By The Associated Press

Extreme drought has turned the region into a tinderbox, allowing flames to spread. Overnight, new fires broke out in rural South Georgia. High winds have made efforts to contain the fires difficult, officials said in a news conference Saturday afternoon.

Brantley County Manager Joey Cason called the wildfires a “dynamic situation” in a Saturday-morning video posted on social media and begged residents to “please evacuate” if they are ordered to do so. New evacuation orders were issued as the fire spread.

“Leave the scene. This fire is moving quickly, and we do not have much control over where it’s headed. Please leave,” Cason said Saturday afternoon at a news conference, addressing Georgia residents facing evacuation orders.

One woman — who saw flames coming and fled with four kids and 10 dogs to Florida — said she watched her family’s home burn on her phone, through Ring cameras.

“When both of my devices were offline, and it was black, and I couldn’t see more, it was so gut-wrenching because then I knew, like, they got … what I call home,” Anna Dudek told CBS News’ Mark Strassmann.