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Wineries across California's Napa Valley are among the thousands of properties that have been destroyed by fierce wildfires ravaging the state this week.
Paradise Ridge Winery, situated on a hill overlooking Santa Rosa, is one of the many hit by fires that broke out Sunday, with its barrels charred and its wine flowing like a river under smoldered debris.
Fires across California have killed 21 people so far in the north and forced 20,000 people across the state to evacuate their homes.
Nearly 150 people are unaccounted for and some 2,000 buildings have been devoured by the flames.
Among the dead are a married couple, aged 100 and 99, who were unable to evacuate in time. A deaf-blind woman is also believed to be among the dead.
Governor Jerry Brown declared a state of emergency for Napa, Sonoma, Yuba, Butte, Lake, Mendocino, Nevada and Orange counties and requested a presidential major disaster declaration to help battle at least 18 blazes burning throughout the state.
A series of fires that flared up north of San Francisco on Sunday night are among the deadliest in the state's history.
In Southern California, most evacuation orders have been lifted as firefighters successfully battle a wildfire that destroyed 14 buildings, most of them homes.
Thousands of people in Tustin, Orange and Anaheim were allowed to begin returning home Tuesday evening, a day after the blaze erupted in northern Orange County.
Some of the largest of more than a dozen blazes burning over a 200-mile region were in Napa and Sonoma counties, home to dozens of wineries that attract tourists from around the world. They sent smoke as far south as San Francisco, about 60 miles away.
Sonoma County said it has received more than 100 missing-person reports as family and friends scramble to locate loved ones.
'It looks like a bombing run here,' said winemaker Joe Nielsen of Santa Rosa's Donelan Family Wines, speaking to the San Francisco Chronicle. 'Just chimneys and burnt-out cars and cooked trees.'
The nightmare continued Tuesday evening for the residents and workers of the postcard-pretty Santa Rosa wine country, which is hugely popular with tourists, as the fires burned on and on.
Meanwhile in southern California, a monster Canyon 2 blaze cast an orange glow over the Disneyland theme park late last night, although Police and Fire Department spokesman Sgt Daron Wyatt was keen to reassure tourists that they are in no danger and that the resort is safe.
Photos, obtained exclusively by DailyMail.com, taken in Anaheim - a city of 350,000 people south of Los Angeles, show destroyed homes, cars caved in and children's toys reduced to melted blobs of plastic.
Approximately 7,500 acres have been consumed by the conflagration since early Monday morning, forcing the evacuation of 5,000 homes and putting another 35,000 at risk.
Sgt Wyatt, 50, told DailyMail.com that the fire has destroyed 14 homes so far and damaged another 22 – among them six properties on Canyon Heights Drive where these photos were taken.
Most of the fire damage is located in the Anaheim Hills, close to the Limestone Canyon Regional Park, where residents said their homes were engulfed within an hour of the first police warning at approximately 10am on Monday.
'About 10am in the morning, I came outside and smelled it and saw the smoke and the flames were coming straight this way at us,' said Cory Murdock, 45, a financial planner who lives with his wife Alison, 40, and their five-year-old twins William and Madison.
'We knew it was coming straight towards us. We tried to warn some of the neighbors and grabbed our stuff pretty quick because we knew what was coming.
'Around five to 10 minutes later, the police came round, telling everybody – you do need to go now. We were just helping everybody, trying to grab as much stuff as we could and got out of here.'
Others told of their terror as they battled to escape through clouds of choking black smoke and showers of burning ash particles.
Aimee Piazza, 44, a mother-of-two, was at home when the blaze began and said the 40 minutes it took her to escape were some of the most frightening of her life.
She told DailyMail.com: 'It really was sheer terror. I've been up here through fires before, I've lived up here all my life, and I've never been through such fires before.
The smoke and how crazy it was and the panic of everybody trying to get out. I didn't even know if everyone did get out – I didn't even know if my neighbors were OK until now.'
Murdock added: 'There was so much ash and there was the smoke - it was just really thick but we couldn't feel the heat from the fire when we left.
'We could see to the end of the street when we left but during the middle of it… I've got ash burned into my backyard, we've lost trees… Everything. So it was just flying everywhere. But we were lucky.'
Among those to lose everything was Michelle Homen, 58, whose property sits close to Piazza's own home.
Others to lose their residences included parents-of-three Janet and Kevin Shaevitz, 42 and 53 respectively, and Sylvester McBride, 54, and his wife Ann, 51.
Neighbors described Homen as 'devastated', adding: 'She's totally devastated but she says she's going to rebuild.
'They're just looking for a place to stay right now.'
Police and the American Red Cross have set up evacuation centers across Anaheim, including downtown and at a police substation in the eastern part of the city.
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