Wildfires sweep through California wine country

More than a dozen wildfires stoked by powerful winds have swept through California, destroying at least 1,500 homes and businesses and sending an estimated 20,000 people fleeing to safety.

One person was killed in a fire in Mendocino County, further north in the US state, on Monday.

California's fire chief called the damage estimates in the wine country conservative and said the fires were burning throughout an eight-county expanse of Northern California, including Napa, Sonoma and Yuba counties.

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