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Margaret, christi and i were just talking, this thing moved. i mean, we have never seen a fire spread so quickly. do we know how this started? >> yeah, christi and victor, the winds did not help this situation here. they picked up, and they made the fire spread really, really fast. we dont know what caused the fire yet. we do know that investigators are on the ground. theyre actually going through the destruction that you can see behind me right now. theyre sorting everything into separate piles...

>> absolutely there are flames on the boardwalk right now with a fire apparatus pouring water on them right now. >> and -- >> this is going on now for probably about 2:15, about 2:15 is probably the first signs of smoke coming out of the ice cream shop on the corner. >> i was talking to the mayor earlier. a lot of the buildings are connected and thats why the fire spread so quickly? >> a lot of them -- the boardwalk they are all connected and also sitting on the boardwalk and we had -- we had a ...

Its right now something that they think will take 24 to 46 hours and the town of seaside heights declared a state of emergency to free up more assets to bring in here like state police and state apparatus to help the next 24 to 46 hours. >> buildings are burning. this is not contained? >> absolutely there are flames on the boardwalk right now with a fire apparatus pouring water on them right now. >> and -- >> this is going on now for probably about 2:15, about 2:15 is probably the first signs of...

Were taking water from all the municipalities that surround us to fight this fire. its right now something that they think will take 24 to 46 hours to get this in place. the town of seaside heights declared a state of emergency to free up more assets to bring in here like state police and state apparatus to help the next 24 to 46 hours. >> buildings are burning. this is still out of control? this is not contained? >> absolutely, absolutely. there are flames on the boardwalk right now with a fire...

Extinguisher out there. grabbed the jacket off it. we pulled the pin. >> in less than ten seconds, corey single handedly snuffs the fire, saving the gas station, surrounding home and everyone nearby. >> i dont like to think about what could have happened had i not gotten that fire out when i did. it could have been catastrophic. >> with disaster averted, one question remains, what caused the fire? reviewing the security tape, investigators believe its caused by gas vapors that had built up near ...

Treasure. tinder dry conditions feeding the wind-fueled fires just about everywhere. near prescott, arizona, fire spread rapidly creating panic and more evacuations. across the west, historic levels of severe and extreme dryness, even large chunks of exceptional dryness. thats more extreme than extreme. >> this is kind of unprecedented, seeing this kind of dryness this early with a longer summer coming. again, this is june. were seeing things that you see in august. >> reporter: so many fires al...

Homes. lets go to cnns miguel marquez. what can you tell us right now, miguel? >> reporter: chris at the height of this thing more than 1,000 families were forced from homes and authorities are starting to get on top of this fire here but there are more than 30 fires burning across the west and there are record dry conditions. fires this big, this early, not supposed to happen. >> oh my god, oh, wow. >> reporter: here in the foothills of yosemite national park more than 1,000 families evacuated,...

A tractor trailer rammed into a jeep grand cherokee stopped in traffic. the jeep slammed into the car carrying embry and her dad. i said dad i am okay. but those people -- >> reporter: there was a small fire growing in the back of the jeep. >> he ran over. doors were jammed. busted the window out. with his hands. >> reporter: her father pulled out an 18-year-old but could not rescue the boys badly injured mother or friend. the fire spread too fast. >> something has to be done. it cant be done so...

Not. >> reporter: true so its name the power house fire packed a punch scorching more than 30,000 acres of land, threatened 1,000 homes and destroyed at least six. homes like the one where the stilson family used to live, reduced to rubble. the family is used to wild fires because theyre a family of firefighters. the retired firefighter picking up the pieces of his parents home like so many residents he spent his life saving. >> i couldnt believe it how the fire spread. no, its -- some of the wh...

Mishaps on cruise ships. "cruise nightmare." tonight at 8:00 on cnn. im christine romans. >> im john berman. "cnn newsroom" with carol costello begins right now. happening now in the "newsroom," an american marine kidnapped in mexico. >> you doan know if hes dead. you still have the hope that hes alive many. >> the reservist vanished. the fbi with an urgent plea for your help this morning. also, breaking overnight. fire threat spreads. >> its nerve-wracking not knowing if your land is okay...