'A horror no one could have imagined': California wildfires kill 40

The death toll rises as flames turn toward Sonoma, with 300 people unaccounted for; elsewhere, weary evacuees worry that they will have no homes to return to

The California wildfires raced toward wineries and the historic town of Sonoma on Saturday, chasing hundreds more from their homes and threatening to roll back firefighters’ modest gains against blazes that stretched across a 100-mile stretch of northern California. The death toll rose to 40.

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