FOX Sports provides TVs to firefighters battling LA wildfires

Jay Glazer explains how FOX Sports provided a morale-boosting gift to firefighters helping to battle the Los Angeles wildifires.

FOX Sports provided televisions to first responders in order for them to watch the NFL playoffs during their shift breaks as they battled the devastating wildfires in Los Angeles.

FOX Sports' NFL reporter Jay Glazer, who was at the Palisades Incident Command Post in Malibu, explained to Fox News how the partnership came to be before the Washington Commanders-Detroit Lions playoff game on FOX.

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Firefighters watch a helicopter drop water on the Palisades Fire in Mandeville Canyon in Los Angeles, on Saturday, Jan. 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Fire crews work the burn zone of the Palisades Fire in Mandeville Canyon on Thursday, Jan. 16, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

"My wife and I actually live about 200 yards away. We were evacuated. But this week, like so many others from California, we were coming down bringing protein bars, whatever we could do, just trying to raise morale. Two nights ago, some firemen said, ‘You know what we really want? We would really want to watch football.’ I said, I know somebody who could make that happen," he said.

"I call our boss over at FOX Sports, CEO Eric Shanks, and he’s like, ‘What a great idea!’ And he got right on it. And within a day, we came down here yesterday and we got this done in a day, where we basically put TVs in the area where these guys come back to their shifts, and them are a lot of 24-hour shifts. They come back and they get a place to decompress, eat. That's where the TVs are. 

"We're not just showing our game on FOX, we're showing all the games this weekend. It's just our