MSNBC Alex Witt Reports August 8, 2021 18:58:00
Little town there. what are officials telling you? >> reporter: fire officials say they caught a break this weekend because of the red flag winds that pushed the fire into town here died down before the weekend. an inversion layer formed. it all formed in one spot, there was nothing to move it. so it settled. it makes the atmosphere cooler, humidity rises, temperatures drop, and they can get a handle on it, because there's no wind to move the fire to a new front. you can finally see behind me, the destruction is unlike anything i can describe. what this means, because you can see this inversio...