drought conditions. and a satellite picture shows all of the fire and smart. they can create their own weather parterns. what they want on the ground is calm through the rest of the weekend to get the upper hand on many of these fires, julie. >> any information on how the three firefighters died on wednesday? there was talk of the fire crashing and they were trying to escape the flames? >> reporter: that's right. they have five separate investigations. this was an elite group of firefighters who was tracking the path of the fire. the fire truck ended up crashing and the fire over took from left to right on the screen. thom and andrew and richard, their bodies were found outside of that truck. others made it out and some were