Fire crews are spending hours on the lines trying to put the South Wenas Fire out. Many of these firefighters were teenagers when they began their careers.
Reporter Veronica Padilla met Richard Elliott, who has been fighting wildfires since he was just 19 years old.
"It's just different every day," he said. "It's a challenge, it's an immediate reward. You make people's day better most of the time."
The tests he faces on the fire lines - distinctly separate from local firefighters.
"Wild land incidents are kind of more of a marathon in some ways," said Elliott. "I mean, there are intense moments but the scope is big. You can have thousands of people trying to manage an incident that's really large."
And the unpredictability of wildfires like the South Wenas Fire keep crews on their toes.