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Fatalities, but there have been numerous ambulance could to scenes, people are trapped by fire. it's burn, almost right down towards the water and towards the oaks. so here's the map. this is the critical and extreme fire conditions. here's santa barbara, the area of concern is right in here near ventura. gusts 30 to 40 and the problem that they're going to seet the winds are up high. they stay pretty high. there is 40 and 50 to the purple and the pink. this is all the way into thursday morning the fire crew there, it's an extremely difficult situation. when they do water drops, it's not that ...

Because the forecast is calling for the wind to pick up. you know that the wind is not good for the firefight. it fans the flames. it creates the blowtorch effect that laid waste to this neighborhood, coffee park in santa rosa on sunday. what they'll keep doing is cutting these fire lines so that the fire cannot jump from one set of vegetation to the next. and they need to do that before the wind picks up. it's supposed to get windier as the day goes on into tonight and into tomorrow. so once again they've issued those red flag warnings. that's the worst possible fire conditions. they're racin...

He's calling this the worst series of fires in the napa valley history. new we are talking about as you mentioned the death toll now rising to 15 people. we have seen it rise from 10 to 11, to 13, now 15. we are talking about more than 2,000 homes and structures spread out among eight counties that have been devastated or destroyed. and we are talking about people now under mandatory evacuation. we are talking about shelters that are full. we are talking about schools that are closed down. we are talking about a situation where firefighters dealing with cell towers that are down that are tryin...

Amount of money. >> molly: that was a beautifully done story. the historic photos were incredible and i think the most fascinating part was not just the ingenuity that was shown there and rebuilding the community, the engineering feats involved, but i can't help but think, this is more than 100 years ago. it had such a tremendous impact on generations of families. >> jon: we are so fortunate and so blessed today to have the satellite imagery, we know these days when hurricanes are coming and we can prepare for them. back then, they had absolutely no warning. >> molly: it was a beautiful story....

And so we just can't find any more resources here in northern nevada. they're either committed or the jurisdictions can't spare them. >> reporter: the conditions today not getting much better. there are parts of nevada that will be in the triple digits, shannon. >> shannon: how about the situation in arizona, are they making any progress? >> reporter: well, yes and no. there are more than 20 fires burning in arizona right now. and then there's this. fire in parker, arizona, sparked by fireworks, a visual reminder of just how dangerous they can be. thankfully nobody was hurt. the largest wild f...