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Air. the big ponderosa pine needles. it's really fueling the flames right now. we know this fire exploded within a 24-hour period of time from 450 acres to more than 4500 acres yesterday. today, firefighters are working hard to establish a line, particularly on the north and the east side of the fire. that's where those homes are that are currently threatened. no structures damaged so far and that's what they are focusing on right now. they are throwing everything they have at this fire. some 840 personnel are here. 500 people are on the ground building the fireline to help the northeast flank...

>> i feel really sad for the people that lost their houses. >> reporter: thousands of new evacuation notices went out as the wind set fire spreading. >> grab your personal belongings and please leave. >> reporter: residents grabbed what they could and fled. >> clothes, dog food, dog toys, records, just stuff that can't be replaced. >> reporter: on the hillsides nearby, swirling with tubes of burning embers and smoke. what experts call a fire whirl. >> they lift embers in to the air and that can be caught by the wind or cast out away from the existing fire line. >> reporter: a dangerous element...

>> i feel really sad for the people that lost their houses. >> reporter: thousands of new evacuation notices went out as the wind set fire spreading. >> grab your personal belongings and please leave. >> reporter: residents grabbed what they could and fled. >> clothes, dog food, dog toys, records, just stuff that can't be replaced. >> reporter: on the hillsides nearby, swirling with tubes of burning embers and smoke. what experts call a fire whirl. >> they lift embers into the air and that can be caught by the wind or cast out away from the existing fire line. >> reporter: a dangerous element ...

Injuries. the opposite story on the west coast. high temperatures and winds help to spark a wildfire not far from los angeles. this morning fire crews are aided by bulldozers working to create a line around the flames. abc's david wright is on the fire line. >> reporter: 90-degree heat and winds nearly 90 miles an hour turning these suburbs east of l.a. into a convention oven. >> looks pretty big right now. >> reporter: the conditions so treacherous more than 1600 homeowners briefly had to evacuate. >> they are like grab as much as you can because they might come and evacuate everybody. >> r...

Accident was set to perform at a club, according to his brother. police in austin, texas, say rashad owens was fleeing a drunk driving checkpoint when his car plowed into a crowd of people attending the festival. two people were killed, nearly two dozen injured outside of the nightclub. 21-year-old owens will be charged with murder. >> what they were saying is it could have been a lot worse. just moments before he plowed through those barricades, there were a lot more people on the street. police thinned the crowd, got them up on the sidewalks because it was a fire line. and minutes later he c...