January 14, 2025 • 35 mins
@ConwayShow Hour 3
Guest: Bruno Serato -· Anaheim White House / Caterina’s Club Pastathon Offering Free 100 free dinners to Firefighters & First Responders with ID / Badge/ Cost of rebuilding skyrockets to more than $250 billion.
Guest: Dean Sharp Joins Tim Conway as he will be appearing with Marla Tellez on FOX 11 news with Fire News Coverage.
Guest: Patrice Mock, from E.A.R.S. Emergency Animal Rescue Services to discuss resources given to pets in need from the Wildfires in Southern California.
Guest: Bruno Serato -· Anaheim White House / Caterina’s Club Pastathon Offering Free 100 free dinners to Firefighters & First Responders with ID / Badge/ Cost of rebuilding skyrockets to more than $250 billion.
Guest: Dean Sharp Joins Tim Conway as he will be appearing with Marla Tellez on FOX 11 news with Fire News Coverage.
Guest: Patrice Mock, from E.A.R.S. Emergency Animal Rescue Services to discuss resources given to pets in need from the Wildfires in Southern California.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's k IF.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
I am six forty and you're listening to the Conway
Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. I just downloaded
the app for my phone and now I am an
official member of Watch Duty.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
It was very easy to download. I know we all.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
You know when somebody says to you, hey, we got
a great I got a great app. The first thing
you think is, oh, no, another app. I'll download it.
I'll never use it. I'll pay nine dollars a month.
I do know how to cancel it. F it I'm
not getting it. Well, that's not the case here. It
was free to download. I didn't have to pay anything,
(00:40):
and it could save my life. So Watch Duty it's cool.
It took it took me literally like literally a minute
to download it. That was a music I was playing.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
I was downloading.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
I like to play music while I download apps, and
and uh and Watch Duty. You can see all the
fire is going on. They even have the handsome damn
fire on there, and so it's it could be a
very valuable tool for you. There's notifications as well. If
there's a fire in your neighborhood, it will warn you
could save your life. Watch Duty w A T h
(01:14):
d U T Y Watch Duty two million downloads in
the last couple of weeks. They're onto something, all right.
Bruno Serrano, what an amazing man, one of the most
giving people in the world. We see him every year
at Katerina's Club for the pastathon in Anaheim at the
White House, and he's offering free dinners to firefighters and
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first responders with an ID and their badge, and he's
with us.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Bruno, how are you, sir?
Speaker 4 (01:42):
I damn that he occasion, but we need to be
there doing the good time, the bedtime.
Speaker 5 (01:50):
Now.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
I remember you had a horrible fire that burned your
restaurant down. You restored the entire place. But I heard recently,
in the last couple of weeks you had another fire
in the kit Is that true?
Speaker 4 (02:02):
Well, let's say this was a more false alarm. It
was not big deal. That was thank god, last thing
I needed to hear, you know. But yeah, I mean
invited the fireman because obviously a few already came because
they were the other day off after one week, and
it was unbelievable to hear their own store it. One
(02:24):
was there Sunday night. He told me the front poach
of the house fell on him. He got hurt, but
not as bad it could not band, I mean, that's
probably it was off. And he brings his wife for dinner.
And like I said, I said, bring your wife because
the wife was waiting for the husband or the boyfriend
or anybody out there, and discussed they're anxiety because they're
(02:48):
uneasy to talk to them. Sure, and she was explained
to me how bad it was. I mean, I said, what,
let me invite those people there on the count line
to come enjoy a nice dinner on the White House.
And that is one of the things we do very nice.
Speaker 5 (03:05):
Let me let me ask you something.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Let me ask you something, Bruno.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
I imagine the typical firefighter isn't depleting you and then
running on the s cargo.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
I bet they don't need a lot of s cargo.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
Uh No, they're not. The last few days.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Guys, meat and potato. Okay, yeah, right, but that is great.
And you're offering anybody with an I D and their
badge one hundred three dinners to firefighters right now.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
The yeah, and they need we contact at the Boys
Girls Club because as you know, that area was tough
two for the fire I mean I tried to deliver
in pasta from Katerina's Club, the Boys Girls Club. But
we went online for the number and they say they're
still closed. I hope they opened a few days. I
(03:58):
hope it's that am not on fire, right because with
what satura is more children food anyway, Katerina's Club, that's
what we do, feeding kids, and we do also take
in collection at the Caterina's Club office at the White
House Restaurant. Im then people need it like so sandware, battery,
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gift card, hygiene stuff. I mean, we decided to do
collection for one full week Katerina's Club office at the
White House Restaurant to be able to give away to
the people you needed.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Buddy, you are a very giving man. We will keep
promoting it.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Appreciate you coming on with us and and well we'll
see you in November for another Katerina's Club.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
But before we go, can you guess.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Give the audience, you know, one final tally of how
much food and how much money was raised last November.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
Yeah, it was a one point two million altogether and
we had a if I don't tell any five thousand
pounds of patact foot there and uh, I mean that's
the is I want to do at Dinner Boys Girls
Club because the community came surrounding us to help with
the kids. And on this moment, I said, well, let's
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go to another club. It's far away every team, but
we have a drive. I'll go to a monte and
I say, well, you know form a month is not
a half hour. Let's go there to delivery in the
path to the kids over there.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
I'll just open it up, you know, Bruno, the offer
is always open for you and I to take the
one point two million dollars to Vegas and double it.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
I'll show you how to do that.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
But we did last year. You lost every tea.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Bruno, please please, it was an off night, off night,
off night.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
But I appreciate coming on. Thank you, sir, and we'll
keep promoting it.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
And everybody that can fire my friend, Thank you sir.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
All Right, there he goes Bruno Serrano with that cat
Aina's club. I didn't know he's gonna bring that up
on the air that we we tried to double that money.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
And I didn't quite get there.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
All right, we are going to have a guest come
on at six point thirty to talk about these dogies
lots of pets out there, lots of animals, dogs, cats,
I don't know, chickens, whatever. You got the buzzing out there,
and people need to know that there's folks out there
worrying about their pets. And so we'll come back later
(06:20):
in the hour and we'll talk to patrese Mock and
she has the EARS Emergency Animal Rescue Service. So if
you have a dog or a cat, you've been looking
for that dog or cat, maybe she can help you out.
Emergency Animal Rescue Services ea RS. The cost of rebuilding
has skyrocketed. Remember we all heard that that number initially
(06:44):
at fifty billion dollars fifty with a B fifty billion dollars,
and Krozier and I agreed that that number is low
and it's going to go much higher. Well now the
latest number, it's not fifty billion, it's not one hundred
or one hundred and fifty billion, but ACU weather reports
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at the cost of rebuilding is expected to reach possibly
as high as two hundred and seventy five billion dollars.
Two hundred and seventy five billion dollars. That is, I
don't know where that money comes from.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
I don't know how we get that money.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
I don't know if we can claw that back from
you know, other programs that were going on. Maybe money
we've sent overseas to other countries. We can you know,
cancel as checks before they cash them and get the money.
But California needs cash. Fortunately we are we have two
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very strong senators because of how big the state of
California is, and we're going to get a lot of
money coming in. I know the President elect, Donald Trump
is coming out here, at least I think he was
going to try to make it before the inauguration, but
definitely after the inauguration if he can't make it before Monday.
But starting Monday, there's a new sheriff in town. There's
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new president in the United States, and they they're coming
out to examine what's going on. And Donald Trump has
a dog in the fight. He has property out here
as well, and he wants to keep that going. He
wants to make sure that the economy out here is
really rolling. And so we're going to get a lot
of money coming into California, a lot of it, and
(08:34):
maybe this is the start of something new. I was
listening to Elon Musk and he talked about how regulations
increase every single year. You'll have twenty five hundred regulations
one year, then you'll have another fifty added to it,
another one hundred added another year, and all of a sudden,
you're up to three thousand regulations. What you can build,
(08:55):
where you can rebuild, what color you can paint it,
what you can do for landscape, lots of regulations. And
he said, the only thing that knocks down regulations, the
only thing that sets them back is war. War sets
them back. World War one, world War two, you could
build almost anything. After World War Two, all the regulations
(09:16):
went in the toilet.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
You could do whatever you want.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
This is our war, this is California's war, and you're
going to see regulations vanish. You're going to see people
rebuilding homes really quickly, and a lot of regulations are
going to go in the toilet. They're going to reduce
the red tape, they say, by seventy percent.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
And here's a great question.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
I think a lot of people have been asking, who
listen to KFI, Well, if you can reduce it overnight
by seventy percent, why haven't you reduced it before? Why
have we been burdened with all these regulations before? If
you can reduce them instantly, and I think people have
had it. I think people are going to see a
new way of doing business in California where you quickly
(09:57):
get a permit to rebuild. They'll be inspectors out there
in the field. They'll stop by the same day or
next day, and you're gonna see. You're gonna see rebuilding
in California like you've never seen it before. It's gonna beautiful,
it's gonna be spectacular. I think Pacific Palisades, the Alta
Dina area where the eating fire is, I think those areas. Look,
(10:19):
there's a lot of anguish out there's a lot of
sadness out there. I understand that. But I think Alta
Dina and the Palisades are gonna be even more beautiful
than they were before. I truly believe that, and I'm
not really that you know, some crazy, you know, blind optimists.
I think there's gonna be a lot of money coming
into town. I think the streets are gonna look beautiful,
the homes are gonna look beautiful. I think, well, we've
(10:41):
got to get through this initial initial stage of depression,
of anger, of being scared about the next fire. I
think we should be optimistic as well, that this Southern
California area is going to come back better than it
was before. I believe that, and again I'm not optimistic
about anything. I truly believe we are going to be
(11:01):
a better community after. It might be a year, it
might be two years, it might be five years. But
in five to ten years, you go back to Pacific
Palisades and you're like, Wow, this is pristine. This looks
like Disneyland. This is a great place to live. The
kids are playing again, you know, riding the bikes around again.
You know, people are going to the stores again. People
are shopping, people are getting food. People are having parties.
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They're having New Year's parties, Christmas parties, Hanica parties, quans
and parties. People are enjoying themselves again. There's a new
high school, you know, there's a new shopping mall downtown.
I think we are going to look in five to
ten years, you know, granted that we all make it.
I think we are going to be an unbelievable city
and an unbelievable county and an unbelievable area of California.
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Southern California is going to look great. We just need
to be patient.
Speaker 6 (11:48):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
Our own Dean Sharp is going to be on Fox
seleven News at seven. I believe tonight somewhere between seven
and seven and fifteen, and he's with us.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
Dean Sharp. How you Bob, I'm good, I'm good. How
are you, buddy?
Speaker 2 (12:08):
I got a huge compliment from a retired fire captain
with La County Fire Department saying the shows that you
did last weekend on how to protect your homes.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
He said he was glued to the radio, couldn't pull away. No,
you're kidding. That's great. It's great to hear. It's great
right here.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Hey, I know you know everything about construction rebuilding homes.
When you come across a home that has been completely destroyed,
decimated by fire, what is the first step in rebuilding
that home? Is it removing the debris or is there
a step before that?
Speaker 7 (12:44):
Well, okay, in terms of what the homeowner needs to
be doing, yes, there is a step before that. The
first step because of the insurance claims, because of all
the work that's going to be done negotiating with the
insurance company. Your first step if your home has burnt
to the ground or suffered a severe natural disaster, is
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to treat it like a crime scene. And I say
that in all seriousness. In other words, I don't want
you going in there just grabbing a bunch of stuff,
shoving a bunch of stuff, moving a bunch of stuff around.
I want you go in there with cameras and video
and just videotape everything, find anything and everything you can
throughout the property. Just get it all recorded, because assessing
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the loss not just of the structure, that's a little
bit shockingly easy to assess, the loss of the structure itself,
but the loss of content, the loss of anything that
shows any remnants due that's what we're after before we
get the okay to actually clean it up. And the
other thing too, is this is different when an entire
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neighborhood disappears. It is a different story than when a
single house burns down because of a house fire. When
a single house burns down, all of the infrastructure of
that street, of the city, of the municipality, it's all
still there. Okay, we're just talking about the house. But
in this situation the Palisades and up in Altadena, we're
talking about streets that are going to have to be
(14:15):
rebuilt by the city. We're talking about sewer lines, water lines,
gas mains that are going to have to be redone.
People are not going to have the freedom to just
go in and start scraping away. Plus, there is an
entire zone of very very toxic debris and ash there
and so don't need to be rushing to clear that
(14:35):
property until the city says, okay, here's our plan.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
You know, as a guy who has been building homes
for many, many years, I know you've run into your
share of red tape and regulations and you probably have
spent you know, nights at the dinner table with Tina
just pulling your hair out over over minutia. If they
say they're going to reduce the regulations by seventy percent
(15:00):
and resume and reduce the red tape, then why haven't
they done that all along? It's a really good questions
crazy here's the reality. The reality is they're not okay.
Speaker 7 (15:13):
And I'm not saying that they're they're lying and that
they don't have a good intentions, but there's a lot
of red tape and minutia stuff that is the process
around your plan. Check But if you think, if you
think that you're going to put together a plan for
your new home and it's just going to fire its
way through Building in Safety and planning approval, that is
where you've got another thought coming. There is no way
(15:36):
in the world that they are going to uh accelerate,
in other words, to spend less time checking through your plans.
Speaker 5 (15:45):
Than they normally do.
Speaker 7 (15:46):
Now, what they may do, and what I'm sure they're
going to do, is expedite fire damage plans above the
guy you know in Torrance who wants to remodel his garage.
You see what I'm saying, right, So they'll put I'm
sure they're going to put fire damage at the front
of the line. But they are certainly, certainly. I mean,
it would be idiotic for the Building and Safety Department
(16:07):
to actually just you know, hey, did your house burn down?
Just to hand us the plans. We're gonna glance over
them and say, yes, right, that's not gonna happen. That's
not gonna happen.
Speaker 5 (16:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
Well, you know, we added in our old house in Burbank,
you know, ten years ago, twelve years ago, we added
a small bedroom. I think it was three hundred square
feet and a small bathroom that was another you know,
fifty or sixty square feet, and the burbank. You know,
the inspectors were very thorough, and you know a lot
of them considered it to be you know, maybe overdoing
(16:37):
it whatever. But I like that because I knew that
when I slept in that room after they were done,
it wasn't going to fall down, it wasn't going to
burn down. I like when they're tough on builders. Yeah,
me too.
Speaker 7 (16:49):
I actually as a builder, I like when the when
the building inspectors are tough on builders and the reality is,
in this situation, what we're looking at is just a
slew of new construction. I'll tell you the thing that
really is difficult for the building department and for the
planning department and for inspectors is when you're mating a
new construction or remodel work up against old house construction.
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In these situations, most of what's happening these lots are
going to be scraped and it is brand new construction.
It's the easiest kind of instruction to inspect quickly and efficiently.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
You know, when you watch I don't know if you
watch Extreme Homemakeover, maybe watch it with Tina when you
get you know, you need a good laugh.
Speaker 7 (17:30):
But how the last thing in the world that I
do ever, how do they take a house down and
build a house in one week?
Speaker 3 (17:39):
They do not?
Speaker 7 (17:40):
Okay, it's just here's the fact.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
You do not.
Speaker 7 (17:45):
There is no legal requirement for television shows to tell
you the truth. Okay, So it doesn't happen, okay, period.
All right, I like to think it does. But are
you're gonna be on Fox tonight?
Speaker 1 (17:56):
What time?
Speaker 7 (17:58):
For about five minutes interview talking about fire hardening your
home sometime between seven and seven fifteen.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
Excellent, I'll be homeman watching. Appreciate you coming on and
we'll talk to you on Thursday.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
Thank you, bro.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
All right, Dean Sharp tonight, Fox eleven News between seven
and seven fifteen on how to harden your home when
it comes to fire.
Speaker 6 (18:21):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
If you're driving east on the two, ten, the ten,
the ninety one, whatever you're driving on east. Look at
that moon. What a beautiful moon. Maybe you saw it
come up. It came up at six oh three. If
you're living in the San Fernando Valley, so about thirty
three minutes ago. It's ninety nine point seven. The illumination
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is ninety nine point seven. Is one of the brightest
moons we've had in a long time, nearly one hundred percent,
ninety nine point seven. It's to what thirty eight thousand
and thirty two miles away, so a little further away
than most times.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
It varies.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
It was eight thousand miles closer on the seventh, but
it looks much brighter. Moon came up six oh three
and it's gonna set and seven fifty one am, which
I think is a wrong number, maybe it's right, who knows,
but checking out. There's something cool about a full moon.
(19:27):
And we've gone through a lot of hell this week
here in southern California, and it's nice to just look
up and see that beautiful moon. So check it out.
Ninety nine point seven percent elimination.
Speaker 5 (19:44):
That's bright.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
You're gonna see shadows tonight.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
If you live out where there's no light pollution from
the city, you can see your shadow in that moon tonight.
So little distracting, something little distracting for all the chaos
going out.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
Here, all right.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
Emergency Animal Rescue Services EARS EAR Patrice mock is with us.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
Patrice are you.
Speaker 8 (20:04):
I'm well? Tim? How are you?
Speaker 3 (20:06):
I'm doing great.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
I know that you guys do an unbelievable job with
rescuing animals and keeping animals through these very trying times.
I know that animals have a sixth sense. They know
that there's a lot going on here. They're scared, they
don't know something, you know where to go. They've lost
their homes, they've lost their neighborhoods. How are you helping out?
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And what can people do who are or are looking
for the animals. What is the best and the quickest
way to help these people with their unbelievable heart pain?
Speaker 8 (20:40):
It is, It is unbelievable. Thank you first of all
for having me on. Thanks for coming on recognizing Yeah,
thank you, thanks for recognizing our efforts. You caught the
attention when you talked about Casey and Oreo. We were
able to help him. Oh gosh, hold on, let me
get that off there. He came to our sense her
with his dog, and we got him veterinary care. We're
(21:03):
working with Palms and Paul's Veterinary Clinic in Santa Monica.
At ninth and Olympic we'll be there all week. We
have volunteers. If anybody displaced by any of these fires
needs anything related to their pets, we have it for
you for sure. And our team has the credentials and
is able to go into the fires and rescue animals
(21:26):
that have been left behind. So that's something that we've
been doing which has been incredible to witness. So Kathy
and Oreo came to our center. We got him some
much needed resources and a vet appointment. Oreo was fine,
Thank goodness. Yeah, if people want to help, we are
accepting donations, but we're doing pretty good in that department.
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But we want we want to get the word out
there that we are there for people that have been
displaced and especially for their animals. So we've seen, you know,
people come to us. And I talk to a woman
on Sunday, was just her and her dog on a leash,
and she said, this is it. This is what I
have me and the clothes I'm wearing and this dog,
and yeah, it's heart wrenching, and but we have victories too.
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We got our team went in and got two cats
out of a home. They'd been in there for five days,
no water, no food. Our vet took a look at
them doctor Kevin at the clinic, and they were dehydrated,
and you know, of course frightened, but they were fine.
And so seeing that reunion and that woman was certain
(22:32):
she'd never see her cats again.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
Tries tell us a little bit about it. Tell us
at about the organization. I know that you guys are
somewhat of at thirty thirty two, thirty three years old.
Speaker 3 (22:42):
How did it start?
Speaker 2 (22:43):
And is this a is this a organizations run by
the county, the city.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
Is it a private company.
Speaker 8 (22:52):
It's a private organization, And I'm wondering now if that
isn't being confused with another group. But we're called EARS,
and our our slogan is we're all Ears. I'm the
volunteer coordinator, so I'm the one, you know, dis coordinating
all our efforts and making sure everything's covered. And we're
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pretty new actually. But also yeah, also we are also
known as Animal Advocacy Network, and we had a visit
from the mayor of Santa Monica and she's fantastic, very helpful.
And we've got the animal shelter right across the street too.
So it's a whole little group, a whole little cluster
(23:32):
there on Ninth Street, where you can get everything you
need and even go rescue a dog across the street,
get them out of the shelter so that one of
these dogs that's been this placed has a new place
to go where they're safe for a while, you know.
But yeah, so Chris, how do.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
People get a hold of you if they have questions
or if they have an animal they're looking for and
they need your assistance, they could use your help.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
How do people get ahold of you?
Speaker 5 (23:55):
Guys?
Speaker 8 (23:57):
Instagram? It's Animal Advocacy net Work net, Animal Advocacy Network Net.
So that's a a n ears e a r S
is Emergency Animal Rescue Service. We're on Facebook, We're on Instagram.
We've just got a new eight hundred number. I don't
have it in front of me. I'm apologized, okay, but
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but yes we And then there at Pause and Palms
Veterinary Clinic every day ten to six pm. Our volunteers
are there. We have big trucks outside.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
Wait, wait, there's a lot of information here. Where are
the trucks.
Speaker 8 (24:34):
One, six, five, five, ninth and Olympic And that's in
Santa Monica And you can come see us. We've got
anything and everything that you need we've got it there
for you. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
And so ninth and Olympic in Santa Monica, Yes.
Speaker 8 (24:53):
And we'll be there. And this coming weekend we're going
to have a veterinary clinic. So if you have an
animal that you're even concerned about, you're out of your home. Finally,
everybody's doing okay, everyone's alive, but maybe your dog is
you know, a little scratchy or coughing, or your cat
is wheezing. You want to get them checked out, you know.
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And everybody's of course feeling so many emotions, and you
want to pay attention to the pets. And I appreciate
earlier Tim, you mentioned how the pets aren't getting a
whole lot of coverage, and it's so very important. Most
of us have pets at our home and there's so
much a part of our lives. And my heart just
breaks through those of those people that have lost their pets,
(25:34):
which there are countless, countless numbers, and we've seen a
lot of that heartbreak. It's worse front and personal. You know,
just tried to go get a cat and unfortunately they
didn't make it.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
Out, nor Patrisa. I appreciate coming on ninth and Olympic.
Thank you again, and hopefully we'll talk to you in
the next couple weeks and see how it's going. But
thank you for doing that work. All right, it's a
Conway show. We're live on KFI AM six forty. We're
going to come back and wrap up. Oh Kelly is
going on till midnight tonight. If you do need ears
Emergency Animal Rescue Service, you can find their trucks at
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ninth and Olympic in Santa Monica. Ninth and Olympic in
Santa Monica. Maybe you have a pet that has gone
through this this horrible fire, and you're worried about that pet.
You don't have the money to, you know, buzz into
the vet. Maybe your vet's not open, maybe you can't
get there, you don't have transportation. Buzz over to ninth
(26:30):
and Olympic and ask for the Emergency Animal Rescue Services
e A r S. That is great work, Patrise, We
appreciate it.
Speaker 6 (26:39):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
There's a an after we had talked about earlier that
my wife has.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
I just downloaded it. It's great.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
It's called Watch Duty Watch Duty tell us about where
the fires are and give you warnings as well. Private
company put together by ex firefighters and specialists. I think
it was free. I don't remember paying for anything, although
nowadays you never know. You know, you download somebody and
you get stung for it. You know not how to
(27:13):
cancel it. But my wife has it. My wife's pretty
skeptical of crap in life, so she wouldn't download it
unless she did a lot of research on it. Watch
Duty might save your life, might save your life. Good,
could possibly very well possibly. I'm seventeen, alright.
Speaker 3 (27:32):
Alright, I'm seventeen. What a brag, I'm seventeen. This guy,
all right, let's uh.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
There's a horrible story, horrible stories coming out of all
these fires, but this one is particularly tough to listen to.
Speaker 3 (27:46):
I know, look, we're all overwhelmed with these stories. I
get it.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
But this guy is a veteran, eighty six year old veteran,
and his home was destroyed, and he has quite the
story here.
Speaker 5 (27:57):
Just two years came to my eyes.
Speaker 9 (28:00):
I've been here for so long and have so much
wonderful thoughts about my wife.
Speaker 10 (28:05):
And I fighting the tears. Eighty six year old Roosevelt
Pullam recounts the last time he saw his Altadena home
standing the Army veteran now staying at the evacuation center
at the Pasadena Convention Center. His home on Highview Avenue
reduced to rubble, everything gone except for his nineteen sixty
three beetle. Pullem says the flames came up so fast
all he could do was grab his car keys and
(28:27):
flee with the clothes on his back.
Speaker 9 (28:29):
When I opened the door, I saw the fame in
her yard trailing towards me.
Speaker 5 (28:34):
That's when I closed the door.
Speaker 9 (28:37):
And then when I got in my car and I
started to drive out, I saw him in the back
of my house.
Speaker 10 (28:41):
About to celebrate his eighty seventh birthday next month, and
says he is too old to start over again.
Speaker 9 (28:47):
I've the experience of good and the bad and the ugly,
But in my lifetime the good have outweighed the ugly
way far than I would ever dream.
Speaker 3 (28:56):
How about that. Okay's eighty six years old.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
If that train, he lost everything he owns except his car,
and he still has a beautiful outlook on life. Listen
to his voice here at the end.
Speaker 5 (29:07):
I've the experience of good and the bad and the ugly.
Speaker 9 (29:10):
But in my lifetime the good have outweighed the ugly
way far than I would ever dream.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
That is sensational. That's great. I love that guy. Roosevelt
Pullman pulland is his name? All right?
Speaker 2 (29:26):
There's stimulus checks going out the IRS. Let's find out
if you are going to get one.
Speaker 11 (29:32):
If you never received your stimulus check in twenty twenty one,
you may still be able to get it. The IRS
is said to distribute recovery rebate credit payments to one
million people who missed out on their twenty twenty one
economic impact payments. Eligible taxpayers could receive up to fourteen
hundred dollars with the payments automatically sent by direct deposit
(29:53):
or paper check.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
Here we go, you can get fourteen hundred bucks. A
million of you are going to get fourteen hundred dollars.
I believe that's one point four billion dollars.
Speaker 11 (30:05):
Recipients don't need to do anything. You don't need to
take any action. The ILI says they will notify you
if you are eligible by mail.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
There you go, check your mail, check your mail. You
could get begetting a check for fourteen hundred dollars. Fourteen
hundred bucks huge. All right, before we get out of here,
the dust in La the vibe.
Speaker 5 (30:29):
Bye.
Speaker 2 (30:30):
Wait, let me do this story first. This is an
ABC reporter who recently purchased a home in Palisades and
she was out there reporting on the fire.
Speaker 3 (30:41):
Listen to this. This is an unbelievable story.
Speaker 12 (30:43):
Several of our colleagues were impacted by the fires.
Speaker 3 (30:46):
We're just like anybody else.
Speaker 12 (30:48):
Including ABC News correspondent Zerene Shaw, who lost her home
in the Palisades fire.
Speaker 10 (30:53):
She and her husband had just closed on their house
in Malibu on Christmas Eve.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
Oh my god, Christmas Eve. They got the keys Christmas
Eve and then less than two weeks later destroyed.
Speaker 13 (31:06):
This home was a dream. It was magical. And for me, Look,
we work really hard. I don't make a gazillion dollars.
I had saved for years and years and years as
a reporter. We go to a lot of fires. I
always wondered if this would happen to me. I've said
in a lot of charred land and talked about wildfires
(31:26):
a lot. But for RESHI he is devastated, I mean
he inconsolable. When we got to the bottom of that driveway,
I said, do you want to drive up and see it,
and he's just was just sopping. He said, no, take
a picture and let's go.
Speaker 12 (31:43):
Zorin says they spent six years house hunting, only spent
one night in their new home before it was turned
to rubble. And as you heard, her husband is having
a hard time dealing with it, but she's doing.
Speaker 3 (31:55):
Better with one night in the new home. One night.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
All r let's get it as much as this forecast
as we can before we got to turn over to
mo Kelly.
Speaker 14 (32:04):
What's going on with the weather and the wind. We're
seeing things kinda still kind of ramp it up a
little bit here. But here's the thing that's keep this
in mind. These winds, as we told you before, not
quite as strong as last week.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
So that's good. I mean, still the cameras are still shaking. Still.
Those red flag.
Speaker 14 (32:16):
Warnings are in effect in the areas in the red
until some areas until Thursday. The areas want to really
kind of focus in on, especially tomorrow, with these areas
here in that pink color that's your particularly dangerous situation areas,
those spots, all the factors of those fire concerns are
really kind of emphasized in these spots between three am
three pm tomorrow, So these spots especially, be very very
(32:38):
mindful of those fire conditions. Now the winds right now, yes,
they are on the stronger side in some spots, and
we're seeing again approaching that forty mile per hour range
around see me around thousand Oaks because more of an
eastern flow to this, not as much of a northerly flow,
so Pacific Palisades only about twelve miles apart.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
That's good news, of course.
Speaker 14 (32:53):
Now the other areas you're seen, we're still seeing again
those areas of concern of that purple red that's thirty
forty fifty mile per hour winds that are rolling through
those spots. So we still see many of those areas now,
still more to come as to move forward.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
Now some good news.
Speaker 14 (33:06):
The air quality surprisingly is in that good tomorrow range
all over, so call only a couple of pockets in
that moderate range, so that's certainly good news. And around
those fire zones that's some on the positive side good
air quality there. We're seeing ourselves start to change towards
the weekend. A low is gonna move in, give us
more of an on shore roll and that on short
flow always has a little more moisture to it, and
we certainly need that now as far as the wind's
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moving forward, Okay, again we're kind.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
Of ramping up right now into tomorrow, so we.
Speaker 14 (33:30):
Can see these winds by tonight, still kind of pockets
of stronger winds showing up some areas under all, but
those areas of the windy area, those are going to
really start to creep up here tonight Tomorrow Tomorrow afternoon
now we're kind of starting to peek, and then by
tomorrow night now we start getting back to the kind
of a normal condition over so cal So looking ahead
here we go back you whether seven and eighty forecast,
so fire danger is still there through the afternoon hours tomorrow,
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the temperatures on the warmer side, and then we start seeing.
Speaker 1 (33:55):
This cool down the onshorefold.
Speaker 14 (33:56):
Look at that some clouds coming in for Friday into
the weekend time just drop down from seventies to the fifties,
So a very cold weekend is coming our way.
Speaker 1 (34:05):
Still on the cool side, breezy.
Speaker 14 (34:06):
Windy conditions again in play Monday two. Are going to
kind of watch that development here, certainly for the valleys
the Empire, same idea of fire danger still there with
those wins, the dry conditions, all that I showed you.
Speaker 2 (34:15):
Okay, real quickly, here's what we got for the weekend.
The San Fernando Valley. Sixty six degrees today was the high.
Tomorrow sixty eight, then sixty six. Then Friday, the high
end the San Fernando Valley is fifty nine degrees going
down to the low forties, the high thirties in some areas.
Fifty nine degrees will be the low this Friday. So
it's gonna be cold. It's gonna be chilly for people
(34:37):
out there. It's gonna be a long weekend. It's gonna
be clear all weekend, but it's gonna be cold, so
please be aware of that. All right, mo Kelly is
going to stay on until midnight. After shortly after that,
Neil Savedra will be coming in. He'll have Petros Papadekas
at four a m. We'll be covering these fires and
this information as long as it's needed. We're live here
(34:58):
at the Conway Show on kfi AM six forty mo.
Next right here on KFIM six forty Conway Show on
demand on the iHeartRadio app. Now you can always hear
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Speaker 2 (00:00):
I am six forty and you're listening to the Conway
Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. I just downloaded
the app for my phone and now I am an
official member of Watch Duty.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
It was very easy to download. I know we all.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
You know when somebody says to you, hey, we got
a great I got a great app. The first thing
you think is, oh, no, another app. I'll download it.
I'll never use it. I'll pay nine dollars a month.
I do know how to cancel it. F it I'm
not getting it. Well, that's not the case here. It
was free to download. I didn't have to pay anything,
(00:40):
and it could save my life. So Watch Duty it's cool.
It took it took me literally like literally a minute
to download it. That was a music I was playing.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
I was downloading.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
I like to play music while I download apps, and
and uh and Watch Duty. You can see all the
fire is going on. They even have the handsome damn
fire on there, and so it's it could be a
very valuable tool for you. There's notifications as well. If
there's a fire in your neighborhood, it will warn you
could save your life. Watch Duty w A T h
(01:14):
d U T Y Watch Duty two million downloads in
the last couple of weeks. They're onto something, all right.
Bruno Serrano, what an amazing man, one of the most
giving people in the world. We see him every year
at Katerina's Club for the pastathon in Anaheim at the
White House, and he's offering free dinners to firefighters and
(01:36):
first responders with an ID and their badge, and he's
with us.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Bruno, how are you, sir?
Speaker 4 (01:42):
I damn that he occasion, but we need to be
there doing the good time, the bedtime.
Speaker 5 (01:50):
Now.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
I remember you had a horrible fire that burned your
restaurant down. You restored the entire place. But I heard recently,
in the last couple of weeks you had another fire
in the kit Is that true?
Speaker 4 (02:02):
Well, let's say this was a more false alarm. It
was not big deal. That was thank god, last thing
I needed to hear, you know. But yeah, I mean
invited the fireman because obviously a few already came because
they were the other day off after one week, and
it was unbelievable to hear their own store it. One
(02:24):
was there Sunday night. He told me the front poach
of the house fell on him. He got hurt, but
not as bad it could not band, I mean, that's
probably it was off. And he brings his wife for dinner.
And like I said, I said, bring your wife because
the wife was waiting for the husband or the boyfriend
or anybody out there, and discussed they're anxiety because they're
(02:48):
uneasy to talk to them. Sure, and she was explained
to me how bad it was. I mean, I said, what,
let me invite those people there on the count line
to come enjoy a nice dinner on the White House.
And that is one of the things we do very nice.
Speaker 5 (03:05):
Let me let me ask you something.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Let me ask you something, Bruno.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
I imagine the typical firefighter isn't depleting you and then
running on the s cargo.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
I bet they don't need a lot of s cargo.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
Uh No, they're not. The last few days.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Guys, meat and potato. Okay, yeah, right, but that is great.
And you're offering anybody with an I D and their
badge one hundred three dinners to firefighters right now.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
The yeah, and they need we contact at the Boys
Girls Club because as you know, that area was tough
two for the fire I mean I tried to deliver
in pasta from Katerina's Club, the Boys Girls Club. But
we went online for the number and they say they're
still closed. I hope they opened a few days. I
(03:58):
hope it's that am not on fire, right because with
what satura is more children food anyway, Katerina's Club, that's
what we do, feeding kids, and we do also take
in collection at the Caterina's Club office at the White
House Restaurant. Im then people need it like so sandware, battery,
(04:19):
gift card, hygiene stuff. I mean, we decided to do
collection for one full week Katerina's Club office at the
White House Restaurant to be able to give away to
the people you needed.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Buddy, you are a very giving man. We will keep
promoting it.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Appreciate you coming on with us and and well we'll
see you in November for another Katerina's Club.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
But before we go, can you guess.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Give the audience, you know, one final tally of how
much food and how much money was raised last November.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
Yeah, it was a one point two million altogether and
we had a if I don't tell any five thousand
pounds of patact foot there and uh, I mean that's
the is I want to do at Dinner Boys Girls
Club because the community came surrounding us to help with
the kids. And on this moment, I said, well, let's
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go to another club. It's far away every team, but
we have a drive. I'll go to a monte and
I say, well, you know form a month is not
a half hour. Let's go there to delivery in the
path to the kids over there.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
I'll just open it up, you know, Bruno, the offer
is always open for you and I to take the
one point two million dollars to Vegas and double it.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
I'll show you how to do that.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
But we did last year. You lost every tea.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Bruno, please please, it was an off night, off night,
off night.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
But I appreciate coming on. Thank you, sir, and we'll
keep promoting it.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
And everybody that can fire my friend, Thank you sir.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
All Right, there he goes Bruno Serrano with that cat
Aina's club. I didn't know he's gonna bring that up
on the air that we we tried to double that money.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
And I didn't quite get there.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
All right, we are going to have a guest come
on at six point thirty to talk about these dogies
lots of pets out there, lots of animals, dogs, cats,
I don't know, chickens, whatever. You got the buzzing out there,
and people need to know that there's folks out there
worrying about their pets. And so we'll come back later
(06:20):
in the hour and we'll talk to patrese Mock and
she has the EARS Emergency Animal Rescue Service. So if
you have a dog or a cat, you've been looking
for that dog or cat, maybe she can help you out.
Emergency Animal Rescue Services ea RS. The cost of rebuilding
has skyrocketed. Remember we all heard that that number initially
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at fifty billion dollars fifty with a B fifty billion dollars,
and Krozier and I agreed that that number is low
and it's going to go much higher. Well now the
latest number, it's not fifty billion, it's not one hundred
or one hundred and fifty billion, but ACU weather reports
(07:04):
at the cost of rebuilding is expected to reach possibly
as high as two hundred and seventy five billion dollars.
Two hundred and seventy five billion dollars. That is, I
don't know where that money comes from.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
I don't know how we get that money.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
I don't know if we can claw that back from
you know, other programs that were going on. Maybe money
we've sent overseas to other countries. We can you know,
cancel as checks before they cash them and get the money.
But California needs cash. Fortunately we are we have two
(07:48):
very strong senators because of how big the state of
California is, and we're going to get a lot of
money coming in. I know the President elect, Donald Trump
is coming out here, at least I think he was
going to try to make it before the inauguration, but
definitely after the inauguration if he can't make it before Monday.
But starting Monday, there's a new sheriff in town. There's
(08:11):
new president in the United States, and they they're coming
out to examine what's going on. And Donald Trump has
a dog in the fight. He has property out here
as well, and he wants to keep that going. He
wants to make sure that the economy out here is
really rolling. And so we're going to get a lot
of money coming into California, a lot of it, and
(08:34):
maybe this is the start of something new. I was
listening to Elon Musk and he talked about how regulations
increase every single year. You'll have twenty five hundred regulations
one year, then you'll have another fifty added to it,
another one hundred added another year, and all of a sudden,
you're up to three thousand regulations. What you can build,
(08:55):
where you can rebuild, what color you can paint it,
what you can do for landscape, lots of regulations. And
he said, the only thing that knocks down regulations, the
only thing that sets them back is war. War sets
them back. World War one, world War two, you could
build almost anything. After World War Two, all the regulations
(09:16):
went in the toilet.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
You could do whatever you want.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
This is our war, this is California's war, and you're
going to see regulations vanish. You're going to see people
rebuilding homes really quickly, and a lot of regulations are
going to go in the toilet. They're going to reduce
the red tape, they say, by seventy percent.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
And here's a great question.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
I think a lot of people have been asking, who
listen to KFI, Well, if you can reduce it overnight
by seventy percent, why haven't you reduced it before? Why
have we been burdened with all these regulations before? If
you can reduce them instantly, and I think people have
had it. I think people are going to see a
new way of doing business in California where you quickly
(09:57):
get a permit to rebuild. They'll be inspectors out there
in the field. They'll stop by the same day or
next day, and you're gonna see. You're gonna see rebuilding
in California like you've never seen it before. It's gonna beautiful,
it's gonna be spectacular. I think Pacific Palisades, the Alta
Dina area where the eating fire is, I think those areas. Look,
(10:19):
there's a lot of anguish out there's a lot of
sadness out there. I understand that. But I think Alta
Dina and the Palisades are gonna be even more beautiful
than they were before. I truly believe that, and I'm
not really that you know, some crazy, you know, blind optimists.
I think there's gonna be a lot of money coming
into town. I think the streets are gonna look beautiful,
the homes are gonna look beautiful. I think, well, we've
(10:41):
got to get through this initial initial stage of depression,
of anger, of being scared about the next fire. I
think we should be optimistic as well, that this Southern
California area is going to come back better than it
was before. I believe that, and again I'm not optimistic
about anything. I truly believe we are going to be
(11:01):
a better community after. It might be a year, it
might be two years, it might be five years. But
in five to ten years, you go back to Pacific
Palisades and you're like, Wow, this is pristine. This looks
like Disneyland. This is a great place to live. The
kids are playing again, you know, riding the bikes around again.
You know, people are going to the stores again. People
are shopping, people are getting food. People are having parties.
(11:23):
They're having New Year's parties, Christmas parties, Hanica parties, quans
and parties. People are enjoying themselves again. There's a new
high school, you know, there's a new shopping mall downtown.
I think we are going to look in five to
ten years, you know, granted that we all make it.
I think we are going to be an unbelievable city
and an unbelievable county and an unbelievable area of California.
(11:44):
Southern California is going to look great. We just need
to be patient.
Speaker 6 (11:48):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
Our own Dean Sharp is going to be on Fox
seleven News at seven. I believe tonight somewhere between seven
and seven and fifteen, and he's with us.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
Dean Sharp. How you Bob, I'm good, I'm good. How
are you, buddy?
Speaker 2 (12:08):
I got a huge compliment from a retired fire captain
with La County Fire Department saying the shows that you
did last weekend on how to protect your homes.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
He said he was glued to the radio, couldn't pull away. No,
you're kidding. That's great. It's great to hear. It's great
right here.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Hey, I know you know everything about construction rebuilding homes.
When you come across a home that has been completely destroyed,
decimated by fire, what is the first step in rebuilding
that home? Is it removing the debris or is there
a step before that?
Speaker 7 (12:44):
Well, okay, in terms of what the homeowner needs to
be doing, yes, there is a step before that. The
first step because of the insurance claims, because of all
the work that's going to be done negotiating with the
insurance company. Your first step if your home has burnt
to the ground or suffered a severe natural disaster, is
(13:05):
to treat it like a crime scene. And I say
that in all seriousness. In other words, I don't want
you going in there just grabbing a bunch of stuff,
shoving a bunch of stuff, moving a bunch of stuff around.
I want you go in there with cameras and video
and just videotape everything, find anything and everything you can
throughout the property. Just get it all recorded, because assessing
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the loss not just of the structure, that's a little
bit shockingly easy to assess, the loss of the structure itself,
but the loss of content, the loss of anything that
shows any remnants due that's what we're after before we
get the okay to actually clean it up. And the
other thing too, is this is different when an entire
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neighborhood disappears. It is a different story than when a
single house burns down because of a house fire. When
a single house burns down, all of the infrastructure of
that street, of the city, of the municipality, it's all
still there. Okay, we're just talking about the house. But
in this situation the Palisades and up in Altadena, we're
talking about streets that are going to have to be
(14:15):
rebuilt by the city. We're talking about sewer lines, water lines,
gas mains that are going to have to be redone.
People are not going to have the freedom to just
go in and start scraping away. Plus, there is an
entire zone of very very toxic debris and ash there
and so don't need to be rushing to clear that
(14:35):
property until the city says, okay, here's our plan.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
You know, as a guy who has been building homes
for many, many years, I know you've run into your
share of red tape and regulations and you probably have
spent you know, nights at the dinner table with Tina
just pulling your hair out over over minutia. If they
say they're going to reduce the regulations by seventy percent
(15:00):
and resume and reduce the red tape, then why haven't
they done that all along? It's a really good questions
crazy here's the reality. The reality is they're not okay.
Speaker 7 (15:13):
And I'm not saying that they're they're lying and that
they don't have a good intentions, but there's a lot
of red tape and minutia stuff that is the process
around your plan. Check But if you think, if you
think that you're going to put together a plan for
your new home and it's just going to fire its
way through Building in Safety and planning approval, that is
where you've got another thought coming. There is no way
(15:36):
in the world that they are going to uh accelerate,
in other words, to spend less time checking through your plans.
Speaker 5 (15:45):
Than they normally do.
Speaker 7 (15:46):
Now, what they may do, and what I'm sure they're
going to do, is expedite fire damage plans above the
guy you know in Torrance who wants to remodel his garage.
You see what I'm saying, right, So they'll put I'm
sure they're going to put fire damage at the front
of the line. But they are certainly, certainly. I mean,
it would be idiotic for the Building and Safety Department
(16:07):
to actually just you know, hey, did your house burn down?
Just to hand us the plans. We're gonna glance over
them and say, yes, right, that's not gonna happen. That's
not gonna happen.
Speaker 5 (16:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
Well, you know, we added in our old house in Burbank,
you know, ten years ago, twelve years ago, we added
a small bedroom. I think it was three hundred square
feet and a small bathroom that was another you know,
fifty or sixty square feet, and the burbank. You know,
the inspectors were very thorough, and you know a lot
of them considered it to be you know, maybe overdoing
(16:37):
it whatever. But I like that because I knew that
when I slept in that room after they were done,
it wasn't going to fall down, it wasn't going to
burn down. I like when they're tough on builders. Yeah,
me too.
Speaker 7 (16:49):
I actually as a builder, I like when the when
the building inspectors are tough on builders and the reality is,
in this situation, what we're looking at is just a
slew of new construction. I'll tell you the thing that
really is difficult for the building department and for the
planning department and for inspectors is when you're mating a
new construction or remodel work up against old house construction.
(17:13):
In these situations, most of what's happening these lots are
going to be scraped and it is brand new construction.
It's the easiest kind of instruction to inspect quickly and efficiently.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
You know, when you watch I don't know if you
watch Extreme Homemakeover, maybe watch it with Tina when you
get you know, you need a good laugh.
Speaker 7 (17:30):
But how the last thing in the world that I
do ever, how do they take a house down and
build a house in one week?
Speaker 3 (17:39):
They do not?
Speaker 7 (17:40):
Okay, it's just here's the fact.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
You do not.
Speaker 7 (17:45):
There is no legal requirement for television shows to tell
you the truth. Okay, So it doesn't happen, okay, period.
All right, I like to think it does. But are
you're gonna be on Fox tonight?
Speaker 1 (17:56):
What time?
Speaker 7 (17:58):
For about five minutes interview talking about fire hardening your
home sometime between seven and seven fifteen.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
Excellent, I'll be homeman watching. Appreciate you coming on and
we'll talk to you on Thursday.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
Thank you, bro.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
All right, Dean Sharp tonight, Fox eleven News between seven
and seven fifteen on how to harden your home when
it comes to fire.
Speaker 6 (18:21):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
If you're driving east on the two, ten, the ten,
the ninety one, whatever you're driving on east. Look at
that moon. What a beautiful moon. Maybe you saw it
come up. It came up at six oh three. If
you're living in the San Fernando Valley, so about thirty
three minutes ago. It's ninety nine point seven. The illumination
(18:50):
is ninety nine point seven. Is one of the brightest
moons we've had in a long time, nearly one hundred percent,
ninety nine point seven. It's to what thirty eight thousand
and thirty two miles away, so a little further away
than most times.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
It varies.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
It was eight thousand miles closer on the seventh, but
it looks much brighter. Moon came up six oh three
and it's gonna set and seven fifty one am, which
I think is a wrong number, maybe it's right, who knows,
but checking out. There's something cool about a full moon.
(19:27):
And we've gone through a lot of hell this week
here in southern California, and it's nice to just look
up and see that beautiful moon. So check it out.
Ninety nine point seven percent elimination.
Speaker 5 (19:44):
That's bright.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
You're gonna see shadows tonight.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
If you live out where there's no light pollution from
the city, you can see your shadow in that moon tonight.
So little distracting, something little distracting for all the chaos
going out.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
Here, all right.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
Emergency Animal Rescue Services EARS EAR Patrice mock is with us.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
Patrice are you.
Speaker 8 (20:04):
I'm well? Tim? How are you?
Speaker 3 (20:06):
I'm doing great.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
I know that you guys do an unbelievable job with
rescuing animals and keeping animals through these very trying times.
I know that animals have a sixth sense. They know
that there's a lot going on here. They're scared, they
don't know something, you know where to go. They've lost
their homes, they've lost their neighborhoods. How are you helping out?
(20:28):
And what can people do who are or are looking
for the animals. What is the best and the quickest
way to help these people with their unbelievable heart pain?
Speaker 8 (20:40):
It is, It is unbelievable. Thank you first of all
for having me on. Thanks for coming on recognizing Yeah,
thank you, thanks for recognizing our efforts. You caught the
attention when you talked about Casey and Oreo. We were
able to help him. Oh gosh, hold on, let me
get that off there. He came to our sense her
with his dog, and we got him veterinary care. We're
(21:03):
working with Palms and Paul's Veterinary Clinic in Santa Monica.
At ninth and Olympic we'll be there all week. We
have volunteers. If anybody displaced by any of these fires
needs anything related to their pets, we have it for
you for sure. And our team has the credentials and
is able to go into the fires and rescue animals
(21:26):
that have been left behind. So that's something that we've
been doing which has been incredible to witness. So Kathy
and Oreo came to our center. We got him some
much needed resources and a vet appointment. Oreo was fine,
Thank goodness. Yeah, if people want to help, we are
accepting donations, but we're doing pretty good in that department.
(21:49):
But we want we want to get the word out
there that we are there for people that have been
displaced and especially for their animals. So we've seen, you know,
people come to us. And I talk to a woman
on Sunday, was just her and her dog on a leash,
and she said, this is it. This is what I
have me and the clothes I'm wearing and this dog,
and yeah, it's heart wrenching, and but we have victories too.
(22:12):
We got our team went in and got two cats
out of a home. They'd been in there for five days,
no water, no food. Our vet took a look at
them doctor Kevin at the clinic, and they were dehydrated,
and you know, of course frightened, but they were fine.
And so seeing that reunion and that woman was certain
(22:32):
she'd never see her cats again.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
Tries tell us a little bit about it. Tell us
at about the organization. I know that you guys are
somewhat of at thirty thirty two, thirty three years old.
Speaker 3 (22:42):
How did it start?
Speaker 2 (22:43):
And is this a is this a organizations run by
the county, the city.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
Is it a private company.
Speaker 8 (22:52):
It's a private organization, And I'm wondering now if that
isn't being confused with another group. But we're called EARS,
and our our slogan is we're all Ears. I'm the
volunteer coordinator, so I'm the one, you know, dis coordinating
all our efforts and making sure everything's covered. And we're
(23:12):
pretty new actually. But also yeah, also we are also
known as Animal Advocacy Network, and we had a visit
from the mayor of Santa Monica and she's fantastic, very helpful.
And we've got the animal shelter right across the street too.
So it's a whole little group, a whole little cluster
(23:32):
there on Ninth Street, where you can get everything you
need and even go rescue a dog across the street,
get them out of the shelter so that one of
these dogs that's been this placed has a new place
to go where they're safe for a while, you know.
But yeah, so Chris, how do.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
People get a hold of you if they have questions
or if they have an animal they're looking for and
they need your assistance, they could use your help.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
How do people get ahold of you?
Speaker 5 (23:55):
Guys?
Speaker 8 (23:57):
Instagram? It's Animal Advocacy net Work net, Animal Advocacy Network Net.
So that's a a n ears e a r S
is Emergency Animal Rescue Service. We're on Facebook, We're on Instagram.
We've just got a new eight hundred number. I don't
have it in front of me. I'm apologized, okay, but
(24:18):
but yes we And then there at Pause and Palms
Veterinary Clinic every day ten to six pm. Our volunteers
are there. We have big trucks outside.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
Wait, wait, there's a lot of information here. Where are
the trucks.
Speaker 8 (24:34):
One, six, five, five, ninth and Olympic And that's in
Santa Monica And you can come see us. We've got
anything and everything that you need we've got it there
for you. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
And so ninth and Olympic in Santa Monica, Yes.
Speaker 8 (24:53):
And we'll be there. And this coming weekend we're going
to have a veterinary clinic. So if you have an
animal that you're even concerned about, you're out of your home. Finally,
everybody's doing okay, everyone's alive, but maybe your dog is
you know, a little scratchy or coughing, or your cat
is wheezing. You want to get them checked out, you know.
(25:13):
And everybody's of course feeling so many emotions, and you
want to pay attention to the pets. And I appreciate
earlier Tim, you mentioned how the pets aren't getting a
whole lot of coverage, and it's so very important. Most
of us have pets at our home and there's so
much a part of our lives. And my heart just
breaks through those of those people that have lost their pets,
(25:34):
which there are countless, countless numbers, and we've seen a
lot of that heartbreak. It's worse front and personal. You know,
just tried to go get a cat and unfortunately they
didn't make it.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
Out, nor Patrisa. I appreciate coming on ninth and Olympic.
Thank you again, and hopefully we'll talk to you in
the next couple weeks and see how it's going. But
thank you for doing that work. All right, it's a
Conway show. We're live on KFI AM six forty. We're
going to come back and wrap up. Oh Kelly is
going on till midnight tonight. If you do need ears
Emergency Animal Rescue Service, you can find their trucks at
(26:08):
ninth and Olympic in Santa Monica. Ninth and Olympic in
Santa Monica. Maybe you have a pet that has gone
through this this horrible fire, and you're worried about that pet.
You don't have the money to, you know, buzz into
the vet. Maybe your vet's not open, maybe you can't
get there, you don't have transportation. Buzz over to ninth
(26:30):
and Olympic and ask for the Emergency Animal Rescue Services
e A r S. That is great work, Patrise, We
appreciate it.
Speaker 6 (26:39):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
There's a an after we had talked about earlier that
my wife has.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
I just downloaded it. It's great.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
It's called Watch Duty Watch Duty tell us about where
the fires are and give you warnings as well. Private
company put together by ex firefighters and specialists. I think
it was free. I don't remember paying for anything, although
nowadays you never know. You know, you download somebody and
you get stung for it. You know not how to
(27:13):
cancel it. But my wife has it. My wife's pretty
skeptical of crap in life, so she wouldn't download it
unless she did a lot of research on it. Watch
Duty might save your life, might save your life. Good,
could possibly very well possibly. I'm seventeen, alright.
Speaker 3 (27:32):
Alright, I'm seventeen. What a brag, I'm seventeen. This guy,
all right, let's uh.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
There's a horrible story, horrible stories coming out of all
these fires, but this one is particularly tough to listen to.
Speaker 3 (27:46):
I know, look, we're all overwhelmed with these stories. I
get it.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
But this guy is a veteran, eighty six year old veteran,
and his home was destroyed, and he has quite the
story here.
Speaker 5 (27:57):
Just two years came to my eyes.
Speaker 9 (28:00):
I've been here for so long and have so much
wonderful thoughts about my wife.
Speaker 10 (28:05):
And I fighting the tears. Eighty six year old Roosevelt
Pullam recounts the last time he saw his Altadena home
standing the Army veteran now staying at the evacuation center
at the Pasadena Convention Center. His home on Highview Avenue
reduced to rubble, everything gone except for his nineteen sixty
three beetle. Pullem says the flames came up so fast
all he could do was grab his car keys and
(28:27):
flee with the clothes on his back.
Speaker 9 (28:29):
When I opened the door, I saw the fame in
her yard trailing towards me.
Speaker 5 (28:34):
That's when I closed the door.
Speaker 9 (28:37):
And then when I got in my car and I
started to drive out, I saw him in the back
of my house.
Speaker 10 (28:41):
About to celebrate his eighty seventh birthday next month, and
says he is too old to start over again.
Speaker 9 (28:47):
I've the experience of good and the bad and the ugly,
But in my lifetime the good have outweighed the ugly
way far than I would ever dream.
Speaker 3 (28:56):
How about that. Okay's eighty six years old.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
If that train, he lost everything he owns except his car,
and he still has a beautiful outlook on life. Listen
to his voice here at the end.
Speaker 5 (29:07):
I've the experience of good and the bad and the ugly.
Speaker 9 (29:10):
But in my lifetime the good have outweighed the ugly
way far than I would ever dream.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
That is sensational. That's great. I love that guy. Roosevelt
Pullman pulland is his name? All right?
Speaker 2 (29:26):
There's stimulus checks going out the IRS. Let's find out
if you are going to get one.
Speaker 11 (29:32):
If you never received your stimulus check in twenty twenty one,
you may still be able to get it. The IRS
is said to distribute recovery rebate credit payments to one
million people who missed out on their twenty twenty one
economic impact payments. Eligible taxpayers could receive up to fourteen
hundred dollars with the payments automatically sent by direct deposit
(29:53):
or paper check.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
Here we go, you can get fourteen hundred bucks. A
million of you are going to get fourteen hundred dollars.
I believe that's one point four billion dollars.
Speaker 11 (30:05):
Recipients don't need to do anything. You don't need to
take any action. The ILI says they will notify you
if you are eligible by mail.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
There you go, check your mail, check your mail. You
could get begetting a check for fourteen hundred dollars. Fourteen
hundred bucks huge. All right, before we get out of here,
the dust in La the vibe.
Speaker 5 (30:29):
Bye.
Speaker 2 (30:30):
Wait, let me do this story first. This is an
ABC reporter who recently purchased a home in Palisades and
she was out there reporting on the fire.
Speaker 3 (30:41):
Listen to this. This is an unbelievable story.
Speaker 12 (30:43):
Several of our colleagues were impacted by the fires.
Speaker 3 (30:46):
We're just like anybody else.
Speaker 12 (30:48):
Including ABC News correspondent Zerene Shaw, who lost her home
in the Palisades fire.
Speaker 10 (30:53):
She and her husband had just closed on their house
in Malibu on Christmas Eve.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
Oh my god, Christmas Eve. They got the keys Christmas
Eve and then less than two weeks later destroyed.
Speaker 13 (31:06):
This home was a dream. It was magical. And for me, Look,
we work really hard. I don't make a gazillion dollars.
I had saved for years and years and years as
a reporter. We go to a lot of fires. I
always wondered if this would happen to me. I've said
in a lot of charred land and talked about wildfires
(31:26):
a lot. But for RESHI he is devastated, I mean
he inconsolable. When we got to the bottom of that driveway,
I said, do you want to drive up and see it,
and he's just was just sopping. He said, no, take
a picture and let's go.
Speaker 12 (31:43):
Zorin says they spent six years house hunting, only spent
one night in their new home before it was turned
to rubble. And as you heard, her husband is having
a hard time dealing with it, but she's doing.
Speaker 3 (31:55):
Better with one night in the new home. One night.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
All r let's get it as much as this forecast
as we can before we got to turn over to
mo Kelly.
Speaker 14 (32:04):
What's going on with the weather and the wind. We're
seeing things kinda still kind of ramp it up a
little bit here. But here's the thing that's keep this
in mind. These winds, as we told you before, not
quite as strong as last week.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
So that's good. I mean, still the cameras are still shaking. Still.
Those red flag.
Speaker 14 (32:16):
Warnings are in effect in the areas in the red
until some areas until Thursday. The areas want to really
kind of focus in on, especially tomorrow, with these areas
here in that pink color that's your particularly dangerous situation areas,
those spots, all the factors of those fire concerns are
really kind of emphasized in these spots between three am
three pm tomorrow, So these spots especially, be very very
(32:38):
mindful of those fire conditions. Now the winds right now, yes,
they are on the stronger side in some spots, and
we're seeing again approaching that forty mile per hour range
around see me around thousand Oaks because more of an
eastern flow to this, not as much of a northerly flow,
so Pacific Palisades only about twelve miles apart.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
That's good news, of course.
Speaker 14 (32:53):
Now the other areas you're seen, we're still seeing again
those areas of concern of that purple red that's thirty
forty fifty mile per hour winds that are rolling through
those spots. So we still see many of those areas now,
still more to come as to move forward.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
Now some good news.
Speaker 14 (33:06):
The air quality surprisingly is in that good tomorrow range
all over, so call only a couple of pockets in
that moderate range, so that's certainly good news. And around
those fire zones that's some on the positive side good
air quality there. We're seeing ourselves start to change towards
the weekend. A low is gonna move in, give us
more of an on shore roll and that on short
flow always has a little more moisture to it, and
we certainly need that now as far as the wind's
(33:26):
moving forward, Okay, again we're kind.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
Of ramping up right now into tomorrow, so we.
Speaker 14 (33:30):
Can see these winds by tonight, still kind of pockets
of stronger winds showing up some areas under all, but
those areas of the windy area, those are going to
really start to creep up here tonight Tomorrow Tomorrow afternoon
now we're kind of starting to peek, and then by
tomorrow night now we start getting back to the kind
of a normal condition over so cal So looking ahead
here we go back you whether seven and eighty forecast,
so fire danger is still there through the afternoon hours tomorrow,
(33:52):
the temperatures on the warmer side, and then we start seeing.
Speaker 1 (33:55):
This cool down the onshorefold.
Speaker 14 (33:56):
Look at that some clouds coming in for Friday into
the weekend time just drop down from seventies to the fifties,
So a very cold weekend is coming our way.
Speaker 1 (34:05):
Still on the cool side, breezy.
Speaker 14 (34:06):
Windy conditions again in play Monday two. Are going to
kind of watch that development here, certainly for the valleys
the Empire, same idea of fire danger still there with
those wins, the dry conditions, all that I showed you.
Speaker 2 (34:15):
Okay, real quickly, here's what we got for the weekend.
The San Fernando Valley. Sixty six degrees today was the high.
Tomorrow sixty eight, then sixty six. Then Friday, the high
end the San Fernando Valley is fifty nine degrees going
down to the low forties, the high thirties in some areas.
Fifty nine degrees will be the low this Friday. So
it's gonna be cold. It's gonna be chilly for people
(34:37):
out there. It's gonna be a long weekend. It's gonna
be clear all weekend, but it's gonna be cold, so
please be aware of that. All right, mo Kelly is
going to stay on until midnight. After shortly after that,
Neil Savedra will be coming in. He'll have Petros Papadekas
at four a m. We'll be covering these fires and
this information as long as it's needed. We're live here
(34:58):
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