RAMONA, Calif. (FOX 5/KUSI) -- Flames crackled across San Diego County as four brush fires burned in Caramel Valley, Spring Valley, Mission Valley and Ramona on Friday.

"Cal Fire and the San Diego Fire Department contained all four blazes at less than five acres," said Fire Captain Robert Johnson with Cal Fire San Diego County Fire.

This comes as heat blasts East County with an extreme heat warning in the San Diego deserts, and a heat advisory in the inland valleys and mountains until Saturday night.

“It’s kind of what we live with up here," Ramona resident Rob Schwarz said. "There’s not a lot we can do about it.”

Another Ramona resident also commented about the heat in the area.

“It always seems to get really hot when school goes back in session, and this was our first week back in,

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