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Wildland Fire Terminology 101 and last updated 2021-07-11 20:19:22-04 Wildland firefighters often use terminology unfamiliar to the general public. This glossary is intended to help people better understand the terminology used by fire crews and in news reports. Aerial Fuels: All live and dead vegetation in the forest canopy or above surface fuels, including tree branches, twigs and cones, snags, moss, and high brush. Air Tanker: A fixed-wing aircraft equipped to drop fire retardants or suppressants. Tankers are often referred to by their plane model type, such as the DC-10 Air Tanker. Agen...

To get out, as multiple out of control wildfires rage north of san francisco. the fires more than quadrupling in size in just 12 hours. this glass fire sparked two other fires nearby, so, as you can see here in napa valley, we are essentially surrounded by flames. sirens blaring, families racing to evacuate. >> we left with nothing, i mean, just literally with nothing. we're so lucky to be alive. >> reporter: in santa rosa, city buses lining up overnight to take more than 100 senior home residents out of harm's way, some still in their pajamas. st. helena's hospital forced to evacuate for a se...

From using feedback to innovate... to introducing products faster... to managing website inventory... and network bandwidth. giving you a nice big edge over your competition. that's the power of edge-to-edge intelligence. the concern for crews is that it is sparking thunderstorms ahead of it. it is sparking its own weather, creating very erratic fire behavior. it is very, very volatile here. >> a dire situation getting

Now and it's going to be a positive impact for us. it's going to diminish fire activity. relative humidities are going to go up, rain's going to fall from the sky and mother nature's going to help us put this fire out. in fact, i just drove the fire about two hours ago, and there's very minimal fire behavior right now. so that's a very good sign. there is a concern, though, when you have a freshly burned mountainside and then it gets hit with rain, we have the risk of debris flows. we've seen that in our areas in the past and we're preparing for that. if that was to happen in the future. so we...

Angeles in aveng angeles. hundreds of firefighters are protecting the homes of thousands of families that had to leave everything behind. joining us now gadi schwartz. what's the situation where you are, the winds are down but the fires are still burning. >> you can see wind gusts just a little bit. we just checked there about 10 to 12 miles per hour. this is the worst it is going to be all day. i am going to show you what happens wind gusts of 10 to 12 miles per hour. it is still not extreme fire behavior. you got some punking is what they call it here. a little bit of a flare up. mostly it i...