Transcript for 38,000 evacuated as Carr wildfire continues to burn

We'll begin with the breaking news,se wildfire ragithe American west. There are Nore than 60f them acrs 13 states. The worst, so-calledar fire. You'reg it rightere Aring through ING, California, demolishing homes and creating a dangerond deadlyuation for firefighters. One battalion chi unprecedented how it rolled through the city, WEATH condition are creatg worst case scenario. Officials are urging people in treated evacuate and not wait until the last te.we haveeam coverage Redding. Let's start wiob marcian and E dangerous conditions. Rob, good morning. Goomorning,t. Boy, it sejust like St year we ped up their N fornia whi was noort of disastrous and these scenes are eerily simithjust as startling. Cote neighbooods and subdivisions here wiped out. Homes bu to the grand and when close to cars like this and you see how E metal watorched. The aluminum the windows blown out, you get a forth the heathat these fires bring and you can only imagine what a scene it wa frighteni SNE it was the night that these folks had toe their hos.e car fire taking ov reddg,ifornia. A wall of flames causing emergency a-foot wall of flame cong on to T south ef snaneporter: The blaze taking a deadly, killingwo fireters. The struggle now is we're mourning as we battle. Repor three more firs and seval civilians suffering serious burns. That fire exploding, doubling in size i24w over 48,000 acres burned and only 5% ntained. We're going to need more hos. Reporter: At least 500 homes and businesses destroyed. Other 5,00structures remain treated emergency crews aggressively woo contain E violent winds, dry brush and triple-digit heat add to the already difficscene. Those erc hot winds N weather like this fire whir the ze and strength of a tornado the sky filling withe sacramer. Please when you're asked to leave, leave. Leave before you're asked to leave Reporter: Aospital hang neonatal UT as we as this slter afterhe fl got too cse all er to get T and they were yelling to get out. , Evacuate, evacuate, te. Ter: Fires sparking in southern California too. The Cranston fmore 000 acththan 0 firefighrsg that , officialsaying it was deliberately set. A S front cong through with rain T that's no ks here in calif not in the middle of summer. The heat still havexcessivat watcs and warnings up and new ones being poste the heat will rebuild across northwest as we go through the ginning of this we so, there you go dfiltthere you , difficult fire cdition, you can bet. The heat, the dry low ls of humidity Bel% in some se and today's high temperae tple digit again. Fresno, 22 days in a row of it heat. That is arecord,nd it isnot going cool off Y time soon. Look at we're in similar itions.r these firefighters is going N issue Ana lot these firefhters that E fightinghis blaze ve lost their own homes. Kayna Whitworth now with more on the heartbrehat this community is having tol with. Heo, kayna.eporter: Hey, roo I oke with Cal fire firefighter yester this is his th is all that's left. He wasut fighting the feon fire when hot the call, he raced through the nit to come home and F and when -to give yoan of how T fire is and howot it wa this is a bed. Can you sendow that Ster the top of it and this firefighter, it was his first home.emodelingt all himself, and you caneell of this construction and landing equipmt utterly destrores are burnt off that and ke with lol orities th said becaus many firefighterkely to he a lot more stories like this. Night, the raging Carr fire in northcalifornian a relentless path of destruction. The decimating homnddehting fami. Hiis my father-in-law's hothis is the second time it down. Reporter: The wildfire nearly doling in si in just 12 hours forcing thousands to abandon R I just evacuated. I have litly everythg that I can think of that's valuable and as fast as posble. The red CSS kireds of displaced redents overght bringing evacuees C to 38,00 we're walking in front of a neighborhood rig nows ts new fire just sparked up. Nervous about losing everything. Their homes.e men using garden hoses to tackle hot spots popping up near the edgef their nehborhood. We net was onire a got that out a Rter: Kimbey Len and her fami just bought a home in this neighborhood ravaged by flam tornado-liks. The house that you jus bough yesterda smiles after ending their standing. Others not so luck Drove up before and dad and ths what I saw. Their house flat. Reporter: People ING ABC they've lt Ack of family members amid the confusion of evacuating. Is woman's husnd leave the red cross center in search of om. His cell E is dead. I've contacted everybody he nobody has heard from him. I don't even care about my house now. I want to kw E my husbanis. Reportehe did eventually find her husband. He had to drive an hour and a half away to find a hotel for the family to stay in and more and D be acuated because ofse erratic D extreme nds and weather conditions. And this has been an extremely scary situation. Firefighters I have been ons job for re than 30 years say they have never seenbehavior L this, Dan, Dia hit, when you walk through these neighbho it is just so clear that it's going to take a long time for the people of Redding R And to think that was a firer's home behyou, well.a, thank Y so much.

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