The only people working today a lot of heroic firemen and fire women on the road and in the air. Its as close as this library has come to this kind of danger. This is serious stuff but they seem to be right on top of it. Chris fox news reporting starts right now. A wildfire alert. This is the scene in simi valley, california, where a wildfire is closing in on the reagan president ial library. The librarys executive director says the flames are wrapping around the building. Literally has been encircling the library, theres residential communities on both sides and its formed a half circle around the entire Reagan Library structure. They are fighting it as best they can. Chris we will speak to the director live in a few minutes to get the latest. We are waiting for him an update from fire officials, we will bring that to you when it happens. The fire broke out early this morning about 20 miles northwest of los angeles extreme winds reaching 50 Miles Per Hour causing it to spread quickly.
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hard. chris: ventura county fire chief mark lorentz and thanks so much for taking the time to talk with us. best wishes to you and all of your crews out there in the fire. thank you so much chris. chris: crews in northern california say they have made some progress in fighting a fire in one country but not before it burned almost 100 homes. dan springer reporting live from helzberg california, that is in sonoma county north of san francisco. dan. hey chris, the conditions here have improved dramatically. winds are down, containment jumped to 30% that is double from what it was yesterday and work crews from pgd have been given the all clear to come in and start to restore power. last nights wind event was not nearly as strong or as bad as predicted but there still was one structure destroyed, this was a learning center that wind up in flames with 5,000 firefighters in the areas, they easily knocked it down and monitored for other flareups that really would have never