firefighters had to give up the fight and let the country burn and the prime minister had to ask the world to send in the water bombers israel decided not to buy. these are the fire bombers that could have saved it and sadly came too late. and you can see the sun shining in here, and you can see the wall that have been burned, people who live here, left with the clothes on their back and it simply hoped it wasn't true. >> you see on the news and you know it's a big fire, a forest fire and you see the flames and you come here and don't understand how big it is. there's nothing, nothing left. nothing. >> and of course, the cleanup for any of these fires takes an awful long time, but it's going to be a lot longer than most people would even think. a number of these homes here are killed with asbestos products so they're going to have to bring in has duz materials teams and all of that only adds to the cost of