January 10, 2025 • 41 mins
Kenneth Fire in West Hills explodes, mandatory evacuations // People donating dog food by the loads / False LACO Evacuation Alert // False Alert / Problems with LA County and officials - shou // Latest on kenneth fire
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's KFI AM six forty and you're listening to The
Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio aps KFI AM
six forty. It is the Conway Show. It never ends
with these fires. It never ends. If you went home
last night at seven o'clock, I got home Studio City,
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right near that Jerry's Bowl at Bowling Alley or Jerry's Deli.
I don't know if Jerry's Deli is there anymore. I
don't think it is, so wherever that Bowling Alley is,
you know, right off of Witsitt and Ventura, a four
story home explodes into fire. If you saw it, it
was the big news last night. The structure came down,
the foundation gave way and it just crumbled. And that's
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a suspicious fire, you know, the fire house like that
just burns up in the middle of you know, a
huge neighborhood. I don't know odd And then the sunset fire.
The LA Fire Department kicked that fire's ass. That fire
came up at five point thirty and LA Fire Department
took about an hour and a half two hours to
whip that fire, just kick it in the ass. And
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then after that there were spot fires around we were
watching up in the Hills again in Hollywood in Studio City,
and now we've got this fire here, mandatory evacuations out
of the valley for another fire.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
I'm gonna bring up the audio here.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Let's said NBC Channel four is on, let's see what's
going on out here.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Two are Jonathan Gunsaliz. Jonathan, you on the phone with
us right now?
Speaker 4 (01:31):
Yeah, Colleen Michael is you know. I was just with
you guys moments ago, and now you're headed home. Now
I'm heading home because we got this evacuation warning alert
that you guys got, but we're all I just got
it too. Hills in the community, right around Pamelo Elementary School,
and I'm heading home, and immediately I noticed the impacted
traffic very close to the fire area which is burning,
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you know, up Victory Boulevard and you know.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
The Yeah, this is the end of Victory Boulevard. It
goes up towards I don't know, West Hills area.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
That's my normal exit to get home, and so I
didn't take that. I took Woodlake, which is one of
the impacted areas. There's an evacuation warning in this area.
This is a residential area with a lot of streets
and ways to get out, but I noticed how much
traffic there was. Normally there's none at all. Time shows
you a lot of people are trying to get out.
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They're hopping onto the freeway, They're hopping on any way
they can, either west or east, really just trying to
get out. As I'm now driving along Victory Boulevard trying
to get home, there's just so much traffic. That's the
first thing I noticed. Our vantage point. Now I see
some of the choppers flying up above the hills. I
do see the smoke here to the south of Victory
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now and more of the Woodland Hills area creeping up
to the Hidden Hills community there where obviously we know
there are a lot of celebrities who live there, a
lot of sizeable homes, and that's where a lot of
the smoke in the fire seems to be growing into.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Jonathan, now that you are in the midst of all
of this, this is the West Valley, West San Fernando Valley.
I looked at what you were watching on television before
you got the alert.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
Yes, absolutely that the traffic build up, especially people, you know,
a lot of them didn't go to work. I noticed
it took me about twenty five to thirty minutes to
get to work today normally takes me close to an hour.
So it tells me a lot of people have been
staying home from work. But I think those people are
the ones getting out now. And as I'm getting a
better vantage point of the smoke, it's just that dark
orange glow and it's just so frightening to see. We
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see several firefighting aircraft up in the air, and you know,
I'm assuming water drops. I wasn't able to listen to
Eliana much, but I am driving closer to Valley Circle
and Victory so that can make my way home. But yeah,
definitely people are heating the warnings. That looks like they're
getting in their cars and they're driving away from the
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area as we speak.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Jonathan, what about your family, your wife, your children?
Speaker 5 (03:56):
Have they left the house yet?
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Are they at home? You have a meet up point?
What's going on? What's your plan?
Speaker 4 (04:04):
So I called my wife immediately. You know, we have
three young kids and they were actually in a different
part of Wooden Hills. There goes an LAPD cruiser speeding
by me along Victory Boulevard, turns Our Valley Circle and yeah,
there we spoke, they were already out. So the plan,
because we're just outside of the evacuation warning zone, is
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for us to go home collect our most important items,
just like we've been stressing, Like you know, our fire
experts have been stressing all day. We're going now going
to have to practice what we preach and make sure
that we're ready to go. I'm thankful to everyone who's
reached out already. In fact, someone reached out before I
realized there was a fire in Westfield. They were paying attention.
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I was taking a moment after our coverage of being
on the anchor desk, and they texted me, if you
need anywhere to go, let us know. And so I'm
thankful to our friends and family who reached out. There's
a road closure here at Valley's Circle, a lot of
lookie loose. But I can't stress enough. You know, officers
here are trying to direct traffic and these people aren't
necessarily helpful. There are a lot of cars on the
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road right now, people trying to head east and south
just to get away.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Okay, this fire is in the west San Fernando Valley.
Speaker 6 (05:15):
It is.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
It is a little bit north of Hidden Hills right
off of Victory there the freeway is a mess.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Angel, Are you with us? Angel Martinez? I know you do.
You talk about traffic all the time.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
This is back traffic up southbound on the one oh one,
A lot of lookie lose and there's traffic all the
way to Calabasa's. And then you know, because I don't
know what the reporter's name was, but there are very
few people on the streets and the roads today because
of these fires. Everyone stayed home. All the schools were closed,
so the parents stayed home with the with the kids.
But it looks like the one oh one is jammed.
Speaker 7 (05:48):
That's right, And it wasn't earlier. It was just shortly
after the mandatory evacuation was issued, and slowly that one
oh one just filled up. And like that reporter was saying,
the surface streets in the area, like West Valley Circle,
Platt Avenue, Victory, everybody's using that just to get out
and onto the freeway and get out of town. So
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quickly we saw the one oh one fill in, and
it was vacant earlier. I mean, you could put the
pedal to the beddle, but now you can't. You've got
that northbound side loading up all the way out of
Studio City now and southbounds backing up out of Agora
Hills from about Liberty Canyon. So it's just a huge mess,
and it happens so quickly.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Yeah, it's horrible.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
You know, this fire is going to affect the entire
San Fernando Valley as well, because that's where the winds
are blowing now. And so if you're out there, it's
between Van Owen and Victory and a lot of those
streets are closed. There's road closures there on Valley Circle, Terrace,
another one on I think Kittridge is closed, and what
was the other one there?
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Victory Victory at the end.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Victory ends at Valley Circle and then it continues on
like a one way street that's closed as well. But
thank got a lot of these schools out there are
closed today. You know, you've got a ton of schools
out in that area, not that any of those wealthy
people use them, but you got Woodlake Elementary. Remember there
was a school out there and I can't remember what
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the hell name of it, but remember there was that
school shooting that turned out to be a phony, a
fake shooting out there. I think it was El Camino
Reale where they said the one of the custodians got shot.
It turns out I think you like shot himself or something.
There's gonna a story about that. All right, thank you,
Angel Martinez. Everybody, we'll continue here with this fire. It
looks like Karen Bass is going to have some kind
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of press conference, and let's let's pop back into channel
four and get some your latest information on the West
Valley here, there's a big fire.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
If you live, rive away.
Speaker 4 (07:44):
As I get closer and I'm getting closer to home,
so my vantage point it's actually behind me. Now I'm
seeing a lot of that white smoke that you're mentioning, Michael,
and that is such a big relief. And yeah, it's
I'm seeing a lot of erratic driving. I'm sure people
are nervous. A lot of them are just trying to
get home, and then there are people who were home
or were trying to get out, and so there's a
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lot of kind of chaotic nature here on the road.
Definitely more than normal. But you know, just a reminder
to everyone to continue to drive safely, heed the warnings,
listen to officers. That is the critical thing right now.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
We're watching La County fire right now. Just a moment ago.
If you saw the chopper with the double road is
there the double blades on top, it was that was
a Sikorski going in and dropping. We want to stress
to our viewers again we all received that alarm just
a few minutes ago, and it was alarming because it
was a general general message that talked about evacuations in
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our area. We want to let you know that was
a mistake. We've received information once again from Janis Han,
supervisor Janis Han. She says the evacuation warner that we
received was all because of a technical error.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
They've got to get this together. They've got to get
this together. We I mean, look, it's twenty twenty five
and somebody pushed the button just too quickly. I think,
right because and you know what, Krozier, I guarantee you.
You know, because I got it here. I live in Burbank.
Did you get the morning?
Speaker 8 (09:13):
I got it?
Speaker 9 (09:14):
My daughter in Long Beach got it. Oh my god,
my wife and Claremont got it.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Is that right? You got it? Stephus Should you get
it as well? I did not? There you go? All right?
Speaker 1 (09:25):
So everybody else. Everybody else wants to evacuate. Stay right
where you are. No, but it's Stephu Shu's registered down
in Torrens. I believe, so he wouldn't or Hawthorne, but
he wouldn't get it Long Beach. But but why would
your wife get that? I mean she's she's thirty five
miles from that fire.
Speaker 8 (09:41):
Yeah, yeah, she's closer.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
She's the out to Diana fires between that fire.
Speaker 8 (09:45):
And her in.
Speaker 7 (09:47):
We got it in Long Beach too.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Oh my god, They've got to get this together. They've
run out of water with the hydrants. They didn't have
enough people on this fire. Initially, they didn't have enough helicopters,
enough planes. There's so many mistakes being made, and now
they stand out and well, everybody's on edge. Everybody is
crazy right now with panic. They send out an alert
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to everybody in the city of La to panic over
a fire that's affecting four houses in West in the
West Valley. That's outrageous, It really is outrageous. They once
this thing is done, and we're going to take a
break here. But once this emergency is over, you know,
next week, next Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, when everything's back to normal,
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as bunch as it can be. You know, when there
are no more fires burning, there's got to be a
deep dive into what the f happened in this city.
And this is just the latest where everybody in the
city now gets an evacuation alert, evacuation morning, and you know,
the people are on edge, are going to evacuate. They
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may not be they're not listening to KFI, some of them,
they're not watching TV. Some of them they're not you know,
online and getting news. Most of them they're in their homes.
They get that alert, it panics them and they and
they evacuate. There's people evacuating right now because they got
that alert, because they you know, because we're always told evacuate.
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If you get the warning, evacuate, if you get the
you know, the mandatory evacuation, and when you get it
on your phone, you evacuate, you get your crap and
you move. And that's why the streets are so busy
right now because of that that mistake.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Oh my god, the.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Ineptess of these people in downtown and the emergency center,
it's unbelievable.
Speaker 9 (11:29):
Wonder how many people when they get at a warning
like that, do they instantly just go, or do they
at least try to search a little bit to see
if it really was meant for you.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
I think normal people do a little research, and I
think people are prone to panic take off like a cartoon,
you know, through the wall lost art. I think that's
what happens. I think you're exactly right. Yeah, the people
who are like skeptical of everything in the world, now
they're like, I don't know that, well that's for me
or not. But the other you know what, twenty percent
of the people grab the kids, the dog and they're gone.
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They don't know where they're going, but they just know
they they got an alert, they gotta go.
Speaker 5 (12:06):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
But we all got another alert saying disregard the first alert.
And that was jarring because anytime that noise goes off.
I don't know what that noise is croached, but I
think it's everything in your phone just goes on and
it makes that mixtape for you.
Speaker 9 (12:27):
Yeah, hey does a good job of getting your attention.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
It does, but you think the big one's coming. Every
time you hear that, you think I've got thirty seconds
before I'm rocking and rolling, and I guarantee you what
nobody in LA and in southern California is saying out
loud right now, Please don't let the big one hit now.
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Everybody's thinking about it, especially when you get those alerts.
You're thinking about it. Please, Please, God give us a
break here. Please don't let us get hit by the
big one.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Please.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
I don't even like saying it, but we're all thinking
about it. And when you get that alert, you thought
that was it. You thought that that all right. Now
we got to deal with an earthquake. Okay, let's get
back into this fire here. Channel four is doing a
great job all these stations, man, I gotta say it.
I've always been a big fan of local news, maybe
the out of all the people on radio, probably the
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biggest fan. I love two, four, five, seven, nine eleven.
I like all these you know, local guys and gals.
They do a great job, going all the way back
to you know, Fritz Coleman and Fred Rogan, you know,
growing up watching these guys every night on TV and then,
and I think they're doing an unbelievable job keeping people
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informed here.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
I really do. Let's go back to NBC.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
And it has been tremendous on this almost from the
get go.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
Colleen Williams is working for or eighty fourth straight.
Speaker 10 (13:59):
Out down of the winds and that's great news in
terms of the hot spots that they're getting ahead of.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
So you try to get continued West val Fire and
West Valley.
Speaker 10 (14:09):
Fire after you get containment around.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
And it looks like the West Valley Fire looks like
they have a really good hold on this one, a
really good handle on this thing, because the.
Speaker 10 (14:17):
Winds aren't as strong, they're not as dynamic as they
were just a couple of days ago.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
Were they almost prepositioned for this? I mean, is there
a way to tell where the strongest winds will be
in our area? As forecasting on.
Speaker 10 (14:30):
This This is what we do in terms of looking
at the weather, and we've got the position of the
winds in the upper levels of the atmosphere when we
talk about highs and lows, and they look really funny.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
Okay, by the way, this alert just came out as well,
not the phony one to get the hell out, But
now through Friday afternoon, northeast wind goes twenty to forty
five miles an hour with GUS up to fifty to
sixty miles an hour, maybe even seventy five miles an
hour down trees and power outages everywhere in southern California.
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I saw one of those big, huge fik Iss trees,
one of those things that's like, you know, eighty five
ninety years old. It came down over Magnolia and blocked
the entire street. Nobody can get around it. And that's
why they take these trees down. That's why they take these,
you know, trees that are seventy five, eighty five years old.
They're beautiful, they have a lot of shade. They provide
a lot of shade for burbank and the surrounding community.
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But they have got to take them down that for
that reason. If that tree had come down and hit somebody,
they'll see the city and the city would lose a
ton of money. So while they're beautiful, they're a tremendous liability.
I'm watching on Channel seven pets are getting the help
in Pasadena. There's a it looks like a grocery store,
is some kind of office building where people are dropping
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off bag after bag after bag of dog food. There
must be you know, one hundred thousand pounds worth of
dog food. There's more dog food there, then there's human food,
which is sort of natural. You know, I think we've
we've turned our dogs into human beings. I don't know
when that happened, but I did it. Everybody did it.
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Krozer did it, Bellio did it. We all did it.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
But you know, when I was growing up, and Krozer,
you're from the.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
East coast, But take a break from the fire here
for a second, because it's gonna drive me crept. Yeah,
when I was growing up, when we had when we're ever,
when we had a dog, it was always outside, and
I'm when it rained, my mom would say, hey, go
get the dog and bring him inside.
Speaker 8 (16:32):
Yeah, it was more of a thing of why is
the dog inside?
Speaker 2 (16:35):
Right?
Speaker 8 (16:37):
Like you would get mad the dog means to be outside.
It's like when we were kids.
Speaker 9 (16:41):
Now it's like you tell kids, why aren't you outside, buddy?
Speaker 1 (16:45):
I that just that just brought back so many memories
of my mom yelling, why is the effing dog inside?
Said Mom, it's pouring outside, get him outside and put
him in his doghouse.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
That's why he has a dog out right, That's what
the only reason we had dog houses.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
Now, dog houses don't sell because dogs are in our
living room. You know, they're reading a newspaper and smoking cigarettes.
Speaker 8 (17:09):
The market of doghouses, right.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
We've turned them into human beings, and that's why we're
so sad.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
When they leave. You know, when they died.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
Before, he'd be like, hey, your dog died, like, oh,
I haven't seen him for a couple of days. Yeah,
maybe I guess he did.
Speaker 8 (17:22):
Hunt.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Know that sucks.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
Hey let's get another one, you know, But but now
they're human beings. Now we break down and we're depressed
up our minds for five that's right now. We like,
like me, you leave work, yes to deal the dog.
You know, thirty forty fifty years ago, it'd be like,
wait a minute, you're wait, you're doing what you're taking
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time off for?
Speaker 2 (17:46):
What? The dog?
Speaker 1 (17:48):
Where's the dog? The dog's outside? Where the dog should be.
We never brought the dog in unless it was really
raining outside. And guess what dog didn't want to come in.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
It's a dog. I want to stay outside.
Speaker 8 (18:01):
Right, You open the door to let him in, and
he's looking at.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
You like what, I'm good out here.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
He'd come in and eat and then he'd scratch the
door to get the hell out.
Speaker 8 (18:08):
Just fill the ball out here with the garden hose
and we're good.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
It's incredible how over our lifetime we turn them into
human beings, you know, and now they're just part of
our family.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
God, I don't mind you.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
And that changed it literally, I mean, you know, that
should have been a generational change that happened over two
three hundred years. That happened like over a ten year
period where now you know, now we spend I think
it's like forty eight billion dollars on dogs and we
take him everywhere.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
I saw that.
Speaker 9 (18:36):
I get more and more angry now when I'm in
a store or oh my gosh, I'm.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
I see it.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
I saw a dog at Trader Josie the other day. Yeah,
I'm like, why is there a dog? And Trader Joe's yep,
coffee places. Yeah, and people walk around like it like
it's nothing.
Speaker 8 (18:52):
They absolutely do like, oh, of course I can't. He
might be he's mine.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
Oh it tries me. Family.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
All right, let's get we're getting back to these fire.
This is a this is sparked up here in the
West Hills, and so when we come back, we'll tell
you where that is sparked up. The West Hills fire
is the newest one of our miserable lives in southern
California this week, and we come back, we'll give you
all the information on it. We'll also check in, of course,
with Palisades, those poor people out there Altadena, Silmar Studio
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City last night burned a couple of houses burned to
the ground, and also the Sunset fire off Hollywood. All
that information, plus we're promised a press conference by Mayor Bass.
At some point I thought it was supposed to be four,
and then I think they put it off till five o'clock.
Speaker 5 (19:36):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
Am sixty.
Speaker 4 (19:43):
So.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
I am six. It is the Conway Show. Krozer.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
Let me ask you, We're going to get to all
these fires. But the Kings postponing their game yesterday, Wednesday's
game in the National Hockey League. How much of that
do you thing has to do with the fact that
they were going to be playing the flames?
Speaker 2 (20:03):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Probably a lot, sing don't you think very nice that
the flames? How could you possibly have the flames any
more flames in town? We've got enough. We have to
import flames from Canada. The Calgary flames are in town.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
What are you explain the.
Speaker 9 (20:19):
Lakers postponing their game against the Hornets tonight.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
Oh yeah, they murder hornets, you know which. You're all
getting loose because of these stupid fires. All right, we're
watching this. Man, what a drop. If you're watching Channel
two seven, they're watching this ericson arrow trans tanker droping
massive amounts of water. And I guess this plane's been
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around for a while, but remember that seven forty seven
that was retrofitted to drop, you know, drop water and
foz check. It could drop like, I don't know, nine
million gallons at a time, and I guess they didn't
like the way it was dropping, or there was some
political thing.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
There, and they're not using that anymore.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
But man, we could have used that a seven forty
seven dropping forty thousand gallons every time it opens up
its doors. Oh that would have been great. But we've
got to do something about this. That fake alert and
that phony alert that came out for everybody in the
city of la People got that. In Lancaster, people got that.
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In Rancho Cucamonga people got it. They got it as
far as ocean side. Lancaster is probably seventy sixty five
miles away from where this fire is burning in the
West Hills, about sixty five miles away, and man, oh man,
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they got to do something, you know once, Look, there
has got to be resignations in government. If not, there's
got to be recalls. But the proper thing to do
is just resign for some of these people. The fake
alert that went out, nobody's going to get reprimanded over that.
Nobody's going to lose, you know, a day. No one's
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going to get suspended for doing that. For a city,
for a southern California, entire region is on edge, and
you send out an alert to evacuate immediately, it's unbelievable
that nobody's gotten. No one will pay the price for that,
I guarantee you nobody will. It will just all go
on our you know, about our own stupid business. So
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the fake alert that goes out right around four o'clock,
and then another one saying disregard the fake alert that
went out. So everybody got tortured twice on that thing.
And then we have the dry hydrance. In twenty twenty
five in La we have dry hydrants when there's an
ocean next to us, that that is has trillions and
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trillions of quadrillions of tons of water that we're all
looking at.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
We're all staring.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
If you live near if you live in Pacific, Pala said,
you look at the ocean all day. Most of the
people have a view of the ocean, and there's water
right there. And then we have a seventeen million was
cut out of the LA Fire budget. LA Fire department
had their budget cut with no rain this year, we're
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spending eight hundred million dollars on LA Fire Department and
one point five billion on homeless folks. What's going on?
How did we let this? How do we let this
go so far? And then the mayor's in Africa when
this hits, I don't get it. I don't get it.
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I have a feeling there are a lot of people
about to turn a lot of people are about to
get really, really angry. And the one thing you don't
want to do if you're in politics, don't piss off
wealthy people. Don't piss off wealthy people. They have a
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lot of resources to go after you a lot. And
there are a ton of really angry people in Pacific
Palisades in Altadena, Silmar, this new Kenneth fire out of
the West Hills. There are a lot of people want
a lot of answers. You think those city council meetings
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were contentious before, when you know you're trying to put
a gondola into Dodger Stadium. Wait till the next one
comes up and it's uh and ten thousand people show
up to speak. Wait till this next meeting. We should
carry the next meeting live. That is going to be
a circus. So all this happens in the city of
(24:48):
Los Angeles and in some countries, not in the United
States because we don't do this here, but we should
in some countries. This is enough to resign as govern or,
mayor or city council. The fake alert that went out,
the dry hydrants, cutting the budget of La Fire Department,
(25:08):
spending eight hundred thousand or seven hundred thousand dollars more
on the homeless than the fire department, and having the
mayor in Africa when this whole thing goes down, that's
enough to have somebody resign. If somebody, somebody did the
right thing, they would resign. Plus it's not worth it anymore,
(25:29):
you know, these city council members make what one hundred
and twenty thousand dollars. It's not worth it to take
that kind of heat. There's a tremendous amount of heat
that's going to come along with this. Why we're watching
these fire helicopters drop. This one's over the Kenneth fire,
which is in the West Valley, and it looks like
they're getting a pretty good handle on that fire.
Speaker 8 (25:49):
It's already grown to five hundred acres.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
Oh it has okay, all right, but it looks like
it doesn't look like there's any structures an immediate danger.
And I've been in that area, you know, a couple
of times. It looks like that's you know, those grassy
hills out there. There's no not a lot of big
trees out there. It's not a forest out there where
it can get raging. It's just like six seven eight
(26:12):
inch grass.
Speaker 8 (26:13):
Red cloud there. I guess that was the suppression as
opposed to water that they've been putting down.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
Oh is that right? Yeah, yeah, red cloud it is.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
And you know what that that smoke from, Uh, it's
going to come out right over the valley. Hey, everybody,
we grew up, you know, we we all woke up
this morning with ash all over the car, and now
we're gonna get more ash and more smoke. It is
impossible to breathe out there. It is impossible. Keep your windows.
Speaker 5 (26:39):
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Speaker 2 (26:45):
Close your doors closed, obviously. All right. We're waiting for
Karen Bass to resign. I mean to have a press conference.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
I don't know when it's gonna happen, but it's gonna
happen sometime today. And look, either she has to resign
or she has to have a press conference every day.
She cannot take a day off. We need her in
front and present and telling us what's going on, because
this city of Los Angeles, once these fires are out,
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and they're going to be out, it might be a day,
might be two days, it might be three days. These
fires are eventually going to be out, and once they're out,
there're gonna be a lot of people pissed, a lot
of people. I heard Rick Caruso last night on this
station and also on Fox. He's livid. He's livid, and
(27:33):
he didn't lose everything. There are a lot of people
lost everything and they're pissed off. They are angry as hell,
and I can I can't imagine the outpour of anger
and hostility and the volume of yelling at officials that's
going to start once these fires are out. The brush
(27:55):
fire in West Hills has grown again, grows now it's
seven hundred and ninety seven hundred and ninety acres well fast,
God's unbelievable. All right, we're gonna take a break here.
We're gonna come back and tell you more about all
these fires. Moe Kelly will be here from sevent he's
gonna stay till midnight. I think Neil Savadra's coming on.
He's gonna do some overnight work as well. So we're
(28:16):
gonna keep you covered on these fires. It is the
Conway Show. Let's check it with a twenty four our
newsroom with Michael Kruzer coming.
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Speaker 17 (33:39):
Karen Bass, the mayor of Los Angeles, why did you
go to Africa. It's not like it happened out of
the blow. We were worn the two days before the fires.
We were all told, Hey, this is going to be bad.
She could have easily said I'm in Ghana. I'm on
the first airplane out whatever Bill Handle. As long as
(34:00):
it looked like she tried early on, and she did.
Speaker 5 (34:03):
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Speaker 1 (34:10):
Caf I AM six forty. It's Conway Show. We're keeping
an eye on the newest fire here, the West Hills Fire.
A lot of expensive homes out there as well, grown
to over seven hundred and ninety acres zero percent containment.
And there's another fire burning near Mount Wilson. Four to
(34:30):
five thousand structures burned or destroyed out there, thirteen six
hundred and ninety acres. That's the Eaton fires one and
Altadenam zero percent containment. That's creeping up on Mount Wilson.
There is also some eerie footage on channel five on
KTLA of all these beautiful homes that used to be
(34:53):
you know, people's, you know, homes and valuables and memories
in these homes right on the beach, right on the
beach in Malibu and a little bit south of Malibou,
all gone house after house after house right on the beach.
Speaker 9 (35:11):
This is one of those things where when you look
at it, you wonder why didn't everybody just build their
house with bricks, and why.
Speaker 1 (35:17):
Didn't look if if you don't have a pump that
has a hose that goes into the ocean to protect
a five million dollar home, where are you spending that
ten thousand dollars?
Speaker 8 (35:30):
Hey, those palm trees are sitting there, nice and high.
Speaker 1 (35:33):
Yeah, those palm trees still there. They've got you know,
I'm almost tired of hearing myself say that, but they've
got to get rid of palm trees.
Speaker 8 (35:40):
Palm trees and chimneys are all that's left there.
Speaker 1 (35:42):
Yeah, the palm trees cause the fire and the chimneys,
the all the things they can stand the fire, and
they're all gone. You know, Kros When we've seen fires
in the past, you've seen homes burned down and there's
you know, there's something left. There's nothing left here. Yeah,
this fire must have burned so super hot. There is
absolutely nothing.
Speaker 9 (36:02):
What was the what year was that where they had
all those fires, that the big fire that took all
the homes out in the Calabasas area.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, was that twenty sixteen twenty
seventeen summer around there? Yeah, there was and then you know,
way before that, the bell Air fire. There's been a
lot of radical fires.
Speaker 9 (36:23):
I'm just fascinated by, Like last night when we talked
about Hollywood Hills fire, when that thing sparked up about
five point thirty and it was quick, and it looked
like it was going to threaten a bunch of houses
fairly new.
Speaker 8 (36:32):
I don't know how new that that one road that
went up there was. But I don't understand.
Speaker 9 (36:36):
Why people even think about building a house in the hills,
especially in a place like Running Canyon where there's so
many other people and anybody could start a fire and
one way in and out.
Speaker 2 (36:48):
That's what's so scary.
Speaker 1 (36:49):
You know, before you would you would just assume that
nobody would go up there and start these fires. Now
a fire can start because you know, some firebug wants
to get his throat, and I bet you had dollars
to donuts. That's happened. That's happened over last week. Some
of these fires have been started on So.
Speaker 8 (37:06):
That's the first thing we thought with the Hollywood Hills
when last night, you.
Speaker 1 (37:09):
Know, I was watching I think it was on the
New York Post And I'm not good with celebrities, is
it Kristen is it Teagan?
Speaker 2 (37:16):
Is that her name? I think that's her name, right,
Chrissie Tagan. And her husband is John Legend.
Speaker 1 (37:21):
Yes, okay, all right, Well they had on their social
media they left their Beverly Hills home to go to
a hotel with four dogs, kids, and some kind of
a guana. They had a pet iguana or a pet
dragon or something like that. And they and they show
pictures of themselves in the hotel room and get ready
(37:46):
for this. Their dogs were on the bed in the
hotel room. The dogs were on the bed. Great for
the next person, is that not allowed?
Speaker 2 (37:59):
Or with the on the pillow? Oh? Look don't I
don't know if you want to do that.
Speaker 8 (38:03):
Oh the paws on the pillow was the difference. That
was the line.
Speaker 1 (38:06):
Right, if you want to do that, fine, But why
would you post that? And here's the bigger here's the
bigger problem I have of it. Their house was not
in any danger. They live in Beverly Hills. So they
took a hotel room from somebody that has been burned
out of their home in Pacific Palisades and took that
hotel room that could have gone to somebody who lost
(38:27):
their home. And so I don't understand the selfishness of
getting a hotel room when your home is not in
any imminent danger. I don't understand that at all. And
if you're going to do it, do it quietly and
don't post about it. Don't post. Why would you post that?
(38:49):
Why would you put that on social media? Where you
took a huge hotel room for you, your four kids
and your pets, and you know they're sold out. Every
hotel in southern California is sold out. Every single hotel
in Southern California is maxed out. There's not a single
(39:09):
room available anywhere. And you post that your home is
not in danger and you took a hotel room from
somebody else.
Speaker 2 (39:18):
What are they thinking?
Speaker 1 (39:20):
People are crazy, People have lost their minds to post that.
It's outrageous, unbelievable, are we they? Altadena fire the Palisades fire,
those are the two huge ones. And you have to
remember two weeks ago these people were celebrating Christmas in
those homes or Hanukah or kwands, whatever you celebrate over
(39:40):
the holidays or and after that, they had people in
their home for New Years. They brought in the New
Year in that home and thought nothing of it. Kids
are going back to school, they're bringing in a new year,
they're going to love it. And then literally, you know,
five six, seven days later, they're have been turned upside
(40:01):
down forever. New Year's Eve in that home four or
five six days later, life's turned upside down. And that
day started with those kids going to school, and then
at ten thirty in the morning, that Palisades fire broke
out and everybody panicked. Everybody went, you know, it took
off early from school. They thought maybe, I don't know,
Homer too had burned. They didn't even think that. They
(40:23):
thought they could keep it up in the hills. And
now that entire city is wiped out. The Gelson's is gone,
most of the shops are gone. Everything's gone, the restaurants,
the hotels, the shops, the gas station, the schools have
been affected.
Speaker 2 (40:38):
All these homes have been burned.
Speaker 1 (40:40):
How long is it going to take for Pacific Palisades,
if ever, to come back. It's one of the saddest
things ever. And I don't think emotionally we are prepared
for how grim this is going to be, not just
for the people who lost homes, for all of us,
all of us. This is a huge disaster huge, and
(41:02):
I don't think motionally we're prepared for what happens after
the fires. I think it's going to hit us like
a ton of bricks on how this has changed our
lives forever, because everybody is scared to death now that
they're next. And when you get an alert like that
to evacuate, and then you get alert saying that's a
fake alert, that just adds to the problem. Are recovering
(41:25):
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six forty. It is the Conway Show. It never ends
with these fires. It never ends. If you went home
last night at seven o'clock, I got home Studio City,
(00:21):
right near that Jerry's Bowl at Bowling Alley or Jerry's Deli.
I don't know if Jerry's Deli is there anymore. I
don't think it is, so wherever that Bowling Alley is,
you know, right off of Witsitt and Ventura, a four
story home explodes into fire. If you saw it, it
was the big news last night. The structure came down,
the foundation gave way and it just crumbled. And that's
(00:44):
a suspicious fire, you know, the fire house like that
just burns up in the middle of you know, a
huge neighborhood. I don't know odd And then the sunset fire.
The LA Fire Department kicked that fire's ass. That fire
came up at five point thirty and LA Fire Department
took about an hour and a half two hours to
whip that fire, just kick it in the ass. And
(01:07):
then after that there were spot fires around we were
watching up in the Hills again in Hollywood in Studio City,
and now we've got this fire here, mandatory evacuations out
of the valley for another fire.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
I'm gonna bring up the audio here.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Let's said NBC Channel four is on, let's see what's
going on out here.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Two are Jonathan Gunsaliz. Jonathan, you on the phone with
us right now?
Speaker 4 (01:31):
Yeah, Colleen Michael is you know. I was just with
you guys moments ago, and now you're headed home. Now
I'm heading home because we got this evacuation warning alert
that you guys got, but we're all I just got
it too. Hills in the community, right around Pamelo Elementary School,
and I'm heading home, and immediately I noticed the impacted
traffic very close to the fire area which is burning,
(01:54):
you know, up Victory Boulevard and you know.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
The Yeah, this is the end of Victory Boulevard. It
goes up towards I don't know, West Hills area.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
That's my normal exit to get home, and so I
didn't take that. I took Woodlake, which is one of
the impacted areas. There's an evacuation warning in this area.
This is a residential area with a lot of streets
and ways to get out, but I noticed how much
traffic there was. Normally there's none at all. Time shows
you a lot of people are trying to get out.
(02:23):
They're hopping onto the freeway, They're hopping on any way
they can, either west or east, really just trying to
get out. As I'm now driving along Victory Boulevard trying
to get home, there's just so much traffic. That's the
first thing I noticed. Our vantage point. Now I see
some of the choppers flying up above the hills. I
do see the smoke here to the south of Victory
(02:45):
now and more of the Woodland Hills area creeping up
to the Hidden Hills community there where obviously we know
there are a lot of celebrities who live there, a
lot of sizeable homes, and that's where a lot of
the smoke in the fire seems to be growing into.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Jonathan, now that you are in the midst of all
of this, this is the West Valley, West San Fernando Valley.
I looked at what you were watching on television before
you got the alert.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
Yes, absolutely that the traffic build up, especially people, you know,
a lot of them didn't go to work. I noticed
it took me about twenty five to thirty minutes to
get to work today normally takes me close to an hour.
So it tells me a lot of people have been
staying home from work. But I think those people are
the ones getting out now. And as I'm getting a
better vantage point of the smoke, it's just that dark
orange glow and it's just so frightening to see. We
(03:31):
see several firefighting aircraft up in the air, and you know,
I'm assuming water drops. I wasn't able to listen to
Eliana much, but I am driving closer to Valley Circle
and Victory so that can make my way home. But yeah,
definitely people are heating the warnings. That looks like they're
getting in their cars and they're driving away from the
(03:51):
area as we speak.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Jonathan, what about your family, your wife, your children?
Speaker 5 (03:56):
Have they left the house yet?
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Are they at home? You have a meet up point?
What's going on? What's your plan?
Speaker 4 (04:04):
So I called my wife immediately. You know, we have
three young kids and they were actually in a different
part of Wooden Hills. There goes an LAPD cruiser speeding
by me along Victory Boulevard, turns Our Valley Circle and yeah,
there we spoke, they were already out. So the plan,
because we're just outside of the evacuation warning zone, is
(04:26):
for us to go home collect our most important items,
just like we've been stressing, Like you know, our fire
experts have been stressing all day. We're going now going
to have to practice what we preach and make sure
that we're ready to go. I'm thankful to everyone who's
reached out already. In fact, someone reached out before I
realized there was a fire in Westfield. They were paying attention.
(04:46):
I was taking a moment after our coverage of being
on the anchor desk, and they texted me, if you
need anywhere to go, let us know. And so I'm
thankful to our friends and family who reached out. There's
a road closure here at Valley's Circle, a lot of
lookie loose. But I can't stress enough. You know, officers
here are trying to direct traffic and these people aren't
necessarily helpful. There are a lot of cars on the
(05:09):
road right now, people trying to head east and south
just to get away.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Okay, this fire is in the west San Fernando Valley.
Speaker 6 (05:15):
It is.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
It is a little bit north of Hidden Hills right
off of Victory there the freeway is a mess.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Angel, Are you with us? Angel Martinez? I know you do.
You talk about traffic all the time.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
This is back traffic up southbound on the one oh one,
A lot of lookie lose and there's traffic all the
way to Calabasa's. And then you know, because I don't
know what the reporter's name was, but there are very
few people on the streets and the roads today because
of these fires. Everyone stayed home. All the schools were closed,
so the parents stayed home with the with the kids.
But it looks like the one oh one is jammed.
Speaker 7 (05:48):
That's right, And it wasn't earlier. It was just shortly
after the mandatory evacuation was issued, and slowly that one
oh one just filled up. And like that reporter was saying,
the surface streets in the area, like West Valley Circle,
Platt Avenue, Victory, everybody's using that just to get out
and onto the freeway and get out of town. So
(06:10):
quickly we saw the one oh one fill in, and
it was vacant earlier. I mean, you could put the
pedal to the beddle, but now you can't. You've got
that northbound side loading up all the way out of
Studio City now and southbounds backing up out of Agora
Hills from about Liberty Canyon. So it's just a huge mess,
and it happens so quickly.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Yeah, it's horrible.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
You know, this fire is going to affect the entire
San Fernando Valley as well, because that's where the winds
are blowing now. And so if you're out there, it's
between Van Owen and Victory and a lot of those
streets are closed. There's road closures there on Valley Circle, Terrace,
another one on I think Kittridge is closed, and what
was the other one there?
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Victory Victory at the end.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Victory ends at Valley Circle and then it continues on
like a one way street that's closed as well. But
thank got a lot of these schools out there are
closed today. You know, you've got a ton of schools
out in that area, not that any of those wealthy
people use them, but you got Woodlake Elementary. Remember there
was a school out there and I can't remember what
(07:13):
the hell name of it, but remember there was that
school shooting that turned out to be a phony, a
fake shooting out there. I think it was El Camino
Reale where they said the one of the custodians got shot.
It turns out I think you like shot himself or something.
There's gonna a story about that. All right, thank you,
Angel Martinez. Everybody, we'll continue here with this fire. It
looks like Karen Bass is going to have some kind
(07:34):
of press conference, and let's let's pop back into channel
four and get some your latest information on the West
Valley here, there's a big fire.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
If you live, rive away.
Speaker 4 (07:44):
As I get closer and I'm getting closer to home,
so my vantage point it's actually behind me. Now I'm
seeing a lot of that white smoke that you're mentioning, Michael,
and that is such a big relief. And yeah, it's
I'm seeing a lot of erratic driving. I'm sure people
are nervous. A lot of them are just trying to
get home, and then there are people who were home
or were trying to get out, and so there's a
(08:06):
lot of kind of chaotic nature here on the road.
Definitely more than normal. But you know, just a reminder
to everyone to continue to drive safely, heed the warnings,
listen to officers. That is the critical thing right now.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
We're watching La County fire right now. Just a moment ago.
If you saw the chopper with the double road is
there the double blades on top, it was that was
a Sikorski going in and dropping. We want to stress
to our viewers again we all received that alarm just
a few minutes ago, and it was alarming because it
was a general general message that talked about evacuations in
(08:42):
our area. We want to let you know that was
a mistake. We've received information once again from Janis Han,
supervisor Janis Han. She says the evacuation warner that we
received was all because of a technical error.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
They've got to get this together. They've got to get
this together. We I mean, look, it's twenty twenty five
and somebody pushed the button just too quickly. I think,
right because and you know what, Krozier, I guarantee you.
You know, because I got it here. I live in Burbank.
Did you get the morning?
Speaker 8 (09:13):
I got it?
Speaker 9 (09:14):
My daughter in Long Beach got it. Oh my god,
my wife and Claremont got it.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Is that right? You got it? Stephus Should you get
it as well? I did not? There you go? All right?
Speaker 1 (09:25):
So everybody else. Everybody else wants to evacuate. Stay right
where you are. No, but it's Stephu Shu's registered down
in Torrens. I believe, so he wouldn't or Hawthorne, but
he wouldn't get it Long Beach. But but why would
your wife get that? I mean she's she's thirty five
miles from that fire.
Speaker 8 (09:41):
Yeah, yeah, she's closer.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
She's the out to Diana fires between that fire.
Speaker 8 (09:45):
And her in.
Speaker 7 (09:47):
We got it in Long Beach too.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Oh my god, They've got to get this together. They've
run out of water with the hydrants. They didn't have
enough people on this fire. Initially, they didn't have enough helicopters,
enough planes. There's so many mistakes being made, and now
they stand out and well, everybody's on edge. Everybody is
crazy right now with panic. They send out an alert
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to everybody in the city of La to panic over
a fire that's affecting four houses in West in the
West Valley. That's outrageous, It really is outrageous. They once
this thing is done, and we're going to take a
break here. But once this emergency is over, you know,
next week, next Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, when everything's back to normal,
(10:30):
as bunch as it can be. You know, when there
are no more fires burning, there's got to be a
deep dive into what the f happened in this city.
And this is just the latest where everybody in the
city now gets an evacuation alert, evacuation morning, and you know,
the people are on edge, are going to evacuate. They
(10:50):
may not be they're not listening to KFI, some of them,
they're not watching TV. Some of them they're not you know,
online and getting news. Most of them they're in their homes.
They get that alert, it panics them and they and
they evacuate. There's people evacuating right now because they got
that alert, because they you know, because we're always told evacuate.
(11:10):
If you get the warning, evacuate, if you get the
you know, the mandatory evacuation, and when you get it
on your phone, you evacuate, you get your crap and
you move. And that's why the streets are so busy
right now because of that that mistake.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Oh my god, the.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Ineptess of these people in downtown and the emergency center,
it's unbelievable.
Speaker 9 (11:29):
Wonder how many people when they get at a warning
like that, do they instantly just go, or do they
at least try to search a little bit to see
if it really was meant for you.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
I think normal people do a little research, and I
think people are prone to panic take off like a cartoon,
you know, through the wall lost art. I think that's
what happens. I think you're exactly right. Yeah, the people
who are like skeptical of everything in the world, now
they're like, I don't know that, well that's for me
or not. But the other you know what, twenty percent
of the people grab the kids, the dog and they're gone.
(12:01):
They don't know where they're going, but they just know
they they got an alert, they gotta go.
Speaker 5 (12:06):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
But we all got another alert saying disregard the first alert.
And that was jarring because anytime that noise goes off.
I don't know what that noise is croached, but I
think it's everything in your phone just goes on and
it makes that mixtape for you.
Speaker 9 (12:27):
Yeah, hey does a good job of getting your attention.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
It does, but you think the big one's coming. Every
time you hear that, you think I've got thirty seconds
before I'm rocking and rolling, and I guarantee you what
nobody in LA and in southern California is saying out
loud right now, Please don't let the big one hit now.
(12:53):
Everybody's thinking about it, especially when you get those alerts.
You're thinking about it. Please, Please, God give us a
break here. Please don't let us get hit by the
big one.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Please.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
I don't even like saying it, but we're all thinking
about it. And when you get that alert, you thought
that was it. You thought that that all right. Now
we got to deal with an earthquake. Okay, let's get
back into this fire here. Channel four is doing a
great job all these stations, man, I gotta say it.
I've always been a big fan of local news, maybe
the out of all the people on radio, probably the
(13:29):
biggest fan. I love two, four, five, seven, nine eleven.
I like all these you know, local guys and gals.
They do a great job, going all the way back
to you know, Fritz Coleman and Fred Rogan, you know,
growing up watching these guys every night on TV and then,
and I think they're doing an unbelievable job keeping people
(13:51):
informed here.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
I really do. Let's go back to NBC.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
And it has been tremendous on this almost from the
get go.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
Colleen Williams is working for or eighty fourth straight.
Speaker 10 (13:59):
Out down of the winds and that's great news in
terms of the hot spots that they're getting ahead of.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
So you try to get continued West val Fire and
West Valley.
Speaker 10 (14:09):
Fire after you get containment around.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
And it looks like the West Valley Fire looks like
they have a really good hold on this one, a
really good handle on this thing, because the.
Speaker 10 (14:17):
Winds aren't as strong, they're not as dynamic as they
were just a couple of days ago.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
Were they almost prepositioned for this? I mean, is there
a way to tell where the strongest winds will be
in our area? As forecasting on.
Speaker 10 (14:30):
This This is what we do in terms of looking
at the weather, and we've got the position of the
winds in the upper levels of the atmosphere when we
talk about highs and lows, and they look really funny.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
Okay, by the way, this alert just came out as well,
not the phony one to get the hell out, But
now through Friday afternoon, northeast wind goes twenty to forty
five miles an hour with GUS up to fifty to
sixty miles an hour, maybe even seventy five miles an
hour down trees and power outages everywhere in southern California.
(15:05):
I saw one of those big, huge fik Iss trees,
one of those things that's like, you know, eighty five
ninety years old. It came down over Magnolia and blocked
the entire street. Nobody can get around it. And that's
why they take these trees down. That's why they take these,
you know, trees that are seventy five, eighty five years old.
They're beautiful, they have a lot of shade. They provide
a lot of shade for burbank and the surrounding community.
(15:28):
But they have got to take them down that for
that reason. If that tree had come down and hit somebody,
they'll see the city and the city would lose a
ton of money. So while they're beautiful, they're a tremendous liability.
I'm watching on Channel seven pets are getting the help
in Pasadena. There's a it looks like a grocery store,
is some kind of office building where people are dropping
(15:51):
off bag after bag after bag of dog food. There
must be you know, one hundred thousand pounds worth of
dog food. There's more dog food there, then there's human food,
which is sort of natural. You know, I think we've
we've turned our dogs into human beings. I don't know
when that happened, but I did it. Everybody did it.
(16:12):
Krozer did it, Bellio did it. We all did it.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
But you know, when I was growing up, and Krozer,
you're from the.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
East coast, But take a break from the fire here
for a second, because it's gonna drive me crept. Yeah,
when I was growing up, when we had when we're ever,
when we had a dog, it was always outside, and
I'm when it rained, my mom would say, hey, go
get the dog and bring him inside.
Speaker 8 (16:32):
Yeah, it was more of a thing of why is
the dog inside?
Speaker 2 (16:35):
Right?
Speaker 8 (16:37):
Like you would get mad the dog means to be outside.
It's like when we were kids.
Speaker 9 (16:41):
Now it's like you tell kids, why aren't you outside, buddy?
Speaker 1 (16:45):
I that just that just brought back so many memories
of my mom yelling, why is the effing dog inside?
Said Mom, it's pouring outside, get him outside and put
him in his doghouse.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
That's why he has a dog out right, That's what
the only reason we had dog houses.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
Now, dog houses don't sell because dogs are in our
living room. You know, they're reading a newspaper and smoking cigarettes.
Speaker 8 (17:09):
The market of doghouses, right.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
We've turned them into human beings, and that's why we're
so sad.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
When they leave. You know, when they died.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
Before, he'd be like, hey, your dog died, like, oh,
I haven't seen him for a couple of days. Yeah,
maybe I guess he did.
Speaker 8 (17:22):
Hunt.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Know that sucks.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
Hey let's get another one, you know, But but now
they're human beings. Now we break down and we're depressed
up our minds for five that's right now. We like,
like me, you leave work, yes to deal the dog.
You know, thirty forty fifty years ago, it'd be like,
wait a minute, you're wait, you're doing what you're taking
(17:46):
time off for?
Speaker 2 (17:46):
What? The dog?
Speaker 1 (17:48):
Where's the dog? The dog's outside? Where the dog should be.
We never brought the dog in unless it was really
raining outside. And guess what dog didn't want to come in.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
It's a dog. I want to stay outside.
Speaker 8 (18:01):
Right, You open the door to let him in, and
he's looking at.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
You like what, I'm good out here.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
He'd come in and eat and then he'd scratch the
door to get the hell out.
Speaker 8 (18:08):
Just fill the ball out here with the garden hose
and we're good.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
It's incredible how over our lifetime we turn them into
human beings, you know, and now they're just part of
our family.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
God, I don't mind you.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
And that changed it literally, I mean, you know, that
should have been a generational change that happened over two
three hundred years. That happened like over a ten year
period where now you know, now we spend I think
it's like forty eight billion dollars on dogs and we
take him everywhere.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
I saw that.
Speaker 9 (18:36):
I get more and more angry now when I'm in
a store or oh my gosh, I'm.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
I see it.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
I saw a dog at Trader Josie the other day. Yeah,
I'm like, why is there a dog? And Trader Joe's yep,
coffee places. Yeah, and people walk around like it like
it's nothing.
Speaker 8 (18:52):
They absolutely do like, oh, of course I can't. He
might be he's mine.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
Oh it tries me. Family.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
All right, let's get we're getting back to these fire.
This is a this is sparked up here in the
West Hills, and so when we come back, we'll tell
you where that is sparked up. The West Hills fire
is the newest one of our miserable lives in southern
California this week, and we come back, we'll give you
all the information on it. We'll also check in, of course,
with Palisades, those poor people out there Altadena, Silmar Studio
(19:22):
City last night burned a couple of houses burned to
the ground, and also the Sunset fire off Hollywood. All
that information, plus we're promised a press conference by Mayor Bass.
At some point I thought it was supposed to be four,
and then I think they put it off till five o'clock.
Speaker 5 (19:36):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
Am sixty.
Speaker 4 (19:43):
So.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
I am six. It is the Conway Show. Krozer.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
Let me ask you, We're going to get to all
these fires. But the Kings postponing their game yesterday, Wednesday's
game in the National Hockey League. How much of that
do you thing has to do with the fact that
they were going to be playing the flames?
Speaker 2 (20:03):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Probably a lot, sing don't you think very nice that
the flames? How could you possibly have the flames any
more flames in town? We've got enough. We have to
import flames from Canada. The Calgary flames are in town.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
What are you explain the.
Speaker 9 (20:19):
Lakers postponing their game against the Hornets tonight.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
Oh yeah, they murder hornets, you know which. You're all
getting loose because of these stupid fires. All right, we're
watching this. Man, what a drop. If you're watching Channel
two seven, they're watching this ericson arrow trans tanker droping
massive amounts of water. And I guess this plane's been
(20:44):
around for a while, but remember that seven forty seven
that was retrofitted to drop, you know, drop water and
foz check. It could drop like, I don't know, nine
million gallons at a time, and I guess they didn't
like the way it was dropping, or there was some
political thing.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
There, and they're not using that anymore.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
But man, we could have used that a seven forty
seven dropping forty thousand gallons every time it opens up
its doors. Oh that would have been great. But we've
got to do something about this. That fake alert and
that phony alert that came out for everybody in the
city of la People got that. In Lancaster, people got that.
(21:24):
In Rancho Cucamonga people got it. They got it as
far as ocean side. Lancaster is probably seventy sixty five
miles away from where this fire is burning in the
West Hills, about sixty five miles away, and man, oh man,
(21:46):
they got to do something, you know once, Look, there
has got to be resignations in government. If not, there's
got to be recalls. But the proper thing to do
is just resign for some of these people. The fake
alert that went out, nobody's going to get reprimanded over that.
Nobody's going to lose, you know, a day. No one's
(22:08):
going to get suspended for doing that. For a city,
for a southern California, entire region is on edge, and
you send out an alert to evacuate immediately, it's unbelievable
that nobody's gotten. No one will pay the price for that,
I guarantee you nobody will. It will just all go
on our you know, about our own stupid business. So
(22:29):
the fake alert that goes out right around four o'clock,
and then another one saying disregard the fake alert that
went out. So everybody got tortured twice on that thing.
And then we have the dry hydrance. In twenty twenty
five in La we have dry hydrants when there's an
ocean next to us, that that is has trillions and
(22:53):
trillions of quadrillions of tons of water that we're all
looking at.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
We're all staring.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
If you live near if you live in Pacific, Pala said,
you look at the ocean all day. Most of the
people have a view of the ocean, and there's water
right there. And then we have a seventeen million was
cut out of the LA Fire budget. LA Fire department
had their budget cut with no rain this year, we're
(23:21):
spending eight hundred million dollars on LA Fire Department and
one point five billion on homeless folks. What's going on?
How did we let this? How do we let this
go so far? And then the mayor's in Africa when
this hits, I don't get it. I don't get it.
(23:44):
I have a feeling there are a lot of people
about to turn a lot of people are about to
get really, really angry. And the one thing you don't
want to do if you're in politics, don't piss off
wealthy people. Don't piss off wealthy people. They have a
(24:06):
lot of resources to go after you a lot. And
there are a ton of really angry people in Pacific
Palisades in Altadena, Silmar, this new Kenneth fire out of
the West Hills. There are a lot of people want
a lot of answers. You think those city council meetings
(24:28):
were contentious before, when you know you're trying to put
a gondola into Dodger Stadium. Wait till the next one
comes up and it's uh and ten thousand people show
up to speak. Wait till this next meeting. We should
carry the next meeting live. That is going to be
a circus. So all this happens in the city of
(24:48):
Los Angeles and in some countries, not in the United
States because we don't do this here, but we should
in some countries. This is enough to resign as govern or,
mayor or city council. The fake alert that went out,
the dry hydrants, cutting the budget of La Fire Department,
(25:08):
spending eight hundred thousand or seven hundred thousand dollars more
on the homeless than the fire department, and having the
mayor in Africa when this whole thing goes down, that's
enough to have somebody resign. If somebody, somebody did the
right thing, they would resign. Plus it's not worth it anymore,
(25:29):
you know, these city council members make what one hundred
and twenty thousand dollars. It's not worth it to take
that kind of heat. There's a tremendous amount of heat
that's going to come along with this. Why we're watching
these fire helicopters drop. This one's over the Kenneth fire,
which is in the West Valley, and it looks like
they're getting a pretty good handle on that fire.
Speaker 8 (25:49):
It's already grown to five hundred acres.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
Oh it has okay, all right, but it looks like
it doesn't look like there's any structures an immediate danger.
And I've been in that area, you know, a couple
of times. It looks like that's you know, those grassy
hills out there. There's no not a lot of big
trees out there. It's not a forest out there where
it can get raging. It's just like six seven eight
(26:12):
inch grass.
Speaker 8 (26:13):
Red cloud there. I guess that was the suppression as
opposed to water that they've been putting down.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
Oh is that right? Yeah, yeah, red cloud it is.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
And you know what that that smoke from, Uh, it's
going to come out right over the valley. Hey, everybody,
we grew up, you know, we we all woke up
this morning with ash all over the car, and now
we're gonna get more ash and more smoke. It is
impossible to breathe out there. It is impossible. Keep your windows.
Speaker 5 (26:39):
You're listening to Tim conwaytun you're on demand from KFI
Am sixty.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
Close your doors closed, obviously. All right. We're waiting for
Karen Bass to resign. I mean to have a press conference.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
I don't know when it's gonna happen, but it's gonna
happen sometime today. And look, either she has to resign
or she has to have a press conference every day.
She cannot take a day off. We need her in
front and present and telling us what's going on, because
this city of Los Angeles, once these fires are out,
(27:13):
and they're going to be out, it might be a day,
might be two days, it might be three days. These
fires are eventually going to be out, and once they're out,
there're gonna be a lot of people pissed, a lot
of people. I heard Rick Caruso last night on this
station and also on Fox. He's livid. He's livid, and
(27:33):
he didn't lose everything. There are a lot of people
lost everything and they're pissed off. They are angry as hell,
and I can I can't imagine the outpour of anger
and hostility and the volume of yelling at officials that's
going to start once these fires are out. The brush
(27:55):
fire in West Hills has grown again, grows now it's
seven hundred and ninety seven hundred and ninety acres well fast,
God's unbelievable. All right, we're gonna take a break here.
We're gonna come back and tell you more about all
these fires. Moe Kelly will be here from sevent he's
gonna stay till midnight. I think Neil Savadra's coming on.
He's gonna do some overnight work as well. So we're
(28:16):
gonna keep you covered on these fires. It is the
Conway Show. Let's check it with a twenty four our
newsroom with Michael Kruzer coming.
Speaker 8 (28:23):
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Speaker 17 (33:39):
Karen Bass, the mayor of Los Angeles, why did you
go to Africa. It's not like it happened out of
the blow. We were worn the two days before the fires.
We were all told, Hey, this is going to be bad.
She could have easily said I'm in Ghana. I'm on
the first airplane out whatever Bill Handle. As long as
(34:00):
it looked like she tried early on, and she did.
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Speaker 1 (34:10):
Caf I AM six forty. It's Conway Show. We're keeping
an eye on the newest fire here, the West Hills Fire.
A lot of expensive homes out there as well, grown
to over seven hundred and ninety acres zero percent containment.
And there's another fire burning near Mount Wilson. Four to
(34:30):
five thousand structures burned or destroyed out there, thirteen six
hundred and ninety acres. That's the Eaton fires one and
Altadenam zero percent containment. That's creeping up on Mount Wilson.
There is also some eerie footage on channel five on
KTLA of all these beautiful homes that used to be
(34:53):
you know, people's, you know, homes and valuables and memories
in these homes right on the beach, right on the
beach in Malibu and a little bit south of Malibou,
all gone house after house after house right on the beach.
Speaker 9 (35:11):
This is one of those things where when you look
at it, you wonder why didn't everybody just build their
house with bricks, and why.
Speaker 1 (35:17):
Didn't look if if you don't have a pump that
has a hose that goes into the ocean to protect
a five million dollar home, where are you spending that
ten thousand dollars?
Speaker 8 (35:30):
Hey, those palm trees are sitting there, nice and high.
Speaker 1 (35:33):
Yeah, those palm trees still there. They've got you know,
I'm almost tired of hearing myself say that, but they've
got to get rid of palm trees.
Speaker 8 (35:40):
Palm trees and chimneys are all that's left there.
Speaker 1 (35:42):
Yeah, the palm trees cause the fire and the chimneys,
the all the things they can stand the fire, and
they're all gone. You know, Kros When we've seen fires
in the past, you've seen homes burned down and there's
you know, there's something left. There's nothing left here. Yeah,
this fire must have burned so super hot. There is
absolutely nothing.
Speaker 9 (36:02):
What was the what year was that where they had
all those fires, that the big fire that took all
the homes out in the Calabasas area.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, was that twenty sixteen twenty
seventeen summer around there? Yeah, there was and then you know,
way before that, the bell Air fire. There's been a
lot of radical fires.
Speaker 9 (36:23):
I'm just fascinated by, Like last night when we talked
about Hollywood Hills fire, when that thing sparked up about
five point thirty and it was quick, and it looked
like it was going to threaten a bunch of houses
fairly new.
Speaker 8 (36:32):
I don't know how new that that one road that
went up there was. But I don't understand.
Speaker 9 (36:36):
Why people even think about building a house in the hills,
especially in a place like Running Canyon where there's so
many other people and anybody could start a fire and
one way in and out.
Speaker 2 (36:48):
That's what's so scary.
Speaker 1 (36:49):
You know, before you would you would just assume that
nobody would go up there and start these fires. Now
a fire can start because you know, some firebug wants
to get his throat, and I bet you had dollars
to donuts. That's happened. That's happened over last week. Some
of these fires have been started on So.
Speaker 8 (37:06):
That's the first thing we thought with the Hollywood Hills
when last night, you.
Speaker 1 (37:09):
Know, I was watching I think it was on the
New York Post And I'm not good with celebrities, is
it Kristen is it Teagan?
Speaker 2 (37:16):
Is that her name? I think that's her name, right,
Chrissie Tagan. And her husband is John Legend.
Speaker 1 (37:21):
Yes, okay, all right, Well they had on their social
media they left their Beverly Hills home to go to
a hotel with four dogs, kids, and some kind of
a guana. They had a pet iguana or a pet
dragon or something like that. And they and they show
pictures of themselves in the hotel room and get ready
(37:46):
for this. Their dogs were on the bed in the
hotel room. The dogs were on the bed. Great for
the next person, is that not allowed?
Speaker 2 (37:59):
Or with the on the pillow? Oh? Look don't I
don't know if you want to do that.
Speaker 8 (38:03):
Oh the paws on the pillow was the difference. That
was the line.
Speaker 1 (38:06):
Right, if you want to do that, fine, But why
would you post that? And here's the bigger here's the
bigger problem I have of it. Their house was not
in any danger. They live in Beverly Hills. So they
took a hotel room from somebody that has been burned
out of their home in Pacific Palisades and took that
hotel room that could have gone to somebody who lost
(38:27):
their home. And so I don't understand the selfishness of
getting a hotel room when your home is not in
any imminent danger. I don't understand that at all. And
if you're going to do it, do it quietly and
don't post about it. Don't post. Why would you post that?
(38:49):
Why would you put that on social media? Where you
took a huge hotel room for you, your four kids
and your pets, and you know they're sold out. Every
hotel in southern California is sold out. Every single hotel
in Southern California is maxed out. There's not a single
(39:09):
room available anywhere. And you post that your home is
not in danger and you took a hotel room from
somebody else.
Speaker 2 (39:18):
What are they thinking?
Speaker 1 (39:20):
People are crazy, People have lost their minds to post that.
It's outrageous, unbelievable, are we they? Altadena fire the Palisades fire,
those are the two huge ones. And you have to
remember two weeks ago these people were celebrating Christmas in
those homes or Hanukah or kwands, whatever you celebrate over
(39:40):
the holidays or and after that, they had people in
their home for New Years. They brought in the New
Year in that home and thought nothing of it. Kids
are going back to school, they're bringing in a new year,
they're going to love it. And then literally, you know,
five six, seven days later, they're have been turned upside
(40:01):
down forever. New Year's Eve in that home four or
five six days later, life's turned upside down. And that
day started with those kids going to school, and then
at ten thirty in the morning, that Palisades fire broke
out and everybody panicked. Everybody went, you know, it took
off early from school. They thought maybe, I don't know,
Homer too had burned. They didn't even think that. They
(40:23):
thought they could keep it up in the hills. And
now that entire city is wiped out. The Gelson's is gone,
most of the shops are gone. Everything's gone, the restaurants,
the hotels, the shops, the gas station, the schools have
been affected.
Speaker 2 (40:38):
All these homes have been burned.
Speaker 1 (40:40):
How long is it going to take for Pacific Palisades,
if ever, to come back. It's one of the saddest
things ever. And I don't think emotionally we are prepared
for how grim this is going to be, not just
for the people who lost homes, for all of us,
all of us. This is a huge disaster huge, and
(41:02):
I don't think motionally we're prepared for what happens after
the fires. I think it's going to hit us like
a ton of bricks on how this has changed our
lives forever, because everybody is scared to death now that
they're next. And when you get an alert like that
to evacuate, and then you get alert saying that's a
fake alert, that just adds to the problem. Are recovering
(41:25):
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