fire spread to the hotel next door. when a portion of that building collapsed trapping them. veterans matthew renaud and garner and sullivan. not pictured is 12 year veteran robert bebee. they say the four took and aggressive move fighting the fire because they believed that people were inside the hotel. wildfire alert now. it is called the powerhouse fire. it is burning so close to a powerhouse. it is chewing through brush and anything that will light up. when i was covering the story
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you re a nice lady. we want to begin with live pictures, massive plumes of smoke and burning. this is a wildfire. and just glancing down, this is north of los angeles. this is the information we have. if you know this, this is the san francisquito canyon. this is 1500 acres, 15% contained. huge flames. this is a season where we have within been seeing other wildfires popping up in southern california and this one is called the powerhouse fire. and now this. from desperation to jubilation. an arizona mother of seven is now a free woman after a week in a mexican jail.
stories, one in texas, one in california. let me begin with one in houston, texas, we pull this out. let me show you the pictures in full and tell you what is happening in houston. there has been this hotel called the southwest inn in houston, texas. it has been on fire and the smoke is huge. the response even more tremendous. at last check, it was a four alarm fire. that, of course, could have changed. but we have some video. we have some video we re going to work on showing it to you, you see the firefighters on the scene, we know that firefighters firefighters have been injured. and we have seen them being taken off on stretchers just because of the enormity of this fire at the southwest inn on the southwest highway in houston, texas. we re watching this. we re also watching another fire, farther west. it is a race against time. this is the powerhouse fire this is north of los angeles. a wildfire, 1500 acres. 15% contained there.
tulsa metro area. in arkansas, a tornado tore through the town of odin, ripping roofs away, snapping trees. nine people were injured because of bad storms in that state. and in california s angeles national forest, more than 500 firefighters trying to get the upper hand on the 1,000 powerhouse fire. at one point, planes dumped fire retardant because the flames were threatening the power lines. but there is some good news. the hikers reported missing near the fire, those hikers have been followed safe. meteorologist ingrid peter watpeterson watching this. even these early hours, all the lightning, the thunderstorms really continuing through these overnight hours. today, another day with just not a slight risk for severe weather, but even a moderate risk. a little bit different today that it shifted to the east. the great lakes all the way down