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>> we're training people from the community to actually go out into the fields when this is happening to be able to be there so we can document what workers are going through. >> reporter: but the relentless cycle of wild fire is only getting worse. >> reporter: those with the least are too often sacrificing the most steve patterson, santa rosa, california. there is more to tell you about. up next iran perhaps just months away there being able to build a nuclear bomb we've got an exclusive interview with the new foreign minister

>> reporter: tonight the fight here in brooklyn is over r. kelly's life is in the jury's hands. stephanie gosk, nbc news brooklyn. thousands under evacuation orders in northern california tonight from an explosive new wild fire. this year more than two million acres have burned in the state. but the impact isn't being felt equally. steve patterson has more in our series "climate challenge". >> reporter: sara selgado can still see the fire how big were the flames how tall were they >> reporter: she is recalling the 2017 tubbs fire, one of three she's been impacted by in the last four years. >...

Worse. a new study found that while the latino population makes up 18% of the u.s., 37% live in areas described as extreme wild fire risk. >> a lot of these areas are agricultural areas, and that's where they seem to locate because they have to work that is a problem because they are affected economically >> reporter: that's what's happening in northern california where latino immigrant families settle in wine country to work the fields, often in thick wild fire smoke as others evacuate this field work angela guzman says the smoke can be unbearable, but she has no other option >> reporter: wat...

A fire burning on the Shoshone National Forest has grown to more than 900 acres in size, but officials say containment has also grown to 30%.

Who are unparalleled resources for fighting remote hard-to-get-to fires because the way they get to the fire is by literally jumping out of an airplane to get there. it turns out that is a much faster way to get to the fire than trying to drive there when roads and trails might not be accessible or they might not exist at all. it takes a lot of rigorous training to learn to be a smoke jumper, and you need to be in really good shape. you have to carry 85 pounds of equipment on your back while you parachute down to the blaze. and that's before you start work. just remarkable stuff, smoke jumpers...