Complex sentence: The Mark West Springs area, north of Santa Rosa in unincorporated Sonoma County, was directly in the path of the roaring fire; anomalously, none of the more than 1,000 animals at Safari West were killed in the fire.
Split into simpler sentences: The Mark West Springs area, north of Santa Rosa in unincorporated Sonoma County, was directly in the path of the roaring fire. One exception to the destruction was that all of the more than 1,000 animals at Safari West were saved from the fire.