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Those are backfires. they're using drip torch as well as something that looks like a road flair, maybe while we're on the air you'll see this happen. you'll see it light up and they'll throw it into the canyon. in front of us is a farmer's other clard, this is the extreme northwest part of the fire, burning near the city of carpent carpenteria, it's the next city. let's not be alarmist, there are some mandatory evacuations in southwest carpenteria as a precaution, they are literally in the dark. there's a california department of fire engineer and expert who's calling in on the radio and telli...

They will literally throw it into the canyon. you can't tell because it's dark, but in front of us is a farmer's orchard, and this is the extreme northwest part of the fire, burning near the city of carpinteria. that's the next city. carpinteria is not threatened right now, let's not be alarmist. there are some mandatory evacuations in southwest carpinteria as a precaution. but right now they've tied all this in, is the term the firefighters like to use, and there's -- literally, in the dark, you can't see them. but there's a california department of fire engineer and expert who's calling in o...

Short moment ago, it looked like tiny, little snowflakes. you might even be able to get a sense for these little embers and the ash that's raining down. especially in ventura county and into santa barbara county. massive school and business closures throughout the county, because the air quality is just absolutely horrific. i'm standing right on the county line right now. by the way, anderson, 96,000 acres burned on the thomas fire in ventura county alone. >> have authorities been able to hold the fire line where you are? >> reporter: they have. let me give you a good example of just how well ...

Management, an agent, two agents from the bureau of land management, that actually lit the fire with a drip torch on the south and the north side of the hammonds' steam mountain property. and because of this fire, it threatened the winter range of the hammonds and the hammonds lit the backfire. >> okay. so the hammonds are the father and son duo that reporting to jail on monday after taking the case to the supreme court and they were convicted of setting fire to federal lands. and the accusation was that they did this to cover up the tracks of actually poaching because they were deer hunting. ...