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It's scary. >> reporter: the largest blaze, the rocky fire has burned up to 60,000 acres in three counties just north of wine country. >> there are firefighters that have 20 25 30 years on the job. that have never seen fire behavior like we have seen the last couple days here on the rocky fire. >> reporter: the reason -- fire officials say four years of drought and 100-degree heat have created conditions perfect for explosive growth. so far, two dozens homes have been destroyed. governor jerry brown, declaring a state of emergency. evacuations have been ordered more than 13,000 californians. l...

A fire. jerry brown has declared a state of emergency and evacuations have been ordered for more than 12,000 californians. >> thanks to stephanie eel-elam elam. daniel what's the latest you have on these fires, the big one, rocky fire. >> caller: the rocky fire is at 12% contained. it did grow. conditions here in california are so dry that it doesn't take much for a fire to spark. it doesn't take much for a fire to burn. and like it was said in that package, fires are burning at an explosive rate because of our drought. >> so there was expectation that conditions may ease going into the night,...

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City of denver by latest estimates. higher humidity and slightly better slowed the fire near towns hailey. advancing a mile and a half. that's a lot less compared to the six miles in the night we had seen on previous days of the fire spreading through canyon. it's these canyons, shannon that a lot of celebrities have built their second homes and subdivisions. fire officials say there is 1600 homes and mandatory evacuation in the sunbury area. not all of them belonging to the super wealthy though. got to be insurance claims even if the fire doesn't reach a lot of the properties. we understand f...

All in all, this is a big weekend here, a big rodeo weekend. a big draw to prescott. at this time people are still making sure that they remember their heroes here on this fourth of july. >> we know right now that there are still, you know, that the fire rages on. there are firefighters out there battling that same wildfire that killed those 19 young men. the yarnell wildfire. about 45% contained. what are you hearing from those firefighters? >> reporter: well, the one thing i can say that's good is that they've been able to contain it at about 8,400 acres for the last couple of days now. but ...