overnight a wildfire east of Los Angeles exploding in size prompting expanded evacuations there firefighters battling the flames and triple digit temperatures ABC zaren Shaw is joining us from Highland California with the latest zaren good morning wait that's right this fire exploded overnight and five minutes ago this place was buzzing with the sound of chainsaws you can see those firefighters behind us they were cutting down trees clearing out space aggressively trying to get this fire under control this morning an explosive California wildfire forcing hundreds of evacuations and creating its own weather system oh my god making it even harder to fight watch as the fire jumps over a major highway the 330 in San Bernardino County the line fire growing to over 177,000 acres in just a few hours and 0% contained this woman packing her belongings into the back of her truck and this video is showing slow traffic backed up for miles more than 8,000 structures threatened three firefighters injured the fire creating clouds similar to ones in thunderstorms with reports of more than 3,000 lightning strikes in the area all of this coming as much of Southern California faces triple digit temperatures with many places over 20 degrees hotter than usual for this time of year multiple departments all trying to bring the fire under control meanwhile the Davis fire in wasap County Nevada has burned down, 1500 Akers and taken down six structures