Wildfires Burn Through California’s Wine Country

Alan Taylor
September 28, 2020
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Thousands of residents have evacuated ahead of fast-moving wildfires that erupted over the weekend in California’s Napa County. The Glass Fire and Shady Fire grew quickly, invading wine country and destroying homes and vineyards. Much of Northern California remains under a red flag warning for the next 24 hours. Gathered here are images of the fires from the weekend, in a state already coping with multiple disasters.

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The Glass Mountain Inn burns as the Glass Fire moves through the area on September 27, 2020, in St. Helena, California. #

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An air tanker drops retardant on the Glass Fire burning in Calistoga, California, on September 27, 2020. #

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Marin County firefighters battle the Glass Fire on September 27, 2020, in Calistoga. #

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Osvaldo Ramirez holds a burned $100 bill that was destroyed along with $8,000 after his car was destroyed by the Glass Fire on September 26, 2020 in Napa, California. #

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A Cal Fire airplane drops fire retardant over the Davis Winery during the Glass Fire in St. Helena, California, on September 27, 2020. #

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Flames from the Glass Fire burn along a road in St. Helena on September 27, 2020. #

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Jesse Campbell, a Cal Fire captain, works to save the Louis Stralla Water Treatment Plant as the Glass Fire burns in St. Helena on September 27, 2020. #

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In this long exposure photograph, burning hills create a flaming landscape during the Glass Fire in Napa County's St. Helena on September 27, 2020. #

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Embers fly from a tree as the Glass Fire burns in St. Helena on September 27, 2020. #

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Residents of the Oakmont Gardens retirement community are loaded onto a city bus as they evacuate ahead of the Shady Fire on September 27, 2020, in Santa Rosa, California. #

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Residents at the Oakmont Gardens retirement community are evacuated by bus on September 28, 2020. #

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Traffic backs up on Highway 12 as residents evacuate ahead of the Shady Fire on September 27, 2020, in Santa Rosa. #

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The Glass Fire burns in the hills near a vineyard on September 27, 2020, in St. Helena. #

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Grapes hang from a vine at Chateau Boswell Winery as the Glass Fire moves through the area on September 27, 2020, in St. Helena. #

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The Glass Fire burns through the area on September 27, 2020, in Calistoga. #

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The Chateau Boswell Winery burns on September 27, 2020, in St. Helena. #

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A burning stack of chairs is seen inside a building consumed by flames during the Glass Fire in St. Helena on September 27, 2020. #

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The steeple at Chateau Boswell Winery burns on September 27, 2020. #

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A Marin County firefighter battles the Glass Fire on September 27, 2020, in Calistoga, California. #

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A home is seen fully engulfed in flames during the Glass Fire in St. Helena on September 27, 2020. #

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A home bursts into flames from the Shady Fire as it approaches Santa Rosa, on September 28, 2020. #

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Megan Gonzales, a local resident, watches the Glass Fire as it burns in Deer Park, California, on September 27, 2020. #

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