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Midnight, the wind hit, and it hit hard. and it just -- the fire exploded. and that was when i could hear it. it sounded like the roar of a freight train. i looked up past the trailer to look at the mountains and where it had just been an orange glow, i could see flame. >> it was literally a firestorm. so we're bracing ourselves against the wind. we're hearing the roar, yelling to each other what to do. it went from a fire that was moving at, you know, maybe three miles an hour to a fire that was moving at 30 miles an hour. i could just feel it racing towards -- we could see it growing in heig...

Go in. she knew i was upset and she would put one foot in and back out. two feet in and back out. i tried cookies and grain and everything. i was pleading with her. you have to get in this trailer and i had to make a choice between never seeing fia again and getting alley out. so i turned her loose. i said turn them loose. it's the only chance they have. and i didn't look back. >> you would think mother nature had a watch. right at midnight the wind hit and it hit hard and the fire exploded. that was when i could hear it. it sounded like the roar of a freight train. i looked up past the traile...

Local media reporting they are seeing water on hollywood boulevard already washing in to homes. >> hmm. sorry to hear that, sir. mayor, as you know, it could go on for some time. you said you've been talking to residents there. i can't imagine your first responders are out right now given the force of this wind and the rain. have you been receiving a lot of calls asking for help? >> i think everyone knows that there has been a curfew and everyone made aware once the wind hit 45 miles an hour sustained, first responders would not be able to be dispatched to any calls. so police and fire are on ...

We would hope that it would sort of veer to the right and go out to sea. at one point, it became apparent this was our window of opportunity to move north. to go north. so, we drove north until just today. >> all right. hurricane irma, i want to show you what it's doing to cuba here. i believe we have some pictures coming into us. of what is happening there. you see the trees blowing, patrick oppmann is there, he said it felt like a jet engine as the wind hit him making landfall on to the northern coast there, 15 to 26-foot waves recorded and they could get higher as they head to havana. we'll...

In the cross hairs. basically you had 15,000 people being evacuated. traffic at a stand still. also a run at the grocery stores all prepared for the monster storm that never came. we got the rain but not the storm surge and the high winds associated with damage and winds and a lot of flooding. what we did however get is a storm that hit right down there about 60 miles in those mountains. very sparsely populated. also very rural. when the wind hit there, basically cut that storm in half. that's where you'll find the flooding. at this point in time, the two major tourists centers here have been ...