More Firefighters and Equipment Are Headed to Ft. McMurray, Albert
WHITFIELD: More firefighters and equipment are headed to Ft. McMurray, Alberta, as the devastating wildfire there threatens to double the size today, and force thousands of more people to flee for their lives. The fire is already as big as Hong Kong and smoke from it has drifted all the way to the southern United States. CNN's Dan Simon has more details.</s>DAN SIMON, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Flames and smoke filling the sky as the convoy of desperate residents flee the - danger zone. What have these last few days been like?</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Hell on earth. Just like hell.</s>SIMON: And the scenes are hellish. The fire that started five days ago is still out of control. And for the displaced, it's gone from bad to worse. Because food and water is running low, Canadian authorities moving some 25,000 people from camps, a double evacuation. What was it like being in the camp?</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Hard. They rationed food. Low water. People were upset because they don't know what's going on.</s>SIMON: The fire has burned nearly 250,000 acres, more than ten times the size of Manhattan. In one of the more remarkable surveillance videos ever captured, a homeowner could watching his own house go down in flames only 20 minutes after evacuating. Sixteen hundred structures, including homes and businesses destroyed. The heaviest damage in Ft. McMurray. A resident films his burned out neighborhood after seeing it for the first time.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This is my house. It was my house. Ashes are cool now. Nothing left. It's gone.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Oh, my God! Our house is going to burn down.</s>SIMON: In another video, we hear a woman's desperation as she drives by the flames destroying her community. As weary residents clear the area, they are greeted by fuel trucks with gas stations either destroyed or down due to power outages. Fuel is a precious commodity.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Makes a guy feel good to help these people because they've been through so much loss and devastation lately.</s>SIMON: And you can see another one of these convoys fleeing the danger zone as more smoke comes behind us. We've seen a number of flare-ups all day long. This fire continues to grow. As a matter of fact, it may double in size by the end of the day, Fredricka. This remains a very fragile situation. We are told, though, that tomorrow, the temperatures may drop and there is a chance of rain, which would definitely help things. But even so, this fire is going to rage for some time, Fred.</s>WHITFIELD: It's extraordinary. All right, thank you so much. Dan Simon, appreciate that. All right, still ahead, some Republican Party leaders are now actively looking for a conservative to mount a third party run to stop Trump. One of the leading -- one of those leading the search is a former GOP nominee. Details when we come right back.