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Brown. experts say thats a separate issue from whether water is actually available to fight these wildfires, cal fire will tell you just be reassured. we have plenty of water. there are no issues with water supplies or resources here. in fact, keep in mind, take the mendocino complex fire. that is actually burning pretty close to a decent sized lake. so that is one resource for firefighters. the other thing to keep in mind is water is obviously incredibly important when fighting a fire. its not ...

This fire, the mendocino complex fire, has grown at an incredible rate. it has more than doubled in size in just the past four days. fueled by the fact that were experiencing a lot of heat right now in california. triple digit customers. low humidity. and the winds have really picked up. and incredibly dry conditions. the mendocino county complex fire remains a concern. most of the growth has happened on the north side of the fire, where its basically heavy forested area with no homes. the major...

The mendocino complex fire is now larger than the cities of philadelphia and new york city combined. mark gir duch chi of emergency services joins us from the states operation center right now. mark, bring us up to speed on where we are right now with regards to getting this thing under control? what are your biggest concerns? >> good morning. really right now our concern continues to be the weather and the basically the conditions that were seeing with very, very high temperatures and low humid...

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In a state thats unfortunately become pretty well known for wildfires. breaking a record we should note it was only set a few months ago at least as i understand it. what is it that is making this fire in particular so much worse than previous fires? >> well, youre right, last year of course we had catastrophic fires in california and record setting thomas fire in ventura, santa barbara county the new record. this year its the men do seen no complex, the conditions were seeing are driven by a ch...

What is now the largest wildfire in california history is showing no sign of letting up. two major fires have now joined, creating whats being called the mendocino complex fire and get this, its nearly the size of the sprawling city of los angeles. the second largest city in this country. the fires scorched through more than 290,000 acres. more than 450 square miles. officials say at this point its just 20% contained as well. 11,000 structures are being threatened by these blazes. and the associ...

The fire. both the mendocino and carr fire are next to the largest r reservoirs and the water that does flow through is part of the natural progression of the way the water flows to the ocean. we use that water as it comes through our communities from everything from the urban needs to agriculture. and of course, for fire fighting. water has not been an issue here and really the issue here has been really getting enough boots on the ground and getting resources which we are -- which we are getti...

I mean in carr fire, next to the mendocino fire, we saw a tornado drop down in the middle of that fire and reaching speeds of 143 miles per hour. and causing so much damage. weve not seen that kind of activity to that level before. and this really is now a year after year where we have maybe never seen maybe 100,000 or 150,000 acre fire, maybe once every several years. we are now seeing this every year. >> youre citing climate change as the primary culprit here. as you note president trump tweet...