burn it. that s what they did. they got holes in the roof. they want a lot of air flow through there so they can get a really hot fire going there. they tried to get everybody out of the area. 130 homes in the area. a few people stuck around, but most people left. they waited for a day that was perfect in terms of wind conditions. you can see that the smoke is going in one angle. largely we looked at it from a distance, and it largely a plume that s going straight up. there s not much danger of things going wrong. but we are watching it very carefully, and we ll continue to watch it. i m going to take it off the tv screen now, but we re staying on top of it. and we ll tell you what s going on. okay. here s a story of a site called wiki. they were putting out very juicy leaks. i ll spare you the song. nobody is laughing about the fallout from the wikileaks document dump. confidential, diplomatic cables were made public. i see classic tv. brady bunch, if you will.
this is happening right now in escondido, california. a deliberate fire set to burn down this house containing chemicals used to make home-made bombs. bombs. that s what we re looking at. captions by vitac www.vitac.com all right. we re going to stay on this to see how this actually works out. this house has just been ignited, i think, about less than ten minutes ago is when this fire sarttarted. this is a controlled fire, as i was telling you. it s a fire that has been set to burn bomb-making materials that were discovered. a gardener was injured in a backyard blast. that s what brought authorities to this house. what they did, they went in there and found that every room was packed with piles of explosive material. things related to home-made bombs. so the idea was that after trying to figure out how to do
with bomb-making materials that authorities determined was too unstable to send bomb-disposal robots into. certainly too unstable to send humans into. they ve decided to evacuate the area. almost everybody is gone from the area. 130 homes in the area. they ve set this house on fire in the hopes that the fire will burn everything in it. think about how many hiding places are in this house. they re letting it burn. all right. stay with us. we ll take a quick break. we are on this. we will not we will keep an eye on this for you. if anything develops, we will let you know about that immediately. we ll take a quick break.
little while burn at 1,800 degrees? no. this needs some help to get something to get it hotter. it needs help, and that help is air. and the air, a lot like you would take a bellow and make charcoal or any kind of coal hot enough to bend iron as an old blacksmith, you don t bend iron by putting it in a fire and getting it hot enough. you need to get that air, that oxygen, to be the accelerant. that s why they made so many holes in this house. now they have a chimney effect. this thing is sucking air in from the bottom and blowing it out the top, and the oxygen is this thing the energy this thing is going to get. so the danger here is that the house burns before the chemicals burn. i think we ll be okay. this is a professional job. that s the thing. that s important. that is an important thing for you to know. we re not watching an accidental fire. this is a deliberate job. it is a house that was filled
go in, you send in a robot. a bomb-disposal robot, a chemical disposal robot. they tried that. they didn t even try that because they couldn t get in there fast enough. they couldn t they couldn t get in there and be assured that those things could neutralize the bomb-making stuff without danger to setting them off, to actually creating an explosion. they didn t want to send humans there. they went up on the roof, for instance, cut holes in it, sawed holes in the roof so that as you can see, a normal house fire burns pretty well. they wanted as much ventilation to get through that house as possible so when they set fire to it, a deliberate fire, it would burn a lot of the materials in the house. it would burn hot so that it will neutralize the chemicals in the house. if those are chemicals and explosives used for bomb-making, something might go awry. we re looking at a picture that appears to be i want to take a quick look at that. it does appear that some