4. “It is all gone.”

More than 80,000 people have been forced to evacuate in the California wildfires.

We asked readers to let us know how they escaped, what they took with them and what was left behind.

We heard from dozens who fled — many with family members, some with just the clothes they were wearing. Above, a family sheltering with friends in Chico, Calif.

The official death toll from the fires is at 63, with more than 600 people missing. Specialists are combing the incinerated areas for human remains.

“I have no way of predicting what those final numbers are going to look like,” one official told us.

And after a week of fires, the air itself is a danger in Northern California — it’s currently the dirtiest in the world, even worse than heavily polluted Chinese and Indian cities.