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Earlier this month California was ravaged by wildfires.

Santa Rosa was hit very hard.

Jim Stites watches his neighborhood burn in Fountaingrove, Santa Rosa, on Monday, October 9, 2017. (Photo: Sonoma Magazine)

Liliana Contreras and three of her children, from left, Edali, 6, Gloria, 2, and Johana, 9, hold each other as they view their burnt out home in the Coffey Lane neighborhood in Santa Rosa on Monday, October 9, 2017. Contreras and her family were able to evacuate to safety in the early morning. (Photo:  Sonoma Magazine)

Homes couldn’t be saved. But Halloween was.