mack ron made that announcement just 15 days ago. and here in britain, the authorities are hoping the same thing will happen. david? >> ian pannell, thank you. >>> back here at home, now to the extreme fire danger in the west at this hour. more than 13 major fires now. and the air quality alerts all the way to the east coast. in fact, one just issued inrom west. abc's will carr on the front lines tonight, he's in plumas county, california. >> reporter: tonight, california lge fires now six times the size of san francisco. the dixie fire merging with the nearby fly fire burning through steep, rugged terrain, forcing more than 8,000 to flee, threatening more than 10,000 structures. more than a dozen already destroyed. the fire at times creating its own weather patterns. that fire dwarfed bring the massive bootleg fire in oregon, now scorching over 400,000 acres. burning so hot and so fast, officials confirming it created its own tornado over the weekend.oderate to exceptional drought conditions and monsoon storms are turning deadly in the west. >> oh, my gosh. >> reporter: in millard county, utah, nearly two dozen ve