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Square miles, nearly 600 homes. national correspondent william la jeunesse gives us a close-up look tonight. >> oh, yeah. we don't want to go any further. >> high winds, a record drought. the caldor fire turning this california playground intraghost town. >> i promised my kid i would be out of here as soon as i saw any flames anywhere. >> i'm hoping at some point i can just nab that cat be out of her like a shot. >> moving west to east, firefighters struggled to keep it south of the homes and businesses around lake tahoe. >> and getting out, as soon as i secure this area, which is my business,...

Mountain air now a billowing blanket of ash stretching hundreds of miles. >> basically a flame or an ember lands on the dry brush and it ignites. it's not stopping it. >> torching pine needles in an overgrown forest that hasn't burned in decades. add in 40 mile-per-hour winds, you get this. >> to create what's called an active crown fire run where the fire goes from tree top to tree top. when it does that those ember casts that it throws out are going over a mile in distance. >> containment lines held overnight, giving crews optimism the fire could spat tahoe basin. >> we are usually all of ou...