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Because he had a california medical marijuana card. >> when will officials start allowing people to return back home? >> reporter: we don't know. they're not saying. 10,000 different homes in this area under evacuation orders. right now they're acting with an abundance of caution, telling people to stay away until they have this completely contained. but it is southern california. it is the foothills. these residents are used to these fires. many of them have remained home, decided to tough it out and fight the fire with hoses if they need to if it gets to that, anderson. >> just so i'm clear,...

To hold the line on this fire. they say they're not reel releasing any official containment numbers but there are no active fire lines going on right now. so as long as the winds stay calm overnight, they should have the situation pretty much under control, anderson, five homes, though, completely destroyed, 17 other structures damaged, one firefighter injured not critically. >> and three people in custody? how did this start, do you know? >> reporter: it's really strange. police say three guys all in their early 20s built a camp fire early this morning and allowed this camp fire to grow out o...

Aggressive air assault with fixed-wing aircraft and helicopters dropping water and fire retardant on these flames. what they were very concerned about is these unseasonably hot temperatures, above 85 degrees today, humidity less than 10%, and there were winds forecast as high as 25 to 35 miles an hour. so, you can see all of these homes over here to my camera man mike love's left. we can see those homes. the fire got within 100 yards of those homes earlier today, but because the winds remained relatively calm this afternoon, firefighters were basically able to hold the line on this fire. they ...

Allowing people to return back home? >> reporter: we don't know. they're not saying. 10,000 different homes in this area under evacuation orders right now. they're acting with an abundance of caution, telling people to stay away until they have this completely contained, but it is southern california, it is the foothill. these residents are used to these fires. many of them have remained home, decided to tough it out and fight the fire with hoses, if they need to, if it gets to that, anderson. >> just so i'm clear, at this point, they're not saying how much contained it is? >> reporter: they'r...

And you can see some of the firefighters, the crews that are up there on foot. they have just come in in the last couple of hours to try to control these lines. but what you've seen all day long is an aggressive air assault with fixed wing aircraft and helicopters dropping water and fire retardant on these flames. what they were very concerned about is these unseasonably hot temperatures, above 85 degrees today. humidity less than 10%. and there were winds forecast as high as 25 to 35 miles per hour. so you can see all of these homes over here to my cameraman mike love's left. we can see those...