particular because they re going to need what that fertilizer plant was producing. it s a small town. we re not too far from waco. i m sort of standing on what looks to be the main drag. it looks like small town texas. there s a railroad track sitting in front of me, and there are a few businesses lining the street, old corner drugstore. right now, don t know if you can hear it. one of the owners of the businesses, ray s electric and plumbing, is actually cleaning up the glass that was shattered. this is far away from the explosion, but it was still strong enough, the impact of it was strong enough to break all of this glass. steve, this is a town of volunteer firefighters. even the mayor of the town is a volunteer fire fighter. reports earlier about a lot of unconfirmed firefighters. they really couldn t track down where they were. have you talked to any families who had that look in their eye
well as a volunteer fire fighter. what do we know about the body found had spengler s home? we don t know because cops aren t confirming anything except the charred body of somebody was found in the spengler home. now it s believed that it was most likely the body of his sister, sheryl. we don t know for sure but neighbors say that william spengler hated his sister. he was apparently very much different in attitude towards his mother, who died in october. a lot of neighbors say that may have been the moment that tipped him over the edge. we also heard that in his mother s obituary, donations were asked to be sent to the fireman s association. an awful irony. jonathan hunt live in new york, thank you. one year has passed since a
up in the last just couple of hours. a fire official told me less than an hour ago if he told me an acreage amount, it would be wrong in ten minutes. this fire is advancing at least at 2,000 feet every hour. the last four days this has been burning, they counted on the wind to at least burn it in towards the interior of the forest and away from populated areas. just within the last half hour, that has completely changed. the smoke is now coming towards us, towards the city of colorado springs. now, it doesn t seem at this moment there s any real danger to the city itself. but so far as of a couple hours ago, they miraculously i think not lost a single structure. i was in the interior of this fire and they had fire lines around individual houses and every single one them had held. this is going to make it a lot more difficult with this change in the wind direction. that s what prompted that additional evacuation of 7,000 people, soledad. plus, you now know several thousand m
lines with the fire fighters who is battling the waldo canyon fire right near pike s peak. hey, jim. reporter: hi, soledad. yeah, this fire has really amped up in the last just couple of hours. a fire official told me less than an hour ago if he told me an acreage amount, it would be wrong in ten minutes. this fire is advancing at least at 2,000 feet every hour. the last four days this has been burning, they counted on the wind to at least burn it in towards the interior of the forest and away from populated areas. just within the last half hour, that has completely changed. the smoke is now coming towards us, towards the city of colorado springs. now, it doesn t seem at this moment there s any real danger to the city itself. but so far as of a couple hours ago, they miraculously i think not lost a single structure. i was in the interior of this fire and they had fire lines around individual houses and every single one them had held. this is going to make it a lot more diff
yeah, this fire has really amped up in the last just couple of hours. a fire official told me less than an hour ago if he told me an acreage amount, it would be wrong in ten minutes. this fire is advancing at least at 2,000 feet every hour. the last four days this has been burning, they counted on the wind to at least burn it in towards the interior of the forest and away from populated areas. just within the last half hour, that has completely changed. the smoke is now coming towards us, towards the city of colorado springs. now, it doesn t seem at this moment there s any real danger to the city itself. but so far as of a couple hours ago, they miraculously i think not lost a single structure. i was in the interior of this fire and they had fire lines around individual houses and every single one them had held. this is going to make it a lot more difficult with this change in the wind direction. that s what prompted that additional evacuation of 7,000 people, soledad. plus