00:00Three firefighters are dead and two others are fighting for their lives
00:03after a fast-moving wildfire overran their position on the Colorado-Utah border.
00:09The National Fire Information Center described conditions Saturday as extremely critical fire weather.
00:15A rare designation even for the July fire season,
00:19high winds, single-digit humidity, and triple-digit temperatures
00:23created what officials call a perfect firestorm.
00:26The Four Corners region, encompassing Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona,
00:32is now at the highest wildfire danger level this decade.
00:35At least a dozen major fires are burning simultaneously across the region.
00:40Firefighting air assets have been redirected from other states.
00:44As Noe warns, conditions will not improve until a weather pattern shift later in the week.
00:49For the U.S. West, this is now a multi-state wildfire emergency.
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