of it. reporter: and that s why hinton mobilized nine majors at the bay. he had to fight and he was eager to show us why. the bay is home to an s tuary. he has served here his whole life and served as the chief of the fire department. mail is delivered by boat and wildlife dots the landscape. but there is an underlying anxiety. if we can t stop the oil from getting in here, it could be lost for multiple generations. in early may when cnn first visited magnolia springs, hinton had sounded the alarm and was told by some locals he was overreacteding. bp had provided a single line of booms, so hinton drew up a plan to use barges along the containment boom. bp has since provided much more boom, staff and equipment, but hinton says ee relying on his