January 7, 2025 • 44 mins
More coverage of the fire burning in Pacific Palisades. Press conference regarding the fire in Pacific Palisades.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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the podcast after four o'clock on the iHeart app. Pacific
Palisades fires. As of an hour or two ago, it
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burned almost eight hundred acres. It's obviously more than that.
It's burning many homes. There was everybody in the Palisades
is supposed to evacuate. It's mandatory evacuation throughout the entire village,
all the way east to rusht the canyon, and there
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are roads that were blocked because people had to abandon
their cars. It was gridlock. No one could move. Palm
trees were catching fire. People were afraid the trees would
fall on them. We have we saw the video and
we were talking about it a little while back. We're
going to play you now some audio from Channel five
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Gene Kang in the neighborhood where they had a bulldozer
moving cars Sopecific Palisades.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
All of these cars were pitched, so all of the
drivers panic.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
They took their keys.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
This is Palisades Drive as well as Sunset Boulevard.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
This dozer is just moving these vehicles out of the way.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
So if this is your car, unfortunately, it's an emergency.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Situation and this is what they have to do.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
They are moving the cars.
Speaker 5 (01:32):
As we speak.
Speaker 6 (01:34):
Unfortunately, there are dozens of cars.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
This looks like a movie set. Unfortunately this is real
La County fire. They have to do what they have
to do.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
They need to clear a path, so literally they're moving
the cars to SUVs.
Speaker 7 (01:47):
We're seeing Mercedes, very nice vehicles, testless.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
Up here, but that's because the car owners they took
their keys and they.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Just started running.
Speaker 5 (01:56):
They left the cars here as the firefighters.
Speaker 6 (01:58):
Were trying to clear the pathway, clear the roadway.
Speaker 8 (02:01):
This is an emergency situation where you know, they need
to get up to the homes.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
They want to make sure people are not trapped up there.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
But this line of cars probably.
Speaker 9 (02:11):
Goes about three hundred feet deep at least as long
as I can see from this bird's eye view.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
So we're kind of staying back.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
They're in a situation there where they are literally moving.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
These vehicles out of the way.
Speaker 10 (02:25):
Yes, it is causing damage.
Speaker 5 (02:27):
As you can hear from the screeching noises, but that
is what they want to do.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Wow. Yeah, everybody ran at the same time, and obviously
you'd take your keys with you, but you're going to
come back and your car is going to be crushed.
Speaker 11 (02:42):
Well, and I don't think the firefighters would have time
even if the keys were left.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Yeah, right, driving them off.
Speaker 11 (02:50):
Yeah, this is a little more effective and efficient.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
You only need one car to be in the way
to block the fire truck. So and they had dozens
of them, but he's had three hundred feet it's worth
of cars.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
It's crazy.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
So I wonder exactly what was happening there was it
a wall of flame, trees on fire. I'm looking some
of the video is so spectacular on Channel four. I mean,
I'm out of adjectives to describe how furious this fire is.
The flames are so high, so wide, the wind is
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blowing so hard. I mean, this really is is hell
and you don't you don't know what's burning, but it's
got to be a lot of homes going down.
Speaker 11 (03:32):
The l a f D is going to be holding
a news conference soon, so I don't know what exactly
soon means, but of course as soon as that happens,
we will be all over it and we'll bring it
to you live.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Even if they had a time, the time wouldn't hold. Yeah,
they're announced. Times never do hold. They never do No.
So every everything I see on various channels, I got
five of them on here, and yeah, they literally have.
Each one of them has a different home that's burning
or a different area of brush. We had Dominic, one
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of our listeners. He's called in a couple of times
as he was once when he was fleeing, and then
then he's back in his office in Santa Monica and
said he could see flames that were fifty to seventy
five feet high in the hillside. I'm looking at Channel
four right now, and there's a home already being burnt
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to a shell, and it looks like a number of
homes in the neighborhood is The camera pans from left
to right. Their bushes, their trees are burning, the lawn
is burning, the homes are burning. There's a there's a
whre now here on on Channel eleven. It looks like
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a large structure. I don't know if it's an apartment
building or a big mansion that's completely consumed with flames.
It's it's endless. And I hate to harp on this,
but the worst may be yet to come because the
winds are supposed to pick up with intensity, and you know,
the firefighters are trying what they can do, but this
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is a force of nature. It's really rare. The winds
like this have not been seen since around twenty eleven
here in southern California, where they're you know, steady at
up to forty fifty miles an hour, steady, and the
wind's going to last through Thursday. Yeah, I mean it's
only Tuesday. Yeah, So they got to do what they
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can to keep the fire from getting down on the
flatlands of Palisades and Brentwood in Santa Monica as best
they can. But the hillsides up there in the highlands,
it's just going to be a matter of luck whether
your home got hit or not, because I just don't
think there's much the firemen can do that. The skies
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are thick black. Oh. Here back on Channel four, we
could see this home burning. They have a garage, and
you could see the flying, the flames shooting through the window.
It's like a garage with panels all across from left
to right, three rows, about a half a dozen panels,
and the top panels, I guess were windows, and you
could see the flames shooting through the windows of that
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garage door, and then flames shooting out of every room
in the house. Now, now other streets as they're traveling
around untouched, and then others. It looks like an entire
block may have gotten wiped out. And that's the nature
of these things. We'll continue with our coverage here of
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the Pallet Pa Civic Palisades fire. If you're in Pacific
pal Do we have somebody online now? No?
Speaker 12 (06:49):
Not right now?
Speaker 1 (06:50):
All right? One eight hundred and five to two oh
one five, three four will put you on the air
if you've got a story about what you've been going
through today, or you know where you are right now,
one eight hundred and five to oh one five I
have three four. You're listening to John Cobelt on demand
from KFI AM six forty. The Pacific Palisades fire completely
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out of control. LA Fire Department's going to have a
news conference shortly. We'll bring it to you live when
that happens. One eight hundred and five to one five
three four. If you're in the middle of it, We're
going to talk to Sue, who just evacuated.
Speaker 9 (07:25):
Sue, Hello, Yes, we just came down Tumescal Canyon Road,
which was bumper to bumper. The police were at the bottom,
which was great, trying to get everyone off the road.
But if anyone is still in the Palisades, they should
start evacuating now because it's bumper to bumper to try
and get out of there. Sunset was already clogged up
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by noon, and you could see the flames from the
hill close to where I live. They exploded on the
hillside and then you could hear pops of I'm imagining
probably gas as buildings sort of exploded with the fire.
The wind is just nasty, with ashes everywhere starting other fires.
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It's it's really I've never seen anything like this ever.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
Where do you live, Generally the neighborhood.
Speaker 9 (08:23):
I'm close to the Palisades High School and generally you know,
the fire sort of comes through the Santa Monica Mountains
and goes towards the ocean. But the ashes are so
bad that I think even probably south of Sunset is
going to be being jeopardy tonight with the winds. If
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they're as bad as.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
They're predicting, Yeah, they're supposed to go in all night
and get even stronger, and the gusts could be you know,
sixty eighty miles an hour or more. So, Yeah, that's overwhelming.
Everybody around you get out.
Speaker 9 (08:58):
Yeah, everyone is, I think pretty much evacuated because there's
no use even trying to you know how you see
people with their hoses trying to fight something. This is
something you're not going to be able to fight. The
wind is just too bad. The flames are just too bad.
You just have to hope. As we were evacuating down
the hill, we saw fire trucks coming from Cavena Arcadia,
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all sorts of places up the hill to help fight
the fire.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
To go.
Speaker 9 (09:29):
I'm sorry, where are you going to go now?
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Oh?
Speaker 9 (09:32):
I'm on the tan with my two dogs trying to
find a place to stay for the night.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
You're just going to drive around find a hotel?
Speaker 9 (09:42):
Yeah? Either that or we'll just camp by like the
homeless do on the on the hillside and use propane
or something. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
All right, Well, good luck. At least you got out
of there.
Speaker 9 (09:54):
Right, But I will say it's I've never had to
evacuate before, and it's sort of like as we started
to put things together, you know, even though you're supposed
to have your ready set go bag, I would just
say everyone in California should have that ready set go
bag because all of a sudden, you look.
Speaker 10 (10:11):
And you go, do I have the passport? Do I
have the dog food? Do I have?
Speaker 9 (10:15):
So I would urge everyone who is even in distance
of where this fire might be to have their ready
set goal bag done.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Yeah, yeah, because I mean people did not have more
than a few minutes to get out because these flames
blew up so quickly, so near neighborhoods up in the
up of the Highlands there.
Speaker 9 (10:33):
Oh, it was just incredible. I was filming it from
one side, and within thirty seconds a whole hill side
next to it just blew up. So a lot of
people really did just have to run.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
All right, Sue, thank you very much for calling in sure,
thank you, all right, And let's go to a Christian
who just left the Palisades. Christian, what's going on with you?
Speaker 9 (10:57):
Yeah?
Speaker 13 (10:59):
You know, right, sucking traffic right now. I left out
of there about one twenty and I've been on sunset
for two hours, just about to make my way to
the four or five through Burntwood over here. It's been
pretty nasty though. I work over there at Lululemon on Sunset,
right down pretty much at the bottom of the hill
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just before Temesco Canyon, And at about ten thirty, you know,
we saw the smoke and we saw a couple of
emergency vehicles head up that way about like ten forty
We could see people from our storefront stopping and taking
pictures and like videoing, and we were like, oh, something's
going on. About like ten forty five, the hill was
just pretty much it was like engulfed. And then that's
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when all the emergency units started flying anything and everything
from everywhere was coming up that hill and coming up
that hill, coming up that hill very very fast, you know.
So we evacuated. We evacuated before the order. All the
businesses out there in the Polatase village we shut down
and we got out of the dodge. But I hung
back and watched a little bit of it. And I mean,
(12:05):
I've never seen things like this unless it was in
the movies, you know. I saw a fire, tornadoes, happening.
You had a caller on earlier. I was saying, like
the flames were just immensely high and on agree, Like
I was at least two miles away and they looked
high from there, so being down on the ground, it
had to be just like beyond anything human.
Speaker 9 (12:28):
You know.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
Yeah, you saw fire tornadoes. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 13 (12:34):
I don't know if many people have done it, but
Universal Studios, do you have an exhibit, the backdraft exhibit
where they would show how like you ca manipulate fire
and how we would like spin around in like this cyclone. Yeah,
and there were just there were like three or four
of them coming over well, it had come over the
hill and then it was coming down towards like the
rec center side of the village there, and you could
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just see they were just tornadoes.
Speaker 9 (12:57):
Like literally it was some of them.
Speaker 13 (12:59):
Like one of the most terrifying impact of any things
I've ever seen in my life.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
I was gonna say, this is not something anybody has
a reference point for, unless it's the movies or unless
you go to Universal. This something that seems to be
some crazy special effect and you were seeing it real
and live.
Speaker 13 (13:16):
Yeah, yeah, I have I have footage of it. It
doesn't come out too well, but yeah, three of them. Like,
and I even texted my friends. I'm like, I'm sitting
I'm sitting here watching fire tornadoes. Like that's how it's
it's my body because usually you're right, you just see
like the flames, you just see the hills burning, but
with the winds going and I guess it creating its
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own wind system.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
There they were literal, Yeah, fire tornadoes.
Speaker 13 (13:42):
Coming down coming down the hillside there.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
Wow, that's wild. All right, Well, I'm glad you're okay,
stay safe. Thank you for calling in. Yeah, thanks, Fire Tournament.
I mean that that that stuff. Really I noticed the
reference point for everybody something they've seen in the movies
or what he saw at Universal. This is not something
anybody experiences in life up close like that. This intense.
Speaker 11 (14:03):
Well just watching it on TV. That bulldozer, I've never
seen anything like that. I mean, this is in our
own backyard. By the way, cal Fire is reporting that
the fire has grown to one two hundred and sixty acres.
We are hearing that day news conference is supposed to
start around three point thirty this afternoon, so of course
we will bring that to you live when it happens.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
Here's another story. The La Times has Ellen deloche Bacher.
She was in downtown La when she learned of the fire,
and she lives in the Palisades. So she rushes to
her home where her ninety five year old mother, the
mother's caregiver, and their two dogs live. So can you
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imagine the panic she's feeling. And what what happens is
she hits gridlock at Sunset and Palisades Drive. That is
the choke point because Palisades Drive is the only exit
out of the Pacific Highlands, which is a large development
of really nice homes up north of Sunset Boulevard, and
it's just it's just you can only move in and out.
(15:08):
I'll continue that story in a minute. But Kelly, who
we had on earlier, she was at that corner of
Sunset and Palisades Drive when somebody can knock it on
her door and told her to get out of the car.
And she was live on the air with us, and
she ran away. Kelly, where are you now?
Speaker 10 (15:25):
Well, right now, we're in a safe We're in a
safe place. We're in a parking lot in Santa Monica.
But we had to be all the cars have been
bulldozed away. We were at Gladstone's parking lot on Palasage
driven sun and Sunset, and we had to be evacuated
from there because the fire was moving that way. So
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we started to walk.
Speaker 9 (15:49):
We started to.
Speaker 10 (15:49):
Walk towards Santa Monica and a woman and her and
her daughter picked us up off the side of the road.
And her name is Lily Yeller and she's an absolute
angel and she drove us to where we can be saved.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
Wow. And you have a dog with you right now?
Speaker 10 (16:08):
We have a dog with us.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
Yeah. Now do you have other family? And do you
know where everyone is?
Speaker 9 (16:14):
Yes?
Speaker 10 (16:14):
And yes, No one else is in the Palisades or
near the Palisades, and everyone has been in contact with us.
And my sister is going to drive to get us.
I bet our house part of it was caught on fire.
We don't know how much.
Speaker 4 (16:31):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
Wow. Yeah, when you were in the car and you
were on with us, who is yelling at you to
get out of the car. Was that the police?
Speaker 9 (16:42):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (16:43):
And that was because you had a palm tree on
fire at the corner I think about fifty feet from you. Yeah. Yeah,
because we had another guy call in who I think
was just a couple of cars in front of you,
and he was like under the palm tree and he
got out of there.
Speaker 10 (16:59):
Yeah, I mean yeah, they I mean all the cars
were everyone was running from that cars.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Is there a way to describe how how scared you were.
Speaker 10 (17:11):
To be honest with you, like, I am still in
shock right now. I don't have time.
Speaker 13 (17:20):
To do that.
Speaker 10 (17:22):
Yeah, I didn't have time to do that. I'm sure
it will come later, but yeah, so if you go upstairs.
Speaker 9 (17:28):
I can't.
Speaker 10 (17:28):
I think I just shut down to be quite honest
with you, and just kept moving.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Yeah, nothing else you can do right now. Well, Kelly, Uh,
thank you for calling in, and you know, stay safe
and thank you. You know, at least you're okay, and
the dog and the rest of your family you're okay.
Thank you very much, Thank you for coming on. All right,
we will continue, uh and we got a news conference
coming up momentarily as well.
Speaker 7 (17:54):
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Speaker 1 (18:00):
'ron one until four after four o'clock. You could listen
to the podcast John Cobelt's Show on demand. The latest
is that the fires at twelve hundred acres it's expanding
very rapidly. There is not a lot of hard information
because the media obviously can't get inside the fire zone,
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and fire officials have no way of counting how many
homes have been burned. They may not even know obviously
how many. They're scattered out among many neighborhoods in the hillsides,
especially north of Pacific Palisades, But just visually watching all
the TV channels, there's quite a few homes that have burned,
and they're going to have a press conference and try
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to give us some detail. But this is one of
those situations. Because of the thick smoke and the heavy winds,
there are very few aerial shots to see overhead what's happened.
You can't get inside. All the roads are closed, the
the smoke is just too thick. The visibility is zero.
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The simple ways to explain that the entire town of
Pacific Palisades has been ordered to evacuate east into the
Brentwood area, as far as Allenford and twenty sixth Street
where Paul Revere Middle School is. People have to evacuate
all the way up there and south of Sunset, even
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a little bit of Santa Monica. But the whole town
of Pacific Palisades. Everybody is supposed to be out of there.
Some people though, trapped because of the gridlock conditions on
the roads, especially leaving the Pacific Highlands. When last segment
we had to break for some phone calls. And there
is only one road that goes north south out of
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the Pacific Highlands, which is an enclave, wealthy enclave north
of the Palisades Village, and that's the only way to
get there and the only way to get out. And
it's beautiful there to it's once you're stuck, you're stuck.
Here is the latest from the National Weather Service, and
none of us is good news, endeavor, None of this
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is good news for you because you're in the hillside
and woodland hills. They're expecting in the San Fernando Valley
all the way up to Simi Valley north to northeast
winds fifty to eighty miles an hour beginning now until
noon tomorrow, isolated gusts eighty to one hundred miles an hour,
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the strongest in the mountains and foothills. And we talked
about the mountain wave phenomenon, where winds can come down
the side of a mountain so fast hit the flatlands
and it's just some kind of physics phenomena that happens,
and you could get a burst of a very intense
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winds even higher than what I'm telling you.
Speaker 11 (20:57):
And we haven't had that for more than a decade.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
That's right. Twenty eleven was the last time. It was
November December twenty eleven. Uh and that that shutdown power
for thousands and thousands of people. The greatest concern is
for Highway one to eight the area between Highway one
eighteen and Route two ten that card are from Simi
Valley to Claremont. That's where the strongest winds may happen.
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There are gonna be many down trees, many power outages,
damage to structures, vehicles, big rigs, trailers, motor homes can
be knocked over and they have. On the map, the
National Weather Service drew a yellow box on the map
to show the area the greatest concern and it runs
from west to east from roughly thousand Oaks east past
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Canoga Park, pull the way out to Claremont. I mean
that's a long distance there and again that is supposed
to go on until noon to Also in Santa Barbara
and San Luis Obispo Counties, wins twenty to forty miles
an hour, a little lighter than here, isolated forty to
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fifty mile an hour, gusts, and again the mountain and
the hills or where you're going to get the most
of the damage. I had mentioned some of the crazy
stories that people have in the LA Times. This woman
Ellen Deloche Baker, Hey John.
Speaker 11 (22:23):
The press conference, the LA Fire Department is holding the
press conference on fire in Palasa's Rock towly.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
Twelve hundred acres.
Speaker 8 (22:30):
And to go into all the specifics, we have a
list of eight individuals that will speak for you today.
After those eight individuals will have Spanish and then we'll
have follow up questions. After that, we'll have one on
one interviews and let you know when the next press
conference will be. So we ask at this time please
silence your cell phones, turn down your radios, keep your
sidebar conversations off to the side. But to begin with,
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we'd like to call up the fire chief of the
Los Angeles City Fire Department, Kristin Crowley.
Speaker 14 (23:04):
Well, good afternoon everyone. I'll be giving you a brief
on what your LFD has done up to this point so.
At ten thirty this morning, a brush fire was reported
at one point one nine zero North Piedra Miranda Drive
in our local fire station here right behind us at
fire Station twenty three. Los Angeles is currently experiencing an
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extreme fire weather condition with red flag alert. At the
time of the fire, the relative humidity was twelve and
the winds were approximately twenty five miles an hour with
gus up to fifty miles per hour. Based on the
red flag weather, your LFD pre deployed additional resources, made
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public awareness notifications, and issued parking restrictions in high hazard
fire areas to ensure that the means of access and
egress of our local fire stations and apparatus could move
up in around the area. First, LAFD resources reported initially
a ten acre fire with forty mile per hour winds
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and alignment heading towards the west or towards the ocean.
The LFD then requested all resources, including strike teams and
aircraft from assisting agencies.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
We then went into an.
Speaker 14 (24:24):
Aggressive attack and focused our efforts on firelife safety operations,
beginning with evacuations. Currently, the fire is at one two
hundred and sixty one acres and growing. Based on aerial reconnaissance,
the fire is being fueled by combination of strong winds
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and surrounding topography, which is making it extremely challenging for
our personnel that are signed to this incident. We currently
have over two hundred and fifty LFD firefighters on scene,
including forty six engines, three trucks, five helicopters, four brush patrols,
two water tenders, six paramedic ambulances, one fast response vehicle,
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one Advanced Nurse Practitioner unit, two bulldozers, ten chief officers,
fire investigators, and safety officers. Additionally, we are so grateful
for the hundreds of law enforcement officers, partner agencies, first responders,
and public work members that are.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
Engaged actively in this operation.
Speaker 14 (25:33):
Pch's closed from Lincoln Tunnel to Tipanga Boulevard. Evacuation orders
are in place for approximately thirty thousand residents, including the
Highlands area north of PCH, south of Topanga Canyon Boulevard,
east of Tuna Canyon Road, west of Seabreeze.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
Drive, and Surfside Drive.
Speaker 14 (25:56):
Our evacuation center is a Westwood recreation center located at
thirteen fifty Self Suppulvida Boulevard in La The population threatened
is approximately twenty five thousand, seven hundred and forty eight.
Households threatened it's approximately ten thousand, three hundred and sixty seven.
Structures threatened are approximately thirteen thousand, two hundred and eight.
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At this point, we feel very blessed at this point
that there's no injuries that are reported. We do have
reports of multiple structures that are damaged. Since the beginning
of this fire, I've been in constant communication with Mayor
Bass as well as other city leadership who's working very
very closely. As you can see this entire entity behind me,
we're working seamlessly and closely to ensure that we are
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protecting lives and property first.
Speaker 3 (26:47):
So with that, we'll go ahead and introduce the next speaker.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
Thank you, Chief Crowley.
Speaker 8 (26:55):
The next speaker will be the Los Angeles County Fire
Chief Maroni.
Speaker 6 (27:01):
So good afternoon. My name is Anthony Moronium, the County
of Los Angeles Fire Department Chief. Shortly after the start
of the Palisades Fire, La County Fire did assist the
City of Los Angeles with a first alarm brush assignment.
At eleven thirty hours this morning, our La County Fire
Department went into unified command with the City of Los Angeles,
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and at twelve thirty our CalFire partners from the state
went into com unified command with not only La City Fire,
La County Fire, and LAPD. Currently, LA County Fire is
providing aerial resources to fight this brush fire, including our
Firehawk helicopters, OURCH forty seven, part of our nighttime QRF
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resource that we have in addition to our COL four
fifteen super scoopers. We also have three engine strike teams
assigned and almost one hundred La County Fire personnel. I
want to let all of the viewers and listeners know
that we are not out of danger. The National Weather
Service has predicted that the winds are going to pick
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up and get worse. We're going to have the most
significant wind event between ten pm this evening and five
am tomorrow morning. So it's incumbent that everybody have a
wildfire action plan for their home if they live in
a brush covered area. Please visit the La County Fire
Department website for ready set go information so that's fire
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dot Lacounty dot gov, forward slash RSG and for the
most up to date incident information and emergency preparedness information
go to Lacounty dot gov forward slash emergency.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
Thank you, Thank you.
Speaker 8 (28:59):
Chief Emergencies always by our side as our friends from
law enforcement. So we'd like to invite LAPD Chief of
Police Jim McDonald, thank.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
You very much. We are here in a support role
to our fire partners. Just a quick rundown.
Speaker 7 (29:16):
We have over one hundred officers here deployed, another approximately
sixty ready to be deployed once a mission is given
to them. So far, the major job for our people
have been evacuation, traffic control allowing ingress and egress to
emergency vehicles and those can be helpful. I would have
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an ask that if you would please do everything you
can to open up the streets so we can get
the resources we need to be able to deal with
this emergency. Please take this wind emergency very seriously, as
you heard from the speakers before me. This is something
that is going to get worse throughout the night, so
we all have to look out for each other.
Speaker 3 (29:57):
Areas of evacuation.
Speaker 7 (29:59):
So far, about thirty thousand people have been evacuated from
a total of ten thousand households or fifteen thousand structures
to include businesses and other buildings so far with no injury,
so we're very thankful for that. What we truly ask
for all assistants that we can get and making this
as smooth as we possibly can.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
Thank you, Thank you, Chief McDonald I.
Speaker 8 (30:24):
We'd also like to call up Elie County Supervisor Lindsey Horvath, please.
Speaker 15 (30:31):
Thank you my deepest thanks to the first responders who
are working tirelessly to fight this Palisades fire. Moments ago,
Chair Barger signed La County's emergency proclamation for this fire,
for the severe wind event and all of the fires
related to it. As the National Weather Service predicted, this
is a life threatening situation to our Palisades and to
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Panga community under evacuation order. Please leave, ensure your home
is unlocked, the power is off, and making sure first
responders can easily access the structure. This is essential to
keeping you safe and to allowing fire and first responder
personnel to do their work. For our unincorporated communities in
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Santa Monica Mountains including Sunset, Mesa, Topanga Canyon, and Malibu
all under evacuation order and evacuation warning. Please ensure you
are checking emergency dot LA County dot gov and heating
all door to door information from our La County, Sheriff
and fire departments. Thanks to our partners at the Tapanga
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Coalition for Emergency Preparedness, who work year round to practice
evacuation drills and emergency preparedness, and they're working tirelessly right
now to ensure information is shared across Topanga. For those
with livestock, the evacuation location is Pierce College. For those
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needing small animal evacuation location, the Anima Agora Animal Shelter
is available to you. Thank you to Governor Newsom for
your quick support and coordination. Thanks to Mayor Bass, to
Council Member Park and all of the council members in
the city, and all of our partners city, county, and
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state unified and working together to keep people safe and
address this fire. The County and City of Los Angeles
have a lot of experience in unified command. This emergency
is no different. We're dedicating every resource we can to
urgency urgently contain this fire. I want to extend my
gratitude to the Los Angeles County Fire Department, the Sheriff's Department,
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the Office of Emergency Management, and all of our county partners.
I know LAUSD. Officials also wanted to be with us,
but given the conditions that was challenging. A few school
updates to Panga Elementary at Woodland Hills Academy will be
relocated all week. Palisades and Marquees Elementaries will be relocated
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at Brentwood Science Magnet for tomorrow. Paul Revere Middle School
will be relocated at University High tomorrow. Palli High School
is not in session this entire week, and Canyon Elementary
will be relocated at a location to be determined. To
those affected by the Palisades fire, I know today is
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terrifying and it is painful.
Speaker 10 (33:31):
Please know that you are not alone.
Speaker 15 (33:33):
The County of Los Angeles and all of our partners
are here together to stand with you and be in
support of you. Thank you again to everyone who is
contributing resources to this incident. Your partnership is appreciated and
it is essential to keeping people safe. Thank you very much.
Speaker 8 (33:52):
Thank you, Supervisor. Next, we'd like to bring up Los
Angeles City Council President Marquis Harristoff.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 12 (34:02):
I just want everybody to know that since this morning
about seven am, I've been in direct communication with Mayor Bass,
who's on her way home from a diplomatic mission on
behalf of the United States government. She will be here
within hours. Also, we want everybody to know that the
city is well prepared and has a tremendous emergency management
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infrastructure who has been on the case since sixth this morning,
at the beginning of this wind event. I'm proud to
say that we have some of the best men and
women anywhere in our fire department, out a police department,
as well as their partners across the state and across
the county. I also want everybody to know that, as
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acting Mayor and President of the La City Council, along
with the county, and we'll hear from the governor later,
the City of La is declaring a state of emergency
through this wind event, and we'll have all resources on
deck and our ask, our personal ask, and we'll hear
from the council member from this district. But if you
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can stay off of our roads, please do so to
allow emergency vehicles to go across the city. And also
remember we'll continue to drive this home. The worst and
most severe part of this wind event is yet to come.
So if you're around the city and you have been spared,
be thankful, but also be on guard. Bring you a
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lawn furniture in and again help us by staying off
the roads. And I will ask the council member from
this district who's been on the street since early this
morning making sure the neighborhoods have the information that they
need and resources that they need, to come to the podium.
Our own Councilwoman Tracy Park, thank.
Speaker 5 (35:45):
You, thank you everyone for being here, and Council President
Harris Stawson. I want to begin by thanking all of
our public safety partners. LA City Fire has over two
and fifty firefighters on the frontlines in the hillsides right
now actively fighting this fire, supported by more than one
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hundred firefighters from La County Fire, as well as additional
resources from Orange County, Ventura County, CalFire, and neighboring cities
including Arcadia and Santa Monica. I also want to thank
our partners in law enforcement for their terrific coordinated response
with us today. LAPD, LA County Sheriff's Department CHP is
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here as well as our park rangers. Obviously, the scope
and scale of today's fire here in the Palisades has
been terrifying. We are so incredibly grateful for the swift response,
and to my constituents here in the Pacific Palisades, I
want to reiterate this is not a drill. This is
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an actual public safety emergency. Areas west of Mandeville Canyon
and north of Sunset have been ordered for evacuation, so
please make sure that you are packed and ready to
go and complying with all directives being given to you
by law enforcement and our partners at the Fire Service.
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As well, LA City is activating emergency shelter at Westwood
Recreation Center. People in the Palisades who have been displaced
by today's.
Speaker 3 (37:30):
Events are invited to go there.
Speaker 5 (37:32):
We are working with Animal Services to receive and care
for pets that are being displaced as well, and as
additional resources come online, we'll be providing those updates for you.
Local residents should follow along for additional information and updates
through official city channels as well as LAPD, LAFD, and
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LA County updates. As this is a dynamic situation, this
is a fast moving and growing fire at over twelve
hundred acres at this point, and with the predicted wind
patterns and continued whether event We expect the situation content
to continue through the evening. It may take our partners
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at fire a couple of days to get the situation
under control. It may be some time until people are
allowed to return to their homes and residences. Please bear
with us through this period as our public safety partners
work hard to protect lives and property and ensure that
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this area is safe before people return. In the meantime,
if anyone needs additional assistance, I would welcome them to
reach out to me and my team. All of our
contact information is at CD eleven dot Lacity dot gov.
Thank you to my my friends and constituents, and thank
you to all of our partners, including Governor Newsom for
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being here with us today.
Speaker 3 (39:05):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 10 (39:09):
Thank you man.
Speaker 8 (39:10):
We'd like to now ask Council Member John Lee to
please speak.
Speaker 2 (39:17):
First of all, I just want to thank all the
firefighters who are on the first responders that are fighting
this fire right now. Also a big thank you to
all the organizations throughout the city, county, and state that
are assisting our firefighters and what they need to do today.
As chair of the Public Safety Committee, it's my job
to monitor situations all throughout the city of Los Angeles,
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and the most important information that I can share with
you today is to all of our residents. As soon
as we get any new information, we are trying to
disseminate that as quickly as possible.
Speaker 1 (39:48):
It's important that you listen to that information.
Speaker 2 (39:50):
As someone who represents a district that is commonly affected
by fires too. One of the issues that is we
ask our residents to do is if you're asked to
a if you're asked us to have thord whatever it
is that we're asking you, if you're in one of
those affected areas, that you don't create additional problems for
our firefighters, so our firefighters can focus on what they're
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supposed to do, and that's getting this fire out.
Speaker 1 (40:13):
Thank you all for being here.
Speaker 8 (40:17):
Thank you counsel Member, and now we'd like to ask
the Governor Gavin Newsom to peace meek.
Speaker 4 (40:23):
Thank you, thank everybody. Hell of a way to start
a new year again. Let me add my voice the
voice of so many others, and extending deep appreciation of
the men and women in uniform across jurisdictions. I want
to thank in particular Chief Coli and Chief Ronning for
your outstanding leadership. Police chief Sheriff's Office, all of our
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local law enforcement agencies that work hand in glove. There
is simply no better mutual aid system anywhere in the
United States of America, and you're seeing it now at
scale once again here in southern California. I say once
again because we were here not too long ago, the
Franklin Fire a few weeks prior to that, the Mountain
Fire November December, now January. There's no fire season, its
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fire year. It's year round, and it's incredibly important that
we heed the warnings, the calls that we're not out
of the woods by any stretch of the imagination. You
may feel at home that you're fine down in Riverside County,
San Bernardino County, down in Ventura County, other parts of
the state, but there's a reason we pre positioned hundreds
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of assets and personnel on Sunday in anticipation of this
wind event. One hundred and ten engines specifically were sent
down forty five by Cal Fire sixty five through our
mutual aid system, through the Office of Emergency Services water
tenders down here. Seven new helicopters we brought from northern
California down to southern California. We just brought our sea
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one thirty down from northern California and already just had
its first drop. By no stretch of the imagination or
we out of the woods. You heard a chiefs say
ten pm tonight till five am tomorrow will be peak Wins.
And having just quite literally an hour or so ago,
gone up the canyon and saw firsthand the impact of
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these swirling winds and the embers, and the number of
structures that are destroyed, not a few, many structures already destroyed,
and the fact that people were still not evacuated, still
did not heed the warning we're just coming down the
canyon is a reminder of how serious this moment is
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and how important it is you listen to these evacuation orders.
We've all been to memorials. I've never been to a
memorial for a building, but for family members and loved ones.
I know you cannot say this enough. It's foundational. One
other thing I want to say, because you can't say
it enough, is expression of gratitude the President United States
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happens to be in town. It didn't take more than
a text message to get the f mag approved, which
means we're getting reimbursed for the vast majority of these costs.
No politics, no handwringing, kissing on the feet. President of
the United States said, yes, what else do you need?
Mercy proclamations being drafted as we speak, And I just
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want to thank the President because that's something I don't
take for granted, and something we should not take for
granted at this moment in American history. So thank you,
President Biden as well. Final point, we encourage you. You
heard all those websites. I don't want to burden you
with anymore except one fire dot ca dot gov. And
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why do I say that, nothing like it in the countries,
Nothing like that we've seen in any jurisdiction around the world.
Three D maps and live cams on fire dot CA
dot gov would also show you the evacuation orders. I
encourage people to take a look at that site for
information and of course ready dot ca dot to make
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sure that you're prepared as we work through yet another
extraordinary month in this fire year, perpetual fire year here
in the state of California. Thank you again to all
of the folks behind me in the outstanding leadership of
all the elected officials as well, and forgive me one point,
i'd be remiss. Thank you to Mayor Bass, who was
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on the phone immediately this morning, making sure even an
abstentia that she's here organizing everything she can to make
sure we're successful as well.
Speaker 12 (44:34):
This is KFI and KOST HD two Los Angeles and
Orange County.
Speaker 1 (44:39):
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the podcast after four o'clock on the iHeart app. Pacific
Palisades fires. As of an hour or two ago, it
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burned almost eight hundred acres. It's obviously more than that.
It's burning many homes. There was everybody in the Palisades
is supposed to evacuate. It's mandatory evacuation throughout the entire village,
all the way east to rusht the canyon, and there
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are roads that were blocked because people had to abandon
their cars. It was gridlock. No one could move. Palm
trees were catching fire. People were afraid the trees would
fall on them. We have we saw the video and
we were talking about it a little while back. We're
going to play you now some audio from Channel five
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Gene Kang in the neighborhood where they had a bulldozer
moving cars Sopecific Palisades.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
All of these cars were pitched, so all of the
drivers panic.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
They took their keys.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
This is Palisades Drive as well as Sunset Boulevard.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
This dozer is just moving these vehicles out of the way.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
So if this is your car, unfortunately, it's an emergency.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Situation and this is what they have to do.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
They are moving the cars.
Speaker 5 (01:32):
As we speak.
Speaker 6 (01:34):
Unfortunately, there are dozens of cars.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
This looks like a movie set. Unfortunately this is real
La County fire. They have to do what they have
to do.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
They need to clear a path, so literally they're moving
the cars to SUVs.
Speaker 7 (01:47):
We're seeing Mercedes, very nice vehicles, testless.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
Up here, but that's because the car owners they took
their keys and they.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Just started running.
Speaker 5 (01:56):
They left the cars here as the firefighters.
Speaker 6 (01:58):
Were trying to clear the pathway, clear the roadway.
Speaker 8 (02:01):
This is an emergency situation where you know, they need
to get up to the homes.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
They want to make sure people are not trapped up there.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
But this line of cars probably.
Speaker 9 (02:11):
Goes about three hundred feet deep at least as long
as I can see from this bird's eye view.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
So we're kind of staying back.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
They're in a situation there where they are literally moving.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
These vehicles out of the way.
Speaker 10 (02:25):
Yes, it is causing damage.
Speaker 5 (02:27):
As you can hear from the screeching noises, but that
is what they want to do.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Wow. Yeah, everybody ran at the same time, and obviously
you'd take your keys with you, but you're going to
come back and your car is going to be crushed.
Speaker 11 (02:42):
Well, and I don't think the firefighters would have time
even if the keys were left.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Yeah, right, driving them off.
Speaker 11 (02:50):
Yeah, this is a little more effective and efficient.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
You only need one car to be in the way
to block the fire truck. So and they had dozens
of them, but he's had three hundred feet it's worth
of cars.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
It's crazy.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
So I wonder exactly what was happening there was it
a wall of flame, trees on fire. I'm looking some
of the video is so spectacular on Channel four. I mean,
I'm out of adjectives to describe how furious this fire is.
The flames are so high, so wide, the wind is
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blowing so hard. I mean, this really is is hell
and you don't you don't know what's burning, but it's
got to be a lot of homes going down.
Speaker 11 (03:32):
The l a f D is going to be holding
a news conference soon, so I don't know what exactly
soon means, but of course as soon as that happens,
we will be all over it and we'll bring it
to you live.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Even if they had a time, the time wouldn't hold. Yeah,
they're announced. Times never do hold. They never do No.
So every everything I see on various channels, I got
five of them on here, and yeah, they literally have.
Each one of them has a different home that's burning
or a different area of brush. We had Dominic, one
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of our listeners. He's called in a couple of times
as he was once when he was fleeing, and then
then he's back in his office in Santa Monica and
said he could see flames that were fifty to seventy
five feet high in the hillside. I'm looking at Channel
four right now, and there's a home already being burnt
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to a shell, and it looks like a number of
homes in the neighborhood is The camera pans from left
to right. Their bushes, their trees are burning, the lawn
is burning, the homes are burning. There's a there's a
whre now here on on Channel eleven. It looks like
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a large structure. I don't know if it's an apartment
building or a big mansion that's completely consumed with flames.
It's it's endless. And I hate to harp on this,
but the worst may be yet to come because the
winds are supposed to pick up with intensity, and you know,
the firefighters are trying what they can do, but this
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is a force of nature. It's really rare. The winds
like this have not been seen since around twenty eleven
here in southern California, where they're you know, steady at
up to forty fifty miles an hour, steady, and the
wind's going to last through Thursday. Yeah, I mean it's
only Tuesday. Yeah, So they got to do what they
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can to keep the fire from getting down on the
flatlands of Palisades and Brentwood in Santa Monica as best
they can. But the hillsides up there in the highlands,
it's just going to be a matter of luck whether
your home got hit or not, because I just don't
think there's much the firemen can do that. The skies
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are thick black. Oh. Here back on Channel four, we
could see this home burning. They have a garage, and
you could see the flying, the flames shooting through the window.
It's like a garage with panels all across from left
to right, three rows, about a half a dozen panels,
and the top panels, I guess were windows, and you
could see the flames shooting through the windows of that
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garage door, and then flames shooting out of every room
in the house. Now, now other streets as they're traveling
around untouched, and then others. It looks like an entire
block may have gotten wiped out. And that's the nature
of these things. We'll continue with our coverage here of
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the Pallet Pa Civic Palisades fire. If you're in Pacific
pal Do we have somebody online now? No?
Speaker 12 (06:49):
Not right now?
Speaker 1 (06:50):
All right? One eight hundred and five to two oh
one five, three four will put you on the air
if you've got a story about what you've been going
through today, or you know where you are right now,
one eight hundred and five to oh one five I
have three four. You're listening to John Cobelt on demand
from KFI AM six forty. The Pacific Palisades fire completely
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out of control. LA Fire Department's going to have a
news conference shortly. We'll bring it to you live when
that happens. One eight hundred and five to one five
three four. If you're in the middle of it, We're
going to talk to Sue, who just evacuated.
Speaker 9 (07:25):
Sue, Hello, Yes, we just came down Tumescal Canyon Road,
which was bumper to bumper. The police were at the bottom,
which was great, trying to get everyone off the road.
But if anyone is still in the Palisades, they should
start evacuating now because it's bumper to bumper to try
and get out of there. Sunset was already clogged up
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by noon, and you could see the flames from the
hill close to where I live. They exploded on the
hillside and then you could hear pops of I'm imagining
probably gas as buildings sort of exploded with the fire.
The wind is just nasty, with ashes everywhere starting other fires.
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It's it's really I've never seen anything like this ever.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
Where do you live, Generally the neighborhood.
Speaker 9 (08:23):
I'm close to the Palisades High School and generally you know,
the fire sort of comes through the Santa Monica Mountains
and goes towards the ocean. But the ashes are so
bad that I think even probably south of Sunset is
going to be being jeopardy tonight with the winds. If
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they're as bad as.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
They're predicting, Yeah, they're supposed to go in all night
and get even stronger, and the gusts could be you know,
sixty eighty miles an hour or more. So, Yeah, that's overwhelming.
Everybody around you get out.
Speaker 9 (08:58):
Yeah, everyone is, I think pretty much evacuated because there's
no use even trying to you know how you see
people with their hoses trying to fight something. This is
something you're not going to be able to fight. The
wind is just too bad. The flames are just too bad.
You just have to hope. As we were evacuating down
the hill, we saw fire trucks coming from Cavena Arcadia,
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all sorts of places up the hill to help fight
the fire.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
To go.
Speaker 9 (09:29):
I'm sorry, where are you going to go now?
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Oh?
Speaker 9 (09:32):
I'm on the tan with my two dogs trying to
find a place to stay for the night.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
You're just going to drive around find a hotel?
Speaker 9 (09:42):
Yeah? Either that or we'll just camp by like the
homeless do on the on the hillside and use propane
or something. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
All right, Well, good luck. At least you got out
of there.
Speaker 9 (09:54):
Right, But I will say it's I've never had to
evacuate before, and it's sort of like as we started
to put things together, you know, even though you're supposed
to have your ready set go bag, I would just
say everyone in California should have that ready set go
bag because all of a sudden, you look.
Speaker 10 (10:11):
And you go, do I have the passport? Do I
have the dog food? Do I have?
Speaker 9 (10:15):
So I would urge everyone who is even in distance
of where this fire might be to have their ready
set goal bag done.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Yeah, yeah, because I mean people did not have more
than a few minutes to get out because these flames
blew up so quickly, so near neighborhoods up in the
up of the Highlands there.
Speaker 9 (10:33):
Oh, it was just incredible. I was filming it from
one side, and within thirty seconds a whole hill side
next to it just blew up. So a lot of
people really did just have to run.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
All right, Sue, thank you very much for calling in sure,
thank you, all right, And let's go to a Christian
who just left the Palisades. Christian, what's going on with you?
Speaker 9 (10:57):
Yeah?
Speaker 13 (10:59):
You know, right, sucking traffic right now. I left out
of there about one twenty and I've been on sunset
for two hours, just about to make my way to
the four or five through Burntwood over here. It's been
pretty nasty though. I work over there at Lululemon on Sunset,
right down pretty much at the bottom of the hill
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just before Temesco Canyon, And at about ten thirty, you know,
we saw the smoke and we saw a couple of
emergency vehicles head up that way about like ten forty
We could see people from our storefront stopping and taking
pictures and like videoing, and we were like, oh, something's
going on. About like ten forty five, the hill was
just pretty much it was like engulfed. And then that's
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when all the emergency units started flying anything and everything
from everywhere was coming up that hill and coming up
that hill, coming up that hill very very fast, you know.
So we evacuated. We evacuated before the order. All the
businesses out there in the Polatase village we shut down
and we got out of the dodge. But I hung
back and watched a little bit of it. And I mean,
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I've never seen things like this unless it was in
the movies, you know. I saw a fire, tornadoes, happening.
You had a caller on earlier. I was saying, like
the flames were just immensely high and on agree, Like
I was at least two miles away and they looked
high from there, so being down on the ground, it
had to be just like beyond anything human.
Speaker 9 (12:28):
You know.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
Yeah, you saw fire tornadoes. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 13 (12:34):
I don't know if many people have done it, but
Universal Studios, do you have an exhibit, the backdraft exhibit
where they would show how like you ca manipulate fire
and how we would like spin around in like this cyclone. Yeah,
and there were just there were like three or four
of them coming over well, it had come over the
hill and then it was coming down towards like the
rec center side of the village there, and you could
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just see they were just tornadoes.
Speaker 9 (12:57):
Like literally it was some of them.
Speaker 13 (12:59):
Like one of the most terrifying impact of any things
I've ever seen in my life.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
I was gonna say, this is not something anybody has
a reference point for, unless it's the movies or unless
you go to Universal. This something that seems to be
some crazy special effect and you were seeing it real
and live.
Speaker 13 (13:16):
Yeah, yeah, I have I have footage of it. It
doesn't come out too well, but yeah, three of them. Like,
and I even texted my friends. I'm like, I'm sitting
I'm sitting here watching fire tornadoes. Like that's how it's
it's my body because usually you're right, you just see
like the flames, you just see the hills burning, but
with the winds going and I guess it creating its
(13:37):
own wind system.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
There they were literal, Yeah, fire tornadoes.
Speaker 13 (13:42):
Coming down coming down the hillside there.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
Wow, that's wild. All right, Well, I'm glad you're okay,
stay safe. Thank you for calling in. Yeah, thanks, Fire Tournament.
I mean that that that stuff. Really I noticed the
reference point for everybody something they've seen in the movies
or what he saw at Universal. This is not something
anybody experiences in life up close like that. This intense.
Speaker 11 (14:03):
Well just watching it on TV. That bulldozer, I've never
seen anything like that. I mean, this is in our
own backyard. By the way, cal Fire is reporting that
the fire has grown to one two hundred and sixty acres.
We are hearing that day news conference is supposed to
start around three point thirty this afternoon, so of course
we will bring that to you live when it happens.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
Here's another story. The La Times has Ellen deloche Bacher.
She was in downtown La when she learned of the fire,
and she lives in the Palisades. So she rushes to
her home where her ninety five year old mother, the
mother's caregiver, and their two dogs live. So can you
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imagine the panic she's feeling. And what what happens is
she hits gridlock at Sunset and Palisades Drive. That is
the choke point because Palisades Drive is the only exit
out of the Pacific Highlands, which is a large development
of really nice homes up north of Sunset Boulevard, and
it's just it's just you can only move in and out.
(15:08):
I'll continue that story in a minute. But Kelly, who
we had on earlier, she was at that corner of
Sunset and Palisades Drive when somebody can knock it on
her door and told her to get out of the car.
And she was live on the air with us, and
she ran away. Kelly, where are you now?
Speaker 10 (15:25):
Well, right now, we're in a safe We're in a
safe place. We're in a parking lot in Santa Monica.
But we had to be all the cars have been
bulldozed away. We were at Gladstone's parking lot on Palasage
driven sun and Sunset, and we had to be evacuated
from there because the fire was moving that way. So
(15:47):
we started to walk.
Speaker 9 (15:49):
We started to.
Speaker 10 (15:49):
Walk towards Santa Monica and a woman and her and
her daughter picked us up off the side of the road.
And her name is Lily Yeller and she's an absolute
angel and she drove us to where we can be saved.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
Wow. And you have a dog with you right now?
Speaker 10 (16:08):
We have a dog with us.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
Yeah. Now do you have other family? And do you
know where everyone is?
Speaker 9 (16:14):
Yes?
Speaker 10 (16:14):
And yes, No one else is in the Palisades or
near the Palisades, and everyone has been in contact with us.
And my sister is going to drive to get us.
I bet our house part of it was caught on fire.
We don't know how much.
Speaker 4 (16:31):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
Wow. Yeah, when you were in the car and you
were on with us, who is yelling at you to
get out of the car. Was that the police?
Speaker 9 (16:42):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (16:43):
And that was because you had a palm tree on
fire at the corner I think about fifty feet from you. Yeah. Yeah,
because we had another guy call in who I think
was just a couple of cars in front of you,
and he was like under the palm tree and he
got out of there.
Speaker 10 (16:59):
Yeah, I mean yeah, they I mean all the cars
were everyone was running from that cars.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Is there a way to describe how how scared you were.
Speaker 10 (17:11):
To be honest with you, like, I am still in
shock right now. I don't have time.
Speaker 13 (17:20):
To do that.
Speaker 10 (17:22):
Yeah, I didn't have time to do that. I'm sure
it will come later, but yeah, so if you go upstairs.
Speaker 9 (17:28):
I can't.
Speaker 10 (17:28):
I think I just shut down to be quite honest
with you, and just kept moving.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Yeah, nothing else you can do right now. Well, Kelly, Uh,
thank you for calling in, and you know, stay safe
and thank you. You know, at least you're okay, and
the dog and the rest of your family you're okay.
Thank you very much, Thank you for coming on. All right,
we will continue, uh and we got a news conference
coming up momentarily as well.
Speaker 7 (17:54):
You're listening to John Cobel's on demand from KFI A
M six forty.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
'ron one until four after four o'clock. You could listen
to the podcast John Cobelt's Show on demand. The latest
is that the fires at twelve hundred acres it's expanding
very rapidly. There is not a lot of hard information
because the media obviously can't get inside the fire zone,
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and fire officials have no way of counting how many
homes have been burned. They may not even know obviously
how many. They're scattered out among many neighborhoods in the hillsides,
especially north of Pacific Palisades, But just visually watching all
the TV channels, there's quite a few homes that have burned,
and they're going to have a press conference and try
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to give us some detail. But this is one of
those situations. Because of the thick smoke and the heavy winds,
there are very few aerial shots to see overhead what's happened.
You can't get inside. All the roads are closed, the
the smoke is just too thick. The visibility is zero.
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The simple ways to explain that the entire town of
Pacific Palisades has been ordered to evacuate east into the
Brentwood area, as far as Allenford and twenty sixth Street
where Paul Revere Middle School is. People have to evacuate
all the way up there and south of Sunset, even
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a little bit of Santa Monica. But the whole town
of Pacific Palisades. Everybody is supposed to be out of there.
Some people though, trapped because of the gridlock conditions on
the roads, especially leaving the Pacific Highlands. When last segment
we had to break for some phone calls. And there
is only one road that goes north south out of
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the Pacific Highlands, which is an enclave, wealthy enclave north
of the Palisades Village, and that's the only way to
get there and the only way to get out. And
it's beautiful there to it's once you're stuck, you're stuck.
Here is the latest from the National Weather Service, and
none of us is good news, endeavor, None of this
(20:10):
is good news for you because you're in the hillside
and woodland hills. They're expecting in the San Fernando Valley
all the way up to Simi Valley north to northeast
winds fifty to eighty miles an hour beginning now until
noon tomorrow, isolated gusts eighty to one hundred miles an hour,
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the strongest in the mountains and foothills. And we talked
about the mountain wave phenomenon, where winds can come down
the side of a mountain so fast hit the flatlands
and it's just some kind of physics phenomena that happens,
and you could get a burst of a very intense
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winds even higher than what I'm telling you.
Speaker 11 (20:57):
And we haven't had that for more than a decade.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
That's right. Twenty eleven was the last time. It was
November December twenty eleven. Uh and that that shutdown power
for thousands and thousands of people. The greatest concern is
for Highway one to eight the area between Highway one
eighteen and Route two ten that card are from Simi
Valley to Claremont. That's where the strongest winds may happen.
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There are gonna be many down trees, many power outages,
damage to structures, vehicles, big rigs, trailers, motor homes can
be knocked over and they have. On the map, the
National Weather Service drew a yellow box on the map
to show the area the greatest concern and it runs
from west to east from roughly thousand Oaks east past
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Canoga Park, pull the way out to Claremont. I mean
that's a long distance there and again that is supposed
to go on until noon to Also in Santa Barbara
and San Luis Obispo Counties, wins twenty to forty miles
an hour, a little lighter than here, isolated forty to
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fifty mile an hour, gusts, and again the mountain and
the hills or where you're going to get the most
of the damage. I had mentioned some of the crazy
stories that people have in the LA Times. This woman
Ellen Deloche Baker, Hey John.
Speaker 11 (22:23):
The press conference, the LA Fire Department is holding the
press conference on fire in Palasa's Rock towly.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
Twelve hundred acres.
Speaker 8 (22:30):
And to go into all the specifics, we have a
list of eight individuals that will speak for you today.
After those eight individuals will have Spanish and then we'll
have follow up questions. After that, we'll have one on
one interviews and let you know when the next press
conference will be. So we ask at this time please
silence your cell phones, turn down your radios, keep your
sidebar conversations off to the side. But to begin with,
(22:53):
we'd like to call up the fire chief of the
Los Angeles City Fire Department, Kristin Crowley.
Speaker 14 (23:04):
Well, good afternoon everyone. I'll be giving you a brief
on what your LFD has done up to this point so.
At ten thirty this morning, a brush fire was reported
at one point one nine zero North Piedra Miranda Drive
in our local fire station here right behind us at
fire Station twenty three. Los Angeles is currently experiencing an
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extreme fire weather condition with red flag alert. At the
time of the fire, the relative humidity was twelve and
the winds were approximately twenty five miles an hour with
gus up to fifty miles per hour. Based on the
red flag weather, your LFD pre deployed additional resources, made
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public awareness notifications, and issued parking restrictions in high hazard
fire areas to ensure that the means of access and
egress of our local fire stations and apparatus could move
up in around the area. First, LAFD resources reported initially
a ten acre fire with forty mile per hour winds
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and alignment heading towards the west or towards the ocean.
The LFD then requested all resources, including strike teams and
aircraft from assisting agencies.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
We then went into an.
Speaker 14 (24:24):
Aggressive attack and focused our efforts on firelife safety operations,
beginning with evacuations. Currently, the fire is at one two
hundred and sixty one acres and growing. Based on aerial reconnaissance,
the fire is being fueled by combination of strong winds
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and surrounding topography, which is making it extremely challenging for
our personnel that are signed to this incident. We currently
have over two hundred and fifty LFD firefighters on scene,
including forty six engines, three trucks, five helicopters, four brush patrols,
two water tenders, six paramedic ambulances, one fast response vehicle,
(25:10):
one Advanced Nurse Practitioner unit, two bulldozers, ten chief officers,
fire investigators, and safety officers. Additionally, we are so grateful
for the hundreds of law enforcement officers, partner agencies, first responders,
and public work members that are.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
Engaged actively in this operation.
Speaker 14 (25:33):
Pch's closed from Lincoln Tunnel to Tipanga Boulevard. Evacuation orders
are in place for approximately thirty thousand residents, including the
Highlands area north of PCH, south of Topanga Canyon Boulevard,
east of Tuna Canyon Road, west of Seabreeze.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
Drive, and Surfside Drive.
Speaker 14 (25:56):
Our evacuation center is a Westwood recreation center located at
thirteen fifty Self Suppulvida Boulevard in La The population threatened
is approximately twenty five thousand, seven hundred and forty eight.
Households threatened it's approximately ten thousand, three hundred and sixty seven.
Structures threatened are approximately thirteen thousand, two hundred and eight.
(26:19):
At this point, we feel very blessed at this point
that there's no injuries that are reported. We do have
reports of multiple structures that are damaged. Since the beginning
of this fire, I've been in constant communication with Mayor
Bass as well as other city leadership who's working very
very closely. As you can see this entire entity behind me,
we're working seamlessly and closely to ensure that we are
(26:44):
protecting lives and property first.
Speaker 3 (26:47):
So with that, we'll go ahead and introduce the next speaker.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
Thank you, Chief Crowley.
Speaker 8 (26:55):
The next speaker will be the Los Angeles County Fire
Chief Maroni.
Speaker 6 (27:01):
So good afternoon. My name is Anthony Moronium, the County
of Los Angeles Fire Department Chief. Shortly after the start
of the Palisades Fire, La County Fire did assist the
City of Los Angeles with a first alarm brush assignment.
At eleven thirty hours this morning, our La County Fire
Department went into unified command with the City of Los Angeles,
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and at twelve thirty our CalFire partners from the state
went into com unified command with not only La City Fire,
La County Fire, and LAPD. Currently, LA County Fire is
providing aerial resources to fight this brush fire, including our
Firehawk helicopters, OURCH forty seven, part of our nighttime QRF
(27:51):
resource that we have in addition to our COL four
fifteen super scoopers. We also have three engine strike teams
assigned and almost one hundred La County Fire personnel. I
want to let all of the viewers and listeners know
that we are not out of danger. The National Weather
Service has predicted that the winds are going to pick
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up and get worse. We're going to have the most
significant wind event between ten pm this evening and five
am tomorrow morning. So it's incumbent that everybody have a
wildfire action plan for their home if they live in
a brush covered area. Please visit the La County Fire
Department website for ready set go information so that's fire
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dot Lacounty dot gov, forward slash RSG and for the
most up to date incident information and emergency preparedness information
go to Lacounty dot gov forward slash emergency.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
Thank you, Thank you.
Speaker 8 (28:59):
Chief Emergencies always by our side as our friends from
law enforcement. So we'd like to invite LAPD Chief of
Police Jim McDonald, thank.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
You very much. We are here in a support role
to our fire partners. Just a quick rundown.
Speaker 7 (29:16):
We have over one hundred officers here deployed, another approximately
sixty ready to be deployed once a mission is given
to them. So far, the major job for our people
have been evacuation, traffic control allowing ingress and egress to
emergency vehicles and those can be helpful. I would have
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an ask that if you would please do everything you
can to open up the streets so we can get
the resources we need to be able to deal with
this emergency. Please take this wind emergency very seriously, as
you heard from the speakers before me. This is something
that is going to get worse throughout the night, so
we all have to look out for each other.
Speaker 3 (29:57):
Areas of evacuation.
Speaker 7 (29:59):
So far, about thirty thousand people have been evacuated from
a total of ten thousand households or fifteen thousand structures
to include businesses and other buildings so far with no injury,
so we're very thankful for that. What we truly ask
for all assistants that we can get and making this
as smooth as we possibly can.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
Thank you, Thank you, Chief McDonald I.
Speaker 8 (30:24):
We'd also like to call up Elie County Supervisor Lindsey Horvath, please.
Speaker 15 (30:31):
Thank you my deepest thanks to the first responders who
are working tirelessly to fight this Palisades fire. Moments ago,
Chair Barger signed La County's emergency proclamation for this fire,
for the severe wind event and all of the fires
related to it. As the National Weather Service predicted, this
is a life threatening situation to our Palisades and to
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Panga community under evacuation order. Please leave, ensure your home
is unlocked, the power is off, and making sure first
responders can easily access the structure. This is essential to
keeping you safe and to allowing fire and first responder
personnel to do their work. For our unincorporated communities in
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Santa Monica Mountains including Sunset, Mesa, Topanga Canyon, and Malibu
all under evacuation order and evacuation warning. Please ensure you
are checking emergency dot LA County dot gov and heating
all door to door information from our La County, Sheriff
and fire departments. Thanks to our partners at the Tapanga
(31:39):
Coalition for Emergency Preparedness, who work year round to practice
evacuation drills and emergency preparedness, and they're working tirelessly right
now to ensure information is shared across Topanga. For those
with livestock, the evacuation location is Pierce College. For those
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needing small animal evacuation location, the Anima Agora Animal Shelter
is available to you. Thank you to Governor Newsom for
your quick support and coordination. Thanks to Mayor Bass, to
Council Member Park and all of the council members in
the city, and all of our partners city, county, and
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state unified and working together to keep people safe and
address this fire. The County and City of Los Angeles
have a lot of experience in unified command. This emergency
is no different. We're dedicating every resource we can to
urgency urgently contain this fire. I want to extend my
gratitude to the Los Angeles County Fire Department, the Sheriff's Department,
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the Office of Emergency Management, and all of our county partners.
I know LAUSD. Officials also wanted to be with us,
but given the conditions that was challenging. A few school
updates to Panga Elementary at Woodland Hills Academy will be
relocated all week. Palisades and Marquees Elementaries will be relocated
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at Brentwood Science Magnet for tomorrow. Paul Revere Middle School
will be relocated at University High tomorrow. Palli High School
is not in session this entire week, and Canyon Elementary
will be relocated at a location to be determined. To
those affected by the Palisades fire, I know today is
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terrifying and it is painful.
Speaker 10 (33:31):
Please know that you are not alone.
Speaker 15 (33:33):
The County of Los Angeles and all of our partners
are here together to stand with you and be in
support of you. Thank you again to everyone who is
contributing resources to this incident. Your partnership is appreciated and
it is essential to keeping people safe. Thank you very much.
Speaker 8 (33:52):
Thank you, Supervisor. Next, we'd like to bring up Los
Angeles City Council President Marquis Harristoff.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 12 (34:02):
I just want everybody to know that since this morning
about seven am, I've been in direct communication with Mayor Bass,
who's on her way home from a diplomatic mission on
behalf of the United States government. She will be here
within hours. Also, we want everybody to know that the
city is well prepared and has a tremendous emergency management
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infrastructure who has been on the case since sixth this morning,
at the beginning of this wind event. I'm proud to
say that we have some of the best men and
women anywhere in our fire department, out a police department,
as well as their partners across the state and across
the county. I also want everybody to know that, as
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acting Mayor and President of the La City Council, along
with the county, and we'll hear from the governor later,
the City of La is declaring a state of emergency
through this wind event, and we'll have all resources on
deck and our ask, our personal ask, and we'll hear
from the council member from this district. But if you
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can stay off of our roads, please do so to
allow emergency vehicles to go across the city. And also
remember we'll continue to drive this home. The worst and
most severe part of this wind event is yet to come.
So if you're around the city and you have been spared,
be thankful, but also be on guard. Bring you a
(35:25):
lawn furniture in and again help us by staying off
the roads. And I will ask the council member from
this district who's been on the street since early this
morning making sure the neighborhoods have the information that they
need and resources that they need, to come to the podium.
Our own Councilwoman Tracy Park, thank.
Speaker 5 (35:45):
You, thank you everyone for being here, and Council President
Harris Stawson. I want to begin by thanking all of
our public safety partners. LA City Fire has over two
and fifty firefighters on the frontlines in the hillsides right
now actively fighting this fire, supported by more than one
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hundred firefighters from La County Fire, as well as additional
resources from Orange County, Ventura County, CalFire, and neighboring cities
including Arcadia and Santa Monica. I also want to thank
our partners in law enforcement for their terrific coordinated response
with us today. LAPD, LA County Sheriff's Department CHP is
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here as well as our park rangers. Obviously, the scope
and scale of today's fire here in the Palisades has
been terrifying. We are so incredibly grateful for the swift response,
and to my constituents here in the Pacific Palisades, I
want to reiterate this is not a drill. This is
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an actual public safety emergency. Areas west of Mandeville Canyon
and north of Sunset have been ordered for evacuation, so
please make sure that you are packed and ready to
go and complying with all directives being given to you
by law enforcement and our partners at the Fire Service.
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As well, LA City is activating emergency shelter at Westwood
Recreation Center. People in the Palisades who have been displaced
by today's.
Speaker 3 (37:30):
Events are invited to go there.
Speaker 5 (37:32):
We are working with Animal Services to receive and care
for pets that are being displaced as well, and as
additional resources come online, we'll be providing those updates for you.
Local residents should follow along for additional information and updates
through official city channels as well as LAPD, LAFD, and
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LA County updates. As this is a dynamic situation, this
is a fast moving and growing fire at over twelve
hundred acres at this point, and with the predicted wind
patterns and continued whether event We expect the situation content
to continue through the evening. It may take our partners
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at fire a couple of days to get the situation
under control. It may be some time until people are
allowed to return to their homes and residences. Please bear
with us through this period as our public safety partners
work hard to protect lives and property and ensure that
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this area is safe before people return. In the meantime,
if anyone needs additional assistance, I would welcome them to
reach out to me and my team. All of our
contact information is at CD eleven dot Lacity dot gov.
Thank you to my my friends and constituents, and thank
you to all of our partners, including Governor Newsom for
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being here with us today.
Speaker 3 (39:05):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 10 (39:09):
Thank you man.
Speaker 8 (39:10):
We'd like to now ask Council Member John Lee to
please speak.
Speaker 2 (39:17):
First of all, I just want to thank all the
firefighters who are on the first responders that are fighting
this fire right now. Also a big thank you to
all the organizations throughout the city, county, and state that
are assisting our firefighters and what they need to do today.
As chair of the Public Safety Committee, it's my job
to monitor situations all throughout the city of Los Angeles,
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and the most important information that I can share with
you today is to all of our residents. As soon
as we get any new information, we are trying to
disseminate that as quickly as possible.
Speaker 1 (39:48):
It's important that you listen to that information.
Speaker 2 (39:50):
As someone who represents a district that is commonly affected
by fires too. One of the issues that is we
ask our residents to do is if you're asked to
a if you're asked us to have thord whatever it
is that we're asking you, if you're in one of
those affected areas, that you don't create additional problems for
our firefighters, so our firefighters can focus on what they're
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supposed to do, and that's getting this fire out.
Speaker 1 (40:13):
Thank you all for being here.
Speaker 8 (40:17):
Thank you counsel Member, and now we'd like to ask
the Governor Gavin Newsom to peace meek.
Speaker 4 (40:23):
Thank you, thank everybody. Hell of a way to start
a new year again. Let me add my voice the
voice of so many others, and extending deep appreciation of
the men and women in uniform across jurisdictions. I want
to thank in particular Chief Coli and Chief Ronning for
your outstanding leadership. Police chief Sheriff's Office, all of our
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local law enforcement agencies that work hand in glove. There
is simply no better mutual aid system anywhere in the
United States of America, and you're seeing it now at
scale once again here in southern California. I say once
again because we were here not too long ago, the
Franklin Fire a few weeks prior to that, the Mountain
Fire November December, now January. There's no fire season, its
(41:07):
fire year. It's year round, and it's incredibly important that
we heed the warnings, the calls that we're not out
of the woods by any stretch of the imagination. You
may feel at home that you're fine down in Riverside County,
San Bernardino County, down in Ventura County, other parts of
the state, but there's a reason we pre positioned hundreds
(41:29):
of assets and personnel on Sunday in anticipation of this
wind event. One hundred and ten engines specifically were sent
down forty five by Cal Fire sixty five through our
mutual aid system, through the Office of Emergency Services water
tenders down here. Seven new helicopters we brought from northern
California down to southern California. We just brought our sea
(41:52):
one thirty down from northern California and already just had
its first drop. By no stretch of the imagination or
we out of the woods. You heard a chiefs say
ten pm tonight till five am tomorrow will be peak Wins.
And having just quite literally an hour or so ago,
gone up the canyon and saw firsthand the impact of
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these swirling winds and the embers, and the number of
structures that are destroyed, not a few, many structures already destroyed,
and the fact that people were still not evacuated, still
did not heed the warning we're just coming down the
canyon is a reminder of how serious this moment is
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and how important it is you listen to these evacuation orders.
We've all been to memorials. I've never been to a
memorial for a building, but for family members and loved ones.
I know you cannot say this enough. It's foundational. One
other thing I want to say, because you can't say
it enough, is expression of gratitude the President United States
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happens to be in town. It didn't take more than
a text message to get the f mag approved, which
means we're getting reimbursed for the vast majority of these costs.
No politics, no handwringing, kissing on the feet. President of
the United States said, yes, what else do you need?
Mercy proclamations being drafted as we speak, And I just
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want to thank the President because that's something I don't
take for granted, and something we should not take for
granted at this moment in American history. So thank you,
President Biden as well. Final point, we encourage you. You
heard all those websites. I don't want to burden you
with anymore except one fire dot ca dot gov. And
(43:40):
why do I say that, nothing like it in the countries,
Nothing like that we've seen in any jurisdiction around the world.
Three D maps and live cams on fire dot CA
dot gov would also show you the evacuation orders. I
encourage people to take a look at that site for
information and of course ready dot ca dot to make
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sure that you're prepared as we work through yet another
extraordinary month in this fire year, perpetual fire year here
in the state of California. Thank you again to all
of the folks behind me in the outstanding leadership of
all the elected officials as well, and forgive me one point,
i'd be remiss. Thank you to Mayor Bass, who was
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on the phone immediately this morning, making sure even an
abstentia that she's here organizing everything she can to make
sure we're successful as well.
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