Editing Santa Rosa, California (section)

===2017 firestorm===
{{main|October 2017 Northern California wildfires|Tubbs Fire}}
[[File:Fountaingrove_Round_Barn.jpg|thumb|upright=1.2|The historic Fountaingrove Round Barn, previously found at the southwestern base of Fountaingrove, was [[Tubbs Fire|lost to fire]] in 2017.]]
Beginning on the night of October 8, 2017, five percent of the city's homes were destroyed in the [[Tubbs Fire]], a 45,000-acre [[wildfire]] that claimed the lives of at least 19 people in Sonoma County.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Sudek|first1=Julia Prodis|title=Santa Rosa fire: How a sudden firestorm devastated a city|url=http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/10/09/santa-rosa-fire-how-a-sudden-firestorm-obliterated-a-city/|access-date=October 9, 2017|work=The Mercury News|publisher=Digital First Media|date=October 9, 2017}}</ref> Named after its origin near Tubbs Lane and Highway 128 in adjacent Napa County, the fire became a major section of the most destructive and third deadliest firestorm in California history.<ref name="calfire-top20">{{cite web|url=http://www.fire.ca.gov/communications/downloads/fact_sheets/Top20_Destruction.pdf|title=Top 20 Most Destructive California Wildfires|website=CAL FIRE|access-date=October 20, 2017|archive-date=June 26, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190626025601/http://www.fire.ca.gov/communications/downloads/fact_sheets/Top20_Destruction.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://kansaspublicradio.org/npr-news/firefighters-gain-ground-california-wildfires|title=Firefighters Gain Ground On California Wildfires|date=October 16, 2017|work=Kansas Public Radio|access-date=October 16, 2017|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Tubbs-Fire-could-be-worst-in-California-history-12276628.php|title=It's now the deadliest wildfire disaster in California history|work=SFGate|access-date=October 16, 2017}}</ref> Most homes in the Coffey Park, [[Larkfield-Wikiup, California|Larkfield-Wikiup]], and [[Fountain Grove, California|Fountain Grove]] neighborhoods were destroyed.

A notable exception to the destruction in the area was the protection of more than 1,000 animals at the renowned [[Safari West]] Wildlife Preserve northeast of Santa Rosa. All of the preserve's animals were saved by owner Peter Lang. At age 76, he single-handedly and successfully fought back the flames for more than 10 hours using garden hoses.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/7512550-181/safari-west-owner-had-a|title=Safari West owner had 'a thousand souls' to save from Tubbs fire|last=Payne|first=Paul|date=October 10, 2017|work=[[The Press Democrat]]|access-date=October 13, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/How-Safari-West-s-giraffes-cheetahs-and-hippos-12276896.php|title=How Safari West's giraffes, cheetahs and rhinos survived the Tubbs Fire|last=Aleaziz|first=Hamed|date=October 13, 2017|work=San Francisco Chronicle|access-date=October 14, 2017}}</ref>