15 dead as wildfires torch California wine country
In one of the worst wildfires in state history, at least 1,500 homes have burned
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"The homes are gone, they are like dust," said Jack Dixon, a personal trainer who lives in Santa Rosa, a city of 175,000 in Sonoma County. "It is just like we were nuked."
Dixon told AFP that his own neighborhood was spared when the fire "miraculously" changed direction but many others were not so fortunate.
