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A morning newscast featuring breaking news and weather reports. And we now understand its burned 83,000 acres. Something at play for firefighters, you can almost not get your head around what its like to battle a blaze like this burning so hot here. You can see that firefighters, some of them working 24hour shifts have been grabbing sleep any way they can. Thats what they are up against. Not only are they fighting it in terms of fatigue, but in these conditions, there is a problem with equipment as well. We are used to hot but, you know, 116, 117 degrees on the fire line, humidity is hovering around 10 or less during the day, which is critical Fuel Moisture for us, which means that we have 100 probability of ignition. So we are just battling those two things right there, just the fatigue on the firefighters putting out fires is horrendous, let alone the Equipment Fatigue be ....
Something, of course, where he specifically is talking about the united states. the russians are saying, look. we are spending less money on arms but, at the same time, we are still very dangerous to the americans and they believe that some of the ships they have shown here today is a part of that equation. a new stealth ship you were talking about the russians pushed out for the first time and only went into service yesterday. so a stealth vessel could bring big problems they say to any american vessels. they also had a big submarine they call the aircraft carrier killer which launches long-range missiles designed to attack especially the united states aircraft carriers and a new shyship they unveiled here today as well that is directly aimed at targeting nato facilities and one the united states has in the baltic area as well. the russians put a lot of their fire paower on display. a well crafted and managed show today we saw today and aimed at ....
And we now understand it s burned 83,000 acres. something at play for firefighters, you can almost not get your head around what it s like to battle a blaze like this burning so hot here. you can see that firefighters, some of them working 24-hour shifts have been grabbing sleep any way they can. that s what they are up against. not only are they fighting it in terms of fatigue, but in these conditions, there is a problem with equipment as well. we are used to hot but, you know, 116, 117 degrees on the fire line, humidity is hovering around 10% or less during the day, which is critical fuel moisture for us, which means that we have 100% probability of ignition. so we are just battling those two things right there, just the fatigue on the firefighters putting out fires is horrendous, let alone the equipment fatigue because the fire is causing the ....
It s incredible. but it s also scary. i want to point out it also teaches us something about how fire can spread. here is what you have. you have your fire that is in place. we all know heat rises so as that air goes up, new air is actually going to come in and replace it but it s coming from multiple different directions. so you re starting to get that swirling rotating motion as that column of air is going up. when it does, it ends up looking like a tornado, except being made out of fire. well, very similar to what a traditional tornado would do, it has debris in it. the problem is we are not talking cars or pieces of homes. you re talking embers and fire, basically. that fire can potentially spread to places where it did not exist before. now that is a concern that firefighters are dealing with but there is also other concerns at play here and that is the topography of california. it s very mountainous. so when you have, say, a 20-degree slope of a hill, fire will travel up that hil ....
Equipment to overheat and helicopters are put down to cool off and a dramatic step back as far as fighting the fire. reporter: they also say some of the bulldozers are breaking down and that is critical to cutting fire breaks or fire lines. the smoke. it s something. go ahead, that is the mood. it is not supposed to look like that right now. so much smoke throughout this area that now that orange color and makes it very difficult, as you can imagine, for these firefighters on a daily base to reckon with all of this. fires throughout northern california and this having burned more than 83,000 acres. it s killed five people. you have a matter of 536 homes completely destroyed. back to you, martin and christi. paul, thank you very much. ....