wineries and threatened to taint grapes still on the vine also took a toll on the region's marijuana farms, which were about to begin an important harvest less than three months before the nation's largest recreational pot market opens for business in January.

Marcos Morales and the workers who made it around the roadblocks Sunday continued to cut down smoke-damaged plants, which will he said will be worth far less than the top dollar he had hoped to get for premium bud.

His operation in Glenn Ellen and other pot farms nearby were still in a fire zone that was off limits to all but emergency personnel a week after flames tore through the area.

At least 34 marijuana farms were destroyed and many more damaged, according to the pot industry's California Growers Association. That number is expected to rise significantly once evacuation orders are lifted and farmers are allowed back to their property.

Unlike neighboring wineries, marijuana farmers do not have crop insurance because the plant is still listed as an illegal drug under federal law, which keeps financial institutions out of the industry.

The estimated losses do not count indoor grows, backyard greenhouses and converted garages lost to the fire in hard-hit Santa Rosa, the center of Sonoma County's blossoming marijuana industry.

The industry figure also does not account for illegal growers who want no part of legalization and operate as far undercover as possible even in a region where toking up on the sidewalk is as socially acceptable as popping a bottle of red in a park.

At Morales' Legion of Bloom farm, a drying barn with 1,600 pounds of ready-for-market bud was destroyed, and smoke damaged 2,500 plants still in the ground, he said.

Many of the farmers who suffered the greatest losses were working to obtain licenses to grow recreational pot once state regulators starting issuing permits on Jan. 1.

Farmers with local permits to grow medical marijuana are expected to receive the first licenses. But those damaged by fire are now concerned they may lose out if they don't get back up and running quickly. Many of them have already paid fees and lawyers in their efforts to go legitimate.

Overall, the damage is expected to have little impact on the state's marijuana economy because thousands of growers were unaffected by the fires, especially in the so-called Emerald Triangle of Humboldt, Trinity and Mendocino counties.

Glen Ellen, California— 15 October 2017

1. Entrance to Legion of Bloom cannabis farm

2. Various of cannabis rows, up to 2500 plants in this section, many damaged and not sellable because of fire, close on undamaged buds

3. SOUNDBITE (English) Marcos Morales, Co-Founder, Legion of Bloom:

"My name is Marcos Morales and I'm the co-founder of the Legion of Bloom and right now we've been going through the toughest fires I've ever seen in Sonoma County. I've been here for a decade now and I've never seen anything like this."

4. Tight on mature marijuana bud, the part of the plant harvested

5. SOUNDBITE (English) Marcos Morales, Co-Founder, Legion of Bloom:

"The Legion of Bloom is a cannabis brand, we do everything from cultivation through extractions and distribution. We sell products all over the market here in California and are just now expanding to Las Vegas and Nevada."

6. Various greenhouse, ventilation, plants, damage to water cooler

7. SOUNDBITE (English) Marcos Morales, Co-Founder, Legion of Bloom:

"I'm not a fire expert, but it got hot around here, it got way hot. All that is going to affect the taste, and it's been smoky for a week."

8. Farm workers hanging harvested cannabis for drying

9. SOUNDBITE (English) Marcos Morales, Co-Founder, Legion of Bloom:

"So this is something of the cannabis we've been able to salvage for extracts. We're gonna have to send it off for testing before we do process at all just to make sure it clears for any type of contamination."

10. (camera focused on buds in his hand) SOUNDBITE (English) Marcos Morales, Co-Founder, Legion of Bloom: "Right now the only thing we're harvesting is stuff that looks to the visual eye OK, healthy and unaffected."

11. Various of destroyed drying barns, reason why workers are re-hanging buds in barn still standing

12. SOUNDBITE (English) Marcos Morales, Co-Founder, Legion of Bloom:

"I mean the loss is this entire farm for the most part. We have a lot of bills to pay, a lot of employees so whatever we salvage can hopefully pay that part of the overheard. But the entire farm for this year is a loss."

13. Various tight of cannabis hanging

14. SOUNDBITE (English) Marcos Morales, Co-Founder, Legion of Bloom:

"I haven't slept in…when I do sleep, I have to turn on the alarm to wake up every hour or two, just because we are in the high risk area, so you can't really, you have to always be on high alert…(his phone is ringing) there's my mom calling me again so… you know how that is…"

15. Various of farm, plumes of smoke rise and hector the skyline in proximity to the farm

Sacramento, California— 17 October 2017

16. SOUNDBITE (English) Hezekiah Allen, California Growers Association: "My name is Hezekiah Allen and I'm the executive director of the California Growers Association. We represent about 1200 of the estimated 50-thousand or so cannabis growers and businesses here in the state."

17. Allen during interview, wide shot with capitol in background

18. SOUNDBITE (English) Hezekiah Allen, California Growers Association:

"You know we've actually, we've confirmed about 34 farms with damages similar to what you were able to see in six different counties….really up and down the state we're seeing damage, severe and widespread damages."

Glen Ellen, California— 15 October 2017

19. Rows of cannabis drying, various

Sacramento, California— 17 October 2017

20. Allen walks past frame, capitol in view

21. SOUNDBITE (English) Hezekiah Allen, California Growers Association:

"I could say easily we're talking tens of millions. We don't have an estimate, we've started documenting and cataloging direct impacts, people who lost crops directly to flames, but we haven't started looking at is the amount of smoke damage that might be out there. Products will lose value if they're contaminated with toxins and smoke from these fires, we'll be looking carefully at that, it will probably be a couple of months before we get a picture of the losses."

Glen Ellen, California— 15 October 2017

22. Medium view of hemp leaves

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Calistoga, Calif. - 15 October 2018

1. Various of Frank Family Winery

2. SOUNDBITE (English) Todd Graff, Frank Family Winery:

"Our tasting room is a very important to our business and so, everyone else in the neighborhood, too."

3. Various of Frank Family Winery

4. SOUNDBITE (English) Todd Graff, Frank Family Winery  

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"I understand why they are doing it. Be safe, rather than sorry. It's up to us to deal with new normals."

5. Various of Cal Mart convenience store

6. SOUNDBITE (English) Juan Arceo, Cal Mart

"To stay home for now, we're going to give them a call." (Reporter: What's your reaction to this?") "It's kind of sad after what happened last year."

7. Various of police directing traffic on blacked-out Calistoga streets

STORYLINE:

Concerned about downed power lines sparking wildfires, a major California utility for the first time cut power to tens of thousands of customers amid high winds — and other power providers were considering similar action.

Pacific Gas & Electric began cutting power Sunday night in Northern California after the National Weather Service warned of extreme fire danger across the state because of high winds, low humidity and dry vegetation.

At the Cal Mart convenience store in Calistoga, Juan Arceo said employees were told to stay home. The area was hit by major wildfires last year.

Frank Family Winery manager Todd Graff said they are also losing business, but said he understands why the power is being cut.

PG&E previously announced its plan to shut off power preemptively after authorities blamed its power lines for sparking some of California's most destructive wildfires.

The utility expects to pay billions of dollars in wildfire damages and has sought ways to limit its liability in the courts and the state Legislature.

PG&E said about 87,000 customers had their power halted and more could be left in the dark depending on the weather. Some 60,000 customers remained without power Monday afternoon. Schools in those affected areas canceled classes.

PG&E said it expected to restore power Monday night to most customers — though some residents won't get electricity back until Tuesday.

PG&E said it began notifying affected customers on Saturday about possible outages. However, many said Monday they had received little or no notice.

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The flames that raced across California wine country left little more than smoldering ashes and eye-stinging smoke in their wake. House after house was gone, with only charred debris to mark sites that were once family homes.

Newly homeless residents of Northern California took stock of their shattered lives Tuesday while the blazes that have killed at least 15 people and destroyed more than 2,000 homes and businesses kept burning.

Hundreds more firefighters joined the battle against the uncontained flames.

The wildfires already rank among the five deadliest in California history, and officials expected the death toll to increase as the scope of destruction becomes clear.

At least 100 people were injured during the blazes that started Sunday night. Nearly 200 people were reported missing in Sonoma County alone.

Kenwood, California - 10 October 2017

1. Police tape blocks entrance to Chateau St. Jean winery entrance

2. Close up of singed vines surrounding Chateau St. Jean sign

3. Fire truck parked in front of fire on winery property

4. Fire burns next to winery production facility

5. Flames close up

6. Pan down from metal wine storage containers to flames

7. Two firefighters use hand tools to cut lines around fire

8. Close up using hand tool on flames burning brush

9. Firefighter rakes brush back away from fire

10. Fire burns next to wood crates and winery equipment

11. Firefighter watches brush fire burn itself out

12. Firefighter uses hose to extinguish fire

13. Firefighter with hose sprays around winery equipment

14. Grape vines in foreground, firefighter in background

15. Firefighters spray water on winery maintenance building

16. Firefighter breaks hole into roof

17. Close up firefighter using hose

18. Wide shot firefighter using hose

19. Two firefighters fight fire inside maintenance building

20. Firefighter pokes hole through ceiling

21. Firefighter sprays water inside building

22. Smoke billows behind vineyard

23. SOUNDBITE (English) Mark Trombetta, Evacuated Resident

"All we've heard is that our barn is gone for sure. I assume our house is also gone. It's all Facebook stuff."

24. Pan from fire station to group waiting to hear about their homes

25. SOUNDBITE (English) Mark Trombetta, Evacuated Resident

"This fire was fast. It started in Kenwood and came up about three miles up that ridge just in no time at all."

26. Low angle shot of people waiting near fire station to try to get word on their homes

27. SOUNDBITE (English) Mark Trombetta, Evacuated Resident

"Just waiting to find out so I can call the insurance to see if it's a complete write off, which I assume it is. (Reporter - have they given you any indication when you can get back in?) No, because as we speak it's not contained. They don't want to let anybody in there. I don't blame them."

28. Members of assisting San Francisco Police Department check homes for victims, looters, etc.

29. Officers walk around a house

30. Officers walk in front of house

31. Officers check out a burned car in the drive way

32. Officers walk down drive way and leave property

The flames that raced across California wine country left little more than smoldering ashes and eye-stinging smoke in their wake. House after house was gone, with only charred debris to mark sites that were once family homes.

Newly homeless residents of Northern California took stock of their shattered lives Tuesday while the blazes that have killed at least 15 people and destroyed more than 2,000 homes and businesses kept burning.

Hundreds more firefighters joined the battle against the uncontained flames.

The wildfires already rank among the five deadliest in California history, and officials expected the death toll to increase as the scope of destruction becomes clear.

At least 100 people were injured during the blazes that started Sunday night. Nearly 200 people were reported missing in Sonoma County alone.

Kenwood, California - 10 October 2017

1. Police tape blocks entrance to Chateau St. Jean winery entrance

2. Close up of singed vines surrounding Chateau St. Jean sign

3. Fire truck parked in front of fire on winery property

4. Fire burns next to winery production facility

5. Flames close up

6. Pan down from metal wine storage containers to flames

7. Two firefighters use hand tools to cut lines around fire

8. Close up using hand tool on flames burning brush

9. Firefighter rakes brush back away from fire

10. Fire burns next to wood crates and winery equipment

11. Firefighter watches brush fire burn itself out

12. Firefighter uses hose to extinguish fire

13. Firefighter with hose sprays around winery equipment

14. Grape vines in foreground, firefighter in background

15. Firefighters spray water on winery maintenance building

16. Firefighter breaks hole into roof

17. Close up firefighter using hose

18. Wide shot firefighter using hose

19. Two firefighters fight fire inside maintenance building

20. Firefighter pokes hole through ceiling

21. Firefighter sprays water inside building

22. Smoke billows behind vineyard

23. SOUNDBITE (English) Mark Trombetta, Evacuated Resident

"All we've heard is that our barn is gone for sure. I assume our house is also gone. It's all Facebook stuff."

24. Pan from fire station to group waiting to hear about their homes

25. SOUNDBITE (English) Mark Trombetta, Evacuated Resident

"This fire was fast. It started in Kenwood and came up about three miles up that ridge just in no time at all."

26. Low angle shot of people waiting near fire station to try to get word on their homes

27. SOUNDBITE (English) Mark Trombetta, Evacuated Resident

"Just waiting to find out so I can call the insurance to see if it's a complete write off, which I assume it is. (Reporter - have they given you any indication when you can get back in?) No, because as we speak it's not contained. They don't want to let anybody in there. I don't blame them."

28. Members of assisting San Francisco Police Department check homes for victims, looters, etc.

29. Officers walk around a house

30. Officers walk in front of house

31. Officers check out a burned car in the drive way

32. Officers walk down drive way and leave property

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1. Tilt-down from trees to fire burning in forrest

2. Various of scrub and tree logs burning

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Butte County, California

3. Various of flames at the fire front

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Butte County, California

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4. Various of fire fighters dousing flames

5. Pan from flames to fire truck

6. Close-up of Flames

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Butte County, California

7. SOUNDBITE: (English) Arnold Schwarzenegger, Californian Governor,

"There's only so many engines there are, so many aircrafts, we have so many helicopters."

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Napa, California

8. Black Stallion Winery

9. Two women at winery

10. SOUNDBITE: (English) Ripple Sharma, Tourist,

"Normally there's like this great view of the ocean even, we're hoping to show it to them, it's all haziness, all you see are these dry hills now and then haze."

11. Wide of smoke near winery

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San Francisco, California

12. SOUNDBITE: (English) Kristine Roselius, Bay Area Air Quality Management District,

"We do have some smoke effects here in the Bay Area. We have higher than usual levels of particulate matter. So we're advising people that are particularly sensitive to the smoke to stay inside, keep their children inside and just use common sense."

19. Various of children playing at indoor basketball court

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Brisbane, California - June 24, 2008

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22. Aerials of smoke

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Lincoln County, Missouri

23. Aerial of a flooded town, zoom in to homes submerged in water

24. Aerial of man walking on his roof where he has pitched tents, pull out to wide

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St. Charles County, Missouri

25. Aerial of deer walking on railroad tracks submerged in water

26. Aerial of mother and baby deer walking down tracks

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Cedar Rapids, Iowa

27. Home inspectors outside a house surveying for flood damage

28. Pan from one inspector to another writing on a sign reading: (English) "Limited Entry"

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Cedar Rapids, Iowa

29. Tracking shot of flood-damaged garbage and debris piled along the side of the road

30. Wide of debris as garbage truck driving by

31. Tight shot of rotting food inside a broken refrigerator, pull out

32. SOUNDBITE: (English) Name not available, Vox pop, flood victim:

"It's bad. Until you've experienced one of these refrigerators that has all this meat in it. (part overlayed with pan down to contents of fridge) It's rotted. I can't do it myself."

33. Abandoned, damaged refrigerator

STORYLINE

Firefighters in the US state of California were struggling to cope on Tuesday, after thousands of lightening strikes triggered more than 800 wildfires over the weekend.

The weekend storm, a rare example of "dry lightning", brought little or no rain but plenty of sparks to the state's parched forests and grasslands.

The lightning-caused fires scorched tens of thousands of acres (hectares) and forced hundreds of residents to flee their homes, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.

Thousands of firefighters were still working to contain them, but California's Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger admitted on Tuesday that authorities were running out of resources.

"There's only so many engines there are, so many aircrafts, we have so many helicopters," he said.

The weekend's lighting storm combined with extremely dry conditions to spark about 840 separate blazes from the Big Sur area of Monterey County to Del Norte County on the Oregon border.

Areas hit the hardest included Mendocino County, where 131 fires burned more than 13-thousand acres (5,261 hectares) and threatened around 500 homes.

Smoke from the fires also darkened skies in the San Francisco Bay area and Central Valley, causing public health officials to issue air-quality warnings.

Smoke blanketed the wineries and summer camps kept children indoors.

Kristine Roselius, from the Bay Area Air Quality Management District, said the affect of the smoke was being felt in the area.

"We have higher than usual levels of particulate matter. So we're advising people that are particularly sensitive to the smoke to stay inside, keep their children inside and just use common sense," she said.

The lightning storm struck California at a time when the state was experiencing one of its driest years on record.

Even before the lightning struck, the state had already seen an unusually large number of destructive wildfires that burned nearly 90-thousand acres (36,421 hectares), compared with 42-thousand acres (16,996 hectares) during the same period last year.

The weather service warned more dry thunderstorms could strike northern California later this week.

Meanwhile, in the country's MidWest, the flooded Mississippi continued to cause havoc on Tuesday.

A major emergency operation was in progress in Lincoln County, as authorities worked to reinforce a failing levee.

The barrier is all that's protecting around 100 houses and three-thousand acres (1,200 hectares) of agricultural land in east Winfield, one of the last towns where the upper Mississippi was expected to crest, probably sometime late on Wednesday.

Several miles (kilometres) down the river, the Elm Point levee in St. Charles succumbed early on Tuesday, but the breach there swamped only a football field and a sod farm.

It did, however, hamper the wildlife trying to navigate the massive influx of water.

A handful of deer could be seen following a set of submerged railroad tracks, the youngest of them growing tired against the rushing water.

A total of 35 levees overtopped during the Midwest flooding.

Meanwhile, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, where the floodwaters had long receded, the cleanup effort was proving overwhelming for many residents.

Piles of debris, household items and large appliances lined entire neighbourhoods.

"It's bad," said one Cedar Rapids resident.

"Until you've experienced one of these refrigerators that has all this meat in it. It's rotted. I can't do it myself," the resident added.

With the floodwaters gone, home inspectors were doing the rounds, assessing the extent of flood damage to individual homes.

Yellow signs on the door meant residents could regain limited entry for short times.

Red signs indicated a house that was uninhabitable.

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More than a dozen wildfires whipped by powerful winds swept through California wine country Monday, destroying at least 1,500 homes and businesses and sending thousands fleeing as flames raged unchecked through high-end resorts, grocery stores and tree-lined neighborhoods.

The flames were burning "at explosive rates" because of 50 mph winds, said Ken Pimlott, director of the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.

Fourteen large fires were burning north of San Francisco, prompting Gov. Jerry Brown to declare a state of emergency in Napa, Sonoma and Yuba counties. It was unusual to have so many fires take off at the same time, fire officials said, though October has generally been the most destructive time of year for California wildfires.

The ferocity of the flames forced authorities to focus primarily on getting people out safely, even if it meant abandoning structures to the fire. The fire area covered more than 100 square miles (160 square kilometers) over eight counties.

Some of the largest blazes were in Napa and Sonoma counties, home to dozens of wineries that attract tourists from around the world. Those fires sent smoke as far south as San Francisco, about 60 miles (96 kilometers) away.

Fires also burned in Yuba, Butte and Nevada counties — all north of the state capital.

Napa, California - October 9, 2017

1. Signorello winery destroyed by wildfire

2. Fire burns around main entrance to gutted winery

3. Pan from pool and deck seating to burned winery

4. Fire burns up side of row of charred wine bottles

5. Close up of blackened wine bottles

6. Melted bottles on another rack

7. Private residence next to winery in flames

8. Smoking wooden fence in front of grape vines

Sonoma, California - October 9, 2017

9. Smoke fills air above Gundlach Bundschu Winery (pronounced gun-lock-bun-shoe)

10. Flames rising above Gunlach Bundschu

11. SOUNDBITE (English) Tom Willis, Maintenance Worker - Gundlach Bundschu Winery

"It's right behind the main office. It's working its way down the hillside. What can I say? It's slowly working its way in."

12. Smoke rises above Gunlach Bundschu vineyards

13. SOUNDBITE (English) Tom Willis, Maintenance Worker - Gundlach Bundschu Winery

"We had a fire truck come in. Gave us pointers on what to do and then they left and went on to another property. Other than that, we haven't seen anybody. There's so much going that the resources are short. Contractor brought his water truck in to stand by for us. We're hoping for the best."

14. Willis talks with contractor

15. SOUNDBITE (English) Tom Willis, Maintenance Worker - Gundlach Bundschu Winery

"Everybody's been coming by wanting to help. There's not a whole bunch to do. They just keep coming by checking on us, offering us food, water, whatever. The community's been remarkable."

16. Scorched earth in front of Nicholson Ranch Winery

17. Owner's residence at Nicholson Ranch destroyed, winery was sparred

18. Dairy processing plant in wine country destroyed

19. Smoke rising from dairy farm

20. American flag flies in front of smoking vineyard

A wind-whipped wildfire roared through a Northern California town threatened by a devastating blaze a year ago, wiping out more than 100 homes and businesses and forcing thousands of people to flee, authorities said Monday.

The fire seemed calm Sunday before gusts kicked up the flames that tore through neighborhoods in Lower Lake, a rural town about 90 miles north of San Francisco, officials said.

No one was injured, but it reached Main Street and burned the post office, a winery, an antiques store, a historic firehouse and the Habitat for Humanity office.

The blaze was one of 11 large wildfires in the state, where high temperatures and parched conditions brought on by a five-year drought raised the fire danger.

In central California, a 2-day-old wildfire destroyed 12 structures, damaged others and threatened 200 homes.

Last September, one of California's most destructive wildfires ravaged a series of small towns just a half-hour from Lower Lake, whose residents were forced to evacuate.

It killed four people, left a fifth missing and destroyed more than 1,300 homes in nearby communities.

The new fire struck in the heart in Lower Lake, a town of about 1,300 that draws working-class families and retirees with housing prices lower than the San Francisco Bay Area.

It broke out Saturday afternoon and exploded to nearly 5 square miles as it fed on bone-dry vegetation.

Besides the wind, 100-degree heat hindered firefighters struggling to get a handle on the largely out-of-control blaze.

Residents who thought conditions were calm earlier Sunday went on errands in town and came back to towering flames and smoke. Some used hoses or water from their pools to try to protect their houses.

At least 175 structures were destroyed. California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection spokesman Daniel Berlant said more than 100 homes burned but didn't have the exact breakdown of residences, businesses and other buildings lost.

At least 1,500 more structures were threatened.

Lower Lake, California - August 15, 2016

1. no trespassing sign in front of smoldering remains of a home

2. smoking foundation all that's left of another home

3. close up of bricks and smoke

4. charred remains of another house

5. small fire still burning on a house beam

6. smoke rises from yet another destroyed home

7. close up of smoke rising from the ashes

8. Mark Giberson talks on cell phone in front of his destroyed storage facility which housed antique musical instruments and other valuable memorabilia

9. SOUNDBITE (English) Mark Giberson - Lost House & Storage Facility

"I lost a collection of California history in there. Also, about five houses down this way, I had another old house built in 1888 and that's gone too."

10. Giberson stands next to his burned pickup truck

11. SOUNDBITE (English) Mark Giberson - Lost House & Storage Facility

"I haven't quite lost it yet over the whole thing. Pretty much my whole life was inside that building there."

12. firefighters spray down smoldering debris which used to be a house

13. close up of firefighter spraying

14. white picket fence in front of firefighter putting out spot fire

15. SOUNDBITE (English) Jody Barnes - Lower Lake Resident (home was not destroyed)

"It's so beyond tragic. There was no way to save these homes. They all burned in a row up there. The winery burned, places I've known for many years and knew the people who owned these places."

16. flames rush down a hillside

17. wide shot of firefighters watching flames from a distance

18. medium shot of more wildfire flames

19. reversal shot of firefighters monitoring fire's progress

20. over-the-shoulder shot of firefighter watching flames, then looking up at helicopter

21. close up of firefighting helicopter filling bucket with water from lake

22. pan from one helicopter to another coming in to get water

23. shot following helicopter to smoking hillside

24. SOUNDBITE (English) Paul Lowenthal, Public Information Officer - CAL FIRE

"In this particular case, we had everything. We had grass burning. We had vegetation burning, homes, businesses, a fire that moved into downtown Lower Lake. So we had everything, propane tank explosions. It's really been a combined effort of our forces in the air and on the ground to get this out as quickly as possible."

25. firefighting crews march down fire road

26. firefighter walks by burned out truck

27. firefighter uses hose to put out spot fires

28. burned van in foreground while firefighters work in background

29. pan down from firefighter's face to stream of water hitting ground

30. ground smoldering in front of firefighters

31. wide shot of PG&E working to restore power to the area

32. close up shot of PG&E technician working on downed transformer

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A wind-whipped wildfire roared through a Northern California town threatened by a devastating blaze a year ago, wiping out more than 100 homes and businesses and forcing thousands of people to flee, authorities said Monday.

The fire seemed calm Sunday before gusts kicked up the flames that tore through neighborhoods in Lower Lake, a rural town about 90 miles north of San Francisco, officials said.

No one was injured, but it reached Main Street and burned the post office, a winery, an antiques store, a historic firehouse and the Habitat for Humanity office.

The blaze was one of 11 large wildfires in the state, where high temperatures and parched conditions brought on by a five-year drought raised the fire danger.

In central California, a 2-day-old wildfire destroyed 12 structures, damaged others and threatened 200 homes.

Last September, one of California's most destructive wildfires ravaged a series of small towns just a half-hour from Lower Lake, whose residents were forced to evacuate.

It killed four people, left a fifth missing and destroyed more than 1,300 homes in nearby communities.

The new fire struck in the heart in Lower Lake, a town of about 1,300 that draws working-class families and retirees with housing prices lower than the San Francisco Bay Area.

It broke out Saturday afternoon and exploded to nearly 5 square miles as it fed on bone-dry vegetation.

Besides the wind, 100-degree heat hindered firefighters struggling to get a handle on the largely out-of-control blaze.

Residents who thought conditions were calm earlier Sunday went on errands in town and came back to towering flames and smoke. Some used hoses or water from their pools to try to protect their houses.

At least 175 structures were destroyed. California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection spokesman Daniel Berlant said more than 100 homes burned but didn't have the exact breakdown of residences, businesses and other buildings lost.

At least 1,500 more structures were threatened.

Lower Lake, California - August 15, 2016

1. no trespassing sign in front of smoldering remains of a home

2. Giberson stands next to his burned pickup truck

3. SOUNDBITE (English) Mark Giberson - Lost House & Storage Facility

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"I haven't quite lost it yet over the whole thing. Pretty much my whole life was inside that building there."

4 . smoking foundation all that's left of another home

5. SOUNDBITE (English) Jody Barnes - Lower Lake Resident (home was not destroyed)

++SOUNDBITE PARTIALLY COVERED++

"It's so beyond tragic. There was no way to save these homes. They all burned in a row up there. The winery burned, places I've known for many years and knew the people who owned these places."

6. Water helicopter

7. Wide of water helicopter flying toward smoke

8 . firefighting crews march down fire road

9. ground smoldering in front of firefighters

10 Firefighter looks toward burning hillside

11 . SOUNDBITE (English) Paul Lowenthal, Public Information Officer - CAL FIRE

++SOUNDBITE PARTIALLY COVERED++

"In this particular case, we had everything. We had grass burning. We had vegetation burning, homes, businesses, a fire that moved into downtown Lower Lake. So we had everything, propane tank explosions. It's really been a combined effort of our forces in the air and on the ground to get this out as quickly as possible."

12. Burning hillside

LEAD IN

It's been 30 years since a NASA scientist said global warming was here, and since then, the world's temperature has been rising.

On June 23, 1988, James Hansen told Congress and the world that global warming had already arrived.

Over the past 30 years, the world's annual temperature has warmed nearly 1 degree (0.54 degrees Celsius), according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and the effects are being seen across the globe.

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Salida, Colorado, is a picturesque town in the heart of the Rocky Mountains that's seen above average temperature rises in the past 30 years.

South central Colorado, the climate division just outside Salida, has warmed 2.3 degrees on average since 1988, among the warmest divisions in the contiguous United States.

Pal Linza, 86, who's lived here all his life, says he's noticed the change.

"When I was a kid we really had nice weather here. Really nice," he says as he waters his lawn.

But the winters have become drier and he has to water his lawn more often.

"It changed quite a bit because we didn't go no moisture and everything, it just changed all of a sudden,'' he says.

Across town, Buel Mattix, owner of Mountain Air HVAC helps his workers bend sheet metal to make vents for the cooling and heating systems he installs.

Years ago when he started, he installed only a few air conditioners a year. Now, he can't keep up with the requests.

"I probably won't get to all the air conditioning jobs. I mean we typically do have a list I mean it's probably already at 10 or 15 people this year."

According to an Associated Press statistical analysis of 30 years of weather, ice, fire, ocean, biological and other data, every single one of the 344 climate divisions in the Lower 48 states - NOAA groupings of counties with similar weather - has warmed significantly, as has each of 188 cities examined.

The effects have been felt in cities from Atlantic City, New Jersey, where the yearly average temperature rose 2.9 degrees in the past 30 years, to Yakima, Washington, where the thermometer jumped a tad more. In the middle, Des Moines, Iowa, warmed by 3.3 degrees since 1988.

Since 1988, daily heat records have been broken more than 2.3 million times at weather stations across the US, half a million times more than cold records were broken.

On June 23, 1988, a sultry day in Washington, NASA's top climate scientist James Hansen told Congress and the world that global warming wasn't approaching - it had already arrived.

In a scientific study he even forecast how warm it would get, depending on emissions of heat-trapping gases.

Hansen projected that by 2017, the globe's five-year average temperature would be about 1.85 degrees (1.03 degrees Celsius) higher than the 1950 to 1980 NASA-calculated average.

NASA's five-year average global temperature ending in 2017 was 1.48 degrees above the 30-year average.

Hansen did not take into account that the sun would be cooling a little, which would reduce warming nearly two-tenths of a degree Fahrenheit, said the Scripps Institution of Oceanography's Jeff Severinghaus.

Climate scientists point to the Arctic as the place where climate change is most noticeable, with dramatic sea ice loss, a melting Greenland ice sheet, receding glaciers and thawing permafrost.

The Arctic has warmed twice as fast as the rest of the world.

"The science was right and yet we haven't taken advantage of our scientific understanding to make policies that are effective,'' Hansen says.

He also warned about the possibilities of extreme global weather events occurring because of climate change.

The impact of climate change has included melting ice sheets, rising sea levels, flood-inducing downpours, extended droughts, heat waves, unseasonable temperatures and bitter cold, threatening people and animals from Bangladesh to California and Mongolia.

Hansen left NASA in 2013 and is now an advocate for policies to control fossil fuel emissions.

"We can't afford to go through another cycle like that where they assume, where young people assume that the political leaders are going to address the problem,'' Hansen says.

Mike Sugaski also lives in Salida, Colorado. When he started firefighting more than three decades ago, a 10 thousand-acre wildfire (15.62 square miles) was considered huge.

"Boom all of a sudden we're starting to get larger fires and now we're up over 100-thousand (acres), easy,'' Sugaski says. "You kinda keep saying, 'How can they get much worse?' But they do."

Wildfires in the United States now consume more than twice the average they did 30 years ago.

The statistics tracking climate change since 1988 are almost numbing.

North America and Europe have warmed 1.89 degrees - more than any other continent.

The Northern Hemisphere has warmed more than the Southern, the land faster than the ocean.

The hotter world that Hansen envisioned in 1988 has pretty much come true so far, more or less.

Earth is noticeably hotter, the weather stormier and more extreme. Polar regions have lost billions of tons of ice; sea levels have been raised by trillions of gallons of water. Far more wildfires rage.

Three decades later, most climate scientists interviewed rave about the accuracy of Hansen's predictions given the technology of the time.

Since the 1800s scientists have demonstrated that certain gases trap heat from the sun on Earth, like a blanket.

Carbon dioxide is the major human-caused greenhouse gas doing this and it comes from the burning of coal, oil and gas.

Federal and international science reports say that more than 90 percent of the warming that's happened since 1950 is man-made.

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Salida, Colorado, US - 30 April 2018

1. Wide shot of Salida, Colorado

2. Medium shot of downtown Salida with people walking on a trail

3. Medium shot of people on trail with their dog

4. Deer in a neighbourhood

5. Local winery

6. Pal Linza standing behind a sprinkler

7. SOUNDBITE: (English) Pal Linza, Salida resident:

"Well I, when I was a kid it was really nice weather here. Really nice."

8. Tight shot of water landing on grass

9. SOUNDBITE: (English) Pal Linza, Salida resident:

"It changed quite a bit because we didn't get no moisture and everything, it just changed all of a sudden."

10. Pal Linza standing behind string of sprinklers

11. Medium of house with an air conditioning unit

12. Medium of air conditioning unit

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Salida, Colorado, US - 2 May 2018

13. Buel Mattix working on an air movement sheet metal piece

14, SOUNDBITE: (English) Buell Mattix, owner, Mountain Air HVAC:

"I probably won't get to all the air conditioning jobs. I mean we typically do have a list, I mean it's probably already at 10 or 15 people this year."

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Washington, US - 9 May 1989

15. STILL Image of Jim Hansen, former director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, testifying before a Senate Transportation subcommittee (ID No 890509046)

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Denver - 8 June 2018

16. STILL image of excerpt of Hansen's testimony from June 23, 1988 testimony before Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee:

"Altogether the evidence that the earth is warming by an amount which is too large to be a chance fluctuation and the similarity of the warming to that expected from the greenhouse effect represents a very strong case. In my opinion, that the greenhouse effect has been detected, and it is changing our climate now."

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New York, US - 12 April 2018

17. SOUNDBITE: (English) James Hansen, former director, Goddard Institute for Space Studies:

"The science was right and yet we haven't taken advantage of our scientific understanding to make policies that are effective."

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Beaufort sea, international waters - 16 July 2017

18. Wide of vessel MSV Nordica on the water. In 2017 the  Finnish icebreaker set a new record for the earliest transit of the fabled Northwest Passage, which has been opening up sooner and for a longer period each summer due to climate change.

19. Various broken sea ice

20. Various drone shots of ice

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Kutubdia Island, Cox's Bazar district, Bangladesh - 13 October 2015

21. Various of Kutubdia island embankment which has been breached at different places by sea water advancing towards the village

22. Various of coconut trees affected by saline water, tilting and uprooted

23. Various of salinity-affected land at Kutubdia Island, where sea water is already breaking down the mud dykes and pouring into villages

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Karachi, Pakistan - 31 August 2017

24. Various of flooded streets

25. Close of rain beating down in front of window

26. Water running in street

27. Man pushing vehicle through flooded street

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Marshall Islands - 18 February 2014

28. Aerial shot over the Marshall Islands, 29 low lying coral atolls that sit just six feet (two metres) below sea level

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Demon Town, Jenrok, Majuro, The Marshall Islands - 15 February 2014

29. Mid of boy and big waves

30. Wide of young men standing on the sea wall in front of a graveyard. King tides, recurring tides and the swelling of the ocean, make the islands highly vulnerable to erosion.

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Demon Town, Jenrok, Majuro, The Marshall Islands - February 16th, 2014

31. Wide pan from grave to the ocean at low tide

32. Large stones used as seawalls and a tree with the roots showing

33. Mid of the sea wall

34. Mid of the corals and the shore line in the background

35. Close of a woman cleaning up after the king tide

36. Wide of the seawall and shoreline a day after the king tide

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Folsom, California, US - 25 February 2014

37. Wide of Folsom Lake dam during one of the worst droughts in California's history

38. Wide pan across low water levels at Folsom Lake reservoir

39. Close to wide, dry dirt to reservoir with low water levels

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Amsterdam, Netherlands - 2 March 2018

40. Various of ice skaters on the Prinsengracht (Prince's Canal) during an unseasonably cold March

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Srebarna, Bulgaria – 23 March 2018

41. Various of storks in the snow during an unseasonably cold March

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Vokil, Bulgaria - 22 March 2018

42. Pull focus from ice to stork nest in front

43. Man opening door to shed which is full of storks, local people were rescuing them from the unseasonably cold weather

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Khuvsgul province, Mongolia - 21 March 2018

44. Wide of snowy mountains

45. Wide of reindeer herding

46. Reindeer entering pen, scientists say that global warming has brought drier summers with lower rainfall, resulting in less growth of lichen and moss, which are essential foods for reindeer

47. Reindeer in pen

48. Reindeer digging snow

49. Close-up of lichen

50. Reindeer digging snow

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New York, US - 12 April 2018

51. Wide of Hansen sits on couch in his apartment

52. SOUNDBITE: (English) James Hansen, former director, Goddard Institute for Space Studies:

"We can't afford to go through another cycle like that where they assume, where young people assume that the political leaders are going to address the problem."

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Salida, Colorado, US - 30 April 2018

53. Various of veteran woodland firefighter Mike Sugaski going through his firefighting gear in his garage

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Ventura, California, US - 6 December 2017

54. STILL: A motorist on a highway north of Los Angeles watches a wildfire that burned hundreds of structures and scorched more than 440 square miles (281,600 acres) (ID No 18152719522921)

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Salida, Colorado, US - 30 April 2018

55. SOUNDBITE: (English) Mike Sugaski, veteran firefighter:

"Boom, all of a sudden we're starting to get larger fires and now we're up over 100-thousand (acres), easy."

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Ventura, California, US - 5 December 2017

56. STILL: A wildfire burns along a major highway north of Los Angeles during the largest fire in California history which consumed 440 square miles (281,600 acres) (ID No 17340242953920)

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Salida, Colorado, US - 30 April 2017

57. SOUNDBITE: (English) Mike Sugaski, veteran firefighter:

"You kinda keep saying, 'how can they get much worse?' But they do."

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Ventura County, California, US - 7 December, 2017

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58. Various of wildfire seen over mountains, around sunset, this eventually became the largest in state history

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Kenwood, California, US - 14 October 2017

59. Various of firefighters putting out fire. Wildfires in California's wine region killed 43 people and wiped out 8,900 buildings in October 2017

60. Various of Ledson Winery and Vineyards, flames and smoke in background