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They mention in the comments that they are in northern California where there are large wildfires burning.

15 people have died and hundreds of structures have been destroyed.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/10/us/california-fires.html



Structural losses are now in the thousands.

"At least 2,000 homes and commercial facilities have been destroyed in the fires, which are burning in Napa, Sonoma, Solano, Lake, Nevada, Butte, Calaveras, Shasta, and Yuba counties. A fire station in the Fountaingrove area of Santa Rosa was among the ravaged structures."

http://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/Wine-Country-fires-W...


Yeah, the NYT article listed 2,000 when I posted it but I have a style preference for describing small thousands as hundreds.




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