Clark County firefighters have been requested by the state of California to help with multiple raging wildfires Monday morning.

Many locals with ties to California are anxiously monitoring the Los Angeles area wildfires that left 25 dead and thousands under evacuation orders.

The provisional toll of the fires ravaging America's second-largest city has reached 24 dead and 100,000 displaced. Residents live in anticipation of potential evacuations.

The powerful winds fueling the wildfires are known as the Santa Ana winds, which flow out of the Great Basin in Nevada and Utah toward the Southern California coast. These winds push dry desert air over the mountains and accelerate as they blow into canyons and valleys.

Two wildfires still burning in Los Angeles have torched more urban area than any other fire in California since at least the mid-1980s, an Associated Press analysis shows.

Dozens of people are believed to have died in the Palisades and Eaton fires, which have burned down whole swaths of communities

Fire weather” is a term increasingly used to describe the atmospheric conditions that have rendered California’s recent wildfires uncontrollable. This emerging pattern combines hot, dry air that draws moisture from the soil and vegetation,