January 22, 2025 • 43 mins
Los Angeles Police Chief Anthony Marrone and Sherriff Robert Luna lead a presser on the latest Hughes fire updates. // Retired Los Angeles Fire Department Captain, Steve Kreager joins the show to talk about the Hughes fire, and the ongoing firefighting efforts as the firefighters continue the fight during these heightened winds. Tim and Steve also discuss how unique this is for LA county as they haven’t encountered comparable situations. // State Farm Insurance agent Kirk Baker joins us to talk about fire insurance in California state, evacuating his office, insurance tips, and things you may not know about your fire insurance policy. // Tim discusses how we as Angelinos have become a bit numb to fire coverage as it seems to never end. And we are looking forward to relief this weekend, with rain in the forecast.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's KFI AM six forty and you're listening to the
Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Our homes for now and watching the path of the fire.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
STEFFI walked closer to the winds blowing this way.
Speaker 4 (00:13):
We had a fire here probably like two years ago,
was more on the backside that way.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
So all right, let's go to that press conference right now.
Speaker 5 (00:21):
We'll start this press conference off with Fire Chief Anthony Moroney.
Speaker 6 (00:28):
So good evening on behalf of board chair and fifth
District Supervisor Catherine Barger. We're holding a press conference to
give important information to the community of Santa Clarita and
the Castaic area. I am Anthony Maroney, Chief of the
Los Angeles County Fire Department. The Hughes fire is now
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estimated to be over nine thousand, four hundred acres with
zero percent containment, with no structures acted, damaged, or destroyed.
We have over four thousand firefighting personnel assigned to the incident,
and we had a very robust round and air response
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to the incident that you see behind me. The La
County Fire Department is in unified command with the Angelus
National Forest and we are getting assistants from our state
partners at CalFire. I wanted to give a weather update
because the weather is what's predominantly driving this fire and
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it's spread right now.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
The National Weather Service has extended the.
Speaker 6 (01:37):
Red flag warning through ten am on Friday for most
of Los Angeles and Ventura Counties. Light to moderate Santa
Anna wins will continue tonight and into Thursday. The situation
remains dynamic and the fire remains a difficult fire to contain,
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although we are getting the upper hand. I would now
like to invite up Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna
to give update on evacuations and the closure of the
I five, thank you, good evening to everybody, and thank
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you Chief Morony.
Speaker 7 (02:25):
So for us obviously in unified command with our partners
at the Fire Department, from the very beginning of this incident,
byer incident, and right now, the numbers that I have
is that we have approximately thirty one thousand people who
are affected by our evacuation orders, another twenty three thousand
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that are impacted by evacuation warnings. Along with the work
that our deputies have been doing, and you've seen them
going from neighborhood to neighborhood, making sure that we are
protecting the neighborhoods to make sure nobody gets hurt, traffic
ingress and egress. And also, unfortunately, when we talk about fires,
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our staff knows that immediately they start what we call
looter suppression, just to make sure that no one's coming
into the area to take advantage when people are evacuating
their home. So I want to make sure people know
that that if you leave your homes, there will be
additional deputies working out there in the neighborhoods to make
sure your homes are safe. In regards to staffing, we
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are staffing up. You hear sirens in the distance. They're
not only fire apparatus, but you see deputies coming in
from different parts of the county. You see our incident
management team over my left shoulder setting up with the
big trailers that will assume responsibility for this incident from
the Sheriff's department perspective, and again in unified command with
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all of our partner we have what I estimate well
over four hundred personnel total regarding this incident and managing
other incidences around the County of Los Angeles. I do
want to bring your attention to the fact that during
this incident, one of the areas that initially was an
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evacuation warning that did turn into an evacuation order was
our Pitches Detention Center, which is not too far from here.
The Pitches Detention Center has actually three different facilities.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
One of the facilities was evacuated.
Speaker 7 (04:37):
In discussing this with our partners from the Fire Department,
who are experts in this area, they recommended and we
agreed that the one facility PD South would be evacuated
that had approximately four hundred and seventy six inmates. We
moved those inmates to another facility on the campus. The
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other two campuses are structured much better than the one
that we evacuated from, but total, on the entire campus
we have approximately four thousand, five hundred inmates a little
over that. We do have a plan in place in
case the fire conditions. Our fire partners would advise if
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it gets worse, whether it's wind, whatever, that may be
a plan in place to evacuate the rest of the
inmates on the entire facility if we absolutely had to.
Other than that, it's a newer incident and it's evolving,
it's going to change We're ready for just about anything,
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which by the way, includes being prepared for any other
incident that would break God forbid anywhere in the County
of Los Angeles. I do want to report that the
five Freeway has been closed, but I'm told that after
this press conference, for a variety of reasons, we will
reopen the freeway so that people can go back and forth. Again,
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I do want to reiterate that if you do not
live in this area, and if you're following the smoke
you want to go see what the firefighters are doing,
turn on the television set.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
Do not drive into these areas.
Speaker 7 (06:20):
You are impacting the ingress and egress of emergency vehicles.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
We don't need more traffic, we want less traffic.
Speaker 7 (06:27):
We don't want you walking around in the impacted areas
to impact.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
The community members who live here.
Speaker 7 (06:34):
And with that, I'm going to introduce Chief Robert Garcia
from the US Forest Service.
Speaker 8 (06:44):
Good evening. I just want to first say thank you
to Sheriff Luna and Fire Chief Coroni and Director Joe
Tyler for the partnership.
Speaker 9 (06:53):
This incident started out in the early part of the day,
as Chief Maroni indicated, and this isn't a mutual red zones.
So Los Angeles County Fire Department of the Angels National
Forest entered in unified command right away.
Speaker 8 (07:05):
And I also want to say that how.
Speaker 9 (07:07):
Extremely proud I am the way our responders moved into
this area and established command and really established some incative
objectives working together. The conditions that we're under aren't as
severe as what we've been facing over the last week
or two, but what you saw today is indicative of
the conditions that we're in in terms of the vegetation.
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So although we're not under particularly dangerous situation in terms
of the wind, our wildland fire condition is critical. Absent wind,
the fire is going to move for the vegetation like
you saw today with the slope and chasing fuel, very
dangerous conditions as to what led to the US Forest
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Service closing all of the Angelus National Forests. And this
is exactly an example of why the other thing I
want to offer in terms of resources, I hope that
all the citizens here in the area are proud of
the prepositioning and the robust response. This area always sees
a robust response the initial threat zone, but our incidents
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between the eat and the Palisades, our local mobilization centers,
our preposition resources put us in a position for multiple
waves of surge resources both engine crews on the ground hand.
Speaker 8 (08:21):
Cruise, bulldozers, and aircraft. And so the.
Speaker 9 (08:23):
Response you see as a result of the local cooperation
and the local pre planning and the geographic area not
only within the LA area, but also with our partners
in the State of California, to ensure that we are
prepared for.
Speaker 8 (08:36):
What we're now facing.
Speaker 9 (08:38):
With that, I'm going to turn over the mic to
the Director of a cal Fire from Sacramento, Director Joe Tyler.
Speaker 5 (08:50):
Good a thing everyone. My name is Joe Tyler. I'm
the director and fire chief of Captifire. Normally my office
is located in Sacramento, but I have found the need
over the last two weeks to spend my time here
in a greater Los Angeles area. We have been impacted
significantly over the last two weeks, as we all know,
related to the Palisades Fire, the Eton Fire, the Hurst Fire,
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the Lydia fire. And as we continue through these weather conditions,
we recognize that it's not over yet. We recognize that
we still have a couple of days to go. So
the State of California brings its full force of the
women and men of Califire, supporting the Los Angeles County
Fire Department, our local fire agencies, the Angeles National Force,
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and the Forest Service abroad, as well as our law
enforcement partners who are doing so much to respond to
all of these emergencies. Together, Caloyes as utilized funds to
bring together prepositioned resources across southern California and the californ
In Your National Guard has located aircraft, book rotor wing
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helicopters and fixed wings mobile our modular mass units to
be able to supplement the air takers that we have
here available locally. This fire had a robust response today
and as you can see behind us, the responders are
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doing great work to try to contain this fire. Certainly,
we are not out of the woods yet. It is
important to take heed and caution and follow the directions
of local law enforcement, your first responders, as they are
asking you to evacuate the area. Doing that will allow
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our fire resources to be able to conduct perimeter control
and extinguish the flaming front of this fire.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
Many times we find ourselves trying.
Speaker 5 (10:57):
To rescue evacuees, but today the community heeded that lesson
and many evacuated the area, allowing them to fight the fire.
We will continue to be here to support not only now,
but as we move into the next phase with the
potential of rains coming forward and trying to mitigate the
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landscape to avoid debris flows and flooding.
Speaker 8 (11:22):
We will be here for you.
Speaker 5 (11:24):
I want to take the opportunity now to invite the
Mayor of Santa Clarita, Bill Miranda.
Speaker 6 (11:30):
To the podium.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
Thank you very much.
Speaker 10 (11:39):
I'm City of Santa Crita Mayor Bill Miranda. We just
cannot say enough about the work our first responders have
done over the past couple of weeks and the work
that they are curry currently doing just north of the
city in the wake of the devastation that tore through
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Los Angeles, claiming homes and lives. Understandably, everyone is on
heightened alert and all too aware of the damage these
fires can cause. I want to re emphasize the importance
of listening to our first responders and paying attention to
the emergency alerts. If your area is under evacuation warning
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or order, Please if it's a warning, prepared to evacuate.
If it's an order, evacuate now. Don't wait ten minutes
and see what's going to happen. Nothing's going to happen,
nothing's going to change in ten minutes. We want you
to evacuate now. Do not hesitate, do not stay, Grab
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the necessary items and leave as quickly as you can.
And when we mention grab the necessary items. We're talking
about critical papers or critical medicine that you may need.
We're not talking about packing a suitcase. We're talking about packing.
Speaker 8 (13:03):
A backpack and having it ready.
Speaker 10 (13:07):
We can imagine the stress and extreme conditions our first
responders have been during this unprecedented time. Do your part
to help them, and the best way you can do
that is to evacuate. Our city is unified. Our city
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is in unified command with the Los Angeles County Fire
Department and the Sheriff's Department. We're working together to ensure
that our residents are safe and minimize potential damage to
homes and businesses. All city recreation and community services have
been canceled for the rest of the day. Our Santacree
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to transit buses are running behind schedule because of the
traffic due to the evacuations. I encourage all of you,
if you are safe, not to not an evacuation zone.
Please stay home and off our city streets.
Speaker 8 (14:12):
We need our.
Speaker 10 (14:13):
Streets open for evacuees to safely leave and for first responders.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
To get in.
Speaker 10 (14:19):
Please do your part to help these fighting the Hughes fire.
I want to end with our heartful thanks to the firefighters,
the Sheriff's Department, deputies and other first responders. Your efforts
have been nothing but heroic. From the city of Santa Karita,
we say thank.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
You, Thank you.
Speaker 5 (14:46):
Mayor. Now we're going to do a question and answer
with the media, and after we are finished with this,
we'll have breakout sessions and we will provide Spanish interviews
as well.
Speaker 11 (14:56):
First question, you're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand
from KFI A M six forty.
Speaker 8 (15:08):
What's the plan for the night and into the morning.
Speaker 6 (15:12):
So we've already developed a day, the day and the
night plan with our unified partners. We are going to
be on scene all night long, gaining more perimeter control,
making sure that we can put out the hotspots, and
then have enough resources at staging that if we do
have a flare up, we could move those resources to
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the fire line. So we already have a plan for
tonight and we're making orders for tomorrow.
Speaker 12 (15:42):
You talk, the more you talk more about those plants
for the night and specifics.
Speaker 6 (15:46):
Regarding number of resources or job assignments. We're going to
keep the four thousand firefighters assigned to the incident, We're
going to increase our perimeter control, and we're going.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
To extinguish those hot spots that those would be the tab.
Speaker 13 (16:02):
Sheriff Luna, if you can describe the decision making to
first close the I five and now reopen what change
that allowed you to reopen that particular byway.
Speaker 7 (16:16):
So, working with our partners at the California Higward Patrol,
we needed to have better ingress and egress for emergency
vehicles coming through the five freeway corridor. I believe that
we've gotten a lot of the equipment that we need
here for the rest of the evening.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
Obviously that could change, that could be modified.
Speaker 7 (16:39):
So we want to give the five back to our
community so they can get through here as safely and
as efficiently as they possibly can.
Speaker 13 (16:47):
And is there anything in on the way of Interstate
five that puts.
Speaker 12 (16:52):
Those drivers at risk at all or are you concerned
at all about what the traffic will look.
Speaker 7 (16:57):
Like always concerned about hazards coming in and out north
and south. As far as I know now, we don't
see any hazards, but the winds are what they are.
I'm not a fire expert, but we listen to our
fire experts and if the wind shift, fire behavior does
whatever it does, and if at any time we believe
that our community may be in peril because of that
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win or fire behavior will close it again, I say
we'll close it again. It's our partners at the California
High Patrol. We usually do that and they do an
excellent job with that.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
We thank you, Amana starantinok cal jee Rony.
Speaker 12 (17:34):
I have two questions. A lot of people are on
edge after the last.
Speaker 4 (17:38):
Couple of weeks and what we've seen, how been in
Algentina and the Polisades, How did this fire here or
the hues fire parrots what we've seen last couple of weeks.
Speaker 6 (17:46):
Well, I think that we've all been on edge over
the last sixteen days and we've had a number of
numerous fires start throughout Los Angeles County. The response to
this fire between the Angeles National Forest and the La Countys,
in addition to the state resources that were predeployed. We
had two strike teams in the Santa Clarita area. We
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were able to amass a lot of fire resources early
on to change what this fire looks like. Just three
or four hours ago, the smoke was laying across the
five Freeway. That's what necessitated and shut down because there
could have been accidents, but also the ability to fight
the fire from the air. The winds were strong, but
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they were not those seventy eighty ninety mile an hour
winds that we experienced on Tuesday the seventh. We had
a very robust, like Director Tyler Spoke, a robust helicopter
and fixed wing retarded response to this incident. We were
able to put in tens of thousands of gallons of
retardant on the south side of the fire because the
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fire was moving to the southwest. It was really the
aircraft in addition to all of those ground resources which
allowed us to get the upper hand. Because had you
been here a few hours ago, the situation looked much
different and it certainly looked much more threatening.
Speaker 12 (19:09):
And Gie Maroni, what are the biggest challenges heading into
the night?
Speaker 6 (19:13):
Well into the night, it's going to be making sure
that we can rest our crews that have been out
there since ten forty two this morning, making sure.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
We can feed them.
Speaker 6 (19:22):
You know, firefighting is dirty and dangerous work, but we
got to rotate our crews through so we can have
you know, a lot of production.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
And efficiency throughout the night.
Speaker 6 (19:31):
We're going to take advantage of the lower temperatures and
hopefully the reduced wind speeds and the higher humidities to
try to get an upper hand.
Speaker 12 (19:38):
Okay, thank you and Sheriff Luna, this is for you.
Speaker 4 (19:42):
With the five reopening, will there still be no access
to those neighborhoods now.
Speaker 12 (19:45):
That people will be driving up and down those.
Speaker 4 (19:47):
Roads, are getting off that parker like he's has lee
all those evacuation order areas, just because the five's open,
is not still going.
Speaker 12 (19:53):
To be blocked off.
Speaker 7 (19:55):
We're assessing that now to make sure. But we'll have
a lot of presents. If you are coming into the area,
be ready to be challenged, meaning in a polite way,
to find out if you actually live here. Be ready
to show identification, because we want to make sure that
we're limiting the people who are coming in and out
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and it's people who actually belong here.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
I guess this question the new SHAREFF.
Speaker 14 (20:23):
Since you guys handled evacuations, I'm correct with Cannus and
is when it comes to the idea of evacuation, some
people are stummer and they don't want to go. Have
you seen a change in attitude with this fire and
now because of the terrible devastation, the death toll, in
the fact people are panicked because of the Eating fire
and the Palisades fire.
Speaker 7 (20:43):
I haven't received that assessment yet, but I will in
the next couple of hours to see how we did
on this one.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
Our deputy shriffes do amazing work.
Speaker 7 (20:55):
And yes, whether it was the Palisades fire and Malibu
lost tills for us and they Eating fire and Altadena,
our deputies jobs are very difficult. There are times where
people challenge them. They get evacuation orders and they refuse
to leave. They think that they're going to be okay.
Speaker 9 (21:15):
I know.
Speaker 7 (21:16):
I told the story earlier of a situation in the
Altadena area where we were advising directing people to evacuate
and they refuse to and the deputy felt that they
were in such danger that he actually threatened them with
the rest. There was an argument between a wife and
a husband, wife saying, hey, we should listen. They listen,
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they left, and they are now crediting the deputy share
for saving their life because that house and neighborhood completely
burned down. Those are the challenges that we face. But
you've heard it here over and over, and really the
message is simple. If there's an evacuation order, please leave.
Do not put your life at risk. Do not put
the life of first responders at risk.
Speaker 3 (21:59):
It's not worth it.
Speaker 7 (22:00):
And I'm even pushing it that if you're an evacuation warning,
you should also leave.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
Can gather your most important items.
Speaker 7 (22:08):
Medicines, important paperwork, pets, chargers for your phone, and get
out of the area.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
Don't sit there and argue it is not worth it.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
Okay, that was the press conference for the huge fire.
Let's go to Steve Kraeger, La County retired fire Captain Steve,
welcome back. It seems like we talked to every couple
of days now, which I don't mind. By that means
there's more fires. I've never seen it like this. You
spent thirty years with La County. Have you seen this
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many fires in this shorter period of time ever in
your life?
Speaker 15 (22:46):
Not in La County? We did you know? Back in
two thousand and three, we had the Grand Prix fire
and then the Old Fire you know, Ontario Rancho Cucamonga
Upland and it burned up above San Bornino to the mountains,
but not in La County. But that's very thick brush
up there in that area. I know that area quite well.
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I started out in my career from it was a
forty year career, started out in nineteen seventy six working
up there in San Franciscito Canyon and we did a
lot of project work up there around Casta at Lake.
So I'm very familiar with it. And it just hasn't
burnt quite a while, except for the Route fire two
years ago. They're long between the five Freeway and cast
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Deic so that area has been burnt off. So they're
pretty good shaped there. But what kind.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
Of assessment do you give? I mean, you're looking at
it with a different eye, a tutored eye. You've been
in the business. You know you're firing fires for forty years.
When give us an assessment on what you really think
what's going on with this fire? The bigger picture here
at five twenty three.
Speaker 15 (23:52):
Well, what I saw, and I've been watching it since
this morning when I started. It's in an inaccessible area,
so the engines can only work from along the road
and watch for hotspots that he's spotting over the roads
where it did jump Lake Hughes Road. But it's a
very tough fire to fight because it was mainly an
aerial fight and with bulldozers, because you couldn't get engines
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in there, and even if they could on some of
those dirt motorways, it didn't look like it was really
safe to get engines up in there because they wouldn't
be able to turn around to get out very easily.
So I think there was an aerial firefight and they
brought in all the air tankers. I even saw some
of the C one thirties from their National Guard in there.
And also you know those DC tens you were talking about,
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they're going out Sandbourn Diino to fill because that's a
much bigger airport. The other tankers were filling up at
Foxfield at Lancaster and that it actually worked good because
the smaller air tankers can fill up there and there's
not congestion at one airport.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
Right Steve, I saw some firefighters lighting backfire.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
Is that a good sign?
Speaker 15 (25:03):
It can be, and that's they what they're doing is
they're kind of cleaning up the line where you have
an area of unburned and they have a road or
they cut some line, and they're going to burn the
unburnt material between that road and where the main fire
is burning, and the main fire will suck that fire
into it, it will draw it to it, and that
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way they don't have to worry about the area burning again.
They want to have everything burnt within the containment lines,
so they're that's a good thing.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
They also said they have four thousand firefighters on this thing,
in the air and on the ground. Is that an
unusual large amount of firefighters or is that typical for
a fire the size.
Speaker 15 (25:46):
That's very unusual this early on. You had a lot
of resources there. I was watching on Channel five. They
had some hand crewiser from Santa Cruz and so I
don't know they were still in the area, but there
was there's a lot of preposition equipment. I know LA
County had several strike teams already stationed up in that area.
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They had La City strike teams coming up there, so
they got a lot of man parent equipment up there
very quickly.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
So I'm looking at the fire right now, and it
looks like there's only one hot spot left, but it's
it's surrounded by foschek. What foschak didn't exist when you
started fighting fires, and and it's got to be for
these guys out there, that's got to be in u
you know, one of the best game changers and one
of the best you know assets that these guys have.
Speaker 15 (26:35):
Absolutely, especially in mountainous areas. They'll drop it right along
the ridgetop and keep it from slopping over the ridgetop,
so it gives them a good place to to come
back and work on with their bulldozers and hand crews.
Because even though they have the Foschack line there, that's
not considered containment, not until they clear it down to earth.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
Right.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
But when I when I see my rule of thumb,
and again I don't know with this true or no,
but when I see firefighters running, I panic. But when
I see them standing around, I think they've got things
under control. Is that a safe ways safe assessment.
Speaker 15 (27:12):
Especially when they're doing structure protection. If they're just standing around,
they're waiting for the fire to come to them. But
if you see them moving and chart pulling hoses. You know,
you know that things are going on they need to
take care of.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
Right And what about the people that stay back. There's
a lot of people in Lake Casteak who I don't know,
they've seen people save their homes from you know, Malibu
to Pacific palis a it's all the way out to
the eating fire. Stay behind and save their homes with
a garden hose.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
Do you recommend that.
Speaker 15 (27:42):
You know, when the fire is approaching, that garden hose
is not going to do a whole lot and it
takes fire water away from the fire department because you
start drawing down the water supply from those fire hydrants.
You know, most of the new roofs or fire resistive
type of roofs, whether there comp roofs or tile roofs,
and hosing down a roof that doesn't is not going
to burn, doesn't do a whole lot of good. And
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it's like Dean Sharp talks about the biggest thing is
getting those keeping the embers out of those attic spaces.
And as people rebuild, they're going to need to put
those ember proof attic vents in and squirt and the water.
The best place to squirt the water is to spray
it in front of where those vents are to stop
the embers from getting in. The vents catch on the fire,
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the attic will and.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
I'm sorry that that DC ten that that's dropping fase check.
I know it's going to San Berndino to fill up.
But I didn't see a lot of those over Alta
Dina and over Palisades. Did I just miss them or
is that something new on the scene.
Speaker 15 (28:45):
I think they did have them, but I don't know
where they're based out of. But I know there's at
least four of them, and they dropped a little over
nine thousand gallons of pase check where the other planes dropped,
and I've got three or four thousand, so they're very effective.
I don't know where they were during the Altadena fire,
and I know for a while there they couldn't fly
because the whim. One good thing is there's actually four
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Super Scoopers that are flying today. I think they sent Canada
sent two more down here and they were filling up
over at the Bouquet Canyon Reservoir because the copts were
filling up at Castay at Lake and I think also
had to do with wind direction, So the super scoopers
are filling up at Bouquet Reservoir and then coming back
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over and dropping on the fire.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
Bunny, I appreciate you coming on. I know I love
talking with you. But got almighty. Every day there's two
three four fires in La.
Speaker 15 (29:41):
Yeah, and hopefully we get a little bit of rain
this weekend. Yeah, well, dampen things down and we'll be
done with this for this year.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
Excellent. All right, buddy, I really appreciate you coming on.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
All right, when we come back, we have a guy,
this is an interesting guy who his name is Kirk
Baker from State Farm in Shreurans.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
He's out in Valencia. Maybe you have your insurance with him.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
He's going to tell us what you need to do
from an insurance perspective. I heard that they're not an
insurance policies.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
I'm not here hues fire.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
Well ask him if that looks like these firefighters have
got some kind of control over it. But you never
know what the winds, you never know what's going to
happen overnight. So if they do tell you get out,
get out.
Speaker 11 (30:25):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
Are we keeping an eye on the Hues fire. And
it looks ominous at night, you know, it looks really
horrible at night, like the whole city's on fire. But
evidently these guys in these fire trucks and these guys
with the planes and the helicopters know what they're doing
and keeping this fire away from homes. So far, it's
at ninety four hundred acres and zero structures have been
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burned or damaged. Zero, So that's a hell of a fight.
These guys have done an unbelievable job. Zero structures. Now
you can burn ninety four hundred acres in that area
and not burn a single home.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
That's incredible. That is something else.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
So hopefully they know what these guys know what they're
doing in directing that fire into a canyon where they
can fight it and put fascheck around it and beat
it so everyone can go back to their home fairly soon.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
We'll keep an eye on that for you, but for now.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
Everybody has questions right about your insurance, your fire insurance.
Even people live in the valley flats, they're out near
the ocean, or in the hills, the mountains, wherever, in
the desert, the high desert, low desert. Everyone has questions
about fire insurance. So we thought we get a guy
on and know something about a Kirk Baker with State
Farm in Valencia.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
Is that right, Kirk?
Speaker 16 (31:52):
Yeah, that's right, Kim.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
All right, So what's going on?
Speaker 1 (31:56):
I heard a rumor and I've not been able to
confirm this or not, that no major company is writing
fire insurance policies in southern California right now?
Speaker 2 (32:04):
Is that true?
Speaker 16 (32:08):
That happened before the fires? Okay, so yeah, there's there's
it's uh, you know, you can get it through the
California Fair Plan, but getting it with one of the
major companies right now is rather difficult.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
So that's going to radically affect Southern California though, because
you can't buy a house if you have a mortgage,
you need fire insurance.
Speaker 16 (32:30):
Correct, and it has been affecting it for quite some time.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
Do you see any what what do you see as
the solution to that? Where rain maybe or a change
in the government financing.
Speaker 2 (32:43):
How do you see it? Because because if if fire.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
Insurance dries up in Southern California, so goes there goes
the economy.
Speaker 16 (32:50):
Yeah, and I think that you know that there's there's
progress that was being made prior to the fires. I
think they're starting to realize how important the insurance industry
is to the economy here in California. So progress has
been made, and we expect more progress to be made
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now that this has exasperated the situation even more.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
You know, I don't know whether it's Bonta or I
don't know what officials said this. Maybe it was the
Attorney General, maybe was the insurance Commissioner, but he said
he would like for the big insurance companies who canceled
fire insurance for people to go back and retroactively install
their policy. And I thought, there's no way they're going
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to do that after they've lost the House. That would
be a really dumb business sense. But the can the
state force your companies to do that?
Speaker 16 (33:47):
I'm you know, I don't speak on behalf of State Farm,
so I can't tell you if they can force it
or not. I can tell you that State Farm has
decided on a good will gesture to going and and
do that at least temporarily for the next renewal cycle.
So that's really good news for a lot of policy holders,
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you know, are in a bad situation.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
Right, And so I understand not you know, not issuing
new policies, not writing new policies for people to live
up in the mountains or in these fire you know,
prone areas. But even in Orange County, where you know,
people are in the middle of like I don't know,
Irvine or some of these safer cities, Newport Beach, it's
still tougher, impossible to get a policy written.
Speaker 16 (34:37):
It's not as tough as it is in the brush areas,
but yes, it's still a challenge.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
And I imagine also premiums are going to go up
or we're going to see an increase in the in
fire insurance in new policies and existing policies.
Speaker 16 (34:55):
Yeah, I mean that's to be expected. And to be
honest with you, Tim, you almost have to be this
is going to sound really crazy, but you almost have
to be grateful when you see your rate go up,
because when your rate goes up, that means that there's
progress that's being made and we're getting closer to you know,
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the major carriers wanting to come back to California.
Speaker 1 (35:20):
All right, let me try to swallow that, though, it'd
be very grateful where my rate goes up.
Speaker 16 (35:28):
I know, That sounds like a typical insurance agent speak.
Speaker 2 (35:32):
But that's exactly what I was about to say. You've
crystallized my thoughts.
Speaker 16 (35:38):
But you know there's some method to the madness there,
because you know, when there's rate relief, that means progress
is being made. And and you know, costs have gone
up dramatically, especially over the last five years.
Speaker 1 (35:53):
And you know what's going to Kirk Bakers with a
state farm insurance in Valencia. What is the what is
going to have to happen in California for us to
get back to normal where we're like you know, Texas
or you know, Ohio or whatever, where an insurance policy
is written, you pay a decent premium, you hardly ever
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use it, but you go to bed every night knowing
you have it. What are the changes that are going
to have to happen in California?
Speaker 16 (36:22):
Well, that's a loaded question. And I don't know that
you'll ever see things like they were. I don't think
they're going to go back to the levels that they
were before, you know, but it's just a matter of
you know, having the you know, the proper infrastructure in
place to to fight these things and and to to
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be able to price them properly.
Speaker 2 (36:47):
And you know, let me ask you another question.
Speaker 1 (36:51):
All right, Kirk bankers with us from State Farm in Valencia.
By the way, I heard that that from several people
out there that you're one of the good guys that
you were help your clients out.
Speaker 2 (37:01):
Is that true?
Speaker 16 (37:02):
Well, well, hell, I don't know about that, but I
I was, you know, rushing back to the office today
to get my company checkbook because we have these drafts
that we can checks that we can give to people
when they're displaced from their home. And that's one of
the things that I wanted to bring up for everyone
is that you know, if you're being told to evacuate,
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especially a mandatory evacuation, you know, there's coverages that can
be extended under your insurance policy for what we call
loss of use or additional living expenses right subject to
a deductible but you know that's that's the kind of
thing where if you have to go to a hotel,
you have to go to a restaurant, you know, you
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have to go to a rental home, you have to
live in an RV for a while. You know, those
kinds of things can you know, be covered under the policy.
So if you know, if you're thinking, oh, I don't
have the money to stay there, there's a chance that
it could be covered under your insurance.
Speaker 15 (38:02):
Policy, if you've got a decent policy.
Speaker 1 (38:03):
Okay, I'm gonna ask you a quick question. It's a
personal question, and we got to take a break. I
want a yes or no answer from you. Before my
wife and I used to pay twenty four hundred dollars
for our auto insurance two cars, and then we had
our house insurance on the side. When my daughter first
started driving, our auto insurance policy went from twenty four
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hundred dollars a year to nearly eleven thousand dollars a year.
Speaker 2 (38:28):
Is that excessive?
Speaker 15 (38:32):
That sounds excessive, especially if your daughter is getting a
B average or better in school and has a decent driving.
Speaker 2 (38:38):
Records, he has no accidents.
Speaker 16 (38:41):
Come, yeah, that's that sounds I okay.
Speaker 1 (38:44):
I'm gonna call you. Then we're rewriting it tonight. All right,
thank you for coming on, Kirk.
Speaker 2 (38:49):
I appreciate it. Man.
Speaker 16 (38:51):
Oh nice talking to you.
Speaker 8 (38:52):
All right.
Speaker 1 (38:52):
You take care of yourself, all right, there, he goes
Kirk Baker with State Farm in Valencia. I need to
hear that I'm paying too much insurance. All right, we're
gonna take a break here, we're gonna come back. That
fire is still going out in Valencia, Santa Clarita area
cast Stake. It's actually west of Valencian, west of Santa Clarid.
Speaker 2 (39:13):
I don't want to make anybody nervous. It's out near
La cast Dak.
Speaker 1 (39:16):
It's called the Hues Fire, ninety four hundred acres.
Speaker 11 (39:19):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (39:25):
It's Conway Show. I heard the Lovely One. Sorry Billy
Angel Martinez mentioned the traffic and you know what, Angel,
I'm gonna say this, and I don't think it's this show.
Speaker 2 (39:37):
I think it's the station.
Speaker 1 (39:38):
When we complain and about a freeway being closed, it
seems to open faster. I think we speak for a
lot of people saying we got to keep these freeways open.
Speaker 2 (39:48):
Absolutely, because look what happened.
Speaker 17 (39:50):
I mean, at the beginning of your show, you said, watch,
I'm gonna call it right now. By six o'clock the
five freeway will be open.
Speaker 2 (39:58):
And what happened.
Speaker 17 (40:00):
What happens at five forty five?
Speaker 1 (40:02):
Yes, open it up, Open it up, Open it up,
because you know a lot of these guys are truck drivers.
They don't have the time to go on the you know,
on a on a squirrel hunt, or on a on
some kind of scavenger hunt. And the fourteen to the
fifty three to the ninety nine, you know, the whole run.
They got to get that, you know, the load of
groceries up to Vaughn's or Ralphs or Pavilions.
Speaker 2 (40:25):
Whatever they got going, they got. They got time as money.
Speaker 17 (40:28):
You know, Timmy, ain't nobody got time for that.
Speaker 1 (40:30):
That's right, That's right, all right. Looks like the traffic
we got some relief here again.
Speaker 18 (40:35):
My freeway remains closed at this hour. There is a
steady line of traffic that extends all the way through
Santa Clarita the north.
Speaker 1 (40:43):
Okay, that's that's an old Uh that's old then, right, Yeah,
but nobody said they five is still closed.
Speaker 2 (40:50):
It's open, but it's open. Okay, it's open, all right, Hey.
Speaker 18 (40:54):
Any solace of this. The traffic in both directions expected
to be bumping a bumper throughout.
Speaker 1 (41:00):
Okay, so the traffic update is wrong. It's from Chris Christy.
That must have been an old piece of tape because
it is now open.
Speaker 2 (41:09):
We've opened it up.
Speaker 17 (41:11):
Per the Highway Patrol at five thirty six, I said,
north and southbound five open.
Speaker 1 (41:18):
All right, So are you looking at it on the map,
so I know you have extensive you know, maps for
roads and highways and freeways.
Speaker 2 (41:27):
Does it look like it's open in both directions?
Speaker 17 (41:29):
Well, not only am I looking at it on my map,
I am ldia that. Well, you know, I'm looking out
our direct line to this highway patrol because we have
access to their communications between the troopers on the ground
and back to dispatch. So they're saying that both directions
of the five are open. I do have some manned closures,
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and those manned closures are the off ramps, so we're
getting confirmation as to whether or not those ramps remain
closed or if they will be lift those closures and
opening up the ramps as well.
Speaker 1 (42:02):
Okay, all right, excellent, all right, So it looks like
the five. You can slide through there and start to
enjoy yourself again.
Speaker 2 (42:10):
That is fantastic.
Speaker 8 (42:13):
All right.
Speaker 1 (42:13):
It's been a look a long couple of weeks, you know,
with these fires.
Speaker 2 (42:18):
Everybody's flipped out. There's traffic everywhere.
Speaker 1 (42:22):
People have been burned out, of their homes, and we're
just sort of numb when it comes to this.
Speaker 15 (42:28):
You know.
Speaker 1 (42:29):
We now we got this fire burning up at Lake
cast Steak. It's affecting the five. It's affecting the fourteen
because the fourteen is jammed now because the five was
closed for quite some time. And people, you know, again,
you have ash all over your car, maybe you've got
smoke in your house, you got smoke in your lungs.
There's a flare up now with this, with this effing
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fire up, the huge fire in Lake Casteak, and these
guys and gals are working their asses off.
Speaker 2 (42:58):
To put it out.
Speaker 1 (42:59):
They don't make a lot of money. They put themselves
in harm's way. And we have had it with these fires.
We've had it. We've had it of packing up all
your stuff. We've had it with you know, hosing your
house down, staying behind, getting the kids ready, and keeping
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the kids because their school is closed down, people's homes
are burned down, are going through a nightmare.
Speaker 8 (43:24):
Man.
Speaker 2 (43:25):
I don't know when this ends, but we.
Speaker 1 (43:27):
Have had it as a as a society here, we've
had it with the winds and the fire. We've got
to get some relief. This weekend. With these rains, we've
got to all right. We're live on KFI AM six
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Speaker 2 (00:08):
Our homes for now and watching the path of the fire.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
STEFFI walked closer to the winds blowing this way.
Speaker 4 (00:13):
We had a fire here probably like two years ago,
was more on the backside that way.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
So all right, let's go to that press conference right now.
Speaker 5 (00:21):
We'll start this press conference off with Fire Chief Anthony Moroney.
Speaker 6 (00:28):
So good evening on behalf of board chair and fifth
District Supervisor Catherine Barger. We're holding a press conference to
give important information to the community of Santa Clarita and
the Castaic area. I am Anthony Maroney, Chief of the
Los Angeles County Fire Department. The Hughes fire is now
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estimated to be over nine thousand, four hundred acres with
zero percent containment, with no structures acted, damaged, or destroyed.
We have over four thousand firefighting personnel assigned to the incident,
and we had a very robust round and air response
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to the incident that you see behind me. The La
County Fire Department is in unified command with the Angelus
National Forest and we are getting assistants from our state
partners at CalFire. I wanted to give a weather update
because the weather is what's predominantly driving this fire and
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it's spread right now.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
The National Weather Service has extended the.
Speaker 6 (01:37):
Red flag warning through ten am on Friday for most
of Los Angeles and Ventura Counties. Light to moderate Santa
Anna wins will continue tonight and into Thursday. The situation
remains dynamic and the fire remains a difficult fire to contain,
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although we are getting the upper hand. I would now
like to invite up Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna
to give update on evacuations and the closure of the
I five, thank you, good evening to everybody, and thank
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you Chief Morony.
Speaker 7 (02:25):
So for us obviously in unified command with our partners
at the Fire Department, from the very beginning of this incident,
byer incident, and right now, the numbers that I have
is that we have approximately thirty one thousand people who
are affected by our evacuation orders, another twenty three thousand
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that are impacted by evacuation warnings. Along with the work
that our deputies have been doing, and you've seen them
going from neighborhood to neighborhood, making sure that we are
protecting the neighborhoods to make sure nobody gets hurt, traffic
ingress and egress. And also, unfortunately, when we talk about fires,
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our staff knows that immediately they start what we call
looter suppression, just to make sure that no one's coming
into the area to take advantage when people are evacuating
their home. So I want to make sure people know
that that if you leave your homes, there will be
additional deputies working out there in the neighborhoods to make
sure your homes are safe. In regards to staffing, we
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are staffing up. You hear sirens in the distance. They're
not only fire apparatus, but you see deputies coming in
from different parts of the county. You see our incident
management team over my left shoulder setting up with the
big trailers that will assume responsibility for this incident from
the Sheriff's department perspective, and again in unified command with
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all of our partner we have what I estimate well
over four hundred personnel total regarding this incident and managing
other incidences around the County of Los Angeles. I do
want to bring your attention to the fact that during
this incident, one of the areas that initially was an
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evacuation warning that did turn into an evacuation order was
our Pitches Detention Center, which is not too far from here.
The Pitches Detention Center has actually three different facilities.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
One of the facilities was evacuated.
Speaker 7 (04:37):
In discussing this with our partners from the Fire Department,
who are experts in this area, they recommended and we
agreed that the one facility PD South would be evacuated
that had approximately four hundred and seventy six inmates. We
moved those inmates to another facility on the campus. The
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other two campuses are structured much better than the one
that we evacuated from, but total, on the entire campus
we have approximately four thousand, five hundred inmates a little
over that. We do have a plan in place in
case the fire conditions. Our fire partners would advise if
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it gets worse, whether it's wind, whatever, that may be
a plan in place to evacuate the rest of the
inmates on the entire facility if we absolutely had to.
Other than that, it's a newer incident and it's evolving,
it's going to change We're ready for just about anything,
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which by the way, includes being prepared for any other
incident that would break God forbid anywhere in the County
of Los Angeles. I do want to report that the
five Freeway has been closed, but I'm told that after
this press conference, for a variety of reasons, we will
reopen the freeway so that people can go back and forth. Again,
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I do want to reiterate that if you do not
live in this area, and if you're following the smoke
you want to go see what the firefighters are doing,
turn on the television set.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
Do not drive into these areas.
Speaker 7 (06:20):
You are impacting the ingress and egress of emergency vehicles.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
We don't need more traffic, we want less traffic.
Speaker 7 (06:27):
We don't want you walking around in the impacted areas
to impact.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
The community members who live here.
Speaker 7 (06:34):
And with that, I'm going to introduce Chief Robert Garcia
from the US Forest Service.
Speaker 8 (06:44):
Good evening. I just want to first say thank you
to Sheriff Luna and Fire Chief Coroni and Director Joe
Tyler for the partnership.
Speaker 9 (06:53):
This incident started out in the early part of the day,
as Chief Maroni indicated, and this isn't a mutual red zones.
So Los Angeles County Fire Department of the Angels National
Forest entered in unified command right away.
Speaker 8 (07:05):
And I also want to say that how.
Speaker 9 (07:07):
Extremely proud I am the way our responders moved into
this area and established command and really established some incative
objectives working together. The conditions that we're under aren't as
severe as what we've been facing over the last week
or two, but what you saw today is indicative of
the conditions that we're in in terms of the vegetation.
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So although we're not under particularly dangerous situation in terms
of the wind, our wildland fire condition is critical. Absent wind,
the fire is going to move for the vegetation like
you saw today with the slope and chasing fuel, very
dangerous conditions as to what led to the US Forest
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Service closing all of the Angelus National Forests. And this
is exactly an example of why the other thing I
want to offer in terms of resources, I hope that
all the citizens here in the area are proud of
the prepositioning and the robust response. This area always sees
a robust response the initial threat zone, but our incidents
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between the eat and the Palisades, our local mobilization centers,
our preposition resources put us in a position for multiple
waves of surge resources both engine crews on the ground hand.
Speaker 8 (08:21):
Cruise, bulldozers, and aircraft. And so the.
Speaker 9 (08:23):
Response you see as a result of the local cooperation
and the local pre planning and the geographic area not
only within the LA area, but also with our partners
in the State of California, to ensure that we are
prepared for.
Speaker 8 (08:36):
What we're now facing.
Speaker 9 (08:38):
With that, I'm going to turn over the mic to
the Director of a cal Fire from Sacramento, Director Joe Tyler.
Speaker 5 (08:50):
Good a thing everyone. My name is Joe Tyler. I'm
the director and fire chief of Captifire. Normally my office
is located in Sacramento, but I have found the need
over the last two weeks to spend my time here
in a greater Los Angeles area. We have been impacted
significantly over the last two weeks, as we all know,
related to the Palisades Fire, the Eton Fire, the Hurst Fire,
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the Lydia fire. And as we continue through these weather conditions,
we recognize that it's not over yet. We recognize that
we still have a couple of days to go. So
the State of California brings its full force of the
women and men of Califire, supporting the Los Angeles County
Fire Department, our local fire agencies, the Angeles National Force,
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and the Forest Service abroad, as well as our law
enforcement partners who are doing so much to respond to
all of these emergencies. Together, Caloyes as utilized funds to
bring together prepositioned resources across southern California and the californ
In Your National Guard has located aircraft, book rotor wing
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helicopters and fixed wings mobile our modular mass units to
be able to supplement the air takers that we have
here available locally. This fire had a robust response today
and as you can see behind us, the responders are
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doing great work to try to contain this fire. Certainly,
we are not out of the woods yet. It is
important to take heed and caution and follow the directions
of local law enforcement, your first responders, as they are
asking you to evacuate the area. Doing that will allow
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our fire resources to be able to conduct perimeter control
and extinguish the flaming front of this fire.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
Many times we find ourselves trying.
Speaker 5 (10:57):
To rescue evacuees, but today the community heeded that lesson
and many evacuated the area, allowing them to fight the fire.
We will continue to be here to support not only now,
but as we move into the next phase with the
potential of rains coming forward and trying to mitigate the
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landscape to avoid debris flows and flooding.
Speaker 8 (11:22):
We will be here for you.
Speaker 5 (11:24):
I want to take the opportunity now to invite the
Mayor of Santa Clarita, Bill Miranda.
Speaker 6 (11:30):
To the podium.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
Thank you very much.
Speaker 10 (11:39):
I'm City of Santa Crita Mayor Bill Miranda. We just
cannot say enough about the work our first responders have
done over the past couple of weeks and the work
that they are curry currently doing just north of the
city in the wake of the devastation that tore through
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Los Angeles, claiming homes and lives. Understandably, everyone is on
heightened alert and all too aware of the damage these
fires can cause. I want to re emphasize the importance
of listening to our first responders and paying attention to
the emergency alerts. If your area is under evacuation warning
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or order, Please if it's a warning, prepared to evacuate.
If it's an order, evacuate now. Don't wait ten minutes
and see what's going to happen. Nothing's going to happen,
nothing's going to change in ten minutes. We want you
to evacuate now. Do not hesitate, do not stay, Grab
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the necessary items and leave as quickly as you can.
And when we mention grab the necessary items. We're talking
about critical papers or critical medicine that you may need.
We're not talking about packing a suitcase. We're talking about packing.
Speaker 8 (13:03):
A backpack and having it ready.
Speaker 10 (13:07):
We can imagine the stress and extreme conditions our first
responders have been during this unprecedented time. Do your part
to help them, and the best way you can do
that is to evacuate. Our city is unified. Our city
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is in unified command with the Los Angeles County Fire
Department and the Sheriff's Department. We're working together to ensure
that our residents are safe and minimize potential damage to
homes and businesses. All city recreation and community services have
been canceled for the rest of the day. Our Santacree
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to transit buses are running behind schedule because of the
traffic due to the evacuations. I encourage all of you,
if you are safe, not to not an evacuation zone.
Please stay home and off our city streets.
Speaker 8 (14:12):
We need our.
Speaker 10 (14:13):
Streets open for evacuees to safely leave and for first responders.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
To get in.
Speaker 10 (14:19):
Please do your part to help these fighting the Hughes fire.
I want to end with our heartful thanks to the firefighters,
the Sheriff's Department, deputies and other first responders. Your efforts
have been nothing but heroic. From the city of Santa Karita,
we say thank.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
You, Thank you.
Speaker 5 (14:46):
Mayor. Now we're going to do a question and answer
with the media, and after we are finished with this,
we'll have breakout sessions and we will provide Spanish interviews
as well.
Speaker 11 (14:56):
First question, you're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand
from KFI A M six forty.
Speaker 8 (15:08):
What's the plan for the night and into the morning.
Speaker 6 (15:12):
So we've already developed a day, the day and the
night plan with our unified partners. We are going to
be on scene all night long, gaining more perimeter control,
making sure that we can put out the hotspots, and
then have enough resources at staging that if we do
have a flare up, we could move those resources to
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the fire line. So we already have a plan for
tonight and we're making orders for tomorrow.
Speaker 12 (15:42):
You talk, the more you talk more about those plants
for the night and specifics.
Speaker 6 (15:46):
Regarding number of resources or job assignments. We're going to
keep the four thousand firefighters assigned to the incident, We're
going to increase our perimeter control, and we're going.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
To extinguish those hot spots that those would be the tab.
Speaker 13 (16:02):
Sheriff Luna, if you can describe the decision making to
first close the I five and now reopen what change
that allowed you to reopen that particular byway.
Speaker 7 (16:16):
So, working with our partners at the California Higward Patrol,
we needed to have better ingress and egress for emergency
vehicles coming through the five freeway corridor. I believe that
we've gotten a lot of the equipment that we need
here for the rest of the evening.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
Obviously that could change, that could be modified.
Speaker 7 (16:39):
So we want to give the five back to our
community so they can get through here as safely and
as efficiently as they possibly can.
Speaker 13 (16:47):
And is there anything in on the way of Interstate
five that puts.
Speaker 12 (16:52):
Those drivers at risk at all or are you concerned
at all about what the traffic will look.
Speaker 7 (16:57):
Like always concerned about hazards coming in and out north
and south. As far as I know now, we don't
see any hazards, but the winds are what they are.
I'm not a fire expert, but we listen to our
fire experts and if the wind shift, fire behavior does
whatever it does, and if at any time we believe
that our community may be in peril because of that
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win or fire behavior will close it again, I say
we'll close it again. It's our partners at the California
High Patrol. We usually do that and they do an
excellent job with that.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
We thank you, Amana starantinok cal jee Rony.
Speaker 12 (17:34):
I have two questions. A lot of people are on
edge after the last.
Speaker 4 (17:38):
Couple of weeks and what we've seen, how been in
Algentina and the Polisades, How did this fire here or
the hues fire parrots what we've seen last couple of weeks.
Speaker 6 (17:46):
Well, I think that we've all been on edge over
the last sixteen days and we've had a number of
numerous fires start throughout Los Angeles County. The response to
this fire between the Angeles National Forest and the La Countys,
in addition to the state resources that were predeployed. We
had two strike teams in the Santa Clarita area. We
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were able to amass a lot of fire resources early
on to change what this fire looks like. Just three
or four hours ago, the smoke was laying across the
five Freeway. That's what necessitated and shut down because there
could have been accidents, but also the ability to fight
the fire from the air. The winds were strong, but
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they were not those seventy eighty ninety mile an hour
winds that we experienced on Tuesday the seventh. We had
a very robust, like Director Tyler Spoke, a robust helicopter
and fixed wing retarded response to this incident. We were
able to put in tens of thousands of gallons of
retardant on the south side of the fire because the
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fire was moving to the southwest. It was really the
aircraft in addition to all of those ground resources which
allowed us to get the upper hand. Because had you
been here a few hours ago, the situation looked much
different and it certainly looked much more threatening.
Speaker 12 (19:09):
And Gie Maroni, what are the biggest challenges heading into
the night?
Speaker 6 (19:13):
Well into the night, it's going to be making sure
that we can rest our crews that have been out
there since ten forty two this morning, making sure.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
We can feed them.
Speaker 6 (19:22):
You know, firefighting is dirty and dangerous work, but we
got to rotate our crews through so we can have
you know, a lot of production.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
And efficiency throughout the night.
Speaker 6 (19:31):
We're going to take advantage of the lower temperatures and
hopefully the reduced wind speeds and the higher humidities to
try to get an upper hand.
Speaker 12 (19:38):
Okay, thank you and Sheriff Luna, this is for you.
Speaker 4 (19:42):
With the five reopening, will there still be no access
to those neighborhoods now.
Speaker 12 (19:45):
That people will be driving up and down those.
Speaker 4 (19:47):
Roads, are getting off that parker like he's has lee
all those evacuation order areas, just because the five's open,
is not still going.
Speaker 12 (19:53):
To be blocked off.
Speaker 7 (19:55):
We're assessing that now to make sure. But we'll have
a lot of presents. If you are coming into the area,
be ready to be challenged, meaning in a polite way,
to find out if you actually live here. Be ready
to show identification, because we want to make sure that
we're limiting the people who are coming in and out
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and it's people who actually belong here.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
I guess this question the new SHAREFF.
Speaker 14 (20:23):
Since you guys handled evacuations, I'm correct with Cannus and
is when it comes to the idea of evacuation, some
people are stummer and they don't want to go. Have
you seen a change in attitude with this fire and
now because of the terrible devastation, the death toll, in
the fact people are panicked because of the Eating fire
and the Palisades fire.
Speaker 7 (20:43):
I haven't received that assessment yet, but I will in
the next couple of hours to see how we did
on this one.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
Our deputy shriffes do amazing work.
Speaker 7 (20:55):
And yes, whether it was the Palisades fire and Malibu
lost tills for us and they Eating fire and Altadena,
our deputies jobs are very difficult. There are times where
people challenge them. They get evacuation orders and they refuse
to leave. They think that they're going to be okay.
Speaker 9 (21:15):
I know.
Speaker 7 (21:16):
I told the story earlier of a situation in the
Altadena area where we were advising directing people to evacuate
and they refuse to and the deputy felt that they
were in such danger that he actually threatened them with
the rest. There was an argument between a wife and
a husband, wife saying, hey, we should listen. They listen,
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they left, and they are now crediting the deputy share
for saving their life because that house and neighborhood completely
burned down. Those are the challenges that we face. But
you've heard it here over and over, and really the
message is simple. If there's an evacuation order, please leave.
Do not put your life at risk. Do not put
the life of first responders at risk.
Speaker 3 (21:59):
It's not worth it.
Speaker 7 (22:00):
And I'm even pushing it that if you're an evacuation warning,
you should also leave.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
Can gather your most important items.
Speaker 7 (22:08):
Medicines, important paperwork, pets, chargers for your phone, and get
out of the area.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
Don't sit there and argue it is not worth it.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
Okay, that was the press conference for the huge fire.
Let's go to Steve Kraeger, La County retired fire Captain Steve,
welcome back. It seems like we talked to every couple
of days now, which I don't mind. By that means
there's more fires. I've never seen it like this. You
spent thirty years with La County. Have you seen this
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many fires in this shorter period of time ever in
your life?
Speaker 15 (22:46):
Not in La County? We did you know? Back in
two thousand and three, we had the Grand Prix fire
and then the Old Fire you know, Ontario Rancho Cucamonga
Upland and it burned up above San Bornino to the mountains,
but not in La County. But that's very thick brush
up there in that area. I know that area quite well.
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I started out in my career from it was a
forty year career, started out in nineteen seventy six working
up there in San Franciscito Canyon and we did a
lot of project work up there around Casta at Lake.
So I'm very familiar with it. And it just hasn't
burnt quite a while, except for the Route fire two
years ago. They're long between the five Freeway and cast
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Deic so that area has been burnt off. So they're
pretty good shaped there. But what kind.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
Of assessment do you give? I mean, you're looking at
it with a different eye, a tutored eye. You've been
in the business. You know you're firing fires for forty years.
When give us an assessment on what you really think
what's going on with this fire? The bigger picture here
at five twenty three.
Speaker 15 (23:52):
Well, what I saw, and I've been watching it since
this morning when I started. It's in an inaccessible area,
so the engines can only work from along the road
and watch for hotspots that he's spotting over the roads
where it did jump Lake Hughes Road. But it's a
very tough fire to fight because it was mainly an
aerial fight and with bulldozers, because you couldn't get engines
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in there, and even if they could on some of
those dirt motorways, it didn't look like it was really
safe to get engines up in there because they wouldn't
be able to turn around to get out very easily.
So I think there was an aerial firefight and they
brought in all the air tankers. I even saw some
of the C one thirties from their National Guard in there.
And also you know those DC tens you were talking about,
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they're going out Sandbourn Diino to fill because that's a
much bigger airport. The other tankers were filling up at
Foxfield at Lancaster and that it actually worked good because
the smaller air tankers can fill up there and there's
not congestion at one airport.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
Right Steve, I saw some firefighters lighting backfire.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
Is that a good sign?
Speaker 15 (25:03):
It can be, and that's they what they're doing is
they're kind of cleaning up the line where you have
an area of unburned and they have a road or
they cut some line, and they're going to burn the
unburnt material between that road and where the main fire
is burning, and the main fire will suck that fire
into it, it will draw it to it, and that
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way they don't have to worry about the area burning again.
They want to have everything burnt within the containment lines,
so they're that's a good thing.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
They also said they have four thousand firefighters on this thing,
in the air and on the ground. Is that an
unusual large amount of firefighters or is that typical for
a fire the size.
Speaker 15 (25:46):
That's very unusual this early on. You had a lot
of resources there. I was watching on Channel five. They
had some hand crewiser from Santa Cruz and so I
don't know they were still in the area, but there
was there's a lot of preposition equipment. I know LA
County had several strike teams already stationed up in that area.
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They had La City strike teams coming up there, so
they got a lot of man parent equipment up there
very quickly.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
So I'm looking at the fire right now, and it
looks like there's only one hot spot left, but it's
it's surrounded by foschek. What foschak didn't exist when you
started fighting fires, and and it's got to be for
these guys out there, that's got to be in u
you know, one of the best game changers and one
of the best you know assets that these guys have.
Speaker 15 (26:35):
Absolutely, especially in mountainous areas. They'll drop it right along
the ridgetop and keep it from slopping over the ridgetop,
so it gives them a good place to to come
back and work on with their bulldozers and hand crews.
Because even though they have the Foschack line there, that's
not considered containment, not until they clear it down to earth.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
Right.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
But when I when I see my rule of thumb,
and again I don't know with this true or no,
but when I see firefighters running, I panic. But when
I see them standing around, I think they've got things
under control. Is that a safe ways safe assessment.
Speaker 15 (27:12):
Especially when they're doing structure protection. If they're just standing around,
they're waiting for the fire to come to them. But
if you see them moving and chart pulling hoses. You know,
you know that things are going on they need to
take care of.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
Right And what about the people that stay back. There's
a lot of people in Lake Casteak who I don't know,
they've seen people save their homes from you know, Malibu
to Pacific palis a it's all the way out to
the eating fire. Stay behind and save their homes with
a garden hose.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
Do you recommend that.
Speaker 15 (27:42):
You know, when the fire is approaching, that garden hose
is not going to do a whole lot and it
takes fire water away from the fire department because you
start drawing down the water supply from those fire hydrants.
You know, most of the new roofs or fire resistive
type of roofs, whether there comp roofs or tile roofs,
and hosing down a roof that doesn't is not going
to burn, doesn't do a whole lot of good. And
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it's like Dean Sharp talks about the biggest thing is
getting those keeping the embers out of those attic spaces.
And as people rebuild, they're going to need to put
those ember proof attic vents in and squirt and the water.
The best place to squirt the water is to spray
it in front of where those vents are to stop
the embers from getting in. The vents catch on the fire,
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the attic will and.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
I'm sorry that that DC ten that that's dropping fase check.
I know it's going to San Berndino to fill up.
But I didn't see a lot of those over Alta
Dina and over Palisades. Did I just miss them or
is that something new on the scene.
Speaker 15 (28:45):
I think they did have them, but I don't know
where they're based out of. But I know there's at
least four of them, and they dropped a little over
nine thousand gallons of pase check where the other planes dropped,
and I've got three or four thousand, so they're very effective.
I don't know where they were during the Altadena fire,
and I know for a while there they couldn't fly
because the whim. One good thing is there's actually four
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Super Scoopers that are flying today. I think they sent Canada
sent two more down here and they were filling up
over at the Bouquet Canyon Reservoir because the copts were
filling up at Castay at Lake and I think also
had to do with wind direction, So the super scoopers
are filling up at Bouquet Reservoir and then coming back
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over and dropping on the fire.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
Bunny, I appreciate you coming on. I know I love
talking with you. But got almighty. Every day there's two
three four fires in La.
Speaker 15 (29:41):
Yeah, and hopefully we get a little bit of rain
this weekend. Yeah, well, dampen things down and we'll be
done with this for this year.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
Excellent. All right, buddy, I really appreciate you coming on.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
All right, when we come back, we have a guy,
this is an interesting guy who his name is Kirk
Baker from State Farm in Shreurans.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
He's out in Valencia. Maybe you have your insurance with him.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
He's going to tell us what you need to do
from an insurance perspective. I heard that they're not an
insurance policies.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
I'm not here hues fire.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
Well ask him if that looks like these firefighters have
got some kind of control over it. But you never
know what the winds, you never know what's going to
happen overnight. So if they do tell you get out,
get out.
Speaker 11 (30:25):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
Are we keeping an eye on the Hues fire. And
it looks ominous at night, you know, it looks really
horrible at night, like the whole city's on fire. But
evidently these guys in these fire trucks and these guys
with the planes and the helicopters know what they're doing
and keeping this fire away from homes. So far, it's
at ninety four hundred acres and zero structures have been
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burned or damaged. Zero, So that's a hell of a fight.
These guys have done an unbelievable job. Zero structures. Now
you can burn ninety four hundred acres in that area
and not burn a single home.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
That's incredible. That is something else.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
So hopefully they know what these guys know what they're
doing in directing that fire into a canyon where they
can fight it and put fascheck around it and beat
it so everyone can go back to their home fairly soon.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
We'll keep an eye on that for you, but for now.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
Everybody has questions right about your insurance, your fire insurance.
Even people live in the valley flats, they're out near
the ocean, or in the hills, the mountains, wherever, in
the desert, the high desert, low desert. Everyone has questions
about fire insurance. So we thought we get a guy
on and know something about a Kirk Baker with State
Farm in Valencia.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
Is that right, Kirk?
Speaker 16 (31:52):
Yeah, that's right, Kim.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
All right, So what's going on?
Speaker 1 (31:56):
I heard a rumor and I've not been able to
confirm this or not, that no major company is writing
fire insurance policies in southern California right now?
Speaker 2 (32:04):
Is that true?
Speaker 16 (32:08):
That happened before the fires? Okay, so yeah, there's there's
it's uh, you know, you can get it through the
California Fair Plan, but getting it with one of the
major companies right now is rather difficult.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
So that's going to radically affect Southern California though, because
you can't buy a house if you have a mortgage,
you need fire insurance.
Speaker 16 (32:30):
Correct, and it has been affecting it for quite some time.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
Do you see any what what do you see as
the solution to that? Where rain maybe or a change
in the government financing.
Speaker 2 (32:43):
How do you see it? Because because if if fire.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
Insurance dries up in Southern California, so goes there goes
the economy.
Speaker 16 (32:50):
Yeah, and I think that you know that there's there's
progress that was being made prior to the fires. I
think they're starting to realize how important the insurance industry
is to the economy here in California. So progress has
been made, and we expect more progress to be made
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now that this has exasperated the situation even more.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
You know, I don't know whether it's Bonta or I
don't know what officials said this. Maybe it was the
Attorney General, maybe was the insurance Commissioner, but he said
he would like for the big insurance companies who canceled
fire insurance for people to go back and retroactively install
their policy. And I thought, there's no way they're going
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to do that after they've lost the House. That would
be a really dumb business sense. But the can the
state force your companies to do that?
Speaker 16 (33:47):
I'm you know, I don't speak on behalf of State Farm,
so I can't tell you if they can force it
or not. I can tell you that State Farm has
decided on a good will gesture to going and and
do that at least temporarily for the next renewal cycle.
So that's really good news for a lot of policy holders,
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you know, are in a bad situation.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
Right, And so I understand not you know, not issuing
new policies, not writing new policies for people to live
up in the mountains or in these fire you know,
prone areas. But even in Orange County, where you know,
people are in the middle of like I don't know,
Irvine or some of these safer cities, Newport Beach, it's
still tougher, impossible to get a policy written.
Speaker 16 (34:37):
It's not as tough as it is in the brush areas,
but yes, it's still a challenge.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
And I imagine also premiums are going to go up
or we're going to see an increase in the in
fire insurance in new policies and existing policies.
Speaker 16 (34:55):
Yeah, I mean that's to be expected. And to be
honest with you, Tim, you almost have to be this
is going to sound really crazy, but you almost have
to be grateful when you see your rate go up,
because when your rate goes up, that means that there's
progress that's being made and we're getting closer to you know,
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the major carriers wanting to come back to California.
Speaker 1 (35:20):
All right, let me try to swallow that, though, it'd
be very grateful where my rate goes up.
Speaker 16 (35:28):
I know, That sounds like a typical insurance agent speak.
Speaker 2 (35:32):
But that's exactly what I was about to say. You've
crystallized my thoughts.
Speaker 16 (35:38):
But you know there's some method to the madness there,
because you know, when there's rate relief, that means progress
is being made. And and you know, costs have gone
up dramatically, especially over the last five years.
Speaker 1 (35:53):
And you know what's going to Kirk Bakers with a
state farm insurance in Valencia. What is the what is
going to have to happen in California for us to
get back to normal where we're like you know, Texas
or you know, Ohio or whatever, where an insurance policy
is written, you pay a decent premium, you hardly ever
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use it, but you go to bed every night knowing
you have it. What are the changes that are going
to have to happen in California?
Speaker 16 (36:22):
Well, that's a loaded question. And I don't know that
you'll ever see things like they were. I don't think
they're going to go back to the levels that they
were before, you know, but it's just a matter of
you know, having the you know, the proper infrastructure in
place to to fight these things and and to to
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be able to price them properly.
Speaker 2 (36:47):
And you know, let me ask you another question.
Speaker 1 (36:51):
All right, Kirk bankers with us from State Farm in Valencia.
By the way, I heard that that from several people
out there that you're one of the good guys that
you were help your clients out.
Speaker 2 (37:01):
Is that true?
Speaker 16 (37:02):
Well, well, hell, I don't know about that, but I
I was, you know, rushing back to the office today
to get my company checkbook because we have these drafts
that we can checks that we can give to people
when they're displaced from their home. And that's one of
the things that I wanted to bring up for everyone
is that you know, if you're being told to evacuate,
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especially a mandatory evacuation, you know, there's coverages that can
be extended under your insurance policy for what we call
loss of use or additional living expenses right subject to
a deductible but you know that's that's the kind of
thing where if you have to go to a hotel,
you have to go to a restaurant, you know, you
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have to go to a rental home, you have to
live in an RV for a while. You know, those
kinds of things can you know, be covered under the policy.
So if you know, if you're thinking, oh, I don't
have the money to stay there, there's a chance that
it could be covered under your insurance.
Speaker 15 (38:02):
Policy, if you've got a decent policy.
Speaker 1 (38:03):
Okay, I'm gonna ask you a quick question. It's a
personal question, and we got to take a break. I
want a yes or no answer from you. Before my
wife and I used to pay twenty four hundred dollars
for our auto insurance two cars, and then we had
our house insurance on the side. When my daughter first
started driving, our auto insurance policy went from twenty four
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hundred dollars a year to nearly eleven thousand dollars a year.
Speaker 2 (38:28):
Is that excessive?
Speaker 15 (38:32):
That sounds excessive, especially if your daughter is getting a
B average or better in school and has a decent driving.
Speaker 2 (38:38):
Records, he has no accidents.
Speaker 16 (38:41):
Come, yeah, that's that sounds I okay.
Speaker 1 (38:44):
I'm gonna call you. Then we're rewriting it tonight. All right,
thank you for coming on, Kirk.
Speaker 2 (38:49):
I appreciate it. Man.
Speaker 16 (38:51):
Oh nice talking to you.
Speaker 8 (38:52):
All right.
Speaker 1 (38:52):
You take care of yourself, all right, there, he goes
Kirk Baker with State Farm in Valencia. I need to
hear that I'm paying too much insurance. All right, we're
gonna take a break here, we're gonna come back. That
fire is still going out in Valencia, Santa Clarita area
cast Stake. It's actually west of Valencian, west of Santa Clarid.
Speaker 2 (39:13):
I don't want to make anybody nervous. It's out near
La cast Dak.
Speaker 1 (39:16):
It's called the Hues Fire, ninety four hundred acres.
Speaker 11 (39:19):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (39:25):
It's Conway Show. I heard the Lovely One. Sorry Billy
Angel Martinez mentioned the traffic and you know what, Angel,
I'm gonna say this, and I don't think it's this show.
Speaker 2 (39:37):
I think it's the station.
Speaker 1 (39:38):
When we complain and about a freeway being closed, it
seems to open faster. I think we speak for a
lot of people saying we got to keep these freeways open.
Speaker 2 (39:48):
Absolutely, because look what happened.
Speaker 17 (39:50):
I mean, at the beginning of your show, you said, watch,
I'm gonna call it right now. By six o'clock the
five freeway will be open.
Speaker 2 (39:58):
And what happened.
Speaker 17 (40:00):
What happens at five forty five?
Speaker 1 (40:02):
Yes, open it up, Open it up, Open it up,
because you know a lot of these guys are truck drivers.
They don't have the time to go on the you know,
on a on a squirrel hunt, or on a on
some kind of scavenger hunt. And the fourteen to the
fifty three to the ninety nine, you know, the whole run.
They got to get that, you know, the load of
groceries up to Vaughn's or Ralphs or Pavilions.
Speaker 2 (40:25):
Whatever they got going, they got. They got time as money.
Speaker 17 (40:28):
You know, Timmy, ain't nobody got time for that.
Speaker 1 (40:30):
That's right, That's right, all right. Looks like the traffic
we got some relief here again.
Speaker 18 (40:35):
My freeway remains closed at this hour. There is a
steady line of traffic that extends all the way through
Santa Clarita the north.
Speaker 1 (40:43):
Okay, that's that's an old Uh that's old then, right, Yeah,
but nobody said they five is still closed.
Speaker 2 (40:50):
It's open, but it's open. Okay, it's open, all right, Hey.
Speaker 18 (40:54):
Any solace of this. The traffic in both directions expected
to be bumping a bumper throughout.
Speaker 1 (41:00):
Okay, so the traffic update is wrong. It's from Chris Christy.
That must have been an old piece of tape because
it is now open.
Speaker 2 (41:09):
We've opened it up.
Speaker 17 (41:11):
Per the Highway Patrol at five thirty six, I said,
north and southbound five open.
Speaker 1 (41:18):
All right, So are you looking at it on the map,
so I know you have extensive you know, maps for
roads and highways and freeways.
Speaker 2 (41:27):
Does it look like it's open in both directions?
Speaker 17 (41:29):
Well, not only am I looking at it on my map,
I am ldia that. Well, you know, I'm looking out
our direct line to this highway patrol because we have
access to their communications between the troopers on the ground
and back to dispatch. So they're saying that both directions
of the five are open. I do have some manned closures,
(41:52):
and those manned closures are the off ramps, so we're
getting confirmation as to whether or not those ramps remain
closed or if they will be lift those closures and
opening up the ramps as well.
Speaker 1 (42:02):
Okay, all right, excellent, all right, So it looks like
the five. You can slide through there and start to
enjoy yourself again.
Speaker 2 (42:10):
That is fantastic.
Speaker 8 (42:13):
All right.
Speaker 1 (42:13):
It's been a look a long couple of weeks, you know,
with these fires.
Speaker 2 (42:18):
Everybody's flipped out. There's traffic everywhere.
Speaker 1 (42:22):
People have been burned out, of their homes, and we're
just sort of numb when it comes to this.
Speaker 15 (42:28):
You know.
Speaker 1 (42:29):
We now we got this fire burning up at Lake
cast Steak. It's affecting the five. It's affecting the fourteen
because the fourteen is jammed now because the five was
closed for quite some time. And people, you know, again,
you have ash all over your car, maybe you've got
smoke in your house, you got smoke in your lungs.
There's a flare up now with this, with this effing
(42:52):
fire up, the huge fire in Lake Casteak, and these
guys and gals are working their asses off.
Speaker 2 (42:58):
To put it out.
Speaker 1 (42:59):
They don't make a lot of money. They put themselves
in harm's way. And we have had it with these fires.
We've had it. We've had it of packing up all
your stuff. We've had it with you know, hosing your
house down, staying behind, getting the kids ready, and keeping
(43:19):
the kids because their school is closed down, people's homes
are burned down, are going through a nightmare.
Speaker 8 (43:24):
Man.
Speaker 2 (43:25):
I don't know when this ends, but we.
Speaker 1 (43:27):
Have had it as a as a society here, we've
had it with the winds and the fire. We've got
to get some relief. This weekend. With these rains, we've
got to all right. We're live on KFI AM six
forty Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. Now
you can always hear us live on KFI AM six
(43:48):
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