Evacuations expanded as California wine country fire spreads quickly


  • World
  • Tuesday, 29 Sep 2020

Firefighters protect a residence as the Glass Fire encroaches onto a vineyard in Deer Park, California, U.S. September 27, 2020. REUTERS/Adrees Latif

SANTA ROSA, Calif. (Reuters) - A wind-driven wildfire raged for a second day through Northern California wine country on Monday, burning homes, forcing thousands of residents to flee and threatening some of the world-renowned vineyards of Napa and Sonoma counties.

As of Monday, a blaze dubbed the Glass Fire had spread across 11,000 acres (4,450 hectares) of rolling grassy hillsides and oak woodlands, fanned by high winds and fueled largely by thick, dry scrub left unburned by previous wildfires.

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