• 40 confirmed dead and at least 5,700 homes and businesses destroyed
  
• Napa County supervisor says ‘the day we dreamed of has arrived’

With winds dying down, fire officials said on Sunday they had apparently “turned a corner” against wildfires that have devastated California wine country and other parts of the state over the past week. Thousands got the all-clear to return home.

Jack Weaver and his brother-in-law Patrick Widen walked around police barricades, through a creek and up treacherous hilly roads to film the devastation caused by the wildfires in Santa Rosa, California. Weaver's mother, Katherine, was convinced the family's dog, Izzy, had died in the fire that destroyed their neighbourhood. When the men reached the end of the narrow road, they saw their house was completely ruined. But then Izzy came bounding out of the rubble for a joyous reunion. Weaver captured the scene on his phone

Residents of Santa Rosa, California were allowed to return Friday to areas ravaged by recent wildfires. Officials say more than eight thousand structures were destroyed by flames that tore through the region in Northern California. (Oct. 20)

The Latest on California wildfires (all times local): 8:45 a.m.

Wildfires that raced through California neighborhoods and wilderness areas since Oct. 8 have taken an enormous toll in deaths and destruction.

Read full story for latest details.

California wildfires have destroyed dozens of cannabis farms just weeks before the state's legal recreational marijuana market goes live.

Some Northern California residents who fled their houses nearly two weeks ago as wildfires threatened them started returning home Friday to see what is still standing.

The Latest on California wildfires (all times local): 8:45 a.m.

FOOTBALL star Cristiano Ronaldo’s sister has revealed he paid the medical bills for hundreds of people injured in the devastating Portuguese wildfires.