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A morning newscast featuring breaking news and weather reports. and we now understand it s burned 83,000 acres. something at play for firefighters, you can almost not get your head around what it s like to battle a blaze like this burning so hot here. you can see that firefighters, some of them working 24-hour shifts have been grabbing sleep any way they can. that s what they are up against. not only are they fighting it in terms of fatigue, but in these conditions, there is a problem with equipment as well. we are used to hot but, you know, 116, 117 degrees on the fire line, humidity is hovering around 10% or less during the day, which is critical fuel moisture for us, which means that we have 100% probability of ignition. so we are just battling those two things right there, just the fatigue on the firefighters putting out fires is horrendous, let alone the equipment fatigue because the fire is causing the equipment to overheat and helicopters are put down to cool off ....
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