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There is just so much fuel and this morning one firefighter said to us as soon as he heard where the fire had broken out, h he knew they were going to have a battle on their hands 600 firefighters battling blazes in bone dry brush. >> its been quite the fire fight. weve had winds moving upslope, down slope, across the slope. >> across the steep hillsides in santa barbara, the fabled beach town and home to nearly 100,000. >> im like oh my god. >> thousands of homes threatened, thousands people fo...

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Nordic blaze has become a european task with further personnel and air support sent in from france germany and neighboring norway. sweden has dealt with wildfires before but rarely over such a large area now meteorologists are warning that with global temperatures on the rise fighting fire in the arctic could become an annual battle. lets turn now to some of the other stories making news around the world in the united states eleven people have being killed off a tourist boat capsized on a lake i...

Rise fighting fire in the arctic could become an annual battle. lets get more from journalist kathryn edwards who joins us from the swedish capital still welcome to the doubly so fifty separate fires burning across vast swathes of forest how is swedish firefighters coping before those italian firefighting planes flew it. well theyve been just working such long hours the van fire fighters have been going back from nasa holidays to join me at that and this is it in a big civilian joining the firef...

Conditions befitting italy more than sweden and so the italian government has sent help. biggest lead in the work we have ninety. six thousand feet of water about one second. in fact the effort to extinguish the nordic blaze has become a european task with further personnel and air support sent in from france germany and neighboring norway. sweden has dealt with wildfires before but rarely over such a large area now meteorologists are warning that with global temperatures on the rise fighting fi...

Said theres going to be rains of bubly cal proportions. many people did not listen. they didnt do that emergency system on the telephone until after the mudslides started. that is the source of the controversy. heres what one man told me today. >> i dont think people didnt listen. i think people listened. i think a lot of the damage and destruction, this is a voluntary. thats a mandatory. this street is the dividing line of voluntary and mandatory. so if i lived in that house would i necessarily...

Breads were evacuated to the nearby fairgrounds. more than 6,000 personnel are fighting fire and fatigue. the battle to save the golden state red hot and far from over. in our time out west here, the santa ana winds are in control of movement of fire. we have some good news, the santa ana winds will diminish on be sunday. but they will begin to blow more erratically to likely fan the fire in multiple directions. >> miguel almaguer on the ground, stay safe. we want to talk about another hot spo...

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Destruction and number thus far is greater than 100 but actively fighting fire. were not just doing damage assessment but weve still got work to do. in saying that, we ask that you help us be able to do our job. part of that is keeping these roadways clear for emergency vehicles. as you can imagine, the visibility is very poor because of the smoke and the particulate in the air. therefore, there are areas too smokey we cant see in. but we wont stop until we visit each and every plroperty and att...