Tens of thousands of people were told to evacuate Northern California on Wednesday... due to lightning-sparked wildfires that are blazing across the state amid a blistering heat wave. Dozens of forest fires are raging across northern and central California, spreading at a rapid pace. This comes one day after California's Governor Gavin Newsome declared a statewide emergency, saying the blazes were amplified by sustained high winds and the historic heat wave. California's Death Valley saw the temperature top 54 degrees Celsius on Sunday.
