The Camp Fire in northern California is now the state’s deadliest and most destructive wildfire on record, causing at least 48 deaths and destroying more than 7,600 buildings. Since igniting last Thursday, the blaze has scorched more than 130,000 acres, an area more than four times the size of San Francisco.
Almost the entire town of Paradise, California, home to 26,000, burned down, leaving many homeless.
And it’s just one of several major infernos that have been raging in the Golden State this summer and fall as winds have picked up and spread walls of flames.