Charles was a storm chaser visiting from Minneapolis and they had spent the day documenting the fire.

As Israel was sitting in traffic, he spotted a familiar face walking down the street: Tanner Charles, his friend and seasoned storm chaser, who had been visiting Los Angeles from Minneapolis.

Charles, who has been a storm chaser for nearly 16 years, said he’s never experienced anything like the Palisades fire before.

The ‘Twisters’ and ‘In the Heights’ actor Anthony Ramos talks new storm chaser role and how things got real on the set.

It turned into a real tornado, and our director went and chased it with one of our storm chaser consultants, Sean.