Meanwhile, fire and flood are causing more death and destruction
across the nation. Record Flooding in Kentucky has now claimed 37
lives and a fierce new fire in northern California has killed at
least two people. William Branham begins our coverage.
In the Klamath National Forest and apocalyptic scene.
Smoke and flames engulf roads and cloud the skies.
McKinney Fire is the largest California has seen this year. It's
clearly visible from space.
So far, it's burned more than 85 Square miles with 0% contained
Thousands have had to flee their homes. Artist Harley and should
wander is one of them, she says. She's lost almost everything. I'm
very sad. My house has gone all my furniture, all my clothes, shoes,
coats, boots.
Everything's gone. The fire started on Friday. God look at that Burn
moved across thousands of acres over the weekend. It's spreading
in the largely unpopulated Siskiyou County near Northern California's
border with Oregon.
Officials warn that so called dry thunderstorms seen here at night,
produce lightning without rain and could ignite new blazes. Lightning
isn't unusual on the climate. Um what is something to consider is
that every strike has a greater potential right now to start a fire.
The fire claimed its first lives.
Two bodies were found inside a burnt out car in a residential driveway.
But as flames rage in the West
It's the opposite. In Kentucky, where flooding has killed dozens,
including at least four Children. Search teams scoured the hills
from above, while on the ground. Sniffer dogs joined in to try and
find the many who are still missing. There's human scent in the water
because others have drowned and then pushed through the water. The
torrential rains began last week.
And today, even more downpours slowed that rescue effort. Officials
say they've restored cell service in the area, which could make it
easier for people stranded to call for help. After the water receded.
The first thing I saw
I was just roofs of houses that that's the only thing you could see
while the water was was flowing through. We spoke earlier today with
Tiffany Craft mayor of Whitesburg, Kentucky on the eastern edge of
the state. She believes at least 80% of the homes in her town were
destroyed. I have seen things that I
As a human being never dreamed that I would see before I have seen
bodies pulled
From the river. Deceased bodies. I have seen people rescued by boat.
In two story homes that are just and things like that.
I I still I really fully can't describe it.
For what it's like. Right now. It's just total devastation. People
taking out everything that they own and piling it on their front
lawns.
Shoveling out mud in their living rooms where they were just sitting
less than
Hours before it is just it's catastrophic here right now. How do
you bounce back from something like that? I don't know.
I've wondered that, too. I lay awake at night, and there's been many
sleepless nights.
I can't. I just sit and look on Main Street.
Of of the vibrant community that we had.
How are we going to
Rebuild and come back anytime soon and be what we used to be. We
will. I know we will. But I just I don't have an answer for that.
Residents here will likely endure at least another day or so of rain
before these historic floods start to recede.