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SISKIYOU COUNTY, Calif. -- Firefighters in Siskiyou County continue to make progress on the Happy Camp Fire Complex. They are using some unusual techniques for controlled burns to make progress.

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Those are backfires. theyre using drip torch as well as something that looks like a road flair, maybe while were on the air youll see this happen. youll see it light up and theyll throw it into the canyon. in front of us is a farmers other clard, this is the extreme northwest part of the fire, burning near the city of carpent carpenteria, its the next city. lets not be alarmist, there are some mandatory evacuations in southwest carpenteria as a precaution, they are literally in the dark. theres ...

They will literally throw it into the canyon. you cant tell because its dark, but in front of us is a farmers orchard, and this is the extreme northwest part of the fire, burning near the city of carpinteria. thats the next city. carpinteria is not threatened right now, lets not be alarmist. there are some mandatory evacuations in southwest carpinteria as a precaution. but right now theyve tied all this in, is the term the firefighters like to use, and theres -- literally, in the dark, you cant ...

Short moment ago, it looked like tiny, little snowflakes. you might even be able to get a sense for these little embers and the ash thats raining down. especially in ventura county and into santa barbara county. massive school and business closures throughout the county, because the air quality is just absolutely horrific. im standing right on the county line right now. by the way, anderson, 96,000 acres burned on the thomas fire in ventura county alone. >> have authorities been able to hold the...

Management, an agent, two agents from the bureau of land management, that actually lit the fire with a drip torch on the south and the north side of the hammonds steam mountain property. and because of this fire, it threatened the winter range of the hammonds and the hammonds lit the backfire. >> okay. so the hammonds are the father and son duo that reporting to jail on monday after taking the case to the supreme court and they were convicted of setting fire to federal lands. and the accusation ...