the fire between chadron and rushville grew by saturday to more than 93 square miles.area bigger than the size of nebraska's state capital of lincoln. >> we might not clear the other end today but we'll still go as far as we can while there's still light. a lot of country to cover. that fire wasn't nice to anybody. >> see a couple of brown patches where it just kind of -- >> jumped. >> -- jumped. wow, that is scary. if you had a great rain in the spring, would anything grow here? >> here? >> yeah. >> no. that's scorched. that ground is sterilized down there. it's done. >> wow. look at this. you look like you're on another planet. looks like mars. >> when the fires hit, that instantly changed -- >> everything. >> -- everything. if you thought you had two months of grass left. you instantly have nothing. it's gone. >> how did the fire get started? >> a storm came through. obviously, we weren't getting any rain but we did get lightning. there was two lightning strikes that we know of that started fires. >> come on, guys. >> the electricity collected on that smoke. it came