Hour 2 | Fire coverage Cont'd @ConwayShow

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's KFI Am sixty and you're listening to the Conway
Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
A complete devastation in Pacific Palisades. I'm looking at it
right now on Channel five. I can't there's no words
for this, with what these people are going through. There
are block after block after block of complete devastation. Not
a single home left on a lot of these blocks.

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And these are two million dollars, three million dollar homes
each one of them. You can't buy a two story
home in Pacific Palisades for under a million dollars or
maybe two million or three. And they're all gone on
several blocks. There are a lot of homes that are
still there, which is great news for a lot of people,
or good news, i should say, but there are a

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lot of them where block after block, they're just all
burned to the ground right there along beautiful you know,
just north of pch And if this was a if
this was an average day, you know, if these fires
didn't happen and we're just sitting here, you know, goofing
on people and doing a normal show. If that Bank

(01:17):
of America was on fire in Pacific Palisades or an Altadena.
I should say that would be the lead story.

Speaker 3 (01:24):
All the news stations would be on it. They would.

Speaker 2 (01:27):
We would have wall to wall coverage on the bank,
how it started, what's going on Bank America and fire?
Lead story on two, four, five, seven, nine to eleven,
here other radio stations. If one bank was on fire.
If there was a church, there's a church burning right
now in Altadena, a big, huge, beautiful church in the
Eton fire. If that church was on fire and there

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was and this all these other fires weren't going on,
that's the lead, lead story.

Speaker 3 (01:53):
That's the big story.

Speaker 2 (01:54):
You would you would send out every reporter, every camera
to cover that church on fire. If there was a
home in the Pacific College Stage, one home burning to
the ground, one home, it would be the lead story
on all the new stations and including here on KFI.
And yet it's not the lead story because every single

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station has home after home after apartment building, business, churches, schools,
nursing homes burned to the ground. This this is going
to take a long long time for us to get
over this, financially, emotionally, physically. I mean, we've got you know,

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we've got to get past this. And I think we will.
It's going to take a lot of work, a lot
of work, a lot of manpower, and we've got to
make sure this never happens again. I don't know how
to do that, but somebody who's getting paid to do
that has to figure that out. They got to figure

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that out. We can never let this happen again. This
has to be the last time this ever happens in
Los Angeles. And I don't know what the answer is,
but we can never let this happen again. This beautiful
church off Lake, I think it's off Lake in the
Altadena area, eaten fire, big huge, old, beautiful church. It's

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completely engulfed in flames. There's seven or eight nine fire
trucks on it. It looks like some of them are
from out of this county or out of thee out
of the city that are trying to put this fire out.
And it's going to be a battle. That church, that
old historic church, beautiful on fire. And the people that

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go to that church that needed that relief to go
with this Sunday to Mass it's not available, and now
they've got to find a place to meet. They got
to find a place to get to get together and
talk and worship. Where are they going to go? And
you think about the aftermath this fire. I was driving
with my daughter today through Burbank and I saw a

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sign that said a apartment available two plus two And
I said to my daughter, I said, so that sign
will not be there on Saturday.

Speaker 3 (04:16):
Cheose what you mean? I said.

Speaker 2 (04:18):
Everybody who's been burned out of their apartment, their house,
their rental, their a condo, their townhouse. They're all scrambling
now and calling every single apartment ad that they can
and trying to desperately to get a place to live.
All the hotels are booked or many many of them,

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and I don't know where people are going to live.
We already had a homeless issue and a lack of
housing in southern California. And where are all these tens
of thousands of families going to go? Where are they
going to live? All right, we're waiting for a press
conf friends right here that they should be pretty contentious,

(05:03):
especially when it comes to asking Mayor Bass questions about
mayor baths and where she was during these fires.

Speaker 3 (05:11):
So let's croze. I don't know if you can pull
that up in there.

Speaker 2 (05:14):
But city leaders are giving an update on the SoCal fires.
And also the Chief of Police is there, Jim McDonald
as well. And so as soon as they get into uh,
you know, talking to Mayor Bass and the chief, we
will go to them. And Krosch, I'll leave that up
to you to because you're the news guy. As soon
as it gets interesting, you know, the politicians get up

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and thanking everybody.

Speaker 3 (05:38):
This is not the time to do that, you know.

Speaker 2 (05:40):
They're they're the firemen, the fire women should be thanked,
the paramedics thanked by Mayor Baths.

Speaker 4 (05:48):
Okay, here we go, Good evening everyone.

Speaker 5 (05:50):
I stand here today with incredible sympathy and concern about
the devastation and the tragedy that our city and county
are facing. And I definitely want to send my condolences
to the families who lost loved ones, to the families

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and neighborhoods who lost property. This Firestone firestorm is the
big one in magnitude. Hurricane force winds are usually accompanied
by rainstorms, but these are hurricane force winds that are
combined with extremely dry drought conditions. To provide context, at

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ten twenty am yesterday, the Palisades fire was at ten
acres twelve minutes later it was at two hundred acres.
To those who fled their homes, especially those who have
lost your homes, Our hearts are breaking for you and
we stand with you. I know the world is looking

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at images of our city's devastation. I have seen THENT
lines of the Palisades fire, and it is staggering. I've
been in constant contact with our fire commanders, with county, state,
and federal officials.

Speaker 4 (07:11):
I took the fastest.

Speaker 5 (07:12):
Route back, which included being on a military plane, which
facilitated our communications so I was able to be on
the phone the entire time of the flight.

Speaker 6 (07:24):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.

Speaker 5 (07:30):
We are fighting for you and everyone in Los Angeles.
Thank you to our first responders who waited in the flames,
pulled people from cars and got them to safety, no
matter how dangerous. And thank you to everyone who heeded
our warnings to evacuate. Tonight, more people may get evacuation orders,

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and if.

Speaker 4 (07:53):
They do, please leave immediately.

Speaker 5 (07:56):
If you have an evacuation warning, get ready to go,
protect yourself and each other, and support our firefighters on
the front lines. Our strategy included preparations and pre deployment,
and it now includes fire crews from around the state
and from our federal partners. We are also adapting in

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real time. These winds continue to blow, so let me
be clear, I am making sure that we leave no
resource untapped. Firefighters are now unseen from across the state
and across the country. I spoke with President Biden today
and Governor Newsom earlier today, and they assured me of

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full federal and state support. As we head into tonight,
we are still facing strong and erratic winds and palisades,
and in Silmar we are very much in an active firefight.
I can report to you that the Woodly fire, however,
in the Supulvita basin, under control. I can also report

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that finally air operations have resumed, and that is a
big deal. But it is up to the winds as
to how long the air support can continue.

Speaker 4 (09:13):
But these conditions are highly volatile.

Speaker 5 (09:15):
We've seen a devastating fire in the Pasadena area. Fires
have sparked up.

Speaker 4 (09:21):
In Seami Valley and on the La and Ventura County line.

Speaker 5 (09:25):
And as our firefighters do battle on the front lines,
all of us must be vigilant. So if you receive
an evacuation order, please leave immediately. If you receive a warning,
get ready, protect yourself and protect each other, and don't
divert firefighters from our strategy. Signals are out and the

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roads have debris, so stay off the roads unless you
are evacuating or have another emergency. Be prepared, food, water, medicine,
a bag packed and ready. Again, this is an active situation,
and conserve water to the extent that you can. We

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want to make sure that we are ready if we
need more water. But make no mistake, Los Angeles will
rebuild stronger than ever. Right now, if you need help,
emergency information, resources and shelter is available.

Speaker 4 (10:24):
All of this can be found at URL.

Speaker 5 (10:28):
Los Angeles Together is how we will get through this,
through the heroicism of our firefighters, the vigilance of Angelinos,
and the spirit of our city.

Speaker 4 (10:39):
This is a big moment.

Speaker 5 (10:41):
It is a big moment for all of us to
come together, for Angelinos to be united, for Angelinos to
be prepared to help each other. This is who we are.
La will rise and make no mistake. I am confident
that we will rebuild and with that, I would like
to introduce La County Board of Supervisor Chair Catherine Barker, Thank.

Speaker 4 (11:07):
You, Maren, and I want to thank you for your leadership.

Speaker 7 (11:09):
I know when this first hit we were in constant contact,
so thank you for being a true leader to this
great city of Los Angeles. Obviously, as someone who represents
the fifth District, we are prone to wildfires, but nothing
like what I witnessed today.

Speaker 4 (11:27):
The Eaton Canyon fire.

Speaker 7 (11:31):
Is ripping through a community like I have never seen.
It is like a Third World country out or country
out there. I would ask anyone listening, if you do
not need to be in the area and you've been evacuated,
please heed the evacuation warning, and if you don't live
in the area, please stay away. I was shocked to

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see people walking around that don't live up there.

Speaker 4 (11:58):
They're just taking a look at what's going on.

Speaker 7 (12:00):
We have firefighter and first responders that are trying to
do their job, and it's important for us to all
support them and make sure that we provide space so
that they can get it done. The county has lost
many facilities, our parks, our Eaton Canyon Nature Center, our
Senior Center. I'm sure the sheriff will talk about the

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fact that we almost lost our Sheriffs Station but has
been evacuated.

Speaker 8 (12:28):
We are going to rebuild, and when we met.

Speaker 7 (12:34):
With the Governor and the President, the resources and the
promises have been made and it's going to be our
job to deliver. And I am confident given the resiliency
of this great county, working with all of our partners,

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we will rebuild. And my friends out there that I
have talked to today that have lost their homes up
in Eaton Canyon, I am a phone call away, and you.

Speaker 4 (13:04):
Are not alone.

Speaker 7 (13:05):
And to those of you that have lost homes, please
reach out for help.

Speaker 4 (13:09):
You are not alone.

Speaker 7 (13:11):
It's important for us to recognize that these people have
lost everything, in many cases their entire life savings.

Speaker 4 (13:19):
So as we move forward, we're going to make sure the.

Speaker 7 (13:21):
Department Mental Health has resources on the ground. But if
you need someone to talk to, reach out, reach out,
love thy neighbor. So with that, I would like to
invite Sprosa Lindsay Horvat up, my colleague who represents the
third district the Palisades fire.

Speaker 6 (13:40):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.

Speaker 8 (13:48):
Thank you very much.

Speaker 9 (13:50):
Earlier today I visited the Westwood Recreation Center where I
was able to listen, to grieve, to be with evacuees
in this time of crisis, To also thank the volunteers,
but most importantly, to let each person know in this

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time of crisis that they're not alone. To everyone feeling
the anguish of this tragedy, the County will be here
for you no matter what as we recover from these fires.
But we're not out of this yet and we need
to continue to follow all guidance from our emergency personnel.

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I want to thank you for evacuating, for letting our
first responders do their job, and for keeping your loved
ones safe.

Speaker 8 (14:43):
Here are the updates from the third District since our
last press conference.

Speaker 9 (14:48):
Evacuation orders have expanded into Santa Monica to San Vicenti,
and evacuation warnings now include Montana to Wilshire Ocean to eleventh.
Gas shut offs are affecting more than fifteen thousand people
in Malibu from Brentwood Country Club to Pepperdine. A boil

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water advisory is now in effect for La County Waterworks
District twenty nine.

Speaker 8 (15:13):
This is the Sunset Mesa.

Speaker 9 (15:14):
Community from Topanga Beach and Coastline Drive on the south
to Shore Heights Drive on the north and from Topanga
Canyon Road to Carbon Canyon Road in Malibu, including communities
of Big Rock and Carbon Mesa. For more information about water,
you can call eight hundred six seven five four three

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five seven Bury j. Nidorf Juvenile Hall remains in an
evacuation warning area. Should the warning become an order, the
chief has developed a plan for safe evacuation. Our young
people's safety remains my top priority. Today, we also received

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agreement from the Price of the United States to approve
a major Disaster declaration which will include individual assistance and
public assistance programs. President Biden, we are so grateful. Additionally,
our County Department of Mental Health is activated for mental
health resources. You can call the helpline at eight hundred

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eight five four seven seven seven to one for twenty
four to seven support and mental health resources. We know
this is a traumatic time, please ask for help. The
county has also invested additional funding into our two to
one one system to increase capacity.

Speaker 8 (16:41):
LASSA has activated.

Speaker 9 (16:42):
The Augmented Winter Shelter Program to provide shelter to our
un housed community during this time. LA County Assessor Jeffrey
prayng has shared property tax installment deferral applications, misfortune calamity
damage reassessment applications, and a disaster relief FAQ. For property
owners affected by the fires. You can go to Assessor

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dot La County dot gov. The Emergency Network LA is
coordinating volunteers to sign up.

Speaker 8 (17:12):
Go to e NLA dot org.

Speaker 9 (17:16):
In addition, the American Red Cross and LA Food Bank
have all set up specific donation websites that you can
access at Emergency dot LA County dot gov. Downed trees
and power lines are impacting public transit service and I
want to thank chair of our Metro board, Supervisor Janis

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Hahn for her speed and waiving metro fares on today
because of station power outages.

Speaker 8 (17:42):
But please, if you are in a safe.

Speaker 9 (17:45):
Place and you don't need to travel, stay put and
stay safe. For those evacuating, Uber is providing rides for
free up to forty dollars to get active to get
to active shelters. This includes Pasadena Civic Auditorium, Westwood Recreation Center,
El Camino Real Charter, Richie Valen's Rec Center, and you

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can use the promo code wildfire twenty five Tonight. The
winds will remain strong, but our resolve is stronger. This
emergency will continue. Let's keep each other safe, heed emergency instruction,
and pray for the success of our frontline and first responders.

Speaker 8 (18:30):
Thank you, and now I'd.

Speaker 9 (18:32):
Like to introduce Ellie kristin Crowley.

Speaker 10 (18:40):
Good evening everyone. Southern California is continuing to endure some
of the most historic fire doric fire conditions on record.
Extreme fire weather, driven by strong and erratic winds and
low humidity have ignited multiple fires across our region. The

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LAFD is fully committed to continuously monitoring and adapting to
the evolving nature of this weather event and stands ready
to respond to any additional incidents that may arise.

Speaker 11 (19:18):
Now, how did we prepare?

Speaker 10 (19:20):
We prepared in many many ways, but I want to
focus on two main things. We augmented our staffing levels
and strategically pre deployed our additional resources.

Speaker 11 (19:31):
In addition, we.

Speaker 10 (19:32):
Have recalled off duty LFD firefighters to augment our response
across the entire city. I'll be providing a brief on
a few of the incidents within the city. As we know,
the Palisades Fire continues to demand significant local, regional, state
and federal resources. Currently, the fire is over fifteen eight

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hundred acres and is growing with one one thousand, seven
hundred and ninety two personal personnel who are currently assigned,
and as we know, I want to be very very
clear that this incident is very, very dynamic as we speak.
The good news the winds have subsided a bit enough

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to allow our fixed wing and rotor wing aircraft to
provide critical air support to this fire.

Speaker 11 (20:25):
Next up is the Hearse fire.

Speaker 10 (20:27):
The Hears fire has grown to over seven hundred acres
with two hundred and sixty personnel assigned to this specific incident.
There are evacuation orders in place with multiple structures that
are threatened. We continue to focus on fire and life safety.

Speaker 11 (20:44):
The Woodley incident.

Speaker 10 (20:46):
It is controlled and approximately has burned thirty acres. I
want to clarify a little something before Chief Maroni comes
up that Eaten fire. We are closely monitoring this fire.
It is in the county and we are absolutely paying
very very close attention to see how else we can

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assist if it does come into the city.

Speaker 11 (21:09):
We are ready now.

Speaker 10 (21:11):
In addition to the large scale brush fires in the
past twenty four hours, the LFD has responded to an
additional three thousand, nine hundred and fifty nine to one
one calls for service within the city. This also includes
ten structure fires. We have treated and transported an extensive
number of medical emergencies throughout the city. Now, the LFD

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also continues to assess and allocate resources to ensure timely
and effective responses across the entire city. As a situation
of alls, the LFD remains steadfast in its mission, working
closely with our local, state, and federal partners to mitigate
the impacts of this unprecedented fire condition. Also, I want

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to talk about a few of the challenges and adaptations
multiple incidents throughout this region. We are going to talk
about all of these fires within Southern California. We're utilizing
mutual aid partners from across the region, state and adjoining states,
and firefighters are surging into Southern California as we speak. Also,

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the challenges with water pressure in the Palisades. Standard firefighting
adaptations for water, what we do when water is limited.

Speaker 6 (22:28):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.

Speaker 10 (22:34):
We have the ability to pull water from ponds. We
can pull water from pools. We're utilizing as many water
tenders that we have, and we're working very very closely
with DWP on this next we will continue to focus
and I want to make very very clear saving lives first,
evacuations and rescues. We are not out of danger. You

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can see the active fires that are burning with strong
winds that are going to continue throughout the night. I
can tell you and assure you that the firefighters and
first responders remain focused on protecting lives and property.

Speaker 11 (23:15):
We urge the public to help us by doing the following.

Speaker 10 (23:19):
Stay informed through trusted news and official updates. Be prepared
to evacuate if you live near wildland areas, follow all
evacuation warnings and orders without delay. We also ask the
public to stay off the roadways and away from any
of the impacted areas. Now, the LAFD and other partners

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were working so closely together. We are absolutely united in
our top priority and that is saving lives. Ensuring that
the safe evacuation and rescue of our residence in harm's
way remains our absolute top priority and our focus during
this wood and driven fire.

Speaker 11 (23:58):
Thank you, Mayor.

Speaker 10 (23:58):
Bass, the elected leaders who are here and for all
in every single firefighter, first responder, boots on the ground
that are doing the work together, we can continue to
protect our communities and keep everybody safe. Next, I'd like
to go ahead and introduce the fire chief from Los

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Angeles County, which is Anthony Morony.

Speaker 12 (24:26):
So good evening. Thank you for the comprehensive update. Chief Crowley.
My name is Anthony Moroney. I'm the County of Los
Angeles fire Chief, and I'm going to give an LA
County update in addition to a Region one update for
the Eaton Fire in Los Angeles County, Altadena, Pasadena, and
Sierra Madre. The LA County Fire Department continues to be

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in unified command with the US FOURT Service and the
Pasadena and Sierra Madre Fire Departments, in addition to our
law enforcement partners. The fire has been mapped this afternoon
at ten thousand, six hundred acres and it is still growing.
We have zero percent containment. We have over seven hundred

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and fifty firefighting personnel assigned on the line, and mutual
aid resources from out of state, including Arizona, have arrived
to assist us with this firefight. Unfortunately, we have five
reported civilian fatalities, A number of injuries and over one

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thousand structures damaged or destroyed. The cause of the fire
is unknown and under active investigation by both the Los
Angeles County Fire Department, Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, and
the US for Service Arson investigators, and the moment we
learn the cause of this fire, we will the media.

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We also have a new fire start in the Acton
area of Los Angeles County. The Lydia Fire estimate it
to be between eighty and one hundred acres thirty percent containing,
are thirty percent contained, and thankfully forward progress has been stopped.
As the Region one Coordinator, I did request mutual aid

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from the five counties of Los Angeles, Orange County, Ventura,
Santa Barbara, and San Luisibispo counties yesterday. Additionally, last night
I contacted the State Office of Emergency Services and requested
two hundred and fifty additional engine companies from northern California,

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staffed with over one thousand personnel at this time. The
State of California is exercising their emergency compacts with the
Western states of Air, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, Oregon, and Washington
for additional firefighting resources and personnel to come to Los

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Angeles County to assist us with this widespread fire emergency.
One data point is that we have sixty units responding
from Oregon, forty five units responding from Washington, ten units
responding from New Mexico, fifteen units responding from Utah, and

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numerous units responding from Arizona. Currently, the National Weather Service
has predicted that this red flag warning will remain in
effect for Los Angeles County and much of Venture County
through Friday. Thank you, and I would now like to
invite up to the podium Los Angeles Police Chief Jim McDonald.

Speaker 4 (27:56):
Thank you very much.

Speaker 7 (28:00):
Chief.

Speaker 13 (28:01):
I just want to say a few things, and not
to repeat what has already been said anymore than needs
to be stressed, but a sincere thank you to everybody
who's out there in the impacted area for your patients
and your support, to our first responders and support departments
who have been out there from the very beginning doing
the very best they can to protect everybody. The word

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resilience was used, and that's what it's going to be.
We're going to be an example of resilience in the
very best sense of the word. We're going to bounce
back from this, and it's going to be a challenging
week ahead, but we're going to be able to get
through it by working together. These have been unprecedented conditions,
as you've heard over and over again, and the fire
has been very unpredictable. That is why the need for vigilance.

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I can't stress enough how much we've got to pay
attention to our neighbors, to our own yards and property,
and be able to catch something quickly if we get
something sparking off.

Speaker 4 (28:57):
I think that is critical.

Speaker 13 (28:58):
This is not over long from over. Our job primarily
is to assist in a support capacity our fire partners
with evacuation, with traffic control, and with crime suppression. And
on the crime suppression front, you've heard also about loot,
the potential for looting, people going in and taking advantage
of the worst possible circumstances to be able to enrich themselves.

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That will not be tolerated at all. And my ask
is that everybody stay out of the impacted areas unless
you live there, unless you have a real reason to
be there. Our officers will be out there, they'll be
watching for this, and we're taking this very very seriously,
so I want to thank you again for your work
with us, to our media partners, for all that you've
been able to do to get the message out there

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and keep people safe. It's not my honor to introduce
Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna.

Speaker 14 (29:55):
Thank you, Chief, and thank you all for covering this
very important story. So as I stand here before you
with my partners around me, please know that I have
several hundred LA County Deputy sheriffs along with other police officers,
who are working all the impacted areas out there. They're
involved in evacuations, they're involved in traffic control, ingress and

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egress into the area. They're involved in security, which the
chief talked about and I talked about it earlier. We're
up to three arrest with looting that is one hundred
percent unacceptable. I'm going to repeat it. If you do
not belong in these areas, do not go there. We
have additional people that we've brought in just to make

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sure that people's property are left alone.

Speaker 4 (30:46):
These people have gone.

Speaker 14 (30:47):
Through so much, don't put them through more than they
have to go through.

Speaker 15 (30:51):
And then we're on humanitarian missions.

Speaker 14 (30:54):
I have deputies dropping off food, blankets, and other things
to people who have either been evacuated, who just need
somebody to talk to and frankly just give a hug to.
Those are the kind of things that we're doing out there.
I do want to talk about evacuations. Regarding the Eaton fire.
We have over seventy thousand of our community members who

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have been impacted by either evacuation orders and or warnings
the Palisades the Palisades fire, approximately sixty thousand who haven't
been impacted by evacuation orders or warnings. As I said earlier,
we have called in additional resources not only for what's
in front of us, but looking around the corner, what's

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next the fire. To both fire chiefs have made it
very clear we are not out of danger. There's a
lot of work to be done for me and my
other role as mutual aid coordinator, just to give you
an example, as we are not only calling in our resources,
we check with other departments, both in the county and
outside the county, and we've provided Pasadena Police Department with

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additional resources, one from the Long Beach Police Department in
a mutual aid capacity and from the Orange County Sheriff's Department.
So I like to thank those two departments, and that's
something we do in law enforcement. Santa Monica's asked for
help last night, and we also coordinate and helping with
that as well. Chief Maroney mentioned it. Unfortunately, we do

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have five fatalities and we're praying that that number doesn't increase.
But there's a lot of work to do and we'll
see what happens there. We are up to three looting
arrest as we speak. And then the last thing I'd
like to leave you with again is earlier I spoke

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about evacuation warnings, evacuation orders, and a lot of road
closures that are taking place in both of these locations.
I'm not going to go through them all, but I
encourage community members to go to Lacounty dot gov slash emergency,
where you will get updates on those orders, warnings, and
road closures. And again, I am really proud of our

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community overall. Sometimes we talk about the looting and people
who aren't listening. I'm going to tell you ninety nine
percent of the people are listening, and I think that's
why hopefully the injuries and fatalities and all those ugly
things will stay down. So thank you to our LA
County residents for working with us in partnership. And now

(33:32):
I'd like to introduce lad w Right.

Speaker 15 (33:35):
That was Sheriff Robert Luna.

Speaker 6 (33:38):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
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Speaker 16 (33:45):
That picture on your right is a new fire. This
is the all right.

Speaker 17 (33:48):
That has been a press conference from Mayor Bass and
other LA City leaders talking about the fires in the
south Land, including a Pacific Palisades and Eaton Canyon and Crozier.

Speaker 2 (33:59):
I I the deputy, I'm sorry. Sheriff Luna got up
and he said that you know a lot of people
are heating the you know the rules and and staying
off the freeways and staying off out of the burned
areas unless you live there. And he said, ninety nine
point nine percent of the people are behaving and that
and that's probably true. That's probably true. And then he

(34:21):
said there were there were five fatalities, but the fire chief,
I believe the fire chief got up before me and
said there were seven. So I don't know if it's
seven or five, but still that number was zero yesterday,
and we were all saying, how fortunate we are that
that number was at zero, and now it's at seven,

(34:42):
and I think it's going to probably grow when you
get you know, people either got caught in a car,
couldn't get out of their home, couldn't get out their apartment.
There's too many structures to go through every one of
them right now and figure out if there were people
in there.

Speaker 3 (34:57):
There are.

Speaker 2 (34:58):
There are a thousand structures in the Altadena area that
have been destroyed. A thousand structures. And again, with one structure,
it would have been the lead story on all of
these new stations. One structure on fire, and yet there
were a thousand of them just in the Altadena area,
and it's outrageous.

Speaker 16 (35:19):
Tim.

Speaker 11 (35:20):
Let's go to ABC seven real quick, all right.

Speaker 2 (35:22):
Oh, fire in the Hollywood Hills. Oh my god, it
never ends. All right, Let's go to Channel seven June off.

Speaker 15 (35:28):
Of Hollywood Boulevard.

Speaker 18 (35:29):
So we're talking about a mile and a half north
of Hollywood Boulevard that is now on fire. It appears
to be all brush at this point.

Speaker 3 (35:39):
Do not see they got to cook the south structure
just yet.

Speaker 18 (35:42):
However, I think there's a house or a group of
homes on the north side, on the other side of
this fire towards Baal Hollow. We can't see it through
the smoke right now, but this appears to be majority
brush that is fueling this right now.

Speaker 19 (35:58):
Chris, I've hired running care and so many times I
know Mark Shirley has as well. This and you mentioned
the streets Bonita and Vista. Those are all the streets
that you know I take to get to Runny in Canyon.

Speaker 11 (36:08):
I'm concerned.

Speaker 19 (36:09):
There's a lot of homes, there are a lot of apartments,
and our fire resources are already stretched so thin. Are
you seeing any evidence of any response yet? I know
it is dark, and I know we're just starting to
follow it. This just broke out, but it doesn't look
like it does it.

Speaker 18 (36:27):
I got to tell you we saw this fire I
think before La City Fire got the call.

Speaker 15 (36:32):
They have been dispatched out here.

Speaker 18 (36:34):
And that's Fire three, that helicopter flying right through the
shot right there. That's Fire three that has just responded
out here to get its first eyes on the fire.
They're putting their eyes on this fire for the first
time right now as we are doing so. At the
same time trying to get a lay of the land
here and trying to wrap their heads around this one.
Because as you mentioned, they have, their resources are just

(36:57):
stretched so thin. I think it goes without saying at
this point, it is a dire situation in the city
of Los Angeles right now. To see if fire this
size exploding the way it is ripping through Nichols Canyon
here or at least adjacent to Nichols Canyon is just
the most ominous thing I could think of at this moment.
But I fear that this thing is going to grow

(37:18):
and head at least if it's at least the way
it's going with the terrain, I think it's going to
head up towards Mulholland, but hopefully they can start dropping
water in the next couple of minutes.

Speaker 16 (37:29):
Well, that's the question. If the wind drives it. Moholland
is is north of there, right, but right Hollywood is south.
So if the wind drives it, it's going to push
it south. But if it's terrain driven uphill, it would
go north toward Moholand.

Speaker 18 (37:43):
It's another one of these situations like we were talking
about in Tapanga Canyon earlier.

Speaker 2 (37:47):
This is just on the other side of Universal Studios
up in the Hollywood Hills.

Speaker 18 (37:51):
See in the foreground of this shot right here. That
smoke is coming towards Air seven. It is coming in
our direction and the southerly direction. Those are Santa Ana
winds blowing the smoke towards us. But if you push
in on the flames, those flames are moving in the
opposite direction, climbing uphill, up towards the ridgelines and just
ripping through the canyon.

Speaker 3 (38:11):
So you have fun to get out quickly and in multiple.

Speaker 15 (38:15):
Directions based on the wind and the terrain.

Speaker 18 (38:17):
It's it's a it's a it's a it's a paradoxical
kind of thing to wrap your head around, but it's
just it's just being fueled by a ton of thick
brush and climbing up these hills.

Speaker 19 (38:29):
I can't remember the last time that area burned. And
of course Dallas just first.

Speaker 3 (38:34):
Drop of a helicopter on it.

Speaker 19 (38:35):
As you mentioned, we see these flames climbing uphill and
then we just saw moments ago there a drop from
we think a water dropping helicopter.

Speaker 15 (38:44):
That is.

Speaker 19 (38:46):
A good site to see, but they're really gonna need
more resources to to to stop the forward movement of
these flames before it gets out of control.

Speaker 16 (38:54):
There are homes, yeah, in this area, and I'm wondering
if whoever's at the controls of the sky map can
perhaps how the hill does this fire starting technology that
can show us where those homes might be that are
kind of adjacent to this area.

Speaker 15 (39:10):
We do have the roads there.

Speaker 16 (39:12):
You can see there's Runyon Canyon Road, of course, Nichols
Canyon Road. They're homes dotting all along those roads with
that canyon kind of in between. This is a very
well traveled area by by hikers, as we have mentioned
going through Robins Canyon.

Speaker 15 (39:29):
Go ahead, look at this.

Speaker 18 (39:30):
It's already spotting. It's I'm us up, Sorry, Mark, this
fire is already spotting. Is the wind is blowing the
flames downhill? Take off, Guys. We have to open up.
Open up, Lucas, Open up Lucas, open up wide out,
open up to the left. If you live on Curson Avenue,
Curson Place, curs and Terrace, it is time to evacuate
right now, Stanley Avenue, Bonita Avenue, this the street. It

(39:53):
is time to evacuate now. This fire is just about
one hundred feet from the end of Curson Avenue, and
this entire area is going to be evacuated momentarily.

Speaker 15 (40:02):
You saw that fire helicopter fly through the shot.

Speaker 18 (40:05):
It gives you a little bit of the idea of
scale because that helicopter was a dot when it flew
through the foreground of that fire. This is a large
fire that is spreading exponentially here in the last couple
of minutes. If we can wipe out a little more,
you could see it now taking more of a vertical
position up the up the canyon from top to bottom.

Speaker 15 (40:25):
It's spreading in multiple directions.

Speaker 18 (40:26):
It's moving uphill with the terrain, and you have spot
fires being blown towards Hollywood. This is a fire that
is literally right and the smack dab in the middle
of the Hollywood Hills, due north of Hollywood Boulevard, no
more than a mile off of the boulevard, and it's
already spotting. Look at that, a big spot fire right
there in the middle of your screen. Go ahead and

(40:48):
push out and push in right there spots lanes right there.
That one spot is going to go up and grow
exponentially here as we keep an eye on it, and
it's going to be going to continue to blow. These
winds are going to continue to blow this fire towards
the city of Hollywood. This is uh, this is this
is this is something we have to really watch closely

(41:09):
here because you've got wattles.

Speaker 15 (41:12):
Drive there.

Speaker 3 (41:12):
Go ahead, let's Nickles Canyon. Everybody's got to get out
of there.

Speaker 2 (41:15):
All right, we're gonna we're gonna stay on this Nichols Canyon.
If you live on Nichols Canyon, it's time to get
the hell out of there. Any of these any of
these streets up here in the Hollywood Hills. It's time
to get the kids, your wife, your husband, the dogs,
the cats, and get the hell out of there. All
of those streets around Runyon Canyon. If you have any friends,

(41:37):
any family that live up there. You know, look, we're
all sort of stressed out and maxed out on information,
and so a lot of people living up there, they
may be watching ESPN. They might be sitting down to
dinner and shutting off the TV because they can't take
any more bad news. And yet their neighborhood is now
on fire. So it's Carmen Crest up there, Runyon Canyon,

(41:59):
Runyon Ranch. Jacopa's beat bench up there. Solar and astral
drives also there that whole area. You've got to call
your friends and family live if they live up there,
or get on social media, and we're gonna get on
social media as well. But that entire area is going
up all the way up to Moholland Drive, from Hollywood
Boulevard all the way to Moholland Drive. You've got to

(42:20):
evacuate and get the hell out of there before these
fire trucks come up, because they're they're going to be
on their way and they can't get up there if
you guys are clogging up the road. So you got
to get the hell out of there real quickly so
the fire trucks can get up there. This is just
I'm sorry, just west of the one oh one Freeway,
west of the one o one Freeway up in the

(42:40):
Hollywood Hills, north of Hollywood Boulevard Runyon Canyon, and if
you go over, if you go directly straight north to north,
you'll go right into Universal Studios. And so if you live,
even if you live on the other side of Mulholland,
if you live in Studio City, and you know in

(43:01):
the Universal Studios, north of Universal, south of Universal Studios
and north of Mulholland, it's time to think about getting
out of there as well. But this is a huge fire.
The resources are really really thin here. So let's go
back to Chris Christy here and see how this is fire.
Fire is exploding and expanding.

Speaker 18 (43:21):
It's real and happening in real time, and it's happening fast,
just in the last ten minutes.

Speaker 10 (43:27):
And you excuse myself, so we can go ahead and
start to strategize and move towards mitigating this additional major
emergency in the city.

Speaker 4 (43:37):
Thank you, all right?

Speaker 19 (43:39):
That was Fire Chief Christian Crowley. I think excusing herself,
it's what I believe is happening.

Speaker 3 (43:45):
Yes, she's got a major problem on her now, so that.

Speaker 8 (43:47):
She could address this fire. Yeah, we're watching.

Speaker 16 (43:49):
The reason she knows about it is because Chris Christie
spotted the glow in the sky. He was over right,
You were over the Palisades fire. You saw the glow
from this one came over to investigate and discovered the fire.

Speaker 15 (44:02):
That's exactly right.

Speaker 18 (44:04):
It started as a speck at the distance we weren't
even sure almost my eyes. I couldn't even believe what
I was looking at, to be quite honest, And as
we got closer it became very apparent because it was
growing and flaring up right, before our eyes, and it
only took us a couple of minutes to get over here,
and just in the last few minutes that we've been
on the air, I can tell you it has at
least quadrupled in size.

Speaker 3 (44:25):
This is horrible.

Speaker 19 (44:26):
And with these winds, even though they have died down,
and we've been hearing that they were scheduled to die
down a little bit after six pm, they are still blowing.
They're still blowing, and even if it's ten fifteen miles
an hour, the embers can fly and start new fires
very easily, as we've already seen when you show the
sad spot fire.

Speaker 15 (44:48):
Chris, I'm sorry one more time, Jovon, I apologize.

Speaker 8 (44:52):
It was not a question.

Speaker 19 (44:52):
I was just commenting that it is such a dangerous
situation because the winds are still blowing and embers will fly,
and it is just so easy. We've seen of the
last couple of days how easy it is for embers
to fly to different areas and start spot fires and
set homes on fires.

Speaker 18 (45:10):
Just a very exactly what's happening, and that's why it's already.
Look how close it is now to Wattles Drive. There
are houses on the other side of the fire. We
are now slightly on the west side, looking more towards
the east, and it's already starting to.

Speaker 15 (45:24):
Encroach that street.

Speaker 18 (45:27):
Skym up as exactly trying to match those lines up
with the lights of the neighborhood. I'm not sure if
the power is out down there, but you can see
there's a few house lights near the bottom left of
the screen, but that neighborhood extends all the way up
and this fire is continuing to spot in the southerly
direction towards Hollywood.

Speaker 15 (45:45):
Yeah, Chris, really quickly.

Speaker 16 (45:46):
We want to give people in the area who are
facing this an idea of where this fire is so
that they can then make a plan for what they're
going to need to do because they are going to
need to leave this area. What we're looking at, basically,
it's Wattles Garden Park kind of is where this area is.
This is Curson Avenue that you were talking about, that's
the main the bigger street, and then Curson Place here,

(46:06):
Waters Drive off here to the to the left, Curson Place.

Speaker 2 (46:09):
The worst news ever, and this is a fire that
they don't have enough resources to fight. They're stretched too thin,
and there are multi million dollar homes surrounding this entire
area in Hollywood, in Studio City along a barroom. If
it spreads to the east, it'll go to the one
oh one. This fire is north of Hollywood Boulevard, in

(46:29):
the Runyon Canyon area. If you went due north north,
you'd run into the big towers there at Universal Studios.
If you went to the east, that's the one O one. Freeware,
the Hollywood Bowl is over there as well. It's right
between the one on one and Laurel Canyon. It's it
is the worst timing ever for this thing. There's a
fire truck on it now. I know there's a fire

(46:50):
station at the top of Maulholland right there at Laurel Canyon.
I think that's where this fire truck came out of.
But that small little fire truck is now backed up
to the homes. They are trying to do a prevent
defense here on these homes and waiting for this fire
to come to them.

Speaker 3 (47:05):
That's not good news either.

Speaker 2 (47:07):
They've got to get planes and helicopters on this thing immediately.
It was big enough for the fire chief, Kristin Crowley
to leave the press conference and go deal with this emergency.
So if you see a lot of fire trucks and
a lot of battalion trucks headed towards the Hollywood Hills.
This is where they're going to run you in canyon.

(47:28):
Let's go back with Channel seven here zact reading.

Speaker 18 (47:30):
On the wind speeds up here, but it is blowing
flame and smoke directly over Hollywood. I can tell you
in the next couple of minutes, Hollywood Boulevard is about
to be enveloped by that smoke. Look at that plume
of smoke being blown from north to south, and the
entire section of Hollywood that we're looking at here is
about to be blanketed in thick smoke.

Speaker 19 (47:52):
All right, we're just getting word from Dallas that the
wind right now is blowing at about fifteen to twenty
miles an hour, with gus at twenty eight miles an hour,
which is enough to send embers absolutely horrible.

Speaker 15 (48:08):
And we're still the flag.

Speaker 2 (48:09):
This would have been the big lead store today. This
is now the seventh or ede story of today. This
would have been what everybody was covering wall to wall.
But it's just an afterthought. It's of a fire. This
tiny little helicopter, Helicopter three from LA Fire Department is
dropping water on it. It's having nearly zero effect. It's
tripled or quadrupled in size in just the ten minutes

(48:31):
we've been looking at it. This is Runyan Canyon. If
you're anywhere in the Hollywood Hills, get the hell out.
You can rebuild, Get the kids, get the dogs, get
the cats, get your family, and get them the hell
out of there. Insurance will take care of it. Get
your valuables or get you know, whatever you can. Whatever
you know it keeps sake. You have to take out

(48:53):
of that house. Perhaps you've done that and you've got
a bag, you're ready to get the hell out of there.

Speaker 3 (48:58):
Get out of there. The fire Department and is on
his way.

Speaker 2 (49:01):
It's going to need clear roads to get up in there,
and it's going to need everybody to evacuate immediately, to
get out of the Hollywood Hills. Right now, Gus, you
know ten fifteen, twenty miles an hour are happening in
the Hollywood Hills. There's not enough resources to take them
off the other fires and fight this fire. And so
you've got to be proactive and get that out of there.

(49:22):
If you live anywhere in the Hollywood Hills from the
one to one freeway to Cold Water Canyon, from Ventura
Boulevard to Hollywood Boulevard. In that square, you've got to
think about seriously getting the hell out as quickly as
you can.

Speaker 16 (49:35):
Now.

Speaker 2 (49:36):
You may also want to call neighbors and friends. There
are a lot of people up there who are not
listening to radio or not watching TV news. They've burned
out of out these fires. They have friends who have
had their homes burned down. They're sad as hell and
they can't take any more fire coverage, and they may
not be watching the news, which is not a good move,
you know, during one of these hurricane weather events. And

(49:58):
so please call them up up, text them, phone them,
get on social media and let people know that this
fire is going on. This is going to be a
tremendous disaster unless they can get a handle on it
very quickly, which it doesn't look like they can. We're
looking at another catastrophe in the Hollywood Hills. Let's go
back with ABC seven. They're still over this fire.

Speaker 16 (50:18):
Time right now. Is how a small fire can become
a big fire. This is how for all of these
fires that we've been dealing with that are now thousands
of acres in size, and thousands of structures have burned.
This is how they grow, driven by the winds, pushed
along the front line of the fire moves along with
the wind, and then embers get pushed even farther, so literally,

(50:40):
as we have watched now two spots that have grown
into their own.

Speaker 3 (50:44):
Lad, okay, let's go to Steve Krieger.

Speaker 2 (50:46):
He's on the phone with us LA Captain retired with
La County Fire. Steve, I know you're watching TV. You're
a news rat like I am. You probably saw when
this thing broke out. How the hell are they going
to fight this and save home and save lives.

Speaker 20 (51:01):
Well, they're gonna have to get a whole bunch of
engines in there on those dead end streets on Pearson
Avenue and around that perimeter, and to not only try
to put out the fire, but put out any spot fires,
because it looks like it's spotting already, and they're gonna
have to get that surrounded and get a lot of
water drops going in there.

Speaker 2 (51:21):
And will they be able to do water drops so
they have any kind of those kind of resources, can
they Will they take them away from Alta Dina or
or Malibu or Pacific Palisades or sil Marn.

Speaker 20 (51:32):
Yeah, I think the La City fire has some helicopters available.
I saw at least one making a drop on it.
But but the fire is spotting quite a bit. They
need to get the copters over there to get those
spot fires and get engines surrounding it on those those streets.
And it looks like that's up in a canyon there,
so they're gonna have to, you know, really watch it
as it tries to run up the canyon.

Speaker 2 (51:54):
And what's your professional advice for people that live on
you know, in that square between Cold Water Care This
is at Laurel can but I and Nichols Canyon. But
if I lived on Coldwater Canyon, I'd get the hell
out as well. From Coldwater to the one oh one,
from Ventura Boulevard to Hollywood Boulevard. These people have got
to get out, Yeah.

Speaker 20 (52:12):
And because they're gonna have that same situation as they
did in the Pacific pallisay. Right, some streets there's only
one way in, they're dead am streets, one way in,
one way out, and they're going to have to get
out of there, and hopefully they can get out of
there without blocking the fire engines.

Speaker 15 (52:27):
But where are you know?

Speaker 3 (52:28):
I was listening to the press conference earlier.

Speaker 2 (52:30):
Where we're getting you know, Cruse coming in from Washington, Oregon, Nevada,
New Mexico, and Arizona, which I think is a little late.
I think we should have probably done that yesterday. But
thank god they're coming in Conway. Show on demand on
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