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Containment. a lot of these fires are paired down. there's significant progress that was made over the weekends. firefighters finally saying something i didn't know that i was here that they're getting an upper hand, they've turned a corner on these fires. the atlas fire and tubbs fires, two of the major fires, that have caused the most death and caused the most damage, now more than both 60% contained in this fire fight. he has come at a cost. these firefighters working round the clock, 24 hours shifts. we've talked to some of them on the front line to find out how they're doing and how they'...

All of them on a dirt patch as the fire moved in all around them. >> we had a deputy on top of mark west who had 40 people with him and they couldn't get out and the fire just burned around them and they just sheltered in place as it went around. >> reporter: they were surrounded by the fire? >> yeah. >> reporter: and then there was kaitlyn bock, who had the difficult task of preparing her 2-year-old as the fire now gets closer to their home. >> i know he's 2, but he just looked at me, he said, yes, mommy, it's okay. it's going to be okay. >> reporter: a mother, comforted by the words of her b...

>> literally just landed on the freeway, guys. i'm freaking out. >> we're either going to go on a dirt patch or we found the highway. >> a horrifying moment in the sky and on a freeway. >> a plane just landed on the freeway. >> a student pilot and her instructor making a terrifying emergency landing in the middle of a busy southern california freeway. >> i asked my instructor what's wrong, and he was like did you touch the throttle? i said. no he realized that we were having engine failure. >> when you hear those words "engine failure," what goes through your mind? >> oh, you're going to die. ...

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