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California fire surrounds camper, evacuates 30 hours later

The camper managed to capture the glowing red skies and flames engulfing the nearby vegetation while being stranded at a park during a wildfire in California.

Meyers said in a text message that he was stranded for around 30 hours before the National Forestry evacuated 15 campers, including himself, on Sunday (September 6), along with some dogs.

Three large wildfires burned in California and a fourth was growing quickly on Monday (September 7) as a weekend heat wave lingered across large swaths of the western United States.

The Creek Fire, which has engulfed the Fresno area in central California and caused the emergency evacuation over the weekend of more than 200 people vacationing at a popular reservoir, was still not contained as of Monday afternoon, fire officials said.