conditions are textbook for the fires to get out of control. into the steep terrain with the heavy fuels and wind-driven. it s a bad administration fthin. reporter: planes and choppers swoop in, spraying water. hundreds of fire fighters are battling the fire threatening over 3,000 residents. it s my home, property, everything. reporter: frank owns 20 rental cabins in the area. a popular tourist destination. got the workers and my family and the guests out. reporter: they are bracing for the worst. i m getting the hell out of here. reporter: rushing to grab whatever belongings they can before evacuating. i hear it s close. it s zero-percent contained at this point. trying to be ahead of the game. reporter: one woman desperately trying to find all of her cats. we re just trying to round them up and get them to a safer place. i have three right now.
driven. it s a bad combination for potential of catastrophic wildfire. reporter: planes and choppers swoop in spraying water while hundreds of firefighters are on the front lines battling the fire that is threatening over 3,000 residents. frank owns 20 rental cabins in the area. a popular tourist destination. we were able to get our employees out. my family out. our guests out. reporter: residents are bracing for the worst. i m getting ready to get the hell out of here. reporter: rushing to grab whatever belongings they can before evacuating. i hear it s close. i hear it s coming. 0% contained at this point. reporter: one woman desperately trying to find all of her cats. we re just trying to round them up and get them to a safer place so i have three right now. so we re still looking for about six. reporter: authorities say the cause of the fire is under
for catastrophic wild fire. reporter: planes and choppers swoop in spraying water while hundreds of firefighters are on the front line battling a fire that s threatening 3,000 residents. it s my home. reporter: frank owns 20 rental cabins. a popular vacation destination. we were able to get my employees out, family out, guests out. reporter: residents are bracing for the worst. i m getting ready to get the hell out of here. reporter: grabbing whatever they can before evacuating. i hear it s close. it s coming. it s zero% contained at this point. we re going to try to get ahead of the game. reporter: one woman trying to grab all of her cats. i m trying to round them up. i have three, we re still looking for about six. reporter: authorities say the cause of the fire is under investigation but that it was probably started by a person. it s a big fire.
went on a killing spree before he was killed by the police. now financial backers are pulling ou as two parties try to claim the cash. . reporter: during the six day manhunt for fugitive christopher dorner police announced the reward. we raised over $1 million. the trail for dorner had been gold until karen and jim reynolds surprised the ex lapd cop who was hold up inside one of their rental cabins. he said put your hand on your head and face the wall. he left them before steeling their car. when they were final able to dial 911, police quickly closed in on the fugitive. we made the call to the police, the 911 call that told them where he was, what vehicle he was driving, what ch direction he was heading. but the reynolds aren t the only ones looking for a payout. he pointed a gun at me. a long assault type rifle.
bill: have you seen these images, literally up in flames. they are truly the smokey mountains today. a wildfire forcing more than 200 people to leave pigeon forge, tennessee. 30 rental cabins destroyed in the smokeys. the national guard sending helicopters to that popular resort area. a separate brush fire damaged parts of dolly parton dollywood, that is not too far from this area in pigeon forge. we ll get a live update. top of the hour what is happening today. martha: high drama, over the weekend with guilty verdicts in the rape trial of two ohio football players. the victim s mother is speaking out about the case that made nationwide headlines. did not matter what school you went to, what city you lived in, what sports you played, human compassion is not touch by taught a by teacher, coach or parent. it is got given gift instilled in all of us.