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A wine country neighborhood was leveled by the fires ravaging California - here are the photos

Oct 13, 2017, 03:14 IST

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An entire neighborhood in Santa Rosa, California, was leveled after a massive wildfire incinerated swaths of wine country early this week.

Nearly two dozen fires, whipped by powerful winds, blew through Napa, Sonoma, and elsewhere on Monday morning. The blaze torched at least 3,500 homes, businesses, and other structures. The situation is being called one of the deadliest firestorms in state history.

Santa Rosa was among the cities hit the hardest. The neighborhood of Coffey Park - a small, close-knit community made up of single-family homes - has been reduced to rubble.

Thse photos show the scale of the destruction.

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