CAMEROTA: We are following some breaking news now from Northern California where crews continue to battle that Mendocino Complex Fire which is now the largest in California's history. The blaze has grown to the size of Los Angeles. But there is good news. This morning firefighters are beginning to gain some ground. That's where we find CNN's Dan Simon he's live in Lake Port, California with the latest. What's the status, Dan?</s>DAN SIMON, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Oh, hi Alisyn. This fire has slowed down considerably. But the numbers are staggering, 450 square miles. It continues to be fueled by drive vegetation and high temperatures. In the meantime, this is one of 75 homes that has been destroyed. The home owners tell me, they did everything they could to mitigate a fire disaster. They constantly cleared the area from brush. They had a wide defensible space with gravel and rocks. Everything they you to do but there was, this fire had another agenda, take a look.</s>SIMON: I can't imagine what is like to go through this. What's the hardest thing?</s>EMILY SCHEIDEMANN, LOST HOME IN MENDOCINO COMPLEX FIRE: I just want to go home. Yesterday when I arrive although the stockout was just standing, everything else had burned with it. It was the stockout at. And it was real unstable. And that was really hard to see because you could tell where like the staircase and where everything was. And I'm, you know, miss -- like trying to picture what our home was like.
Firefighters Continue To Battle Mendocino Complex Fire.