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Here and, as we know, we've already seen the fire situation difficult in states like colorado, wyoming, montana and now the western area starting to get it as well. jon: because there are fires burning in other states as well, right? >> reporter: yeah. you know, again, we talked about colorado, wyoming and montana got it earlier on, but now california, again, three fires here, oregon's got a major fire, washington has major fire as well as nevada. we do have one firefighter that was killed in idaho on sunday, a tree fell. what they call those, firefighters call them widow makers. a lot of thos...

Progress. there will be smoke and there will be firefighters. we have eyes in the sky. we have not lost sight of any part of this fire at any time. there are reports of bears coming into the area and homes have been evacuated. food has been left out in garbage cans or outside. these hill sides are now basically bear. there's worries about mud slides. as the crews get back to the areas the widow makers the trees that have been burned out are sitting there with a stick stuck in the ground. a lot of those areas to be cleared as well. firefighters have made significant progress on this fire, but...

Progress. we did up our containment percentage, 45. believe me when i tell you, there will be smoke and firefighters, we have our eyes in the skies, not any part of this fire at any time. >> there are reports that bears coming into some of the areas where the homes have been evacuated for a few days and food left out in garbage cans or inside and also the monsoon season will come here at some point and the hill sides are barren and worries about mudslides and possible flash fooding and the widow makers, the trees burned like a stick in the ground, and a lot of work be to be done here. they've ...

From your area of expertise, sir, what can you tell us about the search efforts that resumed this morning and what we heard there from the mayor that in some way, the actual controlled demolition helped to accelerate getting to a certain part of the pile that they were unable to access previously. >> absolutely. i mean, within an hour after the demolition, the search and rescue teams went back to work, and they were working at the same tempo that we have since the beginning, and what the demolition did is that it opened up the entire collapsed space for us to work in. early on after the collap...