allison woods is a news anchor for krcr television in redding city, and joins me live from there. nk you forjoining us, it looks very peaceful where you are but what is it like in the rest of the city? well, it's pretty smoky where i'm at right now. i'm just about a0 minutes outside of town. conditions in redding, you can barely see where you're going. it's a very eerie kind of feeling right now with all the smoke in the area. it's still a very dangerous situation for people to be in in redding. i'm sure areas where you work and areas where you cover i'm sure areas where you work and areas where you cover are i'm sure areas where you work and areas where you cover are not strangers to wildfires, what is different about this time around? so this wildfire is very different. you know, like you said, we're not strangers to them at all but this wildfire is extremely erratic, has very dangerous behaviour and has moved very fast, has been very unpredictable. you know, this fire started earlier on in the week, 3000 acres, which is really not that much here in northern california. you know,

glowing from all directionsone local television station was forced off the air in mid broadcast <allison woods/ krcr anchor> "right now we are being evacuated, that's why we are kind of closing out right now. we are going to leave the station because is now unsafe to be here."viewers were given one last image of the advancing flames.once again, please evacuate and stay safe. have a good nightthe carr fire doubled in size overnight ... sweeping into the city after an unexpected surge to the east."this is that new normal. the unpredictability. the large explosive growth fires." natfirefighters posted images of a fire tornado ... two firefighters have died, one of them a private contract bulldozer operator caught by the flamesets gouvea/ cal fire incident commander> "as we mourn the loss we also battle the fire that is moving extremely quickly."more than 60 homes destroyed many more damaged.it's definitely devastating - have never seen anything like it. i mean, why did my house survive and most of them on this street didn't. :lot of hardworking firefighters, it was a tough blaze last night, it wa

glowing from all directionsone local television station was forced off the air in mid broadcast <allison woodscr anchor> "right now we are being evacuated, that's why we are kind of closing out right now. we are going to leave the station because is now unsafe to be here."viewers were given one last image of the advancing flames.once again, please evacuate and stay safe. have a good nightthe carr fire doubled in size overnight ... sweeping into the city after an unexpected surge to the east."this is that new normal. the unpredictability. the large explosive growth fires." natfirefighters posted images of a fire tornado ... two firefighters have died, one of them a private contract bulldozer operator caught by the flames as he tried to create a firebreak. "as we mourn the loss we also battle the fire that is moving extremely quickly."more than 60 homes destroyed many more damaged.it's definitely devastating - have never seen anything like it. i mean, why did my house survive and most of them on this street didn't. :lot of hardworking firefighters