Before and After Photos: Fires Tear Through California’s Wine Country<br />UPDATED 5 PM ET, OCT. 11, 2017<br />Fires destroyed an area of the Coffey Park neighborhood in Santa Rosa, Calif. Before: Google Earth; After: California Highway Patrol, via Reuters<br />Hundreds of firefighters have been trying to contain blazes across Northern California’s wine country since Sunday<br />night in what officials said was one of the most destructive fire emergencies in the state’s history.<br />Before: James Gateley; After: Jim Wilson/<br />Damaged buildings at Stornetta Dairy in Sonoma, Calif. Before: Google Street View; After: Stephen Lam/Reuters<br />The fires, which began Sunday night, appeared to catch residents off guard, with some fleeing on foot.<br />Before: Google Earth; After: California Highway Patrol, via Reuters<br />A pool in front of the fire-ravaged Signorello Estate winery in Napa, Calif. Before: James Gateley; After: Marcio Jose Sanchez/Associated Press<br />The remains of the fire-damaged Signorello Estate winery.<br />Eleven deaths were in Sonoma County, while six people died in Mendocino County, two in Napa County, and two in Yuba County.<br />Before: Google Street View; After: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images<br />While the cause of the fires remained under investigation on Monday, officials said<br />that the blazes spread rapidly because of wind gusts of over 50 miles per hour.
