Massive wildfire races toward Northern California towns

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-- -- thousands on the run for these fires in the west some massive blaze in northern California.

Racing toward three different towns and dozens of buildings have been.

Reduced to ashes already.

For some it's a complete loss and not their first.

We got a heck of a -- I guess you'd say we got a heck are you now but it's not real pretty.

We lost everything -- own personal pictures and everything that's like all my thoughts.

Nobody should have to put this question -- that is so true dance springer's live in red bluff California you -- to fight to save some of these homes how did it work -- And Billy tend to cover these wildfires in terms of the big numbers like the numbers of acres burned -- the number of personnel fighting the fires and homes burned.

All but sometimes this is really just about small battles to try to protect.

Certain numbers of homes we witness that yesterday you know we know now that fifty structures have burned on this pond -- -- -- which is burning east of us here in red bluff.

We don't know how many those -- homes but we do know that there is a massive effort to try to protect people's property.

And put this -- -- we -- a close look at -- crew from the California conservation corps.

Cut trees and brush to create a large buffer zone around the house the owners -- -- Randy -- or their for part of the effort.

But as the -- -- got to within less than a mile from their home.

-- packed up the animals and the other things that couldn't be replaced and they evacuated to a relative's house in Sacramento.

We've been discussing -- this isn't really.

Where we want to retire we don't -- -- captain has been more than one occasion where we woke up helicopters dropping.

Retardant on the Haniyeh canyon rim here.

And we don't know yet if that home survived although we did talk to Randy this morning he has got a text message from a neighbor who stayed through the flight last night.

And he was told by that neighbor that his home did survival wolf there later on today check out for ourselves -- sigh relief for him in Idaho meanwhile because there's all these different fires in places the American west now that are burning.

The governor is fighting to save his home what -- have on that -- Yet that's right governor Butch -- of -- -- got a firsthand look at the firefight he took a helicopter tour over two massive fires that have been burning now for weeks.

In Idaho each has consumed over a hundred.

-- over on a 140 square miles these two fires now one of the players has his vacation home a cab in the -- with his wife.

In his path.

And so he was talking about this great effort of the firefighters and the National Guard now fighting the fires and he was -- -- himself before the the players got closer.

Trying to create a more defensible space around his property so.

He knows what it's like to be one of these homeowners trying to protect the property build -- Dan good luck out there okay everybody you're watching Dan Springer -- -- in California packs more.

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