California’s wine country fire has been brewing for years

Fire has returned to California’s wine country as the flames thrive on bounties of parched land. 

The County Fire began on Saturday afternoon and since then has devoured over 1,000 acres of land each hour. As of Tuesday morning, the Golden State’s largest fire had spread over 70,000 acres in Yolo County and into the edges of Napa County.

The return of fire to the region, which cast ominous, orange glows over San Francisco to the south, is especially unwelcome after last October’s firestorms in the region, which were the deadliest in the state’s history. 

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