Northern California wildfires leave at least three dead
Northern California wildfires leave at least three dead

A Northern California wildfire threatened thousands of homes on Thursday afterwinds whipped it into a monster that incinerated houses in a small mountaincommunity and killed at least three people.

Several other people werecritically burned and hundreds, if not thousands, of homes and other buildingswere believed to have been damaged or destroyed in the foothills of thenorthern Sierra Nevada, authorities said.