Wildfires force evacuations, with lightning threat and extreme heat fueling flames

A gold rush era mining town is up in flames as a fire fueled by a massive lightning strike burns out of control southeast of Sacramento. More than 600 firefighters are battling the flames on the ground and in the air as the 65 fire spreads near the town of Chinese camp where thousands of Chinese immigrant gold miners settled in the 1850s. While most of those residents have left in the early 1900s, many of those historic structures remained until now. More than 100 residents forced to evacuate. Is this your guy's gate? KXTV's Garge Paul Sunga using a video call to show a family what's left. Can you move a little bit? Oh my god, my car. Oh my god, you're cheap. To the sheds. The sheds. Can you show on the sheds, too? Oh my god. Yeah, that right there. That was the house. Right to your left was the house. At least 22 separate fires broke out Tuesday amid more than 16,000 lightning strikes. The group of fires called the TCU September Lightning Complex Fire, which has burned more than 18 square miles. A western heat wave will stick around the West Coast through Thursday with severe storms in parts of eastern Kansas and western Missouri. And dry conditions on the east coast are fueling fires. The Buckabear fire in Paya County, New Jersey, outside New York City, burning more than 100 acres. The cause under investigation. Jacquellyn Lee, ABC News, Los Angeles.