January 10, 2025 • 33 mins
Latest on Fires, Curfew, FEMA and recap of important information from Presser // BREAKING NEWS: Debra Mark says man arrested for apparently lighting fires // Dean Sharp on rebuilding your home after this tragedy // Recap of fires, and aid for residents
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's KFI Am sixty and you're listening to The Conway
Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
It's Conway's Show.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
We have a lot of information to give you a
lot of it, Angel Martinez. I think you and I
and Crozier and Belli O and Steph Fus complaining about
closing that one oh one helped out. And I think
they kept it open when they heard people say, we
have got to get home. Yeah, we have got to
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get home. You've got to keep that freeway open. That
one oh one has got to stay open, and they
kept it open.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Yeah, thank god. All right.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
So, but they're ready to close it at a moment's
notice if they have to.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
That's right. They said that they're standing by to do so.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
And with the direction that that buyer is burning, they're
ready to close it down.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
They haven't yet, but they're ready to if needed. I
hope they don't.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Okay, LAUSD closed tomorrow. There are feeding centers for the
students that rely on breakfast, lunch, and dinner or any
one or two or three of those meals, plus thirty
YMCAs are going to be open to take care of
the kids. Because I know a lot of people will
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go to LAUSD. The parents work one, two, perhaps three
different jobs, so that is good news. They're going to
have YMCAs open to help you out with the kids.
The one to one, as we mentioned, is open. We
heard Adam Schiff say, get the hell out. I would
have chosen different words. I think we're all on edge
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and to be maybe, I don't know, maybe it needs
to have that kind of language.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Who knows.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
But he said, you can't outrun a fire. If you stay,
you're going to die, is what he said. If you stay,
you're going to die. Here's the problem with that. Every
single fire in southern California, every single one, with that exception,
you hear.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Story after story after.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Story about people that stayed behind with the garden hose,
put out spotfires and saved and saved people's homes. Every
single fire has these heroes. The latest one was in Malibu,
the Franklin fire, they called it Malibu, and we had
a guy on who personally saved three homes. I think
his name was Brian. I forget the chap's name. The
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National Guard is here, The National Guard is here. I
can't remember the last time the National Guard came in
to help us.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Out on anything.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
It may have been after Rodney King, it may have
been after the north Ridge earthquake, but I don't remember
anything after, you know, the nineteen nineties with the National Guard.
Maybe I'm on the moon here, maybe it's happened before,
but I don't Krozer, you're more of a news hound
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than I am. Do you remember the National Guard coming
in and helping us out at all since the nineties,
I don't remember. Nineties, Yeah, with Rodney King and then
the National with the earthquake, the nineteen ninety four.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Yeah, that would be those would be the two that
I would think of.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Okay, so that's thirty years riots essentially, Yeah, thirty years ago.
Speaker 5 (03:10):
And even then when the National Guard came in and
then they weren't allowed to have bullets, that's right, Yeah,
to carry the empty guns.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
They were just basically, you know, by running around making
sure that people understood that looting was a no.
Speaker 6 (03:23):
No.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Speaking of looting, we could go back to the old way,
stop looting overnight, the old old school.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Way, shooting on site. Looters used to get shot on site.
Speaker 5 (03:37):
Yeah, speaking of those riots, I remember working in Koreatown
at the time, and I was I was at the
KFI back then. Yeah, and driving into Korea Town when
the riots were going on, they were people pushing carts
and I almost shot someone that was looting a track
auto trying to get to the station.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (03:52):
And even across the street, we could look out our
window and see the building and see guys on top
of their businesses with guns rifles, and so it's just
waiting for people to love.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
Those were the no nonsense Koreans that were doing that. Yeah,
you know, those were all those centers were owned by Koreans.
They knew that the cops were spread thin, and they
were on the rooftops with guns and said, not this building,
not today, not this building.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
We got turned around in a little mini shopping mall.
Speaker 5 (04:14):
It was about four like a four store shopping mall,
and we were stuck in there because traffic was right
in front of us. And I was in the passenger
seat and a guy brought out armloads of stuff from
a track auto two feet from my window.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Wow, and looked at me like you're next.
Speaker 5 (04:28):
And I had the gun in my hands and I
told the guy driving, I said, if you don't leave,
I'm going to shoot someone right now.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Wow. He took off man.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
What a cowboy, this guy that's me just starting to
stay alive. That's right, all right. They the local politicians
are panicking. You can hear it in their voice. They
are panicking. They went out, they went they went to
Joe Biden and Kamala Harrison said, look, we're getting roasted
by the citizens in southern California probably a poor term.
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We're getting beat up by the citizens in southern California.
You've got to help us out. And FEMA said, can do,
can do? And they're paying for one hundred percent of
the cleanup, one hundred percent of the fire fighting, one
hundred percent of everything for one hundred and eighty days.
What is this today? Is this January ninth? Are we
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in the ninth to eight?
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Okay? So January, February, March, April.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
You have till April ninth to get going and rebuilding again.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
And this is going to happen quickly.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
And you got to call one eight hundred sixty to
one FEMA. One eight hundred sixty to one FEMA. I'm
gonna mention that number about a thousand times between now
and and April. So you've got you know, February March April.
You got until April ninth, April ninth to get going.
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Don't wait. Get some of that money now. One hundred
percent reimbursement, one hundred percent. Senator Adam Schiff said, that's unusual.
You usually have to beg to get seventy five percent.
We're getting one hundred percent.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
So evacuations, this is the sticky part. Evacuations. They're probably
going to have a curfew in the mandatory evacuation areas.
And again, you know what, we we just went over it.
There's always people that stay behind, and there's always people
that save homes.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
And now, what are you going to do?
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Arrest them if they're in the evacuation zone, the mandatory
evacuation zone. A guy's holding a garden hose trying to
save his home, that's an arrestable offence under this curfew.
What are you going to do arrest that guy? I
don't think so. This is a very sad number. What
I'm about to tell you. In the in Pacific Palis sades,
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the number of structures that have been destroyed, the number
of structures houses, businesses, shopping centers, offices. The amount of
structures destroyed five thousand three hundred and sixteen, five thousand,
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three hundred and sixteen just in Pacific Palisades, the Eton Fire,
five thousand structures burned to the ground, five thousand. We're
already at ten thousand, three hundred and sixteen just with
those two fires, without Silmar, without the Sunset Fire, which
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I don't think destroyed anything, without the Studio City fire
last night, and without this new Kenneth fire in the
West Valley that the Eaton fire is at thirteen thousand,
six hundred and nine acres, the Eton Fire, that's the
Altadena fire thirteen thousand, six hundred and nine acres, one thousand,
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five hundred and twenty seven firefighters on that battle on thousand,
five hundred and twenty seven firefires. But the most of
the real stats that people can't wrap their minds around.
Five thousand structures burned to the ground in the Altadena fire,
the Eating Fire, three hundred and sixteen in the Palisades fire.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
I don't know how we rebuild all of these homes.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
The Sunset Fire is, while it's not a complete knockdown yet,
there's still ground crews out there. All the evacuations are
lifted in the Sunset Fire, But here's another I know
I keep talking about these evacuations. Where are you going
to go? If you're evacuated, where are you going? There
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are no hotels available. If you don't have family or friends,
where are you going? Are you leaving the state, are
you leaving the county? There are no hotel rooms to
go to, There are no airbnbs to go to. Zero,
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So I don't understand where you're going to go. They
want you to leave, but they don't tell you where
you can go. I guess you can go to, you know,
the convention center, one of these release centers. But a
lot of people are adverse to that, especially with the
flu going around or COVID going around. They don't want
to be around a thousand people and sleeping on a cot.
(09:29):
But I guess it might have to. You might have to,
and you know, a lot of tough decisions and these
tough times. All right, No, we got to take a break.
But I will say this number one thousand times FEMA.
Start with FEMA. We're going to get a lot of
this stuff paid for, one hundred percent reimbursed for all
of our problems here. When it comes to the fire,
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phone them up, get in line, there's gonna be tens
of thousands or hundreds of thousands of people call. There's
gonna be a lot of people trying to take advantage
of that as well. Unfortunately, that's just what happens in
the United States. Eight hundred six to one, FEMA, eight
hundred six to one FEMA. Phone them up and get
this process started.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
We'll come back. We'll talk about curfew, the air quality.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
Also, the RAMS game has been moved, the La Rams
game has been moved to Arizona.
Speaker 5 (10:22):
So we've got lots to cover. Something huge too coming up.
You cannot go anywhere.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
What is that? It's called the tease? Okay, yes, lot,
it is absolutely huge. Okay, a lot of huge stuff
coming up.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
This is unbelievable the amount of information we have to
get out between now and seven o'clock. Moe comes in
until midnight, and then we're also checking with the Dean Sharp.
Perfect time to check him with Deep Sharp, because he
knows what we should do, not only to keep our
home safe, but the rebuilding process. This man is going
to give us some great information. We're live on KFI
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AM six forty lots to get to keep it here.
Speaker 7 (10:57):
You're listening to Tim conwaytun your May from KFI Am sixty.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
Florian's Conway Joe. Let's get right to Deborahmark with breaking
news here. Debormark, who is the anchor for Gary and
Shannon and also the John Colveld Show. Deborah, what do
you know? This is a huge news story potentially.
Speaker 6 (11:17):
So a neighbor texted me a couple of photos and
said that police arrested a guy who was seen in
our neighborhood. So we're up in the hills in Woodland
Hills with a torch trying to light brush around people's houses.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
Oh my gosh, yeah, I.
Speaker 6 (11:36):
Mean, can you believe this? I mean, it's if that
guy was successful, this would be another.
Speaker 7 (11:43):
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (11:46):
I was going to say that. But so when police
questioned the guy, he ran up the hill and was
cornered in a front yard and he was very argumentative
and allegedly high as a kite.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
Okay, So this is without giving away your address, because
I know you've got a lot on your plate to
begin with, and and and no worry is something that
you deal with a lot. Is this south of Ventura Boulevard?
Speaker 6 (12:17):
Yes, this is south of Ventura Boulevard, And It is
up in the hills, very hilly area, a lot of
brush and it.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
And a lot of thin streets where it's hard for
firefighters to get up there.
Speaker 6 (12:32):
Exactly there are Yeah, it would have been a catastrophe.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
It would have been horrible.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
That fire could have burned all the way to Malibu exactly.
Speaker 6 (12:43):
It's just it's so crazy. If you look at this picture.
I don't know if if Sharon showed you the picture yet,
I know you guys are going to post.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
We're posting, you'll give a picture.
Speaker 6 (12:51):
The guy had a horse. It's on top of the
cop car. Now again, this is all I mean. I'm
not speculating if this has anything to do with any
of the fires. But my suspicion is that these fires
are arson.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Now that's right.
Speaker 6 (13:09):
May not be this alleged, you know, suspected arsonists, But
isn't it crazy that all these fires are breaking out
around the same time? And then here you got a
guy who was caught by neighbors holding a torch, a
lift torch, trying to light fires.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
And how close was this to your home? Was it
up the block? Was it a couple of houses away?
Speaker 8 (13:32):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (13:33):
Down the street?
Speaker 2 (13:33):
Oh my god? And you know it.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
And Deborah, you, of all people work in radio, especially
the station, are the wrong person to do that too,
because you're on edge anyway.
Speaker 6 (13:47):
You know, Tim, I think I take an earthquake, although
I heard you when I was driving home, when you
were saying that that was on a lot of people's minds,
that what's next, the big one, which of course was
on my mind. But I'll tell you, I think I'm
more fearful of these wildfires.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
I think you're right. I think you're absolutely right, Deborah.
We really appreciate you coming on, great breaking news. We're
gonna send that picture out on social media and uh
and and I'm glad LAPD got up there with enough
guys and gals to get that guy into a prison
cell where he can't do any more damage.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
I really appreciate you coming on.
Speaker 6 (14:22):
Absolutely you guys have a good night.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
All right, Thank you, Deborah.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
Mark up there in Woodland Hills south of the boulevard
potentially avoided a catastrophe if this guy had had burned
some of the shrubbery up there and the fire department
couldn't get up there. The fire department is stretched in anyway,
we could have been looking at a major, major disaster.
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Another fire that could have just roared through to Panga
Canyon up over the hill, Mulholland the Gelston's up there.
Louisville High School is up there as well. It could
have just moved all the way to towards the ocean
and we would have had at least, you know, another
hundreds and thousands of homes that could have been burned
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to the ground. So thank you to Deborah Mark, who
is again the anchor for Gary and Shannon, the tail
end of the garyon Shannon Show and also the John
Colebelt Show.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
She was great, she called us, she got us the
you know, the pictures.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
We're gonna put her on social media and hopefully this
guy is off the streets and we don't have to
worry about least about this lad anymore. All right, when
we come back, we'll talk to Dean Sharp the first
steps on rebuilding. What do you do when you need
to rebuild? Dean Sharp will let us know what is
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the first few steps you need to take. One of them,
I think is to call FEMA. You call FEMA immediately
and get that process started. Eight hundred six to one
FEMA eight hundred and six to one FEMA. They're going
to reimburse one hundred percent of our expenditures because of
these fires over the next one hundred and eighty days.
You have until April ninth to call that number and
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get involved and get some money back. One eight hundred
and six to one FEMA. They have a lot of money.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
You need to.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
Grab some though before it does disappear. It may disappear.
They're looking at potentially sixty billion dollars for the cost
of these fires, and so they may run out of money.
Get started. Eight hundred six to one FEMA. It's Conway Show.
Dean Sharp will come back and tell us the very
first steps you need to take.
Speaker 7 (16:33):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
It's Conway Show. Can't stress this enough. Got to call FEMA.
They're paying for one hundred percent of our cleanup and
our expenditures because of these fires for the next one
hundred and eighty days. If you live in La County,
you can. You're eligible if you've had expenditures when it
comes to these fires and the and this wind. You
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live in the FEMA zone. You're in the FEMA zone.
So phone them up eight hundred and six ' to
one FEMA fe M A Federal Emergency Management Association eight
hundred and six y to one FEMA. We have one
hundred and eighty days until April ninth. All right, nobody
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really knows what to do. We've never had this many
homes burn in southern California. And when your house burns,
you don't even think about rebuilding yet You're still dealing
with the loss, the memories, the emotion, the hugging of relatives,
the trying to figure out where to sleep that night,
and rebuilding your home is down the line. Dean Sharp
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is with us, and Dean, I'd love to ask you,
what how do people start to rebuild?
Speaker 8 (17:57):
That is the million dollars question right now, especially when
entire neighborhoods are missing that we're there just a couple
of days ago. Okay, So here's the thing. There's no
easy answer to this, but I'm going to be pure.
You're just brutally honest with everybody so that you understand,
you know, kind of where things go now. It has
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nothing to do with planning out or designing the new house.
Just just that's not even anywhere on the horizon at
the moment, here is where you're at. Number One, of course,
as you've been saying, you need to call FEMA, make
sure that you're in their system with everything that's going on.
Number two, you need to contact your insurance company and
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file a claim. Okay, before any of that happens, you
got to make sure that you're settled. You got to
find a place because you're not going to be back
there any time soon, all right, So you file the
claim that nothing else has to happen right now. You're
in the system, right you get in FEMA system, nothing
else has to happen right now, and then you focus
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on staying safe, getting everybody healthy, getting everybody settled, and reorienting,
finding a place to hunker down. Now, filing the claim
with the insurance company usually with most people who is
gonna help that because there may be relocation benefits and
all of that kind of stuff while things are happening
with the house. So you get yourself settled and you
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take a breath, You take a breath, and you let things,
you know, kind of relax a little bit after this terrible,
terrible disaster. You know, then okay, go ahead, if you're
still if you're still listening and you're still hanging in
there with me. Then a couple of things. Number One,
before anything, any cleanup gets done on the property, do
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not rush to have any cleanup done on the property.
If anything and you're ready to do something, get out
there with cameras and video and do detailed folk too,
graphs and video of everything or anything that remains, everything
from corner to corner, edge to edge. You want to
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do your best to document everything that was lost. And
if that's everything, then that's literally everything. But you want
to document it fully because what lies ahead now is
unfortunately a situation where the insurance company, the insurance that
you hire to protect you in this situation, they are
now under the gun to minimize their spend on all
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of these payouts.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
Right.
Speaker 8 (20:36):
And I'm not saying that insurance companies are crooks. I
am not saying that insurance adjusters are dishonest. I am
telling you honestly though, that the insurance company has a
one primary concern when it comes to payout, and that
is minimizing the amount of the claim.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
Is that sad.
Speaker 8 (20:56):
It is sad, and so what it does realistically is
it puts you in somewhat of a you know, adversarial
position with the company you hired to protect you in
a disaster, and I wish it wasn't the case, but
it is so a couple of things that I want
you to be aware of. You don't just say yes
and sign at the bottom line with claims. You may
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want to consider hiring an advocate for yourself. And an
advocate means one of two things. A public insurance adjuster,
which is an insurance adjuster who works specifically for you
and negotiates with the insurance company. Or you could call
up a damage law firm, a damaged specialist law firm.
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There's one here in the LA area damage law dot Com.
Go to their website and check them out. These guys
are awesome. I'm actually going to be having them on
the show in early February. Damage law dot Com. The
one advantage that a set of attorneys who specialize in
damage law have over an insurance adjuster, a public insurance adjuster.
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The public insurance adjuster will go to bed and fight
with the insurance company, but they can't sue them actually,
and so a damage attorney can take it all the way.
The whole point is this I'm not saying that you're
gonna have a nightmare, but you do need to be
wise and recognize that on some polite, friendly level, you
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are now in an adversarial relationship with your insurance company
in terms of the payout, especially if the house was
completely completely leveled by the fire, Because now you've got
a question of are you moving back into the same neighborhood,
are you rebuilding the same house?
Speaker 2 (22:43):
What is the payout?
Speaker 8 (22:44):
Is it going to be one in which is going
to be minimized somewhat because you choose not to move back.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
Is it a story?
Speaker 6 (22:53):
You know?
Speaker 8 (22:53):
Are you getting a fair settlement? That is what lies ahead.
It has nothing to do with rebuilding. It has nothing
to do with does this is the reality? It is
getting yourself settled and safe and then turning your mind
toward all right, we have to deal with the insurance
company because we've suffered you know, we've suffered an incalculable
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loss of our home and our memories, but we've suffered
a financial loss and the replacement value needs to be there.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
I can guarantee this without even asking you. Your show
on Saturday and Sunday is going to be all about this.
Speaker 8 (23:28):
Yeah, we're going to be we're going to be talking
as in depth as I can about just guiding everybody
through that process.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
But I really appreciate coming on and we'll listen to
you on Saturday and Sunday morning.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
Thanks but thank you, sir.
Speaker 3 (23:40):
All Right, Dean Sharp Saturday morning six to eight am,
any questions about rebuilding your house or Sunday nine am
to noon. He knows what he's talking about. Great ideas,
videotape everything. Start with your insurance company and call FEMA.
Call FEMA eight hundred and six to one, FEMA, eight
hundred six to one, FEMA, call them immediately. We have
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a window of one hundred and eighty days to get this,
to get this started and get reimbursed for your expenses.
What a week here in southern California. We will continue.
MO takes over at seven o'clock. Then the overnight hours,
Neil Savedra is coming in and we're going to cover
this as long as it takes.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
We will be here.
Speaker 7 (24:24):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
AM six forty It's Conway Show.
Speaker 3 (24:35):
Lots and lots to get to Mo Kelly takes over
at seven o'clock. In about ten minutes, Deborah Mark called
us up from Woodland Hills south of the boulevard and
said LAPD apprehended somebody who may have been starting fires
on purpose with a torch, and so that's big news.
Sweet thank you, thanks Deborah Mark for calling us up
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and informing us about that that could have They saved
a potential radical disaster because these winds are going to
start to pick up future gusts all the way to
Saturday at four pm, on and off till Saturday at
four pm, and then next week Monday, possibly Tuesday, forty
mile an hour, thirty on nine mile an hour, windows
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winds up in Malibu, Camerio, Santa Clarita, Fraser Park, Oxnard, Lancaster, Tohunga, Pasadeno,
the whole run. We can't stop with these winds. These
are not stopping. LAUSD is closed tomorrow. They have thirty
YMCAs if you need some place to park your kid.
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They also have feeding centers for breakfast, lunch, or dinner
whatever meals are supplied for your kids.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
The one on one is open.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
We reported earlier they were toying with the idea of
closing and HP was going to close it from Tapanga
to Canaan Dune.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
Thank god they didn't.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
A lot of people would had to go around to
the one eighteen to the twenty three, added another hour
and a half to their commute because the traffic that
that would have created. Adam Shift tells everybody, get the
hell out. Get the hell out. If you're in a
mandatory evacuation center or area, I should say you. He said,
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if you stay, you're going to die. If you stay,
you're going to die. That may be true in some cases,
but we always hear about people staying behind and saving homes.
We hear it with every fire. The National Guard is
here helping with traffic.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
Right now.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
We'll see what other help or assistance they can be
to us. But the National Guard is here. There is
mutual aid from Arizona, from New Mexico, Nevada, Oregon, and
Washington and Utah here to help us with these fires.
So hats off to them. An ad a boy or
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not a girl to them for coming to help us
out the Palisades fire. There's some bad news and bad
numbers with the Palisades fire. There's also bad news with
the Eaton fire as well. Five thousand, three hundred and
sixteen structures destroyed in the Palisades five thousand, three hundred
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and sixteen structures. With the Eaton fire out in Altadena
Arcadia area, five thousand structures destroyed. The fire is three
thirteen thousand, six hundred nine acres. There are over fifteen
hundred firefighters on that fire. The Rams game has been
moved to Arizona. The Los Angeles Rams will play the
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Minnesota Vikings on Monday. I think the start time is
five PM, might be six. I think it's five and
that will be an Arizona. So if you have tickets
to the game at SOFI Stadium, time to get in
the car or call Southwest Airlines. You got to go
to Phoenix to watch that game. The local politicians are panicking.
They know that they have a lot of angry people
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who live in southern California and they are panicking. The
Sunset Fire. They've lifted all the evacuations there. That's the
Hollywood Fire. It's not a complete knockdown yet. It's not
one hundred percent contained by all the evacuation orders have
been lifted for the Sunset Fire.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
That's good news.
Speaker 3 (28:22):
Call FEMA, you have three months, one hundred and eighty
days starting from right now, to get all your receipts
and to get reimbursed for any expenses you might have
when it comes to these winds or these or these fires.
One eight hundred sixty one FEMA one eight hundred sixty
to one FEMA. We had talked to Dean Sharp all
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weekend long. He's going to tell you how to rebuild
and what that's going to look like. We've got a
lot ahead of us, a long, long process ahead of us,
a lot. The rest of the country is going to
be stuck with the bill of fifty billion dollars to
help us out here. This is going to cost about
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fifty billion dollars. Unfortunately, the rest of the country is
going to pick that up. It's going to be FEMA.
Federal money is coming back here in southern California to
help us out. So that's going to be a horrible
for the rest of the country, but it's going to
help us out wildly here in southern California. Also, we
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went through that already. Early next week, we're expecting more
win early next week, more win. The Kenneth fire in
the West Valley now over eight hundred acres over eight
hundred acres. The quality of the air in the San
Fernando Valley and surrounding areas of southern California is beyond horrible.
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If you have asthma or lung problems, or your kids
are tiny with those tiny lungs, please keep them inside
and don't let them breathe the ash and the dust
and the debris that's in the air, the chemicals, the smoke.
It's not good for them. Curfew, all right, let's talk curfew.
It's not county wide. But if you're in a mandatory
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evacuation area and you're in past I think it's ten
to I think it's ten o'clock PM to six am,
you could potentially be arrested, even if you're there trying
to save your home. I can't imagine that's going to happen,
but you do qualify to be arrested if you're in
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a mandatory evacuation zone and they have a curfew. We're
talking about Palisades, Malibu, Altadena, Arcadia, Pasadena, parts of Santa
Monica as well.
Speaker 2 (30:46):
I believe.
Speaker 3 (30:47):
So the National Guard, as we said, is here, they're
going to start to remove the red tape. So you
can start rebuilding immediately. I don't know what that looks like.
I don't know where we're going to get enough workers
to build ten thousand homes or ten thousand structures. I
don't know where we're going to get these supplies. I imagine
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home depot will be filled. Every single home depot in
Southern California, every single lows, every single hardware store is
going to be filled to the brim with people trying
to get in there, trying to get the material to
replace a structure, to replace a patio, a porch, or
in worst case scenario, an entire house, an entire home.
(31:30):
All right, let's real quickly see if we can start
this at least, then we'll we got to cut it off.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
But power outages, lots of power outages.
Speaker 4 (31:39):
Going up, like behind me, it's not working. And that
was the case here in Monrovia along Foothill Boulevard. As
we drove down, there's a shopping center to my left.
Most of those businesses are closed because the.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
Power is out.
Speaker 4 (31:51):
There's a gym to my right, and they're keeping their
doors open and their lights on with a generator. Southern California.
Edison says, hundreds of thousands of customers are with that power,
and in about half of those cases it's because of
power outages from things like wind damage or trees falling
on the power lines. And right now no estimate on
when power we'll be back.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
Southern California.
Speaker 4 (32:13):
Edison says more than three hundred thousand people across at
Service territory are without power.
Speaker 8 (32:19):
Some of those are from public safety power shutoffs where
we have had to proactively and in advance turn off
the power to reduce the possibility of a hazard.
Speaker 2 (32:30):
And that happens a lot. That's going to happen and continue.
Speaker 3 (32:32):
It happened over the next couple days, perhaps the next
couple of weeks, because we're getting wind again.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
It's gonna be through Saturday.
Speaker 3 (32:38):
We're gonna break on Saturday and Sunday, maybe Monday, and
then late Monday early Tuesday, we're back with the wind.
We are going to be with you here as long
as this thing takes keep it on KFI. Moe Kelly
comes up next. He's going to be our midnight that overnight.
Neil Savadra is coming in as well. Then we get
back to Wake Up Call, Bill Handle, Garyan Shannon, and
(32:59):
John Colebell I'll be back tomorrow right at four pm.
Live right here, Mooe Kelly Naxt on KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
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Speaker 2 (33:09):
Now you can always
Speaker 1 (33:10):
Hear us live on KFI AM six forty four to
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Speaker 2 (00:08):
It's Conway's Show.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
We have a lot of information to give you a
lot of it, Angel Martinez. I think you and I
and Crozier and Belli O and Steph Fus complaining about
closing that one oh one helped out. And I think
they kept it open when they heard people say, we
have got to get home. Yeah, we have got to
(00:29):
get home. You've got to keep that freeway open. That
one oh one has got to stay open, and they
kept it open.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Yeah, thank god. All right.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
So, but they're ready to close it at a moment's
notice if they have to.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
That's right. They said that they're standing by to do so.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
And with the direction that that buyer is burning, they're
ready to close it down.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
They haven't yet, but they're ready to if needed. I
hope they don't.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Okay, LAUSD closed tomorrow. There are feeding centers for the
students that rely on breakfast, lunch, and dinner or any
one or two or three of those meals, plus thirty
YMCAs are going to be open to take care of
the kids. Because I know a lot of people will
(01:15):
go to LAUSD. The parents work one, two, perhaps three
different jobs, so that is good news. They're going to
have YMCAs open to help you out with the kids.
The one to one, as we mentioned, is open. We
heard Adam Schiff say, get the hell out. I would
have chosen different words. I think we're all on edge
(01:37):
and to be maybe, I don't know, maybe it needs
to have that kind of language.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Who knows.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
But he said, you can't outrun a fire. If you stay,
you're going to die, is what he said. If you stay,
you're going to die. Here's the problem with that. Every
single fire in southern California, every single one, with that exception,
you hear.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Story after story after.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Story about people that stayed behind with the garden hose,
put out spotfires and saved and saved people's homes. Every
single fire has these heroes. The latest one was in Malibu,
the Franklin fire, they called it Malibu, and we had
a guy on who personally saved three homes. I think
his name was Brian. I forget the chap's name. The
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National Guard is here, The National Guard is here. I
can't remember the last time the National Guard came in
to help us.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Out on anything.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
It may have been after Rodney King, it may have
been after the north Ridge earthquake, but I don't remember
anything after, you know, the nineteen nineties with the National Guard.
Maybe I'm on the moon here, maybe it's happened before,
but I don't Krozer, you're more of a news hound
(02:52):
than I am. Do you remember the National Guard coming
in and helping us out at all since the nineties,
I don't remember. Nineties, Yeah, with Rodney King and then
the National with the earthquake, the nineteen ninety four.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Yeah, that would be those would be the two that
I would think of.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Okay, so that's thirty years riots essentially, Yeah, thirty years ago.
Speaker 5 (03:10):
And even then when the National Guard came in and
then they weren't allowed to have bullets, that's right, Yeah,
to carry the empty guns.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
They were just basically, you know, by running around making
sure that people understood that looting was a no.
Speaker 6 (03:23):
No.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Speaking of looting, we could go back to the old way,
stop looting overnight, the old old school.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Way, shooting on site. Looters used to get shot on site.
Speaker 5 (03:37):
Yeah, speaking of those riots, I remember working in Koreatown
at the time, and I was I was at the
KFI back then. Yeah, and driving into Korea Town when
the riots were going on, they were people pushing carts
and I almost shot someone that was looting a track
auto trying to get to the station.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (03:52):
And even across the street, we could look out our
window and see the building and see guys on top
of their businesses with guns rifles, and so it's just
waiting for people to love.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
Those were the no nonsense Koreans that were doing that. Yeah,
you know, those were all those centers were owned by Koreans.
They knew that the cops were spread thin, and they
were on the rooftops with guns and said, not this building,
not today, not this building.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
We got turned around in a little mini shopping mall.
Speaker 5 (04:14):
It was about four like a four store shopping mall,
and we were stuck in there because traffic was right
in front of us. And I was in the passenger
seat and a guy brought out armloads of stuff from
a track auto two feet from my window.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Wow, and looked at me like you're next.
Speaker 5 (04:28):
And I had the gun in my hands and I
told the guy driving, I said, if you don't leave,
I'm going to shoot someone right now.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Wow. He took off man.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
What a cowboy, this guy that's me just starting to
stay alive. That's right, all right. They the local politicians
are panicking. You can hear it in their voice. They
are panicking. They went out, they went they went to
Joe Biden and Kamala Harrison said, look, we're getting roasted
by the citizens in southern California probably a poor term.
(04:58):
We're getting beat up by the citizens in southern California.
You've got to help us out. And FEMA said, can do,
can do? And they're paying for one hundred percent of
the cleanup, one hundred percent of the fire fighting, one
hundred percent of everything for one hundred and eighty days.
What is this today? Is this January ninth? Are we
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in the ninth to eight?
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Okay? So January, February, March, April.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
You have till April ninth to get going and rebuilding again.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
And this is going to happen quickly.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
And you got to call one eight hundred sixty to
one FEMA. One eight hundred sixty to one FEMA. I'm
gonna mention that number about a thousand times between now
and and April. So you've got you know, February March April.
You got until April ninth, April ninth to get going.
(05:53):
Don't wait. Get some of that money now. One hundred
percent reimbursement, one hundred percent. Senator Adam Schiff said, that's unusual.
You usually have to beg to get seventy five percent.
We're getting one hundred percent.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
So evacuations, this is the sticky part. Evacuations. They're probably
going to have a curfew in the mandatory evacuation areas.
And again, you know what, we we just went over it.
There's always people that stay behind, and there's always people
that save homes.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
And now, what are you going to do?
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Arrest them if they're in the evacuation zone, the mandatory
evacuation zone. A guy's holding a garden hose trying to
save his home, that's an arrestable offence under this curfew.
What are you going to do arrest that guy? I
don't think so. This is a very sad number. What
I'm about to tell you. In the in Pacific Palis sades,
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the number of structures that have been destroyed, the number
of structures houses, businesses, shopping centers, offices. The amount of
structures destroyed five thousand three hundred and sixteen, five thousand,
(07:14):
three hundred and sixteen just in Pacific Palisades, the Eton Fire,
five thousand structures burned to the ground, five thousand. We're
already at ten thousand, three hundred and sixteen just with
those two fires, without Silmar, without the Sunset Fire, which
(07:34):
I don't think destroyed anything, without the Studio City fire
last night, and without this new Kenneth fire in the
West Valley that the Eaton fire is at thirteen thousand,
six hundred and nine acres, the Eton Fire, that's the
Altadena fire thirteen thousand, six hundred and nine acres, one thousand,
(07:54):
five hundred and twenty seven firefighters on that battle on thousand,
five hundred and twenty seven firefires. But the most of
the real stats that people can't wrap their minds around.
Five thousand structures burned to the ground in the Altadena fire,
the Eating Fire, three hundred and sixteen in the Palisades fire.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
I don't know how we rebuild all of these homes.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
The Sunset Fire is, while it's not a complete knockdown yet,
there's still ground crews out there. All the evacuations are
lifted in the Sunset Fire, But here's another I know
I keep talking about these evacuations. Where are you going
to go? If you're evacuated, where are you going? There
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are no hotels available. If you don't have family or friends,
where are you going? Are you leaving the state, are
you leaving the county? There are no hotel rooms to
go to, There are no airbnbs to go to. Zero,
(09:07):
So I don't understand where you're going to go. They
want you to leave, but they don't tell you where
you can go. I guess you can go to, you know,
the convention center, one of these release centers. But a
lot of people are adverse to that, especially with the
flu going around or COVID going around. They don't want
to be around a thousand people and sleeping on a cot.
(09:29):
But I guess it might have to. You might have to,
and you know, a lot of tough decisions and these
tough times. All right, No, we got to take a break.
But I will say this number one thousand times FEMA.
Start with FEMA. We're going to get a lot of
this stuff paid for, one hundred percent reimbursed for all
of our problems here. When it comes to the fire,
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phone them up, get in line, there's gonna be tens
of thousands or hundreds of thousands of people call. There's
gonna be a lot of people trying to take advantage
of that as well. Unfortunately, that's just what happens in
the United States. Eight hundred six to one, FEMA, eight
hundred six to one FEMA. Phone them up and get
this process started.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
We'll come back. We'll talk about curfew, the air quality.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
Also, the RAMS game has been moved, the La Rams
game has been moved to Arizona.
Speaker 5 (10:22):
So we've got lots to cover. Something huge too coming up.
You cannot go anywhere.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
What is that? It's called the tease? Okay, yes, lot,
it is absolutely huge. Okay, a lot of huge stuff
coming up.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
This is unbelievable the amount of information we have to
get out between now and seven o'clock. Moe comes in
until midnight, and then we're also checking with the Dean Sharp.
Perfect time to check him with Deep Sharp, because he
knows what we should do, not only to keep our
home safe, but the rebuilding process. This man is going
to give us some great information. We're live on KFI
(10:54):
AM six forty lots to get to keep it here.
Speaker 7 (10:57):
You're listening to Tim conwaytun your May from KFI Am sixty.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
Florian's Conway Joe. Let's get right to Deborahmark with breaking
news here. Debormark, who is the anchor for Gary and
Shannon and also the John Colveld Show. Deborah, what do
you know? This is a huge news story potentially.
Speaker 6 (11:17):
So a neighbor texted me a couple of photos and
said that police arrested a guy who was seen in
our neighborhood. So we're up in the hills in Woodland
Hills with a torch trying to light brush around people's houses.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
Oh my gosh, yeah, I.
Speaker 6 (11:36):
Mean, can you believe this? I mean, it's if that
guy was successful, this would be another.
Speaker 7 (11:43):
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (11:46):
I was going to say that. But so when police
questioned the guy, he ran up the hill and was
cornered in a front yard and he was very argumentative
and allegedly high as a kite.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
Okay, So this is without giving away your address, because
I know you've got a lot on your plate to
begin with, and and and no worry is something that
you deal with a lot. Is this south of Ventura Boulevard?
Speaker 6 (12:17):
Yes, this is south of Ventura Boulevard, And It is
up in the hills, very hilly area, a lot of
brush and it.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
And a lot of thin streets where it's hard for
firefighters to get up there.
Speaker 6 (12:32):
Exactly there are Yeah, it would have been a catastrophe.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
It would have been horrible.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
That fire could have burned all the way to Malibu exactly.
Speaker 6 (12:43):
It's just it's so crazy. If you look at this picture.
I don't know if if Sharon showed you the picture yet,
I know you guys are going to post.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
We're posting, you'll give a picture.
Speaker 6 (12:51):
The guy had a horse. It's on top of the
cop car. Now again, this is all I mean. I'm
not speculating if this has anything to do with any
of the fires. But my suspicion is that these fires
are arson.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Now that's right.
Speaker 6 (13:09):
May not be this alleged, you know, suspected arsonists, But
isn't it crazy that all these fires are breaking out
around the same time? And then here you got a
guy who was caught by neighbors holding a torch, a
lift torch, trying to light fires.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
And how close was this to your home? Was it
up the block? Was it a couple of houses away?
Speaker 8 (13:32):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (13:33):
Down the street?
Speaker 2 (13:33):
Oh my god? And you know it.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
And Deborah, you, of all people work in radio, especially
the station, are the wrong person to do that too,
because you're on edge anyway.
Speaker 6 (13:47):
You know, Tim, I think I take an earthquake, although
I heard you when I was driving home, when you
were saying that that was on a lot of people's minds,
that what's next, the big one, which of course was
on my mind. But I'll tell you, I think I'm
more fearful of these wildfires.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
I think you're right. I think you're absolutely right, Deborah.
We really appreciate you coming on, great breaking news. We're
gonna send that picture out on social media and uh
and and I'm glad LAPD got up there with enough
guys and gals to get that guy into a prison
cell where he can't do any more damage.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
I really appreciate you coming on.
Speaker 6 (14:22):
Absolutely you guys have a good night.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
All right, Thank you, Deborah.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
Mark up there in Woodland Hills south of the boulevard
potentially avoided a catastrophe if this guy had had burned
some of the shrubbery up there and the fire department
couldn't get up there. The fire department is stretched in anyway,
we could have been looking at a major, major disaster.
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Another fire that could have just roared through to Panga
Canyon up over the hill, Mulholland the Gelston's up there.
Louisville High School is up there as well. It could
have just moved all the way to towards the ocean
and we would have had at least, you know, another
hundreds and thousands of homes that could have been burned
(15:08):
to the ground. So thank you to Deborah Mark, who
is again the anchor for Gary and Shannon, the tail
end of the garyon Shannon Show and also the John
Colebelt Show.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
She was great, she called us, she got us the
you know, the pictures.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
We're gonna put her on social media and hopefully this
guy is off the streets and we don't have to
worry about least about this lad anymore. All right, when
we come back, we'll talk to Dean Sharp the first
steps on rebuilding. What do you do when you need
to rebuild? Dean Sharp will let us know what is
(15:44):
the first few steps you need to take. One of them,
I think is to call FEMA. You call FEMA immediately
and get that process started. Eight hundred six to one
FEMA eight hundred and six to one FEMA. They're going
to reimburse one hundred percent of our expenditures because of
these fires over the next one hundred and eighty days.
You have until April ninth to call that number and
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get involved and get some money back. One eight hundred
and six to one FEMA. They have a lot of money.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
You need to.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
Grab some though before it does disappear. It may disappear.
They're looking at potentially sixty billion dollars for the cost
of these fires, and so they may run out of money.
Get started. Eight hundred six to one FEMA. It's Conway Show.
Dean Sharp will come back and tell us the very
first steps you need to take.
Speaker 7 (16:33):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
It's Conway Show. Can't stress this enough. Got to call FEMA.
They're paying for one hundred percent of our cleanup and
our expenditures because of these fires for the next one
hundred and eighty days. If you live in La County,
you can. You're eligible if you've had expenditures when it
comes to these fires and the and this wind. You
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live in the FEMA zone. You're in the FEMA zone.
So phone them up eight hundred and six ' to
one FEMA fe M A Federal Emergency Management Association eight
hundred and six y to one FEMA. We have one
hundred and eighty days until April ninth. All right, nobody
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really knows what to do. We've never had this many
homes burn in southern California. And when your house burns,
you don't even think about rebuilding yet You're still dealing
with the loss, the memories, the emotion, the hugging of relatives,
the trying to figure out where to sleep that night,
and rebuilding your home is down the line. Dean Sharp
(17:48):
is with us, and Dean, I'd love to ask you,
what how do people start to rebuild?
Speaker 8 (17:57):
That is the million dollars question right now, especially when
entire neighborhoods are missing that we're there just a couple
of days ago. Okay, So here's the thing. There's no
easy answer to this, but I'm going to be pure.
You're just brutally honest with everybody so that you understand,
you know, kind of where things go now. It has
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nothing to do with planning out or designing the new house.
Just just that's not even anywhere on the horizon at
the moment, here is where you're at. Number One, of course,
as you've been saying, you need to call FEMA, make
sure that you're in their system with everything that's going on.
Number two, you need to contact your insurance company and
(18:40):
file a claim. Okay, before any of that happens, you
got to make sure that you're settled. You got to
find a place because you're not going to be back
there any time soon, all right, So you file the
claim that nothing else has to happen right now. You're
in the system, right you get in FEMA system, nothing
else has to happen right now, and then you focus
(19:02):
on staying safe, getting everybody healthy, getting everybody settled, and reorienting,
finding a place to hunker down. Now, filing the claim
with the insurance company usually with most people who is
gonna help that because there may be relocation benefits and
all of that kind of stuff while things are happening
with the house. So you get yourself settled and you
(19:27):
take a breath, You take a breath, and you let things,
you know, kind of relax a little bit after this terrible,
terrible disaster. You know, then okay, go ahead, if you're
still if you're still listening and you're still hanging in
there with me. Then a couple of things. Number One,
before anything, any cleanup gets done on the property, do
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not rush to have any cleanup done on the property.
If anything and you're ready to do something, get out
there with cameras and video and do detailed folk too,
graphs and video of everything or anything that remains, everything
from corner to corner, edge to edge. You want to
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do your best to document everything that was lost. And
if that's everything, then that's literally everything. But you want
to document it fully because what lies ahead now is
unfortunately a situation where the insurance company, the insurance that
you hire to protect you in this situation, they are
now under the gun to minimize their spend on all
(20:34):
of these payouts.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
Right.
Speaker 8 (20:36):
And I'm not saying that insurance companies are crooks. I
am not saying that insurance adjusters are dishonest. I am
telling you honestly though, that the insurance company has a
one primary concern when it comes to payout, and that
is minimizing the amount of the claim.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
Is that sad.
Speaker 8 (20:56):
It is sad, and so what it does realistically is
it puts you in somewhat of a you know, adversarial
position with the company you hired to protect you in
a disaster, and I wish it wasn't the case, but
it is so a couple of things that I want
you to be aware of. You don't just say yes
and sign at the bottom line with claims. You may
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want to consider hiring an advocate for yourself. And an
advocate means one of two things. A public insurance adjuster,
which is an insurance adjuster who works specifically for you
and negotiates with the insurance company. Or you could call
up a damage law firm, a damaged specialist law firm.
(21:41):
There's one here in the LA area damage law dot Com.
Go to their website and check them out. These guys
are awesome. I'm actually going to be having them on
the show in early February. Damage law dot Com. The
one advantage that a set of attorneys who specialize in
damage law have over an insurance adjuster, a public insurance adjuster.
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The public insurance adjuster will go to bed and fight
with the insurance company, but they can't sue them actually,
and so a damage attorney can take it all the way.
The whole point is this I'm not saying that you're
gonna have a nightmare, but you do need to be
wise and recognize that on some polite, friendly level, you
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are now in an adversarial relationship with your insurance company
in terms of the payout, especially if the house was
completely completely leveled by the fire, Because now you've got
a question of are you moving back into the same neighborhood,
are you rebuilding the same house?
Speaker 2 (22:43):
What is the payout?
Speaker 8 (22:44):
Is it going to be one in which is going
to be minimized somewhat because you choose not to move back.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
Is it a story?
Speaker 6 (22:53):
You know?
Speaker 8 (22:53):
Are you getting a fair settlement? That is what lies ahead.
It has nothing to do with rebuilding. It has nothing
to do with does this is the reality? It is
getting yourself settled and safe and then turning your mind
toward all right, we have to deal with the insurance
company because we've suffered you know, we've suffered an incalculable
(23:13):
loss of our home and our memories, but we've suffered
a financial loss and the replacement value needs to be there.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
I can guarantee this without even asking you. Your show
on Saturday and Sunday is going to be all about this.
Speaker 8 (23:28):
Yeah, we're going to be we're going to be talking
as in depth as I can about just guiding everybody
through that process.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
But I really appreciate coming on and we'll listen to
you on Saturday and Sunday morning.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
Thanks but thank you, sir.
Speaker 3 (23:40):
All Right, Dean Sharp Saturday morning six to eight am,
any questions about rebuilding your house or Sunday nine am
to noon. He knows what he's talking about. Great ideas,
videotape everything. Start with your insurance company and call FEMA.
Call FEMA eight hundred and six to one, FEMA, eight
hundred six to one, FEMA, call them immediately. We have
(24:01):
a window of one hundred and eighty days to get this,
to get this started and get reimbursed for your expenses.
What a week here in southern California. We will continue.
MO takes over at seven o'clock. Then the overnight hours,
Neil Savedra is coming in and we're going to cover
this as long as it takes.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
We will be here.
Speaker 7 (24:24):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
AM six forty It's Conway Show.
Speaker 3 (24:35):
Lots and lots to get to Mo Kelly takes over
at seven o'clock. In about ten minutes, Deborah Mark called
us up from Woodland Hills south of the boulevard and
said LAPD apprehended somebody who may have been starting fires
on purpose with a torch, and so that's big news.
Sweet thank you, thanks Deborah Mark for calling us up
(24:58):
and informing us about that that could have They saved
a potential radical disaster because these winds are going to
start to pick up future gusts all the way to
Saturday at four pm, on and off till Saturday at
four pm, and then next week Monday, possibly Tuesday, forty
mile an hour, thirty on nine mile an hour, windows
(25:21):
winds up in Malibu, Camerio, Santa Clarita, Fraser Park, Oxnard, Lancaster, Tohunga, Pasadeno,
the whole run. We can't stop with these winds. These
are not stopping. LAUSD is closed tomorrow. They have thirty
YMCAs if you need some place to park your kid.
(25:41):
They also have feeding centers for breakfast, lunch, or dinner
whatever meals are supplied for your kids.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
The one on one is open.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
We reported earlier they were toying with the idea of
closing and HP was going to close it from Tapanga
to Canaan Dune.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
Thank god they didn't.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
A lot of people would had to go around to
the one eighteen to the twenty three, added another hour
and a half to their commute because the traffic that
that would have created. Adam Shift tells everybody, get the
hell out. Get the hell out. If you're in a
mandatory evacuation center or area, I should say you. He said,
(26:18):
if you stay, you're going to die. If you stay,
you're going to die. That may be true in some cases,
but we always hear about people staying behind and saving homes.
We hear it with every fire. The National Guard is
here helping with traffic.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
Right now.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
We'll see what other help or assistance they can be
to us. But the National Guard is here. There is
mutual aid from Arizona, from New Mexico, Nevada, Oregon, and
Washington and Utah here to help us with these fires.
So hats off to them. An ad a boy or
(26:57):
not a girl to them for coming to help us
out the Palisades fire. There's some bad news and bad
numbers with the Palisades fire. There's also bad news with
the Eaton fire as well. Five thousand, three hundred and
sixteen structures destroyed in the Palisades five thousand, three hundred
(27:19):
and sixteen structures. With the Eaton fire out in Altadena
Arcadia area, five thousand structures destroyed. The fire is three
thirteen thousand, six hundred nine acres. There are over fifteen
hundred firefighters on that fire. The Rams game has been
moved to Arizona. The Los Angeles Rams will play the
(27:42):
Minnesota Vikings on Monday. I think the start time is
five PM, might be six. I think it's five and
that will be an Arizona. So if you have tickets
to the game at SOFI Stadium, time to get in
the car or call Southwest Airlines. You got to go
to Phoenix to watch that game. The local politicians are panicking.
They know that they have a lot of angry people
(28:05):
who live in southern California and they are panicking. The
Sunset Fire. They've lifted all the evacuations there. That's the
Hollywood Fire. It's not a complete knockdown yet. It's not
one hundred percent contained by all the evacuation orders have
been lifted for the Sunset Fire.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
That's good news.
Speaker 3 (28:22):
Call FEMA, you have three months, one hundred and eighty
days starting from right now, to get all your receipts
and to get reimbursed for any expenses you might have
when it comes to these winds or these or these fires.
One eight hundred sixty one FEMA one eight hundred sixty
to one FEMA. We had talked to Dean Sharp all
(28:46):
weekend long. He's going to tell you how to rebuild
and what that's going to look like. We've got a
lot ahead of us, a long, long process ahead of us,
a lot. The rest of the country is going to
be stuck with the bill of fifty billion dollars to
help us out here. This is going to cost about
(29:08):
fifty billion dollars. Unfortunately, the rest of the country is
going to pick that up. It's going to be FEMA.
Federal money is coming back here in southern California to
help us out. So that's going to be a horrible
for the rest of the country, but it's going to
help us out wildly here in southern California. Also, we
(29:30):
went through that already. Early next week, we're expecting more
win early next week, more win. The Kenneth fire in
the West Valley now over eight hundred acres over eight
hundred acres. The quality of the air in the San
Fernando Valley and surrounding areas of southern California is beyond horrible.
(29:52):
If you have asthma or lung problems, or your kids
are tiny with those tiny lungs, please keep them inside
and don't let them breathe the ash and the dust
and the debris that's in the air, the chemicals, the smoke.
It's not good for them. Curfew, all right, let's talk curfew.
It's not county wide. But if you're in a mandatory
(30:13):
evacuation area and you're in past I think it's ten
to I think it's ten o'clock PM to six am,
you could potentially be arrested, even if you're there trying
to save your home. I can't imagine that's going to happen,
but you do qualify to be arrested if you're in
(30:35):
a mandatory evacuation zone and they have a curfew. We're
talking about Palisades, Malibu, Altadena, Arcadia, Pasadena, parts of Santa
Monica as well.
Speaker 2 (30:46):
I believe.
Speaker 3 (30:47):
So the National Guard, as we said, is here, they're
going to start to remove the red tape. So you
can start rebuilding immediately. I don't know what that looks like.
I don't know where we're going to get enough workers
to build ten thousand homes or ten thousand structures. I
don't know where we're going to get these supplies. I imagine
(31:08):
home depot will be filled. Every single home depot in
Southern California, every single lows, every single hardware store is
going to be filled to the brim with people trying
to get in there, trying to get the material to
replace a structure, to replace a patio, a porch, or
in worst case scenario, an entire house, an entire home.
(31:30):
All right, let's real quickly see if we can start
this at least, then we'll we got to cut it off.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
But power outages, lots of power outages.
Speaker 4 (31:39):
Going up, like behind me, it's not working. And that
was the case here in Monrovia along Foothill Boulevard. As
we drove down, there's a shopping center to my left.
Most of those businesses are closed because the.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
Power is out.
Speaker 4 (31:51):
There's a gym to my right, and they're keeping their
doors open and their lights on with a generator. Southern California.
Edison says, hundreds of thousands of customers are with that power,
and in about half of those cases it's because of
power outages from things like wind damage or trees falling
on the power lines. And right now no estimate on
when power we'll be back.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
Southern California.
Speaker 4 (32:13):
Edison says more than three hundred thousand people across at
Service territory are without power.
Speaker 8 (32:19):
Some of those are from public safety power shutoffs where
we have had to proactively and in advance turn off
the power to reduce the possibility of a hazard.
Speaker 2 (32:30):
And that happens a lot. That's going to happen and continue.
Speaker 3 (32:32):
It happened over the next couple days, perhaps the next
couple of weeks, because we're getting wind again.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
It's gonna be through Saturday.
Speaker 3 (32:38):
We're gonna break on Saturday and Sunday, maybe Monday, and
then late Monday early Tuesday, we're back with the wind.
We are going to be with you here as long
as this thing takes keep it on KFI. Moe Kelly
comes up next. He's going to be our midnight that overnight.
Neil Savadra is coming in as well. Then we get
back to Wake Up Call, Bill Handle, Garyan Shannon, and
(32:59):
John Colebell I'll be back tomorrow right at four pm.
Live right here, Mooe Kelly Naxt on KFI AM six forty.
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