Wildfires destroy 1,500 structures and large swaths of northern California wine country as powerful winds fuel ‘an inferno like you’ve never seen before’Ten people have died in northern California after what officials are describing as an “unprecedented” wild fire that has already destroyed 1,500 structures and devastated large swathes of wine country.Amy Head, the fire captain spokesperson for Cal Fire, the state agency responsible for fire protection, confirmed the number of fatalities late on Monday.“We often have multiple fires going on, but the majority of them all started right around same time period, same time of night – it’s unprecedented,” she told the Guardian. “I hate using that word because it’s been overused a lot lately because of how fires have been in the past few years but it truly is – there’s just been a lot of destruction” Continue reading…
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