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Few hours, forcing thousands of people to flee. by nightfall, flames had reached the city's southern outskirts and could be rene from renoo seen from reno's downtown district about 10 miles away, then the fire split into two fires, straddling a major freeway that still remains closed at this hour. here's how reno's fire chief summed it up last night: >> to say that we're in the thickest battle is an understatement. you've got a lot of people working to protect homes, protect neighborhoods. >> reporter: more than 10,000 people were told to evacuate, 2000 residents are still out of their homes t...

Winds are starting to pick up. the fire crews are doing structure protection, keeping an eye on smoldering embers and the investigators have been making their way up to this property sitting up on a ridge, where the flames roared through. there is nothing left up here. we understand, the good news that this home was unoccupied because it was being sold. we can only hope that the owners didn't lose anything really valuable or irreplaceable. this is one of a few structures that didn't make it through this fire. this happeneds of other homes were saved, thanks to fast work by more than a thousand...

Fire trucks continuing to do what they call structure protection, just stand by the homes and keeping an eye out on hot spots to make sure that when in fact the winds start to pick up later on this afternoon, it doesn't stir up the hot spots and low embers over containment lines. that did happen yesterday when flames jumped the california aqueduct. the concrete channel was acting as a natural fire break and again, the winds picked up and they jumped over it for a time and able to knock it down quickly and fire crews want to make sure that that kind of thing didn't happen today. >> one lady sai...

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Now and what you saw earlier during this fire. >> headed southbound on the 15. and i exited at 39 a, which is about two miles south of here. and the flames since that time have come up over the ridge, to the north and to the east. and are headed towards some, looks like structures or houses. that are just on the north side of the main ridge at least down into the pass. >> collin, very quickly, i have only got about 15 seconds. tell me, if you can did you see anybody injured in your area or any ambulances coming in at all? >> i didn't see any injuries, but i did see that there were a vehicles a...