If there truly is a hell, the wildfires of California could ably substitute as an example of what people may eventually see there.

California is currently suffering from the Mendocino Complex fire, a blaze that has gone on for weeks and has already taken 290,692 acres of land. It's comparable to the size of Los Angeles City and has already taken the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection to their limits.

Low humidity, strong winds, and a large area to cover have created a pretty nightmarish scenario for the firefighters currently trying to get the out-of-control fire under safe levels. Per BBC UK, the firefighters are looking to bring the fire under control by mid-August. That was then; now, they are saying that it will take until at least the first week of September to bring the blaze to where they can safely say "fire out."

It became the largest fire in history, fuelled by the dreadful conditions like a heat wave, unlike anything the state has ever seen. That has accounted for dry, combustible vegetation, some of which is actually because of a five-year drought that has also broken records.

The Mendocino Complex stands for the Colusa, Lake, and Mendocino counties. The Complex fire also contains the River Fire, which is nearly under control-78 percent-and the Ranch Fire, which is proving hard to contain at 20 percent. It also includes the Carr Fire, which has already claimed six people, 172,000 acres, 1,000 homes, and is only 47 percent contained.

NPR reports nightmarish scenes of people fleeing their homes for safe havens and watching helplessly as their homes are taken by the fires. Dangerously, the firefighters claim, these scenes are becoming a regular fixture as climates have slowly become out of control. Captain Steve Kaufmann, a fire captain from Ventura County who is involved in the effort, claims it's about to become a regular occurrence.

Just to compare how big the Mendocino fire is, it has a size of 443 square miles. Paris is about 40.7 square miles, while London is 607. New York, meanwhile, is 304.6 square miles. About 14,000 firefighters have been involved in trying to cover that area, which has already become an international effort, as teams from Australia and New Zealand have committed to help.