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- Before-and-after photos show how wildfires are destroying parts of California's wine country
Before-and-after photos show how wildfires are destroying parts of California's wine country
ScienceResidents will return to Coffey Park to find their homes, cars, and belongings gone.
About 8,000 people lived in Santa Rosa's Coffey Park and a neighboring subdivision.
Pieces of foundation are all that's left of some buildings at the dairy.
Founded in 1932, Stornetta Dairy is a historic dairy farm in Sonoma .
Source: San Francisco Chronicle
A video shows the Kmart fully engulfed in flames on Monday.
Santa Rosa Kmart on Cleveland Ave fully engulfed. #TubbsFire pic.twitter.com/yWkmdW1No0
— Kurtis Alexander (@kurtisalexander) October 9, 2017
A Kmart store on Cleveland Avenue was a longtime fixture of the community.
Flames scorched the earth and left the sky hazy and orange.
Paradise Ridge Winery was a popular wedding destination for its stunning views.
"Paradise Ridge team is safe — our hearts go out to all who have lost their homes and businesses. We are strong and will rebuild," a post read on the winery's Facebook page.
Source: Facebook
Paradise Ridge Winery in Santa Rosa — a city in Sonoma County that saw entire neighborhoods burn to the ground — also turned to rubble during the massive fires.
The flames lurched past its walls and destroyed everything in its path, leaving only a crooked steel frame, pieces of stone walls, a dry fountain, and two wooden tables intact.
Source: Los Angeles Times
The Fountaingrove Inn Hotel, a luxury 124-room hotel, is shown before the fires.
After the blaze, the restaurant's red-and-white sign was the only reminder that it ever existed. Nearby, a McDonald's and an Applebee's restaurant also burned.
Source: ABC7 News
This Arby's in Santa Rosa looked normal before the fires struck.
On Monday, a fire could be seen burning from an open gas valve near the same pool.
The scene at the Journey's End pool was once quiet and intimate.
Residents fled the park in the early hours on Monday with little but the clothes on their backs.
Source: San Francisco Chronicle
Nearly all of the roughly 160 units at the Journey's End trailer park in Santa Rosa were turned to rubble. The residential community is mostly home to people ages 55 and older.
Source: San Francisco Chronicle
The main building appears to have suffered minimal damage, but the classrooms and east wing "are destroyed," according to a post on the center's Facebook page late Monday.
Source: Facebook
Luther Burbank Center for the Arts is an events center in Santa Rosa that hosts world-class performances, education programs, art exhibits, and popular community events.
This video shows the Hilton Sonoma Wine Country Hotel burning.
Santa Rosa's Hilton Sonoma hotel among dozens of burned businesses. #TubbsFire pic.twitter.com/tp8RZebSBw
— Kurtis Alexander (@kurtisalexander) October 9, 2017
On Monday, the hotel's roof was gone and pieces of its stone fence burned down.
The Hilton Sonoma Wine Country Hotel — a popular spot for tourists given its proximity to wineries— looked picturesque before hot, dry winds swept the flames over its walls.
The window frame is nearly all that was left.
A photo taken inside a tasting room at Signorello Estate winery shows a circular window.
Here's the entrance to the fire-ravaged Signorello Estate winery as seen on Monday.
Signorello Estate winery, located on Silverado Trail, has been destroyed. Flames climbed the ivy-covered walls of the winery headquarters on Monday, and it eventually collapsed.
Source: Wine Spectator
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