A roundup of the days events. Service all go dark . Abcs will carr from california. Reporter tonight, an allout battle on the front lines of the holy fire. The blaze exploding overnight and still out of control. This is a frightening fire. It has just erupted. Now that its gotten so big, it is so difficult to defend. Reporter now threatening critical communication towers. Authorities telling residents to get out now. There is a major air attack going on right now, planes flying by, Dropping Retardant all throughout this area. We met a group of neighbors, including darla stewart, anxiously watching the flames approach their homes. Scary. Just scary. Yeah. Trying not to panic. Reporter and tonight, authorities arresting this man, forrest clark, now facing arson and other charges. Clark reportedly emailed a local fire chief, warning him, this place will burn. More than 14,000 firefighters, including around 1,000 National Guard troops, battling 15 large fires statewide. Making rare nightti
excruciating conditions, including more firenados. the record-breaking mendocino complex fire expected to burn through september. david, tonight, fire crews continuing to attack those flames on the hillside behind me. we have seen them make drop after drop. the roof on top of this home is now red. there s fire retardant splattered on these windows. this is the firefighters making their stand. david? all right, will carr, thank you again tonight. the dangerous heat continues, really on both coasts at this hour. in the east, the heat index in the triple digits tonight. three people recovering from lightning strikes in queens, new york. the statue of liberty, staten island ferry also struck in the last 24 hours. and there are now more storms possible this evening. chief meteorologist ginger zee tracking it all for us. ginger? reporter: david, daily records broken again today. l.a.x., 93, and some of the other numbers on the map are going to be super high in the next 24 hours. spokane,
looking through debris piles, looking at the high water mark. the national where there s national weather service says more people died in floods than by lightning, tornadoes and hurricanes. how quickly those conditions can change. thank you. much-needed rain falling in california where wildfires are raging. the steady rain has helped firefighters gain more ground on the valley fire but that fire has claimed one life and we are confirming a second person has died in the fire. maria molina is live in the fox extreme weather center. the fire crews continuing to get help from the weather. we needed that rain and got it from a big storm system, producing flash flooding across these areas out west, the ground is very dry. any bit of rainfall will create a flash flood threat out there