Jeff Bliss is Pacific Watch.

The fires of Los Angeles.

Jeff, I'm looking immediately at the two big ones that we've talked about for days now.

The Palisades Fire and the Eaton Fire.

Let's start with Eden because that's good news.

Where is it?

The Eden Fire, which is out in the Pasadena area, east of L.A., basically, is about 65% contained, and that's

fantastic news. They've really turned a corner there, and they think that they can knock most of it

down, possibly get it all contained by the end of the weekend, which is great news because they're

expecting the high winds to pop up again maybe Tuesday or Wednesday.

And the Palisades fire, which is still very large, and the mandatory evacuation is still very large,

it touches on the 405 in the north, on the edge of Santa Monica in the south, extends through Malibu and touches the

Santa Monica National Forest. Is there a progress there? That's been the one that's been slow all

week. Progress is slower there. There's slower than Eaton fire, but we're up to about 31% contained right now, which

is good.

It's not great.

Unfortunately, one of the differences between the two fires is that Santa Monica Mountains

recreation area has just so much fuel, and the topography is just so tough.

You know, there are a lot of places you can't get people in there to fight a fire,

even if you were to airlift them.

So some of those places, you can only fight it from the air,

or you have to go around the back of it and try to build a fire break to stop it.

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