In California, two wildfires have burned about 5,000 acres of terrain and are threatening to merge in the mountains outside Los Angeles. Firefighters said they are short-staffed because people have been sent to fight other fires burning in different parts of California. U.S. Forest Service Fire Chief Robert Garcia gave an update on the Fish and Reservoir fires, which have forced hundreds to evacuate.

Robert Garcia: “Both are continuing to burn in the Angeles National Forest, in San Gabriel Mountains National Monument, in very steep, rugged terrain, in old fuel beds, as we would describe it—areas of the forest that have not burned in a quite a number of years.”

Meanwhile in Arizona, Governor Doug Ducey has declared a state of emergency in Navajo County, where firefighters are battling a blaze that has grown to more than 40,000 acres. The fires have been fueled by record-shattering heat, the latest sign of human-caused climate change.