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You're going to see this fire line, a very lazy fire line as we pan up to the west. just lazy flame. nothing too bad. they're not too particularly worried about this. but you can see some of the firefighting aircraft come through the frame here. they're going to be dropping this firefighting aircraft right on that. these are the kind of drops they're doing that are saving these homes. that fire at night with these pilots using night-vision goggles to drop that water in that canyon at night. that's huge. right now that's what stopped this fire from really affecting these homes here. >> all of t...

Let's turn to our meteorologist. >> good wednesday morning, christine, i think the rain is certainly going to help. it's not going to be a washout or a sophisticate amount of rainfall. i think both fires across northern california will see a quarter to a half an inch of rainfall. anything as far as rains will bring the temperatures down, increase the humidity. it is good news when it comes to the fire line for firefighters. of course the big story out of southwestern utah, where we had this historic blooding and rainfall observations believed to be a rearity, somewhere between a one year and 2...

Middletown, which was nearly obliterated by the fast-moving flames. >> evacuation orders are still in place for thousands of residents. and let me show you why. if you take a look right here, you've got telephone cables, just dangling. and if you look up, you'll see that this entire contraption is just hanging off of power cords. it makes you wonder, what happened to the telephone pole? well, take a look at this. days after the fire raged through here, this telephone pole is still on fire, and so are those cables. and that's the thing about wildfire. just because a fire went through here a cou...

Died. >> yeah, and it's just expanding so quickly. the winds have been so strong. there's little to no moifsture n the trees, in the bushes. it's become so bad there's an area known as grant grove, it's a grove of ancient forests, giant sequoias, and they're building a fire line around this to protect these trees that are thousands of years old. so we'll show you this particular landscape. this is an an area around the valley fire, 60 or so miles northwest of sacramento where the land is burned across this region. it was only 50 acres that were consumed on saturday morning, by sunday night tha...

But a very helpful process because of the amount of water this helicopter can pick up at one time and then drop off. the other thing that's phenomenal about it is how quickly these helicopters are able to pull up so much water. he just needs to hover for a few seconds. as you see he's pulling out, closing off that tank and will take off over the hillside to go back to the active fire line. it's really a very streamlined, very neat process that they have worked out to make that happen. so we've been watching that. now that we've made our way onto a boat here, we can show you some of this devast...