Announcer from nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening. We begin with a remarkable number. Right now around 95 wildfires are burning in the western u. S. And tonight the u. S. Military is answering an urgent call for help. At least 100 troops have been called up in Washington State. The first deployment of active duty soldiers to battle fires in nine years. The fires are burning across at least six states. The stakes are high, and so is the cost. 100 million a week. At that rate Officials Say the money will run out next month. Our team is deployed across the region. Lets start in chelan, washington with National Correspondent miguel almaguer. Miguel . Reporter hey, lester, good evening. Heavy smoke hangs in the air here. Behind me there is destruction. In front of me two miles ahead a wildfire is moving in multiple directions. At least 56,000 acres here are been destroyed. More than 32 homes are gone. This as that fire is on the
Lived here 33 years. So its hard to see this. Reporter tonight lives in ruins as this fire rages on. Miguel almaguer, nbc news, washington state. This is joe fryer in simi valley, california. Wildfires are tearing through miles of parched wilderness grassland and creeping dangerously close to neighborhoods. You can see the flames just about maybe 20 feet away from that one fence. Reporter a small brush fire in simi valley spread quickly. Hundreds of homes in its path. Started over there. And it just came like a whirlwind through. The only thing we had on our side was it was not windy that day. Reporter with a quick aerial attack and strike teams on the ground staying ahead of the flames, all the houses were spared. Firefighters fear conditions are ripe for a perfect storm here. The ground is so dry fires are moving unusually fast and the warm santa ana winds are still to come. If we get to the point where we have a santa anadriven fire, were going to be looking at some real scary condi
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