a werrun by and 1year-oldevacuee taylor salamon. her family was among th 32,000 people ordered to leave. firefighters are dropping to the ground wherever they can to grab a moment after endless battling in record heat. from colorado springs now, here's barry petersen. >> reporter: one fire official called it a monster event. there are more than 900 firefighters doing everything they could to protect this neighborhood near an area called gaen of the gods that 30 miles an hour winds turned inton inferno. in mines, homes exploded into towers of flames it's unclear how manyhomes have been lost because it's t dangerous for firefighte to get in but from the air it was clear many burned to the ground. >> here's your stuff. >> reporter: mary smith and her family had just 15 minutes to grab what they could. photo albums and a family bible. these pictures were taken by her son james off their back deck as the fire came straight at them. >> i bet it moved a mile in three to four minutes. three to five minutes at the we s flames at least 100 fe

. >> with all the companies you bought, maybe the one that brought you the most trouble was salamon. when you bought it, at one point in bankruptcy and you had to go run the company. was that the most difficult experience in berkshire hathaway? >> i would say it was. there ceo five months, four days. it was 20 years ago and i think i remember every day of it. >> today when you have all these managers running 75 different companies, do they call you every day say i got this problem or that problem? how often do you talk to them? >> if they need to call me, they're in trouble. we buy businesses where the managers come with them, and there are some managers that i don't talk to want year and there's one i talk to almost every day, but -- after the one that i talk to almost every day, the next most, highest frequency, maybe once a week. they always call me. i don't call them. >> now, when want to make an investment, you have a board of directors. do you ever ask them, i've heard that you will buy a railroad for 30-some billion and not tell your board of directors? >> i told a few of them