More than 50,000 people evacuate their homes as northern California's wine country fires rage on
Flames from the Glass fire consume the Chateau Boswell Winery in St Helena, CA, US, Sunday, Sept 27, 2020.
Flames also engulfed the Chateau Boswell Winery north of St Helena. The Adventist Health St Helena hospital suspended care and transferred all patients elsewhere, according to a statement on its website on Monday. More than 53,000 people in Sonoma and Napa counties were under evacuation orders, said Daniel Berlant, assistant deputy director with Cal Fire. Many more have been warned that they may have to flee.
Evacuations were also ordered in Shasta county as the Zogg Fire spread over 59 square kilometres. Residences are widely scattered in the forested area, about 16 kilometres southwest of the city of Redding, a region torched just two years ago by the massive and deadly Carr fire — infamously remembered for producing a huge tornado-like fire whirl.
So far this year, more than 8,100 California wildfires have scorched 5,780 square miles , destroyed more than 7,000 buildings and killed 26 people.
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