ESPARTO, Calif. — Seven people were missing Wednesday following an explosion at a fireworks warehouse in rural Northern California that caused a massive fire that spread to farm fields and forced evacuations in the surrounding community, authorities said.

Seven people are "unaccounted for" after several explosions at a fireworks warehouse resulted in a fire in Northern California's Yolo County, officials said.It happened Tuesday evening in the community of Esparto at Devastating Pyrotechnics.

Seven people are missing after a warehouse holding fireworks caught fire and set off a series of massive explosions in Northern California late Tuesday.