really heard a good answer for that unless they evacuate large swaths of the population days in advance. and that creates chaos as well. so it's tough. >> brianna sacks, i'm sure you heard that story just a few minutes ago of ed bledsoe talking about the fact his wife called 911 and they told her that someone would get her. so certainly the evacuation word getting that out very important. thank you for your time today. we'll keep in touch with you. >> no problem. >> thank you, brianna. brianna and our other reporters, pedram is here now, saying this fire just moved ahead of all the officials and the firefighters and the police. it was taking the lead, and that's where they are. >> yeah. an incredible fire. when you think about the month of july across the western if you're watching us from there you know it's absolutely among the hottest we've ever observed. in place like seattle, washington second hottest july going to be wrapping up here soon on record across that region. but really the northwestern