This entire summer Southern California has been a victim of numerous brush fires.

However, this is not news for SoCal residents.

Being a life long resident of Southern California you learn to accept the fact that during the summer you are literally going to be in a ring of fire, more so now that we have a terrible drought that only helps make matters worse.

No matter how accustomed SoCal residents may be to this climate it does not make it any easier to live with it.

California has it's own unique terrain ranging from beach coasts, rocky mountains, deserts, and forests.

Southern California (the San Bernardino County in particular) was lucky enough to have all of the above, as well as a drought to make things extra crispy.

The truth is, whether fire or no fire, SoCal is painfully hot during the summer, the spring, and pretty much all year round.

We have no cool off season.

Even our winter is hot compared to other states.

One thing for sure is that during the summer, SoCal becomes an infamous ring of fire, much like Johnny Cash's infamous song, "Ring of Fire".

During the summer time, I often find myself hearing Cash's classic song and think to myself that it should be SoCal resident's anthem.

Having lived in San Bernardino county, I have learned to live with the fact that every year, and sometimes more than once a year, there will be a fire that destroys hundreds of acres of land.

While people are driven to Southern California for all it's beauty, true residents know just how much this love burns, literally.

It's as if the deeper into the bowl you go, the higher the chances you'll see a fire come really close to where you live.

It's like we "fell into a burning ring of fire" that was driven by a love of the surroundings, after all it is our home.

Even though it's a choice we make to live here, that doesn't make the possibility of losing our homes to a natural disaster any easier to live with.

And as much as we may hate the heat and dry summer, Southern California is our home and there is not a year that goes by that we aren't affected by wild, and man made, fires.

As we see the flames grow higher around us in this "ring of fire", my positive thoughts go out to those who have been affected by these natural disaster.