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families are waking up to a fifth day without power and air conditioning on this independence day. fireworks displays are being canceled to let fire and leaf efforts continue in regions where it will not only get hotter throughout the holiday. nbc s steve handelsman has more. reporter: it s miserable on margaret drive, in takoma park, maryland. a tree that tore down lines on friday has not been touched. some got power back and lost it and the pets are sweltering in lynn quarrel s home. first of all, i m definitely wired about my cat. heat doesn t do any good for any animals. i m more worried about myself. reporter: nancy blacked out since friday got power from her neighbors. i feel outraged and totally beside myself about this. reporter: she s furious about pepco. i ve called pepco every day about my situation uks the tree down around the corner, the power lines down the street. every time i call they act like it s first time they ve heard this information. ....
columbia, more than a million families are waking up to a fifth day without power and air conditioning on this independence day. fireworks displays are being canceled to let fire and leaf efforts continue in regions where it will not only get hotter throughout the holiday. nbc s steve handelsman has more. reporter: it s miserable on margaret drive, in takoma park, maryland. a tree that tore down lines on friday has not been touched. some got power back and lost it and the pets are sweltering in lynn quarrel s home. first of all, i m definitely wired about my cat. heat doesn t do any good for any animals. i m more worried about myself. reporter: nancy blacked out since friday got power from her neighbors. i feel outraged and totally beside myself about this. reporter: she s furious about pepco. i ve called pepco every day about my situation uks the tree down around the corner, the power lines down the street. every time i call they act like it s first time they ....
reminder. dangers remain and first responders are overworked. fourth of july fireworks have been canceled by many municipalities. i m steve handelsman, nbc news, washington. elsewhere, fire crews are still battling more than 40 wildfires in western states. in colorado, firefighters made progress against two of the most destructive fires that had forced tens of thousands out of their homes. nbc s miguel almaguer has more. reporter: in the scorched hills above colorado springs, firefighters finally turn the corner. crews mop up the blaze that killed two, devour 28 square miles, and destroyed 346 homes. six of the air force c-130s are back in the firefight, grounded after sunday s fatal crash that filled four aboard air tanker number 7. we obviously are very troubled by the crash that took place several days ago and the loss of life associated with that. just underscores the dangers that are associated with these fires. reporter: these blazes are being called super ....
airport. vicki, thank you for joining us. what can you tell us? well, our normal response to this is to have our own station 20 fire truck and meet the plane, which it did. there was a second fire truck called in that arrived. when the plane landed safely it taxied to gate 22, there was still a slight odor of smoke at that point in time, nothing visible. the passengers deplaned and they brought a mechanic onboard and our station 20 is still on alert, standing by while the mechanics is checking out the plane. did you have to deploy a slide from the plane? in case passengers had to get out that way? no, no it taxied to the gate and they deplaned normally. was this deemed an emergency landing? no, not really an emergency landing just what we call an alert so that when a pilot, you know, is experiencing any kind of malfunction, they just alert the tower so we re prepared on the ground when they do land. absolutely. vicki thank you very much, nobody hurt, we are ....
happened. we want to find out exactly what happened. right now on the phone with us a spokeswoman from the san jose international airport. vicki, thank you for joining us. what can you tell us? well, our normal response to this is to have our own station 20 fire truck and meet the plane, which it did. there was a second fire truck called in that arrived. when the plane landed safely it taxied to gate 22, there was still a slight odor of smoke at that point in time, nothing visible. the passengers deplaned and they brought a mechanic onboard and our station 20 is still on alert, standing by while the mechanics is checking out the plane. did you have to deploy a slide from the plane? in case passengers had to get out that way? no, no it taxied to the gate and they deplaned normally. was this deemed an emergency landing? no, not really an emergency landing just what we call an alert so that when a pilot, you know, is experiencing any kind of malfunction, they jus ....