Southland fires disrupt shoots

October 23, 2007 The raging wildfires that forced the evacuations of a quarter-million people in Southern California are disrupting the production of several TV shows and prompting local TV stations to pre-empt network programming for continuous coverage of the disaster. The show's producers scrambled to get other actors not scheduled to work Monday to go to the show's stages, where they were joined by Sutherland and the crew to shoot shorter scenes that don't require extensive preparation. The production was to have used Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputies for traffic control, but after they were pulled away to help fire crews get to blazing areas, the Santa Clarita Film Commission worked with the crew to rejigger the shoot so that deputies wouldn't be needed.

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