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Avoid is this dangerous and treacherous difficult with the kids, many of them who can't swim, with full face masks through the narrow blacked out tunnels to get them out of the the cave system where they've been trapped. the good news is they have three separate pumps, dave, pulling water out. about an inches an hour they say it's dropping down. so possibly -- possibly they could get to a stage where the boys could crawl out without the assistance of oxygen masks. but -- and the big but is the weather it might rain soonz this afternoon. certainly the monsoon system is looming. if it is raining...

Thousands, thousands of homes that do need protection, those evacuation orders in place at the moment, that is proving to be the toughest challenge. at the moment we've got a weather with inversion, that's basically a layer of cool air trapping in the hot air. that hot air is going to expand, increase the temperatures and add further fuel to the fire. when i say fuel, this is one of the driest areas in the country. there's been a drought for two years, and even the live vegetation is pretty dry, so plenty of fuel for the fire to consume. it's going to be a tough day for the firefighters. heath...