And four others injured yesterday in central washington, when winds shifted near the towns of twisp and winthrop. Authorities say the firefighters were involved in a vehicle accident when the fire overtook them. Governor washington jay incheslee tweeting my heart breaks over the loss of life in the twisp fire. And with more on the dangers fire crews are facing, heres nbc National Correspondent Miguel Almaguer. 400,000 acres lost so far. The Smoke Jumpers are here. This, a rare look at these elite fearless firefighters. Dropping into rugged terrain nearly impossible to reach by land. 20,000 pounds of cargo, unloaded. In oregon, at least 36 homes destroyed. Hundreds more threatened across the region. All we got to do is drop a little match and poof, were all living in a tinder box. In these conditions, flames can spread at 30 miles per hour. California now reporting two to 300 new fires a week. In washington state, 200 Army Soldiers got a crash course on fighting fires resources are stra
Yesterday, we had a couple of lingering scattered showers and this morning, i would call them scattered sprinkles, not showers. There left over from the system that passed into the Pacific Northwest. Remembered that tomorrow there was more of a direct hit and it looks like we will see a much wetter system from this with moderate rainfall and windy and gusty conditions tomorrow. Get ready for the next round of rain. It ready for the morning commute. Heres jaclyn. The morning commute is starting off busy. We have a Traffic Alert along vasco road right at Camino Diablo with a headon crash and major injuries involved with emergency crews on the scene. They have shut down vasco road in both directions. Traffic is being turned around and heading back north bound. If you need to get to tracy or livermore, youd have to take marsh creek road to byron highway. Give yourself extra time. Its getting busy out there and there is a report of a new accident blocking one lane past the summit. Speeds ar
That region over the next hour or so. You can see interior south jersey, anyone coming home from the shore, on the Atlantic City expressway, give them a call and say, okay, youre going to be seeing some heavy rain on your way home toward philadelphia, or the jersey suburbs. This is going to continue to move toward the southeast toward the shore within the next hour or two. So, you can see, some heavy rain, some thunderstorms, millville right now, moving southeast into cape may county. Anyone still on the beach, or on the bay, let them know these storms are coming. Nothing severe. But a lot of heavy rain and lightning. This is the last bands of rain through lower merion, upper darby along 476 toward marple, see trediffryn, drying out there, but this moving toward the southeast, and moving toward philadelphia, behind it, some drier air. It is raining so hard in some areas, that visibility is reduced. In dover, down to a mile and three quarters, in millville, down to mile and a quarter, d
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