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Significantly after the worst wildfires to hit an american state in more than a century. Our North America correspondent John Sudworth reports from the island. Vital supplies being loaded onto a boat that would normally be taking tourists whale watching. Theyre now making multiple daily trips into the Disaster Zone with a growing sense of frustration. We are all wondering, why was there no help sent from oahu . Pearl harbor is a 20 minute flight away, right . Why are the limited resources of pol...

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People that i knews homes were gone. im still kind of in shock about the whole thing. >> i can only imagine, mayor, so i appreciate you joining us this morning with so much devastation around you right now. how quickly did this fire move into your community? did you have any warning? >> very little warning. as your reporter on the ground said, it was a very fast-moving event. we had very dry conditions and very high winds in those two combined with some flame just -- it pushed it incredibly fast...

>> what they will try to do is rule out certain causes. for instance, you rule out light and rule out natural causes in these kind of things. then you look for specifics about what could have caused the fire whether its electrical or mechanical, the human factor or any of those types of things. >> one theory about why this fire move so quickly was something called a flashover. when the fire gets so hot, the toxic gases inside in a confined area simply ignite. also they will have some type of an ...

Navy seals of firefighters have now taken over the fire. one thing that continues to be a menace, drones. >> basically we need everyone to keep their drones at home. please dont fly drones in the area. the real deal is f8 drone is flying in the area, we cannot fly our aircraft in the area. >> out there are currently 39 large fires burning and 11 11 states. in northern california, 500 acres have burned and the evacuations are underway. in northern nevada, shifting winds pushed a wildfire there to...

The windows to glow. since yesterday, those fast-moving wildfires have been threatening the small resort town of gatlinburg and the surrounding area where flames have already consumed homes and businesses. cnn correspondent nick valencia is live for us in gatlinburg. nick, why did the fire move so quickly? >> reporter: the fire intensified with the help of low humidity and hurricane-force winds, winds up to 80 miles per hour. firefighters are continuing to battle some of the flames. it doesnt tr...

Self-ignite. thats a furnace. that building when you showed the pictures earlier of that whole side, that building is like an oven. the heat inside that building is just cooking and stuff is lights off. theres also fall down. and the other part is wind. and you know, every firefighter watching this from l.a. to chicago to around the world, new york, wind. my dad was fireman in newark, nourj, for 32 years on a ladder company. i grew up around firehouses. wind is something that firefighters always...

Door on the ledge where the guy was at. >> across the street, karen jones continues to record. >> cant get out. >> omg. >> he cant get out. he cant get out the door -- >> oh, jesus, they are going to bring the ladder truck over. >> the ladder was further over to the left of him. and you can see him waving his arms and things trying to get their attention. >> do they see him? >> we were hoping they would get to him. >> the engineer repositions the ladder racing the fire to the edge of the buildin...

Me that the worker popped out on the ledge. >> a construction worker appears, not on the roof, but on the top floor of the building. >> the fire was extremely fast-moving. by the time captain hawthorn had climbed the ladder to the tip, it had already run past him and had broken out windows and the patio door on the ledge where the guy was at. >> across the street, karen jones continues to record. >> he cant get out. >> omg. >> he cant get. because he cant get out the door. >> oh, jesus. they are...

Us from new york give us some details here. >> this is now a seven alarm conflagration in the east village in new york. more than 200 firefighters new york police and members from the office of emergency management on scene. more than 30 people injured. there are concerns that others may be trapped. this started as a gas leak which developed into an explosion and then a building collapse and suddenly two buildings in the east village in new york are completely engulfed in flames. watching this u...