These sightings came just a day after a drone collided with a Super Scooper fixed-wing aircraft, grounding the plane for several days of repairs and reducing the number of aircraft available to fight the fire.

“There was not one plane in the air yesterday,” said Hagerman, who stayed behind to guard his home of eight years.

A small drone collided with a firefighting aircraft — a Super Scooper, a massive fixed-wing plane that can drop large amounts of water — that was flying over the Palisades fire on Thursday.

On top of it all, no water for fire hydrants, not firefighting planes.

CAT III is a system which allows planes to land during conditions of poor visibility.