COOPER: “We have been in this location for about an hour just watching the, I mean, it is a sickening thing to watch the strategy of the fire, if you will, not that it has thought, but how it jumps from one house to another. It jumps into the trees, and then the embers move. You literally see it happening in real time. And, I mean, for homeowners who are watching this, it is just — it’s just devastating. Now, potential issue, which we may move — I think we’re going to move now, because this car — let’s walk over here a little bit. This car from this house, I can see the trunk has now caught on fire. So it’s, if that car goes — yes, so look, you can see the back tires are aflame. So it’s very possible there will be some sort of ignition from that, from the gas. So we’ll move a little bit more over here. These cars have already exploded. But it’s so strange. I mean, there’s cars parked on the street that have not been touched and hopefully won’t be. But, yeah, it’s — the size of this is obviously something that, you know, look, people in Los Angeles, in this area, they’re used to fires. They’ve seen this before. This is something that they have not seen. It may be, I don’t know, you know, we’ll have to look at the historical records, but it is certainly up there with some of the worst fires. And the fact that there are, you know, there’s this fire. There’s obviously the Palisades, which is the larger fire. I mean, this was called the smaller fire. And in terms of damage so far, it probably is. There’s, I believe, 1,000 structures, they’ve said, in the Palisades. I don’t know at this point what the count is. And, frankly, any count that authorities give you, as you see, I mean, it’s changing by the minute at the whim of these flames and the whim of these embers.”

SANCHEZ: “Anderson, this is Boris Sanchez. I’m just kind of concerned for your safety. I mean, these are very serious images behind you, and you are very close to flames. You spoke about sort of the process of getting to where —“

COOPER: “Let’s go over here.”

SANCHEZ: “You spoke about the process of getting to where you are and how eerie it was, that it seemed like life was just going by like another day not far from where you are. And we’d spoken to residents not far from where you are now who discussed difficulty that they had in getting out. I do wonder, is there a safe passage of egress from where you are? Would you be able to get out safely? Would residents, like that woman that you spoke to, be able to get out without issue?”

COOPER: “Yeah. Yes. There are streets — I mean, the fire is spreading in a certain direction, so there are streets. We have a lot of people who are watching this. We obviously have teams who are very experienced in this. I do not include myself in that, but we have much smarter people around me. But there are ways to get in and out. Yes, there are, in answer to your question. So, you know, this is obviously — there’s police here. There’s fire personnel here. And this actually, you know, I mean, it’s strange to say, this corner is now better than it was in terms of safety for anybody on it than it was 30 minutes ago. That location, even that location where we were five minutes ago, you know, that’s a much less safe location now, just in the last few seconds, because now the winds have picked up and that whole area is just completely blackened. And you can hear that crackling. But a number of these houses, I mean, look, we’ve been watching very carefully this north side of the street on Harriet and Glen, mainly these houses on Harriet and a couple of them going a little bit northward on Glen and so far, they are untouched. And that’s obviously a great blessing for all those folks. They have also evacuated, thankfully. But it’s a real question of just what happens over here, particularly without water. I mean, that’s obviously a huge concern for firefighters.”

KEILAR: “Yeah, it certainly is. And the scene has just changed and gotten so much darker from all of the smoke in just the minutes we’ve been speaking with you. Anderson, we are going to get in a quick break. Please stay safe. It looks like conditions there are getting very severe. Thank you for the incredible report. We do appreciate it. We’ll be back with much more on the wildfires burning — not wildfires, the fires that are burning now in neighborhoods there in Los Angeles County.”