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Track? >> reporter: yes, they are confident the weather trends, for now, are going to stay on this track. of course, unusually hot for may and because of the drought-like conditions and like it sped everything up and fire season here started three or four months earlier. many firefighters telling us these are conditions they would see more normally in, let's say, august or september. >> we will pray for a very, very foggy june gloom as they typically have in southern california. thanks, paul. firefighters are working from every possible angle to extinguish these flames. yeds thinside this ...

Right there. >> you can see the helicopter there coming into frame. part of the fight against these fires taking place in the air. ted rollins rode along during a training exercise to get a sense and see what it is actually like for the firefighters as they aim at targets on the ground. >> inside the cockpit of a bae-146 air tanker, the firefighter pilots prepare for takeoff. >> okay, clear right. clear left, clear right. >> during the fire, this plane is capable of dropping up to 3,000 gallons of retardant. from as low as 150 feet above the flames. >> how do you know where to aim at? >> when ...

Destroyed so far. authorities are questioning two teenagers about two of the fires. and thousands of firefighters continue to fight them. cnn's ted rollins hitched a ride in their biggest weapon for firefighting arsenal. >> reporter: inside the cockpit, the two firefighters prepare for takeoff. >> okay, clear right. clear left. >> reporter: during a fire, this plane is capable of dropping up to 3,000 gallons of retardant, as low as 150 feet above the flames. >> what do you actually mean? when there is a fire you know where to aim because you're talking to the guy on the ground. >> reporter: ...

It. >> reporter: united airlines flight 1205 from hawaii to california cruising at 33,000 feet on april 25th. the 757's collision alert system goes off. flight 1205 in danger of colliding with a us airways jet. the plane plunged 600 feet in 60 seconds. without warning for passengers like kevin town swsend. >> i'm looking down the aisle. there are hundreds of people in front of me. people start screaming. noises of things that weren't secure falling around. >> reporter: close calls usually come down to pilot or controller error but disaster is almost always alerted thanks to avoid dance technol...

Flight. >> reporter: if something goes wrong, the system will stream live second by second data. >> it's not only life saving. it adds a tremendous measure of security for our country. >> several systems transmit data. the technology behind flight is more extensive, sharing information, so much information, critics say it could be difficult to monitor and analyze if widely adopted. right now, flights technologies only installed in 350 planes. each installation costs about $100 now. . norm oom transmission costs about $15 per flight hour and goes up for continuous stream income a rare emergency...