which can be life-threatening. stop chantix and get help right away if you have any of these. tell your healthcare provider if you ve had depression or other mental health problems. decrease alcohol use while taking chantix. use caution when driving or operating machinery. the most common side effect is nausea. my favorite role so far? being a non-smoker. no question about it. talk to your doctor about chantix. harris: breaking news in california. 10,000 people are being order to evacuate their homes. 17 wild fires raging across the state. the largest burning up north near the city of redding. it has killed six people including two firefighters. seven other people missing. jeff paul joining us live from redding. jeff? yeah, cal fire just releasing plans for some people that evacuated to return to their homes. we take a look here. this is what some folks are
in the city of redding. as far as my family and i, we are safe. property can be replaced. i know it displaces us a little bit, but with the loss of the two firefighters and our citizens, it pales in comparison. so chief, what were the moments like before losing your home? were you at the house? did you have to evacuate? what were the circumstances? yeah, so the fire made an incredible run from the national park area on wednesday, almost touching our city. so thursday we were getting ready for evacuations. the winds kicked up like we had spoken about. and these gail force winds created these fire tornadoes. so i was actually sitting in my subdivision monitoring it. i had gotten my family out. i watched it go completely north through the lake redding subdivision, which my father s home also was burned, up to my neighborhood and then take out
talk to us about how quickthry conditions changed. the fire that came in t was on the west side of the sacramento river and it moved actually about five miles overnight from the national park into close to redding and during the day relatively stagnant at the western boarder of the city of redding. by 6:00 it jumped across the river and flew up one of the hill sides and took out a number of neighborhoods, some partially, some in total and it just moved rapidly what i hear from the fire individuals is that the fire behavior was that with which they had never seen before. they referred to a fire tornado and i think there s been video throughout that shows that. and so just extreme fire conditions. and fire behavior that people in the fire service for 30 years have never seen before.
very bad news at the carr fire centered around the city of redding in northern california. that scorched some 130 square miles. a huge area. it is only 5% contained. it destroyed 536 structures so far. 300 of those, according to a count by the associated press, that number is almost certain to rise. 5,000 more structures including a lot of homes are threatened, and five people are reported killed. two firefighters, officially confirmed to have died in that fire. three other people, a woman and her two great grandchildren reported by the family to have burned to death in that fire. and veteran firefighters fighting the flames up there in redding say they have never seen
been burning since it was started on when day. now thanks to helicopters and the heroic efforts of hundreds of firefighters on the ground, they now have a good grip on this fire. it is some 29% contained, having burned around 13,000 acres. they are confident enough now to let some of those firefighters go. they are moving on to fight other fires. one of those that they may be headed to as the car fire in northern california around the city of redding. that is the most devastating fire burning at the moment in the state of california. it has scorched something like 130 square miles. it is still only 5% contained. this destroyed more than 500 structures and according to account by the associated press, 300 of those were home. 5000 more homes remained under