Los Angeles residents saw a flurry of emergency alerts interrupting their TV viewing, ordering an immediate mandatory evacuation from several locations , according to a report from Hollywood news website Deadline.

Some Twitter users managed to take a picture of one of the orders.

The evacuation orders have likely come because of a raging brush fire near the 5 Freeway, that is in the north of Los Angeles. As many as 200 homes have received mandatory evacuation orders because of the extreme late-summer heat in Southern California. 

Temperatures have soared to triple digits, going as high as 110 Farenheit. So far, 255 firefighters from the LA County Fire Department have been deployed. Already, eight firefighters have suffered heat-related injuries with six of them being transported to hospital, according to the Lose Angeles Times. In addition, 115 US Forest Service firefighters, eight air tankers and seven helicopters have been roped in to put the fire out, the LA County Fire Inspector Craig Little told NBC Los Angeles. 

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So far, the fire has grown to more than 4,200 acres and has destroyed at least one home and three other structures, NBC Los Angeles reported. 

On the same day, California Governor Gavin Newsom declared a state of emergency to increase power production on Wednesday night. In his address, the governor urged residents to cut back on their electricity use as the late-summer heat wave cuts through the state.

Following his announcement, the California Independent System Operator declared a “Flex Alert” which has been extended into Thursday. A Flex Alert is a request to voluntarily reduce electricity usage in order to prevent a power shortage. Newsom in his state of emergency address had warned that the state might experience outages if conditions worsen. 

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Western states are bearing the brunt of increasing wildfires in the country as scientists say that climate change has made the area warmer and drier over the past three decades.