January 22, 2025 • 31 mins
KFI’s own Michael Monks joins Tim to give an update on the Hughes fire which is burning near Castaic Lake and has currently burned more than 8,000 acres and is 0% contained. // Former and legendary sky reporter, Tim Lynn, joins the show to discuss his experiences reporting on prior stories, and provides his perspective on the Hughes fire. // Tim gives the latest traffic updates as road closures increase because of the Hughes fire and provides the most updated evacuation information. Also, Tim talks about trusting the Watch Duty app more than the false evacuation warnings that LA county has been sending out. // Tim provides more updates on the Hughes fire as the firefighters anticipate winds picking up tonight and therefore are doing their best to contain it.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's camf i AM six forty and you're listening to
the Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. Camf
i AM's like forty, it's Conway Show. We got yet
another fire here in southern California. They're calling it the
Hues Fire. It's out at Lake Cast Steak, Lake Cast Steak,
and this thing is going to be out by about
six o'clock. In my unprofessional, untutored opinion, it's it's rolling
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towards Lake Cast Steak. It's got nowhere to go there
the south of the east side of it. They got
FOZ check over there, and so I think we're looking
at about another two hours. There's way too many firefighters,
way too many planes, way too many helicopters for this
fire to get out of control and do anything. There's
just too many guys who know what they're doing up
there and this and they're and a good sign is
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when you see firefighters standing around not doing anything, that
means they're letting it burn to them and they're going
to put it out. So if you see firefighters running
around your neighborhood, panic, if you see them sitting there
having a cigarette, you're fine, all right, Michael Monks is
with us.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
How you I'm good. I want to share your optimism
for sure.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Listen this at six o'clock tonight, fires out, you know,
fives open, we'll be back to normal.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Well let's let's hope for that. But let's not get
people a false sense of security. Remember, if you get
an evacuation order, to heed that call and get the
heck out of dodge.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
But they are too widespread, you know the way they
have these cordon off. There are too many miles you know, east, north, south,
east and west within that evacuation zone. So it stretches
all the way up to Palmdale in one of those
little fingers. And somebody, a friend of mine in West
Hill's got an evacuation notice. This that's thirty miles. The
evacuation notice have stretched to Ventura County. Yeah, so I
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mean it's big. It's a big order of mandatory. Nineteen
thousand people told to move away, to get out of there.
Sixteen thousand others are under an evacuation warning. So those
are the ones we're talking to. Now, keep your eye
on this. Yes, stay optimistic.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
It has not impacted any residences, no injuries, nobody dead,
that's great news.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
And look it's on CNN.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
This is horrible for California, and we're going to do
a piece tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
I don't know if you know this.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
I didn't know this until today, and I was told
by a guy who is in the real estate game.
There are zero insurance companies writing policies now for fire
in southern California.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Yeah, well, how the hell do you sell a house
or buy a house? This is going to be part of.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
The fallout after all of this. One of the many
things that we're gonna have to take serious looks at.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Is that the government's going to have to come in
and help this out, help us out here, because if
there are zero companies selling fire insurance, you can't sell
a house. If you have a mortgage, you have to
have fire insurance, according to the banks. And if the
bank knows you don't have fire insurance, not going to
sell you the house. They're not gonna put there. They're
not going to have that exposure.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
And there are people who are exposed who just lost
their homes.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
Right.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
So, when Donald Trump comes out here tomorrow or whenever
he arrives, there's any word on him coming out tomorrow,
Friday Friday. Okay, all right, whenever he comes out on Friday,
please to the local politicians, keep your I hate Donald
Trump shirts and hats off for the day.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
We need a big check a root. He's your daddy.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
Now.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
We need a big, huge chunk of money from this guy.
So Bonta and new Some and Shift and I you know,
and Bass, please bite your tongues when he's here. And
then when he writes the check, you can go nuts,
but don't insult this guy when he's here. We need
the federal funds. So what else going on with this fire? Well,
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here's where we are, okay. So this thing exploded very quickly.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Started at eleven o'clock this morning, just forty or fifty
acres and then blew up real fast, got to about
five thousand. I was just done with John Coleblt half
an hour ago and told him, look, I haven't seen
any increases in that acreage and sometime that looks like
good news. And as soon as I go back to
my desk, the alert comes out that CalFire says it's
now over eight thousand acres. So the thing has continued
to grow. The wins out there are a factor and
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that's what we're watching today and tonight they're not as
serious as they were two weeks ago. Right now, the
highest gusts, according to the National Weather Service, is right
around forty two miles per hour, but tonight they are
saying it could get up to fifty or sixty. So
if they are able to battle this fire back a
little bit, those wins are going to regroup and possibly
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help that fire expand again.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
I'm just doing the quick math here.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
You said it's eight thousand acres, I did, okay, all right,
So it's burned eight thousand acres and it's been going
for five point five hours. It's fifteen thousand acres an hour.
Fifteen thousand acres an hour are burning. That is unbelievable.
I don't think that math is right. Well, it's eighty
did you say?
Speaker 5 (04:28):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (04:29):
You said eight?
Speaker 4 (04:29):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (04:29):
I thought I put in eighty Sorry sorry, eight thousand.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Oh, it can't be that bad.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Then I put in eighty thousand, eight thousand, all right,
divided by five point five, So it's fourteen hundred, fifteen hundred,
almost fifteen hundred acres an hour.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
That's huge.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
It's big, and it was probably more than that earlier,
but it has slowed a little bit. It went from
forty to fifty to five hundred to twenty three hundred
to five thousand within about three hours.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
It is amazing. But I'm looking at a shot here
on Fox eleven. They've got a good handle on this thing,
and there's you know, I'm very familiar with Lake Casteak
and that whole surrounding area.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
I love that area. I love the people live up there.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
They've the south end of that fire is going to
run right into that lake and have nowhere to go.
They've got the western flank with a thousand firefighters on it.
They're not going to let it burn west. They're not
going to let it burn east too. That's where all
the fause check is. This fire is going to burn
itself out by six seven o'clock tonight, and I think
we're going to get it all clear by eight or
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nine o'clock. But man, I hope they don't keep people
out of their houses for a long period of time
or keep the electricity off. That's what that's when. If
you don't lose your house, that's when the whole nightmare begins.
The electricity and the end. You can't get back to
your house.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
There was talk of some power shut offs in this
area earlier today, whether they would need to do that.
It doesn't look like too many people have been impacted
by that, and certainly no residences have been impacted. So
this is sort of a vast area of dry vegetation
that is ripe for burning right now in these conditions.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
So we've been fortunate so far. And again your optimism,
I hope that spreads to the fire.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
I'm very optimistic when I see firefighters standing around, you know,
looking at this thing. If they're not if they're not panicking,
you don't panic. When you see firefighters running, you run.
When you see him standing, you're fine, You're fine. This
thing is going to be out before not now. At
five o'clock there's a press conference, there is, and we're
going to carry it here on KFI. We are going
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to preempt your program a little bit to get an
update on that, so you can relax for a while
and they'll tell you whether your prediction is correct, at
least on what they're seeing. So we should get a
better handle on how they're addressing this and what to
expect as the evening hours move in.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
I think if you.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Talk to a firefighter on the ground, I think off
the record, he'll tell you, we want this thing to
burn out. A lot of this this shrub up here.
We want it so we don't have to come back anymore.
We know what's going to go towards Lake cast Tak.
It's not going to jump the lake. We have too
many planes, too many helicopters fighting this thing for it
to go anywhere. And I think people who live up
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in that area, by about eight o'clock tonight, they'll be
in all clear and you'll be back in your home.
I think schools will be open tomorrow. I think stores
will be open tomorrow. The zoo close today. There is
the zoo's fifty five miles from this fire.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
Griffith part, well, that's because of the red fly conditions
that exist, and this fire is evidence supporting those types
of claims that hey, we are ripe for fires.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
But these animals they just sleep all day anyway. You
can't go watch them sleep with little smoke on them.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
They would sleep.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
But I think if they felt the flames lapping their necks,
that nature would dictate they might run a little bit.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
I don't remember which comedians said that. But he says,
whenever you go to the zoo and you look at
the lions, it's like they're on a couple zannies.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
I think you spent some time in Ohio, you know animals.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
That's right, that's right. Well go watch the zebra's sleep.
You know you have to wait till tomorrow to.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
Go to the La Zoo.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
God, it is a it really.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
I think everyone panic because of what happened, you know, rightfully,
so incase of Palisades Malibu end up in Altadena, parts
of Arcadia, parts of Pasadena. But this isn't the same
weather conditions, and we have five thousand more firefighters from
around the world here.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
We are better prepared. We are fresh off to devastating fire.
So that's in everybody's mind, right. But again, if you
get those evacuation orders, do take them. You know, we
don't want to get people a false sense of security.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
I see a lot of people spraying their homes down
with a garden absolutely, which is I don't know, that's uh,
you know, I don't know how if the fire comes up,
it's gonna it's gonna dry up all that water instantly
unless you're right there fighting it and then I don't
recommend that. I mean, you can replace the house. You
can't replace your brother, your sister, your mom, or your dad.
But I think it's also an insult to the firefighters
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to say that they don't have a handle on this.
There are five thousand firefighters from around the world. We
have we have a zillion planes. And here's another thing
I don't like. I can't stand this is somebody goofed
here and maybe we can talk to Tim Linn about this,
But the firefighters some of the plan they're dropping FOZ
check on this fire. They're refueling at San Bernardino Airport,
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which is one hundred miles away.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
You can't tell me.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
There's nine hundred airports that are closer to this fire.
There's Palmdale. There's a huge airport out at Palmdale, which
is thirty five miles away Van Ey's Airport. I don't
know if they can use that. I imagine the runway
is long enough. They're Burbank Airport. There are a ton
and they can move this fose check around. But to
fly all the way to San Bernardino one hundred miles
and then fly back, it seems odd. It's a great question.
(09:29):
It is the answer to that too. Yeah, I get it.
On I have tremendous faith in the firefighters. That's why
I think this thing is going to be out before
you know it.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
Well, they say zero percent contained. The fire fighters themselves
are saying zero percent contained right now, right.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Because they don't want to they don't have a line
around it. I get it. But the containment numbers are
odd odd. You know, the Palisades fire, I think is
eighty seven percent contained. There hasn't been an open flame
for a week, week and a half a week, right,
And so I don't I don't know that number. I'm
squirrely with that number as well. I don't know what's
going on with that number. We're gonna be fine. The
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people out there are gonna be fine. And again, I
these firefighters, they've got it under control. And again the
rule of thumb, When you see a firefighter running, you panic.
When you see him standing, you're fine.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Or when you're get an alert that says to evacuate, yeah, okay, yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
When you get an alert to evacuate, get all your crap,
get out, and good luck trying to get home in the.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Next five days. It's gonna be tough.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
All right, Mike Monks, thank you, buddy, Giant Studd, thanks
for coming in.
Speaker 6 (10:32):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
All right, let's talk to Tim Lynn, who used to
fly high above these fires with KTLA and I think
with the police department as well, something like Orange County
Sheriff's Department.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
And he's put us, Tim Lynn, how you bub?
Speaker 7 (10:55):
I'm fine, sure, I am a firefighter jacket on, ready
to help you out.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
We must be within eighty miles of the fire then, yeah.
Speaker 7 (11:03):
About one hundred. But I do have it on just
to make make sure everything looks.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
Good, you know, I don't I think if we weren't,
you know, scared to death because the Palisades, Malibu and
Altadena fire, you know, the Eating fire, I think we
would have a different attitude towards this fire. But because
we are all, you know, shocked and scared of flames,
I think we're all panicking.
Speaker 4 (11:25):
Absolutely. I mean, yeah, people all over.
Speaker 7 (11:28):
You know, even if you weren't directly affected by the fire,
watching the coverage for the four to five days that
went on just kind of wears you down and makes
you very weary of it, and then when something like
this kicks off again, as soon as the wind starts,
you know, it's that naturally natural instinct to worry, but
tay the folks and test take. They're worried about this
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one because it's got a lot of wind behind it
and it's getting pushed right down the path there, over
the lake and then over towards the five freeways.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
So right, they got a lot of work to do.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
I think there's I think there's a big difference between
warning people and scaring the hell out of people. I
think there are enough firefighters, enough airplanes, enough helicopters to
keep and this fire is right next to Lake Castake.
I think that the firefighters and I think it's a
compliment to them that they've got to handle on this.
And again we talked about this last segment. Whenever I
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see a firefighter running, I panic. When I see him standing,
I don't. And a lot of firefighters are standing out there,
Yeah they have.
Speaker 7 (12:29):
Yeah, that's the other side of this is, you know,
we have those big fires here, so all those resources
are here, and also the winds aren't like they were
during the start of the Palisades fire, so there that's
in their favor, and they're doing a great job steering
this thing with a fause check line to send it
down towards the lake toward and burn himself out there. Yeah,
so they're lucky in both directions. But yeah, they This
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has got to be tough on people, you know, especially
living up here watching what the Palisades went through, worrying
if they're going to be the same. But you know what,
you got a ton of people out there, a lot
of hand crews and folks like that, cutting the lines,
and they're gonna knock this thing down pretty quick.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
You know.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
I think if you live in Lake Casteak, if I
live there, i'd get out too. I'd get the hell out.
But you know, the warnings going out, you know, thirty
miles in each direction. It scares the hell out of people,
and that's going to cost lives to him because in
the future they're going to get a warning. I'll go, oh,
it's one of those warnings where the fire is thirty
miles away, I don't have to do anything, and then
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the fires in their backyard exactly.
Speaker 7 (13:32):
You know, during the Palace Stays fire, they had those
warnings that are going out for all of La County
and all the areas not even closed. So you get
people that you know, this s guy's falling syndrome to
where they go, oh well, it's just checking a little
complaining again, you know, and they're sitting at another warning
it's probably no good and yeah, like you said, next thing,
you know, you got fire.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
Coming over you rack fence. But yeah, they need.
Speaker 7 (13:55):
To tighten that up a little bit to where they
can actually pare it down to where it isn't area
that needs to be evacuated and doesn't spill over, you know,
thirty miles to the south and thirty miles to the north,
especially the one who's in Palmdale. They gave one out
for Palmdale. It's not even going that direction. So unfortunately
that if technology hasn't caught up with the Internet yet.
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So given time, they'll figure it out and hopefully they'll
kind of narrow that thing down.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
I just don't trust the government when it comes to this.
I think we've all been let down when watching these
homes burn because of reservoir was dried up, that the
hydrants didn't work, The warnings going out were not for
the proper people. It's just been so mishandled by so
many different people that you lose faith in it, and
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you lose trust in the people who were in charge.
Speaker 7 (14:48):
Right, it's the people in charge who are putting people
in charge of the programs to put this all together.
And they're not thinking as a firefighter. They're not thinking
as a police officer. They're not thinking as somebody who's
actually been out there and dealt with us. They're programmers
back in some dark office somewhere working on this and
not doing the job, not thinking outside the lines. If
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what happens if we do this, what happens when we
do that?
Speaker 4 (15:15):
Even look at the.
Speaker 7 (15:15):
Hawaii when they had the missile attack warning. I mean
those four people thought they had nuclear missiles inbound at
one point. That was completely just because somebody punched the
wrong key. So here's the same thing. It's just once
they learned from this, they're going to pare it down.
But the problem is it'll move at the speed of government,
which means it'll be years before they.
Speaker 4 (15:36):
Figured it out.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
Let me ask a quick question. We only have about
a minute here. I think the firefighters are allowing this
thing to burn up extra extra fuel here before they
put it out so they don't have to come back
in two or three weeks. I think they're allowing it
to burn towards a five free with they know they
have a natural break there. They're going to stop it there,
and I think they know what they're doing. I think
it's a tremendous insult to the firefighters to evacuate a
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thirty mile ring around it.
Speaker 7 (16:00):
Well, you know, you have people who are you know,
make it big, you can always make it smaller mindset.
So I can see that to a point. But as
far as them steering as fire where they want to go, yeah,
they're absolutely doing that. Yeah, getting in there and burning
out this old stuff is good. You think about the
firefighting here with aircraft, they have to go to Victorville
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or out to sam Berardino because that's where the permanent
infrastructure is that supports them.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Well, then let's move that.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
It's time to have another permanent infrastructure out in Palmdale
and advantize airport so they can get there quicker. For
a plane to fly one hundred miles to go get
more fase check, that's got to be an hour and
a half round trip.
Speaker 4 (16:44):
No, no, absolutely not. It's it's pretty quick.
Speaker 7 (16:46):
It takes them probably thirty five to forty minutes on
the ground to get get.
Speaker 4 (16:51):
Reloaded and things of that sort.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
And how long does it.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Take them to fly for from San Bernardino Airport to
get in line to drop the FOS track another half hour?
Speaker 7 (17:00):
I would say less than a half hour. Yeah, they
come because they don't send them up altitude. They bring
them across low and so as soon as they can
get off the ground, they're going to be over this
fire within probably twenty minutes and then line up twenty
five minutes. So if it's a pretty quick turnaroff for
that big of a jet, and you got to realize
the aircraft is so big, the infrastructure it takes to
reload those with a fause check, reload them with fuel
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is something that Danai's Airport couldn't handle. The area is
a smaller attack base out at Foxfield and Lancaster. They
take the smaller airplanes, but the big ones we're talking about,
the DC ten, the ND eighty seven's the VA they
have to go to a fixed base.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
Okay, all right, well, I still think they can put
one out of Ponddale. I know they have a super
long runway out there because that's that's where they were
toying with moving lax at one point.
Speaker 4 (17:51):
Yeah, at one point.
Speaker 7 (17:52):
But that's a military base that has a lot of
special operations.
Speaker 4 (17:55):
So yes, permanently, we're using it.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
We're using it, all right, buddy, I appreciate coming on.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
Man, go kings right here for you all time.
Speaker 5 (18:06):
Yeah, go Ducks.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Yeah a Ducks fan?
Speaker 4 (18:08):
What's wrong with you? All right?
Speaker 1 (18:10):
Get out of here, Ducks fan? All right, we're live
on KFI. The only guy in the world I know
is that you diehard Ducks fan. And he can't even
say with this straight face, like yeah, I love the Ducks.
I'm like, what what's going on with you?
Speaker 6 (18:24):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
Well, the big story is the fire out at Lake
cast Steak in near Valencia, near Santa Clarita, not near
West Hills. Buddy of mine got a immediate evacuation notice
West Hills, get out, get out. Fire's forty miles from me, Yeah,
get out anyway?
Speaker 4 (18:49):
What the hell?
Speaker 1 (18:50):
All right, let's find out real quickly the traffic closures,
and then we'll get into the story.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
At the pio here with the traffic. What's going on
to traffic?
Speaker 8 (18:59):
We need to tell you that there's a complete shutdown
of the grape mine unknown duration. This couldn't of the
what of the grape mine, unknown duration?
Speaker 2 (19:06):
Mine is closed, grape minds the gleag.
Speaker 8 (19:09):
Of the grape mine, unknown duration. This could last here
all night. So if that was in your plans, really
need to reroute.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
Your Angel is Angel Martinez with the lovely one out there.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
I did it again either. Oh yes, the hell out.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
They're crazy.
Speaker 4 (19:23):
All the freeways stopped.
Speaker 8 (19:25):
Okay drives here as we've got the I five through
the grape mine north and southbound close, both directions starting
in Santa Clarita, so you can.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
Okay closed right at one twenty six, which I think
is the backway to Ventura, if I'm not mistaken. Right
near Magic Mountain. Magic Mountains closed as well, not because
of this fire. They're on winter hours, and so they're closed,
I think except for Saturday and Sunday.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
I think they're open on Saturday and Sunday during the winter.
Speaker 8 (19:54):
You can't even see the red down there on the map.
That starts a new Hall Ranch Road and that takes
you all the way up into the Great find on
the other side where that is also shut down in
the southbound direction. So we're going to be seeing this here,
like we mentioned, for an unknown duration. If you had
any plans to drive into central California, maybe northern California,
you're gonna have to take a fourteen and go around
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the Grapevine. This is not going to be open again
for an unknown duration until they start to get any
containment of this fire, so please avoid that area. We've
got several shutdowns in the area as well. Taking down
to Santa Clarita, there's also the northbound five at Parker
that is closed. Northbound five, also southbound Lake Queues at
Elizabeth that is all going to be shut down and
cause major delays. We're seeing that already south of this location,
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So Santa Clarita, you're already dealing with some of that traffic.
Avoid that if you can. We're still seeing those winds
really impact the air quality out there and also the
spread of this fire.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
Oh okay, all right, so we got the five is closed.
Let's find out a little more of what's going on here.
All right, The five is shut down. God only knows
when they're going to open that thing up there You know,
if you've been living in southern California for long enough,
you'll know that once they have a freeway closed down,
they don't like to open it up very quickly. So
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northbound southbound five is closed. Yep, right at the Castake junction,
the back road into the one twenty six. So it's
the back road in the Ventura that's closed. You're done,
You're done, and it's closed. Got almighty. They've got this
thing closed all the way up to the top of
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the grapevine.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
I mean, they've got this thing closed at Oh no,
it's further than that. It's at the outlet. They've got
this thing closed where the outlets are up over the ridge.
When you go into Bakersfield, the outlet center is up there,
and you know where you know, there's a jack in
the box, you know, the whole run up there, there's
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grass where your dog takes a whiz, but the shell
station in you know where that is. And then they
also have the outlets up there. It's closed almost where
the ninety nine meets the five. This thing is closed
for sixty five miles or more over this fire.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
Wow wow, wow.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
All right, Well, let's find out what's going on with
the PIO. This guy's Robert Jensen. He knows what's going
on out there with this fire.
Speaker 9 (22:24):
Deputy Robert Jensen with the La County Sheriff Department Santac
for Rita's station.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
Deputy can hear us?
Speaker 5 (22:30):
Okay, yep, yeah, I ken. How are you guys doing today?
Speaker 4 (22:33):
We're good?
Speaker 9 (22:34):
How are how's evacuations going with the citizens of Castaic
and the other areas there?
Speaker 5 (22:40):
Thank you again for the opportunity to come on here
and let everybody know, folks, if you are issued in
evacuation order, it is not a recommendation. Deputies are on
the ground going door by door for over thirty one
thousand people that are under evac order right now. We
have another twenty four thousand under EVAK warning.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
Okay, so fifty what's it?
Speaker 1 (22:57):
Fifty five thousand people under either a warning or mandatory evacuation.
Fifty five thousand people? Okay? Where are they going to go?
What are they gonna do? Every apartment, every hotel, everything
is taken by the people from Palisades, Malibu, right Altadena, Arcadia, Pasadena.
Speaker 4 (23:23):
Where are they going to go?
Speaker 2 (23:25):
Where do you want to go?
Speaker 4 (23:27):
Where do they go?
Speaker 2 (23:28):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (23:29):
That means an excess of seventy five hundred structures and
about seventy under order and about seventy one hundred structures
under warning. I'd a lot of ground to cover. Please
help us out as we attempt to help you. We
learned from our mistakes a week or two ago, right
with eating in Palisades. If you get that order, please
evacuate rapidly. I have animal shelter information for small animals.
You're going to go to Palmdale, Agora, Cousture Animal Care Centers.
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And then if you have large animals, you can go
to Pierce College for those larger animals. Again, I just
want to emphasize we are currently so if you have
a dogs or cats policy, if you get that order,
please okay.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
Here's for dogs and cats.
Speaker 5 (24:05):
I have animal shelter information for small animals.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
You're small animals. Here we go lomb.
Speaker 5 (24:09):
Dale Adlorent, Pecus Animal Care Centers.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
I think you said Palmdale, Lombdale, Adlorent, Agora and Lancaster lom.
Speaker 5 (24:16):
Dale, Adlorent, Lacustre Animal Care.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
Center Animal Care Center.
Speaker 4 (24:19):
Okay.
Speaker 5 (24:19):
And then if you have large animals, you can go
to Pierce College.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
Okay, if you have like a horse or I don't
know what's out there, elephants or whatever whatever you got.
If you got some big ass animal piers.
Speaker 5 (24:31):
For those larger animals. Again, I just want to emphasize
we are currently at sixty three hundred acres. That was
the last update. I was about thirty minutes ago.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
Yeah, now it's at eighty eight eight thousand acres.
Speaker 5 (24:43):
I need you guys to heed those warnings.
Speaker 4 (24:45):
Okay.
Speaker 5 (24:45):
I have deputies on the ground going door to door
to try and begin this evacuation. The fire is moving
south just a little bit, so we are beginning to
see evacuations in the Tesoro del Vae community as well
as the Kelly Johnson, Biscaloos, San Francisquito, and Raya's Adobe areas.
Please check the Protect Dot Genesis app or the website
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to see if your zone has been put under evacuation orders.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
Another good app is that that Watch Duty. Watch Duty
is a great app.
Speaker 4 (25:14):
Oh man.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
They alert you, they tell you what's going on. I
trust the watch app more than I trust the LA
City or LA County apps. I just do they just
they it's it's manned by fireman X. You know retired
fire guys. There's a lot of great information out there.
They get information firsthand from firemen on the ground who
they used to work with, and they're way ahead of
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the city and the counties.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
They just are you know.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
And so if you get fire water or watch duty,
Watch Duty, it's a great it's easy to download, it's free,
it's easy to download, and they are on.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
Top of it.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
All right, we'll come back and finish up with this
the fire burning out at Lake Casteak. I have a
feeling that we're about two hours away from them controlling
this fire enough to open up the freeway and open
up some of the roads. And I think we're I
think we're going to have great information for people. That's
my hope, and I think I'm right on this one.
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I think we're gonna have some great information for people
that live up in that area in the next couple hours.
Speaker 6 (26:20):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
There's a lot of people out there that are nervous
in Valencia, in Castake and Santa Clarita. But you also
have to know that we have firefighters from around the
country and around the world, The best firefighters in the
country are right here in southern California right now. And
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if you think that fire is not going to get
all the attention it needs, you got another thing coming.
The best men and women in the world at fighting
fires are on this fire. And so if you see
open flames, you see flame burning around, you got it.
You got to know that those firefighters, they know about it,
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they know what's going on.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
These are the best in the world.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
And so if you think, wow, the fires looks like
it's out of control, a lot of times they let
those fires burn the extra fuel so they don't have
to come out another two weeks later. So you know,
this is not two weeks ago. This is not you know,
eighty mile one hundred mile an hour sustained wind over
a five ten fifteen hour period.
Speaker 4 (27:33):
It's just not.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
It looks pretty ominous in some areas, but the best
guys and gals are on the front line here and
they're going to have They're gonna make pretty quick work
of this fire. I've seen fires up there before, I've
seen the body language of firefighters. They're right now, they're burning,
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they're putting their lighting backfires. So anytime you see a
firefighter lighting a backfire. That means they have a tremendous
amount of control on this fire. The wind conditions are perfect,
and they're lighting fires themselves. So when the firefighters light
firefight fires, they know that they got to handle on
this because if they light fires and he gets out
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of control, their asses are going to get cooked when
they get back to the station. So they've got this
thing and they got a great control over it. The
fire that's going up the canyon right now you're watching
on channel five, that's a controlled burn. The firefighters have
set this fire to control that, you know, the the
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fuel in that area. And so these guys, let's go
to channel eleven real quick. They're talking to the guys
who are lighting these fires and setting the backfires.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
You got that Channel eleven.
Speaker 10 (28:50):
Nice good work. That was remarkable. I've never seen anything
like that.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
Awesome. Thank you, we appreciate it.
Speaker 10 (28:55):
And now you're hoping that it closed back the other way.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
Yeah, for sure, for sure, they say, for sure it will.
Speaker 4 (29:01):
That works.
Speaker 11 (29:01):
They just saved all of these rv RVs and all
these people that are counting on them.
Speaker 10 (29:07):
So really really heroic work.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
Oh I used that for it okay, so.
Speaker 10 (29:13):
We did, but unfortunately it.
Speaker 11 (29:15):
Did actually jump the line a little bit, so if
it weren't for them.
Speaker 10 (29:19):
They definitely saved the day.
Speaker 11 (29:20):
But it did jump the line a little bit, and
then they had some water drops that kind of helped out,
so they were coming at it from different directions, so
definitely a joint team effort that.
Speaker 10 (29:29):
Saved the Cassaic RV Park.
Speaker 11 (29:31):
They were yelling for their friend Winston earlier, who they
weren't sure had made.
Speaker 10 (29:35):
It back, so that's what we were worried about. But
they got everyone out.
Speaker 11 (29:38):
As far as we know, the Castaic RV Park is
still okay and they are just continuing to fight this
fire that's now exploited to eight thousand acres. Just and
showed you a minute ago the sun setting over the hill.
Now as it's starting to get dark, the winds have
calmed for a little bit, but they are definitely gonna
pick up tonight to forty even possibly fifty five mile
per hour guests is here's in. Castaic is under a
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red flag warning until Friday at about ten o'clock in
the morning. So just a bad recipe for disaster for
these fire conditions with it being so dry and warm,
and not a whole lot of recovery overnight for our
low relative humidity.
Speaker 10 (30:12):
So you can see the flames.
Speaker 11 (30:13):
Really starting to pick up there on the hillside as
this helicopter is making it around towards us, and the
winds out of the northeast, of course, blowing the fire.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
Okay, a couple of things here.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
One earlier during this fire, they couldn't use lake cast
steak with the fixed wing aircraft because of all the smoke.
Now that the smoke is blown away, they can put
those helicopters back in and take water out of the lake,
and they are doing a sensational job at tackling this fire.
The five is still closed. I know that's a pain
of the aids, the nightmare for a lot of people.
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Hopefully that will open soon. But they I think they're
going to make pretty quick work of this. They and
they know they have to because the winds are going
to pick up tonight. So I got a lot of
faith in those guys and gals that are up there
on that front line.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
I think they're doing a hell of a job. All Right,
we'll we come back.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
We're gonna have a press conference over this fire. We
will learn more about the origin, the evacuations, the winds,
the firefight. You're gonna learn more at the press conference,
and we'll break in whenever that starts.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
We are live.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
Keep an eye on this fire. Yet another fire. Every
time you know you wake up, there's three or four
more fires before you go to sleep. Never seen anything
like this in my life, ever in my life. Born
and raised in the San Fernando Valley, been in here
for the better part of six decades, I've never seen
it like this. Something's going on, all right. We're live
on KFI AM six forty Conway Show on demand on
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It's camf i AM six forty and you're listening to
the Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. Camf
i AM's like forty, it's Conway Show. We got yet
another fire here in southern California. They're calling it the
Hues Fire. It's out at Lake Cast Steak, Lake Cast Steak,
and this thing is going to be out by about
six o'clock. In my unprofessional, untutored opinion, it's it's rolling
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towards Lake Cast Steak. It's got nowhere to go there
the south of the east side of it. They got
FOZ check over there, and so I think we're looking
at about another two hours. There's way too many firefighters,
way too many planes, way too many helicopters for this
fire to get out of control and do anything. There's
just too many guys who know what they're doing up
there and this and they're and a good sign is
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when you see firefighters standing around not doing anything, that
means they're letting it burn to them and they're going
to put it out. So if you see firefighters running
around your neighborhood, panic, if you see them sitting there
having a cigarette, you're fine, all right, Michael Monks is
with us.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
How you I'm good. I want to share your optimism
for sure.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Listen this at six o'clock tonight, fires out, you know,
fives open, we'll be back to normal.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Well let's let's hope for that. But let's not get
people a false sense of security. Remember, if you get
an evacuation order, to heed that call and get the
heck out of dodge.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
But they are too widespread, you know the way they
have these cordon off. There are too many miles you know, east, north, south,
east and west within that evacuation zone. So it stretches
all the way up to Palmdale in one of those
little fingers. And somebody, a friend of mine in West
Hill's got an evacuation notice. This that's thirty miles. The
evacuation notice have stretched to Ventura County. Yeah, so I
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mean it's big. It's a big order of mandatory. Nineteen
thousand people told to move away, to get out of there.
Sixteen thousand others are under an evacuation warning. So those
are the ones we're talking to. Now, keep your eye
on this. Yes, stay optimistic.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
It has not impacted any residences, no injuries, nobody dead,
that's great news.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
And look it's on CNN.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
This is horrible for California, and we're going to do
a piece tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
I don't know if you know this.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
I didn't know this until today, and I was told
by a guy who is in the real estate game.
There are zero insurance companies writing policies now for fire
in southern California.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Yeah, well, how the hell do you sell a house
or buy a house? This is going to be part of.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
The fallout after all of this. One of the many
things that we're gonna have to take serious looks at.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Is that the government's going to have to come in
and help this out, help us out here, because if
there are zero companies selling fire insurance, you can't sell
a house. If you have a mortgage, you have to
have fire insurance, according to the banks. And if the
bank knows you don't have fire insurance, not going to
sell you the house. They're not gonna put there. They're
not going to have that exposure.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
And there are people who are exposed who just lost
their homes.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
Right.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
So, when Donald Trump comes out here tomorrow or whenever
he arrives, there's any word on him coming out tomorrow,
Friday Friday. Okay, all right, whenever he comes out on Friday,
please to the local politicians, keep your I hate Donald
Trump shirts and hats off for the day.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
We need a big check a root. He's your daddy.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
Now.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
We need a big, huge chunk of money from this guy.
So Bonta and new Some and Shift and I you know,
and Bass, please bite your tongues when he's here. And
then when he writes the check, you can go nuts,
but don't insult this guy when he's here. We need
the federal funds. So what else going on with this fire? Well,
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here's where we are, okay. So this thing exploded very quickly.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Started at eleven o'clock this morning, just forty or fifty
acres and then blew up real fast, got to about
five thousand. I was just done with John Coleblt half
an hour ago and told him, look, I haven't seen
any increases in that acreage and sometime that looks like
good news. And as soon as I go back to
my desk, the alert comes out that CalFire says it's
now over eight thousand acres. So the thing has continued
to grow. The wins out there are a factor and
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that's what we're watching today and tonight they're not as
serious as they were two weeks ago. Right now, the
highest gusts, according to the National Weather Service, is right
around forty two miles per hour, but tonight they are
saying it could get up to fifty or sixty. So
if they are able to battle this fire back a
little bit, those wins are going to regroup and possibly
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help that fire expand again.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
I'm just doing the quick math here.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
You said it's eight thousand acres, I did, okay, all right,
So it's burned eight thousand acres and it's been going
for five point five hours. It's fifteen thousand acres an hour.
Fifteen thousand acres an hour are burning. That is unbelievable.
I don't think that math is right. Well, it's eighty
did you say?
Speaker 5 (04:28):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (04:29):
You said eight?
Speaker 4 (04:29):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (04:29):
I thought I put in eighty Sorry sorry, eight thousand.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Oh, it can't be that bad.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Then I put in eighty thousand, eight thousand, all right,
divided by five point five, So it's fourteen hundred, fifteen hundred,
almost fifteen hundred acres an hour.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
That's huge.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
It's big, and it was probably more than that earlier,
but it has slowed a little bit. It went from
forty to fifty to five hundred to twenty three hundred
to five thousand within about three hours.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
It is amazing. But I'm looking at a shot here
on Fox eleven. They've got a good handle on this thing,
and there's you know, I'm very familiar with Lake Casteak
and that whole surrounding area.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
I love that area. I love the people live up there.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
They've the south end of that fire is going to
run right into that lake and have nowhere to go.
They've got the western flank with a thousand firefighters on it.
They're not going to let it burn west. They're not
going to let it burn east too. That's where all
the fause check is. This fire is going to burn
itself out by six seven o'clock tonight, and I think
we're going to get it all clear by eight or
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nine o'clock. But man, I hope they don't keep people
out of their houses for a long period of time
or keep the electricity off. That's what that's when. If
you don't lose your house, that's when the whole nightmare begins.
The electricity and the end. You can't get back to
your house.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
There was talk of some power shut offs in this
area earlier today, whether they would need to do that.
It doesn't look like too many people have been impacted
by that, and certainly no residences have been impacted. So
this is sort of a vast area of dry vegetation
that is ripe for burning right now in these conditions.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
So we've been fortunate so far. And again your optimism,
I hope that spreads to the fire.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
I'm very optimistic when I see firefighters standing around, you know,
looking at this thing. If they're not if they're not panicking,
you don't panic. When you see firefighters running, you run.
When you see him standing, you're fine, You're fine. This
thing is going to be out before not now. At
five o'clock there's a press conference, there is, and we're
going to carry it here on KFI. We are going
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to preempt your program a little bit to get an
update on that, so you can relax for a while
and they'll tell you whether your prediction is correct, at
least on what they're seeing. So we should get a
better handle on how they're addressing this and what to
expect as the evening hours move in.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
I think if you.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Talk to a firefighter on the ground, I think off
the record, he'll tell you, we want this thing to
burn out. A lot of this this shrub up here.
We want it so we don't have to come back anymore.
We know what's going to go towards Lake cast Tak.
It's not going to jump the lake. We have too
many planes, too many helicopters fighting this thing for it
to go anywhere. And I think people who live up
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in that area, by about eight o'clock tonight, they'll be
in all clear and you'll be back in your home.
I think schools will be open tomorrow. I think stores
will be open tomorrow. The zoo close today. There is
the zoo's fifty five miles from this fire.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
Griffith part, well, that's because of the red fly conditions
that exist, and this fire is evidence supporting those types
of claims that hey, we are ripe for fires.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
But these animals they just sleep all day anyway. You
can't go watch them sleep with little smoke on them.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
They would sleep.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
But I think if they felt the flames lapping their necks,
that nature would dictate they might run a little bit.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
I don't remember which comedians said that. But he says,
whenever you go to the zoo and you look at
the lions, it's like they're on a couple zannies.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
I think you spent some time in Ohio, you know animals.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
That's right, that's right. Well go watch the zebra's sleep.
You know you have to wait till tomorrow to.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
Go to the La Zoo.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
God, it is a it really.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
I think everyone panic because of what happened, you know, rightfully,
so incase of Palisades Malibu end up in Altadena, parts
of Arcadia, parts of Pasadena. But this isn't the same
weather conditions, and we have five thousand more firefighters from
around the world here.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
We are better prepared. We are fresh off to devastating fire.
So that's in everybody's mind, right. But again, if you
get those evacuation orders, do take them. You know, we
don't want to get people a false sense of security.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
I see a lot of people spraying their homes down
with a garden absolutely, which is I don't know, that's uh,
you know, I don't know how if the fire comes up,
it's gonna it's gonna dry up all that water instantly
unless you're right there fighting it and then I don't
recommend that. I mean, you can replace the house. You
can't replace your brother, your sister, your mom, or your dad.
But I think it's also an insult to the firefighters
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to say that they don't have a handle on this.
There are five thousand firefighters from around the world. We
have we have a zillion planes. And here's another thing
I don't like. I can't stand this is somebody goofed
here and maybe we can talk to Tim Linn about this,
But the firefighters some of the plan they're dropping FOZ
check on this fire. They're refueling at San Bernardino Airport,
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which is one hundred miles away.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
You can't tell me.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
There's nine hundred airports that are closer to this fire.
There's Palmdale. There's a huge airport out at Palmdale, which
is thirty five miles away Van Ey's Airport. I don't
know if they can use that. I imagine the runway
is long enough. They're Burbank Airport. There are a ton
and they can move this fose check around. But to
fly all the way to San Bernardino one hundred miles
and then fly back, it seems odd. It's a great question.
(09:29):
It is the answer to that too. Yeah, I get it.
On I have tremendous faith in the firefighters. That's why
I think this thing is going to be out before
you know it.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
Well, they say zero percent contained. The fire fighters themselves
are saying zero percent contained right now, right.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Because they don't want to they don't have a line
around it. I get it. But the containment numbers are
odd odd. You know, the Palisades fire, I think is
eighty seven percent contained. There hasn't been an open flame
for a week, week and a half a week, right,
And so I don't I don't know that number. I'm
squirrely with that number as well. I don't know what's
going on with that number. We're gonna be fine. The
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people out there are gonna be fine. And again, I
these firefighters, they've got it under control. And again the
rule of thumb, When you see a firefighter running, you panic.
When you see him standing, you're fine.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Or when you're get an alert that says to evacuate, yeah, okay, yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
When you get an alert to evacuate, get all your crap,
get out, and good luck trying to get home in the.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Next five days. It's gonna be tough.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
All right, Mike Monks, thank you, buddy, Giant Studd, thanks
for coming in.
Speaker 6 (10:32):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
All right, let's talk to Tim Lynn, who used to
fly high above these fires with KTLA and I think
with the police department as well, something like Orange County
Sheriff's Department.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
And he's put us, Tim Lynn, how you bub?
Speaker 7 (10:55):
I'm fine, sure, I am a firefighter jacket on, ready
to help you out.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
We must be within eighty miles of the fire then, yeah.
Speaker 7 (11:03):
About one hundred. But I do have it on just
to make make sure everything looks.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
Good, you know, I don't I think if we weren't,
you know, scared to death because the Palisades, Malibu and
Altadena fire, you know, the Eating fire, I think we
would have a different attitude towards this fire. But because
we are all, you know, shocked and scared of flames,
I think we're all panicking.
Speaker 4 (11:25):
Absolutely. I mean, yeah, people all over.
Speaker 7 (11:28):
You know, even if you weren't directly affected by the fire,
watching the coverage for the four to five days that
went on just kind of wears you down and makes
you very weary of it, and then when something like
this kicks off again, as soon as the wind starts,
you know, it's that naturally natural instinct to worry, but
tay the folks and test take. They're worried about this
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one because it's got a lot of wind behind it
and it's getting pushed right down the path there, over
the lake and then over towards the five freeways.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
So right, they got a lot of work to do.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
I think there's I think there's a big difference between
warning people and scaring the hell out of people. I
think there are enough firefighters, enough airplanes, enough helicopters to
keep and this fire is right next to Lake Castake.
I think that the firefighters and I think it's a
compliment to them that they've got to handle on this.
And again we talked about this last segment. Whenever I
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see a firefighter running, I panic. When I see him standing,
I don't. And a lot of firefighters are standing out there,
Yeah they have.
Speaker 7 (12:29):
Yeah, that's the other side of this is, you know,
we have those big fires here, so all those resources
are here, and also the winds aren't like they were
during the start of the Palisades fire, so there that's
in their favor, and they're doing a great job steering
this thing with a fause check line to send it
down towards the lake toward and burn himself out there. Yeah,
so they're lucky in both directions. But yeah, they This
(12:53):
has got to be tough on people, you know, especially
living up here watching what the Palisades went through, worrying
if they're going to be the same. But you know what,
you got a ton of people out there, a lot
of hand crews and folks like that, cutting the lines,
and they're gonna knock this thing down pretty quick.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
You know.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
I think if you live in Lake Casteak, if I
live there, i'd get out too. I'd get the hell out.
But you know, the warnings going out, you know, thirty
miles in each direction. It scares the hell out of people,
and that's going to cost lives to him because in
the future they're going to get a warning. I'll go, oh,
it's one of those warnings where the fire is thirty
miles away, I don't have to do anything, and then
(13:29):
the fires in their backyard exactly.
Speaker 7 (13:32):
You know, during the Palace Stays fire, they had those
warnings that are going out for all of La County
and all the areas not even closed. So you get
people that you know, this s guy's falling syndrome to
where they go, oh well, it's just checking a little
complaining again, you know, and they're sitting at another warning
it's probably no good and yeah, like you said, next thing,
you know, you got fire.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
Coming over you rack fence. But yeah, they need.
Speaker 7 (13:55):
To tighten that up a little bit to where they
can actually pare it down to where it isn't area
that needs to be evacuated and doesn't spill over, you know,
thirty miles to the south and thirty miles to the north,
especially the one who's in Palmdale. They gave one out
for Palmdale. It's not even going that direction. So unfortunately
that if technology hasn't caught up with the Internet yet.
(14:17):
So given time, they'll figure it out and hopefully they'll
kind of narrow that thing down.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
I just don't trust the government when it comes to this.
I think we've all been let down when watching these
homes burn because of reservoir was dried up, that the
hydrants didn't work, The warnings going out were not for
the proper people. It's just been so mishandled by so
many different people that you lose faith in it, and
(14:44):
you lose trust in the people who were in charge.
Speaker 7 (14:48):
Right, it's the people in charge who are putting people
in charge of the programs to put this all together.
And they're not thinking as a firefighter. They're not thinking
as a police officer. They're not thinking as somebody who's
actually been out there and dealt with us. They're programmers
back in some dark office somewhere working on this and
not doing the job, not thinking outside the lines. If
(15:12):
what happens if we do this, what happens when we
do that?
Speaker 4 (15:15):
Even look at the.
Speaker 7 (15:15):
Hawaii when they had the missile attack warning. I mean
those four people thought they had nuclear missiles inbound at
one point. That was completely just because somebody punched the
wrong key. So here's the same thing. It's just once
they learned from this, they're going to pare it down.
But the problem is it'll move at the speed of government,
which means it'll be years before they.
Speaker 4 (15:36):
Figured it out.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
Let me ask a quick question. We only have about
a minute here. I think the firefighters are allowing this
thing to burn up extra extra fuel here before they
put it out so they don't have to come back
in two or three weeks. I think they're allowing it
to burn towards a five free with they know they
have a natural break there. They're going to stop it there,
and I think they know what they're doing. I think
it's a tremendous insult to the firefighters to evacuate a
(15:58):
thirty mile ring around it.
Speaker 7 (16:00):
Well, you know, you have people who are you know,
make it big, you can always make it smaller mindset.
So I can see that to a point. But as
far as them steering as fire where they want to go, yeah,
they're absolutely doing that. Yeah, getting in there and burning
out this old stuff is good. You think about the
firefighting here with aircraft, they have to go to Victorville
(16:22):
or out to sam Berardino because that's where the permanent
infrastructure is that supports them.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Well, then let's move that.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
It's time to have another permanent infrastructure out in Palmdale
and advantize airport so they can get there quicker. For
a plane to fly one hundred miles to go get
more fase check, that's got to be an hour and
a half round trip.
Speaker 4 (16:44):
No, no, absolutely not. It's it's pretty quick.
Speaker 7 (16:46):
It takes them probably thirty five to forty minutes on
the ground to get get.
Speaker 4 (16:51):
Reloaded and things of that sort.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
And how long does it.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Take them to fly for from San Bernardino Airport to
get in line to drop the FOS track another half hour?
Speaker 7 (17:00):
I would say less than a half hour. Yeah, they
come because they don't send them up altitude. They bring
them across low and so as soon as they can
get off the ground, they're going to be over this
fire within probably twenty minutes and then line up twenty
five minutes. So if it's a pretty quick turnaroff for
that big of a jet, and you got to realize
the aircraft is so big, the infrastructure it takes to
reload those with a fause check, reload them with fuel
(17:23):
is something that Danai's Airport couldn't handle. The area is
a smaller attack base out at Foxfield and Lancaster. They
take the smaller airplanes, but the big ones we're talking about,
the DC ten, the ND eighty seven's the VA they
have to go to a fixed base.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
Okay, all right, well, I still think they can put
one out of Ponddale. I know they have a super
long runway out there because that's that's where they were
toying with moving lax at one point.
Speaker 4 (17:51):
Yeah, at one point.
Speaker 7 (17:52):
But that's a military base that has a lot of
special operations.
Speaker 4 (17:55):
So yes, permanently, we're using it.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
We're using it, all right, buddy, I appreciate coming on.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
Man, go kings right here for you all time.
Speaker 5 (18:06):
Yeah, go Ducks.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Yeah a Ducks fan?
Speaker 4 (18:08):
What's wrong with you? All right?
Speaker 1 (18:10):
Get out of here, Ducks fan? All right, we're live
on KFI. The only guy in the world I know
is that you diehard Ducks fan. And he can't even
say with this straight face, like yeah, I love the Ducks.
I'm like, what what's going on with you?
Speaker 6 (18:24):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
Well, the big story is the fire out at Lake
cast Steak in near Valencia, near Santa Clarita, not near
West Hills. Buddy of mine got a immediate evacuation notice
West Hills, get out, get out. Fire's forty miles from me, Yeah,
get out anyway?
Speaker 4 (18:49):
What the hell?
Speaker 1 (18:50):
All right, let's find out real quickly the traffic closures,
and then we'll get into the story.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
At the pio here with the traffic. What's going on
to traffic?
Speaker 8 (18:59):
We need to tell you that there's a complete shutdown
of the grape mine unknown duration. This couldn't of the
what of the grape mine, unknown duration?
Speaker 2 (19:06):
Mine is closed, grape minds the gleag.
Speaker 8 (19:09):
Of the grape mine, unknown duration. This could last here
all night. So if that was in your plans, really
need to reroute.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
Your Angel is Angel Martinez with the lovely one out there.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
I did it again either. Oh yes, the hell out.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
They're crazy.
Speaker 4 (19:23):
All the freeways stopped.
Speaker 8 (19:25):
Okay drives here as we've got the I five through
the grape mine north and southbound close, both directions starting
in Santa Clarita, so you can.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
Okay closed right at one twenty six, which I think
is the backway to Ventura, if I'm not mistaken. Right
near Magic Mountain. Magic Mountains closed as well, not because
of this fire. They're on winter hours, and so they're closed,
I think except for Saturday and Sunday.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
I think they're open on Saturday and Sunday during the winter.
Speaker 8 (19:54):
You can't even see the red down there on the map.
That starts a new Hall Ranch Road and that takes
you all the way up into the Great find on
the other side where that is also shut down in
the southbound direction. So we're going to be seeing this here,
like we mentioned, for an unknown duration. If you had
any plans to drive into central California, maybe northern California,
you're gonna have to take a fourteen and go around
(20:14):
the Grapevine. This is not going to be open again
for an unknown duration until they start to get any
containment of this fire, so please avoid that area. We've
got several shutdowns in the area as well. Taking down
to Santa Clarita, there's also the northbound five at Parker
that is closed. Northbound five, also southbound Lake Queues at
Elizabeth that is all going to be shut down and
cause major delays. We're seeing that already south of this location,
(20:37):
So Santa Clarita, you're already dealing with some of that traffic.
Avoid that if you can. We're still seeing those winds
really impact the air quality out there and also the
spread of this fire.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
Oh okay, all right, so we got the five is closed.
Let's find out a little more of what's going on here.
All right, The five is shut down. God only knows
when they're going to open that thing up there You know,
if you've been living in southern California for long enough,
you'll know that once they have a freeway closed down,
they don't like to open it up very quickly. So
(21:09):
northbound southbound five is closed. Yep, right at the Castake junction,
the back road into the one twenty six. So it's
the back road in the Ventura that's closed. You're done,
You're done, and it's closed. Got almighty. They've got this
thing closed all the way up to the top of
(21:31):
the grapevine.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
I mean, they've got this thing closed at Oh no,
it's further than that. It's at the outlet. They've got
this thing closed where the outlets are up over the ridge.
When you go into Bakersfield, the outlet center is up there,
and you know where you know, there's a jack in
the box, you know, the whole run up there, there's
(21:55):
grass where your dog takes a whiz, but the shell
station in you know where that is. And then they
also have the outlets up there. It's closed almost where
the ninety nine meets the five. This thing is closed
for sixty five miles or more over this fire.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
Wow wow, wow.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
All right, Well, let's find out what's going on with
the PIO. This guy's Robert Jensen. He knows what's going
on out there with this fire.
Speaker 9 (22:24):
Deputy Robert Jensen with the La County Sheriff Department Santac
for Rita's station.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
Deputy can hear us?
Speaker 5 (22:30):
Okay, yep, yeah, I ken. How are you guys doing today?
Speaker 4 (22:33):
We're good?
Speaker 9 (22:34):
How are how's evacuations going with the citizens of Castaic
and the other areas there?
Speaker 5 (22:40):
Thank you again for the opportunity to come on here
and let everybody know, folks, if you are issued in
evacuation order, it is not a recommendation. Deputies are on
the ground going door by door for over thirty one
thousand people that are under evac order right now. We
have another twenty four thousand under EVAK warning.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
Okay, so fifty what's it?
Speaker 1 (22:57):
Fifty five thousand people under either a warning or mandatory evacuation.
Fifty five thousand people? Okay? Where are they going to go?
What are they gonna do? Every apartment, every hotel, everything
is taken by the people from Palisades, Malibu, right Altadena, Arcadia, Pasadena.
Speaker 4 (23:23):
Where are they going to go?
Speaker 2 (23:25):
Where do you want to go?
Speaker 4 (23:27):
Where do they go?
Speaker 2 (23:28):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (23:29):
That means an excess of seventy five hundred structures and
about seventy under order and about seventy one hundred structures
under warning. I'd a lot of ground to cover. Please
help us out as we attempt to help you. We
learned from our mistakes a week or two ago, right
with eating in Palisades. If you get that order, please
evacuate rapidly. I have animal shelter information for small animals.
You're going to go to Palmdale, Agora, Cousture Animal Care Centers.
(23:52):
And then if you have large animals, you can go
to Pierce College for those larger animals. Again, I just
want to emphasize we are currently so if you have
a dogs or cats policy, if you get that order,
please okay.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
Here's for dogs and cats.
Speaker 5 (24:05):
I have animal shelter information for small animals.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
You're small animals. Here we go lomb.
Speaker 5 (24:09):
Dale Adlorent, Pecus Animal Care Centers.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
I think you said Palmdale, Lombdale, Adlorent, Agora and Lancaster lom.
Speaker 5 (24:16):
Dale, Adlorent, Lacustre Animal Care.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
Center Animal Care Center.
Speaker 4 (24:19):
Okay.
Speaker 5 (24:19):
And then if you have large animals, you can go
to Pierce College.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
Okay, if you have like a horse or I don't
know what's out there, elephants or whatever whatever you got.
If you got some big ass animal piers.
Speaker 5 (24:31):
For those larger animals. Again, I just want to emphasize
we are currently at sixty three hundred acres. That was
the last update. I was about thirty minutes ago.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
Yeah, now it's at eighty eight eight thousand acres.
Speaker 5 (24:43):
I need you guys to heed those warnings.
Speaker 4 (24:45):
Okay.
Speaker 5 (24:45):
I have deputies on the ground going door to door
to try and begin this evacuation. The fire is moving
south just a little bit, so we are beginning to
see evacuations in the Tesoro del Vae community as well
as the Kelly Johnson, Biscaloos, San Francisquito, and Raya's Adobe areas.
Please check the Protect Dot Genesis app or the website
(25:06):
to see if your zone has been put under evacuation orders.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
Another good app is that that Watch Duty. Watch Duty
is a great app.
Speaker 4 (25:14):
Oh man.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
They alert you, they tell you what's going on. I
trust the watch app more than I trust the LA
City or LA County apps. I just do they just
they it's it's manned by fireman X. You know retired
fire guys. There's a lot of great information out there.
They get information firsthand from firemen on the ground who
they used to work with, and they're way ahead of
(25:38):
the city and the counties.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
They just are you know.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
And so if you get fire water or watch duty,
Watch Duty, it's a great it's easy to download, it's free,
it's easy to download, and they are on.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
Top of it.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
All right, we'll come back and finish up with this
the fire burning out at Lake Casteak. I have a
feeling that we're about two hours away from them controlling
this fire enough to open up the freeway and open
up some of the roads. And I think we're I
think we're going to have great information for people. That's
my hope, and I think I'm right on this one.
(26:14):
I think we're gonna have some great information for people
that live up in that area in the next couple hours.
Speaker 6 (26:20):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
There's a lot of people out there that are nervous
in Valencia, in Castake and Santa Clarita. But you also
have to know that we have firefighters from around the
country and around the world, The best firefighters in the
country are right here in southern California right now. And
(26:47):
if you think that fire is not going to get
all the attention it needs, you got another thing coming.
The best men and women in the world at fighting
fires are on this fire. And so if you see
open flames, you see flame burning around, you got it.
You got to know that those firefighters, they know about it,
(27:08):
they know what's going on.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
These are the best in the world.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
And so if you think, wow, the fires looks like
it's out of control, a lot of times they let
those fires burn the extra fuel so they don't have
to come out another two weeks later. So you know,
this is not two weeks ago. This is not you know,
eighty mile one hundred mile an hour sustained wind over
a five ten fifteen hour period.
Speaker 4 (27:33):
It's just not.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
It looks pretty ominous in some areas, but the best
guys and gals are on the front line here and
they're going to have They're gonna make pretty quick work
of this fire. I've seen fires up there before, I've
seen the body language of firefighters. They're right now, they're burning,
(27:55):
they're putting their lighting backfires. So anytime you see a
firefighter lighting a backfire. That means they have a tremendous
amount of control on this fire. The wind conditions are perfect,
and they're lighting fires themselves. So when the firefighters light
firefight fires, they know that they got to handle on
this because if they light fires and he gets out
(28:18):
of control, their asses are going to get cooked when
they get back to the station. So they've got this
thing and they got a great control over it. The
fire that's going up the canyon right now you're watching
on channel five, that's a controlled burn. The firefighters have
set this fire to control that, you know, the the
(28:39):
fuel in that area. And so these guys, let's go
to channel eleven real quick. They're talking to the guys
who are lighting these fires and setting the backfires.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
You got that Channel eleven.
Speaker 10 (28:50):
Nice good work. That was remarkable. I've never seen anything
like that.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
Awesome. Thank you, we appreciate it.
Speaker 10 (28:55):
And now you're hoping that it closed back the other way.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
Yeah, for sure, for sure, they say, for sure it will.
Speaker 4 (29:01):
That works.
Speaker 11 (29:01):
They just saved all of these rv RVs and all
these people that are counting on them.
Speaker 10 (29:07):
So really really heroic work.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
Oh I used that for it okay, so.
Speaker 10 (29:13):
We did, but unfortunately it.
Speaker 11 (29:15):
Did actually jump the line a little bit, so if
it weren't for them.
Speaker 10 (29:19):
They definitely saved the day.
Speaker 11 (29:20):
But it did jump the line a little bit, and
then they had some water drops that kind of helped out,
so they were coming at it from different directions, so
definitely a joint team effort that.
Speaker 10 (29:29):
Saved the Cassaic RV Park.
Speaker 11 (29:31):
They were yelling for their friend Winston earlier, who they
weren't sure had made.
Speaker 10 (29:35):
It back, so that's what we were worried about. But
they got everyone out.
Speaker 11 (29:38):
As far as we know, the Castaic RV Park is
still okay and they are just continuing to fight this
fire that's now exploited to eight thousand acres. Just and
showed you a minute ago the sun setting over the hill.
Now as it's starting to get dark, the winds have
calmed for a little bit, but they are definitely gonna
pick up tonight to forty even possibly fifty five mile
per hour guests is here's in. Castaic is under a
(29:58):
red flag warning until Friday at about ten o'clock in
the morning. So just a bad recipe for disaster for
these fire conditions with it being so dry and warm,
and not a whole lot of recovery overnight for our
low relative humidity.
Speaker 10 (30:12):
So you can see the flames.
Speaker 11 (30:13):
Really starting to pick up there on the hillside as
this helicopter is making it around towards us, and the
winds out of the northeast, of course, blowing the fire.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
Okay, a couple of things here.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
One earlier during this fire, they couldn't use lake cast
steak with the fixed wing aircraft because of all the smoke.
Now that the smoke is blown away, they can put
those helicopters back in and take water out of the lake,
and they are doing a sensational job at tackling this fire.
The five is still closed. I know that's a pain
of the aids, the nightmare for a lot of people.
(30:48):
Hopefully that will open soon. But they I think they're
going to make pretty quick work of this. They and
they know they have to because the winds are going
to pick up tonight. So I got a lot of
faith in those guys and gals that are up there
on that front line.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
I think they're doing a hell of a job. All Right,
we'll we come back.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
We're gonna have a press conference over this fire. We
will learn more about the origin, the evacuations, the winds,
the firefight. You're gonna learn more at the press conference,
and we'll break in whenever that starts.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
We are live.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
Keep an eye on this fire. Yet another fire. Every
time you know you wake up, there's three or four
more fires before you go to sleep. Never seen anything
like this in my life, ever in my life. Born
and raised in the San Fernando Valley, been in here
for the better part of six decades, I've never seen
it like this. Something's going on, all right. We're live
on KFI AM six forty Conway Show on demand on
(31:45):
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