Its 6 00. The weekend is almost here. We begin with developing news as you wake up this morning. 50 major wildfires are burning across the west the worst in northern california. The rim fire burning near yosemite only 1 contained. People in 1300 more homes and campsites have now been evacuated. 63,000 acres have been burned. And we are getting a rare look into those firefighting efforts. We have a shot from a blackhawk helicopter of an aviation Battalion Team fighting the fire from the air. This team scooped up water from a nearby lake and dropped it on the flames. Kpix 5 reporter cate caugiran has the latest. Reporter the plumes of smoke from the fire are dwarfing everything around it. Some smoke columns up to 40,000 feet high. At this point its turned know an air war. This fire is growing fast, faster than firefighters can put it out, and we just heard its nearly quadrupled in size. The rim fire is turning this area into an inferno. Trees are exploding as flames, some 600 feet high,
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Reservoir. Reporter we are way up high in the Stanislaus National forest, where we can show you how the rim fire is spreading. As we reported during the 5 00 newscast, the fire has now headed into Yosemite National park and toward Hetch Hetchy Reservoir. Crews have been setting so called back fires, similar to this one today along highway 120, to try to get rid of fuel in the path of the rim fire. This afternoon, they used the fighting fire with fire strategy along evergreen road to help protect San Franciscos main water supply, Hetch Hetchy Reservoir, inside Yosemite National park. The reservoir is key, you know, to the city of San Francisco and the Water Quality that we send there. Reporter along with the back fires, bulldozers were brought in to carve out more protective space. Officials say the fire has burned up more than 11,000 acres of the park, but is still at least several miles from the reservoir. You want to protect the structures as much as possible. Some of them are histor
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