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Cooler. the winds will settle down a little bit. that will hold for much of the day. that will give the fire fighters much-needed rest. we were caught the fascination yesterday afternoon as we watch the firefighters on the front lines go head-to-head behind the wall of fire that's coming down a mountain ridge. the relentless waves of fire erupted here along hell's gate drive. you can see how these low-level trees and the dry brush just had the fuel. in a matter of seconds, the flames devoured all of the trees. dried up and keeps moving on this way. for the volunteer firefighters from texas, he...

And they are trying to create a back wall of flames. what you can't see through the wall of smoke is that the fire that has rolled over a small mountaintop has rolled over in the last hour and barreling towards where we are, and the winds are the starting to move it to the left of the screen over here, and what they are afraid of the you will follow me over here is this highway over here, and they are afraid that the flames will jump over this highway and light the other side on fire. there is another fire a few miles away and they are afraid that the two fires would merge and creating a super...

There's another fire a few miles away and they are afraid that they would end up merging and creating a super fire, if you will. there's a real intense effort to get this situation stopped at this brink. ironically enough, this roadway is called hell's gate drive and leads to the kingdom lake. these firefighters have been really intense. it's about to get real ugly here and we're seeing it firsthand and very up close as the fire has been rolling off the back part of that ledge and has now come down to the bottom part of the canyon and was starting to move this way and they are afraid that it's...

Fire. what is the end goal? >> well, this road is called hell's gate drive and if you follow it up here, it takes you to an area that we were trying to get into which was hit hard yesterday afternoon, and excuse me, we are starting to get a lot of the embers landing on us here. >> careful. >> but the road takes you up to southern edge of possum kingdom lake, and it has beautiful homes and recreational lake that a lot of people enjoy since we are relatively close to the west side of ft. worth, texas, and a lot of the homes were destroyed. we drove in there a little while ago and we saw the fire...