MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
‘Everything Was Incinerated’: Scenes From One Community Wrecked by the Santa Rosa Fire
By Thomas Fuller from Santa Rosa, CA for NYTimes.com, Oct. 10

SANTA ROSA, Calif. — [....]
The combination of wind and fire was unstoppable. Coffey Park, a subdivision of hundreds of homes in Santa Rosa, an hour north of San Francisco, burned to the ground.
“It looks like a bomb went off,” said Ms. Coats, an accounts assistant at a retirement home.
“A nuke bomb,” said her husband, a soils expert [....]
Has more photos and a current fire map, plus a link to this separate page of "Before and after" photo sets