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Front steps. this was once a whole row of mobile homes in the town of paradise. the only things left, metal beams and cinder blocks an piles of molten metal and many dealing with the reality some of their homes and neighbors are gone. in paradise our neighbors didn t make it out. we watched cars melt and people screaming hair on fire. i don t know how we got out. it was two lanes going out and burning and exploding. everybody has such a normal life everywhere but here. everybody s just going to work and the sun is shining and our lives and our world is not. shepard: that s northern california. to the south, a flare-up west of los angeles around malibu. firefighters racing and bracing for another round of santa ana winds also known as the devil ....
Last thing before we go here tonight, hundreds of thousands of people in southern california are out of their homes. six fires still burning and l.a., san diego, and ventura counties. officials have confirmed at least one death can now be blamed on these fires. tonight at least 500 structures have been destroyed, another 15,000 threatened. entire communities are now gone. neighborhoods where people grew up are no more. and thousands of people are without power tonight. earlier today, the president declared an emergency in california freeing up federal money to help those affected by the wildfires. a red flag warning meaning conditions are ideal for fires to start and spread will remain in effect in the area until 8:00 p.m. local on sunday. meanwhile, national weather service said the santa ana winds, those evil winds will continue through the weekend. winds as high as 40 miles per hour on saturday, increasing to ....
Sara, thank you very much. let s go further up the california coast. another vantage point. paul vercammen is there. what are you seeing there? reporter: i m right at the northwest and leading edge of the fire. they ve made a stand here right near these orchards. they hit it hard with water and threw some hand crews at it, all of it to stop the blaze in advance. this is a monster of a fire. you have heard, wolf, that this thomas fire has burned 96,000 acres. that s twice the size of washington, d.c., and it s been a menace. right now, winds are calm. yes, it s smoky but what has happened night after night after night is later in the evening, sometime after well after the sun goes down, these devil winds, these santa ana winds go towards the ocean and whip up ....
Helicopters to come in and drop water and try to tamp out those flames. now, the big fear is the winds. right now the winds have died down. that is good news for firefighters. we can hear another flight coming close to us. we re hoping they re able to drop water on that particular fire but behind me there is also another fire burning and so this whole area here, very close to ojai, near carpenteria is smoked out and you re seeing sort of the fires all around with a tiny bit of light that is still able to come through the smoke. a lot of fear here. 200,000 plus people have been evacuated from all of the fires. i should mention this now, we just got an update from cal fire. there are now six, not four, six fires burning, including near san diego. wolf? we re showing our viewers live aerial shots of the huge fire in ventura. take a look at that picture that is so, so destructive. ....