PHOTOS: California wildfires ravage US West Coast, record 2.5 million acres destroyed

LAKE HUGHES, CA - AUGUST 12: A fast-moving brush fire blacked 400 acres in an hour in the Lake Hughes area as seen from Thousand Oaks in Ventura County, and fire officials said it had the potential to burn 1,000 acres. 

AZUSA, CA - AUGUST 15: A Sikorsky S-64 Skycrane firefighting helicopter draws water from Morris Reservoir as record heatwave conditions stoke the Ranch 2 Fire on August 15, 2020 near Azusa, California. Azusa Police are seeking a homeless man whom they accuse of setting the fire on purpose. The fire had covered at least 1,400 acres as it roars up steep mountainsides and into wilderness in the Angeles National Forest and San Gabriel National Monument. Containment as of this morning was only three percent.

VALLEJO, CA - AUGUST 19: Gina Santos cries in her car after evacuating the LNU Lightning Complex Fire in Vacaville , Calif., on Wednesday, August 19, 2020. She moved to her "dream house" several months ago and was distraught that it might have burned down.

SANTA CRUZ, CA - AUGUST 21: Scenes of total devastation by the CZU Lightning Complex fire are visible along Braemoor Drive in the mountains of Santa Cruz, Calif., Friday, Aug., 21, 2020.

VACAVILLE, CALIFORNIA - AUGUST 24: Burned cars sit under the skeleton of a tree after the LNU Lightning Complex fire swept through the area on August 24, 2020 in Vacaville, California. The massive wildfire has destroyed at least 870 structures and is only 22 percent contained.

LAKE BERRYESSA, CA - AUGUST 27: Artist Marcia Ritz, 77, pauses while looking through the rubble of her home at the Spanish Flat Mobile Villa trailer park in Lake Berryessa, Calif., on Thursday, Aug. 27, 2020. The Hennesey Fire, part of the LNU Lightning Complex Fire, tore through the area on Aug. 18. Ritz and her husband Jerry Rehmke, 80, rode out the fire with nine other people aboard a pontoon boat as flames surrounded Lake Berryessa.

LAKE BERRYESSA, CA - AUGUST 31: Burned homes on Eastridge, Headlands and Westridge Drives are seen from this drone view in the in the Berryessa Highlands neighborhood of Lake Berryessa, Calif., on Monday, Aug. 31, 2020. The LNU Lightning Complex Fire is currently the third largest in California history.

SHAVER LAKE, CA - SEPTEMBER 06: Firefighter Ricardo Gomez, of a Cal Fire engine from Bradley, takes part in conducting a back burn operation along CA-168 during the Creek Fire as it approaches the Shaver Lake Marina on Sunday, Sept. 6, 2020 in Shaver Lake, CA. 

SHAVER LAKE, CA - SEPTEMBER 07: Kelsey Mueller, 16, pets Ruby while waiting with her family to be escorted from the evacuation zone at the Shaver Lake Marina parking lot off CA-168 during the Creek Fire on Monday, Sept. 7, 2020 in Shaver Lake, CA. 

FRESNO COUNTY, CA - SEPTEMBER 08: The smoldering remains of a structure along Auberry Road, where Creek Fire tore through and jumped CA-168 on Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2020 in Fresno County, CA. 

MADERA COUNTY, CA - SEPTEMBER 08: Firefighters (L to R) Rob Spitzer, Max Kitty, Josiah Gist and Hunter Grossmann with Cal Fire Madera Mariposa Merced Unit; Rancheria takes a break along Waterfall Way in the Cascadel Woods community where he and his colleagues have been fighting the Creek Fire since Saturday, photographed on Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2020 in Madera County, CA.

SAN FRANCISCO, CA - SEPT. 9: A woman jogs by the Bay Bridge as dark orange skies hang over downtown San Francisco, Calif. Wednesday, September 9, 2020 due to multiple wildfires burning across California and Oregon.