This Summer On Track To Be One Of The Worst Fire Seasons Ever
NBC ID: AR646I2HMS | Production Unit: Nightly News | Media Type: Aired Show | Air Date(s): 07/25/2015 | Event Date(s): 07/25/2015Transcript
Event Date(s): 07/25/2015 | Event Location(s): Montana, California, Washington | Description: EXT DAY GLACIER NATIONAL PARK, MONTANA Insert rolling home video of fire in treetops as in vo man says “Oh, my gosh. Go, go now. Go”; woman says “Okay, we need to go. Go, go, go” and man says “Now you, fast. Dad, go.” Another insert rolling home video of fire. EXT DAY CALIFORNIA Aerial: Fire racing up slope emits clouds of dense black smoke. Two more aerials of fire in mountains. GFX Indicating so far in 2015 more than 34,000 wildfires have burned 5.6 million acres; 124 new fires started yesterday. EXT DAY SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY, CALIFORNIA MS: Chainsaw cuts through underbrush. MS: Two workers (faces unseen) use machines to cut through underbrush. MS: In interview San Bernardino County Fire Department Captain Sam Thomas says “I expect a lot of tired firemen, a lot of sleepless nights for us.” MS: Worker (faces unseen) pulls loose three limb out toward dirt road. MS: Another worker (faces unseen) chainsaws tree branch. MS: Worker (faces unseen) puts branch in wood chipper as in vo man says “We’re out here fighting the battle before it even starts.” Wide OHS: Fire burning on slope. Aerial: Fire burning side of mountain. EXT DAY WASHINGTON STATE MS: In interview Washington Interagency Incident Management’s Mike Ciraulo says (part vo) “That's not the case here. The fire is following the fuels no matter what the weather does.” Aerial: Helicopter files over fire on mountain. EXT DAY CALIFORNIA Aerial: Fire burning on dry-grass-covered slope. WS: Fire explodes in stand of trees. EXT NIGHT CALIFORNIA MS: Firefighter trains hose on fire. MS: Emergency vehicles on road at night. MS: Fire burns on slope. EXT DAY CALIFORNIA MS: In interview woman in prow of boat says “We could see huge flames coming off of the hill right behind us.” EXT DAY WASHINGTON STATE Aerial: Fire burns in trees. MS: Helicopter in flight over smoky fire. STILL Three stills of thick smoke rising from Alaska wildfire. EXT DAY MONTANA MS: Road sign for Glacier National Park and Going To The Sun Road with electronic sign saying the Going To The Sun Road is closed. EXT DAY GLACIER NATIONAL PARK MS: Ranger leans out of her booth to tell (unseen) driver in car “So, you know, about the fire? Okay. All right. You be safe. Have a good time.” MS: Car drives past sign “Road Closed” EXT DAY Two aerials of fire burning on slope. EXT DAY MS: Two horses and a man silhouetted by the fire behind them. NBC’s Gadi Schwartz signs off in vo from Los Angeles.