mike du wald mike fire wildfires they're not uncommon in california but they're rarely this deadly why have so many people lost their lives in the pyres this year. obviously we've seen so many wet massive wildfires here in california for the past number of years obviously last year's tubbs fire was the most most deadly fire this year surpassed by the campfire in paradise there's a lot of things at play in that situation paradise very secluded area up north it's very much a retirement community twenty five percent of the population is seniors this is the most at risk population when you have an emergency like this and people need to get out quickly so a lot of these deaths that you're going to see announced over the next coming days are going to be the older population that just isn't as mobile and can't get out also some of the access routes it's there are a few ways in and out of the city but if a large number of people need to get moving in a short time there's only so many ways out and those are the people you're seeing trapped in some cars what are authorities doing to bring these fires under control how are fire fire fire fighters coping. but there's been a lot of fire fatigue among firefighters with this constant fire season really they're just throwing anything they can at it and you set up the fire lines old those are winds and the air attack and really the combination of as much as you can one thing that we're seeing this year that. that is helping out there actually you can using california inmates two thousand of them are helping out firefighters in clearing brush and just getting rid of things they can burn in the path of the fire and they're doing all that for less than two dollars two dollars an hour for their work so one of the stories that's come from that's the work fighting the fires so when you say inmates of course you're referring to prisoners that's quite a harder measure that the forty's have resorted to there in california is there any relief in sight mike in terms of whether perhaps in the rain on the horizon. everyone is looking to the weather at this point find any ray of hope on the horizon and i can tell you these next couple days you can be very important we see . red flag conditions across the state lots of high winds temperatures going up a little bit. the first sign of a possible moisture in on until next weekend so it's going to a very important week for crews to really continue fighting this fire and hoping they can get a handle on it until they can get some relief from the weather mike thank you very much for talking with us that was journalist mike the wall there talking to us from santa rosa in northern california flagler seven palestinians and an israeli soldier are reported dead after an israeli special forces operation in the southern gaza strip the dead include a commander of the military wing of hamas the islamic movement which runs gaza israel says a second soldier was wounded in the fighting the incident casts renew