with wind's up to 100mph cali is hopeless the stuff they drop to fight fires from planes does nothing but turn into mist. BUT they say the winds are slowing down so that will help them get the fires out real soon and they are still getting more help fighting the fires.
$1 billion cost and rising in California fires
Officials see hope in changing weather; Bush signs order helping uninsured
Some 68,000 homes, from cabins to luxury villas, are still threatened across the region as 10,000 men and women work fire lines against flames shooting as high as 100 feet.