California wildfire Daniel Brownuses a chat app with his mother while surveying damage to his homeafter a fire tore through his neighborhood in Lower Lake, Calif.,Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2016. People forced to flee a massive wildfire inmountains north of San Francisco heaped anger on a man whoauthorities believe set the blaze that wiped out several blocks ofa small town. (AP Photo/Josh Edelson)

Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones revealed that insurers havereceived nearly 45,000 insurance claims totaling more than $11.79billion in losses after a spell of wildfires affected California inthe last three months of 2017.

Thirty-two thousand (32,000) homes, 4,300 businesses, and 8,200vehicles, watercraft, farm vehicles and other equipmenthave been destroyed.

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