Jimmy Kimmel tearfully returns to late night during Los Angeles wildfires

Jimmy Kimmel got emotional Monday night talking about the wildfires that have impacted him and his late night show.

Jimmy Kimmel got emotional Monday night as he addressed the ongoing wildfires in Los Angeles. “As you know it has been a very scary, very stressful, very strange week here in LA, where we work, where we live, where our kids go to school,” Kimmel said with his voice shaking during his monologue. “We are back at our studio. We had to evacuate on Wednesday.” He showed footage of how close the fire came to where “Jimmy Kimmel Live” is filmed and noted that many of the employees who work on the show had to evacuate from their residences, while some lost their homes to the fires. “It’s been terrible,” he said emotionally. “Everyone who lives in this city knows someone - most of us multiple people - family, friends, colleagues, neighbors whose house has burned down and the truth is we don’t even know if it’s over.” The late-night host said it’s been a “sickening, shocking, awful experience.” “But it’s also been, in a lot of ways, a beautiful experience because, once again, we see our fellow men and women coming together to support each other,” Kimmel said. “People who lost their own homes were out volunteering in parking lots helping others who lost theirs.”