hard to save in that situation. absolutely can understand that. 8400 firefighters doing incredible work out there day in and day out. there was the loss of a firefighter this week and i understand his memorial is today. how are teams on the ground dealing with that? caller: well, it s really devastating to any of us. myself, i leave today, i ll be dealing with some of the procession tomorrow and the next day. so, i have a very heavy heart. really, the hardest part is dealing with the families afterwards. you can imagine, everybody s mind is on christmas and their own families. just to think that corey has a little daughter and his wife is pregnant. it puts things into perspective for all of us to get home safe. absolutely. 8400 firefighters working on this thomas fire.
until the flames of the thomas fire took that away. this is the first time we have been allowed to drive up. we actually walked around the back. it s just there s nothing there. at midnight, i wake up with him with the flashlight in my face. i looked out the window, flames 100 feet around us. reporter: many of the residents were sleeping when the fire approached. she tried to wake them up while officials alarmed everyone to get out. what was once a pa paradise is a war zone. reporter: half of the 90-unit complex is destroyed. 65 residents are without a home. patricia woke up to her son-in-law yelling to get out. i didn t take a wallet. i left with the clothes on my back. if i had been thinking rksz i would have got in my car and followed him. i wasn t thinking. my car was there. i didn t have rental insurance when i moved in here. it wasn t something you had to
mueller obtained thousands of trump e-mails without authorization. lawyers for the transition complained to two congressional committees that mueller s team should not have the documents. they say all e-mails in its possession were obtained properly. argentina s top naval officer has been sacked. the admiral is the first disciplined a month after the submarine disappeared. 44 members were on board when it vanished off argentina s coast. the thomas fire is still burning in southern california. it is the third largest wildfire in the state s history and destroyed hundreds of homes. the flames gutted an apartment in ventura. some residents lost everything and barely made it out alive. here is more. that s my patio there. reporter: she returned to the spot she lived the last 17 years
how many wildfires break out. 140. it went up a little bit. look what happened in the 2000s. we are up to 250. that is the average number. this takes into account that california didn t rain for eight years. still, this is what we are looking at with more significant drought and periods of lack of rain. it s going to continue to happen. yes, it s the third largest fire. we are number eight in terms of how many structures burned. with firefightering efforts, it s unbelievable. 8400 fire fighting efforts or personnel are out there. the thomas fire covered that. that was october. there it is, the three most destructive fires of the year. 2017. all of them happening in just this year. so, we are up to 13 days and counting.
southern california firefighters are battling the third largest wildfire in the state s history. the thomas fire has burned close to 110,000 hectares northwest of los angeles. that s almost 270,000 acres. it is also led to the death of at least two people including a firefighter who was killed thursday. high winds have fueled the flames and thousands of residents have fled their homes. thousands more now. miguel marquez has more from the front lines of the thomas fire in santa barbara. reporter: this thomas fire is the fire that just will not quit. i want to show you what s happening in the hills above santa barbara. we ll turn the lights off. you see the fires burning up in the hills, the foothills just over santa barbara and montecito. firefighters have been working this area for over a week. the winds, they were not cooperating with them at first. they were blowing it toward the ocean, had the santa ana winds