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cross point church. in redding tonight i'm dion lim, abc 7 news. >> dion, thank you. >>> give you a look at the devastation from the air. a crew member with an air tanker shared these pictures. look at this scene. you can see pockets of fire and smoke and just how difficult it can be to reach some of these areas. looks like armageddon. >> three local firefighters, ones from marin county, were injured responding to the fire. last night they were defending a building when the burning vegetation nearby hit them with a blast of heat. engineer scott peterson and firefighters tyra barnes and kyle kordovas suffered burns. >> three firefighters sustained minor to moderate burns. they're all in good spirits and doing well. >> five counties have sent firefighters to help with the carr fire. >>> now, experts say the carr fire is not being driven by strong winds, like last year's north bay wildfires. instead, san jose state meteorology professor greg clemt ents said the plume intensified and created its own weather. >> that can spread embers farther distances. so that's not uncommon, but to have something like that in a wildland urban interface near homes and hous

. >> large air tankers, cal fire and a number of helicopters that are assigned to the incident. like the fire broke out saturday afternoon in yolo county and crossed into napa county. it is burning to the east and in the north. it is also burning above the town of winters in the rugged areas. no structures have been destroyed. ralph says now that he's back home he is not leaving but he does have an exit plan if things get worse. >> the pickup is right there, i can throw the dogs in and i'm gone. >> personal is working on the ground and air, local crews and some coming as far away as san diego. >>> the pawnee fire is 75% contained. the fire did jump containment lines forcing new evacuations but officials say the worst appears to be over. the fire burned more than 14,000 acres they have been putting out a lot of smoke and ash. >>> many layers of the atmosphere, one of those is full of smoke over the entire bay area. not at the surface, the winds are south, southwest with an onshore breeze at 17 miles per hour. looking forward to tomorrow, the air quality will be good to moderate. we will talk about heat, coming up. >>> the two men charged in the dea

tanker. i like to ride around on tanks. this was my great great granddad. a tank is a pretty simple idea. mobile protected firepower. i'm going to take something that can cross through all of that shell torn ground. it is going to be able to crash that nasty german barbed wire. it's got armor protection so the shells can't get in. and it will have machine guns and cannons to destroy the german strong points and the german machine guns. here's the problem. you know how you get a tank in 1916? yeah. neither did they. but they look around the world and come up with some ideas. in the united states there is something called the hope agricultural tractor being used on farms around lawrence. pulling plows and other things. it's on a caterpillar tractor. there are things you need to go across nasty mud. the brits take this tractor and they bolt on hillbilly armor. now a hope agricultural tractor is designed to do a lot of things, pushing a machine gun is probably not one of them. the first day this tank is used in september of 1916, you start the attack with 49 tanks. and that is a most of the entire -- almost the entire number of tanks in the world at that time. a

tankers because of the progress that they are making. >>> and people live in the area and they have had to evacuate. more than a dozen people spent the night at the red crossere is one shelter at the clayton library. >> reporter: in the shelter, it is animal friendly. we have had eight people, one dog, two lizards that spent the night here. we are hearing reports that there are several people who are out of their homes. one woman had trouble finding a place to stay in any type of hotel room around the area. she said everything was booked up. the red cross is saying you're welcome to come here and they will stay open for as long as it takes, as long as people need it. i mom and her 4-year-old son -- a mom and her 4-year-old son are grateful to an officer who rescued her puppy, chewy, and two bearded dragons. chewy was locked in a crate when their home was on fire. the officers got the animals out unharmed but that their house was heavy in smoke. >> would try to find a hotel within 50 miles -- we tried to find a home within 50 miles and there was nothing. everything was full. nobody had vacancy for us. >> reporter: they spent the night at the red cross shelt

crossing. the sky is blocked by a shroud of smoke and when the sun peaks through it's a bright orange and in the air tankerst for openings in the smoke so they can act -- accurately drop their loads. others are helping with the rescue along with police officers and animals that are caught in the middle of all this because no one thought yesterday afternoon that the fire would come down to where it is right now. the firefight down here in the southern quadrant of reading is also becoming very active. that is the current situation but here is what the director of cal fire has to say about the issue for the entire state. >> what we are seeing not just here in chester county but state why, fires that are growing exponentially. right now we are averaging 45 to 50 fires a day throughout california. there are over 7000 firefighters on the fire lines right now. the number will grow in the coming days. >> if it continues to operate like it is right now the fire at 7000 will grow into something more than that is more vehicles had towards the fire zone. the situation is very tense and the situation is unknown to a lot