some, like josh owens and reagan irwin, who live in the community of wrightwood defied evacuation order. >> everything we own is in this place. >> reporter: fire crews are attacking the fire from the ground and heavily from the air, but have struggled to keep it from growing. on wednesday, flames ripped through neighborhoods in the number of homes. >> this fire ran the option direction and ran up and into canyons and carried this fire into a bunch of different directs. >> reporter: more than 1,500 firefighters are battling this fire that is burning in an area larger than san francisco. many residents are uncertain what they will find when they return home. >> i don't want to have to start over again with nothing. nothing. >> reporter: california's governor has declared a state of continue to stretch across southern louisiana. omar villafranca reports. >> what can you do? you just have to keep going. >> reporter: the emotions came flooding back when janss harold saw the damage that two and a half feet of water did to her home. before. >> reporter: so you thought you were okay? >> i thoug

some, like josh owens and reagan irwin, who live in the community of wrightwood defied evacuation order. >> everything we own is in this place. >> reporter: fire crews are attacking the fire from the ground and heavily from the air, but have struggled to keep it from growing. on wednesday, flames ripped through neighborhoods in the town of phelan destroying a number of homes. >> this fire ran the option canyons and carried this fire into a bunch of different directs. >> reporter: more than 1,500 firefighters are battling this fire that is burning in an area larger than san francisco. many residents are uncertain what they will find when they return home. >> i don't want to have to start over again with nothing. nothing. >> reporter: california's governor has declared a state of emergency. chris martinez, cbs news, wrightwood, california. >>> today, donald trump is in louisiana to tour the destruction from historic flooding in the state. at least 13 people have died in the flooding that has damaged some 40,000 homes. there is more rain on the way today and flood alerts continue to stretc

but some like josh owens and reagan irwin have for now stayed behind. >> we're packed up and ready to go. >> our whole life is here. like everything that we own is in this place. >> reporter: fire crews are attack the fire from the ground and heavily from the air. but they have struggled to keep it from growing. on tuesday, flames ripped through neighborhoods in the town of phelan destroying homes. strong winds spread the flames making it tough for fire crews to keep up. >> this fire ran the opposite direction up canyon established itself in all these canyons which carried this fire into different directions. >> reporter: more than 1500 firefighters are battling this fire that's burning in an area larger than the city of san francisco. >> i don't want to have to start over again with nothing. >> reporter: the "bluecut fire" is one of nine major fires burning in california. the governor has declared a state of emergency. those evacuations that have been lifted that area is a big part of the evacuations but there are many, many more, many thousands of people who are still out of their h

some, like josh owens and reagan irwin, who live in the community of wrightwood defied evacuation orders. >> we are packed up and ready to go. >> our whole life is here. like, everything we own is in this place. >> reporter: fire crews are attacking the fire from the ground and heavily from the air, but have struggled to keep it from growing. on wednesday, flames ripped through neighborhoods in the town of phelan, destroying a number of homes. strong winds have helped spread it ran up canyon and established itself into all of these canyons and carried this fire into a bunch of different >> reporter: more than 1,500 firefighters are battling this fire that is burning in an area larger than san francisco. many residents are uncertain what they will find when they return home. >> i don't want to have to start over again with nothing. nothing. >> reporter: california's governor has declared a state of emergency. chris martinez, cbs news, wrightwood, california. >>> today, donald trump is in louisiana to tour the destruction from histoc flooding in that state. at least 13 people have died in

has forced evacuation of thousands, since it flared up tuesday morning but some, like john, and reagan irwine for now stayed behind. >> we're pack up, ready to go. >> our whole life is here. everything we own is in this place. >> reporter: fire crews are attacking the fire from the ground and heavily from the air but have struggled to keep it from growing. on tuesday, flames ripped through neighborhood in the town of ph elan destroying homes, strong wind have helped spread flames making it tough for fire crew toss keep up this fire ran the opposite direction and up canyon established itself in all these canyons which car think fire in the bunch of different directions. >> reporter: more than 1500 fire fighters are now bat telling fire that is burning in an area larger then the city of san francisco. >> i don't want to have to start over again with nothing. >> reporter: blue cut fire is one of the nine major fires burning in california, and the governor has declared a state of emergency. in wright wood, california, chris martinez for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". >>> days of catastrophic flooding