let's bring in kenichi haskett, a section chief with the l.a. county fire department assigned to the palisades fire. thank you so much for being with us, chief. i do want to get an update from you about the palisades fire. we know it's 8% contained. how much longer do you think before it can be fully contained? >> we want to fully contain this as soon as possible. not only. firefighters and our first responders. law enforcement and to return normalcy, but we want to get people back home. so infrastructure is devastated. so the power, the water, the sewer, everything is it's a unfortunately almost looks like what a war zone might look like. so we want to get people back as soon as possible. but it could be weeks. it could be months i don't know. i can't forecast that future you guys mentioned. i want to hit on it real quick. it's sunny, it's dry. but the weather, those are good recipes for continuing wildland fires. we don't have the winds that he mentioned, which is great. so we can get that aircraft in the air. but it's sunny when it's sunny an

with us now is kenichi haskett, los angeles county fire department section chief, who is assigned to the palisades fire. can you talk to us a little bit about it? you just heard from a palisades resident who's saying they need fire drops. can you give us sort of a real time idea of what's happening up there? kind of speak to that concern. we're not there. you are there. he's there. >> chris, i'm glad he got out safely. that was our first and foremost task to make sure everyone got out safely and alive and unharmed. unfortunately, we did have several injuries to both firefighters and personnel to directly address chris's question and your question, we have both fixed wing and rotary wing flying. we had them flying in until the winds were reaching in excess of 100 miles an hour on those ridge tops. so at this time we have over 2300 firefighters here. we're getting more, not only throughout the state of california, but throughout our bordering states. so we have firefighters coming in from out of state. so we're getting there as fast as we can. we urge your people to please stay out. >>