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    Death toll reaches at least 23 as wildfires spread to 170,000 acres

    by By Louis Sahagun, Paige St. John, Javier Panzar and Joel Rubin, Los Angeles Times Oct 12, 2017 4 minutes

    CALISTOGA, Calif. - Dennis DeVilbiss had made up his mind.

    "I'm not leaving," the former cop and firefighter said Wednesday afternoon as he stood on his front porch in Calistoga, a wine country town under threat from an approaching wildfire. Authorities had ordered its 5,000 residents to evacuate.

    He glanced at smoke drifting over nearby trees, and smiled. "I'm not stupid," said DeVilbiss, 60. "If it's time to run, I'll run like hell."

    As the death toll from 16 wildfires raging in Northern California climbed Wednesday, thousands more residents in Calistoga and elsewhere were ordered to flee their homes and

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