The 40 confirmed fatalities, including 22 in Sonoma County, already make it the deadliest fire event in California history. It is a horror that no one could have imagined," California Governor Jerry Brown said on a visit to a devastated Santa Rosa. Molly Kurland, 63, has lived in her Santa Rosa home for nearly as long and her house was still standing. She joined a packed community meeting with worried residents at the Santa Rosa High School gymnasium. Whole neighborhoods of Santa Rosa have been reduced to landscapes of ash, smoldering debris and burned-out vehicles.

Source: bd News24 October 15, 2017 04:07 UTC