Glass Fire Grows To 51,266 Acres; New Evacuations Ordered In Napa County
With low humidity and above-average temperatures settling over the region, the Glass Fire continued to actively burn throughout the night.
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With low humidity and above-average temperatures settling over the region, the Glass Fire continued to actively burn throughout the night.
Nikki and Kevin Conant returned to their home in Northern California wine country Wednesday to find only the charred remains of their home and burned pieces of the wine barrels they used to repurpose into custom-made art and furniture.
Flames devoured swaths of brush and trees in Northern California on Wednesday amid unseasonably hot and dry weather. Officials said wind-whipped flames led two firefighters to deploy the emergency fire shelters they carry.
As thousands of firefighters work to battle the Glass Fire, thousands of people are trying to find temporary housing to weather the fire storm that has hit Napa and Sonoma counties.
One hundred seventy firefighters from Texas landed at Sacramento International Airport Tuesday afternoon to help on the front lines and give California crews a chance to rest and recuperate.
Napa County has been hit hard by wildfires but experts say the damage could have been worse. Wine country's most precious crop may have prevented the fire from spreading.
Firefighters responded to a fire in the Eldorado National Forest Tuesday evening.
The wildfires burning in Northern California's wine country have destroyed dozens of homes so far.
Will Abrams and his family packed their pickup truck with laptops, clothes, sleeping bags and a tent and quickly left their rental home in California's wine country after seeing flames on a hill about a quarter-mile away Monday morning. It was their third hurried fire evacuation in as many years.
Residents in northern California are dealing with more than just smoke from deadly wildfires in the area, with pictures showing shockingly large chunks of ash that have fallen.
The flames torched the eastern side of Santa Rosa, hopscotching through the exclusive neighborhood of Rincon Valley.
Evacuations have been ordered in Napa and Sonoma counties as a rapidly spreading wildfire burns.
Mandatory evacuations were ordered in Shasta County on Sunday as firefighters battle the Zogg Fire, Cal Fire said.
Approximately 80,000 people in Napa and Sonoma counties were forced from their homes because of the Glass Fire.
The famed 41-year-old Chateau Boswell Winery in Napa Valley, California, was destroyed during the Glass Fire on Sunday evening.
