The Harvey Weinstein scandal isn’t the only distressing news coming out of California this week.
Dozens of wildfires are ravaging the northern part of the state, so far leaving 15 dead, over a hundred more injured, and thousands without a home.
Here are some of the most powerful images and videos from the fires and the destruction they’ve caused.
10 people are dead after wildfires spread in California. #CaliforniaFires #CaliforniaWildfires ? AFP/Josh Edelson https://t.co/bFyeUhj1bx pic.twitter.com/5ed35YSQtq
— news.com.au (@newscomauHQ) October 10, 2017
Fountain Grove Village, Santa Rosa, decimated. #DEVELOPING pic.twitter.com/LPfdkIZcwL
— Cornell Barnard (@CornellBarnard) October 10, 2017
West Santa Rosa pic.twitter.com/fh4WGhNMdh
— Adam Grossberg (@adamgrossberg) October 10, 2017
Before & after images show the extent of the damage from the deadly #CaliforniaWildfires in Santa Rosa’s Coffey Park neighborhood @TODAYshow pic.twitter.com/AJiHJuHa99
— TODAY Graphics (@TODAYGraphics) October 10, 2017
Video shared with me by Jake Brooke. He, his brother + father stayed behind to fight #CascadeFire on their property last night @ABC10 pic.twitter.com/psQGUtQWDC
— Gabrielle Karol (@gabriellekarol) October 10, 2017
Before & after. Signorello Vineyards in Napa #napafire #calfires #winecountry pic.twitter.com/EMdn64nz3z
— Suzanne Espinosa (@suzyesp) October 9, 2017
Wow this fire is a beast…it's trying to jump over Jamboree right now. We're being moved away by police. #CanyoneFire2 @FOXLA pic.twitter.com/2KqGHrev2g
— Bill Melugin (@BillFOXLA) October 9, 2017
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Burndale from Highway 12 to Napa Rd – all seems fine. Houses and horses ok, didn’t see many fire footprints…FedEx delivering. #SonomaFires pic.twitter.com/UX7XawTekl
— Sarah Stierch (@Sarah_Stierch) October 10, 2017
Video: Flames from #AtlasFire approaching vineyard in Stags Leap area. Several nearby wineries are already gone #CAFires pic.twitter.com/s3Ktx5LUX7
— Doug Sovern (@SovernNation) October 9, 2017
Maps and unbelievable before-and-after photographs of the #CaliforniaWildfires pic.twitter.com/VrbjgJBsL4
— EarthSky (@earthskyscience) October 10, 2017
According to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, responders are fighting 17 fires with more than 20,000 people in their paths. So far, 115,000 acres have burned. An emergency has been declared in both Napa and Sonoma counties, and the President approved a California Disaster Declaration earlier today.
As the fires continue to spread, please keep California in your thoughts this week.
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