'Incinerated': Before and after California's monster wildfire

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'My neighbourhood is gone – I mean gone, gone.'

The horrific consequence of the Dixie Fire was captured by AFP in a series of before and after photos from the monster blaze that has consumed hundreds of structures and forced thousands to flee.

He watched "firefighters make futile attempts to stop 350-foot high flames towering over them - saving a few homes and losing most." "I went into emergency mode and immediately started making mental notes of where my fire shelter was," he wrote after making it to safety. Over the weekend, it surpassed the 2018 Mendocino Complex Fire to make it the second-worst fire in state history.

 

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