AT 5%. FIREFIGHTERS BATTLING THE AIRPORT FIRE SAY THE DROP IN THE TEMPERATURES IS HELPING, BUT THERE'S STILL A LONG WAY TO GO BEFORE THEY CAN CONTAIN THAT FIRE. >> EYEWITNESS NEWS REPORTER LETICIA JUAREZ ON THE FIGHT TO SAVE BOTH HOMES AND LIVESTOCK FROM THE FLAMES. >> GOOD NEWS FROM FIRE OFFICIALS WHO SAY TODAY'S COOLER TEMPERATURES ARE HELPING FIREFIGHTERS GAIN THE UPPER HAND ON THE AIRPORT FIRE. BUT THEY SAY THE WILDFIRE IS STILL FAR FROM OVER. MARC BROWN FIREFIGHTERS CONTINUE TO BATTLE FLARE UPS THROUGHOUT THE DAY, WHILE CREWS WORKED ON BUILDING CONTAINMENT LINES JUST BELOW THE ORTEGA HIGHWAY. THE AIRPORT FIRE HAS SLOWED DUE IN PART TO COOLER TEMPERATURES AND HIGHER HUMIDITY. IT'S GOING TO BE A PROCESS. >> THIS FIRE IS OVER TWO DIFFERENT COUNTIES AND IT'S IN STEEP, RUGGED TERRAIN IN SOME AREAS. >> THE WILDFIRE NOW IN ITS THIRD FULL DAY, HAS BURNED MORE THAN 23,000 ACRES. SO FAR, SIX HOMES HAVE BEEN DESTROYED IN THE EL CARISO VILLAGE COMMUNITY. ON TUESDAY, THIS DRAMATIC IMAGE OF A WOMAN WALKING ON THE ROAD NEAR THE NEIGHBORHOOD SHOWS HOW FIERCE THE FIRE WAS RAGING. >> I HAPPEN TO LOOK BACK DOWN THE ROAD, AND I SAW A WOMAN WALKING DOWN THE MIDDLE OF THE ROAD. >> CAL FIRE RIVERSIDE BATTALION CHIEF MIKE MARTINEZ RACED IN FOR THE RESCUE. >> I STARTED SCREAMING AT HER. YOU NEED TO GET IN. YOU NEED TO GET IN. NEED TO GET IN. OPEN MY DOOR. REACHED OUT, GRABBED HER AND PULLED HER INTO THE BACK SEAT. SHE WAS TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL FOR SEVERE BURNS. >> THAT WASN'T THE ONLY RESCUE. THIS AFTERNOON, FIREFIGHTERS SAVED A HORSE AFTER ITS CORRAL CAUGHT FIRE DURING A FLARE UP. AND THIS MORNING THEY CAME TO THE ASSISTANCE OF SEVERAL OTHER HORSES THAT NEEDED SOME WATER. >> AND OUR FIRE ENGINE PULLED UP. AND THESE HORSES LITERALLY WENT TOWARDS THE FIRE ENGINE. AND THESE FIREFIGHTERS PULLED PULLED A HOSE LINE OUT, FILLED IT UP, AND YOU SAW THE HORSES JUST MIGRATE RIGHT THERE AND START DRINKING THE WATER. >> THE INITIAL OUTBREAK OF THE WILDFIRE THREATENED MORE THAN 21,000 HOMES IN BOTH RIVERSIDE AND ORANGE COUNTIES, FORCING RESIDENTS TO EVACUATE. NOW THEY ARE EAGER TO RETURN HOME TO THE ANIMALS THEY WERE UNABLE TO TAKE WITH THEM. >> YOU KNOW IT'S DANGEROUS, BUT WE WOULD LIKE TO JUST GO BACK AND FEED OUR ANIMALS AND COME BACK DOWN. BUT THERE ARE STILL SOME DANGERS, FROM FLARE-UPS TO HOTSPOTS AND EVEN SOME DOWNED POWER LINES THAT WILL HAVE EVACUATION ORDERS IN PLACE FOR SOME TIME. >> BUT THERE IS GOOD NEWS. SOME MANDATORY EVACUATION ORDERS HAVE BEEN DOWNGRADED TO