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Photos: Wildfires Are Decimating California Cities

Northern California’s Camp Fire has destroyed thousands of homes and claimed many lives. Meanwhile, the Southern California Woolsey Fire has left much of Malibu under mandatory evacuation.
Flames consume a car and building as the Camp Fire tears through Paradise, California, on Thursday.Noah Berger/AP

The wildfires that ravaged California over the weekend are showing no signs of stopping anytime soon. In Northern California, the Camp Fire leveled the city of Paradise late last week, engulfing and destroying the town in a matter of hours as desperate residents fled the wall of flames, some being overtaken in their cars.

“Ninety-five percent of the town is gone,” town council member Michael Zuccolillo told the San Francisco Chronicle.