California Wildfires Force 50,000 People to Evacuate in Sonoma and Napa

Northern California’s wine country was on fire again Monday as strong winds fanned flames in the already scorched region, prompting evacuation orders involving more than 50,000 people.

More than 53,000 people in Sonoma and Napa counties were under evacuation orders. More than 13,000 homes were threatened in Santa Rosa alone.

Some residents chose to stay in place to try to save their homes.

Patrick Ryan lives in unincorporated Sonoma County just outside Santa Rosa.

He said he joined his neighbors as they stayed up all night with water hoses, soaking their rooftops.

Ryan said the experience reminded him of the deadly 2017 Santa Rosa which killed 22 people and destroyed thousands of homes.

“Surreal, let me just put it that way. It brings everything about that night in 2017 right back again. So it’s not fun,” Ryan said.

The causes of the new fires are under investigation.

Numerous studies in recent years have linked bigger wildfires in America to global warming from the burning of coal, oil and gas, especially because climate change has made California much drier.

A drier California means plants are more flammable.

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