TODAY AND WHAT'S THE NEWEST INFORMATION FOR MOST OF THE DAY, THE WINDS HAVE REALLY BEEN CALM, BUT WE CAN TELL YOU IN JUST THE PAST FEW MINUTES WE HAVE FELT THOSE WINDS START TO KICK UP. WE KNOW TODAY THAT CAL FIRE HAS REALLY BEEN FOCUSUSING ON CONTAINMENT AND PUTTING OUT HOT SPOTS, ESPECIALLY HERE ALONG HIGHWAY FOUR. WE'RE ABOUT TWO MILES EAST OF COPPEROPOLIS AND A TARGET FOR CREWS TODAY HAS BEEN THIS VALLEY BEHIND ME. IT IS A MASSIVE IMPROVEMENT. TODAY AT NOON THIS WAS FILLED WITH SMOKE. NOW THERE'S NOT AS MUCH SMOKE. A LOT OF THAT IS BECAUSE OF WATER DROPS THAT WE'VE BEEN SEEING. CREWS ALL DAY LONG IN A CHINOOK AND IN A HELICOPTER HAVE BEEN DROPPING WATER OVER THIS AREA, WHICH HAS BEEN MASSIVELY HELPFUL. NOW TWO MILES AWAY AND COPPEROPOLIS OVERNIGHT, THE FLAMES GOT WITHIN FEET OF HOMES. WE DID MEET ONE MAN WHO SAYS FIREFIGHTERS LITERALLY SAVED HIS HOUSE AND HIS LIFE. A TERRIFYING WAKE UP CALL. I LOOKED ON MY BEDROOM. I SAW FOUR TRUCKS, FIRE DEPARTMENT AND I SAW GUYS RUNNING TO THIS DIRECTION. THAT'S WHEN I CAME OUTSIDE AND WENT, OH MY GOD, IT WAS. IT WAS RAGING. HE BURNED ALL THE TREES. UM, AND YEAH, IT WAS IT WAS A SAD SIGHT TO SEE SEEING THIS. WELL, WHAT'S GOING THROUGH YOUR HEAD? FEAR, ANXIETY. UH, IT'S A SENSE OF HELPLESSNESS. OF A SENSE OF OF A POWER THAT CAN OVERWHELM YOU SO FAST. THE ARROW FIRE CAME WITHIN FEET OF RUSSELL'S HOME TUESDAY MORNING. REALLY THANKFUL THAT IT'S KIND OF CREEPY TO ME, BECAUSE THE FIRE BURNED ALL THE WAY AROUND THE PERIMETER. EXCEPT FOR RIGHT HERE. IT, LIKE, STAYED, YOU KNOW, IN A LITTLE BIT HERE. HE DID LOSE A DOG HOUSE A FEW COOPS AND SOME CHICKENS. I THINK WE LOST MAYBE 1 OR 2 BIRDS. IT LITERALLY GOT ROASTED IN THE CAGES. FIRE CREWS FROM NORTH SAN JUAN NEAR GRASS VALLEY SHOWED UP WHILE WE WERE ON THE PROPERTY TO TAKE CARE OF SOME HOTSPOTS. STILL PUTTING OUT SMOKE. MESSAGE FOR THE FIREFIGHTERS. YOU GUYS ARE AWESOME, MAN. THANK YOU AND I APPRECIATE EVERYTHING YOU DO. YOUR SACRIFICE, YOUR HARD WORK AND YOUR DEDICATION TO THE WELL-BEING, THE CARE OF OTHERS. IT'S A RARE BREED. Y'ALL ARE VERY, VERY WONDERFUL PEOPLE. AND WHILE RUSSELL'S STORY WAS RUNNING, WE DID JUST HAVE ANOTHER CHINOOK COME ABOVE US HERE AND DO A WATER DROP ON THIS VALLEY. SO WE KNOW THAT THIS IS STILL A CRITICAL PART OF THE FIREFIGHT. CAL FIRE SAYS THREE STRUCTURES WERE DESTROYED. ONE WAS DAMAGED. WE'RE STILL NOT SURE WHAT EXACTLY THOSE STRUCTURES ARE. IF THEY'RE HOMES OR BUSINESSES. CAL FIRE SAYS THEY'RE STILL TRYING TO FIGURE THAT OUT, TOO. WE WILL BE GETTING AN UPDATE FROM CAL FIRE COMING UP AT 7:00 WITH THE VERY LATEST ON ACREAGE AND CONTAINMENT. WE'RE LIV
