Wildfires hit Sonoma County the hardest, with 22 fatalities — more than half of the 40 deaths recorded thus far in the Northern California fire disasters.
Three fires — the Tubbs, Pocket and Nuns — have decimated thousands of homes and structures in Sonoma County and continue to burn through more than 92,000 acres of land, said Deputy Barry Dugan of the Sonoma County Emergency Operations Center.
“We’re just in the process of doing surveys as the fire areas become accessible,” Dugan said. “I don’t think a final count is going to be available anytime soon.”...