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Massive wildfire rages in California

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    Adam Housley reports from Los Angeles

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-- Fox News alert right now because there's a massive wildfire raging in Southern California 121000 visitors forced to leave after they went to the -- for Labor Day weekend.

Firefighters trying doing everything they can to get this fire under control.

I'm still worried I think.

We can't control mother nature I'm worried about our fire -- -- there.

-- -- they're -- there that he we've already had one that's not Philly so grade.

You know and elect look at that those are the things we worry about the wind picked it up and shove it somewhere else.

My -- my.

Police in LA you've seen the fire what's the latest and where is it burning -- -- -- called the Williams by you know we've got a couple of months at least left to go in -- -- here in Southern California the good news that that lady just spoke of the winds.

The winds are not as bad as -- scene when the Santa Ana winds come which is usually a little bit later on in the season.

But this fire burning -- extremely dry conditions -- in the Angeles National Forest San Gabriel canyon.

If you fly in the Los Angeles from the east it's those mountains to the right -- you come in to land and LAX that's where this fire is burning and burning very hot 4000 acres so far.

That number expected to go up once they get some of the spotter planes up there.

And people don't live down below even know there are no homes threatened at this hour the people -- down below this fire -- extremely worried -- I can use the lessons of the -- -- morning Kitna fires from those feelings come.

Anything with the -- some people have absolutely no other place to go there here.

They're making it just barely.

Another 21 aircraft -- fighting this fire over 400 firefighters they don't expect to get containment until at least a week bill.

Holy cow you you wonder when the end is in -- in whether or not you can even see the end to the fire season.

How is the weather been what is the forecast for that looking weeks or even months down the road out of.

You don't say we've been seeing all summer bill's gonna be hot it's going to be dry all throughout the west major fires of course been burning -- every single western state there's -- red -- worrying warning in Wyoming three major fires burning in Idaho.

California expected to be very hot as well throughout the next week.

The cost all of these fires have mounted significantly ticket take into account these.

These numbers so far the average acreage this time -- -- is about set -- five million acres they already burned more than seven million acres across the country.

In states like Utah they spent sixteen million dollars they normally spend three million Washington State spending nearly twenty million and are we spend eleven.

And Montana says their share of the fire budget they're gonna spend about 25 million dollars this year the good news for those states is the -- are getting shorter humidity is coming up.

But here in California usually when those states in their fire seasons -- to an -- California's -- up and that's what we do expect with this fire of course burning now.

Above Los Angeles it just goes to show bill we have a ways to go out here in the west for the reason you fire seasons.

Be patient be saved thank you Adam Adam Housley out there.

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