Past weekend, 20,000 acres burned through brush baked hard by fur years of drought in the west. Thousands of people have evacuated. The red soxy fire is the largest of more than two dozen wildfires tonight out west. Carter evans went to the front lines in lake port, california. The wildfire burning northwest of sacramento exploded over the weekend, scorching 94 square miles, an area larger than the city of seattle. Dozens of air tankers and National Guard helicopters are giving support to 3,000 firefighters below. On the ground, theyre lighting backfires to burn out dry brush ahead of approaching flames that threaten thousands of homes. But huge columns of smoke as high as 35,000 feet are making this firefight especially challenging says battalion chief jeff ohs. Once the energy reaches that level, the column collapses. Thats a big, big problem because then we dont have one direction the fire is going. Its going in several directions. Reporter we saw firsthand how quickly the fire can
Past weekend, 20,000 acres burned through brush baked hard by fur years of drought in the west. Thousands of people have evacuated. The red soxy fire is the largest of more than two dozen wildfires tonight out west. Carter evans went to the front lines in lake port, california. The wildfire burning northwest of sacramento exploded over the weekend, scorching 94 square miles, an area larger than the city of seattle. Dozens of air tankers and National Guard helicopters are giving support to 3,000 firefighters below. On the ground, theyre lighting backfires to burn out dry brush ahead of approaching flames that threaten thousands of homes. But huge columns of smoke as high as 35,000 feet are making this firefight especially challenging says battalion chief jeff ohs. Once the energy reaches that level, the column collapses. Thats a big, big problem because then we dont have one direction the fire is going. Its going in several directions. Reporter we saw firsthand how quickly the fire can
Have never seen a fire move this fast. In just five hours over this past weekend, 20,000 acres burned in california through brush baked hard by four years of drought. Thousands of people have evacuated. The rocky fire is the largest of more than two dozen wildfires tonight out west. Carter evans went to the front lines in lake port, california. Reporter the wildfire burning northwest of sacramento exploded over the weekend, scorching 94 square miles, an area larger than the city of seattle. Dozens of air tankers and National Guard helicopters areng giving support to 3,000te firefighters below. On the ground, theyre lighting backfires to burn out dry brush ahead of approaching flames that threaten thousands of homes. But huge columns of smoke as high as 35,000 feet are making this fire fight especially challenging, says battaliong, chief jeff ohs. Once the energy reaches that level, the column collapses. Thats a big, big problem because then we dont have onee direction the fire is going
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