FOX Sports provides TVs to firefighters battling LA wildfires

FOX Sports provided televisions to archetypal responders successful bid for them to ticker the NFL playoffs during their displacement breaks arsenic they battled the devastating wildfires successful Los Angeles.

FOX Sports' NFL newsman Jay Glazer, who was astatine the Palisades Incident Command Post successful Malibu, explained to Fox News however the concern came to beryllium earlier the Washington Commanders-Detroit Lions playoff crippled connected FOX.

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Firefighters ticker a chopper driblet h2o connected the Palisades Fire successful Mandeville Canyon successful Los Angeles, connected Saturday, Jan. 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Fire crews enactment the pain portion of the Palisades Fire successful Mandeville Canyon connected Thursday, Jan. 16, 2025, successful Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

"My woman and I really unrecorded astir 200 yards away. We were evacuated. But this week, similar truthful galore others from California, we were coming down bringing macromolecule bars, immoderate we could do, conscionable trying to rise morale. Two nights ago, immoderate firemen said, ‘You cognize what we truly want? We would truly privation to ticker football.’ I said, I cognize idiosyncratic who could marque that happen," helium said.

"I telephone our brag implicit astatine FOX Sports, CEO Eric Shanks, and he’s like, ‘What a large idea!’ And helium got close connected it. And wrong a day, we came down present yesterday and we got this done successful a day, wherever we fundamentally enactment TVs successful the country wherever these guys travel backmost to their shifts, and them are a batch of 24-hour shifts. They travel backmost and they get a spot to decompress, eat. That's wherever the TVs are. 

"We're not conscionable showing our crippled connected FOX, we're showing each the games this weekend. It's conscionable our mode of saying convey you for truthful galore of these radical who, you know, they near their ain homes to effort and prevention ours."

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The devastation of the Palisades Fire is seen astatine sunset successful the Pacific Palisades vicinity of Los Angeles, Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Ethan Swope)

He said during FOX Sports' NFL pregame amusement that Commanders caput manager Dan Quinn and Lions caput manager Dan Campbell Facetimed the firefighters earlier their playoff game, which took spot connected FOX.

Glazer said the coaches were "enamored with our heroes." 

"For america to beryllium capable to leap successful and conscionable springiness them immoderate normalcy, boost their morale – that’s what they need," helium added. "I'm proceeding stories from these guys that, you know, those archetypal mates of days passim their 48 consecutive hours and things they've seen, thing we could do, conscionable to accidental we emotion you and we convey you, we’re in."

The Palisades Fire ravages a vicinity amid precocious winds successful the Pacific Palisades vicinity of Los Angeles, Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Ethan Swope, File)

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More than 2 twelve radical person died and thousands of structures person burned down successful the midst of the fires that person plagued the region.

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