went out with the deputy from the youngstown sheriff department who took us out to see the volunteer firefighters who are battling the fire, and this is incredibly difficult work, because the terrain is rough and rocky and rolling and easy to lose your bearings to where you are and easy to look track of where the flames are. there is a lot of communication going back and forth between the various firefighters out there on the ground and kind of everyone watching each other's backs as the flames can fire up. we saw it as soon as we pulled up with a hot spot that flamed up into the ground jumping six to eight feet high which happened in a matter of seconds. you can see what firefighters are battling against, and strong winds gusting up to 30 miles an hour in some places and over 90 degrees, so it is a very, very hot out here and the sun is very punishing on the firefighters. in this area, it is a massive fire that is kind of stretching over three counties west of ft. worth and some 50,000 acres have been burned in the last four or five days, and last count, we heard from the texas forest