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Treasure. tinder dry conditions feeding the wind-fueled fires just about everywhere. near prescott, arizona, fire spread rapidly creating panic and more evacuations. across the west, historic levels of severe and extreme dryness, even large chunks of exceptional dryness. that's more extreme than extreme. >> this is kind of unprecedented, seeing this kind of dryness this early with a longer summer coming. again, this is june. we're seeing things that you see in august. >> reporter: so many fires already in california. smoke drifting east into clark county in las vegas prompting air hazard alert...

Homes. let's go to cnn's miguel marquez. what can you tell us right now, miguel? >> reporter: chris at the height of this thing more than 1,000 families were forced from homes and authorities are starting to get on top of this fire here but there are more than 30 fires burning across the west and there are record dry conditions. fires this big, this early, not supposed to happen. >> oh my god, oh, wow. >> reporter: here in the foothills of yosemite national park more than 1,000 families evacuated, 2,200 firefighters working round the clock to protect homes and the national treasure. tinder dry...

A tractor trailer rammed into a jeep grand cherokee stopped in traffic. the jeep slammed into the car carrying embry and her dad. i said dad i am okay. but those people -- >> reporter: there was a small fire growing in the back of the jeep. >> he ran over. doors were jammed. busted the window out. with his hands. >> reporter: her father pulled out an 18-year-old but could not rescue the boy's badly injured mother or friend. the fire spread too fast. >> something has to be done. it can't be done soon enough. >> reporter: chrysler is refusing the recall insisting the government's 3 year-long inv...

Not. >> reporter: true so it's name the power house fire packed a punch scorching more than 30,000 acres of land, threatened 1,000 homes and destroyed at least six. homes like the one where the stilson family used to live, reduced to rubble. the family is used to wild fires because they're a family of firefighters. the retired firefighter picking up the pieces of his parents home like so many residents he spent his life saving. >> i couldn't believe it how the fire spread. no, it's -- some of the wheelbarrows that i pushed when i was a teenager over there all melted. >> sifting through what's ...

Mishaps on cruise ships. "cruise nightmare." tonight at 8:00 on cnn. i'm christine romans. >> i'm john berman. "cnn newsroom" with carol costello begins right now. happening now in the "newsroom," an american marine kidnapped in mexico. >> you doan know if he's dead. you still have the hope that he's alive many. >> the reservist vanished. the fbi with an urgent plea for your help this morning. also, breaking overnight. fire threat spreads. >> it's nerve-wracking not knowing if your land is okay or not. >> three states now blackened by blazes. a family of firefighters seeing their house r...