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The fire line is several niles long. marching towards the area twin scissors road neighbors county. the fire is burning fast. the weather has changed significantly. after roughly 36 hours of no wind. you can see the wind has picked up. you can see the smoke blowing. there are fire units here. we have senile helicopters flying through here. it's very difficult fire conditions as once again it's becoming a tough fight against this fire and others in this wine country region. that wind was stoked fires near sonoma county last night up near suisun. the evacuation down below, we ran across evacuati...

>> i am the assistant chief for the county fire marshal's office. shortly after 4:30 p.m. this afternoon, we got a report from our fire units and law enforcement units that have been holding the perimeter at the arkema chemical plant east of crosby that we had a column of black smoke coming up from inside the facility. it turned to a light brown color and eventually to a heavy lack color somewhere around 5:30. after that, we had an intense combustion of the materials in one of the trailers that we had been talking about for several days now. that fire spread to a second trailer. two of the rem...

Sims finds his dog in a desperate situation. simms works out a rescue plan with the help of neighbor john applegate. >> she's about 60 feet out and i said we need an innertube and i have one, but i have to inflate it. i threw a 100-foot extension cord that was on the reel that was a tube secured to the extension cord. they gave me a push, and i just started making my way out to her. >> hey, chloe, george is coming! >> while sims struggles through the icy water firefighters arrive. it was not only a neighborhood group effort, it was a community effort baz wye had several fire units there, we ha...

Professionals have been trained through your active shooter response program. columbine changed the way these situations have been handled. what's so key for officers when they come upon a situation like in san bernardino? >> well, the first phase is always to stop the killing. the officers need to make sure there's not continuing gunfire going on and more people aren't being kiel killed. the first priority is to get into the building, find the shooter and deal with the sho shooter if the shooter is still there. after the shooter is taken care of or done an initial look for the shoot er and do...

Partial lockdown that people were living under only lifted yesterday when schools began to open and the metro began to open but people are certainly aware of the threat level here, they are feeling the urgency in this case and obviously law enforcement, police, fire units want to respond quickly and swiftly, trying to take every precaution, figuring out what the substance is and whether or not it's threatening. >> i've got to ask you a question you may not know the answer to, but are such threats unusual when it comes to the city's mosques? >> reporter: not entirely clear to us, carol. i think...