CNN Erin Burnett OutFront August 20, 2013 03:02:00
>> reporter: well, it has been growing so quickly. and it is huge. you mentioned at 100,000 acres or 1,000 firefighters plus. we're expecting new numbers in the next few hours and the hope is that they had a good day today and have more containment. but there are 5,000 homes that are potentially in danger here. and you mentioned a lot of them are very high dollar homes. in fact private insurance companies -- or insurance companies have hired private firefighters to come in here and specific protect people's homes because they are so expensive. >> i'm curious about that. how is that playing out...