Sunday, October 15, 2017

Wildfires up to 100 miles wide as death toll rises to 40

While wildfires are still burning powerfully in parts of Northern California, some of the tens of thousands of evacuees are getting antsy to return to homes that aren't under immediate threat. Others want to see if they still have homes to return to. Authorities, however, are staying cautious in the face of blazes that have now killed at least 40 people and destroyed at least 5,700 homes. "We're on pins and needles," Travis Oglesby, who evacuated from his home in Santa Rosa, said to Sonoma County Sheriff Robert Giordano on Saturday. "We're hearing about looting." Although some evacuees were returning home in Mendocino County, the latest estimates were that about 100,000 people were under evacuation orders as the fires burned for a sixth day...more

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