Wildfires have whipped through parts of Southern California in recent hours, burning homes and forcing widespread evacuation orders across the region. The affected area included an LA hillside known as Pacific Palisades, where the family of Lakers head coach JJ Redick lives.

Los Angeles Lakers coach JJ Redick says members of his family were among those in Southern California forced to evacuate their homes due to a wildfire that was being whipped by strong winds around Los Angeles.

JJ Redick often thinks about a quote from an HBO miniseries on World War II that aired in 2001. "There's a scene in ‘Band of Brothers' where they're in the trenches and one of the soldiers, who's really scared,