is it just clean up time? >> reporter: we're not at clean up time because this is an active fire zone. the fire fight continues in the areas that surrounded this area and for hot spots that still remain within the city limits or within the town limits. what we're seeing is not much because, again, we continue to be under this inversion layer where the smoke just settles and rests in one place which is terrible, really terrible for air quality. county health departments as far away as the bay area are telling people just stay inside because it's so bad. however, it is good because as you see i'm wearing a jacket. temperatures are cooler. humidity is a bit higher. there's no wind. this gives firefighters a chance to make progress on containment. it's almost seemingly impossible to stop the spread of the flames as the dixie fire has grown even larger. there are still 14,000 homes in