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There wasn't anything near my house and they didn't give know advantage situation noti-- know advantage situation notices or nothing, my wife called me and i took off back up there and when i got up there, there was traffic blocking the road all the way. i got down there and some guy was blown over by the fire, i helped him get out but i still went down there and they stopped me and wouldn't let me go in. it was my babies and my wife and i should have been laying there with them. >> oh, ed -- >> i should have went regardless of what anybody said. the fire was just a big fire tornado and they w...

Said when he opened his doors the leaves hit him like somebody was slapping him. he said it was sucking his breath out and he got back in his car and tried to get out. >> it's unimaginable. others of us know house fires and maybe if you're lucky you can get out a window or go out a door but with a wildfire, what you're describing, hearing you amanda saying it has its own weather system, it's a fire tornado all around your house.

Down on the side of the road. engine fire, setting up sparks and igniting what is called a monster. it's so erratic and volatile. firefighters are having a hard time beating back the flames. it's killed six people, including two firefighters and it's wiped out entire neighborhoods and whipped up a fire tornado that terrorized the community of redding. >> shepard, that smoke that you saw hit any face is the wind changing directions erratically. that's what's causing these firefighters a lot of challenges. overall, the state has spent $119 million just on fire suppression. not the cost of the tw...

Talk to us about how quickthry conditions changed. >> the fire that came in t was on the west side of the sacramento river and it moved actually about five miles overnight from the national park into close to redding and during the day relatively stagnant at the western boarder of the city of redding. by 6:00 it jumped across the river and flew up one of the hill sides and took out a number of neighborhoods, some partially, some in total and it just moved rapidly what i hear from the fire individuals is that the fire behavior was that with which they had never seen before. they referred to a f...

Hotels. alicia: there was a great grandmother and her two grade grandchildren in the redding area caught up in a flash fire. can you explain what that is? >> this took place late friday. and two of our firefighters were killed in the same event. the fire developed so rapidly due to weather conditions that it just was huge fire wall coming into the west redding area extremely quickly enveloping everything in its past. we have video of fire tornado taking place in that area which explains what happened because of the erratic weather. there was no stopping it.