More than a shell left. And the flames are still raging there on the left. This picture was taken just a short time earlier. At that point one giant ball of fire filled the house. Another picture shows the fire eating through the roof of a neighboring home. Whats the current fire danger . Lonnie quinn has the answer from the weather center. The wind is the problem. Plus the super dry conditions that we have now. The best fire break you can get often times, you know, firemen will dig a trench for the fire break. A canal is the best fire break you can imagine and yet the embers were still able to be blown from one side of the other and spread the fire. As of now you look at manhattan its just sunny overhead but it is bone dry. Look at the conditions outside. 68 degrees. Thats your thermometer reading. This is the key. Right there. Your dew point is 8. What a dew point means simply thats the temperature that you have to cool this air mass. 68 degrees. You have to cool it down to to produc