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Certain neighborhoods will wait for the police to come to their aid first before they enter these neighborhoods. in this case they are creating these fire lines, police lines and the firemen are following ahead of that. something they're doing, they're plugging holes in the fire hoses which makes it very hard to extinguish the fires. >> we watched that last night. unbelievable. thank you, joel. the time now, 19 after the top of the hour. a race against time to find survivors in the rubble after that devastating earthquake in nepal. the brand new concern that could make the situation even wor...

You would wonder why they aren't responding in that way. whether there's been order gienven or not. the fire lines down here and the police line up there just 50 to 75 yards. there's a swat vehicle and all that stuff, and they're not moving down to stop it including the fellows in those cars crashing into each other, and i think we actually have another car down there on fire as well. it's 11:00 tonight in baltimore and the city is certainly on the verge of burning tonight. >> we continue down here. this has nothing to do with freddie gray but there are questions here. that is here freddie gra...

From across the country are on the front lines of this intense battle. what began last monday, as four small fires sparked by lightning exploded into a mass inferno, now scorching more than 380 square miles, roughly four times the size of seattle. some of the clearest pictures of the fire coming by drone. flames wiping out railroad lines. leveling some homes but sparing others. warren smethers lost his dream home that he purchased just three weeks ago. >> i try to keep looking on the positive side. i've been in tears. >> reporter: with dozens of fires burning in the northwest, it has taken day...

From across the country are on the front lines of this intense battle. what began last monday, as four small fires sparked by lightning exploded into a mass inferno, now scorching more than 380 square miles, roughly four times the size of seattle. some of the clearest pictures of the fire coming by drone. flames wiping out railroad lines. leveling some homes but sparing others. warren smethers lost his dream home that he purchased just three weeks ago. >> i try to keep looking on the positive side. i've been in tears. >> reporter: with dozens of fires burning in the northwest, it has taken day...

There's only two populated areas within this. brewster and pateras. even the evacuation center, which was in pateros, had to be evacuated. we lost a lot of homes there yesterday. in total, 100-plus homes lost or damaged. 1,000 or so evacuations in total. this fire is only 2% contained. the forecast for today again almost like yesterday, near 90 degrees. what's important for the firefighters, yesterday they had gusts of 40, 50 miles per hour. the winds will be much lighter today. they're hoping to get those fire lines down and protect the homes that are still endangered. otherwise, hot weather ...