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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's k IF.

Speaker 2 (00:00):
I am six forty and you're listening to the Conway
Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. How are they
going to get the manpower to fight this with all
these other fire fires going on?

Speaker 1 (00:14):
They're going to use what resources they have. You know,
all the departments around are stretch prie thin right now.
But they'll take what they have and get it in
there and start getting some water on the fire. And
I think what they'll do is take those outside resources
from out of state and put them in doing structure
protection up there in Al Sabena and cool the local

(00:37):
resources to get over there to the fire and the
Hollywood Hills.

Speaker 2 (00:41):
You know, this is run you in canyon where a
lot of people go hiking, And I'm looking at the
stairs right there and the trails right there. There are
a lot of people familiar with this fire. How the
hell on a daylight today this fire breaks out at
five point thirty in the Hollywood Hills is beyond me? Well,
it has to be Arson. There's no way that this
is some kind of mistake. How else could that fire

(01:03):
have started?

Speaker 1 (01:04):
That's very very likely, you know, And you know it's
like most fire investigators will tell you that there's three
main causes of fires of brush fires, men, women and children. Yeah, yeah,
very very possible.

Speaker 2 (01:23):
All right, Steve, I know we're you know you've been
up all night monitoring these fires. I'm watching this thing
right now. This has got to be the priority because look,
you know, Pacific Falsades Altadena I think is also a priority.
But they've got to put this out quickly. And I
don't know if they can. I think we've missed the

(01:43):
window for this, have.

Speaker 1 (01:44):
We I don't think so. If they can get some
helicopters in there and start getting engines surrounding it, and
maybe they get a handle on it before it gets
a whole lot bigger. Yeah. But and like I was saying,
it's spotting. The problem is spotting, it's dropping the turn
spot fi is all around right to get a half
on those.

Speaker 2 (02:03):
And if one house goes up, that does that tremendously
affect the way they fight fires. I mean, if one
house goes up, doesn't it burn for hours or days
and start other fires?

Speaker 1 (02:15):
It can, And especially you know with all the other
fires going on, a lot of the problems these fires.
You'll notice, like in the Altadena fire, the house the
remains of houses there, and there's still flames coming up
a lot of times that's because of the natural gas,
and they don't want to put that out because they
don't want natural gas just flowing free. They have to
wait for the gas company to come out and dig
down into the ground and pinch off the pipe because

(02:38):
other than the valve of your gas meter, there's no
there's no shut off valves on these gas lines. So
they have to dig down into the ground and put
a hydraulic plamp onto the the hot hoses or pipes
that go to the to the gas to your house.

Speaker 3 (02:52):
Oh my god. So there's no automatic shut off.

Speaker 2 (02:54):
You know, in an earthquake we have we have an
automatic shut off valve at our house.

Speaker 3 (02:58):
There's nothing that is equal to that. When a fire.

Speaker 1 (03:00):
Happens, not if it's on the gas company side of
the meter, you know, it's.

Speaker 3 (03:05):
The street side.

Speaker 1 (03:06):
In the street, there's no valves out there, coming right
off the main line.

Speaker 2 (03:11):
And so they'll clamp a line like that, and there's
and the and the p s I is is not
strong enough and they can clamp them off.

Speaker 1 (03:18):
That's pretty it's fairly low pressure, right, so they can
they can pinch it off. Uh, you have to. You know,
in the ground, they'll dig down. They use a finder
kind of like a Middle East after locate where the
pipe is, they dig down. You know a lot of
those gas company trucks have like a small backcough.

Speaker 3 (03:34):
But they have to do hundreds of those.

Speaker 1 (03:36):
Yeah, they're gonna have to because all like all those
houses up there in Pacific Palisades, they're gonna have to
go around and dig down and just start shutting all
those off.

Speaker 2 (03:44):
Instead of doing that, though, can the gas company just
shut the whole hills the hillside off.

Speaker 1 (03:49):
Not that easily. It's be shutting off some major, major pipelines.
So they go along and shut each one off individually.
They dig a hole in the ground and then down
in there and put this clamp device onto the pipe.

Speaker 2 (04:03):
Okay, let me put you on hold here. Steve Gregor's
with us. Let's go back to channel four or channel
seven here. And I'm starting to see people evacuate already.
The cops are there walking the neighborhood on what is
I think it's Wattles drive there walking the neighborhood, waking
not waking people up, but knocking on their door and
saying there's a fire behind you, get the hell out.
Let's go back to Channel four where I see them

(04:25):
evacuating here on the street, or Channel seven over this
fire in the Hollywood Hills.

Speaker 4 (04:28):
Sure's burning between Runyon Canyon and Wattles Park. Mandatory evacuation
or order non place.

Speaker 3 (04:34):
For Laurel Ks NBC Channel four on the.

Speaker 4 (04:37):
West side, to Mulholland on the north, to the one
O one Freeway on the east, all the way down
to Hollywood Boulevard on the south. So as we said,
that is a wide stretch of area here.

Speaker 5 (04:52):
You know, I can tell you when I left my
home today, you know, it made sure or that when
I left, I was thinking, this isn't you know, this
isn't something that you know you need to worry about.
But because we are in the middle of this firestorm,
I made sure that the doors were everything was secure,
and that I removed pets from the house and brought

(05:15):
the dog to a friend's house on the off chance
that something could happen. And here we go. You know,
this is the area you just mentioned is a part
where I will have to vacate and evacuate and get
us you know, just walking this morning with my neighbors.
We breathed a sigh of relief. And if we can

(05:37):
be a lesson to anyone you know right now, there
are very few communities in southern California that you can
deem safe. So please everybody be be ready to go.
Be ready to go if you needs Okay, if you
just tuning in, let's.

Speaker 2 (05:51):
Let's pick up on channel eleven or channel seven here
where they're flying over the fire, and I'm giving us
streets and coordinates here if you're just tuning in. A
fire broke out around five thirty, about thirty five minutes ago.
Chris Christy was the first guy on it on Channel seven.
And this fire has already exploded into that Runyon Canyon

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area where a lot of people go hiking, a lot
of people take their dogs and walk up and down
those trails. Here's Chris Christy, who was the first guy
on this fire, with very.

Speaker 6 (06:24):
Thick fuel and lots of trees just ripe for burning.
Go ahead and wind out, and you're getting a better
idea of just how close this is now to Curson.
Curson Avenue was the closest street when we first arrived.
Now Curson Avenue is in the thick of this. What
I'd like to do, Johnny, if it's possible, Can we
get over to the west side to see how close
it's getting over to these houses. I fear that there

(06:46):
may already be houses that are within feet of the flames.

Speaker 7 (06:49):
Here, David Chris, I have another map for you that
we could pop up. We can even split screen and
if you want inside the booth. But here's a touch screen,
and this what we're looking at. I'm going to expand
out a little. This Wattles Garden Park. This is where
the fire is right now. It is burning in this direction.
If I expand out even further, this is Curson right here,

(07:13):
and look at the homes that are along Cursing. But
let's say, hypothetically, if this fire continues to burn in
this direction, which is where it's going, look at everything
that's in its way from these big properties but getting
down to Curson, and then you start getting into this
massive amount of a populated area. And for perspective, we
talk to you about Hollywood and Highland. I'm going to

(07:37):
move the map over right over here is let me
expand out a little bit more. There's Highland and Hollywood Boulevard,
is right here. So the fire is here, it's burning
in this direction, and all of this populated area, Hollywood Boulevard,
Sunset Boulevard, Highland Avenue, going up and down, all of
this could be in danger. Chris, I'm going to throw

(07:58):
it back to you.

Speaker 8 (08:00):
That's right.

Speaker 6 (08:00):
You can see air resources pouring in here, trying to
get water on this fire. They're going to start with
the leading edge here, but that might have been just
a reconflint.

Speaker 8 (08:08):
Not sure he made a drop or not. I didn't
see it. Did you see it, Lucas? I can't tell.
But go ahead. Now that we're on the west side
of this fire.

Speaker 6 (08:15):
You could see the distance between Curson Avenue and the
closest flames here. So fortunately the neighborhood along Curson has
not yet been touched. The wind is blowing parallel to
Curson more directly towards Franklin and towards Hollywood Boulevard, so
that's the main body of fire there. Let's go ahead
and widen out again, Lucas and show the proximity to

(08:37):
Hollywood Boulevard. From this angle, you're going to get a
better idea of the geography here. Is that fire is
being blown downhill through the Hollywood Hills towards Hillside Avenue,
towards Gardener Street, where LAFD is responding towards Vista Street,
Sierra Bonita and ultimately Hollywood Boulevard. Is now no more

(08:57):
than three quarters of a mile, maybe only a half
a mile away from the leading edge of this fire.
But it's not spreading like a normal fire. It's spreading
like a Santa and a fire because it has been
spotting for the last half hour steadily dry brush.

Speaker 9 (09:11):
There are so much fuel there for it to burn
is incredible.

Speaker 10 (09:14):
Chris.

Speaker 9 (09:14):
We're going to bring in Margaret Stewart from La City
Fire on the phone to let us know more information
on this.

Speaker 2 (09:20):
Margaret, is the Hollywood Hills fire burning north of Hollywood
Boulevard and Runyon Canyon outpost area.

Speaker 3 (09:26):
It's Ellen and DAVIDOA.

Speaker 2 (09:28):
Just tell us about this fire Franklin and Gardner Street.

Speaker 11 (09:33):
Yeah, So we need to get the word out to
all your viewers that we have an immediate evacuation order
in place in the Runyan Canyon area. So the east
border is the one on one freeway, the north border
is Mulholland, the west border is Laurel Canyon, and the
south border is Hollywood Boulevard.

Speaker 7 (09:53):
Can you say that? Well one more time? I'm so sorry,
but one more time. We're slowly running it down, but yeah,
thank you, absolutely, and we are.

Speaker 11 (10:00):
We are working on a map as we speak, and
so we'll have that up shortly. So on the right,
so the east side is the one on one freeway, okay.
To the north is Mulholland Okay, to the west is
Laurel Canyon, all right, And to the south is Hollywood Boulevard.

Speaker 9 (10:18):
Well, and that is a lot of people, and that
that is incredible.

Speaker 7 (10:22):
Iconic parts of the Los Angeles community that are now
in danger. So that is the evacuation zone. We're going
to start to isolate. That will make our own maps
as well.

Speaker 2 (10:31):
But okay, and the wind fire west bound, So if
you're in the Hollywood Hills, even if you're you know,
east of Laurel Canyon, they made that that that western
landmark at Laurel Canyon. I would not buy that. I
wouldn't buy that at all. If you're a coldwater canyon,

(10:51):
I'd get the hell out now too, or in Beverly Hills,
because this fire is just going to be blown west
and west of where it is right now is the
Hollywood Hills and then Beverly Hills, and it's going to
be a mess. There are fire engine after fire engine
screaming to get to this fire. And there's one, two, three, four, five,

(11:15):
six helicopters on it right now. Six helicopters are fighting
this fire. And so that's great news that they brought
in six helicopters to try to knock this out quickly
so they can get back to Altadena, they can get
back to Silmar and back to the Pacific Palisades Malibu area.
But this is going to be a hopefully, hopefully they

(11:35):
can put it out very quickly. But Steve was right,
this thing is spotting all over the place, and I
wouldn't wait until they expand you know this this fire zone.
You know, if you love off Cold Water Canyon, you've
got to be ready to get out. This is too close,
too close. You know, take your your your kids, wife, dogs, pets, whatever,

(11:58):
you know, momentus, you have valuables, you have and get out.
All right, Let's go back to Channel seven. They're watching
helicopters drop on this that it's now at least ten acres.

Speaker 3 (12:10):
It looks like much much more.

Speaker 11 (12:11):
Than that, and we'll be happy to come back with
more updates right now, okay.

Speaker 9 (12:15):
And we should tell our viewers at home that if
you know people that are living in this area perhaps
are not watching, they're unaware, give them a call at
the model to get out of that area.

Speaker 12 (12:24):
Social media communicate as much as la at l a
fd dot org slash news.

Speaker 11 (12:30):
We will very shortly have an interactive map that will
depict the evacuation zone la.

Speaker 9 (12:36):
Fd dot org, slash news. Okay, Margaret Sewart, thank you
so much from LAC Fire.

Speaker 3 (12:42):
Don't wait for that map to come on credible.

Speaker 8 (12:44):
Now.

Speaker 7 (12:44):
I'm sorry I met a little help on our map
over here, but I'm trying to decide.

Speaker 2 (12:50):
There's already a mandatory map up of the evacuations, and
it's Loyal Laurel Canyon. It's mall home to the north,
Laurel Canyon to the west, Hollywood Boulevard to the south,
and the one oh one that includes the outpost area,
Runyon Canyon, the Hollywood Bowls in that area. There's a
lot of people live in that area, especially off of

(13:11):
Hollywood Boulevard.

Speaker 3 (13:12):
That fire is coming towards you.

Speaker 2 (13:14):
It's coming to the south and to the west, and
to the west of that is Beverly Hills. So the
south is Hollywood Boulevard and Hollywood. Don't wait for this
fire to come to you. This is a There is
not enough resources. Look, if this is the only fire
going on, they could probably have this thing out in
an hour or two.

Speaker 3 (13:31):
But it's not.

Speaker 2 (13:32):
They've got to bring helicopters in from quite a distance,
they've got to bring fire engines in from quite a
distance to try to put this thing out. And the
resources they're going to put on this fire are not
what they normally would have. It's going to be very thin.
And you can see this fire from almost anywhere in
Los Angeles unless the smoke is obscuring your view. But

(13:53):
if you're in Hollywood, you're looking up at this thing.
Looks like Armageddon. This looks horrible in the Hollywood Hills.
Let's go back to a Channel seven. They're flying high
over this day. This fire is spotting everywhere.

Speaker 6 (14:05):
Fold In the last half hour, it is exploding as
it makes its way towards the south, towards Hollywood.

Speaker 9 (14:12):
As this fire has spread, and again to rigiate Margaret
Stuart saying that just take what you can whatever you
need immediately get out, just take your medications, and just
get out of the We've seen too many times people
getting stuck in these canyons and then these windy streets
and not being able to get out in time.

Speaker 8 (14:30):
There's no fire, just a devastating site.

Speaker 6 (14:34):
It is a devastating site to think of, the insult
to injury when the city is dealing with so much
right now, and the county is dealing with so much
right now, and now being put in the position to
redirect those resources to the center of the city in Hollywood,
just north of Hollywood Boulevard, between Mulholland and Hollywood Boulevard.

(14:55):
This fire started in a canyon just west of Nichols
and east, just east Nichols and west of Runyon and
had a lot of room to grow really fast. And
unfortunately it's a north south canyon with the winds blowing
directly from the north due south and blowing that fire
directly into this neighborhood.

Speaker 10 (15:15):
You're listening to Tim conwaytun you're on demand from KFI
AM six forty.

Speaker 6 (15:21):
The smoke is already covering up the neighborhood. The flames
are not far behind it push in on Vista the street,
the end of Vista Street, right there at the end
of Thista Street which ends right there. Now, that spot fire,
that leading edge of the fire is no more than
a couple of one hundred feet away from Thista Street and
run in Canyon Road.

Speaker 9 (15:41):
Incredible. We want to show you a shot of the
whole mountains on fire down in.

Speaker 3 (15:46):
This fire is not even an hour old.

Speaker 2 (15:48):
This fire started forty five minutes ago, and it is
And they said it to ten acres, which is not true.
It's got to be closer to seventy five.

Speaker 3 (15:58):
All right.

Speaker 2 (15:58):
Steve Krieger is with us again, retired captain with La
County Fire Department. Stee, if you have a better idea
than people who do news for a living on how
big this fire is. It was reported twenty five minutes
ago as ten acres. What is your best guest on
how big big this fire is right now?

Speaker 1 (16:17):
You know, it's really hard to tell. I would guess,
you know, ten to twenty acres.

Speaker 3 (16:22):
Oh, that's it.

Speaker 1 (16:24):
And I'm seeing four La City helicopters and one La
County helicopter on it right now, which one looks like
one of the La City copters just works as a
pilicopter coordinator and then also looks like there's a fixed
wing observation plane for the Department of Forestry overhead too,
so but yeah, it's hard to tell from looking on

(16:46):
the news on TV how big. It's so hard at
night time to figure acreage. But yeah, I'm between ten
and twenty acres is what I'm guessing.

Speaker 3 (16:54):
Okay, well, I'm I'm going to guess that.

Speaker 2 (16:59):
It's you know, look with the spotting, but the embers
that are flying around there, it is certainly going to grow.
You know, there's fifteen to twenty mile an hour gus
you know that are flying through that neighborhood.

Speaker 3 (17:10):
And again, if if, and I hate to keep saying this.

Speaker 2 (17:12):
But if this was the only fire that was burning
in La this would be where all the resources were.
You know, we're collected to fight this fire. But they're
so thin that they've got to have just a skeleton
crew on this thing.

Speaker 1 (17:25):
Well I noticed the day, La City's got over twenty
engines on it, so they had a lot of resources nearby.
A lot of them looks like they're reserve engines that
were staffed with off pitty personnel. So I think they
have a lot of resources on there. I'm sure they're
calling for more.

Speaker 3 (17:40):
And where I know what.

Speaker 2 (17:41):
When the Hollywood Hills caught on fire some years ago,
they have a refilling station right at the top, right
above the Hollywood Sign. Is that where they're going to
be refilling or are they or is there anything closer?

Speaker 1 (17:51):
That's very possible. They also like the La County Firehawk
that's on it. It can snorkel water. So if you
can get to that Hollywood reservoir there up there, they
can trifle out of there. The problem is trying to
get down that bow, you know, if they have to
watch out for wires. But yeah, sometimes they go up
there Mountain Lee up there behind the Hollywood Sign and

(18:12):
they'll have an engine company go up there and pump
those lines to fill up the helicopters, you know, But
I can't tell where they're filling up.

Speaker 2 (18:19):
I'm watching Hollywood Boulevard right now on Channel seven. It's
already packed both ways. Everything is packed on Hollywood Boulevard,
on Franklin bullvar or Franklin Avenue on sunset. Everybody is
panicking looking to get the hell out of there. And
it makes sense. They've seen nothing but fire on TV

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for the last two days. And they know from experience
this this out the Dina fier that started in the
canyon came down and destroyed a thousand structures in the flatlands.
People in the flatlands thought they were immune to these
kind of fires. It was people in the hills that
were getting burned out. And then after we saw that
out the Dina fire, everybody's freaked out.

Speaker 1 (19:01):
That's right. You know those homes are burning like in Alcadaena,
not anywhere near the brush. But one common denominator that
call the news is palm trees. There's definitely palm trees,
like the one picture of the McDonald's it was on fire,
palm trees out front that are on fire. Those emperors
get in those palm trees and then they take off.

Speaker 2 (19:20):
And those palm trees are Sometimes they're on fire for
two three hours, spreading embers and blowing all over the place.
We've got to take the palm trees out of the
hills in California.

Speaker 3 (19:31):
I've been saying this for thirty years.

Speaker 1 (19:34):
Yeah, you're absolutely right.

Speaker 3 (19:37):
Got it. This is it.

Speaker 2 (19:38):
It's a wrap on the palm trees in the Hollywood Hills,
all right, that's for a later date.

Speaker 3 (19:42):
But this is Curson, this is Wattles.

Speaker 2 (19:44):
These are multimillion dollar homes that are up in those canyons.
The people have got to get out now. Don't wait
for this to be expanded, don't wait for this to
go to from Laurel Canyon to Coldwater Canyon. Get out now.
If you're down in Hollywood Boulevard. There's a lot of
apartment building on Hollywood Boulevard, a lot of them. Almost
every block has four or five ten apartment buildings. And

(20:06):
we saw what happened at Altadena. We saw the apartment
buildings go up. We saw the neighborhoods go up, the banks,
the churches, and this can happen in Hollywood. All that
smoke is coming down to Cerson, coming down to Nickel
you know, Nichols Canyon, Wattles Drive. This is going to
be a huge disaster. You've got to get out now.
And there are people in the smoke right now. You're

(20:26):
listening to KFI and you're in the smoke right now,
and you're not moving on Hollywood Boulevard. And there are
some people panicking right now, but they but you've got
to get out. Hillside Avenue. You got to get out
Cambrio all those streets. Right now, there are people going
east west on Hollywood Boulevard. I think it's time to
go south. Time to get as far away from a

(20:47):
fire as possible. And and and and Steve. You know,
when you're driving out of one of these areas that's
on fire, and and there's nobody driving on on the
the northbound lanes. Everyone's trying to get the hell out
of there on the southbound lanes. Is it okay to
use the northbound lanes or should we try to reserve
those for the fire trucks.

Speaker 1 (21:09):
Well, you just have to do whatever the situation calls
for it. You know, if you have to go on
the wrong side of the road to get out, that's
sometimes the best thing. But you just have to be
aware of any incoming emergency vehicles and to get out
of their way.

Speaker 2 (21:24):
Right And it looks like the fire department has already
blocked the streets going from Hollywood Boulevard north on Gardner
Street or any one of these on Fuller Street, any
one of these streets that going north. All these firefighters
are there. A lot of these fire trucks have lined
up on Hollywood Boulevard and they're stationed there, probably to
prevent these apartment buildings from catching on fire when these

(21:44):
embers come down. And I don't know if you know this, Steve,
but Hollywood Boulevard and Fuller and Gardener they all have
thirty forty fifty one hundred palm trees on them, all
of them.

Speaker 1 (21:56):
Oh yeah, all up down the street and they're probably
what cheventy five feet tall or.

Speaker 3 (22:01):
Yaller, that's right, yeah.

Speaker 2 (22:03):
And the people on Hollywood of our right now, I'm
looking at it right now on Franklin Avenue, on Fuller
on the Brea, and everybody is in wall to wall traffic.
They're not moving anywhere. They can smell the smoke, and
they are panicking. Uh and and so I don't think
it's time to panic yet. You know, this fire is
still in the hills. We haven't heard any structures being

(22:25):
affected yet. But this has got to be unnerving for
everybody in the Hollywood area, everybody, no doubt.

Speaker 3 (22:34):
And I and I and I.

Speaker 2 (22:35):
Pray that this man that this doesn't explode. This cannot
go on in Hollywood. Sunset is blocked, Hollywood is blocked,
and and people are are you know, there's bicycles buzzing around,
people are blowing through red lights, people are making you know,
U turns, So try to get the hell out of there.
And I understand it. You know, you're an apartment on Gardener.

(22:56):
I used to have a very dear friend that lived
on Gardener. And when you start to smell smoke, you
panic because those buildings were built in the nineteen twenties
and thirties. And even though they you know, you know,
they do have smoke alarms, those apartment buildings have a
tendency to go up, you know, in a heartbeat.

Speaker 3 (23:13):
I don't know what year they.

Speaker 2 (23:14):
Manded they manded dated, you know, for sprinklers. But did
they make these, especially in Hollywood, And maybe you know
this because you worked with La County Fire for quite
some time. Do they make these apartment buildings retroactively put
in sprinklers.

Speaker 1 (23:31):
No, they really don't. I know, the city pride in
a lot of commercial buildings, but all new construction of homes,
residential construction has to have fire sprinklers now, but those
older ones don't. But it'd be wise upon the owners
of those buildings to retrofit them with fire sprinklers. But
a lot of those older buildings are all laugh and plaster,

(23:53):
and some of them are even what they call bloom construction,
where the studs go from the ground floor all the
way to the up or with no fire blocking. And
I'm so you get a fire starter on the ground
floor and you'll run right up the wall to the
top floor.

Speaker 2 (24:07):
And that structure is illegal now right, You can't do
that anymore anymore.

Speaker 1 (24:10):
You have to have fire blocking. There's so much stuff now,
you know, with the dry having the dry wall and
having you know, fired, the smoke detectors and now with
fire sprinklers that is so much better and also better
means of egress. You have to have, you know, at
least two means of egress out of each room. You know,

(24:31):
you're when you're put into windows in you got to
make sure your windows are I believe it's twenty by
twenty four so that you can't get out your door.
You got to you can get out a window.

Speaker 2 (24:39):
Okay, it looks like and you know, I've been watching
this fire for almost an hour, about fifty minutes. Now
it looks like the fire department is do it a
sensational job containing this thing. They are putting helicopter. If
the helicopter on it. There's a ton of fire trucks
surrounding this thing, and man, they're doing a fantastic job
fighting this thing.

Speaker 1 (25:00):
It looks like it I can see it looks like
it's dying down. Yeah, and I mostly smoke this going
mostly up, so it doesn't look like the wind is blowing.

Speaker 3 (25:11):
That is great news, all right.

Speaker 2 (25:13):
Now again, Steve, you know when when firefighters, you know,
I know that La County has a different way of
fighting fires than La City.

Speaker 3 (25:22):
I heard.

Speaker 2 (25:23):
Is that true that La City likes to drop water
up a hill and La County likes to drop it
down a hill.

Speaker 1 (25:29):
I don't know if they're still doing that or not,
but they they just do whatever the helicopter coordinator tells
them to do as far as where to make the drops,
and they all try to go the same direction, which
is I believe they go clockwise around the fire. And
so they're all coordinating, especially at nighttime because it's so
much harder because they can't always see each other, and

(25:49):
plus they're using night vision goggles and they really got
to watch out for each other. They are dropping for
much higher during the nighttime because they want to keep
an eye out for any wires. But most of these
helicopter pilots are pretty familiar with all the areas and
where the wires are good, and they really keep an
eye on that. But they coordinate very well. So when

(26:10):
you get La City gets a fire, they send their
continuedive two or three or four helicopters and then they'll
get one LA County copper with them. Initially same thing
in La County get three LA County helicopters, then you
also get one La City even if it's out forward
like the San Gevil Valley, they still LA City still
sends a copter along with them. It's an agreement they

(26:31):
have so they get the most equipment without drawing down
too much.

Speaker 2 (26:36):
Okay, if you're just tuning in, Steve Kreger's with us
LA County retired fire captain, we're watching the fire in
the Hollywood Hills. The evacuation, the mandatory evacuation. Now the
voluntary evacuation has just been expanded. So the mandatory evacuation
is the one on one to the east, Maulholland to
the north, Hollywood Boulevard to the south, and Laurel Canyon

(26:58):
to the west. It's just been expanded now that's the mandatory,
the voluntary evacuation, it looks like, and I'm trying to
look at the map from here, it looks like it
may even be expanded to Cold Water Canyon for the
voluntary one. But Steve, thank god that this fire we're
looking at right now did not happen at this time yesterday.

Speaker 1 (27:21):
Oh yeah, yeah, that would have been disastrous.

Speaker 3 (27:25):
It would have been over.

Speaker 1 (27:27):
So yeah, I'm looking at the La County Copper. It
looks like it's getting water out of the Hollywood Reservoir
right now. So I don't know where El City copter's
getting their water from.

Speaker 2 (27:40):
And Steve, is there one coordinating helicopter one coordinator for
the entire for La County and La City.

Speaker 1 (27:47):
Well, whoever's whatever agency is handling the fire. Usually the
first helicopter on scene will work as a helicopter coordinator
and he'll do a big circle overhead and direct the
other helicopter there's where to go. And he's kind of
like air traffic controller that's in the air.

Speaker 2 (28:04):
I see, Okay, let's quickly go to Channel four. They're
looking at traffic. Steve Holman SEC Channel four is looking
at traffic for Mosa on Detroit Street on Hollywood Boulevard.
Let's find out every street is packed in Hollywood right now,
every street is packed again.

Speaker 4 (28:20):
Our coverage will continue here. NBC Nightly News with Lester
Holt will be available on Cozy TV.

Speaker 2 (28:26):
Okay, they're blowing out the national news, which is great.
This is the local news and this is what we
need to stick with right now. Let's go to Channel seven.
They have Chris Christy above this fire. This is quickly
turning in to much better news ru Canyon Road.

Speaker 6 (28:44):
There's a two fire right there pretty quickly and is
now getting closer to Runyon Canyon. What I'm looking for, guys,
is for that fire to jump Runnian Canyon Road.

Speaker 8 (28:54):
Based on the direction of the winds here.

Speaker 6 (28:56):
The winds are blowing that smoking fire in this direction
towards our shot here, and we will see if they
keep this fire from jumping right you Canyon Road.

Speaker 8 (29:05):
But it's going to be very difficult with those EMPs
flying through the air.

Speaker 13 (29:07):
Right.

Speaker 7 (29:08):
Okay, so we know where this fire at least was reported.
This is Solar Drive right here.

Speaker 8 (29:15):
This one street.

Speaker 7 (29:16):
I'm going to expand it out a little bit further
and the reason why I'm showing you at the point
of origin twenty three hundred solar drive. That could have
been where they somebody spotted it and reported it, or
it could have been where it started.

Speaker 8 (29:27):
But this is solar drive.

Speaker 7 (29:28):
Okay, So now I'm going to kind of push out
a little bit and give you a better idea. So
this is the point of origin, and then we're showing
this fire went all the way down this canyon. And
now all of this is on fire. As Chris was
just saying, Runyon Runnion Canyon is in trouble right over here.
All of this is now on fire, and this is

(29:49):
go to minutes we're talking.

Speaker 3 (29:50):
We're going to go to channel four right now and.

Speaker 2 (29:54):
Expand this because we still have three other fires going
on right now. We've got the Silmar fire, Pallas saying
and get fact for parts of the Altadena.

Speaker 14 (30:03):
Including Calabasas, Malibu, Los Angeles, which includes parts of Pacific Palisades,
an unincorporated area of La County Topanga that stretches from
Las Virgines to just east of Mandeville Canyon Road.

Speaker 10 (30:16):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.

Speaker 3 (30:22):
Now we want to show you the Eton fire map.

Speaker 14 (30:24):
This fire has scorched at least ten thousand, six hundred
acres according to CalFire. The evacuation area there covers about
thirteen and a half miles that stretches from locking you
out of flint Ridge all the way east to Monrovia.
It also includes the area north of Orange Grove and
Rosemead Boulevard, west of Mitchellinda Avenue, and east of Lake Avenue,

(30:45):
major thoroughfare there in Pasadena. And lastly, we want to
show you that other fire, the smaller of the bunch
ere This is the Hearst fire. This one has burned
about seven hundred acres. We know mandatory evacuations are still
in place for this fire, the hearstfire burning near the
Silmar area.

Speaker 3 (31:00):
Let's go ten five. That's a wrap up. Let's go
to channel seven.

Speaker 2 (31:05):
They're over this Hollywood Freeway, this Hollywood fire, and all
these streets Sierra Bonita Gardner Vista, Hollywood Boulevard. Fully, they're
all jammed both ways. People are stuck in gridlock traffic.
They're listening to KFI Imagine and they want as much
information as possible. There are fire alarms going off in
a lot of these condos, a lot of these apartment buildings.

(31:27):
The smoke is set off these fire alarms, and you
can see the blinking of the lights, and people are
panicking and they're getting out, they're getting in their car,
but they're not moving anywhere. They're not going anywhere. There
are too many cars on the street, and everybody is
jammed in there. And imagine a lot of people are panning.

Speaker 15 (31:43):
Basically, all of the north south roads heading down from
where the fire is to Hollywood Boulevard, all the way
over going east to say Highland are shut down. They're closed.
All of the northbound, the north south roads right and
then and then south of that.

Speaker 2 (32:01):
Everything is jammed, you know, you know, from Franklin to
Hollywood to Sunset, it's all jammed and nobody's going anywhere.
And people can smell the smoke, they can see the smoke,
or they can see the fire alarms going off in
these condo buildings with the blinking light, the light that
goes on every two or three seconds, and the alarm
that goes off, and people are panicking. Let's go to

(32:22):
Channel seven. I think they're calling this the Sunset fire.

Speaker 6 (32:26):
Soever it looks like the wind is actually helping these folks.
It's reaching the top of the wind, the top of
the ridge line right there, and then it would have
to go downhill, which is not convenient for the fire.
Right everything's blowing in the other direction, and fire likes
to go uphill. So the folks along Curson Avenue have
the luxury.

Speaker 8 (32:45):
Of being below the fire instead of above the fire.

Speaker 6 (32:47):
So Curson Avenue on the right there is down the
hill from that flare up right there. So we're going
to continue to watch this section right here as more
flare ups develop, more spot fires develop, and we'll keep
a cloth right now.

Speaker 8 (33:01):
Look at it.

Speaker 3 (33:01):
Another spotfire. Look us on fire.

Speaker 6 (33:03):
Oh my god, almost feet away through somebody's backyard. Go ahead,
wind down a little bit. You can see a home
right there. Let's go ahead and throw up our our.

Speaker 3 (33:12):
Got to get this done.

Speaker 8 (33:14):
The parcel backyard, I get some addresses.

Speaker 6 (33:18):
It's going to be right behind Curson Avenue here along
the two thousand block of Cursion. You can see the
home nineteen eighty four Curson Avenue with fire just feet
away from the rear of that home.

Speaker 7 (33:33):
Okay, so it's going to get your Curson Avenue here
on our tot screen as well.

Speaker 8 (33:38):
You can see where the fire.

Speaker 3 (33:39):
Fire in this in that shrub.

Speaker 2 (33:41):
It looks like an old tumbleweed, dried up shrub, and
it's sitting there and smoldering, and it's going to expand
Runyon Canyon is on fire. North Vista Sierra, north of
Sierra Bonita. All those streets are closed. As Crozier said,
the evacuation, the mandatory evacuation his Laurel Canyon to the west,

(34:02):
Maulholland to the north, one on One Freeway to the east,
and Hollywood Boulevard to the south.

Speaker 3 (34:07):
You got to get out of that area.

Speaker 2 (34:09):
The palm trees are starting to burn, and once that happens,
it is very difficult to put out, very very difficult
to put out.

Speaker 3 (34:18):
Let's go to Channel five. Here they're flying over this thing.

Speaker 2 (34:20):
Bob Goldman is on the phone, retired to La Founty
Fire captain, and let's see what he had as to say.

Speaker 3 (34:27):
This fire is burning south.

Speaker 16 (34:30):
The wind is.

Speaker 13 (34:30):
Not pushing it horribly at this time. But again, the
downhill down wind spotfires that could occur in a very
densely populated area is a great concern of vegetation that's
ornamental in nature, Palm trees, all those things will readily
catch on fire, even though they're green. They will burn,

(34:52):
and they will shed more burning material further and with
wind it will carry.

Speaker 3 (34:56):
It more than blocks away.

Speaker 13 (34:58):
So in a very densely populated urban area like that,
you could have a number of structure fires burning and
quickly overwhelmed the resources that are on the.

Speaker 12 (35:08):
Same so much fuel to burn, really in this densely
populated area, And we saw what a fire, you know,
wind driven fire could do to places like the Palisades
and Alter.

Speaker 2 (35:22):
Dat spotfires are just a couple hundred yards north of
Franklin Avenue and people are again are panicked on all
of these streets, Thank God that they have. It looks
like twenty to thirty fire engines for fire trucks.

Speaker 3 (35:39):
Another difference on Franklin and that are there.

Speaker 2 (35:44):
Those those brave men and brave women are sitting there
with their fire trucks fully loaded with water, waiting for
that fire to spark and to to spread around them.

Speaker 3 (35:55):
And they're gonna put it out immediately.

Speaker 2 (35:57):
They've got to keep every single water of those apartments
fire free, every single one of them. As soon as
one of those apartments catches fire. It takes off like
lightning right there where. Oh my god, right where we're running.

Speaker 15 (36:14):
Canyon starts there just north of Franklin and it intersects
with Vista Street, which basically dead ends right into the
hill there. There's a number of houses right there where
they look like they're gonna go up any second because
they're that close the flames.

Speaker 2 (36:27):
Oh yeah, I'm looking at that right now on Cake
How you're right. It's right in the guy's yard. That's
a two story, you know, a ten million dollar palace.
They're on Vista Street right and the lights still on,
which I mean there's still electricity in the area. But
as soon as one of those homes starts to burn,
that'll that'll that'll be on fire for hours. You know,

(36:48):
they can put out some of these spot fires pretty quickly,
but once one of those houses catch on fire, it'll
be on fire for hours. And if this fire does
cross into the apartment buildings, you know, these buildings are
built in nineteen twenty and thirties off of Franklin and
Hollywood Boulevard, Fuller and Gardner down there, that is going
to be a whole new ball game.

Speaker 15 (37:07):
Anybody that's used to to driving or knows anything about
driving into Hollywood, especially around that Hollywood Highland area. Everybody's
used that Franklin Franklin Avenue there, which is on the
north part of Hollywood Boulevard to go east west, and
you know that Franklin Avenue who basically dead ends right
there where we're talking about with Curson, and that's that's

(37:28):
anything above Franklin is look like it's in the most
danger right now.

Speaker 2 (37:33):
Yeah, Krozier is right, and krozer Look, these people who
have the smoke coming over their you know, their homes
and you know, their apartments, their condos, they're completely flipped
out right now because they've been watching news for the
last two days and they've seen the footage that's come
out of Pacific Palisades. A lot of met friends and

(37:53):
Pacific Palisades or you know, in Altadena, and they've seen,
you know, once this fire comes out of the hills,
that's what happened in Altadena.

Speaker 3 (38:01):
You know, it was up in the hills.

Speaker 2 (38:02):
It was you know, they didn't expect it to come
into the flats and bang, it hit the flats and
it burned a thousand structures, one thousand structures seven people died.
The one thousand structures happened. Seven people died, and this
fire is getting very close to the Magic Castle as well.

Speaker 15 (38:22):
When this thing started, it looked like it was in
the most danger was that Curson, which was directly west
of where Running Canyon is, and that fire started. It's
the winds have helped it move away or at least
stay away from Curson a little bit. And like as
they were saying, it goes downhill and fire doesn't generally
want to do that, which is where Kurson was down
the hill. But it's definitely been moving south since then,

(38:43):
right towards Franklin and all those homes right there, getting
towards Hollywood Boulevard.

Speaker 2 (38:47):
Yeah, and look at the sparks. I'm watching Channel four
right now. They did a close up. You know, we
can't see that. You can't see that from the helicopter
when it's you know, seven eight hundred thousand feet overhead.
But when you zoom in and you see, you know,
a shot from thirty feet above the ground. These sparks
are flying all over the place, all over the place,

(39:09):
and it doesn't take long for one of these sparks
to get to ignite a bush and then the one
thing we got to hope for, and let's bring Steve
Kraeger back on La County retired fire Captain Steve. It
looks like they've been able to at least contain this
fire for now, and no apartments and no homes have

(39:30):
been have exploded into fire here. But I can't imagine
say that, you know, after it perhaps and I pray
to God this doesn't happen. But if one of those
apartment buildings catches on fire, you know on Franklin or
on Sierra Bernita or you know Gardner or Vista Place, Fuller,

(39:50):
all those points set is down there as well. But
once one of those apartment buildings catches on fire, are
they they must have to redirect a lot of the
resources of that, and then I think that is like
a domino effect.

Speaker 8 (40:04):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (40:04):
Absolutely, But I'm looking on the pictures on Channel seven.
Looks like there's some engines page down on. I think
it's on Hollywood Boulevard good waiting to be called in.
The Other thing's good is an additional La County helicopter,
one of the Firehawks just arrived, and also the chinook O,
the quick reaction force that drops three thousand gallons of water.

(40:26):
It's on the fire now too, So it looks like
there's six or seven helicopters on that now. So with
that many helicopters, they should be able to knock down
all these hotspots.

Speaker 3 (40:35):
And can that chinnook fly all night?

Speaker 1 (40:38):
Yes?

Speaker 3 (40:39):
Okay, all right, that's sensational news.

Speaker 2 (40:42):
I've noticed that there's probably twenty to thirty fire engines
or fire trucks. I don't know the difference, and I've
been corrected in the past, but that's for a later show.
That have lined up along Franklin Avenue as like the
you know, the sort of the last resort are those
to prevent those sparks from getting into those old nineteen

(41:03):
twenty nineteen thirty apartments there? Will they just wait there
and put out spot fires there? Or will they start
to approach the fire and taken up and offensively?

Speaker 1 (41:15):
Well, all these stage there, that's all at a staging area.
They stage the rigs, and as rigs are needed, then
the commander of the internet commander will call for more
rigs to come in. But I think they probably want
don't want to plug up the streets up there unnecessarily.
They're waiting to hear where they need to go. So
they're lined up there waiting for an assignment, and as

(41:37):
soon as they get it, then they go off to
their assignment.

Speaker 2 (41:40):
Oh I see okay, and are those fire trucks that
are lined up there? I saw one. They did a
close up shot of it. It looks like it's from
her most Son or Redondo. It said something beach on it.
Is it possible that they're so radically stretched in that
area that they're already drawing in from the South Bay.

Speaker 1 (42:00):
You know, what you may have seen is a lot
of foragins, depending on where they where their stations located,
may have kind of an identifier of the community that's sales. Okay.
You might see one at Delay City fire engine from
Venice Beach and we'll save Venice Beach on the side
of it.

Speaker 2 (42:16):
Okay, now all right, let me let me play this
real quick, Steve, Hold on one second. This is an evacuation
zone that they're calling. They're calling this the Sunset Fire,
the Sunset Fire nineteen plus acres mandatory evacuations, and now
they're doing voluntary evacuation as well, mandatory Mulholland to the north.

(42:38):
I believe it's Hollywood Boulevard to the south, Yeah, Maulan
Hollywood and Maulan Hollywood, the one oh one and Laurel Canyon.
So it's Laurel Canyon, Mulholland, the one oh one and
Sunset and Hollywood Bulevard. That's the mandatory evacuations. Then the
voluntary evacuations. You go another block south of Hollywood Boulevard

(43:01):
all the way to Coldwater Canyon. So this is a
major evacuation zone. And they're looking, obviously looking to prevent
this from getting into all those apartment buildings where all
those starving artists are. You know, all these actors and actresses,
writers and producers who live in that area. They've got
daytime or nighttime jobs working in restaurants, perhaps delivering food.

(43:26):
They all live. A lot of them live in that neighborhood.
And the blinking lights are going off right now in
a lot of these condo buildings, a lot of these
apartment buildings, which is flipping people out. The alarms are
going off, and all those streets are jammed, all of them.
You see people on Gardener heading south and there's fifty
cars lined up ready to get to get onto Sunset Boulevard,

(43:47):
but they can't turn either direction on sunset because sunset
is jammed. So let me play this for you real
quick and then we'll get back to more video here
and Steve Kraeger with LA retired La count A fire captain.

Speaker 7 (44:01):
We have isolated the evacuation zone and the area that
we believe is in trouble right now, this is what
the city fire Department just told us when it comes
to the evacuation zone. I'm gonna leave it small right now,
just to show you the area. This is Hollywood Boulevard
right here. Here are the canyons what we're talking about.
Now I'm going to expand out. The color is going
to go away so you could more clearly see the

(44:22):
homes that are in trouble. And as we expand out,
this is where the fire is. And then you see Outpost.

Speaker 2 (44:29):
You see okay, Outpost, the Magic Castle. This is burning
towards Highland as well. So if you're anywhere look, I
would expand it and just be safe. They said the
one oh one and on the on the east side
of it, I would include Highland as well. If you're
up in any of those hilly you know streets that

(44:52):
are that ultimately dead end.

Speaker 3 (44:54):
I'd get the hell out. Now.

Speaker 2 (44:56):
We've seen what happens when people stay. We've seen what
happens when people say, Okay, let me give it another
ten minutes, another twenty minutes, another hour, and then all
of a sudden, you know they're away.

Speaker 3 (45:07):
Oh is that right? Oh? Excellent?

Speaker 2 (45:08):
Okay, all right, yeah, that is great news, fantastic news.

Speaker 3 (45:12):
All right.

Speaker 2 (45:12):
They'reing a great job trying to get this fire out,
the Sunset fire. A lot of people are really worried
who live in Hollywood right now.

Speaker 15 (45:20):
The biggest problem right now is with those chinooks. They
and as they said, with all the flying craft they
have to stay up higher at night to avoid the wires,
and you're just seeing when they drop the water, it
just kind of dissipates.

Speaker 3 (45:30):
Yeah, it's really a really horrible time.

Speaker 10 (45:33):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.

Speaker 2 (45:40):
But Krozer, can you imagine, and we're talking to Steve
Krieger about this as well, can you imagine this fire
starting at this time last night? With all those wins
we had, this would have been a disaster rivaling the
one that we saw at Pacific Palisades. This is it
would have been unbelievable.

Speaker 7 (45:57):
You see Rendyon Canyon right here, Nichols Canyon right over here,
Jupiter Drive and Hercules right over here. This area you
need to get out, Willow Glenn, Carmen Crest, Quanga Boulevard,
even parts of Kuenga Boulevard are being evacuated. But the
fire is heading in this direction towards Hollywood, this being

(46:19):
Hollywood Boulevard, and I'm going to expand out again, and
you can see the tremendous amount of people that live
and work right here in Hollywood Boulevard. This is where
the Fire Demartment is staging structure protection right now.

Speaker 3 (46:32):
We're trying to.

Speaker 7 (46:33):
Get as many people are units involved in this firefight
as possible. Now let me point this out because you know,
by the way getting some Texan emails.

Speaker 2 (46:41):
These are the real true heroes today, These brave men
and women who are sitting in those fire trucks at
Franklin Avenue and they're standing there with their fire hoses
and they're daring that fire to come to them and
they're going to put out every one of those spot fires.
I believe that those fire that that line in the
sale is not going to be crossed. I think that

(47:02):
these guys and these women, these very brave firefighters are
going to sit there in that truck and put every
single one of these spot fires out before it gets
into these apartment buildings.

Speaker 3 (47:11):
I think that's going to happen.

Speaker 7 (47:13):
I'm getting some Texan emails as a I'm gonna shrink
it a little bit. This is the fire area we're
talking about now. If you live north, like towards the
valley here, towards Tuluca Lake, towards Burbank, you're okay because
the fire is going in this direction. It's not going north.
It's this area south of the fire that is in trouble,
the hills right now of Hollywood and just south of

(47:36):
the hills. That's the area that we're most concerned with
right now as this firefight is well underway. Colleena, throw
it back, okay, all right.

Speaker 2 (47:46):
And the ones, the apartment buildings that are closest to
this fire in Runyon Canyon are off Fuller Avenue, Fuller
Avenue on Hillside are the ones that are closest to
the hills. There is no space between the first apartment
building or condo building. I can't tell from here on
Fuller Avenue and the mountains. So Fuller Avenue, Hillside Avenue

(48:08):
has three four apartment buildings right there, the Hillside Courtyard apartments,
and three more to the west of that that you know,
it's the Pinnacle apartments in Hollywood. Maybe I'm mentioning the
one that you live in right now. And then they
have the Hillside Terrace apartments. Those are the ones on
Hillside Avenue. And then when you get onto Fuller you

(48:29):
have the you have the I think it's called the
Premium Paris, or at least I think that might be
a shop in one of those apartment buildings. But any
of those apartment buildings on Fuller, you should get out now.

Speaker 3 (48:42):
You should get out now. Now.

Speaker 2 (48:43):
West of Fuller, it's all single family homes until you
get to Nichols Canyon, and then beyond that again all
single family homes. Now when you get down to Franklin,
that's a different story. Franklin Avenue, You're gonna have apartment
buildings all all over the place on Franklin and a
lot of those alarms are going off. And let's put

(49:04):
Steve Kreeger back up with US retired captain from LA
County Fire Department and Steve when people people flip out
when they see those flashing lights, you know, saying the
alarms have gone off and they hear that beeping noise.
But are those triggered by those aren't triggered by fire?

(49:24):
Are those triggered by smoke? Or are those manually pulled?

Speaker 1 (49:28):
It depends on the system. Some older systems, like a
lot of older apartments used to have the little pool stations.
You pull an alarm and sets off the alarms throughout
the whole building, just like a lot of the schools
have that. Some of them have heat detectors, some have
smoke detectors. So it just varies depending on the building.
Some of them have those what they call rate of

(49:49):
rise detector where he detects if the heat gets too hot,
it gets too hot too quickly, you'll get a rate
of rise. A lot of you see that, a lot
of public assembly buildings, hospitals, skilled versing facilities.

Speaker 3 (50:03):
Okay, all right, I'm gonna put you on hold here again.

Speaker 2 (50:05):
People, if you're in that area, tell people your friend's
family turn on K five. We're gonna be with you
throughout this event, and we're watching again. These brave men
and women with these fire trucks, hoses in hand on
Franklin Avenue, sitting there and waiting for this fire. And
they're going to protect all these apartment buildings, these condo
Builliams condo buildings that are in that area. The blair

(50:28):
Wood is in that area, a tremendous amount of units
in there, the camp. But what is the other one
here is the there's a there's pet care in that
area as well. There's one other apartment building there that
is huge. I think it's the Savoy West Apartments if
I'm pronouncing that correctly, that is a huge apartment building.
And then if you go just south of there, there's

(50:50):
another huge apartment buildings. It's called Vantage Hollywood Apartments, uh
and and there's three different tiers to that. There's the
north part of it, the central part of it, and
the south part of it, and each one of them
must have one hundred apartments in it. There are four stories,
three or four stories, and it looks like there's probably
three or four hundred units there. And then just to

(51:13):
the east of that, there's another huge apartment building off
of Hollywood Boulevard. There's an alley in the background, but
that entire area. You know, it only takes one fire
in any one of those apartments, and it's a whole
new ballgame. So all those streets are closed. Right around Franklin.
Franklin is the East West Street, so is Hollywood Boulevard.

(51:36):
It runs east west. I know it's crazy in the area,
but it does. And then all the north south streets
are blocked. Going north of Franklin Avenue. You have Stanley there,
you have Curson, Sierra, Bernita, Gardner Street, Vista, and then
all the way to Highland Boulevard. Everything is closed. And

(51:57):
they're even closing streets now that are south of Franklin
Avenue that just popped up. These streets are now closed
south of Franklin and Pete. We're just north of Hollywood
Boulevard where people are trying to get the hell out
of there. If you are one of those people in
that area, we're gonna open up the phones here, Stephanush,
let's pop the phones open here and get calls from people.

(52:18):
I know we have people in the Hollywood area listening
to KFI right now, and you can tell us what's
going on on the street. We have got a lot
of visuals from helicopters, but we're going to rely on
you to tell us what's happening in these apartments that
are off Franklin and off Sunset and Hollywood Boulevard, Fuller
and Gardner down there. The phone number is one eight
hundred five to two oh one five three four one

(52:40):
eight hundred five two oh one five three four. If
you're stuck in this gridlock traffic, it's called the Sunset fire.
As a matter of fact, let's go to Channel seven
right now. They have a reporter on the street right
now inside all this traffic and people panicking to try
to get the hell out of this area. Let's see
what they're what they're saying here on Channel seven where

(53:01):
they have a reporter down on the street while the
fire is burning, talking to about the traffic here.

Speaker 8 (53:07):
Monitor the situation.

Speaker 7 (53:08):
A lot is going on, and we want to check
back with you because that is tremendous at traffic to
get out of there. I'm worried about the gridlock and
folks eventually panicking. We don't know, we don't want to
happen today. What happened yesterday, that's right when folks just
decided to leave their cars that would be a disaster.

Speaker 3 (53:23):
I think that's a tip.

Speaker 8 (53:24):
Monitor the situation. We'll get back to you.

Speaker 7 (53:26):
Okay, channel said this before, but la ust is canceling
all classes tomorrow, January ninth because of the fire day
road So.

Speaker 3 (53:36):
All classes canceled tomorrow.

Speaker 2 (53:38):
LAUSD all five hundred and forty thousand LAUSD students have
no class tomorrow. This is a fire day. You know,
back east you get snow days. Up in the north
you get rain slash snow days. This is a fire day.
This is where we are in twenty twenty five. No
la USD schools open tomorrow. I think Burr Bank is

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also closed. I'm sure Glendale is closed as well. Check
with your school. I think most of them are going
to be closed. I think the majority of them are
going to be closed. We're watching this fire that broke
out almost exactly an hour and a half ago, right
around five thirty. This fire broke up and broke out
in Runyon Canyon, and people south of Runyon Canyon in

(54:23):
that area of Hollywood Hills are panicked beyond belief. And
it is it's coming at the one of the very
worst times possible. You know, we've seen what happened the Palisades.
We saw what happened in you know, in north of
Pasadena or east of Pasadena in Altadena Silmar, seven hundred

(54:44):
plus acres burned out there as well, but a lot
of people there are a ton of apartment buildings south
of Franklin on Franklin on sunset on Hollywood, and you're
watching this fire fight in the hills. You're watching the
helicopter drop water on these fires, and they're doing a

(55:05):
hell of a job. They're doing a sensational job. The
benefit is that they don't have these seventy eighty mile
an hour winds like they had last night.

Speaker 3 (55:14):
Let's go to Channel four.

Speaker 2 (55:15):
I think that's Conan Nolan who is up in the
hills above this fire, and let's see what he has
to say here.

Speaker 3 (55:22):
This is the.

Speaker 2 (55:23):
Fire that everybody is in Hollywood, everybody in Los Angeles
watching right now.

Speaker 17 (55:26):
Opportunity the likes of which they really didn't have last night.
And that's one of the reasons why we're seeing some
an effort from the air to get at this flank
of a fire again before it makes too much of
an advance towards the homes down below, and the homes up.

Speaker 3 (55:44):
Here right now.

Speaker 17 (55:45):
Though for the people here, if there is a wind velocity,
it seems to be blowing it in the opposite direction,
but of course that can change.

Speaker 1 (55:55):
You know.

Speaker 14 (55:55):
Conan, As we stayed with your shot here, we want
to read over a note from our colleague Robert Cavas
that the Bird Streets neighborhood of Los Angeles has just
been evacuated. That's the one just off of Doughheeny and Sunset,
which is actually west of Laurel Canyon, which is the
western part of the mandatory evacuation orders for this new
sunset fire. And we do know there is an evacuation

(56:17):
warning in place west of Laurel to Franklin Canyon for
the same sunset fire. So we're trying to get more
information about the evacuations that are again now happening west
of Laurel, because.

Speaker 6 (56:27):
Laurel was the border of what.

Speaker 14 (56:29):
We were told initially were the mandatory evacuations here for
the sunset. He is also reporting that the outposts and
outposts estates were just evacuated as well, So we're going
to try to get confirmation on some of those reports.

Speaker 4 (56:40):
And that would make sense because when we were talking
with Margaret Stewart from LAFD. She said, the fire is
burning in a westerly direction, so it is moving towards
Laurel Canon. If there is a feeling that they can't
stop it at that point, it would make sense that
there would be a warning ahead of that, so to
get people out of the area. Are you are you

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seeing runy in canyon at all from your vantage point?

Speaker 8 (57:07):
Well, I know they've been evacuated.

Speaker 17 (57:09):
I'm not sure if I'm seeing it quite frankly, because
it's dark, Kit Colleen, but I'm I'm seeing fingers of it,
There's no question about that. And yes, you mentioned the
the evacuation warning. When you get an evacuation warning, there's
a ninety percent chance that will be followed up by
an evacuation order and that's what we've seen before. So

(57:32):
for those folks on the other side of Laurel Canyon,
the warning.

Speaker 8 (57:37):
Is be prepared, get yourself ready.

Speaker 17 (57:39):
You don't have to go, but you know, dollars to donuts,
you're going to get another one later.

Speaker 8 (57:45):
And it's it's not.

Speaker 17 (57:46):
Necessarily because the flames have are really headed toward your neighborhood,
because they might not be, but it's in the way
it's been described to me, the air on the side
of caution.

Speaker 3 (57:58):
Okay, that's Conan with Channel four. Let me go to
a couple of calls here.

Speaker 2 (58:03):
There's Alex here, who is exiting I think Nichols Canyon. Alex,
you're on KFI.

Speaker 3 (58:08):
How are you hi?

Speaker 16 (58:10):
A longtime caller? Here are a long time listener? Yeah,
I just exited Nichols Canyon. The fire is getting really big.
There's a very big sense of panic from all of
the pedestrians as I was leaving. If you are leaving,
try and get south. Do not take Hollywood Boulevard. It's
completely packed. If you're in the area, don't just be
googling and taking a look, you know, be keep your

(58:31):
safety in mind.

Speaker 3 (58:32):
Get out of there.

Speaker 2 (58:33):
You know, I was looking at Gardner and Fuller and
you know, Sierra Bonita, all these north south streets and
they can't get south because when they come up on
Hollywood or Sunset, those streets are jammed and they can't
cross and continue south.

Speaker 16 (58:49):
Yeah, it's pretty tough right now.

Speaker 1 (58:51):
You know.

Speaker 16 (58:51):
I exited. I went south right past the in and
out off near the Hollywood High School and.

Speaker 1 (58:55):
That streets always tough.

Speaker 16 (58:57):
But of course it was worse than normal. You know,
the best thing to do, I think is to try
and get east, but first focus on getting south because
those north streets near the hills are just way too packed.

Speaker 3 (59:07):
Yeah all right, the police too, Yeah, you're right, exactly
all right, Alex, thank you. I hope you make it safe.

Speaker 2 (59:16):
He's exiting Nichols, coming out of the canyon and can't
move anywhere. You know, Stanley Curson, Gardner, Vista Martel is
down there as well, Point Seta Formosa to the east.

Speaker 3 (59:28):
All those streets.

Speaker 2 (59:30):
People are trying to get south away from this fire,
and they can't do it because you can't cross Franklin
or Hollywood or Sunset because they're all jammed. So I
don't know what the answer is here, but man, oh man,
this is a this is a brutal sort of you know,
another episode of what we have to deal with here

(59:50):
in southern California. It's it's just beyond believe that this
fire broke out at five thirty, just when we thought
everything was calming down where we were getting a handle
somewhat on the Palisite Palisades fire, somewhat on the Altadena
fire and the Silmar fire, and then this breaks out

(01:00:10):
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