California is seeing a record-breaking number of wildfires.
The latest and biggest this year is the Beckwourth Complex Fire north of Lake Tahoe, which destroyed about 20 homes in the town of Doyle. It's currently covering 85-thousand acres and is only 20 percent contained.
According to wildfire photographer Craig Philpott, the lack of fire hydrants has caused a big issue.
"No fire hydrants in the entire town. We've had tanks being hauled in with water to diffuse the fire and they could not keep up with what was going through their little town," Philpott told KNX 1070.
The record-breaking wildfires come as experts say this year is one of the driest on record for California, adding that the brush normally gets this dry in September.
"The only that's keeping us from going up like a complete nuclear bomb is just a lack of ignitions at this point," Chris Dicus of Cal Poly San Luis Obispo told KNX 1070.
In 2020, a record 4.3 million acres burned statewide. According to Cal Fire spokesman Robert Foxworthy, it happened in northern California because of a very unusual weather pattern.
"A couple of days we were seeing roughly 15,000 lightning strikes and it went from wider than average to most acres burned in California's history," said Cal Fire spokesman Robert Foxworthy.
On Monday, a Flex Alert was issued by Cal ISO due to the wildfires and heat.