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Fire line, this highway right here so the fire doesn't jump the fire break into the virgin forest on the other side. by doing so this group, you have people doing structure protection and mop up. the backfire operation they hope will stop this fire right here. >> bill: inside these evacuated areas, multiple towns are empty except for police and fire and the crews that are protecting the structures. for all these 30,000 to 40,000 people who have been evacuated. we saw about 30 aircraft dipping into the lake, dropping water on the most remote areas where the fire does remain active. trying to he...

Another 10,000 people to evacuate. >> lucy kafanov joins us live from el dorado county, california. growing 24 times in size in the last two days. that is a truly wildfire. >> reporter: it is explosive in terms of its growth, jim. and that is because it has singed over 65,000 acres now and so quickly you have the bone dry conditions, you have hilly terrain which makes it difficult to get bulldozers there to cut containment lines and then you have the population. we were driving through the fire line yesterday when we came across this destroyed ranch and that is when we met chris kingsley. he o...

Former Chronicle reporter Lizzie Johnson’s book tells the terrifying story of California’s deadliest wildfire as it bears down on one small California town.

And some residents are refusing to leave their homes. camila bernal reports from california. >> reporter: as the flames from the dixie fire burn out of control, thauthorities issue evacuation orders. but while many of the more than 16,000 under the orders have left, others like jason ackley are choosing to stay. his wife and son have already evacuated. but instead, he and his brother are working on their own fire line. >> we're really trying to take the fuel down so we can't get it, noticyou know, up into the of the trees. >> reporter: the fire within a qu quarter mile of the property. >> it w...

Thousand firefighters working this particular fire. we are at the incident command post where you have some crews that just got back from working the fire line, while others are about to go out. and, of course, this is just win of many fires burning throughout the west. you talked about all these fires, about 83 raging across 13 states. the biggest one in oregon, that bootleg fire. as you said, the acreage burned is about the size of los angeles. and this is a fire that is literally creating its own weather. normally the weather will dictate what a fire will do. in this case experts say it's t...