before but perhaps never like this. this is scorched as far as the eye can see and gives you a sense of what firefighters are dealing with. and this also is no stranger to fires. this is a monument given to a firefighter david eriksson who rost his life in 1997. when we talk to residents, they mentioned the complex fire and how this fire has a lot of similarities and more dangerous than that. the good news is some areas have been lifted, have had their evacuation orders lifted and some people are starting to go back but when you look at this, you recally understand that the scope of the devastatiodevastat. this came up to the lip of the edge and jumped the mountain. there s green trees but as you just saw, fred, just as far as the eye can see. and look at all that smoke. that haze. that s also some of the conditions that the firefighters are working under. it s difficult for our crew at times to breathe this stuff in. you can only imagine the front lines, especially at this hour. at th
hasn t been seen since. this time, starting in california where the huge wildfire is still burning in and around the western edge of yosemite national park. more than 133,000 acres of forest are scorched. firefighters are on the front lines right now but it s still only about 7% contained. nick valencia is joining us from just outside the yosemite. it is far from being under control, right? reporter: they re working against a lot of odds at this hour, fred. we re at the rim or the vista. it s called the rim of the world. you have probably seen this before. i ll ask your cameraman to pan throughout to give you a sense of what firefighters dealt with throughout this entire week. if you have come through yosemite and used highway 120, you have probably seen this before but perhaps never like this. this is scorched as far as the eye can see and gives you a sense of what firefighters are dealing with. and this also is no stranger to fires. this is a monument given to a firefig
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