seen in a 360-degree direction and a smoldering husk. the thing that s so bizarre about this fire and how quickly and ven nously it moved through this neighborhood. last night at 5:00 it was three acres. then firefighters watched it, it jumped to five acres, then 40 acres and then exploded to hundreds of acres, racing up the side of the canyon next to us, cresting over the canyon, leaping onto homes, the roofs of homes, raining down embers and hopping home to home to home until more than 20 homes have been completely destroyed here. it s bizarre to think this is happening in may. i m wearing a jacket. it very early in the season. climate change has exacerbated a lot of what s happening here in california, including this mega drought we ve been in for years, making conditions extremely dry, including here in orange county, allowing almost a runway for those flames to shoot through. if this is what is happening in may, california needs to brace
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16,000 structures at risk and the homeowners are hoping they won t share a fate as this greenville town completely leveled. 75% of the buildings here destroyed. believe it or not behind me, that used to be a fire station. next to that, that is a fire engine. i want to show you take you to a rancher who describes the chaos as he continues to protect hundreds of acres, dousing 20-acre fires himself. listen here. we just barely get it out and another one would start. didn t seem like you could get on top of it. one point it was so bad i texted out in a group text to the fire department help if anyone can come but everyone was in the same predicament. reporter: these wildfires are burning faster, hotter and earlier and they re pointing the finger at climate change, a point underscored by a report out of the u.n. earlier this week.
he won t plant hundreds of acres of crops. your family has been doing this for 152 years. that s many generations. do you worry that this is the last generation of farming in your family? you know, i can t sleep at night, most nights, because that s exactly the concern. reporter: about 95% of utah s water comes from snow pack, and this year, there was little of it. we would be standing under water had it been a normal water year. reporter: zach frankel, executive director of the utah rivers council, warns the crisis in utah will impact much of the west. the question is, are state leaders willing to accept that this is not a short-term drought but that this is long-term climate change? reporter: and this is what scientists mean when they say most of the west is in a mega drought. utah s great salt lake lived up to its name last year. norah, where i m standing right now, i should be submerged in water. o donnell: wow. that says it all.