Home of 'Peanuts' creator Charles Schulz destroyed in California wildfire

The family of "Peanuts" creator Charles Schulz confirmed that his home was demolished by California's wildfires earlier this week.

The house in Santa Rosa caught fire at about 2 a.m. on Monday, but not before Schulz's wife, Jean, 78, was able to escape, her stepson Monte Schulz said to the Kansas City Star. She will be staying with family now, he said.

"She is very resilient," Schulz told the San Jose Mercury News of his stepmother. "She is energetic and pragmatic and very tough."

The house was built by the Schulz family in the 1970s and it's where the beloved cartoonist died as he slept at 77-years-old in 2000. Schulz was battling colon cancer.

Monte Schulz said that his brother, Craig, also lost his home to the blazes.

The world's largest collection of Schulz's artwork, the "Peanuts" comic strips and other memorabilia is currently safe at the Charles M. Schulz Museum and Research Center in Santa Rosa. The museum is currently closed because the fires took out its electricity.

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"The museum is fine," the museum’s marketing director, Tracey Pugh, told The Sacramento Bee on Wednesday. "There's no fire around it and everything is safe."

There are "Peanuts" character sculptures in downtown Santa Rosa that are reportedly still standing and have been untouched by the fires. But it's a small consolation to Schulz's family, who has lost all of his personal belongings.

"He had a study with a drawing table if he wanted to do anything (at home)," Monte Schulz told the Mercury News. "Obviously that's all gone. Everything's gone. It's sad. It's erased. Everything that was in there, every connection we had to dad vis a vis that house, is gone now."

The widespread wildfires in California have killed at least 31 people and hundreds are still missing, ABC News reported. The blazes have also torn through over 3,500 homes, businesses and other properties, as well as 190,000 acres of land.

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