A California couple who was forced to evacuate their home and winery share what it's really like to endure the wildfires engulfing the state

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• On October 23, the Kincade Fire ignited in Sonoma County, California leading to the evacuation of 200,000 people — the largest in Sonoma County history — as strong winds have allowed the flames to spread quickly.
• The fire has destroyed over 120 structures and has burned through 75,000 acres — that's roughly five times the size of Manhattan.
• The Sonoma Wine Country is a hefty source of income for the state as thousands of wine lovers flock to its wineries every year.
• It's been two years to the month since the region's winery operators experienced a series of fires in 2017 that left 22 of its 900 wineries destroyed in its path.
• William Allen told Business Insider that his business, Two Shepherds Winery, survived the destructive wildfires in 2017 and said he's hoping and praying that his winery and his farm make it through this year's Kincade Fire.
• Allen evacuated his town of Fulton on Saturday. He said another wind event on Tuesday isn't expected to be as bad as the previous ones, but "fire is insanely unpredictable," Allen said. "The winery is still only a few gusts away from being demolished."
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Sonoma County, California, is no stranger to wildfires.

About 20 of the 900 wineries in the wine country region were destroyed by a series of destructive blazes in October 2017 that also left 200,000 acres scorched and 40 people dead in one of the state's deadliest wildfires.

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