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Here’s what you need to know:

• “Zero percent contained.”

That’s how one official described the two largest fires in Northern California, which have consumed more than 52,000 acres in wine country. Blazes have stretched almost the length of the state, leaving at least 17 people dead and many missing.

“Every piece of vegetation was gone,” said one man in Napa who went looking for his father’s cat. “Even the barbecue melted, and that’s built to take heat.”