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Adding 40-mile-an-hour winds, you get this. >> created what is called an active crown fire run with a fire actually goes from treetop to treetop. when it does that, those ember casts that it throws out are going over a mile in distance. >> containment lines held overnight, giving crews optimism the fire could spare the tahoe basin. >> we are using all of our resources, everything we have at our disposal and coordinating closely with cal fire. >> so winds are expected to improve tonight and tomorrow but big picture, california has a problem. six of the states' seven largest buyers ever burned i...

Mountain air now a billowing blanket of ash stretching hundreds of miles. >> basically a flame or an ember lands on the dry brush and it ignites. it's not stopping it. >> torching pine needles in an overgrown forest that hasn't burned in decades. add in 40 mile-per-hour winds, you get this. >> to create what's called an active crown fire run where the fire goes from tree top to tree top. when it does that those ember casts that it throws out are going over a mile in distance. >> containment lines held overnight, giving crews optimism the fire could spat tahoe basin. >> we are usually all of ou...