Let's turn now to Pasadena Fire Chief Chad Augustine. Thanks for being with us.

And we should say that you are primarily focused on fighting the Eaton fire. What's the situation on the ground?

Yeah, the last about 18 hours have been really dynamic. We're preparing for a widespread wind event, but the devastating wildfires that broke out last night were incredible.

And we had really a wind-driven fire with 70 to 80 mile an hour wind gusts, with spotting

embers two plus miles ahead of the fire. And we quickly were losing potentially hundreds of homes

and thousands of acres were burning.

So it was a really busy night for crews.

Is there enough water to fight these fires?

As I understand it, the water systems weren't designed to sustain the kind of usage that's

required at the moment.

Yeah, that's a great question.

And so a lot of our water systems are old after 100 years older or more, and a lot of them rely on gravity feed.

We did have a short period of time last night when we had a loss of power, which did impact our water supply.

But that was quickly resolved.

And really, we could have had almost unlimited water with 70-mile-an-hour

wind gusts and ember spotting, you know, ember cast two to three miles. We just, like,

you had fires on multiple blocks ahead of where there were, you know, dirt and buildings on fire.

So it was such a challenge for our firefighting crews.

And how are those wind gusts limiting the air resources available to fight those fires?

Thank goodness this morning, throughout the day, actually, they've been continually to settle down.

And so we've been able to put aircraft both helicopters and

airplanes in the air and doing water drops over the last two to three hours.

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