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September 9, 2024 38 mins
KFI – Kris Adler: Airport Fire Update / Bridge Fire update  / GUEST – Tim Lind - Talks about what it’s like covering a fire with authorities in the air who are also fighting the fire. 
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's KFI AM six forty and you're listening to the
Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. Is Chris
at the fire yet? Chris Sandler? Okay, all right, she's
out there at the Tribuco Canyon fire. They're calling that
the airport fire, not that there is an airport nearby,

(00:20):
but these guys that go out there and fly these
model airplanes, and I am praying to God that one
of these guys either wasn't smoking or his little tiny
plane didn't crash and started this fire. It's too hot
to fly those little planes around. So let's talk to
what Chris Adler and see what's going on. Chris, Are

(00:41):
you there, Jim?

Speaker 2 (00:42):
Yeah, you know what like you said, can you hear me?

Speaker 3 (00:46):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (00:46):
Let me put you on hold here.

Speaker 1 (00:47):
See we can get a better connection, because right now,
it's all I'm distorted. And I remember I remember in
nineteen sixty nine.

Speaker 4 (01:00):
I don't want to date myself here.

Speaker 1 (01:01):
It was a young child, but I remember the moon landing,
or so to speak, the moon landing quote unquote moon landing,
and I could clearly hear what those chaps were saying
on the moon and Chris Adler's literally sixty miles from
where we are. There you go, Chris, much better connection.

Speaker 2 (01:24):
Year.

Speaker 1 (01:24):
Rah. Can you hear me, Tim, Yes, can you hear us?

Speaker 5 (01:27):
Okay, yes, so, yes, yes, So, Like you said, we
were out here, I'm at the command post with OC
Fire Authority at Station eighteen. We have a pretty clear
view of the fire. They have hundreds of firefighters on
scene and they say they'll be fighting throughout the night
and tomorrow if it continues, they will they'll have about

(01:49):
one thousand firefighters on scene to battle this fire. Now,
like you mentioned, this is being called the airport fire,
but it's not an airport that's on fire. It's a
remote controlled airport area where people do fly those remote
controlled airplanes. Right now, it is zero percent surrounded. However,

(02:10):
no homes or buildings are in immediate threat. It's burning
upwards and away from homes, according to OC Fire Authority,
and so people have voluntarily evacuated in some areas. In
some areas it was mandatory. But right now firefighters say
there's no immediate threat to any homes or buildings.

Speaker 1 (02:30):
Oh good, okay, all right, So this fire is moving
away from all homes. It's moving if it continues, it'll
go over the mountain and burn into Riverside and San Bernardino.
Hopefully they get a beat on this. But is there
any evacuations. It looked like the closest homes weren't that
close to the fire.

Speaker 5 (02:53):
Right so some there were evacuation warnings that are still
in effect. Some are evacuation mandatory evacuation. We see people
coming down with their horses and their trailers. People walking
their horses down. The streets are closed off to the public,
so people going out. Firefighters say they will not be
able to get back into their homes, but they can
stay in their homes watch the fire from a distance.

(03:13):
But right now, the fire department says everybody's safe. It
is a large fire. It's burned more than nineteen hundred
acres in a matter of three or three and a
half hours, so it's spread very quickly. Part of the wind.
There's some wind out here. It is very dry, which
is probably why they're saying this fire picked up and

(03:35):
spread so quickly. Lots of dry brush in this area.
Tim sure, they've got multiple aircraft in the air right now, helicopters.
They're oc fire Hawk, the new helicopter can drop one
thousand gallons of water and it can go and pick
up water quickly. After it dumps the water, it can
return fairly quickly, picking up from different reservoirs in the area.

(03:58):
So they have at least I'm looking at through four
different aircraft aircraft in the sky right now that are
battling this fire.

Speaker 1 (04:06):
Excellent, all right, Chris, We appreciate that. We'll let you
go and gather more information and check back with you. Chris,
really appreciate.

Speaker 4 (04:14):
You coming on. That is cool. All right.

Speaker 1 (04:16):
Here is the update on these fires according to cal Fire,
and again Chris Adler is out at the Tribuco Canyon fire.

Speaker 4 (04:25):
So let me.

Speaker 1 (04:26):
Write that down. I gotta find that. I'm gonna keep
track where eybody is here. We've got Corbyn Carson on
a fire and when we also have Chris had it okay,
all right, So here's the latest, ladies and gentlemen. This
is just an update that happened at five eight pm,
so three minutes ago. This is an update three minutes old.

(04:46):
Let's start with the airport fire. That's the one that
Chris Adler's at. That's the one that's burning in Tribuco Canyon.
And that fire started at one o'clock, right just after
one about one twenty one, and it was only about
two hundred acres when firefighters got out there. It is
now approaching two thousand acres. Two thousand acres. That's the

(05:09):
Airport fire out there, and in the east northeast Orange
County and Terbuco Canyon, Rancho Santa Margarita is out there
as well.

Speaker 4 (05:21):
Along the two forty one. That's the toll road out there.

Speaker 1 (05:23):
So that's the that's the fire that a lot of
people in Orange County are worried about and looking at.
Then we have the smaller Bridge fire, and that one
is at and fifty five acres, zero percent contained, evacuation orders,
an immediate threat to life. This isn't order by law

(05:44):
enforcement to leave immediately if you're in that area. And
then we have the East four communities and the Camp
Williams and River community. Those are the two areas that
are most effective.

Speaker 4 (05:56):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (05:56):
Then we have the Sunset fire, the one that's not
that nobody's talking about, but if you live in Riverside,
you know what I mean. Fifty acres. It is between
Beaumont and Banning, just south of the ten Freeway there
south of the ten Freeway, closer to Banning, but between
Banning and Beaumont. That's the Sunset fire now, the major one,

(06:18):
the big one that can find its way up to
Arrowhead Lake, Arrowhead and also Big Bear if it gets rolling.
And right now it's three percent contained, twenty three thousand,
six hundred and one acres, three percent contained. No cause
of any of these fires. And we have a status

(06:39):
report here as well. There's evacuation orders on this fire.
The orders of let me see all underdeveloped land east
of Highway three thirty, east of Highway three thirty, north
of Highland Avenue.

Speaker 4 (06:53):
You gotta get out.

Speaker 1 (06:54):
The areas of Running Spring east of Highway three thirty
and south of Highway eighteen. Everybody knows three thirty and eighteen.
If you went to Big Bear, you've been to Big
Bear or Arrowhead. Chances are you won one or both
of those highways. The communities of Running Springs and arrow
Bear Lake, those are evacuating. There's an immediate threat to

(07:15):
life there. North of Highland Avenue and east of Palm
Avenue that's Highway three thirty, I believe on that one,
and then Garnett Street that's east to thirty eight and
Mill Creek, So Forest Falls is in that area. Mountain
Home Village, you have seven oaks up there and all
those areas. They want you out out, so evacuation warnings

(07:38):
and evacuation orders as well. First they start with the warnings,
then they have the orders. And once you're out, though,
you're out, and it might be a week or two
or three before you can get back in there, depending
on how quickly they can put this fire out. They've
got plenty of a ton of helicopters, a lot of

(07:59):
planes on it as well, and so we're going to
continue to watch these fires. We have four major fires.
And then I just got word Crozier. I don't know
if somebody who says texted me said there's a fire
in Chatsworth. Is that possible?

Speaker 6 (08:11):
That can do it?

Speaker 4 (08:12):
All right?

Speaker 1 (08:12):
I saw it briefly mentioned on Fox eleven. Okay, a
small fire in Chatsworth. Oh boy, the North Valley. I'm
to look out the window. We can see that from here.
All right, we continue, Thank god, we're going to run
into cooler temperatures this week. Everybody, these hundred degrees, we're
done with them. We've had it one hundred and fortyday
and Burbank tomorrow ninety five, then eighty two for the

(08:35):
San Fernando Valley. Listen this Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday
eighty two, seventy nine, seventy nine, eighty two, eighty one,
and then by Monday, seventy three degrees will be the high.

Speaker 4 (08:46):
Fifty seven will be the low.

Speaker 1 (08:48):
Hopefully we'll be getting into fall, some fall weather, but
we have had it, and thank god, all five of
these fires didn't start last week in the teeth of
this heat wave.

Speaker 4 (08:57):
We're live on kf I AM six forty.

Speaker 7 (09:00):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.

Speaker 1 (09:07):
Let's go right to ABC Channel seven. They add of
an update on the Tribuco Canyon fire live and Air
seven over the fire.

Speaker 8 (09:15):
Chris Eyler, this is a massive, fast moving brush fire,
a new one here in Orange County. This is called
the Airport fire and its started just about two hours ago.
You can see very very heavy flames burning through thick
brush just to the east of Robinson Ranch here in
Tripuco Canyon. They've just issued some voluntary evacuation orders for

(09:37):
Rose Canyon Road Tripuco Canyon, rud Creek Road Tripuco Creek,
Tribuco Canyon Road, Tribuco Oaks Drive, Joplin Loop, and Cook's
Corner that is the Robinson Ranch there where county authorities
are staging. There are multiple air assets assigned to this fire.
The City of Orange and the City of Anaheim are
assisting the Orange County Fire Authority and fight this fire.

(10:00):
Right now, the winds are blowing in the opposite direction
away from tribute from the Tribuco Cane. But a slight
shift in the winds and it's a whole different story here.
So we're going to keep a very close eye on
this fast moving brush fire. Again, very ominous site here
in RS Cawny reporting Live Mare seven. I'm Chris Christie,
ABC seven.

Speaker 1 (10:19):
I would just do all right, that's Chris Christy with
ABC Channel seven. Fox is all over it as well,
so it's Channel four. But we are we're getting video
footage from a lot of these stations, Bob. We are
keep an eye on all for of these major fires
for you. We've got the Bridge fire, the Line Fire,

(10:40):
Sunset fire, and then the something brilliant Chatsworth and it
doesn't seem to be a major fire, but that's always
a tough area again to fight a fire in the
in the Chatsworth area, they were able to contain that fire.

Speaker 4 (10:55):
Oh good, all right?

Speaker 1 (10:56):
Actually, yes, over one hundred and fifty firefighters battle flames
an extreme triple digit heat where flames quickly spread through
the dry and preheated vegetation.

Speaker 4 (11:07):
Vegetation.

Speaker 1 (11:08):
Crews initially stopped forward progress, but a sudden increase in
the wind caused embers to jump over the containment lines.
This is the Chatsworth fire and continue to grow. Ultimately,
crews were able to stop the spread at approximately ten acres,
narrowly saving several homes that back up against the wild lands.

Speaker 9 (11:28):
There.

Speaker 1 (11:29):
Three firefighters were transported to a local hospital and fair
condition with heat related illness symptoms, and the cause of
fire remains under investigation.

Speaker 4 (11:37):
All right, So that's good news.

Speaker 1 (11:40):
That is fantastic news that they got that and they
whipped that fire pretty quickly. These other fires they are
rolling and we're gonna have updates all night long. We
got the Bridge fire and I know if you can't
keep up on these. The line fire is up in
the Arrowhead. San Bernardino Mountains. The Bridge fire is closer

(12:04):
in the Azuza Glendora area, and then we have the
Airport fire, which is out of Tribuco, and then the
Sunset fire which is in Riverside, and so we're keeping
eye on all four of these. But the bridge fire
out near Crozier that Claremont area. Could probably see that
off the two ten freeway. Oh yeah, yeah, going eastern west.

Speaker 10 (12:24):
The bridge fire is spreading rapidly in the Angelus National
Forest after a rupted Sunday afternoon in the East Fork
area near Cattle Canyon Bridge and Campanita Road. People living
nearby in the Camp Williams Resort and River community have
been ordered to evacuate.

Speaker 4 (12:40):
Could you see this fire from your home?

Speaker 11 (12:42):
Yeah, we can see the smoke from it. Yes, absolutely,
we can see both direction.

Speaker 1 (12:48):
Due to the erratic out of control Oh yeah, you
could probably see the line fire clearly.

Speaker 4 (12:51):
Yes, yeah.

Speaker 10 (12:52):
Oh my god, due to the erratic out of control
fire behavior.

Speaker 12 (12:56):
I'm worried. I haven't slept. I'm tired. It's very close.
It's within a mile.

Speaker 10 (13:01):
No freaking Zalisk says, he's monitoring.

Speaker 1 (13:03):
What's a guy's name, No Freakingzalis says he's monitoring. I
thought they said no freak, no Freakingzales, no Freakingzalas, no
phrase his name.

Speaker 10 (13:11):
Sorry, no Freakingzalis says he's monitoring the fire activity, but
for now he's staying along with most of his neighbors.

Speaker 1 (13:18):
Yes, guys stay. Guys stay. They want to fight that
fire and save their house.

Speaker 12 (13:25):
It is very scary. It's like you're starting into a
storm and until you get to the end of that storm,
you gotta.

Speaker 9 (13:31):
Ride it through.

Speaker 2 (13:32):
We'll see, thankfully. And I'm I'm nervous, but not in
the fear state where I feel like we have to leave,
you know.

Speaker 10 (13:40):
Kathy and Gamboa says she's prepared to pack up her horses, family,
and dog if it gets worse.

Speaker 4 (13:45):
Wow a zoo.

Speaker 10 (13:47):
Kathy and Gamboa says she's prepared to pack up her horses, horses, family,
and dog if it gets worse.

Speaker 2 (13:54):
You know, the most important thing is like my family
safety and my horse safety, so that's the priority.

Speaker 4 (14:00):
But what happened to the dog.

Speaker 1 (14:03):
The dog didn't get to mention as a priority my.

Speaker 2 (14:07):
Family safety and my horse safety. So there's a dog party.
But if I felt like the need to come down
the hill with the horses.

Speaker 10 (14:14):
I would do so immediately, and excessive heat warning has
been issued for the area.

Speaker 1 (14:18):
Yeah, horses, you got to really be careful with horses,
because look, I love horses and I know a lot
of horse owners, but they are not a very bright animal.
I think a lot of people don't know horses will
agree with that. And they're the only animal that will
run out of a barn when it's on fire and
then run right back into the bab it's on fire.

Speaker 4 (14:41):
Yeah, you got to be very careful with horses.

Speaker 1 (14:44):
And they have eyes on the side of their head
because there are prey amost tails across southern California, and
so they they they can't see what's directly in front
of them, and so horses freak out during fires because
they cannot see what's directly in front of them. Their
blind spot is right in front of them and they

(15:05):
can't see anything, and so when they start to smell
smoke and they start to see fire, they flip out.

Speaker 4 (15:11):
They flip out.

Speaker 10 (15:13):
Scorching temperatures, windy conditions, and the steep and rugged terrain
are creating challenges for the firefighters who are aggressively fighting
it on the ground. And in the air crews have
been using water from the Morris Reservoir and are focused
on preventing further spread to the south, which is closer
to structures and mountain communities.

Speaker 12 (15:31):
My two houses are up against the mountains, so when
I see it come over that mountain, then it's time
we leave.

Speaker 1 (15:37):
And you could see that smoke.

Speaker 8 (15:38):
You know.

Speaker 1 (15:38):
That's a California thing where a guy does a quick
brag on how many houses he has, you know, his
two houses, right.

Speaker 11 (15:48):
You know.

Speaker 1 (15:48):
One of the things that there's a German guy that
came to the United States and he says, here's twelve
things that that was kind of shocked at by how
Americans talk. And he said one of them on that
list of twelve was how everyone talks about how much
money they have in this country.

Speaker 4 (16:03):
You know, like, oh, I got a couple of houses. Yeah,
I got a couple of cars.

Speaker 1 (16:07):
I own a Triplux in the Wilmington area, and I
got a little mini mall out in the Simi Valley,
and I cleaners that I own out in the Anlo
Valley area.

Speaker 6 (16:18):
Yeah, a couple of time shares are cashing homes.

Speaker 1 (16:20):
Yeah, Yeah, I'm pretty pretty wealthy. I worked my ass off.
I got a lot of money, I got a lot
of property.

Speaker 4 (16:25):
You'll like me. You'll like me like you'll enjoy me.
You'll enjoy it.

Speaker 6 (16:29):
I'm pretty nice, I'm pretty awesome straight.

Speaker 1 (16:31):
I'm sensational, man, I'm sensational. I'm really great.

Speaker 10 (16:35):
Which is closer to structures and mountain communities.

Speaker 12 (16:38):
My two houses are up against the mountain.

Speaker 4 (16:39):
My two houses was not a TV show. My three sons,
I don't know.

Speaker 12 (16:44):
So when I see it, come over that mountain.

Speaker 4 (16:46):
Nice time.

Speaker 10 (16:47):
We leave and you can see that smoke just above
the mountains from the fire. My photographer Sean Browning and
I we drove up to the Camp Williams Resort, which, by.

Speaker 1 (16:55):
The way, I like this reporter who gave the cameraman
who does all the workout. They gave him a shout out.
That's she deserves an atta girl for that.

Speaker 10 (17:04):
And you can see that smoke just above the mountains
from the fire.

Speaker 6 (17:08):
My photographer Sean Browning and I.

Speaker 1 (17:09):
Shot Browning out there working his ass off to make
these reporters look great.

Speaker 10 (17:15):
For Sean Browning and I, we drove up to the
Camp Williams Resort, which is eight miles from here. Where
that heavy smoke is causing unhealthy air quality, and there's
just ashes falling everywhere. People are being encouraged to wear
a mask win outside. I should also mention that the
mountain communities had their power turned off estreat because of
this fire, so they are relying on generators, which is

(17:37):
necessary because with the successive heat they are running their air.

Speaker 1 (17:40):
Okay, we're keep an eye on all of these fires,
Bridge fire, line fire, Sunset fire, all of them, and
the airport fire as well. The Chatsworth fire is over,
so we can stop worrying about that. Let me make
a note here, Chatsworth fire is over. Okay, So we
got the airport fire, Sunset fire, line fire.

Speaker 4 (18:00):
And Bridge fire.

Speaker 1 (18:00):
We'll take care of all four of those for you
here on KFI.

Speaker 7 (18:04):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM sixty.

Speaker 1 (18:10):
He used to fly for Channel five and he was
I think he's the last guy that that piloted the
plane and also reported I don't know if anybody else
does that anymore anyway, So.

Speaker 6 (18:23):
Well, what is that, doesn't michae O'Brian.

Speaker 1 (18:27):
No, I hope not. I hope he's not flying that plane.
I gotta believe he's not all right. Tim Linn is
with us. I used to fly.

Speaker 4 (18:42):
He was a police officer.

Speaker 1 (18:43):
He flew, he flew for Orange County Sheriff's Department, flew
for KTLA, and he's with us.

Speaker 4 (18:48):
How are you, Bob?

Speaker 3 (18:50):
I'm doing good, buddy, How are you?

Speaker 4 (18:52):
I'm okay?

Speaker 7 (18:53):
Man?

Speaker 2 (18:53):
This.

Speaker 1 (18:53):
Can you see the Orange County the airport fire from
your house?

Speaker 6 (18:58):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (18:58):
He can. Matter of fact, those upstairs this morning when
they kicked off and saw the flume come up. And
then I started getting pictures from my daughter's house, who's
right there at El Toro and the two forty one?

Speaker 4 (19:09):
Oh wow?

Speaker 3 (19:09):
Asking me do I need to leave?

Speaker 12 (19:11):
Yes?

Speaker 3 (19:12):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (19:12):
Answer really close? Yeah all right?

Speaker 1 (19:15):
But I want to ask you some questions here because
you know I'm watching this. I have this website popped
up here and I can see almost in real time,
these helicopters and planes flying around.

Speaker 4 (19:27):
How do they keep these guys from banging into each other?

Speaker 3 (19:31):
Well, the fire traffic areas it's called, is set up
in a tiered type arrangement, so the first aircraft on
scene will take control and establish the airport the fire
traffic area. And what it does is it makes the
layers for the helicopters, layers for the tankers, and then
above it all will be an aircraft called an air attack,

(19:54):
which is just a small airplane I usually a twin
engine that flies around in circles and coordinates all the
activity on the ground. So you have the separations between
the different aircraft so and outside of that and usually
over the top that you'll have the media, so they
sit above and out of the way. But the procedures
to get into this is you have to call twenty

(20:16):
miles out reporting inbound to the fire. They will tell
you to go to an area and hold and then
when they have like the big tankers coming in like
the MD eighty or the new C one thirties they're
using now, they'll hold them out, get the helicopters out
of the way, bring there the fix wing in to
make their drops. Once the fix wings are out of

(20:37):
the way, the helicopters will come in below and clean
up the edges. Because the fiery tardant works really well,
but you need that low level water dropping going on
to support it to keep those fire to keep the
fire from jumping the line.

Speaker 1 (20:52):
You know, I mean watching these aircraft not so much
the helicopters. When these aircraft, you know, dump a load
of three thousand gallons, you know, that's twenty four pounds.
I can't imagine the stress on the structure of that
plane that that has.

Speaker 3 (21:08):
Yeah, it does, dropping off a large weight from that aircraft.
The wings are or bent up because they're holding that weight,
and all of a sudden they come out. But these
firefighting aircraft are operated by CalFire and they're inspected after
every fire that they go out. They're only allowed the
pilots are only allowed to fly so many hours at

(21:29):
a time over fires or in support of a fire.
And then I don't know their policies as far as
when the aircraft has to be checked for structural damage
or anything of that sort. But you know, I've seen
multiple videos where fire, especially as long as a sea
one thirty, it comes in, starts to make a drop
and then starts pulling out and both wings just fold

(21:50):
and that does happen. But it's just from that stress
that you're talking about. Yeah, I believe that what I
was told. It's nine pounds per gallon for the fire retardant,
so water is about eight point five and an extra
point five for the retardant. So they're dropping a pretty
good load coming out of there. But like I said,
they have a pretty robust UH inspection regime for those aircraft.

Speaker 1 (22:14):
Right Timlin's with us pilot and reporter. I think you're
the last. Does anybody fly and report?

Speaker 4 (22:20):
Still not anymore?

Speaker 2 (22:23):
Not.

Speaker 3 (22:23):
They're all to what we refer to. They're either they're
camera operator or self loading baggage.

Speaker 4 (22:28):
Oh I see. Okay, all right, so you call them powers.
I get it, I get it, I get it.

Speaker 3 (22:33):
No, no, no, they just hits a good day where
they don't hurt themselves getting in.

Speaker 1 (22:37):
That's just what I look all right. Do we have
the it does cal Fire? Do they have the technology
to use the aircraft on the planes at night?

Speaker 8 (22:46):
Yes they do.

Speaker 3 (22:47):
Matter of fact, they have that coming online the last
couple of years. Nicolston Firefighting Company who contracts with the CalFire,
they have that big C forty forty seven. That's the
big twin INJR twin rotor helicopter. That's a night dropping helicopter.
You have a couple of private companies will do it.

(23:07):
And now the Orange County Fire is into night drops
as well as La County Fire Early County Fire was
pretty much the first to do that. They would fight
fires at any time of the day or night, and
then finally CalFire caught up with that, but there was
a lot of restrictions at the beginning that really made
it hard for them to do it because it is
very dangerous. Fact, I was just up in these mountains

(23:30):
in the same areas as far as I am doing
my night vision goggle training just Saturday night, and just
flying with no stress is hard enough, let alone try
and drop a load of fire, not hit wires and
not get caught in a thermal. So it's pretty tough fling.

Speaker 1 (23:46):
Hey are you do they set up a pretty large
do not fly zone, a restricted zone around these fires.

Speaker 3 (23:53):
Yes, they do, and they usually I believe if I
remember right, the upper altitude is like four thousand feet
above the high point of the fire, and it circles
out depending on what the fire is, how much room
they need for the aircraft to come in to be
able to hold stage, and most time they're round and
they'll go off maybe ten miles at the very widest.

(24:14):
But like the one that's over the I believe it's
the line fire. Now it's a big square box. It
just covers that whole area from the fifteen all the
way out to the thirty eight, up the Big Bear
and down to the two ten, So it's a big area.
They'll build those things pretty big when it's a large
fire and they have a lot of resources working. So
it just is to keep the non essential out. As

(24:37):
a private filer, you look at up just like you
look up the presidential TFRs. I look these up to
make sure they're not in your ways you're going.

Speaker 1 (24:44):
If you're flying a helicopter and you're in that zone
and air attack asks you nice and leave and you don't,
is the second warning?

Speaker 4 (24:52):
Do they swear at you?

Speaker 3 (24:56):
They won't make it very clear. But the problem is
if you're an intruder as they call it, they'll shut
down the firefighting operation.

Speaker 4 (25:03):
Oh no, oh really yeah.

Speaker 3 (25:07):
And the same thing goes with drones. If somebody up there,
let's say in the Tribunal Canyon fire, somebody is sitting
down on the bottom watching it, and they decide to
launch their drone and send it up there to get
some pictures. As soon as somebody sees it or it's detected,
they shut down the operation for thirty minutes because that's
the average battery life of a drone. It's so hard

(25:28):
to see. So that's why they say it's a no
fly zone for drones, you know. And if you're an aircraft,
they're going to gallat you on the radio and probably
get up close personally. You try to get you to
leave because they will shut the operation down while you're
in the area.

Speaker 4 (25:41):
Funny, I appreciate you coming on and go Kings not Ducks.

Speaker 3 (25:46):
Right, well, you had a long time to wait to
see that first Kings game.

Speaker 12 (25:50):
But no chicken, No chicking on that.

Speaker 4 (25:53):
First game, buddy, We're having no trick in October sixth
No chicken, all right, buddy, thanks for coming on.

Speaker 3 (25:58):
I'm gonna eat it right in front of you.

Speaker 1 (26:01):
Will be up money when you go to Chick fil A.
Tim Lynn, big Ducks fan. And when the Ducks score
five or more goals a game, they get free Chick
fil A. And I keep texting after every game. No chicken, buddy,
no chicken nothing. Hope you starve with that free chicken.
You better have a credit card or cash when you

(26:21):
go to a Chick fil A.

Speaker 4 (26:23):
No chicken for you, all.

Speaker 1 (26:24):
Right, We're live or keep an eye on all of
these fires. All for the major fires, burning Bridge Fire,
Line Fire, the Airport fire, and the Sunset fire. The
smallest one is the Sunset fire. Have believe to get
much update on that. The three big ones that are
burning Bridge Fire, Line Fire, Arrowhead, Big Bear Area, and
the airport fire in Tribucal Canyon.

Speaker 4 (26:46):
We will have updates all afternoon long.

Speaker 7 (26:49):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
Am six forty.

Speaker 1 (26:56):
Let's go right to ABC News and see what they
got in up date on this Tribuca fire, which they're
calling the airports fire.

Speaker 4 (27:03):
Let's go to Chris Christy live in Air seven over
the fire.

Speaker 8 (27:06):
Chris Ellen, this is a massive, fast moving brush fire,
a new one here at Orange County. This is called
the Airport fire and it started just about two hours ago.
You can see very very heavy flames burning through.

Speaker 1 (27:20):
This is an old piece of video, so as the
updates come in, we will be getting them for you.
Now we got the Bridge fire, the Airport fire, the
Line fire, and the Sunset fire. The Line fire is
the biggest one. That's one they're very very concerned about.
That's the one that is going to if it controls.
If it's not controlled, zoom and it starts rolling, it'll

(27:42):
be going right into Arrowhead and Big Bear Lake Arrowhead
and Lake Big Bear and those surrounded communities and many
they are scared to death if this thing could start
really rolling tonight and tomorrow. Right now, they're calling it
the Line fire. It's twenty three thousand, six hundred acres

(28:02):
have been consumed, already three percent contained. And then you
have the Bridge fire, the one up in that's in
Los Angeles, Glendora and Azusa area, twelve hundred and fifty acres.
The Airport fire is the newest one that started at
one twenty one. It originally was fairly small. I think

(28:23):
it was one hundred and thirty acres and first report,
first video that we saw, and now it's almost thirteen
hundred acres. It is exploding out there. I'm sorry. They
just changed it. Now it's eighteen hundred and sixty acres.
As I was reporting that number, they changed it one thousand,
eight hundred and sixty acres.

Speaker 4 (28:45):
Okay, So those are the fires.

Speaker 1 (28:47):
Not only are we being you know, consumed by news
of these fires, but this heat wave that we've all
been suffering through for the last five four or five
six days. It's put a lot of people out of business.
When it comes to your electricity at home, a lot
of people and people are pissed. They're they're not taking
it lying down, they're not saying, you know, well, you

(29:08):
know those things happened. They're angry as hell that this
is going on.

Speaker 9 (29:12):
The iconic Hollywood Bowl was actually left in dark last night,
one of the many victims of the power grid overload
and power outage. That's actually cancel a case RW A
concert that was going to be held last night, leaving
a lot of unhappy ticket goers.

Speaker 1 (29:30):
Now Mark Thompson was one of them. He had a
concert ticket. He was going to the Yeah, that h
What was it called Real Love, Summer Love, Love Love.
I don't know what it was, but it was some
kind of crazy concert they were having it the let's
see what it was called. Here it was a it
was an odd it's an odd performance.

Speaker 4 (29:49):
Oh, here it is.

Speaker 1 (29:51):
It was called group Love. No, group Love was the
I think it's one of the names. I think it's
the name of the band. It was their group Love
and they cancel it because they didn't have any electricity
and when showtime was scheduled one hundred and four degrees

(30:14):
sitting outside. If you saw Dodger Stadium last yesterday. But
Dodger Stadium, they usually get fifty to sixty to fifty
to fifty six thousand people out there for a Sunday game.
And because it was so hot, man, everybody was in
the shade. Everybody was tucked up under the overhang there
and sitting in the shade.

Speaker 6 (30:32):
Oh, the upper part was completely empty.

Speaker 4 (30:34):
Yeah, oh yeah. But not only that, the.

Speaker 1 (30:37):
Grand stands in the outfield were empty. There were people
tucked up under the shade and they're all sitting up
there in the shade. But as you saw, as the
game went on, they shut out Cleveland by the way.
As the game went on and the sun was setting,
and more and more rows he became were protected from

(30:58):
the sun, and all of a sudden, we're in the shade.
You saw people moving down every inning, you know, another
row would get full, another row, another road, another row,
until they moved all the way all the way down.
But that it's tough out there. You know, we're not
used to five straight days of one hundred, one hundred
and four degrees. But you know what's really weird by
the fourth day. You know, the first day it's one

(31:19):
hundred and seven, you want to you know, you just
want to move, you want to get the hell out.
But by day four or five you walk out and like, oh,
it's only one hundred and four. Yes, is that not weird? Yeah,
it's weird, man, it really is. But the first day
one hundred and four you just want to kill yourself.
And then by day four you're like, Okay, it's one
hundred and four.

Speaker 4 (31:36):
I could deal with that.

Speaker 3 (31:37):
What the hell?

Speaker 6 (31:37):
Who cares?

Speaker 1 (31:39):
The highest I saw on my wife's car one hundred
and twenty three degrees. One hundred and twenty three degrees.

Speaker 6 (31:48):
I haven't seen that.

Speaker 4 (31:49):
That is crazy.

Speaker 1 (31:50):
All right, Back to more fire updates. With this heat wave, ticket.

Speaker 9 (31:54):
Goers now looking to get a refund, thousands of people
have been left in the dark and even worse heat.
When overloaded grids, well, they simply stopped working. Areas hit
hard include right here in Hollywood.

Speaker 2 (32:06):
And north Ridge.

Speaker 9 (32:07):
No surprise there at the San Fernando Valley seeing those
triple digit temperatures this weekend, While in the Watson Green
Meadow communities, their systems were also overloaded due to high demand.
So there, they implemented thirty and sixty minute rotating power
outages in parts of that neighborhood. As you mentioned, crews
have been working around the clock. They're working this morning,

(32:29):
but still thousands are without power. Let's take a look
at some of the most recent numbers from Edison. They're
now reporting seventy four outages that affect thirty six, one
hundred and sixty.

Speaker 1 (32:41):
Customer no thirty six almost thirty almost four thousand people
with no electricity.

Speaker 9 (32:48):
Thirty six, one hundred and sixty customers. That's down from
over sixty six hundred reported early this morning.

Speaker 1 (32:55):
And what a bad day, bad weekend to be without electricity, man, horrible,
horrible day. A friend of mine who lives out on
Thousand Oaks, his electricity went out and he tucked into
the four seasons out there. I think it's the four
seasons out there, and he's still there, but I got
to warn the people who run the four seasons. He's

(33:15):
a track guy, and I don't know if he's got
the money for the four seasons. After day five, you
might just see his tail lights without hitting the desk
to even up on the on the charges and bill.
I'm just telling you, you know, you got to make
sure you have a credit card on these some of

(33:36):
these guys before they check into your hotel, because this
guy could what is the equivalent of dine and ditch
when it's a hotel, sleep and scram.

Speaker 4 (33:45):
I don't know what it is, but there's gotta be
a term for it.

Speaker 6 (33:47):
There's got to be some kind of certain evacuate.

Speaker 4 (33:49):
Yeah, I think that's me.

Speaker 9 (33:53):
While the Department of Water and Power reports over thirteen
thousand customers as of Sunday last night around ten o'clock no.

Speaker 1 (34:02):
Power, thirteen thousand customers without power in this crazy heat wave.

Speaker 9 (34:08):
Power reports over thirteen thousand customers as of Sunday last
night around ten o'clock no power to those thirteen thousand customers.
And when they say customers, they basically mean the person
who's holding the bills.

Speaker 6 (34:22):
So one home can have multiple people in it.

Speaker 4 (34:25):
Yeah, you're right.

Speaker 1 (34:26):
Yeah, it's thirteen thousand homes or thirteen thousand you know units,
It could be eighty thousand people. But look, I've been
saying this for twenty five years and until blue in
the face. You have got to get yourself a generator,
even a small generator, you know, four or five hundred bucks,
whatever it is. If you can afford it, great, get

(34:48):
yourself a generator, great peace of mind. And when the
electricity goes out, at least you can keep the air
conditioning on or a lamp or your refrigerator rolling. But
you have to have a generator. You got to get one.
Go to Costco. Home Depot's got them, Low's as them.
I think Walmart's got him as well, and you can
get a cheap one for a couple hundred bucks. It's

(35:09):
great peace of mind. Fire that up when the electricity
goes out, to save all your food from thawing and spoiling,
and to keep an air conditioning air conditioner rolling, especially
if you've got young kids.

Speaker 11 (35:22):
I got to say, you know, in the past couple years,
we've been dealing with all of the possible brownouts and
blackouts and all that stuff. And aside from a little
bit that we heard about I think it was today
where they said they had to shut some people down
like for like just an hour at a time, we
haven't really heard anything about people being blacked out and
all that stuff.

Speaker 4 (35:40):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (35:40):
No, they've been doing a sensational job. As bad as
this heat has been yep, A great, great job. And
the people who run our infrastructure when it comes to electricity,
and I'm talking about the guys and gals out there,
you know, the line maps out there putting that crap
together in one hundred and twelve hundred and fifteen degrees.

Speaker 4 (35:56):
They deserve a lot of credit.

Speaker 11 (35:58):
As much as Flack as well, I guess the companies
themselves that get from us, and deservedly so. They did
a great job here keeping us cool this summer. I
never understood this though.

Speaker 1 (36:08):
The building, the LADWP building downtown Los Angeles, they have
one point two million lights in that building and all
of them are always on. That is it's like Dodger
Stadium inside that building. I never understood that. You know,
they always ask us to conserve, and you drive by
and you got to put sunglasses on night at night,

(36:29):
if you're looking at that building, it's glaring. But you
got to try to get yourself a generated because in
the next three, four, five, six years, we're going to
see a lot more cars come online that are battery powered,
and they're going to suck up a lot of this
electricity and you're gonna get transformers that blow you got
AI out there artificial intelligence. And anybody knows anything about AI,

(36:50):
even as little as I do, knows that that they
are power hungry. AI is run solely on a ton
of power, like five, ten, fifteen times more than regular company.
They are going to suck up a lot of power.
So are the battery operate the electric cars. And the

(37:10):
next four or five six years, you're gonna see a lot,
potentially a lot of areas without power.

Speaker 4 (37:15):
So invest in one if you can.

Speaker 1 (37:18):
Great, You're gonna sleep better at night knowing you can
fire that sucker up when anything happens. All right, we're
keeping on all these fires. And then tomorrow, don't forget.
Tomorrow's the big debate Kamala Harris Tomorrow and Donald Trump.
We're gonna start at five point thirty. Here, debate starts
at six. We got Mark Thompson coming in and we
have Moe Kelly coming in. So yeah, Mark is supposed

(37:40):
to go back east to visit his mom. And then
his mom said I can't deal with you, Mark, please
stay in LA and so he did, and so.

Speaker 4 (37:50):
He's coming in tomorrow. All right. We are live on
KFI AMC forty.

Speaker 1 (37:54):
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