Sonoma, California: Firefighters have begun to gain ground against the spread of wildfires that have killed at least 31 people in northern California and left hundreds missing in the heart of the state's wine country.
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| Smoke blankets Santa Rosa, California. |
The infernos burning across the region are now the state's deadliest wildfires on record, their collective death toll passing the 1933 Griffith Park Fire in Los Angeles that killed 29 people.
In Santa Rosa, the hardest hit by the fires, officials said they were stunned by the scale of the destruction. An estimated 2834 homes were destroyed in the city of Santa Rosa alone, Mayor Chris Coursey said.
Flames left entire suburbs and commercial districts in ruins and even destroyed the city's newest fire station.
Read Noel Randewich’s story in today’s Melbourne Age - “Hundreds missing, dozens dead in California wildfires.”
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