The latest news from around the world. The latest news from around the world. Facing, not just the temperatures, the Daytime Temperatures in the redding area are in excess of 105 and closer to 110 degrees. And it that is taxing to the firefighters. Let alone the heat that the fire generates and all that plays into the fire behavior and i talked to many veteran firefighters in the wildland arena and heard almost verbatim from every one of them that the fire behave yoior that they witnessed and experienced on thursday evening into friday morning, they had never seen before. And these are Men And Women that have many, many years of experience and training under their belts. Climate change is making an impact. I was reading hear since 2012 there has not been a month without a Wildfire Burning in the state and the governor has called this a new normal. This is a completely different situation that anyone is trained
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exhausted. derek van dam is here. what do you say about this? those images, you see particularly how dangerous they have become. you see what is called a firenado. those only occur when the fire is at its most extreme and most intense. it creates that fire vortex or fire tornado or firenado. the direct ramifications of these fires are the communities, the towns, the cities downwind from the burning fires. and, well, here is what sydney looks like on any given mid-december day. beautiful, right? people flock to this city because of its beaches, its coastal lifestyle. this is what it looks like within the past 24 hours. a thick, extremely dangerous and unhealthy smog has enveloped and encompassed this entire city. and guess what, folks? it s going to get worse before
of smoke sent into the sky from the car fire in around redding. you see it from space as well. satellite imagery picking up on the smoke and cloud as well. you heard the firefighter a moment ago on that interview with natalie about the spotting. and this is a term they use because we get strong winds that take the embers from the tops of the hillsides and throw them several hundred feet in advance of the fire. that s how new fires start. it is not only that, but it is also phenomenons like this. this is called a firenado or fire whirl or fire vortex, all the same, interchangeable. look how it is picking up individual embers and tossing them across the street. you can imagine that is starting new fires well in advance of that fire. how does this form? we get rising air from very intense heat from fires. that air needs to be replaced. with that replacement of air