01-15-25 YMS National Correspondent RORY O’NEILL has been covering the devastating fires in Southern California and has the latest.

National Correspondent RORY O’NEILL has been covering the devastating fires in Southern California and has the latest. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Previously on your Morning show with Michael del Choano.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
Fire crews quickly in Los Angeles extinguished a few new blazes,
but the largest ones far from fully contained. The Palisades
at eighteen percent containment, the Eating Fires at thirty five
percent containment. They're the two biggest roy o'nealer. National correspondent
has been covering this all week, Rory. What's the latest
in southern California?

Speaker 3 (00:23):
Yeah, Michael, those Santa Ana wins have returned, and that
really is a challenge for the firefighters. We're now getting
more concerned about the fire spreading to neighboring Ventura County.
We did see one fire flare up there yesterday, dubbed
the Auto fire. But I think the concern is that
if the winds blow in the right direction, more concerns
about new fires starting rather than just trying to combat

(00:46):
the ones we know about.

Speaker 2 (00:48):
Yeah, and the new ones pretty good success rate yesterday
and putting them out. They had several that popped up
and they got them under control quickly. It's still the
two biggies that you know, progress but not much right.

Speaker 3 (01:02):
And this is also you know, we saw the increase
of the winds yesterday. It grounded. A lot of the
air supply that they have in terms of the helicopters
and the airplanes that you know, they fly so low
it's too dangerous to fly in. I think with winds
over thirty thirty five miles per hour, they're essentially grounded.
So they need these conditions to improve, and that is
in the forecast. We should start to see the Santa

(01:24):
Ana wins ease up late today, a transition day tomorrow.
But then the National Weather Service says Friday and Saturday
could actually be really good firefighter weather with increased humidities
and maybe even a ten percent chance of a shower.

Speaker 2 (01:38):
Got to love the immediacy of radio. We have so
many great radio stations. At iHeart in the state of
California or on a few of them. The Dream Center
has now raised one and a half million dollars and
counting in cash to help those in need, and two
to two and a half million dollars in supplies. This

(01:59):
is extraordinary. This is what makes radio so immediate, so effective,
and so caring. There's more than just a heart and
the name and in the logo and everyone we can
be a part of this. So if you want to
give the Dream Center, go to the Dream Center online,
or you can simply text Relief to thirty three one hundred.
Let's continue to give Rory good reporting. We'll talk again
next hour.

Speaker 1 (02:20):
Miss a little, miss a lot, miss a lot, and
we'll miss you. It's your Morning Show with Michael del Churno.