Northern California Wildfires Kill Three, Force Evacuation of Thousands

The Glass Fire burns along a hillside in Calistoga, Calif., on Sept. 28, 2020. Adrees Latif/Reuters

SANTA ROSA, Calif.—A northern California wildfire raging in the foothills of the Cascade range has claimed three lives, officials said on Monday, as a separate blaze prompted mass evacuations and spread turmoil to the famed wine-producing regions of Napa and Sonoma counties.

The three fatalities in the so-called Zogg Fire in Shasta County, which erupted on Sunday near Redding, about 200 miles north of San Francisco, were reported by the county sheriff and the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CalFire). They were all civilians.