Caldor fire levels California town of Grizzly Flats as dry weather fuels blazes

Two people hospitalized with serious injuries as houses reduced to ash and post office and school destroyed

Few homes were left standing in Grizzly Flats, California, the small northern California forest town leveled by the Caldor fire on Tuesday.

Streets in the town of about 1,200 people were littered with downed power lines and poles. Houses were reduced to smoldering ash and twisted metal with only chimneys rising above the ruins. A post office and elementary school were also destroyed. Two people were in the hospital with serious injuries.