It was late on Sunday evening when Ray Signorello realized something was wrong. His wife Tanya, had spotted flames coming down the hillside towards their Napa Valley wine estate.
The first warning came at 10.45pm - less than an hour later, the winery building containing the family home was on fire and the Signorellos had fled.
By Monday morning, nothing was left of the colonnaded winery building but a blackened heap of rubble dotted with exploded glass bottles, while a formerly picturesque stretch of olive trees on the hill behind had been badly burned.
‘The fire was fueled by 50mph winds so there wasn’t much to stop it,’ Signorello, 54, told DailyMail.com.
‘Fortunately we didn’t have anybody injured here – that’s the most important thing.’
The 40-year-old Signorello Estate, which produces between 5,000 and 6,000 cases of wine each year, is one of 16 wineries wrecked by the monster blazes that have ravaged northern California over the past week.
All that air pollution being released into the California air from mother nature. How sad. Too bad.
And are wine grapes and olive trees indigenous to this area, or are they invasive species introduced by man to upset the delicate balance of nature?
< /ecosarcasm >
I guess its going to be normal for a hint of smoke to be included within the taste of the wine for a good while.
Yeah, now all those left coast elitists who like to hang out with their peers in “wine country” will be feeling pretty downtrodden and seeking shelter in their well stocked safe spaces, I suppose.
Does anyone know, if a vineyard burns, will the grapevine roots resprout, or do they have to be replanted?
All this because California democrats failed to manage their resources properly.
Why isnt this disaster getting more news coverage?
Where are those 100,000 evacuated people?
Where are the networks?
Where is the POTUS?
More dead here than in Puerto Rico!
This is truly awful yet we are still getting press coverage about the feminazi mayor of San Juan Puerto Rico accusing Trump of genocide and racism
Well...it looks like Ripple for Thanksgiving.
The state of California will take a long time to recover from this tragedy.
Why didn’t Gov. Brown do anything to stop this?
A long article, but in a nutshell it lays out how the Environmentalists and their Bribed Politicians CREATED these Overgrown Dense Forests susceptible to uncontrollable fires.
https://www.bohemian.com/northbay/forest-for-the-trees/Content?oid=2757835
“GRT is looking to clean the last meat off the bones of this watershed,” he says. “But if this community is smart, they’ll realize this is their big chance. With some help we can set this land aside and economically uplift this entire region by creating a truly remarkable park.”
All of the people in those areas VOTED and SUED for those Policies that allowed the Forest to become so overgrown.
Not enough forest, and forested land, management in the way of culling trees constantly to keep the forested land healthy but not overgrown, not enough intentionally made but controlled fires, yearly, and not enough clearing of overgrown scrub and over-accumulated underbrush. You have years of not doing enough of that - just letting mother nature alone - and years of California drought, with only recent good rains, and what you had in northern California was a storehouse of fuel for fires whenever and however they got started.
And why is it none of the news goes back to the start, in which many of the fires began very close to the same time on the same day, in spite of being miles apart from each other. One or two fires not so far apart could be a lone “fire bug” arsonist, but so many and so far apart is neither what mother nature would do around the same time on the same day, nor what a single “fire bug” arsonist could accomplish.
Yet all we get from the media is the tragedy of the result, and nothing of the very questionable start of it all.
PFL
Doesn’t San Fran Nan have a winery in Napa? Guess she is okay or it would be front page news.
You had to be here to believe this thing. Hell fire unleashed. How all of these fires started at once? They say it was the wind and power lines. People got out of their residential homes, vineyard homes, apartments, condos with the clothes on their backs. Vines, structures animals all reduced to powder ( and some humans). Large commercial building totaled. Things are winding down but firefighters will be here for the rest of the month. Sonoma, Napa, Solano, Mendocino counties owe so much to these brave firefighters, chopper pilots, bomber pilots, sheriffs, police, secret service and volunteers. who worked 24 hour
shifts and some longer. I still am blown away by the 747 borade bombers.
Anybody know if Frank Family Vineyards has been damaged?
Their Red Zinfandel and Rouge sparkling wine are outstanding LPR’s!
5,700+ structures lost with hundreds missing and 40 dead.
The liberals in California blocked brush and tree clearance.
This is the result.