Wildfires raging in California are nowhere near to being contained.<br />The fire in Redding, northern California has already burned down some 500 homes and now threatens thousands more.<br />The fire has burned an area reported to be over 300 square kilometers, or as some have put it, the size of the city of Philadephia.<br />Five people have died in the fires -- two firefighters,... and a grandmother and two of her grandchildren.<br />Media reports say there are another dozen or so people missing.<br />There are also large fires near Yosemite National Park and in the mountains east of Los Angeles.<br />In the Los Angeles fire, a man has been arrested and charged with arson related to nine separate fires.<br />The weather is not helping with putting them out. It's very hot with almost no humidity. <br />
