September 11, 2024 • 39 mins
LIVE: Airport Fire Presser; Conway show starts! // The Bridge Fire has burned 49,008 acres and is 0% contained, now the largest active fire in CA. // The Line fire has burned almost 35,000 acres and is 14% contained; A Norco man has been arrested for starting the Line Fire in San Bernardino. // Today we remember the 23rd anniversary of 9/11
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's KMF I AM six forty and you're listening to
the Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
We're going to take you to that live press conference
now in Orange County for the Tributo Kami.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
My name is Sean Doran, Fire Captain and public Information
officer with the Orange County Fire Authority. We appreciate you
joining us today as we provide updates on the airport fire.
Today's speakers include Kevin Fetterman, Division Chief, Orange County Fire
Authority and Incident Management Team three, Incident Commander John mccaullough,
Assistant Sheriff, Orange County Sheriff's Department, Todd Hopkins, Division Chief
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cal Fire and Unified Incident Commander Darryl Vance, District Ranger,
Chubuco Ranger District, Cleveland National Forest. After the speakers, we
will have a brief question.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
And answer period.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
At the conclusion of the press conference, our speakers will
be available for individual follow ups with that. Our first speaker,
Chief Fetterman.
Speaker 5 (01:01):
Good afternoon.
Speaker 6 (01:05):
My name is Kevin Fetterman, and I have been serving
as one of the unified incident commanders on the airport fire.
In Unified Command with the Orange County Sheriff's Department, Cleveland National.
Speaker 5 (01:16):
Forest, CalFire Riverside, all.
Speaker 6 (01:19):
Of whom are standing behind me today. I would also
like to thank a supervisor fully for her attendance today
and her support during this incident. It's very important for
me to think the partner agencies as well as our
Orange County Fire Authority Board of Directors.
Speaker 5 (01:33):
And everyone in the communities.
Speaker 6 (01:35):
We have been working so hard to inform.
Speaker 5 (01:38):
Evacuate, and protect.
Speaker 6 (01:42):
Your support of our first responders, and the vigilance and
adhering to the evacuation orders has been integral to our efforts.
A few hours ago, Fire Chief Brian Finnishy stood at
this very podium in remembrance of nearly three thousand souls
lost on nine to eleven, two thousand and one, and
I want to echo his words in honor of those
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victims and the legacy of the three hundred and forty
three firefighters who made the ultimate sacrifice that day.
Speaker 5 (02:12):
Thank you. On the Airport fire.
Speaker 6 (02:15):
The change in weather overnight slowed the fire's growth and
empowered the ground and air forces to significantly improve the
fire lines, including ones that will protect the communities and
the event of any wind changes. The ACREAG now stands
at twenty two three hundred and seventy six acres, meaning
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we held the fire to minimal perimeter growth last night
through today, and our firefighters are working around the clock
to not only uphold that trend, but hopefully begin containment
in the next few days. Some structures off of the
Ortega Highway have been damaged and destroyed, the extent of
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which remains unknown at this time as it is unsafe
for our assessment teams to enter that area.
Speaker 5 (03:06):
There have been two civilian injuries reported.
Speaker 6 (03:08):
A medical issue and a burn patient, and we do
not have updates on the status of those two civilians
at this time. A total of ten firefighters have received
minor injuries. We continue to prioritize firefighter safety, especially as
we approach the fourth day.
Speaker 5 (03:26):
Of this firefighter firefight. With many of our firefighters having worked.
Speaker 6 (03:30):
At double shifts in extremely hot conditions.
Speaker 5 (03:34):
Their work has saved lives.
Speaker 6 (03:37):
And property, and while we remain at zero percent containment,
it's important to understand that containment includes three major objectives, establish, improve,
and secure the fire line. Again, with the change in
weather and our ongoing work, we expect to see progress
in achieving those objectives in the coming days. The fire's
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many challenges, which have included fuel moistures at critical levels
and the fact that some of these areas haven't burned
in decades. The terrain and topography have presented extreme challenges,
but the timing of ocfa's new Firehawk helicopters could not
have been better, as their nighttime drops along with that,
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the Helo tanker drops from the Quick Reaction Force and
our other helicopters have made a tremendous impact.
Speaker 5 (04:33):
Moving forward, one of our main priorities is to the east,
and with.
Speaker 6 (04:38):
Our partners with Riverside County, we.
Speaker 5 (04:42):
Have significant fire history in that area.
Speaker 6 (04:44):
Some of you might remember the Deckor fire of nineteen
fifty nine, during which six firefighters lost their lives. The
memorial for that fire is in the fire's path today,
reminding all of us to be vigilant, particular during the
elsen Oor effect. I want to end by thanking our
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firefighters and our professional staff, as nearly every member of
the OCFA has contributed to this firefight in some way,
many working around the clock. As a result of this commitment,
our fire stations remain covered, our communities continue to receive
excellent service, and we are beginning to see progress on
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the fire.
Speaker 5 (05:29):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
You're listening to an update on the fire burning down
an Orange County and your should you.
Speaker 5 (05:38):
Co kin Good afternoon.
Speaker 7 (05:39):
I'm Assistant Sheriff joh mcollough with the Orange County Sheriff's Apartment. First,
i'd like to thank our partners with the Orange County
Fire Authority, cal Fire and the US Forestry Service for
being in unified command with us as we've worked through
this fire. Most importantly, i'd like to thank the community
for their support and patience as we continue to address
the changing conditions. We continue to update evacuation orders and
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assist with road closures to ensure the safety and security
of our residents and homes. Currently, we have closures at
the following locations, Plano Tribuco Road and Joshua Drive, Plano
Tribuco Road and Robinson Ranch Road, Tribuco Canyon Road and
Tribuco Creek Road, Santa Margharita Parkway and Antonio Parkway, Santa
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Margarita Parkway and Plano Tribuco. And we have a hard
closure at Ortega Highway and Nichols Institute and everything east
of that. Until Ortega until Lake elsinor Mandatory evacuation orders
continue to be in effect for the following areas, the
neighborhood of Robinson Ranch in the city of Rancho Santa Margarita,
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the areas of Rancho Carreo, Hot Springs Canyon, Casper's Park,
Blue Jay Campground, Falcon Camp, San Juan Campground, and.
Speaker 5 (07:03):
The Ortega Corridor.
Speaker 7 (07:05):
There's also a mandatory evacuation order in the neighborhood of
El Carriso, which is in Riverside County. We continue to
have voluntary evacuation orders in effect in the following areas
Dove Canyon and Rancho Clo, Rancho Santa Margarita, Zone two,
Tribuco Canyon, Rose Canyon and Holy Jim Canyon, Coda de
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Casa Zones one and two, Silverado Canyon, and Majesca Canyon.
We continue to meet regularly and confer with the incident
management teams for decisions about repopulation. For up to date
emergency messaging, including a map of evacuation areas and the zones,
please refer to Ocshriff dot gov. Forward Slash Airport Fire,
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the Orange County Emergency Manager in the city of Rancho
Santa Margarita have established a care reception center which is
located at the Bell Tower Regional Community Center located at
two two two three two l Paseo and the City
of Rancho Santa Margarita and the Red Crosses there available
to assist with the evacuated residents. We also have large
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animal shelters established throughout the county and they're located at
three locations. The Orange County Fairgrounds, which is located at
eighty eight Fair Drive in the city of Coasta Mesa,
the Los Alamitos Racecourse which is located on Kateela Avenue
in the city of Cyprus, and the nol Ranch Saddle Club,
which is located at six three five two East Nole
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Ranch Road in the city of Anaheim. We have two
small animal shelters established in Mission Viejo Animal Services, which
is located at two eight zero nine to five Hillcrest
and the city of Mission Viejo, and the oc Animal
Care which is located at sixteen thirty Victory Road in
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the city of Tustin, Okay.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
That is Assistant Sheriff John McCullough down in an Orange
County giving us an update on the fire that's been
burning around Tribuco Canyon. Apparently from earlier today it's almost
identical numbers. It's twenty two nine hundred nine acres. They're
saying now zero percent containment. So no change is there
the evacuations, as far as we can tell, pretty much
what they've been so for the most part, it looks
like not much of a change down in Orange County.
Speaker 8 (09:26):
I guess that's kind of good news.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
So a right, so there we go.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
Right, let's hit the show, open the music, and let's
roll Dig Dag with you, all right, Conway Show on CAMF.
I am at six forty. Just heard about the Tribuco fire.
We'll have an update on that if anything changes. Also
the San Berndino fire, they call that the line fire,
and then the Bridge fire.
Speaker 4 (09:50):
And Krozer and I were kind of scratching.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Our heads yesterday because we both have infections bybe That
Bridge fire for the last three days was reported four
thousand to forty five hundred acres every time you looked
at the at the cowfire, four thousand, forty one hundred,
forty one fifty forty two hundred, and then when we
were leaving yesterday it was thirty four thousand acres it exploded.
Speaker 8 (10:15):
And then another fifteen between then and now.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
Yeah, in a couple of hours. It absolutely exploded. And
that was the fire that nobody was talking about.
Speaker 8 (10:23):
Yeah, yeah, that was the least of the three.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
Yes, that was the fire that one's like, oh no,
it's gonna be a nothing, don't worry about it.
Speaker 4 (10:31):
They got a handle on it, and.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Boom it explodes. She goes all the way to right Wood.
That's probably, I don't know, twenty.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Miles earned a bunch of structures, made some problems at
Mount Baldy and a lot of people. When I got
home last night, I get off at near that exit
there on the two ten, and you can see I
couldn't see it right where San Antonio dam is going
up to Mount Baldy, so I can see those hills.
I couldn't see any of the flames or even any
of the glow, but I could see the road to
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the ridgeline road there and right near San Antonio Daan
that sort of ruds the line of the foothills there,
and that was filled with lights from cars just trying
to get out of there.
Speaker 4 (11:09):
I mean, I had no idea that.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
First of all, I had no idea that right Wood,
if you went directly north from your house, Crozer, you'd
run into right Wood. I always thought Brightwood was much
much further west than the more you are Yep, and
it's not. And and the ski resort there got wiped out,
and it's it's unbelievable how this thing exploded. It was
burning for two or three days, you know, cuple akers here,
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couple acres there, and then it literally like an atom
bomb went off and it jumped to thirty four thousand
acres and now it's at what is it now, forty
seven or forty.
Speaker 4 (11:46):
Yeah, forty nine eight acres.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
And we were talking last week when when the fire
out in sam Berdandino, that one was the big and
pretty much only one at that point, and we were
talking about over the weekend how it was so big
and where it was geographically it was creating its own
weather system again almost ignoring this one at a Glendora
Claremont and going in there in the Angelus National Forest.
How much that's now grown because of that.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
Yeah, it is wides and if these fires connect, and
that's obviously got to be a fear of theirs. If
this thing continues east and it jumps the fifteen, and
it's not far from the fifteen now, you know, it's
close to the fifteen now than it is to Claremont.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Yeah, there's a couple of red areas here that are
just about touching the fifteen over in what is it
right there, go Home passage.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
Yeah, and if that crosses that could all of a sudden.
You know, people live in Lake Arrowhead thought they were
in the clear because of the line fire was going
east and they had a pretty good handle on it.
They stopped it up at Running Springs to the north,
and they did a hell of a job up there.
They had a nice big break there with Highway three
thirty and eighteen. But a two lane road with a
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fire like that is nothing. And so they did an
unbelievable job keeping that south of the three thirty for
the most part. A couple areas over the three thirty
for the most part south of three thirty. Okay, So
the people live up an Arrowhead, they were like they
were praying for the people in Big Bear because they knew.
Speaker 4 (13:10):
They were out out of arms, way out of danger.
Speaker 9 (13:13):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
But if this bridge freeway crossed the fifteen, they're right
back in the game.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
The distance of where the fire is this Bridge fire
that we're talking about from the from the western side
of it where basically started. As it moves eastard, the
width of its damage right now is almost exactly the
width from where it currently is to get to Arrowhead.
Speaker 4 (13:32):
Yeah, right, exactly.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
So two days from now, if it makes that same
sort of timeline, it just keeps moving east, it'll hit Arrowhead.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
And this fire, you know, the Line fire, which was
the biggest one of all of them, and that's at
thirty four seven twenty nine acres, I think that's right now,
but yeah, almost thirty five thirty seve thirty four to seven,
and that was the big fire, and now the big
one is the Bridge fire at almost fifty thousand acres,
And so if you can buying the both of them,
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that's fifty thousand. And then you got Orange County of
twenty two thousand, so that's seventy two thousand. That's one
hundred thousand, Yeah, that's one hundred Yeah, then yeah, it's
one hundred thousand acres. One hundred thousand acres have burned
over the last you know, since Thursday, this fire, this
Line fire, will be a week old come Thursday. I
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think it started Thursday night. Yes, so tomorrow night it'll
be one week old.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
And the fire in Sanbraadinan and the fire and Orange County,
we have possible causes attributed to it, the Orange County
one being apparently an accident. And then they arrested a
guy earlier. I don't know if it was today or
last night. I believe it was for the sam Ordino one,
an arsonist. They suspected arsonist. No cause yet we're hearing
from the one in the bridge.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
Fire, and I was listening to the press conference just now.
If you have a horse or you have horses and
you have a place for him, they're taking him at
Los Alamitos, which is the racetrack in Orange County, right
off Katella and the six oh five. So bring your
horses to Low sal And and threw them in a race,
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because the chances are they're faster than the effing horses
I bet on over the weekend.
Speaker 4 (15:12):
Ah, take your horses to losal.
Speaker 8 (15:15):
Didn't you have yours blessed too?
Speaker 10 (15:16):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (15:17):
My god, I had everything. I'd am blessed.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
I had them, you know, I tried to, you know,
give them some health food I tried everything, I was praying,
I was doing everything man, and I didn't hit.
Speaker 4 (15:28):
I didn't hit.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
So Los Alamado is very nice for them to open
up their doors to you to to store your horse
there during these fires. So contact them, make sure they
got plenty of room, and bring your horse or pony
or I don't know what you got.
Speaker 4 (15:42):
Maybe you got a donkey, who knows. I don't know
what what you got.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
Whatever you got, bring it to Lo sal and I'll
be there on Saturday and Sunday trying to get it
over the wire.
Speaker 4 (15:51):
Come out with this three, Come on with this three.
Speaker 11 (15:54):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 4 (16:00):
So let's get to this Bridge fire.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
This is the big one now almost fifty thousand acres
and this fire was nothing, man, nothing compared to the
other two fires. This fire was completely in total control,
or not total control, but not out of control like
the way it is now. And it was known as
the like the ugly steps on of the other two fires.
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Nobody talked about the Bridge fire. We did, we did here,
but a lot of people did not. And then it exploded.
It exploded last night. A lot of people. You've seen
the right Wood ski resort. Those flames one hundred hundred
and fifty feet high just ripping through that ski resort.
Thirteen homes and buildings burned down at last count, probably
more now. And that fire took off. I don't know
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if you remember this. I think it's like three four
five years ago when we had a fire in Thousand Oaks.
Speaker 4 (16:51):
It was burning.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
It was the sant Ana winds and it was going
to burn towards Malibu, and everybody was saying, Okay, it'll
take a day or two.
Speaker 4 (16:58):
To get to Malibu.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
You know, you have a day or two to get
all your stuff together before that fire gets there. That
fire was there in two hours. That fire climbed and
crawled over the mountains, the Santa Monica Mountains. In two
hours it got to Malibu. Same thing here. This thing
exploded last night. Unbelievable. Let's find out what's going on
here with the bridge fire. That's one off the two
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ten near Claremont and it just blew up.
Speaker 12 (17:28):
Mountain High is a big draw for people throughout southern
California that want to come up and ski, and it
looks like the damage may not be as bad as
originally thought. The snowmakers are actually on. I was talking
to firefighters this morning and they said that the staff
turning those on throughout the resort might have helped a
little bit with keeping all the vegetation moist and maybe
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keeping the fire away from this area. From where we are,
we do not see any damage here.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
I wonder if the guy who was asked to turn
the snowblowers on said, I think it's too warm.
Speaker 8 (18:00):
It's not going to do.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
We're not going to get any snow right now. No, no, no,
you idiot. We got to try to protect the area
with the wall.
Speaker 12 (18:06):
Okay, some of the webcams that the resort has usually
people check these to see kind of the ski the
snow conditions up at the top of the mountain. Unfortunately,
last night we did see that fire move very quickly
through here right with There was just a wall of
flames that moved through where the ski lifts are. And
it does at some point look like they damaged so
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much that the cameras actually went down.
Speaker 13 (18:30):
Ah.
Speaker 4 (18:30):
That's horrible. All right.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
This is called the Bridge fire, the latest, the largest
of them right now, the latest on it.
Speaker 4 (18:36):
Here we go.
Speaker 10 (18:37):
We have learned the fires destroyed twenty homes in the
Mountain Baldy area, thirteen in the right Wood area. Six
cabins were also destroyed, but officials say there have been
no significant injuries and no one has been killed.
Speaker 5 (18:50):
So here is the latest.
Speaker 10 (18:51):
The fire stands at forty seven nine four acres, zero
percent contained. What zero person contained.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
At fifty thousand or forty nine and a half thousand
acres unbelievable. That fire is going to have hot spots
and they're gonna be firefighters putting that fire out until Halloween.
My prediction with these, with the Line fire and the
Bridge fire, at Halloween, they're still going to talk about
seventy eight eighty percent containment.
Speaker 10 (19:21):
Right now, twenty five hundred structures are still threatened.
Speaker 14 (19:25):
There has been substantial wildfire growth throughout the night with
impacts to the communities of Mount Baldy and Rightwood. The
cause of the fire is currently undetermined but is being
actively investigated by the United States Forest Service. This is
currently and you.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
Know this fire that's at fifty thousand or nearly fifty
thousand acres. It was started probably with one single match
or a lighter, a little tiny flame, probably about a
half inch tall, and a piece of grass caught on fire,
then another, then another, and now it's fifty thousand acres,
destroying home and cabins and ski resorts. That little tiny flame,
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It can all be traced back to that little tiny flame.
Speaker 14 (20:06):
It took off by the United States Forest Service. This
is currently the largest active fire in the state of California.
Speaker 10 (20:13):
Officials stressed, if you are asked to.
Speaker 4 (20:15):
Lead, it's the biggest fire in the state of.
Speaker 14 (20:17):
California, active fire in the state of the biggest.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
Active fire in the state of California. And this is
the fire that a lot of people are ignoring. They
were talking about through Trebuco fire, the airport fire, the
Line fire, and nobody really mentioned the Bridge fire. Now
they're talking about it now they.
Speaker 5 (20:31):
Are officials stressed.
Speaker 10 (20:33):
If you are asked to leave, please don't wait, they say,
the difference between life and death could be minutes.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
Yes, all right, And now the latest latest update on
the Bridge fire. This is only about about an hour
ago or something.
Speaker 9 (20:46):
Unrelenting bridge fires scorching everything in the flames way, including
practically melting the skeleton of a jeep into the ground.
Speaker 8 (20:54):
So many of these houses that could.
Speaker 9 (20:56):
Have gone firefighters arrived here around eight thirty last night,
trying to save what they could.
Speaker 11 (21:02):
It's this entire cul de Sac was saved due to
the actions of those firefighters last night.
Speaker 9 (21:07):
Video from last night also shows the fire ripping through
Mountain High Ski Resort. Today, a dusting of smoke covers
the mountains. A post from the resort's social media account says,
great news. All the main lifts and building survived with
little to no damage.
Speaker 4 (21:21):
Oh that's great. I didn't know that. It looked like
it were completely wiped out. That's great news.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
We played it for you again because I know a
lot of people half ass radio. You know, you're on
the radio's on while you're cooking or studying or watching
TV or whatever, and you have assd I get that.
Speaker 4 (21:35):
I do the same thing.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
So listen to this if you're a big right Wood fan.
Great news with the ski resort.
Speaker 5 (21:40):
Great news.
Speaker 9 (21:41):
All the main lifts and building survived with little to
no damage.
Speaker 4 (21:45):
That's sensational news.
Speaker 8 (21:47):
That's pre amazing.
Speaker 4 (21:47):
That really is great. Man.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
I looked at that video last night. I thought there's
no way anything's left. Yeah, and it's all left. It's
almost all there.
Speaker 9 (21:54):
The rich fire has already burned more than forty seven
nine hundred acres with zero percent containment right what is
under an evacuation order with no update on when that
will lift. This man tells us he left with his
pets as soon as he got the alert, but has
no idea what he'll return home to.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
I wonder what it's gonna be like skiing there this winter,
because all the trees are gone. They're all gone. Oh yeah,
they're all gonna be burned to a crisp. But you'll
be skiing down in what looks like hell. You know,
everything is burned except for the snow you're on.
Speaker 4 (22:23):
Wow, that's gonna be wild.
Speaker 5 (22:24):
I'm hoping that's still there.
Speaker 15 (22:26):
You know. I'm almost eighty years old, I'm retired, I'm disabled,
and I really don't want to.
Speaker 5 (22:31):
Live anywhere else.
Speaker 4 (22:32):
Oh my god, this poor guy is he skiing? I
don't think so. He's disabled, but he's eighty. He lives
in the mountains.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
Yeah, and he's lost everything. And you can hear it
in this poor man's voice.
Speaker 15 (22:47):
I'm hoping that's still there. You know, I'm almost eighty
years old, I'm retired, I'm disabled, and I really don't want.
Speaker 5 (22:53):
To live anywhere else.
Speaker 4 (22:55):
I'm with the gun.
Speaker 15 (22:56):
If my house is gone, I don't know what to do.
This is crazy. I've never seen anything like this. Is
really really scary and painful.
Speaker 16 (23:02):
And again, we don't know how long these evacuation orders
will last. But we are told that people that are
that have evacuated are using their ring cameras or their
neighbor's ring cameras to monitor their homes.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
Wow, what a what a fire? What a what a
week with these fires? Man, unbelievable. All three of them
now major major fires in California. The biggest one is
the Bridge fire, the second one, bigger one is the
Line fire. And then the third one now is the
smallest fire in Tribuco Canyon called the the Airport fire.
All right, we're going to keep an eye on all
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three of them too and give you the latest on
all three of these deals.
Speaker 11 (23:39):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM sixty Conway Show.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
Three major fires burning right now. Tribuco Canyon, the Airport Fire,
Sam Bernardino, the Line fire, the Bridge fire up there Glendora,
and now it has spread all the way to the
the into the the Annelo Valley and that's huge. So
that fire exploded overnight. We heard earlier in a press
conference at the top of the hour at four o'clock
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there was a live press conference about the airport fire
down Orange County. We gave you all the news about
the bridge fire. So now people up in the mountains
who are concerned with this line fire, here is your update.
Then we have some information on the suspected arson this
as well that may have started this fire. But first
an update on the line fire burning in San Bernardino Mountains.
Speaker 13 (24:27):
As the massive line fire continues to burn out of
control in San Bernadino County, now comes news that it
was perhaps set intentionally. Thirty four year old Justin Halstenberg
of Norco suspected of arson. News that has infuriated mountain
residents in the evacuation zone.
Speaker 5 (24:43):
I'm not at work.
Speaker 8 (24:45):
I should be at work right now.
Speaker 13 (24:46):
Instead, I have to protect my home so somebody else
can get off or a little bit of misery.
Speaker 8 (24:52):
It's not worth it.
Speaker 13 (24:53):
Ricky Garcia lives in Running Springs, which now looks like
a ghost town. Most of his neighbors have evacuated as
firefighters continue to battle the line fire.
Speaker 12 (25:02):
For all those people that are displaced right now, I
hope they come back.
Speaker 8 (25:06):
I hope they have a home to come back to.
Speaker 13 (25:08):
As of Tuesday, the Line Fire had burned more than
twenty thousand acres. Today the fire has grown to cover
more than thirty five thousand acres.
Speaker 17 (25:16):
Fortunately, we did not get impacted as much as the
airport and the bridge fire did yesterday, but we did
have a significant growth and acreage yesterday. We do know
we lost Keller Peak Lookout. The US four service lookout
was destroyed yesterday. I can confirm that.
Speaker 13 (25:30):
But even though the most intense fire activity for the
Line Fire on Tuesday was off to the northeast, there
was a pretty big firefight here in Running Springs as well.
Speaker 4 (25:38):
I'm on Pine Cove Drive and.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
Okay, this is what is going to happen too, and
I hope it doesn't, but it probably will. People are
going to remember this of the news about this fire
because it's been going on for so long. As during
a heat wave, kids were back in school, parents were
back listening to the radio and watching news instead of traveling.
So everybody knows about this fire, and people are going
to be when they decide to go vacation this winter
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in Running Springs Lake.
Speaker 4 (26:03):
Arrowhead or Big Bear.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
They'll say, Oh, I don't know, I heard it was
all burnt up out there, you know, like Lehina, Leahina,
people avoid continue to avoid Maui and that west side
northwest side of Maui because of what happened in Leahina
and the people in Maui who work at these hotels,
a lot of them are being laid off because a
lot of people are avoiding that area. I hope that
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doesn't happen with Running Springs, Arrowhead and Big Bear. It
looks like as of now, all of the resorts up
there are intact, and it's it'll be a cool winter
to get up there. You know, once she and your
drive up, you're going to see a lot of burnt areas.
But I think once you get up there, as long
as these firefighters can hold this line, I think it's
gonna be a beautiful place to spend you know, Thanksgiving, Christmas, whatever.
Speaker 13 (26:49):
I'm on Pine Cove Drive and you can see the
front railing to this home burnt. The fender on that
Mercedes up there melted, But the real loss, at least
in this.
Speaker 4 (26:58):
Neighborhood is to home right here.
Speaker 13 (27:01):
You can see it's burned right down to the foundation,
a total loss.
Speaker 11 (27:05):
My heart goes up to them too and their families.
Speaker 5 (27:08):
Because they don't have anything to come back to.
Speaker 8 (27:10):
That's the hardest thing.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
Unfortunately, that's the only and a lot of these people
don't have insurance because insurance is radically expensive up in
the mountains for good reason too, So a lot of
people have no insurance and they're gonna have to sell
off the property for you know, pennies on the dollar
compared to what their house is worth. And it's just
it's a very sad story. And evidently this thing was
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started on purpose.
Speaker 13 (27:35):
And fortunately that's the only home that we know of
that's burned. And today no additional evacuation orders issued. In fact,
a couple of them have been downgraded to warnings and
indication that hopefully firefighters are making progress.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
Okay, now onto the arsonists that may have started this
fire in San Bernardino.
Speaker 18 (27:53):
Works for FedEx, and they were able to link that
license plate to his truck to the same vicinity in
Highland where this fire started. Not only that, but also
surveillance and also other items related to the crime.
Speaker 4 (28:04):
All right here we go guy may have started this fire.
Speaker 18 (28:09):
A wildfire burning out of control in the San Bernardino Mountains,
scorching thousands of acres, putting homes in lives in danger,
is all being blamed on one man accused of intentionally
starting the horrific blazes. Were able to look at several
different videos and determine who the suspect was. Thirty four
year old Justin Helstenberg was taken into custody.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
Detected said thirty four seems to be a little old
to be in the arts and game.
Speaker 18 (28:34):
Thirty four year old Justin Helstenberg was taken into custody.
Detectives say there was evidence found in his Norco home,
a home in a quiet community that shocks me or.
Speaker 8 (28:44):
I'm not We never thought he would have been the
one to start the fire.
Speaker 18 (28:46):
The two went to high school together.
Speaker 15 (28:48):
Calm, quiet guy, who wasn't No one ever.
Speaker 8 (28:50):
Thought of doing that.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
Yeah, keep your eye on the quiet guy. George Carlin
used to say that, you know, keep your eye on
the quiet guy. He didn't like that statement though, So
keep your eye on the quiet guy.
Speaker 4 (29:01):
He said.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
If you walked into a bar, a smoky bar that
only had two patrons, One guy was in an Oxford
sweater with penny loafers at the end of the bar,
reading poetry to himself. The other guy was slamming an
axe on the bar, saying, if I don't get a
drink in the next two seconds, I'm going to kill somebody.
Speaker 4 (29:17):
Who do you keep an eye on? Not the quiet guy.
Speaker 18 (29:21):
Neighbors equally and disbelieve, you.
Speaker 4 (29:23):
Know, seeing the people's faces that are losing a home,
that's the u least you can see.
Speaker 18 (29:27):
If true Halstenberg is responsible for burning down this home
on pine Cone Drive in Running Springs.
Speaker 8 (29:33):
It's just heartbreaking. It's just really heartbreaking.
Speaker 18 (29:35):
Where Brook Pellinchard her family once lived, thinking it would
be there forever home.
Speaker 8 (29:41):
This just really surreal. It happened really fast.
Speaker 19 (29:44):
We weren't able to grab much before we left, and
so you know, I have about like three tupperwares left
of our lives.
Speaker 18 (29:53):
And still heartbreaking to think more than sixty thousand homes
are still under direct threat with new evacuation orders all
the way to Big Bear. Wow, unbelievable Bear in helston's
Burg community more than fifty miles away. Neighbors like Bernadette
Staples directly impacted by another fire burning to the west,
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now agonizing if he too could be responsible this as
she waits to hear of her motorcycle school near Mountain
High has gone up in flames.
Speaker 8 (30:23):
Why would they do that?
Speaker 14 (30:24):
And did he ever have any clue what impact it
would have on so many lives.
Speaker 18 (30:30):
Homes, jobs, Bernadette says, all they can do is hope
and pray.
Speaker 19 (30:35):
I don't think there's enough prayers that we can keep
sending up trying to ask for help.
Speaker 18 (30:39):
This is a tight knit community. People are truly shocked
and in disbelief and cannot believe that this man is
suspected of such a heinous crime, such a tragedy. Now,
as for the facts, if suspected, if he actually did
do this, we're talking thirty five thousand acres already scorched,
a home has already burned, more being threatened, and only
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fourteen contains.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
It's amazing that these guys usually get a slap on
the wrist too. He's being held eighty thousand dollars bail,
and a lot of these times, a lot of times
they get, you know, three or four years in prison,
and they're told to pay a couple hundred thousand dollars
in fines. Meanwhile, millions and perhaps hundreds of millions of
dollars in damage.
Speaker 4 (31:19):
Unreal.
Speaker 11 (31:20):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on De Maya from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
Twenty three years ago today nine to eleven happened. I
was living in Insino, renting a house with my wife,
then my girlfriend out of the we were even engaged
back then. I'm sure we weren't actually, And I remember
I got a call in the morning.
Speaker 4 (31:47):
The phone rang.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
At six thirty six o'clock in the morning, maybe before that,
and I didn't pick it up, but I know that
manytime the phone rings between you know, three am and
six am.
Speaker 4 (31:59):
It's bad news.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
And I didn't pick it up, and the person didn't
leave a message. Then they called back and I heard
the answer machine go off. You know, in the old days,
you kids out there, we just have an answer machine
where a tape would roll and say, hey, please a message,
I'll call you back, and then you could hear where
was leaving a message. And I heard it clearly in
the other room and it said it was Doug McIntyre,
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who used to be on KBC. He's a very good
friend of mine, and he said, Conway, you got to
get up. A plane has flown into the World Trade Center.
I remember him saying this very distinctly. He said, the
plane has flown into the World Trade Center on purpose,
on purpose.
Speaker 4 (32:42):
I remember him saying that.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
I got up, turned the TV on, got my wife up,
and we just sat there stunned for the next five
or six hours, and I couldn't believe it.
Speaker 4 (32:53):
I could not believe that was going down.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
Then they took all the planes out of the sky
within I think an hour and a half. For two
hours was remarkably short period of time, and there was
a no fly zone over the entire country, the entire country,
and nobody was able to fly small aircraft, large aircraft, helicopters, drones, nothing,
and so the valley for the first time in probably
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my lifetime, you can go outside in the middle of
the day. You could actually stand there for an hour
and not hear an airplane or a helicopter, which is
really eerie, really weird, because we were over the flight
path of Van Nuys Airport, so every ten you know,
every seven minutes, there was a plane flying over our house,
and a lot of helicopters. LAPD always flying over and
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you could literally stand outside and hear nothing for hours,
hours on end, and you'd never hear a plane or
an aircraft. And so it was twenty three years ago.
And here's what makes people who experienced it, like everybody
on the program here, feel.
Speaker 4 (34:00):
A little old.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
There are kids that are playing in the NFL, the NHL,
the NBA, and Major League baseball, Major League soccer who
were not born when that happened. There are not a
ton of kids, but there are probably ten to fifteen
players in the NHL, maybe more in that now. Because
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you know, you could be twenty three years old and
not have witnessed or have been around, not been alive
when Not eleven happened, And now there are there are
twenty three year old kids that weren't alive. There are
twenty five, twenty six, twenty seven year olds who don't
remember it.
Speaker 4 (34:40):
You don't remember it.
Speaker 1 (34:41):
If you were three years old, your parents probably you know,
kept you and sheltered you from that, and you don't
remember a lot from when you were three.
Speaker 4 (34:47):
You still got a lot.
Speaker 1 (34:48):
Going on at three, you know, you're still you know,
growing and figuring out what this stupid life is. And
you don't have the experience to define what that meant
to this country. So there are people in the twenty six,
twenty seven years old who have no memory whatsoever, and
they have their own kids now, And that's weird. It
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is odd, but twenty three years ago remembering nine to eleven.
Speaker 2 (35:13):
And in our own newsroom, like, we have a couple
of young news editors. One of them, Emily, she doesn't
remember nine to eleven. Yeah, yeah, it's incredible. I was about,
I don't know, maybe a year ago. I was down
at Wharton's Steakhouse here and I was supposed to meet
a couple of guys from sales and a couple of clients,
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and I got there early. I got there first on
to be traffic, and I was talking to the receptionists
and I don't know we were talking about. She brought
something up and we were talking about, I don't know,
news or something, and then she said she was nineteen
and I said, oh, that's weird. I said, you weren't
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alive for nine to eleven, and she said, no, she's
born a year after nine eleven. Halpened and I said, wow,
that's unbelievable' I've met anybody who wasn't alive for nine
to eleven, So what memories.
Speaker 4 (36:07):
Do you have of it?
Speaker 1 (36:08):
And she goes, I just have what my parents and
grandparents told me. And just then Darren McMillan from sales
comes in and he sits down and he sees me
talking to this nineteen year old receptionist and I'm talking
about nine to eleven, and I sit next to him
because you know, it's done with the conversation, and he
looks at me. He goes, buddy, you still got it
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with the chicks? I said what he said? Yeah, you know,
talking to a nineteen year old about nine eleven?
Speaker 4 (36:37):
What was the backup? Little Holocaust talk? Was the What
was the next move? I said, buddy, please, I'm married.
What's wrong with you?
Speaker 1 (36:46):
But that was a quite a day, Quite a day
twenty three years later, Though, twenty three years later, twenty.
Speaker 19 (36:53):
Three years the reality of this day remains raw and
painful and runching the sight of a gleaming tower little
comfort to those who still grieve for lost friends and family.
There is, after all these years, a sameness to the ceremony.
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The sunshine often seems a bit more brilliant as it
was that fateful day. Dignitaries come every year to pay
their respects, but for those who gather on the somber anniversary,
the remembrance of loved ones still seems like yesterday.
Speaker 10 (37:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (37:29):
I have sunflowers every year, not just because they remind
me of my uncle Ritchie, but because in a time
of such profound darkness, they always look for the light.
Speaker 19 (37:37):
Hearing personal stories of those whose lives have been changed
by this experience in one way or another will always
be profound.
Speaker 12 (37:45):
That was a mathematics teacher in Brooklyn, and it just
changed my life.
Speaker 4 (37:48):
It actually motivated me.
Speaker 1 (37:50):
When I got home, I saw all it, a video
and an imagery of what had happened.
Speaker 5 (37:55):
I decided to join the Nypaty.
Speaker 19 (37:57):
Even from those who might not have been born into
thousand and one.
Speaker 4 (38:01):
We give out food in your name.
Speaker 19 (38:02):
There is still a reverence for this day of service,
a respect for the comfort needed. All set against pools
reflecting absence, filled with so many tears that have been shed.
Speaker 18 (38:13):
I doesn't want to be honest to be here and
to wear your panch sum as a police officer.
Speaker 5 (38:18):
Robert, my little brother, I hope we will meet.
Speaker 4 (38:21):
It twenty three years or so, like twenty three seconds.
Speaker 5 (38:24):
In September eleventh, my brother disappeared.
Speaker 4 (38:27):
That this place has become my altar. Blood Bless America.
Speaker 19 (38:30):
This anniversary also marks a somber milestone for the FDNY.
Three hundred and seventy members of the department have now
died from nine to eleven related illnesses more than the
three hundred and forty three who passed away on that day.
Speaker 1 (38:45):
Oh, I didn't know that. That's an unbelievable statistic. I'm
going to play it again. It's pretty remarkable.
Speaker 19 (38:52):
Unbelievable Again, Why three hundred and seventy members of the
department have now died from nine to eleven related illnesses
more than the three hundred and forty three who passed
away on that day.
Speaker 1 (39:04):
Wow, that is an unbelove I've never heard that statistic before.
Speaker 4 (39:08):
That is crazy. All right. We are live on KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (39:14):
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can always hear us live on KFI AM six forty
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demand on the iHeartRadio app.
It's KMF I AM six forty and you're listening to
the Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
We're going to take you to that live press conference
now in Orange County for the Tributo Kami.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
My name is Sean Doran, Fire Captain and public Information
officer with the Orange County Fire Authority. We appreciate you
joining us today as we provide updates on the airport fire.
Today's speakers include Kevin Fetterman, Division Chief, Orange County Fire
Authority and Incident Management Team three, Incident Commander John mccaullough,
Assistant Sheriff, Orange County Sheriff's Department, Todd Hopkins, Division Chief
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cal Fire and Unified Incident Commander Darryl Vance, District Ranger,
Chubuco Ranger District, Cleveland National Forest. After the speakers, we
will have a brief question.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
And answer period.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
At the conclusion of the press conference, our speakers will
be available for individual follow ups with that. Our first speaker,
Chief Fetterman.
Speaker 5 (01:01):
Good afternoon.
Speaker 6 (01:05):
My name is Kevin Fetterman, and I have been serving
as one of the unified incident commanders on the airport fire.
In Unified Command with the Orange County Sheriff's Department, Cleveland National.
Speaker 5 (01:16):
Forest, CalFire Riverside, all.
Speaker 6 (01:19):
Of whom are standing behind me today. I would also
like to thank a supervisor fully for her attendance today
and her support during this incident. It's very important for
me to think the partner agencies as well as our
Orange County Fire Authority Board of Directors.
Speaker 5 (01:33):
And everyone in the communities.
Speaker 6 (01:35):
We have been working so hard to inform.
Speaker 5 (01:38):
Evacuate, and protect.
Speaker 6 (01:42):
Your support of our first responders, and the vigilance and
adhering to the evacuation orders has been integral to our efforts.
A few hours ago, Fire Chief Brian Finnishy stood at
this very podium in remembrance of nearly three thousand souls
lost on nine to eleven, two thousand and one, and
I want to echo his words in honor of those
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victims and the legacy of the three hundred and forty
three firefighters who made the ultimate sacrifice that day.
Speaker 5 (02:12):
Thank you. On the Airport fire.
Speaker 6 (02:15):
The change in weather overnight slowed the fire's growth and
empowered the ground and air forces to significantly improve the
fire lines, including ones that will protect the communities and
the event of any wind changes. The ACREAG now stands
at twenty two three hundred and seventy six acres, meaning
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we held the fire to minimal perimeter growth last night
through today, and our firefighters are working around the clock
to not only uphold that trend, but hopefully begin containment
in the next few days. Some structures off of the
Ortega Highway have been damaged and destroyed, the extent of
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which remains unknown at this time as it is unsafe
for our assessment teams to enter that area.
Speaker 5 (03:06):
There have been two civilian injuries reported.
Speaker 6 (03:08):
A medical issue and a burn patient, and we do
not have updates on the status of those two civilians
at this time. A total of ten firefighters have received
minor injuries. We continue to prioritize firefighter safety, especially as
we approach the fourth day.
Speaker 5 (03:26):
Of this firefighter firefight. With many of our firefighters having worked.
Speaker 6 (03:30):
At double shifts in extremely hot conditions.
Speaker 5 (03:34):
Their work has saved lives.
Speaker 6 (03:37):
And property, and while we remain at zero percent containment,
it's important to understand that containment includes three major objectives, establish, improve,
and secure the fire line. Again, with the change in
weather and our ongoing work, we expect to see progress
in achieving those objectives in the coming days. The fire's
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many challenges, which have included fuel moistures at critical levels
and the fact that some of these areas haven't burned
in decades. The terrain and topography have presented extreme challenges,
but the timing of ocfa's new Firehawk helicopters could not
have been better, as their nighttime drops along with that,
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the Helo tanker drops from the Quick Reaction Force and
our other helicopters have made a tremendous impact.
Speaker 5 (04:33):
Moving forward, one of our main priorities is to the east,
and with.
Speaker 6 (04:38):
Our partners with Riverside County, we.
Speaker 5 (04:42):
Have significant fire history in that area.
Speaker 6 (04:44):
Some of you might remember the Deckor fire of nineteen
fifty nine, during which six firefighters lost their lives. The
memorial for that fire is in the fire's path today,
reminding all of us to be vigilant, particular during the
elsen Oor effect. I want to end by thanking our
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firefighters and our professional staff, as nearly every member of
the OCFA has contributed to this firefight in some way,
many working around the clock. As a result of this commitment,
our fire stations remain covered, our communities continue to receive
excellent service, and we are beginning to see progress on
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the fire.
Speaker 5 (05:29):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
You're listening to an update on the fire burning down
an Orange County and your should you.
Speaker 5 (05:38):
Co kin Good afternoon.
Speaker 7 (05:39):
I'm Assistant Sheriff joh mcollough with the Orange County Sheriff's Apartment. First,
i'd like to thank our partners with the Orange County
Fire Authority, cal Fire and the US Forestry Service for
being in unified command with us as we've worked through
this fire. Most importantly, i'd like to thank the community
for their support and patience as we continue to address
the changing conditions. We continue to update evacuation orders and
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assist with road closures to ensure the safety and security
of our residents and homes. Currently, we have closures at
the following locations, Plano Tribuco Road and Joshua Drive, Plano
Tribuco Road and Robinson Ranch Road, Tribuco Canyon Road and
Tribuco Creek Road, Santa Margharita Parkway and Antonio Parkway, Santa
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Margarita Parkway and Plano Tribuco. And we have a hard
closure at Ortega Highway and Nichols Institute and everything east
of that. Until Ortega until Lake elsinor Mandatory evacuation orders
continue to be in effect for the following areas, the
neighborhood of Robinson Ranch in the city of Rancho Santa Margarita,
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the areas of Rancho Carreo, Hot Springs Canyon, Casper's Park,
Blue Jay Campground, Falcon Camp, San Juan Campground, and.
Speaker 5 (07:03):
The Ortega Corridor.
Speaker 7 (07:05):
There's also a mandatory evacuation order in the neighborhood of
El Carriso, which is in Riverside County. We continue to
have voluntary evacuation orders in effect in the following areas
Dove Canyon and Rancho Clo, Rancho Santa Margarita, Zone two,
Tribuco Canyon, Rose Canyon and Holy Jim Canyon, Coda de
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Casa Zones one and two, Silverado Canyon, and Majesca Canyon.
We continue to meet regularly and confer with the incident
management teams for decisions about repopulation. For up to date
emergency messaging, including a map of evacuation areas and the zones,
please refer to Ocshriff dot gov. Forward Slash Airport Fire,
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the Orange County Emergency Manager in the city of Rancho
Santa Margarita have established a care reception center which is
located at the Bell Tower Regional Community Center located at
two two two three two l Paseo and the City
of Rancho Santa Margarita and the Red Crosses there available
to assist with the evacuated residents. We also have large
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animal shelters established throughout the county and they're located at
three locations. The Orange County Fairgrounds, which is located at
eighty eight Fair Drive in the city of Coasta Mesa,
the Los Alamitos Racecourse which is located on Kateela Avenue
in the city of Cyprus, and the nol Ranch Saddle Club,
which is located at six three five two East Nole
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Ranch Road in the city of Anaheim. We have two
small animal shelters established in Mission Viejo Animal Services, which
is located at two eight zero nine to five Hillcrest
and the city of Mission Viejo, and the oc Animal
Care which is located at sixteen thirty Victory Road in
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the city of Tustin, Okay.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
That is Assistant Sheriff John McCullough down in an Orange
County giving us an update on the fire that's been
burning around Tribuco Canyon. Apparently from earlier today it's almost
identical numbers. It's twenty two nine hundred nine acres. They're
saying now zero percent containment. So no change is there
the evacuations, as far as we can tell, pretty much
what they've been so for the most part, it looks
like not much of a change down in Orange County.
Speaker 8 (09:26):
I guess that's kind of good news.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
So a right, so there we go.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
Right, let's hit the show, open the music, and let's
roll Dig Dag with you, all right, Conway Show on CAMF.
I am at six forty. Just heard about the Tribuco fire.
We'll have an update on that if anything changes. Also
the San Berndino fire, they call that the line fire,
and then the Bridge fire.
Speaker 4 (09:50):
And Krozer and I were kind of scratching.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Our heads yesterday because we both have infections bybe That
Bridge fire for the last three days was reported four
thousand to forty five hundred acres every time you looked
at the at the cowfire, four thousand, forty one hundred,
forty one fifty forty two hundred, and then when we
were leaving yesterday it was thirty four thousand acres it exploded.
Speaker 8 (10:15):
And then another fifteen between then and now.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
Yeah, in a couple of hours. It absolutely exploded. And
that was the fire that nobody was talking about.
Speaker 8 (10:23):
Yeah, yeah, that was the least of the three.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
Yes, that was the fire that one's like, oh no,
it's gonna be a nothing, don't worry about it.
Speaker 4 (10:31):
They got a handle on it, and.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Boom it explodes. She goes all the way to right Wood.
That's probably, I don't know, twenty.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Miles earned a bunch of structures, made some problems at
Mount Baldy and a lot of people. When I got
home last night, I get off at near that exit
there on the two ten, and you can see I
couldn't see it right where San Antonio dam is going
up to Mount Baldy, so I can see those hills.
I couldn't see any of the flames or even any
of the glow, but I could see the road to
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the ridgeline road there and right near San Antonio Daan
that sort of ruds the line of the foothills there,
and that was filled with lights from cars just trying
to get out of there.
Speaker 4 (11:09):
I mean, I had no idea that.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
First of all, I had no idea that right Wood,
if you went directly north from your house, Crozer, you'd
run into right Wood. I always thought Brightwood was much
much further west than the more you are Yep, and
it's not. And and the ski resort there got wiped out,
and it's it's unbelievable how this thing exploded. It was
burning for two or three days, you know, cuple akers here,
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couple acres there, and then it literally like an atom
bomb went off and it jumped to thirty four thousand
acres and now it's at what is it now, forty
seven or forty.
Speaker 4 (11:46):
Yeah, forty nine eight acres.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
And we were talking last week when when the fire
out in sam Berdandino, that one was the big and
pretty much only one at that point, and we were
talking about over the weekend how it was so big
and where it was geographically it was creating its own
weather system again almost ignoring this one at a Glendora
Claremont and going in there in the Angelus National Forest.
How much that's now grown because of that.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
Yeah, it is wides and if these fires connect, and
that's obviously got to be a fear of theirs. If
this thing continues east and it jumps the fifteen, and
it's not far from the fifteen now, you know, it's
close to the fifteen now than it is to Claremont.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Yeah, there's a couple of red areas here that are
just about touching the fifteen over in what is it
right there, go Home passage.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
Yeah, and if that crosses that could all of a sudden.
You know, people live in Lake Arrowhead thought they were
in the clear because of the line fire was going
east and they had a pretty good handle on it.
They stopped it up at Running Springs to the north,
and they did a hell of a job up there.
They had a nice big break there with Highway three
thirty and eighteen. But a two lane road with a
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fire like that is nothing. And so they did an
unbelievable job keeping that south of the three thirty for
the most part. A couple areas over the three thirty
for the most part south of three thirty. Okay, So
the people live up an Arrowhead, they were like they
were praying for the people in Big Bear because they knew.
Speaker 4 (13:10):
They were out out of arms, way out of danger.
Speaker 9 (13:13):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
But if this bridge freeway crossed the fifteen, they're right
back in the game.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
The distance of where the fire is this Bridge fire
that we're talking about from the from the western side
of it where basically started. As it moves eastard, the
width of its damage right now is almost exactly the
width from where it currently is to get to Arrowhead.
Speaker 4 (13:32):
Yeah, right, exactly.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
So two days from now, if it makes that same
sort of timeline, it just keeps moving east, it'll hit Arrowhead.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
And this fire, you know, the Line fire, which was
the biggest one of all of them, and that's at
thirty four seven twenty nine acres, I think that's right now,
but yeah, almost thirty five thirty seve thirty four to seven,
and that was the big fire, and now the big
one is the Bridge fire at almost fifty thousand acres,
And so if you can buying the both of them,
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that's fifty thousand. And then you got Orange County of
twenty two thousand, so that's seventy two thousand. That's one
hundred thousand, Yeah, that's one hundred Yeah, then yeah, it's
one hundred thousand acres. One hundred thousand acres have burned
over the last you know, since Thursday, this fire, this
Line fire, will be a week old come Thursday. I
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think it started Thursday night. Yes, so tomorrow night it'll
be one week old.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
And the fire in Sanbraadinan and the fire and Orange County,
we have possible causes attributed to it, the Orange County
one being apparently an accident. And then they arrested a
guy earlier. I don't know if it was today or
last night. I believe it was for the sam Ordino one,
an arsonist. They suspected arsonist. No cause yet we're hearing
from the one in the bridge.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
Fire, and I was listening to the press conference just now.
If you have a horse or you have horses and
you have a place for him, they're taking him at
Los Alamitos, which is the racetrack in Orange County, right
off Katella and the six oh five. So bring your
horses to Low sal And and threw them in a race,
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because the chances are they're faster than the effing horses
I bet on over the weekend.
Speaker 4 (15:12):
Ah, take your horses to losal.
Speaker 8 (15:15):
Didn't you have yours blessed too?
Speaker 10 (15:16):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (15:17):
My god, I had everything. I'd am blessed.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
I had them, you know, I tried to, you know,
give them some health food I tried everything, I was praying,
I was doing everything man, and I didn't hit.
Speaker 4 (15:28):
I didn't hit.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
So Los Alamado is very nice for them to open
up their doors to you to to store your horse
there during these fires. So contact them, make sure they
got plenty of room, and bring your horse or pony
or I don't know what you got.
Speaker 4 (15:42):
Maybe you got a donkey, who knows. I don't know
what what you got.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
Whatever you got, bring it to Lo sal and I'll
be there on Saturday and Sunday trying to get it
over the wire.
Speaker 4 (15:51):
Come out with this three, Come on with this three.
Speaker 11 (15:54):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 4 (16:00):
So let's get to this Bridge fire.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
This is the big one now almost fifty thousand acres
and this fire was nothing, man, nothing compared to the
other two fires. This fire was completely in total control,
or not total control, but not out of control like
the way it is now. And it was known as
the like the ugly steps on of the other two fires.
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Nobody talked about the Bridge fire. We did, we did here,
but a lot of people did not. And then it exploded.
It exploded last night. A lot of people. You've seen
the right Wood ski resort. Those flames one hundred hundred
and fifty feet high just ripping through that ski resort.
Thirteen homes and buildings burned down at last count, probably
more now. And that fire took off. I don't know
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if you remember this. I think it's like three four
five years ago when we had a fire in Thousand Oaks.
Speaker 4 (16:51):
It was burning.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
It was the sant Ana winds and it was going
to burn towards Malibu, and everybody was saying, Okay, it'll
take a day or two.
Speaker 4 (16:58):
To get to Malibu.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
You know, you have a day or two to get
all your stuff together before that fire gets there. That
fire was there in two hours. That fire climbed and
crawled over the mountains, the Santa Monica Mountains. In two
hours it got to Malibu. Same thing here. This thing
exploded last night. Unbelievable. Let's find out what's going on
here with the bridge fire. That's one off the two
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ten near Claremont and it just blew up.
Speaker 12 (17:28):
Mountain High is a big draw for people throughout southern
California that want to come up and ski, and it
looks like the damage may not be as bad as
originally thought. The snowmakers are actually on. I was talking
to firefighters this morning and they said that the staff
turning those on throughout the resort might have helped a
little bit with keeping all the vegetation moist and maybe
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keeping the fire away from this area. From where we are,
we do not see any damage here.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
I wonder if the guy who was asked to turn
the snowblowers on said, I think it's too warm.
Speaker 8 (18:00):
It's not going to do.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
We're not going to get any snow right now. No, no, no,
you idiot. We got to try to protect the area
with the wall.
Speaker 12 (18:06):
Okay, some of the webcams that the resort has usually
people check these to see kind of the ski the
snow conditions up at the top of the mountain. Unfortunately,
last night we did see that fire move very quickly
through here right with There was just a wall of
flames that moved through where the ski lifts are. And
it does at some point look like they damaged so
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much that the cameras actually went down.
Speaker 13 (18:30):
Ah.
Speaker 4 (18:30):
That's horrible. All right.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
This is called the Bridge fire, the latest, the largest
of them right now, the latest on it.
Speaker 4 (18:36):
Here we go.
Speaker 10 (18:37):
We have learned the fires destroyed twenty homes in the
Mountain Baldy area, thirteen in the right Wood area. Six
cabins were also destroyed, but officials say there have been
no significant injuries and no one has been killed.
Speaker 5 (18:50):
So here is the latest.
Speaker 10 (18:51):
The fire stands at forty seven nine four acres, zero
percent contained. What zero person contained.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
At fifty thousand or forty nine and a half thousand
acres unbelievable. That fire is going to have hot spots
and they're gonna be firefighters putting that fire out until Halloween.
My prediction with these, with the Line fire and the
Bridge fire, at Halloween, they're still going to talk about
seventy eight eighty percent containment.
Speaker 10 (19:21):
Right now, twenty five hundred structures are still threatened.
Speaker 14 (19:25):
There has been substantial wildfire growth throughout the night with
impacts to the communities of Mount Baldy and Rightwood. The
cause of the fire is currently undetermined but is being
actively investigated by the United States Forest Service. This is
currently and you.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
Know this fire that's at fifty thousand or nearly fifty
thousand acres. It was started probably with one single match
or a lighter, a little tiny flame, probably about a
half inch tall, and a piece of grass caught on fire,
then another, then another, and now it's fifty thousand acres,
destroying home and cabins and ski resorts. That little tiny flame,
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It can all be traced back to that little tiny flame.
Speaker 14 (20:06):
It took off by the United States Forest Service. This
is currently the largest active fire in the state of California.
Speaker 10 (20:13):
Officials stressed, if you are asked to.
Speaker 4 (20:15):
Lead, it's the biggest fire in the state of.
Speaker 14 (20:17):
California, active fire in the state of the biggest.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
Active fire in the state of California. And this is
the fire that a lot of people are ignoring. They
were talking about through Trebuco fire, the airport fire, the
Line fire, and nobody really mentioned the Bridge fire. Now
they're talking about it now they.
Speaker 5 (20:31):
Are officials stressed.
Speaker 10 (20:33):
If you are asked to leave, please don't wait, they say,
the difference between life and death could be minutes.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
Yes, all right, And now the latest latest update on
the Bridge fire. This is only about about an hour
ago or something.
Speaker 9 (20:46):
Unrelenting bridge fires scorching everything in the flames way, including
practically melting the skeleton of a jeep into the ground.
Speaker 8 (20:54):
So many of these houses that could.
Speaker 9 (20:56):
Have gone firefighters arrived here around eight thirty last night,
trying to save what they could.
Speaker 11 (21:02):
It's this entire cul de Sac was saved due to
the actions of those firefighters last night.
Speaker 9 (21:07):
Video from last night also shows the fire ripping through
Mountain High Ski Resort. Today, a dusting of smoke covers
the mountains. A post from the resort's social media account says,
great news. All the main lifts and building survived with
little to no damage.
Speaker 4 (21:21):
Oh that's great. I didn't know that. It looked like
it were completely wiped out. That's great news.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
We played it for you again because I know a
lot of people half ass radio. You know, you're on
the radio's on while you're cooking or studying or watching
TV or whatever, and you have assd I get that.
Speaker 4 (21:35):
I do the same thing.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
So listen to this if you're a big right Wood fan.
Great news with the ski resort.
Speaker 5 (21:40):
Great news.
Speaker 9 (21:41):
All the main lifts and building survived with little to
no damage.
Speaker 4 (21:45):
That's sensational news.
Speaker 8 (21:47):
That's pre amazing.
Speaker 4 (21:47):
That really is great. Man.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
I looked at that video last night. I thought there's
no way anything's left. Yeah, and it's all left. It's
almost all there.
Speaker 9 (21:54):
The rich fire has already burned more than forty seven
nine hundred acres with zero percent containment right what is
under an evacuation order with no update on when that
will lift. This man tells us he left with his
pets as soon as he got the alert, but has
no idea what he'll return home to.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
I wonder what it's gonna be like skiing there this winter,
because all the trees are gone. They're all gone. Oh yeah,
they're all gonna be burned to a crisp. But you'll
be skiing down in what looks like hell. You know,
everything is burned except for the snow you're on.
Speaker 4 (22:23):
Wow, that's gonna be wild.
Speaker 5 (22:24):
I'm hoping that's still there.
Speaker 15 (22:26):
You know. I'm almost eighty years old, I'm retired, I'm disabled,
and I really don't want to.
Speaker 5 (22:31):
Live anywhere else.
Speaker 4 (22:32):
Oh my god, this poor guy is he skiing? I
don't think so. He's disabled, but he's eighty. He lives
in the mountains.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
Yeah, and he's lost everything. And you can hear it
in this poor man's voice.
Speaker 15 (22:47):
I'm hoping that's still there. You know, I'm almost eighty
years old, I'm retired, I'm disabled, and I really don't want.
Speaker 5 (22:53):
To live anywhere else.
Speaker 4 (22:55):
I'm with the gun.
Speaker 15 (22:56):
If my house is gone, I don't know what to do.
This is crazy. I've never seen anything like this. Is
really really scary and painful.
Speaker 16 (23:02):
And again, we don't know how long these evacuation orders
will last. But we are told that people that are
that have evacuated are using their ring cameras or their
neighbor's ring cameras to monitor their homes.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
Wow, what a what a fire? What a what a
week with these fires? Man, unbelievable. All three of them
now major major fires in California. The biggest one is
the Bridge fire, the second one, bigger one is the
Line fire. And then the third one now is the
smallest fire in Tribuco Canyon called the the Airport fire.
All right, we're going to keep an eye on all
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three of them too and give you the latest on
all three of these deals.
Speaker 11 (23:39):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM sixty Conway Show.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
Three major fires burning right now. Tribuco Canyon, the Airport Fire,
Sam Bernardino, the Line fire, the Bridge fire up there Glendora,
and now it has spread all the way to the
the into the the Annelo Valley and that's huge. So
that fire exploded overnight. We heard earlier in a press
conference at the top of the hour at four o'clock
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there was a live press conference about the airport fire
down Orange County. We gave you all the news about
the bridge fire. So now people up in the mountains
who are concerned with this line fire, here is your update.
Then we have some information on the suspected arson this
as well that may have started this fire. But first
an update on the line fire burning in San Bernardino Mountains.
Speaker 13 (24:27):
As the massive line fire continues to burn out of
control in San Bernadino County, now comes news that it
was perhaps set intentionally. Thirty four year old Justin Halstenberg
of Norco suspected of arson. News that has infuriated mountain
residents in the evacuation zone.
Speaker 5 (24:43):
I'm not at work.
Speaker 8 (24:45):
I should be at work right now.
Speaker 13 (24:46):
Instead, I have to protect my home so somebody else
can get off or a little bit of misery.
Speaker 8 (24:52):
It's not worth it.
Speaker 13 (24:53):
Ricky Garcia lives in Running Springs, which now looks like
a ghost town. Most of his neighbors have evacuated as
firefighters continue to battle the line fire.
Speaker 12 (25:02):
For all those people that are displaced right now, I
hope they come back.
Speaker 8 (25:06):
I hope they have a home to come back to.
Speaker 13 (25:08):
As of Tuesday, the Line Fire had burned more than
twenty thousand acres. Today the fire has grown to cover
more than thirty five thousand acres.
Speaker 17 (25:16):
Fortunately, we did not get impacted as much as the
airport and the bridge fire did yesterday, but we did
have a significant growth and acreage yesterday. We do know
we lost Keller Peak Lookout. The US four service lookout
was destroyed yesterday. I can confirm that.
Speaker 13 (25:30):
But even though the most intense fire activity for the
Line Fire on Tuesday was off to the northeast, there
was a pretty big firefight here in Running Springs as well.
Speaker 4 (25:38):
I'm on Pine Cove Drive and.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
Okay, this is what is going to happen too, and
I hope it doesn't, but it probably will. People are
going to remember this of the news about this fire
because it's been going on for so long. As during
a heat wave, kids were back in school, parents were
back listening to the radio and watching news instead of traveling.
So everybody knows about this fire, and people are going
to be when they decide to go vacation this winter
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in Running Springs Lake.
Speaker 4 (26:03):
Arrowhead or Big Bear.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
They'll say, Oh, I don't know, I heard it was
all burnt up out there, you know, like Lehina, Leahina,
people avoid continue to avoid Maui and that west side
northwest side of Maui because of what happened in Leahina
and the people in Maui who work at these hotels,
a lot of them are being laid off because a
lot of people are avoiding that area. I hope that
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doesn't happen with Running Springs, Arrowhead and Big Bear. It
looks like as of now, all of the resorts up
there are intact, and it's it'll be a cool winter
to get up there. You know, once she and your
drive up, you're going to see a lot of burnt areas.
But I think once you get up there, as long
as these firefighters can hold this line, I think it's
gonna be a beautiful place to spend you know, Thanksgiving, Christmas, whatever.
Speaker 13 (26:49):
I'm on Pine Cove Drive and you can see the
front railing to this home burnt. The fender on that
Mercedes up there melted, But the real loss, at least
in this.
Speaker 4 (26:58):
Neighborhood is to home right here.
Speaker 13 (27:01):
You can see it's burned right down to the foundation,
a total loss.
Speaker 11 (27:05):
My heart goes up to them too and their families.
Speaker 5 (27:08):
Because they don't have anything to come back to.
Speaker 8 (27:10):
That's the hardest thing.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
Unfortunately, that's the only and a lot of these people
don't have insurance because insurance is radically expensive up in
the mountains for good reason too, So a lot of
people have no insurance and they're gonna have to sell
off the property for you know, pennies on the dollar
compared to what their house is worth. And it's just
it's a very sad story. And evidently this thing was
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started on purpose.
Speaker 13 (27:35):
And fortunately that's the only home that we know of
that's burned. And today no additional evacuation orders issued. In fact,
a couple of them have been downgraded to warnings and
indication that hopefully firefighters are making progress.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
Okay, now onto the arsonists that may have started this
fire in San Bernardino.
Speaker 18 (27:53):
Works for FedEx, and they were able to link that
license plate to his truck to the same vicinity in
Highland where this fire started. Not only that, but also
surveillance and also other items related to the crime.
Speaker 4 (28:04):
All right here we go guy may have started this fire.
Speaker 18 (28:09):
A wildfire burning out of control in the San Bernardino Mountains,
scorching thousands of acres, putting homes in lives in danger,
is all being blamed on one man accused of intentionally
starting the horrific blazes. Were able to look at several
different videos and determine who the suspect was. Thirty four
year old Justin Helstenberg was taken into custody.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
Detected said thirty four seems to be a little old
to be in the arts and game.
Speaker 18 (28:34):
Thirty four year old Justin Helstenberg was taken into custody.
Detectives say there was evidence found in his Norco home,
a home in a quiet community that shocks me or.
Speaker 8 (28:44):
I'm not We never thought he would have been the
one to start the fire.
Speaker 18 (28:46):
The two went to high school together.
Speaker 15 (28:48):
Calm, quiet guy, who wasn't No one ever.
Speaker 8 (28:50):
Thought of doing that.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
Yeah, keep your eye on the quiet guy. George Carlin
used to say that, you know, keep your eye on
the quiet guy. He didn't like that statement though, So
keep your eye on the quiet guy.
Speaker 4 (29:01):
He said.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
If you walked into a bar, a smoky bar that
only had two patrons, One guy was in an Oxford
sweater with penny loafers at the end of the bar,
reading poetry to himself. The other guy was slamming an
axe on the bar, saying, if I don't get a
drink in the next two seconds, I'm going to kill somebody.
Speaker 4 (29:17):
Who do you keep an eye on? Not the quiet guy.
Speaker 18 (29:21):
Neighbors equally and disbelieve, you.
Speaker 4 (29:23):
Know, seeing the people's faces that are losing a home,
that's the u least you can see.
Speaker 18 (29:27):
If true Halstenberg is responsible for burning down this home
on pine Cone Drive in Running Springs.
Speaker 8 (29:33):
It's just heartbreaking. It's just really heartbreaking.
Speaker 18 (29:35):
Where Brook Pellinchard her family once lived, thinking it would
be there forever home.
Speaker 8 (29:41):
This just really surreal. It happened really fast.
Speaker 19 (29:44):
We weren't able to grab much before we left, and
so you know, I have about like three tupperwares left
of our lives.
Speaker 18 (29:53):
And still heartbreaking to think more than sixty thousand homes
are still under direct threat with new evacuation orders all
the way to Big Bear. Wow, unbelievable Bear in helston's
Burg community more than fifty miles away. Neighbors like Bernadette
Staples directly impacted by another fire burning to the west,
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now agonizing if he too could be responsible this as
she waits to hear of her motorcycle school near Mountain
High has gone up in flames.
Speaker 8 (30:23):
Why would they do that?
Speaker 14 (30:24):
And did he ever have any clue what impact it
would have on so many lives.
Speaker 18 (30:30):
Homes, jobs, Bernadette says, all they can do is hope
and pray.
Speaker 19 (30:35):
I don't think there's enough prayers that we can keep
sending up trying to ask for help.
Speaker 18 (30:39):
This is a tight knit community. People are truly shocked
and in disbelief and cannot believe that this man is
suspected of such a heinous crime, such a tragedy. Now,
as for the facts, if suspected, if he actually did
do this, we're talking thirty five thousand acres already scorched,
a home has already burned, more being threatened, and only
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fourteen contains.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
It's amazing that these guys usually get a slap on
the wrist too. He's being held eighty thousand dollars bail,
and a lot of these times, a lot of times
they get, you know, three or four years in prison,
and they're told to pay a couple hundred thousand dollars
in fines. Meanwhile, millions and perhaps hundreds of millions of
dollars in damage.
Speaker 4 (31:19):
Unreal.
Speaker 11 (31:20):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on De Maya from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
Twenty three years ago today nine to eleven happened. I
was living in Insino, renting a house with my wife,
then my girlfriend out of the we were even engaged
back then. I'm sure we weren't actually, And I remember
I got a call in the morning.
Speaker 4 (31:47):
The phone rang.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
At six thirty six o'clock in the morning, maybe before that,
and I didn't pick it up, but I know that
manytime the phone rings between you know, three am and
six am.
Speaker 4 (31:59):
It's bad news.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
And I didn't pick it up, and the person didn't
leave a message. Then they called back and I heard
the answer machine go off. You know, in the old days,
you kids out there, we just have an answer machine
where a tape would roll and say, hey, please a message,
I'll call you back, and then you could hear where
was leaving a message. And I heard it clearly in
the other room and it said it was Doug McIntyre,
(32:23):
who used to be on KBC. He's a very good
friend of mine, and he said, Conway, you got to
get up. A plane has flown into the World Trade Center.
I remember him saying this very distinctly. He said, the
plane has flown into the World Trade Center on purpose,
on purpose.
Speaker 4 (32:42):
I remember him saying that.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
I got up, turned the TV on, got my wife up,
and we just sat there stunned for the next five
or six hours, and I couldn't believe it.
Speaker 4 (32:53):
I could not believe that was going down.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
Then they took all the planes out of the sky
within I think an hour and a half. For two
hours was remarkably short period of time, and there was
a no fly zone over the entire country, the entire country,
and nobody was able to fly small aircraft, large aircraft, helicopters, drones, nothing,
and so the valley for the first time in probably
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my lifetime, you can go outside in the middle of
the day. You could actually stand there for an hour
and not hear an airplane or a helicopter, which is
really eerie, really weird, because we were over the flight
path of Van Nuys Airport, so every ten you know,
every seven minutes, there was a plane flying over our house,
and a lot of helicopters. LAPD always flying over and
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you could literally stand outside and hear nothing for hours,
hours on end, and you'd never hear a plane or
an aircraft. And so it was twenty three years ago.
And here's what makes people who experienced it, like everybody
on the program here, feel.
Speaker 4 (34:00):
A little old.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
There are kids that are playing in the NFL, the NHL,
the NBA, and Major League baseball, Major League soccer who
were not born when that happened. There are not a
ton of kids, but there are probably ten to fifteen
players in the NHL, maybe more in that now. Because
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you know, you could be twenty three years old and
not have witnessed or have been around, not been alive
when Not eleven happened, And now there are there are
twenty three year old kids that weren't alive. There are
twenty five, twenty six, twenty seven year olds who don't
remember it.
Speaker 4 (34:40):
You don't remember it.
Speaker 1 (34:41):
If you were three years old, your parents probably you know,
kept you and sheltered you from that, and you don't
remember a lot from when you were three.
Speaker 4 (34:47):
You still got a lot.
Speaker 1 (34:48):
Going on at three, you know, you're still you know,
growing and figuring out what this stupid life is. And
you don't have the experience to define what that meant
to this country. So there are people in the twenty six,
twenty seven years old who have no memory whatsoever, and
they have their own kids now, And that's weird. It
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is odd, but twenty three years ago remembering nine to eleven.
Speaker 2 (35:13):
And in our own newsroom, like, we have a couple
of young news editors. One of them, Emily, she doesn't
remember nine to eleven. Yeah, yeah, it's incredible. I was about,
I don't know, maybe a year ago. I was down
at Wharton's Steakhouse here and I was supposed to meet
a couple of guys from sales and a couple of clients,
(35:34):
and I got there early. I got there first on
to be traffic, and I was talking to the receptionists
and I don't know we were talking about. She brought
something up and we were talking about, I don't know,
news or something, and then she said she was nineteen
and I said, oh, that's weird. I said, you weren't
(35:54):
alive for nine to eleven, and she said, no, she's
born a year after nine eleven. Halpened and I said, wow,
that's unbelievable' I've met anybody who wasn't alive for nine
to eleven, So what memories.
Speaker 4 (36:07):
Do you have of it?
Speaker 1 (36:08):
And she goes, I just have what my parents and
grandparents told me. And just then Darren McMillan from sales
comes in and he sits down and he sees me
talking to this nineteen year old receptionist and I'm talking
about nine to eleven, and I sit next to him
because you know, it's done with the conversation, and he
looks at me. He goes, buddy, you still got it
(36:29):
with the chicks? I said what he said? Yeah, you know,
talking to a nineteen year old about nine eleven?
Speaker 4 (36:37):
What was the backup? Little Holocaust talk? Was the What
was the next move? I said, buddy, please, I'm married.
What's wrong with you?
Speaker 1 (36:46):
But that was a quite a day, Quite a day
twenty three years later, Though, twenty three years later, twenty.
Speaker 19 (36:53):
Three years the reality of this day remains raw and
painful and runching the sight of a gleaming tower little
comfort to those who still grieve for lost friends and family.
There is, after all these years, a sameness to the ceremony.
(37:14):
The sunshine often seems a bit more brilliant as it
was that fateful day. Dignitaries come every year to pay
their respects, but for those who gather on the somber anniversary,
the remembrance of loved ones still seems like yesterday.
Speaker 10 (37:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (37:29):
I have sunflowers every year, not just because they remind
me of my uncle Ritchie, but because in a time
of such profound darkness, they always look for the light.
Speaker 19 (37:37):
Hearing personal stories of those whose lives have been changed
by this experience in one way or another will always
be profound.
Speaker 12 (37:45):
That was a mathematics teacher in Brooklyn, and it just
changed my life.
Speaker 4 (37:48):
It actually motivated me.
Speaker 1 (37:50):
When I got home, I saw all it, a video
and an imagery of what had happened.
Speaker 5 (37:55):
I decided to join the Nypaty.
Speaker 19 (37:57):
Even from those who might not have been born into
thousand and one.
Speaker 4 (38:01):
We give out food in your name.
Speaker 19 (38:02):
There is still a reverence for this day of service,
a respect for the comfort needed. All set against pools
reflecting absence, filled with so many tears that have been shed.
Speaker 18 (38:13):
I doesn't want to be honest to be here and
to wear your panch sum as a police officer.
Speaker 5 (38:18):
Robert, my little brother, I hope we will meet.
Speaker 4 (38:21):
It twenty three years or so, like twenty three seconds.
Speaker 5 (38:24):
In September eleventh, my brother disappeared.
Speaker 4 (38:27):
That this place has become my altar. Blood Bless America.
Speaker 19 (38:30):
This anniversary also marks a somber milestone for the FDNY.
Three hundred and seventy members of the department have now
died from nine to eleven related illnesses more than the
three hundred and forty three who passed away on that day.
Speaker 1 (38:45):
Oh, I didn't know that. That's an unbelievable statistic. I'm
going to play it again. It's pretty remarkable.
Speaker 19 (38:52):
Unbelievable Again, Why three hundred and seventy members of the
department have now died from nine to eleven related illnesses
more than the three hundred and forty three who passed
away on that day.
Speaker 1 (39:04):
Wow, that is an unbelove I've never heard that statistic before.
Speaker 4 (39:08):
That is crazy. All right. We are live on KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (39:14):
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