- The sizzling heat wave goes on out west,

depleting firefightingresources across some 15 states,

with dozens of thoseblazes in California alone.

More than 10,000 firefighters

are working those California fires,

but it's just not enough,

so some are doing 72-hour shifts.

- There's not enough people

to do the job.

And the fire's crazy.

It's like trying to keepkittens in a basket.

- Some of these fireswere allowed to smolder

because, frankly, wedidn't have the resources

to get out there and put eyes on them

because we were busy battling other fires.

- [Paul] That means peoplelike Vacaville's Brian Branagan

have lost everything on their property.

- Normally, I will see CALFIRE trucks bumper to bumper

rolling down the roadanytime there's a fire

up the road towards Berryessa.

This time, there wasn'tone fire truck to be seen.

- [Paul] The lack ofresources leaves it up

to some local residents to savewhat they can on their own.

- We've been fighting thefire back there for two days

with tractors, and we savedsome homes and such back there.

- Just trying to make somefirebreaks, do what we can,

but with this wind and the hotspots,

shoot, we could, thiscould all be for nothin'.

It's just gonna be an exercise in futility

because, you know, all ittakes is one spark to jump.

I mean, that house wasn'tburning a half an hour ago.

Neither was that.

- [Paul] Critics,President Trump among them,

say California has letthousands of acres go untended,

leaving some 150 milliondead or dying trees

ready to easily burn.

- Big Basin hasn't burned,

you know, like that in a long time.

There's obviously a ton of fuel up there.

- Evacuees escaping the fires

are facing a whole new kind of threat

when they get to emergency shelters.

They're worried aboutgetting the coronavirus

as those places fill up,

so some are sleeping in theirvehicles outside the shelters.

Paul Strand, CBN News.