The Sonoma County town of Santa Rosa, the largest city in the wine country region, was decimated by one of the fiercest blazes, the so-called Tubbs fire, one of more than 20 fires wreaking havoc in California. Aerial footage shows block after block of some neighbourhoods obliterated with nothing left but charred debris, broken walls, chimneys and the steel frames of burned-out cars.

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