The horrific scale of death and destruction is coming into focus, even as the wildfires continue to rage throughout Northern California. Thousands of homes and businesses destroyed, including whole neighborhoods reduced to smoldering rubble.
As authorities continue assessing the damage from the most devastating spate of wildfires to strike the state in modern history, the blazes are burning mostly uncontained. California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection officials said that some 190,000 acres had been scorched across the state — a collective area nearly the size of New York City — as dangerous conditions spread the fires with frightening speed.