the concern is over the weekend during just a 24-hour period, this fire exploded, more than doubled in size, and the heat that is helping drive that fire, well, that is forecast to continue over the next few days. now, what you see behind me, those are not clouds. that is smoke. we ve also seen a lot of action from the air, we ve seen 737s dropping retardant to try to contain the fire. the firefighters on the ground, some hot shot crews are digging trenches around the grove to try to protect those trees. now, these trees, some of them have bark two feet thick, so they can withstand regular fires. they ve been around for thousands of years. they ve withstood a lot of fires. but what has officials worried is just the intensity of the fires we re seeing here in california now. there is a lot of dead trees, that is fuel. the concern today, the heat, the terrain. we re going to keep an eye on
sparked more hotspots and potentially endanger these trees. that s what they re trying to do right now, is keep the trees as humid, as wet as possible and keep the flames as far away as they can. they re digging trenches, fire lines, trying to protect the trees. the issue, it is very hot here right now. it s going to continue to be hot over the next few days. that s their concern. what might be one other thing is a concern, sorry, is the terrain. it is steep. it is wooded. it is very difficult for fire crews to operate in this kind of environment, and it also means it s also this kind of environment that spreads quickly, and also a lot of dead trees around here that are, of course, doing things in their favor from the past few years. they have been clearing the fuel, the vegetation around these famed all the sequoias to try and keep them safe, and also, something else that might help them, there are burn scars
it is a really good question that you are asking. at the moment the pentagon is spending a lot of hopes on the ukrainian military s ability to continue to stymie russia. this is a new phase now of the war. this concentration in the donbas means that instead of trying to enter cities, which is what the russian military had tried to do in the first two months and spectacularly failed by and large to do, they are going to be fighting now, trying to fight over much more open plains. more open territory. this is all typically where the ukrainian military has been digging trenches ever since 2014. 2014, they have been fighting for that long there, and they are in these entrenched defensive positions. their tanks are in trenches, and they are able to, you know,
spending a lot of hopes on the ukrainian military s ability to continue to stymie russia. this is a new phase now of the war. this concentration in the donbas means that instead of trying to enter cities, which is what the russian military had tried to do in the first two months and spectacularly failed by and large to do, they are going to be fighting now, trying to fight over much more open plains. more open territory. this is all typically where the ukrainian military has been digging trenches ever since 2014. 2014, they have been fighting for that long there, and they are in these entrenched defensive positions. their tanks are in trenches, and they are able to, you know, pop up, they are able to dig in, and pop up in these defensive positions. take a shot at the russians, and then go back down. the russians on
now there s a lot of firing attacks from our colleague. isn t that the location of another active nuclear plant? yes, in fact, it s the largest nuclear plant with such reactors in europe. two of which are still operating because ukraine depends very heavily on nuclear power for electricity. in chernobyl, we still have 36 years after the accident, one still has elevated levels of radiation, but clearly, we see people working in the plant so these are not at levels that would result in any kind of critical radiation health problem. but the russians, as you said, were doing a lot of really not very wise activities without protection, digging trenches, picking up radioactive parols on