 Good afternoon, I'm Brian May in the State Operations Center at Cal OES headquarters just outside Sacramento And we just wanted to give you an update on the Thomas fire the Anticipated red flag warning conditions all across the state of California once again causing very dangerous Firefighting conditions today the Thomas fire now the third largest fire in California history and size wise I just want to give you a perspective if you talk west to east it is 40 miles across 20 miles north to south again third largest fire now in California history some 260,000 acres I'm going to break down the numbers for you and let you know just what's happening with this fire as of Saturday afternoon 8,400 firefighters working on this fire 260,000 acres roughly that's the area of 400 square miles if this fire were a city in California it'd be the second largest city in the state second only behind Los Angeles and Destructive wise it is now the seventh most destructive fire in California history already We've seen 1,000 structures destroyed But if you look at the red flag conditions the winds and the very low humidity 18,000 structures threatened on this Saturday, which is leading to thousands of Evacuations happening in and around Santa Barbara in and around the Montecito area as well We've got almost a thousand fire engines working this fire and sadly as you see this fire has been deadly one Cal fire Firefighter losing his life fighting the Thomas fire earlier this week Evacuation orders as we mentioned are happening on this Saturday Please monitor your local emergency officials keep your cell phones charged on and have those alerts ready to go So if the signal comes in you and your family can leave have that go to go kit ready to go as well We've got all the information on all the wildfires in California on our website wildfire recovery.org