fiancee posted a text message to me that i was headed into a storm that brazodo, i think is how it s pronounced, was the first town hit after elden. i pulled off to the shoulder. okay. keep going. not but 40 seconds later i watched it hit me. what was that like? you don t want to know, man. you were in the front seat of the truck. what happened to your windshield? i watched it explode. the windshield explode. were you hurt? i ve got cuts and lacerations
county hearing from those who escaped the flames of the camp fire. i m spencer christian. poor air quality persists in the bay area, and a spare-the-air alert has been extended. i will have the report within minutes, a live update from cal fire to find out just how much worse the deadly and destructive camp fire has become. live where you live. this is abc 7 news . lots of my friends died in their cars, died in their homes because they couldn t get out. paradise was not the only town hit hard by the camp fire. residents in the small community of concow are also reeling tonight. good evening. i m dan ashley. i m ama daetz. we will have their stories coming up. first though, in about a minute, you see here we are expecting cal fire to give us the latest information about the camp fire. authorities will update any details on containment as well as the death toll. you will see that live. so far the fire has burned 125,000 acres of butte county and is 30% contained.
around here that people care about? is this it? that s part of it. it s a big part of it for us, obviously. paychecks and their jobs. reporter: nick mentioned that paychecks and jobs had been drying up for another local industry. so we headed to one town hit hard when maine s paper mills started closing because of foreign competition. we drove here to this place, which is the great northern paper mill. or at least it yeused to be. er. just looking down here. this is mike, who s out here fishing. yeah, doing a little small mouth fishing. reporter: how many people lost their jobs when this place closed? i would say in the thousands. reporter: in the thousands? yeah. reporter: these guys let us in, and we got to see a 700-foot-long building. what matters to people here? jobs. people would love to come back here and work, but they have to be able to support themselves. reporter: to find out where residents of the district are going for jobs, we went to bangor, the bigge
oh! oh! oh! ozempic®! (vo) ask your healthcare provider if ozempic® is right for you. this summer has seen record heat waves in north america, europe, asia, and north africa, leaving dozens dead in places like canada, korea, and japan, which hit its highest temperature ever, 106 degrees fahrenheit. perhaps more alarming, meteorologically, are the heat waves being felt above the arctic circle this summer. a northern norwegian town hit a high of 94 degrees fahrenheit in
meteorologically, are the heat waves being felt above the arctic circle this summer. a northern norwegian town hit a high of 92 degrees fahrenheit in july. it was far from alone. in next door sweden, there were record highs as well, and also wildfires. the scandinavian country averages around three wildfires a year. this year it saw 50. and we had california s largest wildfire ever, and in british columbia, 460 wildfires were sighted in one day. nathaniel rich published an extraordinary work on climate change in the new york times magazine. his article, losing earth: the decade we almost stopped climate change, was published in the magazine. elizabeth kolbert is an author. a book called the sixth