California Wildfires: Photograph Captures Boiling River Of Wine

SANTA ROSA, CA — Wildfires in California have ravaged the state's wine country, leaving dozens dead — the most in the state's history from a collection of simultaneous fires. As the fires burned, deadly scenes emerged from the embers.

One photographer captured an eerie and frightening scene at a Santa Rosa winery that showed a boiling stream of red wine. The photographer, Josh Edelson, told San Francisco Gate he was walking around the walking around the grounds of the Paradise Ridge winery with the owner when he noticed a large plastic container that held wine, which had completely melted.

Edelson told SF Gate he saw a pool of wine floating downhill and when he looked closer he saw that it was bubbling from the heat. (For more news on the wildfires from the Rohnert Park-Cotati Patch, sign up for real-time news alerts and free morning newsletters, or find your local California Patch here. If you have an iPhone, If you have an iPhone, click here to get the free Patch iPhone app.)

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"At first I didn't understand it, but then it dawned on me that the ground was hot and the wine was boiling with all that stuff smoldering around it," Edelson told the news organization.

Paradise Ridge wrote in a Facebook post Oct. 9 that the winery had burned to the ground.

"Thank you all for all the outreach and well wishes," the winery wrote in a post Oct. 11. "The Paradise Ridge family and extended family are all safe"

Photo: Red wine stains the front of wine making equipment at Paradise Ridge Winery that was destroyed by the Tubbs Fire on October 11, 2017 in Santa Rosa, California. Twenty one people have died in wildfires that have burned tens of thousands of acres and destroyed over 3,000 homes and businesses in several Northen California counties. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images News/Getty IMages)