That chopper hit the backside of that house perfectly. The pilot has some mad skills!

Cant imagine being at work and knowing your house might be burned down when you go home. Heart goes out for those effected.

That Erickson bird is amazing and the precision the three pilots and the on ground firefighters have is excellent.

Noone gonna talk about the firetruck blocking those people in their driveway? Lmao

It is amazing watching some of the finest, most brave Americans do their work. God bless them all.

Extremely impressive job by firefighters! Way to go!!

I HOPE EVERYONE KNOWS THIS FIRE TOOK PLACE OCTOBER 2019, NOT SEPTEMBER 2020. Okay good.

I use to run up and down on those hills along the beach..Please be SAFE out there, Firefighter Heroes..Thank you for all you do:) (from Lauren)

The chopper pilots are the best at dropping the water ...great fly boys

Thankyou to the incredibly skilled helicopter operators and firefighters.

Firemen are so brave , their training is amazing.

It's funny how people that have never been in this situation have all the answers.

I'm curious why, as a home and pool owner, these people don't invest in a high output waterpump and firehose for situations like this. A garden hose is useless but with 10,000 gallons sat in the yard.........

sad to see this and to see the desperate home owners trying to fight with garden hoses. Like bringing a knife to a gun fight. And to see the people trying to get out of their driveway with a fire engine blocking it.. WTF...I pray that this is resolved as safely and quickly as possible.

great helicopter PILOT! awesome job Sir.

That skycrane pilot is baller. Nice shot boss.

Absolutely phenomenal coverage! Thanks from Ohio

Amazing, Amazing footage from ABC 7, Chicago here watching this phenomenal fire-fighting effort that was Oct 21st in California. Meanwhile, it is snowing. It was snowing here in Chicago at 1:30 pm when this fire was trying to do it's worse at 11:30am, Just a FANTASTIC EFFORT by the Fire crews and by The Helicopter Pilots. The drops that the pilots made were just Incredible. God bless you all.

this is such a terrible situation. so dangerous and everyone involved hera are so brave.. I hope they all get out safely. Love you all

Pray for firefighters and people who have lost everything. Protection & Restoration. Angels watch over the cities, thank you Yahshua

WOW....hats off to the firefighter & helicopter crews....amazing responses 🤩

Build a home in an area that has all to common mud slides and fires and wonder why there is always destruction!!!

I've said this on other videos and I'll say it here. THIS IS WHY YOU DO YOUR BRUSH CLEARING!!!!!

Praying for every one this is so sad

Great coverage, great work by the FF.

Im feel bad for animals stay safe any one

Maybe the homeowner had to squeeze around the fire truck but their house was saved from burning- minor inconvenience. These fire fighters know their priorities, and do it hauling heavy hoses, wearing heavy protective gear and risking their lives. U need to grow up!

Praying for safety of people & animals....❤❤❤

If you are considering leaving your pets... just stay, it will be fine.

Sure!...... Do all they can, move heaven and earth, bring in equipment from Canada even! But allow the irreplaceable rain forest to burn until its completely gone. You can really tell just how important money is and just how loud it talks in this world with this one. Makes me sick to my stomach

You have to love the fire truck that parked right in front of a driveway where two cars are attempting to flee. Now they're blocked. Good thinking guys.

Prayers for families and friends I hope they're ok so sorry for the loss of thire home my heart Gose out to them 🙏😥❤️

looks like the firefighters are doing an amazing job.

Why doesn't that fire truck pull forward so that homeowner can get out of his driveway

I recommend every homeowner have a real fire hose, these fire departments can't do much, maybe save one home per block.

Both pilots and firemen better have million dollar gift cards from all those homeowners.

its wonderfull all the firemen, the strategy !! the coverage by the channel is perfect !

Really cute to see a fire truck block a driveway with 2 cars trying to get out.

EXHAUSTED from Praying, ALL BE SAFE, BLESS FIREFIGHTERS. I AM SO SORRY, NEWS REPORTERS BE SAFE. HEART ON SLEEVE.

if you look really close at 4:06 the Crossover hits its bumper on the firetruck.

Who in the hell even thinks they will be safe building a home in such areas? Especially when I've lived in Compton for decades and have watched this occur, year after year after year after year. And I'm not even kidding here. Makes no sense, and yes, I feel badly for those affected every year. Wealthy enough to build but nonsense when you watch this happen eventually? Fire department personnel from outside of the area being deployed and people waiting until the very last minute to evacuate. Dry brush from years of drought here have left many areas very susceptible to the slightest heat wave, spark, illegal fire or fireplaces without adequate grates to keep an ember from escaping, then the high winds that have been a part of the So Cal landscape ever since I was a kid, now in my mid 60's and have to watch this again....hard to feel a lot of compassion when they should know better...insurance companies cower as homes go up in flames. We recently had an unparalleled heat wave in the last week and it seems inevitable something was going to hit the extremely dry brush and the news points out the tragedy, but seriously...they didn't know it was a possibility in these risky areas in the first place? Did they not think it would occur or were they all so supposedly well off that they figured it would never happen to themselves? Insane...unwise to live there and not have the brush properly managed, then if the cut too much brush, if we have a major storm event, the mudslides beyond belief. Bible talks about building a good house on rock instead of on sand. I shake my head when I think of the losses they will experience. If they gave me a home up there, no way in Hades I would even think of living in these areas. When do we learn? When realtors develop any sort of conscience...don't hold your breath, folks. They'll rebuild and then sell other dumb youngish people on the idea of living in these same areas. Always happens decade after decade till Kingdom Come. They should not live here....and now, seems many will no longer. Very sad the backstory to news coverage. RPV seems much safer and they can have fires too, past tense, but nothing like what we're seeing currently. Even Bixby Knolls, if you have such means, makes far more sense. Torrance even and other cities, Manhattan Beach, Huntington and coastal communities. Dry brush burns, humans.

I feel so bad for these folks fighting for what they work so hard for

California my prayers & condolences are with you all I hope some of them home owners have home owners insurance I am praying for you California Matthew age 37 in Norfolk, Virginia The east coast of the United States of America !!!!

This is absolutely amazing. I live where it snows a lot. I thought plow truck drivers were crazy. These firefighters are next level.

Note to rookie firefighter: DO NOT park your fire engine blocking the homeowner's escape route.

So nice of the fire truck to park across the end of the driveway so people CANT evacuate. Great to know that the fire department cares.

Bring in the Supertanker! It is up in Sonoma County fighting the fires up there. We need more Supertankers built to cover muliple fires.

Nice work. The fire truck parks right in the driveway when people are trying to leave.

Firefighters did a great job on this video. True Heroes.

wow - at 21.30.. the helicoptor's amazing aim saved that house!

hi iam from the uk this is so awful to see and across the usa too. prayers go out to everyone to keep safe in some way I no its not much but god please help these pepole in every way and to help more after the fires too amen

Amazing how most of these fires are in areas that only have ONE WAY streets. Why is that?

I've seen these fires rip up the hillsides as a very young child in LA. We lived on top of a canyon/butte and every single summer, a fire would rip up the hillside! And those Santa Ana winds, oh my!

The home at 32:50 that was saved by the helicopter drop was recently sold..1099 Palisades Dr..nearly 4 million!! The one home that all you see is bare wood roof being built, was a 60's original classic that was almost a tear down..what a shame..

Praying for Northern California!

My god what beautiful homes !

Oh my god subxanalah I am somali girl alaah saves California inshaallah

God bless those firefighters they do an amazing job

Pray LA and all of Cali..Yah is listening so pray for one another in humility ❣❣

I worked a Reed Hycalog facility in Houston and in the Hazardous waste building had a deluge fire system. Not sure if they could be adapted for a house but they could take a look at a fire system for the surrounding areas of the homes that can utilize the time before fire personnel can get there. The deluge system appeared to have water in pipes in place to be used to extinguish the fire, Nupi America's makes a plastic pipe with fittings that can be joined with electricity , a network of pipe full of water may be part of a solution. One would think some kind of cactus type plant might grow where the dead grass can't.

It’s not just the fires, but the smoke and air quality. Makes one think, what do we pay rappers and professional sports and tv / talk show hosts? What do we pay our fire fighters? Something ain’t right!

This is the time when people should stop fighting, or thinking about thrills. Just get together with family, and, neighbors and pray like you never have before. May God bless the good people trying so hard to put that problem off.

très impressionnant! le travail des sapeurs pompiers et pilotes hélicoptère n'en est que plus valeureux! mille fois bravos messieurs mesdames

2 CHRONICLES 7:14 If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

I'm in a hurricane and I am really really praying for all of you God Bless You and The Firefighters! Please stay safe please! 2020 Please GO AWAY

Gah! Those overlays on the video are blocking too much of the image. Thanks Channel 7 for keeping the video as clear as possible! ;-(

Prayers for all the people in Cal!

Yes; so lucky it's not a windy day.

From Quebec, Canada. I pray for you in California.

Did that house around 11:20 have some kind of automated sprinkler system? I didn't see any firefighters at that spot, but it looked like multiple streams of water shooting out onto the flames/hillside.

California dreamin' ....as the song goes.....now California burnin' !

Matthew 6:19-21 King James Version (KJV) 19 Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: 20 But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: 21 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

at 4:15 you can see that a driver ripped their front bumper off trying to get around the fire truck that was trapping them in their drive way, as the fire was quickly approaching their home.

PEOPLE PLEASE, PLEASE LEAVE! THERE IS NOTHING YOU SHOULD HOLD MORE VALUABLE THAN YOUR LIFE! MATERIAL OBJECTS CAN BE REPLACED. I KNOW IT'S HARD.

It looked like the ones who were using those hoses on the edges of that cleared area were the construction crew working on that house. They had their equipment in there, including that drilling rig and probably had their own fire hoses being used for dust abatement that they were using on the hot spots. Pacific Palisades is a crazy place to put a home. Most of the south side of the peninsula is a prehistoric landslide that moves down toward the ocean every time they have a really wet winter and they built the place with a one way main road, so it is really hard to evacuate in a fire emergency. It is a repeat of Paradise, CA that is waiting to happen.

Anyone else see the car reversing out of their driveway ( 4:11 ) and ripping off the front of their bumper because it got caught on the fire truck?! I definitely understand protocol especially in an emergency situation but they could’ve let the people out they arrived just seconds before they got in their cars. Only love for the firefighters though they are heroes!

I love the trees growing against and even over the homes great defensible space, (OUT) !

Rats will be running scared, looking for a place to be safe. Many years ago, a fire in the San Fernando Valley, Porter Ranch, after the fire was contained, people had rats in their homes. The fight against these intruders lasted weeks. They never mention how the fire creates it own wind, and traveling fast. Low Santa Ann winds is a blessing for all.

So I guess the best course of action for brave homeowners would be to set up water sprinklers in the back yard and then leave them running, which I think I see in one case, and one might augment water sprinkler capacity in advance for the purpose, perhaps with heavy agricultural type sprinklers driven by a pump from the swimming pool, but in any case, set up to run without you there to hold it. Lacking sprinklers, one might just rig a way to prop the garden hose at a good angle and leave it spraying.

I can't believe people think their property is more important than their lives..GET OUT! The same thing happened in NYC during Sandy..the people who died, refused to leave!!

Imagens impressionantes! Como pode um fogo tão intenso nessa vegetação úmida e viçosa? ??

My Aunt used to live on Las Casas. The views are amazing. especially from the Tiki Bar. Hope they contain.

That chopper with the suction tube is doing work

You know, people laughed when the suggestion to maintain the mountains year round, as they put it "raking the hills ".. being a ex forest fire fighter, I've seen the worst and why it happened.. the build up of fuel is unreal, the slash piles left by loggers is unreal. Hire people to remove the fuel, maintain the forests and this wont happen

Helicopters? Need to get some jumbo jets to drop water. One pass would’ve extinguished that fire.

The commentator questions on this video are a perfect example why I won't have cable in my home. Insulting to say the least.

Why don't the municipalities hire water truck drivers to assist with dousing homes?

It's been long over due for California to be cleansed! Fire could you please clean up the larger cities in California? Thanks Fire!

Praying for you all that God will protect you and send the rain to put the fires out

And the politicians are too busy fighting each other impeach both parties.

They say the homeowners with the garden hoses can't do any good well I think every drop of water helps in some way especially if they can stop it right at the top of the hill then they saved their home

24:45 Cameraman: These firefighters going directly into the smoke to fight the fire. Such heroes. I'm going to zoom in and film this part. News station: Throws up a block on the screen for the entire minute of the zoom in. Cameraman: Am I a joke to you???

Bust that pool open and let it spill down the hillside

Why in the hell did they block in the residents with that truck and not move it....

I responded to this , we got lucky today it could've been so much worse

like a good neighbor

The SKY CRANE is AMAZING

Los Angeles have really unbelievable fire fighters hades up to them.

Steven Spurgen I am really praying for you and your family, I saw your house.....

Boy are people idiots. The fire men blocked the drive way.