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Has responded to more than 1100 wildfires so far this year, nearly double that of a typical year and they're treating each fire like an all out military assault. >> we launch everything. we're talking ground crews, helicopters, hand crews, even if it's a little spot, if we have to hit it hard, we have to hit it immediately. >> look at this summer's above normal fire activity outlook spreading into idaho, montana and wyoming. the fight expected to cost the u.s. forest service up to $1.65 billion this year. >> put that on. >> cal fire let us suit up on this training mission. >> fire on the groun...

It was civilized but we have the riot police formed again in a strong battle line, reinforced not only with police swat team and the state police teams. over the past hour or two, we have gotten a couple hundred protesters who have now come out for no justice, no peace and you so one of the signs up there saying freddie gray didn't die in vein civil rights now. that is what we keep hearing this is about. freddie gray and also civil rights in general. a lot of folks are mega phones are out here chanting. there are a lot of residents angry and tired, not necessarily about freddie gray, but about...

Shape, this is 13 and 14 hours in, and landfall 300 acres. >> we have seen humidity levels come up to 90%, and the wind dissipated, and we made a lot of progress overnight, and we still have a lot of fire line to go with only 15% containment. >> a woman was just talking about a new development going up, and there are homes that would be just frames going up very quickly, and how close is the fire to that development? >> approximately half a mile away from that development. fortunately, the fire is burning away from that area, but we have crews in structure defense protecting those properties. ...

Ninan. >> everybody talking about this little scuffle with the biebs in l.a. and orlando bloom. >> and orlando bloom. you just gave it all away. it was our big tease. >> more to come in pictures. stay tuned for that. >> right. to kick it off, ucla, the pictures, incredible of the water main break. crews are gaining ground on two of the largest fires start off in northern california. >> some residents living near yosemite national park have been allowed to return home now that the fire is 35% contained. abc's brandi hitt is on the fire line. >> reporter: it's not the vacation many travelers w...

Crews continue on the ground to build that fire line, continue to do the controlled burns to remove the fuel ahead of the fire and if you'll recall it was the hot shot team from prescott that suffered a huge loss around this time last year with the yarnell fire and it turns out that the incident commander was the safety officer at the yarnell fire. we had a chance to talk to him today about how things have changed since then. you talked about the erratic winds. that was also the case in the yarnell fire. any lessons that you're implementing here? >> continuing to have a meteorologist, being ab...