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having. this drought has caused the fuel s to be so unpredictable, fire behaviorists really don't know what it is going to do. it is fuel driven and the fuels are so dry they are just crackling and going up like bombs. a lot of o times you will see fire going across roads like it did across the 20 yesterday. and what they are describing is not just embers flying and lighting on grass and then burns. it is like a rocket launcher. it is like a flame thrower. they are talking about huge boules of fire just exploding into grass. sometimes hundreds of yards away. so yeah it is a very, very difficult fire fight. and that is the question they want the answer to is how this drought is making all of this happen. >> and obviously one of the changes as we understand, there are now at least 20 different fires. we're going to put up a map. they are really all over the state when you look at it.

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