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reporter: going from a spark to more than 10,000 acres in less than three hours. hundreds of firefighters are on the front lines battling steep terrain to save communities. racing to get out, randy miller grabbed his cats and left. i got in the car, it was so hot with the flames being around me, i thought i was going to blow tires. reporter: miller s home is okay, but kenny reynolds is not as fortunate. it looked like the fire department was trying to do some home protection. but it did not look good. it did not have chance. the neighbor s house was already engulfed when i left. reporter: helicopters are sweeping in, making crucial nighttime water drops. our station kabc capturing this fire whirl on a hillside. a tornado of flames. the fires burning in a rural part of l.a. county that hasn t seen fire activity since the late 60s. i was apprised this morning that we did lose several structures. reporter: firefighters now forced to battle extreme fires while also dealing w ....
Petersons. i m taking everyone back to the basics. it s been such a bad fire season. why are these fires so early? let s remember, we get the moisture in the wintertime. we dry out typically in the summertime. and by fall is when we typically see the winds pick up and the fire season. unfortunately this year we ve had such a deficit in rainfall in the southwest that instead of seeing the peak in the fall, we re now looking at fall-like conditions early on. that means the fire season s not only peaking early, it s going to be lasting throughout the entire period. so that s a tough situation. we ll be dealing with it, of course. we continue to have red-flag warnings. the situation is not great today because once again, high pressure close to low pressure. what does that mean to us? dry southwesterly flow. so very windy conditions that are not only adding to those warm temperatures. we re talking 80s, 90s, even triple-digit heat, but single-digit humidity. it doesn t look like we ll see ....