January 11, 2025 • 35 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, it's Neil save Adri. You're listening to kfi EM
six forty the fork Report on demand on the iHeartRadio app. Hello,
it is a different day indeed, as your normal friendly
neighborhood Forek reporter is in this seat giving you fire news.
Neil Savadri here with you until five o'clock with the
(00:22):
wonderful Amy King, making sure that you're up to date
on these fires. Just too much going on to come
out tell a joke and talk about food, So we'll
get back to that hopefully next weekend Lord willing, with
everything going on and the chaos therein, but right now
we are we're sharing with you not only the information
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that you need to know for the actual fires, road closures, evacuations,
what to do with your animals, but also the kindness
of people that come out during these times. There's someone
that I want to introduce you to now, soul Bathshirian
Basherian and his sister Guzzi are offering free meals and
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we want you to tell us more about that. Saul,
Welcome to the forker Port.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Hey, how are you doing today?
Speaker 1 (01:18):
I am well, there's so much going on and to
hear about your kindness of you and your sister and
Sunday Gravy. Tell us a little bit about Sunday Gravy.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
So Sunday Gravy we opened it about well a little
over five years ago. It's in the same location that
my dad had opened well, I should say our dad
had opened his restaurant, Gino's Pizza forty five years prior,
so we've been in the same location for about fifty
years now. A little over five years ago we switched
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it from a pizzeria to a pasta house essentially. You know,
we have a fresh pasta factory in the neighborhood just
a few blocks of from us that makes fresh pasta
for us daily. And we thought that that was such
a such an amazing resource to have within that community,
and you know, we wanted to use it. And we
brought Italian, simple Italian cooking to the neighborhood and we
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haven't looked back since.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
And I love that. And during this time of fires
and people being displaced, and also you know, your first responders,
the term Sunday gravy for for you know those maybe
you haven't heard that term. This Sunday gravy is is
your red sauce that cooks all Sunday right from morning,
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noon and night, marrying all those delicious flavors. It is
homemade style, correct.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Absolutely, yes, you know, it's a it's a it's a
it's an East Coast Italian tradition and terminology, you know.
And however, you know, although we're not Italian, we're actually
the Iranian. We also had that tradition as well, going
on Sundays to our grandma's house and she would be cooking,
and it'd be family gathered around the table and friends
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gather around the table, just eating, eating good food and
enjoying good conversation. And really that's the whole ethos of
Sunday gravy for us. It's not really about the sauce,
but it's more about the intention and the idea of
people coming together and communities coming together and enjoying food together.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
I love that you use the term intention because I
think you know, when people say, oh, it's got love
baked right in, that's intention. That's the that's the attitude
in which you make food. And I believe, I'm a
firm believer that that shows in food when your intention
is to bring joy and comfort to people that will
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be baked in the food. So tell us what you
and your sister Guzie came up with and are doing
for first response in an emergency medical personnel.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Well, the simplest thing for us to offered from the
get go. You know, my sister, she sent me a
text Wednesday morning, was like, hey, you know, what do
you think of this? It was an Instagram post welcoming
those that have been displaced first responders to come and
just take a break and have a meal, just get
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away from it all if they possibly could. And so,
you know, we just put that offer out there because
we just felt it was the right thing to do.
It really wasn't no second thought to it. So we
put the offer out there. And you know, the first day,
I think when people were still processing and it was
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just just so much going on, we didn't really get
we got we got some people coming in, but then
we just did our best online to spread the word,
spread the word, and I think once like the newspapers
and the publications and the food blog and the bloggers
and the influencers sort of recognized what we were doing
and they spread the word, that's when it really took off.
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And it was the next day when we posted, Hey,
you know, we're offering spaghetti, spaghetti, bolon at, spaghetti, tomato basil,
a caesar salad, a garlic bread, please send it and
everybody our way that needs something. That's when we started
getting folks in the next day coming in and you know,
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we had put like just a arbitrary like, yeah, if
you want to contribute to one of these meals, just
chip in like twenty bucks, and that snowballed in its
own way, and we just started getting like inquiry after inquiry,
and then so I finally set up a venmo where
people can donate to and I put the link out there,
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and that's just been growing and growing and growing over
these past couple of days, and it's just allowed us
now over this weekend to feed over a thousand people
by the end of Sunday and really continue this on
into the next week and hopefully into the finishing parts
of this month and beyond.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
I know, the website is eat Sunday Gravy dot com
Eat Sunday gravy dot com. But how can people participate,
whether it's donating or people that are first responders, emergency
medical personnel, people displaced by the fires. How can they
take you up on your kindness, Well, if they're able to.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
You know, folks are always welcome to come in and
you know, just use our dining room and hang out.
You know, we're we got our whole staff there ready
to take care of any folks that walk in. We've
had folks coming in picking up meals for their families.
We've had folks coming in and picking up twenty twenty
five meals at a time for stations that they're dropping
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supplies off that and then we ourselves have been reaching
out to hospitals and other groups that are putting food
out there and creating you know, family style meals. We
did two hundred fifty nurse up to two hundred fifty
nurses last night at UCLA Emergency Room in Westwood. We
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did fifty in Saint John's in Santa Monica. This morning,
we did one hundred at Donald McDonald's charity House in Westwood.
We're going to be doing another fifty tonight at the
Pediatric ICU at u c l A. Tomorrow. We have
two hundred at West Hills Hospital in I believe that's
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kind of above Calabasas or in west to west Hills
and then again do just just we have we have
large drop offs scheduled throughout the throughout the next week.
So it's really outreach on my and my sister's part
and folks reaching out to us on Instagram. That really
is the best way to connect with us is through
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our Instagram page, Sunday dot Gravy. My sister and I
answer each and every one of those messages personally and
we've just been yeah, just just through this network that's
been creative. There's so many resources right now, and we
just are able to reach out to our partners in
the food industry, our partners you know that are that
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are coordinating these things and we just ask, hey, what
can we do? How many do you need? And we
we crank it out for them.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Well, you're doing great work. You're listening to Soul Basherian
and he and his sister Ghazi are putting together meals
for those that are need Again, if you want to
contact them, the easiest way to do it is go
on to Instagram at Sunday dot Gravy At Sunday dot Gravy. Saul,
(08:53):
thank you so much for taking the time to come
on and what you're doing for the community. It's so
important right now and you really, you and your sister
are really standing up for it.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Thank you. It's it's the it's the absolute least that
we can do. And we are so gracious for the
community for the donations that they've given us that are
giving us the opportunity to to feed so many people
and continue to feed, hopefully feed feed more people into
this next month and beyond that. So thank you so much.
(09:24):
And if I could just say, even if you can't donate,
just share a post. Sharing a post and just getting
eyeballs on it. You just never know who it could
reach and how they can impact a situation like this.
So just continue to share these posts, continue to share
any any posts that you see. If you think it's
redundant and repetitive, continue to do it over and over.
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It just continues to get the message out there and
amplifies it even more. And you know, we've had people
from France, Australia contact us and asking us how they
can help, how they can donate, So it really does
get around world and this is becoming like a worldwide initiative.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Super Powerful Words at Sunday, dot Gravy at Sunday dot
Gravy that's on Instagram and on TikTok and if nothing else,
just share and get the word out via there. Soul.
Thanks so much for coming on, brother and what you're doing,
and God bless you and your sister.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
Thank you very much for having us. Thank you.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
All right, my friend, you're listening to the Fork Report
with Neil savedra on demand from KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Hey, everybody, it is Neil savedra In doing special fire
coverage today until five o'clock along with Amy King. So
much going on, not the time to not not yet
to get back into food. Hopefully next Saturday we will
get back into our our sanctuary of you know, stepping
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away from the heaviness of the news to talk about food.
But today it's all hands on deck giving you all
that you need to know about the fires. Of course,
the Eating fire was one of the biggest, as it
continues to roar starting on Tuesday six eighteen pm near
Alta Dina, fourteen thousand plus acres about fifteen percent containment
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as of Saturday morning. Many people. The death toll has
been large. Their eight deaths, several injuries, including a firefighter
who was hospitalized after a fall just horrific. What added
a personal note to us is our beloved buddy and
colleague here at KFI, T Walla Sharp was affected. That
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is where he lives, and we have him on the
phone with us now for an update. Hey, T.
Speaker 4 (11:44):
How you doing good, sir?
Speaker 1 (11:45):
I'm doing all right. I think the big question from
the KFI listeners and all of us that love and
care about you is how are you?
Speaker 5 (11:55):
You know?
Speaker 4 (11:57):
I always say God is good all the time, and
I truly mean that with every fiber of my being,
even in this Seeing the city come together the way
it has has restored my faith in humanity. Where so
many people have lost absolutely everything. I mean, Neil eighty five,
almost ninety percent of my entire neighborhood has been leveled,
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absolutely taken down to rubble, burned to shreds, and everyone
out there in the city is still working to help
each other out from all the volunteering and donating and
just really sitting virtual and physical hugs to everyone, it means.
It means the world to us. I'm one of the lucky,
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well lucky few in my neighborhood. Our family home is
still standing, though thus far we have told it's not livable.
You know, we are looking forward to getting it assessed
so we can determine these true damage. But it's again
this you know, when you have no place to go
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and you don't expect this, it's there's not really enough
words to put in I don't think anyone from the city,
whether it be the Palisades eaten, whether it be passading
out to Diena, it's hard to put into words what
you're feeling because you've never had to experience or fill
this before. You know, if it's the closest I could
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say as like, you know when when losing loved ones,
this is what it feels like when they're gone, when
that thing that you've loved your entire life is gone.
You know, we're all doing our best, you know.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
So when you say that it's still standing but not livable,
is that due to smoke damage or is there fire.
Speaker 4 (13:45):
Damage smoke smoke and structural damage from just the heat alone.
I mean our house was surrounded by other houses on
fire on all sides. So it's it's to the point where, yes,
the building itself is still standing. And that was good
news because we thought, well, pay maybe we could go
in and get like, you know, the the family china
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that's been passed down. We could get a few more
photo albums and maybe some you know, some keepsake furniture
that has been passed down, like wooden furniture maybe. But
but that's about it. It's not for the it's not
for the purpose of being able to go back into
the house because it's you can you can look at
the house and see it's disccolored just from the smoke
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alone and and everything. It's just it's reeks. It reeks
up all the toxic fumes that you know, have been
uh that's been exposed to because of the other structures
around it that have burnt down. The streets, everything there
is like when we last went to check on it
and just to see it, you can see the streets
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around it, everything around the telephone poles are looking like
they're about to fall down. It's that that level of infrastructure.
It's the.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
Does it melt stuff? I mean, are the windows.
Speaker 4 (15:08):
Out there there there, you can see that things like
the shutters, you can see that they've warped. I can
see that the glass is warped. I can see like
our garage door is warped. That's how we know, like
the things inside, and we were told by first responders
a lot of people who have structures that still may
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be standing. The worst part is going in and just
to find everything just reduced to slag because it's been
melted down, just because it's been surrounded by that much
heat for that long. You know, you're talking some seventy
two hours of just ongoing fires burning. And yes, you're
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structured there, but it's almost like imagine, imagine like those
who have who know what it's like. If you if
you leave a pet in the car, you can't right
here in southern California, you can't. You can't leave someone
because it's a hot box. That's what your house is like.
Your house is now is like a car filled up
and all of your stuff is in there with just
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an oven turned on around it. So the chance of
going in there and finding much no, But you know, again,
it's the photo albums. It's those things that you cannot
replace that we're hoping we'll be able to recover. But
you know, when I look across the street, when I
look next door and there's nothing there, I almost feel guilty.
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I feel guilty about the idea of going in to
get anything when I have people who live right next
door and right across the street and all around all
around you for miles, it is leveled. There's nothing there.
The city is absolutely decimated. And I mean we have
now joined a fraternity of cities that have been leveled
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by this absolute destruction. And it's incomprehensible what it is
that we're feeling, what it is we're going through. It's
the whole city is.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Really so when you go outside, it's not even or
you look at it. You've had the opportunity to at
least see some that it's it's one thing to feel
the weight of your stuff being gone or your home
being gone, but an entire neighborhood, the sidewalks that you
used to walk or you know, hang out, or the
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store or the school or the church or whatever, everything's gone.
Speaker 4 (17:33):
It's gone. When we went back to try to try
to maybe take pictures and try to see if our
house was still standing, I got lost because because a
lot of times, you know Altadena, it's a big small town,
and you know where you're at by landmarks, you know
where you're at. I just drive around. I know this
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person's house who used to go hang out at, or
this burger place or this liquor store. You know where
you're at. Because of the landmarks, I don't have to
see the streets. So we're going back and the smoke,
the smoke is so thick. It's just dark outside. And
when we're driving around, I don't know where we're at
because every house is gone. And when I say gone,
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I mean you know that there was a house there,
because there's a chimney there still standing. That may be
the thing that you know, like that was a house,
and you see a lowered wall that was once the house.
But it looks as if a bomb had gone off.
It looks like an absolute war zone with smoke and
fire just still burning, still burning. And here's the thing,
it hasn't gone out yet. There are still so many
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areas where the smoke and fire is still going. The
area is putrid and toxic. It's it's I mean, we
think an entire city, you know, you think imagine you know,
broadcasting there in Bourbank. Imagine everything around us here in
the Bourbank area and it's leveled. You walk outside and
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everything is level. This is what those of us from
these various areas are trying to convey to people when
when they're trying to wrap their minds around what it
is that wors thing and what we're going through. Imagine
your entire city leveled be goot eighty percent of your
city leveled houses that have been in family for generations,
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three and four generations. These houses are now gone. The store,
these schools, these community centers all gone.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
Earlier, Tuala sharp voice, you recognize here at KFI part
of our family, of course from the Mokelly Show. He
lives in Altadena, and so it was one of the
first places and people that we connected us to the
disaster that we were concerned about. You hear him now,
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you know he earlier I talked about the fact that Manhattan,
the island of Manhattan is fourteen thousand, four hundred and
seventy eight acres something like that. Well that's almost the
same size as the Eating fire. And could you imagine
someone saying all of Manhattan burned down, and that's what
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it's like when you talk about Altadena.
Speaker 4 (20:23):
Yes, yes, yes, I know you've got going on.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
Is there anything that anybody can do to help? Are
you seeing anything? What are your thoughts? Your closing thoughts
when it comes to being in the middle of this
disaster that you want.
Speaker 4 (20:45):
People to I think there are several organizations that have
popped up that are helping. I would advise and encourage
people to make sure that they are donating or to
real organizations to the Ina now is a great source
of reputable organizations that are helping the city, and they
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are constantly posting about various food drives, fundraising opportunities, and
events that are designed to help the global community. I
have I've run out of limbs and fingers to be
able to count the number of people that I personally know,
not people that I've just seen posting videos, no people
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that I grew up with who've lost everything, and every
single one of them has the exact same cry for
help with the GoFundMe, and there are lots of people
that are I mean right now, Neil, you are broadcasting
to hundreds of thousands, even millions of people when you
consider the iHeart Radio app. I would encourage if you
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could give a dollar, if you could go on any
of these reputable websites to donate and help out. It's
I know, every time there's a disaster, this is this
is what we do we are asking for help, and
we are no different now the cities of palisades, of
eating of Altadeen and passing. We are asking for that
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help and it is needed. Whatever that you can give,
whatever you can donate, whether it's even time to come
out and help, that's what we need. Well.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
We love you, brother, and we're sorry you're going through this.
Our hearts have been with you, our minds have been
with you through all of this. We're trying to give
you your space. But also it's a powerful voice to hear
someone that people love and care about on KFI going
through this. And we appreciate you taking the time, of
course to tell us where you're at.
Speaker 4 (22:43):
I appreciate you giving me the platform any time to
do so. I mean, it's taken a lot to talk
about it, but this helps. This helps. Being able to
talk about it does help, I hope.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
So Tualla, sharp ladies and gentlemen affected by the fire,
the Eastern fire, of course, eating fire, rather of course
living there in Altadena, proud Alta Dina going back home
and talking about Altadena all the time. We appreciate you, Twala.
I know we'll be talking to you again soon and
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keeping in touch with everything that's going.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
On, you're listening to the Fork Report with Nil Sevadra
on demand from KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
Hey, everybody, it's the Fork Report sort of. Neil Savadra
is in today, but I'm doing special fire coverage until
just moments from now at five o'clock when we'll hand
everything over to Tiffany Hobbs. Of course, Amy King has
been here with me as well as we've been giving
you everything that you need to know during this horrible disaster.
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A lot of evacuations, still, things changing. I know, our
very own John Cobelt was on with Marla Teez there
on Fox eleven talking about the being in Brentwood on
the west side and the fire moving that way. So
with that and Tawala and everybody else, it's affecting our
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family here too, and it's a lot to take in.
I wanted to let you know about some other things
as well. Our friends over there at Gisaos Tacos they
are doing if you are in uniform, your fire police
or with an ID, any of those things, for a
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free meal. Every location is doing that. They have gosh
like eight locations now, so just go to Gisados and
find out where they are. You want to have one
of the best tacos you're ever going to have in
your life, then you will be set up there. But
God bless them and the folks at Gisathos for offering
up meals for fire police with an ID in uniform,
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and they'll take care of you at a GA those location.
Of course, there is in Boyle Heights and Echo Park
and here in Burbank and Beverly Hills and Long Beach.
Now they're they're all over the place, so please check that.
And I'm gonna say this again. If you are a
first responder and people are offering you this and they're
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they're basically trying to do something for you. This is
this is the community's way of saying thank you the
best they can and they are basically giving you what
they what they do. So when you hear us talk
about that, when you hear us talking about Gisato's, when
you hear us talking about Norms, when you hear us
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talking about Chef Supreme Dow and the folks at Sunday Gravy,
they're they're they're wanting to say thank you, and you've
got to let them. I know, it may be a
weird thing for somebody who gives so much, like first
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responder to receive, but please do. I saw a beautiful
video on social media of a line of firefighters at
a local look like an in and out burger. To me,
I know what the inside of an in and out
burger looks like, is all I'm saying. So, and that
they were in line there and everybody stood up and applauded,
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so it. You know, those types of things are very
important for people to be able to connect with you
and say thank you to you and everything that you're doing.
So much going on as we wait for new numbers,
which is kind of the thing right now. Basically it's
a waiting game where we sit and wait to see
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what they are. For those of you who didn't hear earlier,
I gave out the name of an app which is
very helpful if you like following these things along with
us here and keeping KFI on. Of course. It's called
Watch Duty, Watch Do and it's incredibly well put together
and you could find out where the shelters are, medical
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locations are, you can find out where evacuations are. It's
a good thing to have on hand because you can
download the app and have it with you wherever you
might be, and then you're not worried about you having
to have your laptop or computer or anything like that
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with you. So keep that in mind because things are
changing from fire weather watch to red flag warnings to evacuations.
There's just a lot going on, and the ability to
disseminate information is difficult at this time because the information
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is coming from the pios, the information officers and the
like that are working with law enforcement. With firefighters that
are on the ground, they can't really stop and step
down to give you numbers when they're fighting the fire.
So as it is now, we're looking at the possibility
of shifting directions with some of the fires and the like,
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and that's why we are here to keep you posted
on those things and what's going on. Speaking of which,
as we you know, will be going off the air
at five, will be handing things over to Tiffany Hobbes,
who is of course an Angelino. And this is your
beloved city as well that you're watching burn.
Speaker 5 (28:34):
It is and it is extremely upsetting. It's even more upsetting,
I think, let me not say more upsetting. It is
equally as upsetting to kind of see the sentiment on
social media of people and their apathy and just some
of the things that are being said outside of of
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our great city.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
I mean, if if somebody has money or they're wealthy
or famous, that they can't have lost.
Speaker 5 (29:01):
Yeah, exactly, that they shouldn't feel and that they shouldn't
be suffering, that they deserve to suffer even And I'm
really glad to see that so many Angelinos are blocking
that nonsense out and they're still coming together. And you know,
if what's happening at Santa Anita Park and what's happening
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at the Dream Center any indication we are overflowing with
love and with empathy where they lack, we overflow and
people are really coming together and for through all of
this sadness and devastation, and that's exactly what it is.
It is extremely sad and it is utterly devastating, there
is still a very strong thread of humanity and it
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is heartwarming, it's reassuring, and I just you know, I
hold people near and dear.
Speaker 6 (29:50):
I have a lot of people who lost homes.
Speaker 5 (29:52):
As to you, no one in this city is unaffected,
no one, No one is getting out of this tragedy gathed,
we're all affected in some way, some more than others,
and it's just it's top of my mind, top of
my mind.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
Yeah, and processing all the information as we hear it
come in of that's not academic, because academically it is
impossible to understand what it's like to lose all of
all of that. So you kind of just are watching
and it's weird to be in it yet still a spectator. Yeah,
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at any moment, at any moment, it could affect any
of our neighborhoods. And the fact that they keep reminding
us of that blows my mind. I mean, I'm we're
staying close. We've got we've had our conversations with our
conversations with our boy in all those things where you
have to kind of say, okay, here, here's what it is.
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We are fine right now. We're thinking about those that
are not, yes, and that's what we're keeping an eye on.
And you know, but we're going to be read Mommy
and Daddy that want you to worry, but you know,
you've got to kind of go through those things. And
and then the fact that, unlike others, we have to
consume the news differently.
Speaker 5 (31:13):
In large amounts, we can't disengage. You know, I find
myself asking for permission from my loved ones for my
family to watch the news.
Speaker 6 (31:21):
Can I keep this on?
Speaker 5 (31:22):
Because I have to, and there's a guilt that I
feel in turning away from it. I want to stay connected,
you know, you want to reach what you can. And
my way of staying connected is to be able to
be informed so that I can then share that information
with the people who.
Speaker 6 (31:38):
Are are turning to me for some crazy reason.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
Because the KFI they're going to ask, Yeah, it's my
mom and if you're listening on your way to dinner
that I won't be a part of. It's my mom's
eighty seventh birthday.
Speaker 6 (31:53):
Today, Oh, happy birthday to you, and she get.
Speaker 1 (31:55):
Together with the whole gang and all the crazy Savedras
and uh and the like. But you know, and that's
I've been on fumes all week as we do what
we do here.
Speaker 6 (32:06):
You've been here more than you haven't at this point.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
I've been here quite a lot. But I will tell you,
as weird as it is, there's like this weird honor
about about being able to disseminate information. Really every time
like this where where you just I don't just you're
kind of honored by saying, hey, if I if my voice,
if the information anything comforts you at all, Exactly, I'm
(32:32):
happy to be here.
Speaker 6 (32:33):
It's a privilege.
Speaker 5 (32:34):
It's a privilege to be able to speak to people
and share this information and to filter out, of course,
what is accurate and what is not, because there is
so much information out there and that we're parsing through,
and we're doing so with that accuracy and with that
empathy is so important.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
Because everybody's you're walking on eggshells and then we've got,
for whatever reason, those damn alerts going out indirectly. That
makes everybody, he makes everything more. You know, it was
pretty I was in my home office, my wife was.
We shared office, but she has a secondary space and
(33:12):
she was in the secondary space. My son was in
that space with her, and all of a sudden, all
of our phones, of which my wife has three, going off. Yeah,
they start going off, and it's loud and obnoxious and
rightly so. And then find out that it is a
false alarm that I know many people are experiencing that. Yeah,
(33:34):
I did too, that are closer.
Speaker 6 (33:35):
Absolutely, I did too.
Speaker 5 (33:37):
I'm with you know, the rest of us who felt,
like you said, very alarmed by that, upset by the
fact that it wasn't true.
Speaker 6 (33:43):
But there again, I'd rather get an alarm and you know,
than to not. Yeah, I'd rather get one than not.
Speaker 5 (33:50):
As far as knowing that the system is operating, you know,
it would be great for them to be more accurate.
Speaker 1 (33:58):
Well, yeah, the concern then get if that's happened now
set twice, maybe three times four times with some people.
Speaker 6 (34:04):
Well, people believe it when it's real.
Speaker 1 (34:06):
And it's like, you know, that urgency may soften a
little bit. You've been listening to the Fork Report. You
can always hear us live on KFI AM six forty
two to five pm on Saturday, and anytime on demand
on the iHeartRadio app. Hey everybody, Neil Savadri here wrapping
up my special fire coverage with Amy King. Thanks so
(34:27):
much for hanging out, Be empathetic, send love, and continue
to do what we can do. We'll be covering the
fires here. Tiffany Hobb is going to be coming on board.
I just wanted to say a quick good night to
you as I hand things over to Amy King. Thank
you for sticking around, and I hope we continue to
comfort you with the information you need during this horrific,
(34:50):
once in a generation catastrophe going on here. What a disaster.
Speaker 3 (34:56):
You're listening to The Fork Report with Nil Savedra on
demand and from KFI a M six forty
Hey, it's Neil save Adri. You're listening to kfi EM
six forty the fork Report on demand on the iHeartRadio app. Hello,
it is a different day indeed, as your normal friendly
neighborhood Forek reporter is in this seat giving you fire news.
Neil Savadri here with you until five o'clock with the
(00:22):
wonderful Amy King, making sure that you're up to date
on these fires. Just too much going on to come
out tell a joke and talk about food, So we'll
get back to that hopefully next weekend Lord willing, with
everything going on and the chaos therein, but right now
we are we're sharing with you not only the information
(00:46):
that you need to know for the actual fires, road closures, evacuations,
what to do with your animals, but also the kindness
of people that come out during these times. There's someone
that I want to introduce you to now, soul Bathshirian
Basherian and his sister Guzzi are offering free meals and
(01:11):
we want you to tell us more about that. Saul,
Welcome to the forker Port.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Hey, how are you doing today?
Speaker 1 (01:18):
I am well, there's so much going on and to
hear about your kindness of you and your sister and
Sunday Gravy. Tell us a little bit about Sunday Gravy.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
So Sunday Gravy we opened it about well a little
over five years ago. It's in the same location that
my dad had opened well, I should say our dad
had opened his restaurant, Gino's Pizza forty five years prior,
so we've been in the same location for about fifty
years now. A little over five years ago we switched
(01:51):
it from a pizzeria to a pasta house essentially. You know,
we have a fresh pasta factory in the neighborhood just
a few blocks of from us that makes fresh pasta
for us daily. And we thought that that was such
a such an amazing resource to have within that community,
and you know, we wanted to use it. And we
brought Italian, simple Italian cooking to the neighborhood and we
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haven't looked back since.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
And I love that. And during this time of fires
and people being displaced, and also you know, your first responders,
the term Sunday gravy for for you know those maybe
you haven't heard that term. This Sunday gravy is is
your red sauce that cooks all Sunday right from morning,
(02:40):
noon and night, marrying all those delicious flavors. It is
homemade style, correct.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Absolutely, yes, you know, it's a it's a it's a
it's an East Coast Italian tradition and terminology, you know.
And however, you know, although we're not Italian, we're actually
the Iranian. We also had that tradition as well, going
on Sundays to our grandma's house and she would be cooking,
and it'd be family gathered around the table and friends
(03:10):
gather around the table, just eating, eating good food and
enjoying good conversation. And really that's the whole ethos of
Sunday gravy for us. It's not really about the sauce,
but it's more about the intention and the idea of
people coming together and communities coming together and enjoying food together.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
I love that you use the term intention because I
think you know, when people say, oh, it's got love
baked right in, that's intention. That's the that's the attitude
in which you make food. And I believe, I'm a
firm believer that that shows in food when your intention
is to bring joy and comfort to people that will
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be baked in the food. So tell us what you
and your sister Guzie came up with and are doing
for first response in an emergency medical personnel.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Well, the simplest thing for us to offered from the
get go. You know, my sister, she sent me a
text Wednesday morning, was like, hey, you know, what do
you think of this? It was an Instagram post welcoming
those that have been displaced first responders to come and
just take a break and have a meal, just get
(04:24):
away from it all if they possibly could. And so,
you know, we just put that offer out there because
we just felt it was the right thing to do.
It really wasn't no second thought to it. So we
put the offer out there. And you know, the first day,
I think when people were still processing and it was
(04:46):
just just so much going on, we didn't really get
we got we got some people coming in, but then
we just did our best online to spread the word,
spread the word, and I think once like the newspapers
and the publications and the food blog and the bloggers
and the influencers sort of recognized what we were doing
and they spread the word, that's when it really took off.
(05:06):
And it was the next day when we posted, Hey,
you know, we're offering spaghetti, spaghetti, bolon at, spaghetti, tomato basil,
a caesar salad, a garlic bread, please send it and
everybody our way that needs something. That's when we started
getting folks in the next day coming in and you know,
(05:28):
we had put like just a arbitrary like, yeah, if
you want to contribute to one of these meals, just
chip in like twenty bucks, and that snowballed in its
own way, and we just started getting like inquiry after inquiry,
and then so I finally set up a venmo where
people can donate to and I put the link out there,
(05:50):
and that's just been growing and growing and growing over
these past couple of days, and it's just allowed us
now over this weekend to feed over a thousand people
by the end of Sunday and really continue this on
into the next week and hopefully into the finishing parts
of this month and beyond.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
I know, the website is eat Sunday Gravy dot com
Eat Sunday gravy dot com. But how can people participate,
whether it's donating or people that are first responders, emergency
medical personnel, people displaced by the fires. How can they
take you up on your kindness, Well, if they're able to.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
You know, folks are always welcome to come in and
you know, just use our dining room and hang out.
You know, we're we got our whole staff there ready
to take care of any folks that walk in. We've
had folks coming in picking up meals for their families.
We've had folks coming in and picking up twenty twenty
five meals at a time for stations that they're dropping
(06:55):
supplies off that and then we ourselves have been reaching
out to hospitals and other groups that are putting food
out there and creating you know, family style meals. We
did two hundred fifty nurse up to two hundred fifty
nurses last night at UCLA Emergency Room in Westwood. We
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did fifty in Saint John's in Santa Monica. This morning,
we did one hundred at Donald McDonald's charity House in Westwood.
We're going to be doing another fifty tonight at the
Pediatric ICU at u c l A. Tomorrow. We have
two hundred at West Hills Hospital in I believe that's
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kind of above Calabasas or in west to west Hills
and then again do just just we have we have
large drop offs scheduled throughout the throughout the next week.
So it's really outreach on my and my sister's part
and folks reaching out to us on Instagram. That really
is the best way to connect with us is through
(08:02):
our Instagram page, Sunday dot Gravy. My sister and I
answer each and every one of those messages personally and
we've just been yeah, just just through this network that's
been creative. There's so many resources right now, and we
just are able to reach out to our partners in
the food industry, our partners you know that are that
(08:23):
are coordinating these things and we just ask, hey, what
can we do? How many do you need? And we
we crank it out for them.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Well, you're doing great work. You're listening to Soul Basherian
and he and his sister Ghazi are putting together meals
for those that are need Again, if you want to
contact them, the easiest way to do it is go
on to Instagram at Sunday dot Gravy At Sunday dot Gravy. Saul,
(08:53):
thank you so much for taking the time to come
on and what you're doing for the community. It's so
important right now and you really, you and your sister
are really standing up for it.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Thank you. It's it's the it's the absolute least that
we can do. And we are so gracious for the
community for the donations that they've given us that are
giving us the opportunity to to feed so many people
and continue to feed, hopefully feed feed more people into
this next month and beyond that. So thank you so much.
(09:24):
And if I could just say, even if you can't donate,
just share a post. Sharing a post and just getting
eyeballs on it. You just never know who it could
reach and how they can impact a situation like this.
So just continue to share these posts, continue to share
any any posts that you see. If you think it's
redundant and repetitive, continue to do it over and over.
(09:46):
It just continues to get the message out there and
amplifies it even more. And you know, we've had people
from France, Australia contact us and asking us how they
can help, how they can donate, So it really does
get around world and this is becoming like a worldwide initiative.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Super Powerful Words at Sunday, dot Gravy at Sunday dot
Gravy that's on Instagram and on TikTok and if nothing else,
just share and get the word out via there. Soul.
Thanks so much for coming on, brother and what you're doing,
and God bless you and your sister.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
Thank you very much for having us. Thank you.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
All right, my friend, you're listening to the Fork Report
with Neil savedra on demand from KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Hey, everybody, it is Neil savedra In doing special fire
coverage today until five o'clock along with Amy King. So
much going on, not the time to not not yet
to get back into food. Hopefully next Saturday we will
get back into our our sanctuary of you know, stepping
(10:48):
away from the heaviness of the news to talk about food.
But today it's all hands on deck giving you all
that you need to know about the fires. Of course,
the Eating fire was one of the biggest, as it
continues to roar starting on Tuesday six eighteen pm near
Alta Dina, fourteen thousand plus acres about fifteen percent containment
(11:14):
as of Saturday morning. Many people. The death toll has
been large. Their eight deaths, several injuries, including a firefighter
who was hospitalized after a fall just horrific. What added
a personal note to us is our beloved buddy and
colleague here at KFI, T Walla Sharp was affected. That
(11:38):
is where he lives, and we have him on the
phone with us now for an update. Hey, T.
Speaker 4 (11:44):
How you doing good, sir?
Speaker 1 (11:45):
I'm doing all right. I think the big question from
the KFI listeners and all of us that love and
care about you is how are you?
Speaker 5 (11:55):
You know?
Speaker 4 (11:57):
I always say God is good all the time, and
I truly mean that with every fiber of my being,
even in this Seeing the city come together the way
it has has restored my faith in humanity. Where so
many people have lost absolutely everything. I mean, Neil eighty five,
almost ninety percent of my entire neighborhood has been leveled,
(12:20):
absolutely taken down to rubble, burned to shreds, and everyone
out there in the city is still working to help
each other out from all the volunteering and donating and
just really sitting virtual and physical hugs to everyone, it means.
It means the world to us. I'm one of the lucky,
(12:41):
well lucky few in my neighborhood. Our family home is
still standing, though thus far we have told it's not livable.
You know, we are looking forward to getting it assessed
so we can determine these true damage. But it's again
this you know, when you have no place to go
(13:03):
and you don't expect this, it's there's not really enough
words to put in I don't think anyone from the city,
whether it be the Palisades eaten, whether it be passading
out to Diena, it's hard to put into words what
you're feeling because you've never had to experience or fill
this before. You know, if it's the closest I could
(13:24):
say as like, you know when when losing loved ones,
this is what it feels like when they're gone, when
that thing that you've loved your entire life is gone.
You know, we're all doing our best, you know.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
So when you say that it's still standing but not livable,
is that due to smoke damage or is there fire.
Speaker 4 (13:45):
Damage smoke smoke and structural damage from just the heat alone.
I mean our house was surrounded by other houses on
fire on all sides. So it's it's to the point where, yes,
the building itself is still standing. And that was good
news because we thought, well, pay maybe we could go
in and get like, you know, the the family china
(14:08):
that's been passed down. We could get a few more
photo albums and maybe some you know, some keepsake furniture
that has been passed down, like wooden furniture maybe. But
but that's about it. It's not for the it's not
for the purpose of being able to go back into
the house because it's you can you can look at
the house and see it's disccolored just from the smoke
(14:30):
alone and and everything. It's just it's reeks. It reeks
up all the toxic fumes that you know, have been
uh that's been exposed to because of the other structures
around it that have burnt down. The streets, everything there
is like when we last went to check on it
and just to see it, you can see the streets
(14:53):
around it, everything around the telephone poles are looking like
they're about to fall down. It's that that level of infrastructure.
It's the.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
Does it melt stuff? I mean, are the windows.
Speaker 4 (15:08):
Out there there there, you can see that things like
the shutters, you can see that they've warped. I can
see that the glass is warped. I can see like
our garage door is warped. That's how we know, like
the things inside, and we were told by first responders
a lot of people who have structures that still may
(15:28):
be standing. The worst part is going in and just
to find everything just reduced to slag because it's been
melted down, just because it's been surrounded by that much
heat for that long. You know, you're talking some seventy
two hours of just ongoing fires burning. And yes, you're
(15:50):
structured there, but it's almost like imagine, imagine like those
who have who know what it's like. If you if
you leave a pet in the car, you can't right
here in southern California, you can't. You can't leave someone
because it's a hot box. That's what your house is like.
Your house is now is like a car filled up
and all of your stuff is in there with just
(16:10):
an oven turned on around it. So the chance of
going in there and finding much no, But you know, again,
it's the photo albums. It's those things that you cannot
replace that we're hoping we'll be able to recover. But
you know, when I look across the street, when I
look next door and there's nothing there, I almost feel guilty.
(16:32):
I feel guilty about the idea of going in to
get anything when I have people who live right next
door and right across the street and all around all
around you for miles, it is leveled. There's nothing there.
The city is absolutely decimated. And I mean we have
now joined a fraternity of cities that have been leveled
(16:56):
by this absolute destruction. And it's incomprehensible what it is
that we're feeling, what it is we're going through. It's
the whole city is.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Really so when you go outside, it's not even or
you look at it. You've had the opportunity to at
least see some that it's it's one thing to feel
the weight of your stuff being gone or your home
being gone, but an entire neighborhood, the sidewalks that you
used to walk or you know, hang out, or the
(17:28):
store or the school or the church or whatever, everything's gone.
Speaker 4 (17:33):
It's gone. When we went back to try to try
to maybe take pictures and try to see if our
house was still standing, I got lost because because a
lot of times, you know Altadena, it's a big small town,
and you know where you're at by landmarks, you know
where you're at. I just drive around. I know this
(17:55):
person's house who used to go hang out at, or
this burger place or this liquor store. You know where
you're at. Because of the landmarks, I don't have to
see the streets. So we're going back and the smoke,
the smoke is so thick. It's just dark outside. And
when we're driving around, I don't know where we're at
because every house is gone. And when I say gone,
(18:16):
I mean you know that there was a house there,
because there's a chimney there still standing. That may be
the thing that you know, like that was a house,
and you see a lowered wall that was once the house.
But it looks as if a bomb had gone off.
It looks like an absolute war zone with smoke and
fire just still burning, still burning. And here's the thing,
it hasn't gone out yet. There are still so many
(18:38):
areas where the smoke and fire is still going. The
area is putrid and toxic. It's it's I mean, we
think an entire city, you know, you think imagine you know,
broadcasting there in Bourbank. Imagine everything around us here in
the Bourbank area and it's leveled. You walk outside and
(18:59):
everything is level. This is what those of us from
these various areas are trying to convey to people when
when they're trying to wrap their minds around what it
is that wors thing and what we're going through. Imagine
your entire city leveled be goot eighty percent of your
city leveled houses that have been in family for generations,
(19:24):
three and four generations. These houses are now gone. The store,
these schools, these community centers all gone.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
Earlier, Tuala sharp voice, you recognize here at KFI part
of our family, of course from the Mokelly Show. He
lives in Altadena, and so it was one of the
first places and people that we connected us to the
disaster that we were concerned about. You hear him now,
(19:55):
you know he earlier I talked about the fact that Manhattan,
the island of Manhattan is fourteen thousand, four hundred and
seventy eight acres something like that. Well that's almost the
same size as the Eating fire. And could you imagine
someone saying all of Manhattan burned down, and that's what
(20:19):
it's like when you talk about Altadena.
Speaker 4 (20:23):
Yes, yes, yes, I know you've got going on.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
Is there anything that anybody can do to help? Are
you seeing anything? What are your thoughts? Your closing thoughts
when it comes to being in the middle of this
disaster that you want.
Speaker 4 (20:45):
People to I think there are several organizations that have
popped up that are helping. I would advise and encourage
people to make sure that they are donating or to
real organizations to the Ina now is a great source
of reputable organizations that are helping the city, and they
(21:06):
are constantly posting about various food drives, fundraising opportunities, and
events that are designed to help the global community. I
have I've run out of limbs and fingers to be
able to count the number of people that I personally know,
not people that I've just seen posting videos, no people
(21:29):
that I grew up with who've lost everything, and every
single one of them has the exact same cry for
help with the GoFundMe, and there are lots of people
that are I mean right now, Neil, you are broadcasting
to hundreds of thousands, even millions of people when you
consider the iHeart Radio app. I would encourage if you
(21:49):
could give a dollar, if you could go on any
of these reputable websites to donate and help out. It's
I know, every time there's a disaster, this is this
is what we do we are asking for help, and
we are no different now the cities of palisades, of
eating of Altadeen and passing. We are asking for that
(22:11):
help and it is needed. Whatever that you can give,
whatever you can donate, whether it's even time to come
out and help, that's what we need. Well.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
We love you, brother, and we're sorry you're going through this.
Our hearts have been with you, our minds have been
with you through all of this. We're trying to give
you your space. But also it's a powerful voice to hear
someone that people love and care about on KFI going
through this. And we appreciate you taking the time, of
course to tell us where you're at.
Speaker 4 (22:43):
I appreciate you giving me the platform any time to
do so. I mean, it's taken a lot to talk
about it, but this helps. This helps. Being able to
talk about it does help, I hope.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
So Tualla, sharp ladies and gentlemen affected by the fire,
the Eastern fire, of course, eating fire, rather of course
living there in Altadena, proud Alta Dina going back home
and talking about Altadena all the time. We appreciate you, Twala.
I know we'll be talking to you again soon and
(23:17):
keeping in touch with everything that's going.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
On, you're listening to the Fork Report with Nil Sevadra
on demand from KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
Hey, everybody, it's the Fork Report sort of. Neil Savadra
is in today, but I'm doing special fire coverage until
just moments from now at five o'clock when we'll hand
everything over to Tiffany Hobbs. Of course, Amy King has
been here with me as well as we've been giving
you everything that you need to know during this horrible disaster.
(23:47):
A lot of evacuations, still, things changing. I know, our
very own John Cobelt was on with Marla Teez there
on Fox eleven talking about the being in Brentwood on
the west side and the fire moving that way. So
with that and Tawala and everybody else, it's affecting our
(24:09):
family here too, and it's a lot to take in.
I wanted to let you know about some other things
as well. Our friends over there at Gisaos Tacos they
are doing if you are in uniform, your fire police
or with an ID, any of those things, for a
(24:33):
free meal. Every location is doing that. They have gosh
like eight locations now, so just go to Gisados and
find out where they are. You want to have one
of the best tacos you're ever going to have in
your life, then you will be set up there. But
God bless them and the folks at Gisathos for offering
up meals for fire police with an ID in uniform,
(24:57):
and they'll take care of you at a GA those location.
Of course, there is in Boyle Heights and Echo Park
and here in Burbank and Beverly Hills and Long Beach.
Now they're they're all over the place, so please check that.
And I'm gonna say this again. If you are a
first responder and people are offering you this and they're
(25:18):
they're basically trying to do something for you. This is
this is the community's way of saying thank you the
best they can and they are basically giving you what
they what they do. So when you hear us talk
about that, when you hear us talking about Gisato's, when
you hear us talking about Norms, when you hear us
(25:39):
talking about Chef Supreme Dow and the folks at Sunday Gravy,
they're they're they're wanting to say thank you, and you've
got to let them. I know, it may be a
weird thing for somebody who gives so much, like first
(25:59):
responder to receive, but please do. I saw a beautiful
video on social media of a line of firefighters at
a local look like an in and out burger. To me,
I know what the inside of an in and out
burger looks like, is all I'm saying. So, and that
they were in line there and everybody stood up and applauded,
(26:23):
so it. You know, those types of things are very
important for people to be able to connect with you
and say thank you to you and everything that you're doing.
So much going on as we wait for new numbers,
which is kind of the thing right now. Basically it's
a waiting game where we sit and wait to see
(26:45):
what they are. For those of you who didn't hear earlier,
I gave out the name of an app which is
very helpful if you like following these things along with
us here and keeping KFI on. Of course. It's called
Watch Duty, Watch Do and it's incredibly well put together
and you could find out where the shelters are, medical
(27:08):
locations are, you can find out where evacuations are. It's
a good thing to have on hand because you can
download the app and have it with you wherever you
might be, and then you're not worried about you having
to have your laptop or computer or anything like that
(27:29):
with you. So keep that in mind because things are
changing from fire weather watch to red flag warnings to evacuations.
There's just a lot going on, and the ability to
disseminate information is difficult at this time because the information
(27:50):
is coming from the pios, the information officers and the
like that are working with law enforcement. With firefighters that
are on the ground, they can't really stop and step
down to give you numbers when they're fighting the fire.
So as it is now, we're looking at the possibility
of shifting directions with some of the fires and the like,
(28:11):
and that's why we are here to keep you posted
on those things and what's going on. Speaking of which,
as we you know, will be going off the air
at five, will be handing things over to Tiffany Hobbes,
who is of course an Angelino. And this is your
beloved city as well that you're watching burn.
Speaker 5 (28:34):
It is and it is extremely upsetting. It's even more upsetting,
I think, let me not say more upsetting. It is
equally as upsetting to kind of see the sentiment on
social media of people and their apathy and just some
of the things that are being said outside of of
(28:54):
our great city.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
I mean, if if somebody has money or they're wealthy
or famous, that they can't have lost.
Speaker 5 (29:01):
Yeah, exactly, that they shouldn't feel and that they shouldn't
be suffering, that they deserve to suffer even And I'm
really glad to see that so many Angelinos are blocking
that nonsense out and they're still coming together. And you know,
if what's happening at Santa Anita Park and what's happening
(29:21):
at the Dream Center any indication we are overflowing with
love and with empathy where they lack, we overflow and
people are really coming together and for through all of
this sadness and devastation, and that's exactly what it is.
It is extremely sad and it is utterly devastating, there
is still a very strong thread of humanity and it
(29:43):
is heartwarming, it's reassuring, and I just you know, I
hold people near and dear.
Speaker 6 (29:50):
I have a lot of people who lost homes.
Speaker 5 (29:52):
As to you, no one in this city is unaffected,
no one, No one is getting out of this tragedy gathed,
we're all affected in some way, some more than others,
and it's just it's top of my mind, top of
my mind.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
Yeah, and processing all the information as we hear it
come in of that's not academic, because academically it is
impossible to understand what it's like to lose all of
all of that. So you kind of just are watching
and it's weird to be in it yet still a spectator. Yeah,
(30:30):
at any moment, at any moment, it could affect any
of our neighborhoods. And the fact that they keep reminding
us of that blows my mind. I mean, I'm we're
staying close. We've got we've had our conversations with our
conversations with our boy in all those things where you
have to kind of say, okay, here, here's what it is.
(30:51):
We are fine right now. We're thinking about those that
are not, yes, and that's what we're keeping an eye on.
And you know, but we're going to be read Mommy
and Daddy that want you to worry, but you know,
you've got to kind of go through those things. And
and then the fact that, unlike others, we have to
consume the news differently.
Speaker 5 (31:13):
In large amounts, we can't disengage. You know, I find
myself asking for permission from my loved ones for my
family to watch the news.
Speaker 6 (31:21):
Can I keep this on?
Speaker 5 (31:22):
Because I have to, and there's a guilt that I
feel in turning away from it. I want to stay connected,
you know, you want to reach what you can. And
my way of staying connected is to be able to
be informed so that I can then share that information
with the people who.
Speaker 6 (31:38):
Are are turning to me for some crazy reason.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
Because the KFI they're going to ask, Yeah, it's my
mom and if you're listening on your way to dinner
that I won't be a part of. It's my mom's
eighty seventh birthday.
Speaker 6 (31:53):
Today, Oh, happy birthday to you, and she get.
Speaker 1 (31:55):
Together with the whole gang and all the crazy Savedras
and uh and the like. But you know, and that's
I've been on fumes all week as we do what
we do here.
Speaker 6 (32:06):
You've been here more than you haven't at this point.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
I've been here quite a lot. But I will tell you,
as weird as it is, there's like this weird honor
about about being able to disseminate information. Really every time
like this where where you just I don't just you're
kind of honored by saying, hey, if I if my voice,
if the information anything comforts you at all, Exactly, I'm
(32:32):
happy to be here.
Speaker 6 (32:33):
It's a privilege.
Speaker 5 (32:34):
It's a privilege to be able to speak to people
and share this information and to filter out, of course,
what is accurate and what is not, because there is
so much information out there and that we're parsing through,
and we're doing so with that accuracy and with that
empathy is so important.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
Because everybody's you're walking on eggshells and then we've got,
for whatever reason, those damn alerts going out indirectly. That
makes everybody, he makes everything more. You know, it was
pretty I was in my home office, my wife was.
We shared office, but she has a secondary space and
(33:12):
she was in the secondary space. My son was in
that space with her, and all of a sudden, all
of our phones, of which my wife has three, going off. Yeah,
they start going off, and it's loud and obnoxious and
rightly so. And then find out that it is a
false alarm that I know many people are experiencing that. Yeah,
(33:34):
I did too, that are closer.
Speaker 6 (33:35):
Absolutely, I did too.
Speaker 5 (33:37):
I'm with you know, the rest of us who felt,
like you said, very alarmed by that, upset by the
fact that it wasn't true.
Speaker 6 (33:43):
But there again, I'd rather get an alarm and you know,
than to not. Yeah, I'd rather get one than not.
Speaker 5 (33:50):
As far as knowing that the system is operating, you know,
it would be great for them to be more accurate.
Speaker 1 (33:58):
Well, yeah, the concern then get if that's happened now
set twice, maybe three times four times with some people.
Speaker 6 (34:04):
Well, people believe it when it's real.
Speaker 1 (34:06):
And it's like, you know, that urgency may soften a
little bit. You've been listening to the Fork Report. You
can always hear us live on KFI AM six forty
two to five pm on Saturday, and anytime on demand
on the iHeartRadio app. Hey everybody, Neil Savadri here wrapping
up my special fire coverage with Amy King. Thanks so
(34:27):
much for hanging out, Be empathetic, send love, and continue
to do what we can do. We'll be covering the
fires here. Tiffany Hobb is going to be coming on board.
I just wanted to say a quick good night to
you as I hand things over to Amy King. Thank
you for sticking around, and I hope we continue to
comfort you with the information you need during this horrific,
(34:50):
once in a generation catastrophe going on here. What a disaster.
Speaker 3 (34:56):
You're listening to The Fork Report with Nil Savedra on
demand and from KFI a M six forty
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