and heard the fire first hand. unbelievable. >> reporter: yeah, you know, it's really popular to go camping around here, and there's tons of camp sites. we were nowhere near, you know, the fire, really. we were several -- you know, about maybe 15 miles or so north. but the same wind just whipping through these canyons. it's the first time i've really camped out here in that kind of windy condition that you get this time of year. and when we were -- made really sure our campfire was out and everything. you could tell that it was really the conditions were there and it's so dry to, you know -- for something like this to take off, brook. >> unreal. jim spellman, thank you for that. i want to talk more conditions, and the wind specifically, with cnn meteorologist chad myers. chad, i've been reading about people talking specifically about this fire. they describe the fire as like a raging river or a tornado rolling through. i mean, that loud. >> you have to understand that basically west of this is estes park, very high mountains. this is front-range. these are canyons that this wind