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The windows to glow. since yesterday, those fast-moving wildfires have been threatening the small resort town of gatlinburg and the surrounding area where flames have already consumed homes and businesses. cnn correspondent nick valencia is live for us in gatlinburg. nick, why did the fire move so quickly? >> reporter: the fire intensified with the help of low humidity and hurricane-force winds, winds up to 80 miles per hour. firefighters are continuing to battle some of the flames. it doesn't translate over the camera but here in gatlinburg smoke has really filled the air. the mayor of this s...

Self-ignite. that's a furnace. that building when you showed the pictures earlier of that whole side, that building is like an oven. the heat inside that building is just cooking and stuff is lights off. there's also fall down. and the other part is wind. and you know, every firefighter watching this from l.a. to chicago to around the world, new york, wind. my dad was fireman in newark, nourj, for 32 years on a ladder company. i grew up around firehouses. wind is something that firefighters always worry about because it makes fire move, it gives it energy. it needs oxygen. and this fire has al...

Door on the ledge where the guy was at. >> across the street, karen jones continues to record. >> can't get out. >> omg. >> he can't get out. he can't get out the door -- >> oh, jesus, they are going to bring the ladder truck over. >> the ladder was further over to the left of him. and you can see him waving his arms and things trying to get their attention. >> do they see him? >> we were hoping they would get to him. >> the engineer repositions the ladder racing the fire to the edge of the building. >> with the amount of fire that was there, he had to get off that ledge pretty quick. >> i've ...

Me that the worker popped out on the ledge. >> a construction worker appears, not on the roof, but on the top floor of the building. >> the fire was extremely fast-moving. by the time captain hawthorn had climbed the ladder to the tip, it had already run past him and had broken out windows and the patio door on the ledge where the guy was at. >> across the street, karen jones continues to record. >> he can't get out. >> omg. >> he can't get. because he can't get out the door. >> oh, jesus. they are going to bring the ladder truck over. >> the ladder was further over to the left of him. and you...

Us from new york give us some details here. >> this is now a seven alarm conflagration in the east village in new york. more than 200 firefighters new york police and members from the office of emergency management on scene. more than 30 people injured. there are concerns that others may be trapped. this started as a gas leak which developed into an explosion and then a building collapse and suddenly two buildings in the east village in new york are completely engulfed in flames. watching this unfold on live television here in new york the one thing that came very clear is that you saw two thi...