Reporter Slammed for Interviewing Dennis Quaid During Evacuation

People online have ripped into a reporter for interviewing Dennis Quaid while the actor evacuated from his home because of the wildfires in Los Angeles.

NBC anchor Robert Kovacik stopped Quaid as he was packing to leave his house for a distracting conversation about the fire.

“Truly one of the worst parasitic paparazzi shit I’ve ever seen,” wrote one person on X. “It went on for like 20 minutes, this dude harassing Dennis Quaid and being ridiculously inappropriate crossing boundaries and invading privacy while he’s trying to evacuate.”

“Not them interviewing Dennis Quaid while he frantically tries to pack his belongings to evacuate [crying emoji],” wrote another person.

Although he was busy, Quaid participated in the interview and opened up about his family's situation during these raging wildfires in Los Angeles.

“Tuesday, we woke up to this big plume of smoke. That was a real exciting day as far as here in the Palisades, it went up,” he explained. “And Wednesday, it came within 150 yards of the house and these guys with their planes came down and put that retardant down there. And those helicopter pilots, they’re incredible, what they do. And I can’t say enough about the firefighters and the first responders in this town. We got some good ones, good people here.”

Quaid also shared how people close to him have been impacted, revealing that his house was “on the very edge of the first evacuation zone.”

“So we’ve had it lucky. I have so many friends who have lost—my agent, he lost both of his houses, and another good friend over at Palisades, he just moved into a house and was renting the other one,” he continued. “He lost both of them.”

By Saturday, at least 11 people had died in the wildfires and more than 105,000 people have had to evacuate the Palisades area. At least 5,316 structures have been destroyed, including 426 homes.