Evacuations Widened As Northern California Wildfires Spread To 170,000 Acres With At Least 23 Dead

Louis Sahagun, Paige St. John, Javier Panzar , Joel Rubin, Los Angeles Times
Thu, 10/12/2017 - 4:00am

Dennis DeVilbiss had made up his mind. “I’m not leaving,” the former cop and firefighter said Wednesday afternoon as he stood on his front porch in Calistoga, a wine country town under threat from an approaching wildfire. Authorities had ordered its 5,000 residents to evacuate. He glanced at smoke...

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