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Department of correction and rehabilitation, the agency that runs the program with cal fire and the inmates cut containment lines and get close to the flames which can reach 100 feet high on rugged terrain. he said it's life-or-death situations, it's dangerous work. joining the panel is glenn martin, president and founder of just leadership usa and joining me from toronto, canada, is philip goodman, assistant professor in the department of sociology at the university of toronto. i want to first come to you, glenn, because i believe you wrote a dissertation about this issue. i'm sorry, philip d...

Containment line. veteran firefighters said they never seen anything like this wildfire. some used words like insane and unprecedented to describe its unpredictable behavior day after long, hot day. even though it wasn't much, it slowed the fire's progress and gave ground crews more time to build containment lines. that is tough with the dry conditions with four years of drought. >> relative humidity is very low and so we have a fuel that is so ready to burn. gets an ignition source and it is really off to the races. >> reporter: erratic winds remain a concern. eastern gusts that could push th...

Erratically in the last week. it's exactly the one week mark today and they are hoping within the next few days they will make some very good progress on those containment lines. they will be air dropping via helicopter some hand crews in to go do the really heavy work in the brush. it's safe enough they feel they can drop some people in to build those containment lines without danger of the fire turning on them. that's the situation here this morning. it's still very dire in this community but it looks like the next few days could turn things around. jose. >> let's hope so. thank you very muc...

The fire 20 percent contained and hope to have it fully contained by monday. but those containment lines will be tested. it is very warm. it is 70 degrees and hot dry weather combining with the erratic winds we have been seeing could mean conditions we have seen on monday. the four jumped a critical containment line. the fire has burned about 68000 acres and that is roughly the size of san francisco and washington d.c. combined. 13000 people under evacuation order and postponing the first day of school because they are used as evacuation centers. much of the four fight is happening in front of...

Into a sixth day. it has scorched 65,000-acres so far, an area roughly the same size as sacramento and is just 12% contained and the fire did jump a critical firebreak yesterday afternoon. take a look at the pushtures we took along highway 20, a main artery through town, when the hot winds kicked up at 1:00. happens every afternoon like clock work once invasion kicks in. it sparked new fires on north side of the highway and causing more evacuations. 3,000 fire crews are getting additional airport. two more national guard tankers arrived from colorado to drop water and retardant while ground cr...