California fires: Scores missing as death toll rises to 17

More than one hundred and fifty people are missing in wildfires that have ravaged northern California's wine region.

At least seventeen people are now confirmed dead and more than two thousand buildings have been destroyed by the fires.

Eleven of the deaths have been in Sonoma County.

One of the worst affected towns there is Santa Rosa, North of San Francisco, where entire districts have been destroyed.

SOURCE: BBC NEWS
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