15 dead as wildfires torch California wine country

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15 dead as wildfires torch California wine country

Julie Charpentrat with Glenn Chapman in San Francisco/ The remains of a McDonald's restaurant in Santa Rosa, California (AFP Photo/JOSH EDELSON)/ Santa Rosa (United States) (AFP) - Firefighters battled wildfires in California's wine region on Tuesday as the death toll rose to 15 and thousands were left homeless in neighborhoods reduced to ashes. "The homes are gone, they are like dust," said Jack Dixon, a personal trainer who lives in Santa Rosa, a city of 175,000 in Sonoma County. "It is just like we were nuked." Dixon told AFP that his ...

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