January 9, 2025 • 28 mins
Amy King and Neil Saavedra join Bill for Handel on the News. The crew speaks on the historic wildfires ripping through Pacific Palisades, Altadena, Pasadena, Sylmar, and now Hollywood Hills.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
six forty and now Handle on the news. Ladies and gentlemen,
here's Bill Handle.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
All right? Do I start with good morning?
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (00:24):
I think so. I think because it was better than
yesterday morning. The better morning here on a Thursday, January ninth,
Bill Handle and the morning crew on KFI. And I
want to tell you something in a minute. It just
occurred to me, and as I was watching TV last night.
Speaker 4 (00:42):
First let me say.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Hello, And there you are on a Thursday morning. Good morning,
Good morning, Amy is still Thursday.
Speaker 5 (00:50):
Good morning, Good morning Bill in your Disneyland.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Sweatshirt.
Speaker 4 (00:56):
You know, there's a time.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
As much as I hate fires, but there's a time,
you know, I sometimes wish that a fire would go
through your closet.
Speaker 4 (01:03):
Wow, you know what I was.
Speaker 5 (01:05):
I was putting my go bag together last night.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Yes, I was Disney memorabile. Allow.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
I understand Kelly was thinking about him, like what should
I take? Should I take my Disney Spirit jerseys?
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Of course you should in them.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
And let's not to forget the mouse ears.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
I did not pack mouse ears anyway.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
So I wish this was TV.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
So every day we'll see a different outfit than Amy
wears that has Disneyland or Disney you're mickey on it.
Speaker 5 (01:30):
I did not wear Disney yesterday.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
Oh that's right, you didn't.
Speaker 6 (01:33):
Okay, all right, Neil, good morning, Good morning, Willie Wolf
and Kno good morning.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
All right. So, as I just mentioned television, of course
today we're going to talk about the fires, naturally, because
that is the big news.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
You know, last night I watch ABC News.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
You know, ninety percent of the news coverage last night
was the fires.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
It can a big deal, Bill it is.
Speaker 6 (01:57):
You know, it's a bigger deal than I thought it was,
because you don't give a crap about anything that doesn't
affect you personally.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
Yeah, but that's besides the point, or maybe that is
the point.
Speaker 6 (02:08):
Your pants would have to be on fire for you
to go, let's cover this.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
Yeah, probably, But I was.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
And you know David Muir who is the host of ABC,
they flew him in so he anchored.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
From the fire one of the fire areas, and.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
The reporters, the national reporters were there and I knew
it was a big story. I knew it was covered internationally,
but it was. It is a bigger story than I anticipated.
The same thing. With the death of Kobe, I didn't
quite get how big a story it was, And going
way back the death of Frank Sinatra, it's much bigger.
(02:49):
I was in Norway at the time. By the way,
if you remember when Frank Sinatra died.
Speaker 6 (02:54):
How could we remember that you were in Norway when
Frank Sinatra died.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Because it's all about me in this case, the dead
Frank Sinatra. Because I was on vacation and all of
a sudden, Frank Sinatra is about to die. And David Hall,
our previous program director, said, get to a radio station.
Your show is on. You're gonna host the show because
it's such a big deal. So I went to their
(03:22):
national radio station and it was these big Soviet blocks buildings,
you know, those big staliness, solid concrete buildings. There was
the radio one was built in the thirties, and then
the television one that was built in the fifties looked
just like it. And so I'm sitting there broadcasting just
a quick story. I'm sitting there broadcasting and the engineer,
(03:46):
this woman who they l speak perfect English, said do
you know where you're sitting, big cavernous room, in this
big desk with a microphone in front of it. Do
you know where you're sitting? And I said, no, that
is exactly the spot where Quizzling announced the puppet government
under Nazi Germany at the start of World War One,
I started World War Two. I went, whoa, you know
(04:07):
how a history not? I am wow?
Speaker 4 (04:10):
And it was I went out of my mind. Okay,
that's just where were you?
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Norway?
Speaker 4 (04:14):
Oh I see wow?
Speaker 2 (04:16):
All right, now a quick story about us our coverage,
and I generally try not to blow our horn, as
you know, saying oh, we're great, We're terrific. Oh, we're
just bitching people here. But as I was watching television
last night and I channeled surf, I go through all
the local stations to see what's going on and how
it's being covered. I noticed that the coverage was basically
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the same, you know, announcing the fier arey, here's a
weather report, reporters out on the field, walking along, Look
at the building behind me, look at this, look down
the street, interviewing someone. I've lost everything and it's heartbreaking.
I mean to see someone that's actually lost, but that's
the coverage. And then I think in this often happens
(05:00):
where I'm jealous of television because there's a lot of
visual that we can't and don't use. I mean, the
theater of the mind is a wonderful thing. And I
like radio far more than I like television, not only
having done television. It's a complete waste of time. In
my opinion, it's not you. It's a producer talking in
your IU D in the ear. You know where the ID.
Speaker 5 (05:24):
It's not an IUD in your ear?
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Oh okay, so whatever the hell it is I FB yeah, okay,
I was close. So in any case, you're it's not you.
It's some producer telling you what to say. And so
I get jealous of the coverage because they have the visuals.
And then I think of, here's what we do. For example,
(05:46):
today we're going to have the PR communications officer at
the pacaday in the Humane Society and get into not
just you can donate, you can have your animal be
dropped off, but get into the story.
Speaker 6 (06:00):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
The same thing with Joel Larsguard. We're gonna have him
today about insurance issues, what's going on. They don't do
that on television. They do the quick, dirty story, Boom,
you're done. But here's your visual. And that's what I
love about what we do. And this one, this one,
I'm gonna blow our horn and say that's what makes
during times like this, that that's what makes it worth listening. Uh,
(06:22):
today we're gonna get Jim Keiney on who is going
to talk about the medical aspects of the pollutants.
Speaker 6 (06:29):
And uh, well they just call him Jim Kenney. You
know he works for a living. Why don't you call
him doctor Keeney.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Oh, because we've been on such friend you know, basis
of a friendship for so long. Okay, we're going to
talk to doctor Jim, the doctor Jim Keeney. Okay, he's
a doctor, doctor, he's a doctor doctor. And uh, we're
gonna have h Well, the pastor of Humane Society. We
have a connection a big one here. Uh do you
(06:56):
remember our previous aim JJL Amy plus about eighty pounds,
was with us and she was well connected.
Speaker 4 (07:09):
By the way, JJL is fine with that. Okay, she lost.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
About eighty five and she's looking absolutely great and it's
no longer going to be jj L. It's JJ you know.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
And we still have that connection to pass the passa
humane because she has passed the leash to me and
now I do the wiggle waggon.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Yeah, yeah, I was about to say that, say so
we maintain a very very good connection, and she started
and Amy, thank you, Amy for beating me to the punch,
but Amy continues it. So there is there's kind of
a neat connection we have. And then we're going to
spend a real long time ripping at least a segment
ripping into Karen Bass, who was in Ghana while this
(07:51):
was going on, and well, really, Mayor, what were you
doing in Ghana? And she answered, she went, you know,
that's uh they speak. That's one of the.
Speaker 6 (08:04):
She's fluent in that language. You know, I do you
know what? I love the La Times. They were writing
a story about that, which we'll get into. But they said,
while ever present on social media, and I'm like, you know,
she was in Ghana and I kept thinking, bull crap,
(08:25):
that wasn't her on social media? Some lackey is posting
general information on her you know, X account or whatever
it was. And they were like, while ever present from
far away, No, she wasn't.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
She Whiz people, let's go ahead and take a break,
and we're going to get into unfortunately, the news and
I guess it's relatively good that this massive explosion moving
at eighty miles an hour, the fire is a little
bit better. Correct me if I'm wrong on this one,
but I think we're saying light at the end of
(09:02):
the tunnel, too much light. But I think we're doing that. Amy.
I'm going to throw it to you for the latest
in terms of the hard facts, that is the number
of acres burned, evacuations, and what's going.
Speaker 4 (09:14):
On beyond the last night.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
Okay, so we are expecting an update at eight o'clock,
so we're expecting these numbers to change. But what we
have is active fire zero percent surrounded in Palisades, still burning,
more than seventeen thousand acres burned, over one hundred thousand evacuated,
and about a thousand structures have burned.
Speaker 5 (09:34):
We're talking about.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
Homes, schools, businesses, restaurants, churches, you name it.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
Maybe I'm a little bit more optimistic because those numbers
have not really changed very much in terms of the
thousand structures that I was listening to last night. But
it could be that we're going to get a big,
big update.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
Exactly, we don't know until they give us an update,
and again they haven't given updates on any of the
fire since yesterday, So as you mentioned, when they do,
because yesterday we went from dozens up to a thousand
right for the Palisades fire, So that's that one. In
the fire that's burning in Altadena near Pasadena, it's ten
(10:17):
thoy six hundred acres, about seventy thousand people evacuated, and
there are varying numbers, but the latest we've seen is
nine hundred and seventy two structures destroyed. And in the
Pasadena Water District they're seeing don't drink the water bottled
water only. It's not even a boil order. It's bottled
water only because of contamination from the fires. The Hurst
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fire in Silmar, that's the one that's burning north of
the two ten and east of the just or south
of the five fifty sorry five fourteen interchange. That one's
burned about eight hundred and fifty five acres. There are
evacuation orders, but no reports of any buildings home structures
being burned at the point. And this is something we
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haven't seen on any of these fires that are raging
out of control. Ten percent surrounded at this point, so
firefighters are actually making some headway on that one in
of course, the sunset fire that broke out last night
about five point thirty. That's the one that was in
the run In Canyon area and quickly spread to almost
fifty acres. Lots of evacuations were ordered, people got out,
(11:22):
clogged streets, it was a mess. But most of the
evacuation orders have now been lifted and the water dropping
helicopters really made a difference in that one and we're
able to stop it from spreading into neighborhoods.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Yeah, a couple of things. When we were on the
air yesterday, we would have you during when daylight hours
said we had no idea of the extent of the
fire other than sort of a guess this is the
fire department, because they really didn't know how many structures
because the aircraft weren't in the air well yesterday, I
think towards the end of the afternoon aircraft were able
to go in the air and so we are going
(11:54):
to get.
Speaker 4 (11:54):
A much better idea.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
Also, and yesterday looking at Instagram of high end or
celebrities names that you recognize who have lost their homes,
and that list is extraordinary and I can't tell you
how many people who have contacted me, texted me, who
(12:16):
in fact have evacuated? I had an hour with my
shrink yesterday. I usually do a zoom call with my psychologist.
What a shocker that have a therapist, right, Neil?
Speaker 4 (12:27):
Only an hour?
Speaker 2 (12:28):
Yeah? At only an hour? And Neil, I don't know
if Neil and who have known probably for almost thirty years,
there's ever been a moment that I didn't have a therapist,
neurotic jew all that stuff. Anyway, she had evacuated and
she really no place to go, so she went into
a humane Seltzer shelter. So I was doing my therapy
(12:49):
with her and there were horses in the background and
dogs moving around. Let me tell you how pleasant that was.
Speaker 6 (12:55):
How could she not own her own island at this point?
Being your shrink? Yeah, the amount of time and money spent.
I mean, seriously, she should have a small country by now.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Yeah. It's it's really very depressing, very depressing. I mean
it's uh, it's and I do it twice a week
Tuesdays and Thursdays. Tuesdays, I hate my mother when I
have sex with the dog, and then on Thursday it's
just the reverse. Okay, enough of that, fort there's something.
Speaker 5 (13:29):
About Oedipus Rex in there.
Speaker 6 (13:30):
Oh yeah with the dog literally, yeah, okay, Uh.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
In any case, Uh, we're gonna get somewhat of an idea.
But amy based on what I said and what I
have seen, and you guys have been at it all night,
Neil and Cobalt and Conway and Moe did five hours
last night. I mean, it's kind of crazy. Do I
have it right where? It's sort of the the It
(13:57):
has turned a corner, not so much containment, but in
terms of the raging wildfires that were moving at one
hundred miles an hour down the hills.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
Well, not necessarily. Okay, the winds have died down considerably.
We are still expecting some gusty winds. But if you
saw a picture of the fire that's burning above Altadena,
they Eaton Canyon fire. There was a whole hillside in
the dark of night, and it looked like street lights
dotting the hillside, but it wasn't. It was fires. I mean,
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so fire is still burning, actively burning, and houses are
still being destroyed.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
I got a text yesterday today. I was supposed to
have a meeting with a couple of management folks at
KFI and got a text from one of them saying,
I can't make it to the meeting. I lost my
house in the Palisades and I don't know what to do.
And it's, I mean, absolutely heartbreaking. We'll be getting a
lot of that.
Speaker 4 (14:52):
There is.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
Lindsay's cousin who had built their dream house. She and
her husband had built their dream house in Malibu. It
burnt to the ground, so they built it again, and
we don't know if it's around and do you build
it a third time? And at some point you say, yeah,
(15:17):
I don't think so when do you walk away? And
we're not talking about a shack on silts in the
Louisiana Bayou that takes you three days to put together. Either.
Speaker 4 (15:30):
It's the devastation is it's tough, it really is to.
Speaker 5 (15:33):
See that, and the not knowing is really difficult.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
My brother's an architectural photographer and he's been working on
a house that's in the Palisades for a year where
they're documenting the construction because this is some really wall
house and so he's been working on it. Actually it's
been a couple of years that they go and they
photograph it as it's being built, and they said, we
don't know if it's even still there, and so it'll
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be interesting to see.
Speaker 6 (15:58):
You know, I think you have a false sense of
it mellowing out right now because the winds are not
as insane.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Yeah, and maybe you're right.
Speaker 6 (16:09):
I've got seven cameras in front or seven TVs in
front of me, and there is no dearth of.
Speaker 4 (16:18):
Fire footage live right now.
Speaker 6 (16:21):
And you know all the la USD schools are closed,
You've got smoke, horrible air quality.
Speaker 4 (16:30):
I don't think it's over. No, I know it's not over.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
I mean, that's granted, But as I'm here, I am
an unusually optimistic and that I think we're at a
different point than we were yesterday. We won't know. You
may be right, Amy may be right, and when the
press conference comes in at eight am this morning, we
may just shake our heads and just wonder at how
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quickly and how much more devastation, how much more blittering
of homes and businesses, there are we are in the
midst of historical incident here in southern California. Last night
I was watching national news in ABC specifically last night,
ninety percent of the broadcast was of these fires. Extraordinary
(17:19):
with US Fred Fielding, who is the LA Fire Department
Public Service Public Information officer. Fred. Thanks for taking the
time to talk to us. I would like you to
comment on a couple of statements that were made yesterday
through the various agents. Do I have that wrong? Oh?
I'm sorry? What am I talking about? I'm already I'm
(17:42):
already an hour and a half, an hour ahead of us.
You know, here's the problem, And I'm not going to
blame myself. You know, Chris Berry, who is our management
interimped walked in the studio and he started talking to me,
and he knows how easily I am distracted. So this
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is Chris's fault, not mine.
Speaker 4 (18:07):
All right, Okay, why don't we go back?
Speaker 2 (18:11):
I'm sorry, I was looking up at the rundown again.
Speaker 4 (18:15):
My fault. Cono, stop looking at me this way?
Speaker 2 (18:18):
Please? What do you mean?
Speaker 1 (18:20):
You know?
Speaker 2 (18:21):
You don't look at me like a I'm a complete moron?
I mean.
Speaker 4 (18:26):
Yeah. And your paper that Anna prepares for you, you do nothing.
You just have to read it and look pretty.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Thursday, January ninth, twenty twenty five. Hi, I'm Bill Handle.
Speaker 4 (18:42):
This is KFI. He's actually reading athetic.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
All right.
Speaker 4 (18:49):
When he jokes he has to read.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Two Jews walk into a bar. Okay, let's uh just
continue on.
Speaker 6 (18:57):
He has cute cards for when he's loved making ooh ah,
Bobby baby.
Speaker 4 (19:05):
Sorry, misread that.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
All right, back we go more handle on the news.
Sorry about that, everybody, Amy and me, Neil. So let's
let's go through a couple of things that we still
have to cover. One of those is the number of
people that are without power in southern California. Hundreds of
thousands people without power, Amy, do we have some geography
(19:30):
on that.
Speaker 5 (19:31):
We do, and we have numbers for you.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
So three hundred and twelve thousand of those are so
Cal Edison customers, nine LADWP customers, thirty six hundred Glendale
Water and Power customers, and fifteen hundred of them are
Pasadena Water and Power portions of the city like Pacific Palisades,
Hollywood Hills. They had power intentionally turned off during the firefight.
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Other areas, including throughout the San Fernando Valley where a
friend of mine has had her power out for like
two full days at least, have also been affected.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
I tell you hundreds of thousands of people without power,
and I have people that I know it's now what
three days no power? My daughter, who is has no power,
went to her roommate's cousin who is in Manhattan Beach,
and she called me last night she said, I'm on
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my way, and she got there and she took her
two dogs, the big Kendall and Vinnie. I mean those
are two like seventy five pound dogs who went down there,
and she says, now I can get some food because
there's just there's been no power at my place. So
whether they're not alone, and the problem is no one
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can of course tell us they have no power because
there's no power, and they don't have any juice left
on their phones because there's no power to charge their phones,
and it is a mess.
Speaker 4 (20:54):
Backup batteries, do you know?
Speaker 6 (20:55):
There are and I can't remember the name right now,
but it's about the size of a credit card. It
could fit in your wallet. And there emergency chargers for
your phone. They're in my go bag, they're in you
know there. It really is not difficult to back yourself up.
You can find other ones that will charge your phone
with a double a battery.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
Huh See, I didn't know that. I just keep my
phone charged. It makes sense. So if anybody just contact
Neil and he'll tell you where to go on that.
Oh by oh, I'm sorry you can't contact Neil because
you have no power and you have no batteries.
Speaker 6 (21:30):
That's right, Well, then, who they're not listening to us?
Then they are because they have their hand crank radios.
Speaker 4 (21:38):
Which you used growing up.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
Not even gonna go there, covered wagon, I am not
even going to go there, all right.
Speaker 6 (21:47):
Cruise continued to battle of fires all over the south Land,
including Hollywood Hills, and they knocked down the Studio City fire,
thank god, that was a structure fire. And then we
saw the solar drive there in Hollywood Hills shortly after
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five point thirty.
Speaker 4 (22:09):
You've been hearing Amy King talk.
Speaker 6 (22:11):
About that, that they had sixty acres or so, and
the chaos that ensued in these very narrow streets that
are throughout the Hollywood Hills was insane. And to see
it completely blocked off, that's when we actually started getting
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the most. My wife and I started getting the most
texts and people calling because they heard there was these
massive traffic jams throughout Sunset and the like.
Speaker 4 (22:43):
Because of that.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
We heard, I mean, you can imagine the authorities driving
down or moving down the side of a road and
telling people get out of your cars, abandon your cars
and start walking or running down the hill while they're
trying to get first responders up and everything is blocked.
I mean, well, a lot of this fire is unprecedented
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in terms of its size, scope, its effects.
Speaker 6 (23:09):
It's just it's Shannon Fairn referred to it as generational,
and I think she's spot on there that this is
not something that you're going to see again. This is
a big generational event.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
It's described. We hear this on the news, we hear this,
We hear us talking about the dystopian post apoc, post pop,
post apoc elliptic. Oh see, it wasn't spelled correctly, and
you didn't put that word right on my board.
Speaker 6 (23:39):
Watching your face try to defecate that word out of
your mouth was the weirdest thing I've ever seen.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
Thank you.
Speaker 4 (23:48):
It was a poke a to see you do it exactly.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
Okay, this is why I have a rough time being
hired outside of the station.
Speaker 4 (23:57):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
Mayor Bass is back, and she's come back to a
literal and political firestorm. She left on Saturday to head
to Ghana part of a presidential delegation, and Saturday is
when the National Weather Service really started ratcheting up its
warnings about the windstorm and the potentially devastating, deadly windstorm
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that they were warning about. And on Tuesday, when the
worst of the fires were starting, she was attending the
inauguration of Ghana's new president. She returned to Lax got
off the plane and there's a video of a sky
News or border just peppering her with questions, Madam mayor,
have you absolutely nothing to say about the citizens today
(24:42):
who are dealing with this disaster? Madam Mayor should you
have been here, Madam Mayor do you regret not being
in La when this devastation was hitting?
Speaker 5 (24:49):
She didn't answer, she didn't look at him.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
She got real violent. She was going to get hit
pretty hard by this one. You know, at seven o'clock
we're going to talk about more about But keep in
mind someone becomes mayor, they're on an airplane visiting, for example,
sister cities. You know, LA has more sister cities of
which the mayor travels all over the world than a
(25:14):
fundamentalist Mormon family. It's all sister cities out there and inaugurations.
Speaker 4 (25:21):
And let me ask you, why would the mayor of Los.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
Angeles go to an inauguration of a Gananian or Ghanian president.
Where is the connection?
Speaker 4 (25:31):
What does that have to do with our world?
Speaker 6 (25:34):
Stay here, fill the potholes, make it safe, and make
sure that we have what we need for firefighters.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
Yeah, we're going to rip into her seven o'clock legitimately.
Speaker 4 (25:45):
And it's not so much.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
As she even going there, because that's just the political
Those are just political.
Speaker 4 (25:51):
Fun junkets that elected officials get.
Speaker 5 (25:53):
So why should she get to have political fun junkets.
Speaker 4 (25:56):
Because that's what they do. Because that's what they do,
she should way.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
Well, she was wrong in terms of not anticipating what
was happening because it was called for a couple of days.
She should have been an airplane two days.
Speaker 4 (26:09):
Before or a day before.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
But on top of that, she cut the funding of
the fire department.
Speaker 4 (26:17):
Yeah, and that.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
Is Boy, there's some answers that we're going to need
on that one. All right, that's coming up at seven
point fifty.
Speaker 4 (26:26):
All right.
Speaker 6 (26:26):
Uber Lift, they are offering free rides to evacuated wildfire
residents in southern California.
Speaker 4 (26:33):
Here, so.
Speaker 6 (26:36):
The shelter locations valid for free uber rides or the
Pastina Civic Auditorium, Westwood Recreation Center, El Camino Real Charter
High School and Richie Valence Recreation Center, and they are
giving you the ability if you register to get a
free Uber ride up to forty dollars by applying the
promo code wild Fire twenty five in the wallet section
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of their Uber app.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
Yeah lift up to twenty five dollars. Both of them
are giving free rides, which is neat good for them. Frankly,
I would take Uber because it give you more money.
Speaker 4 (27:12):
You can stop off and pick some things up on
the way, just.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
On the way, and it's good for them, good for
them coming to the table.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
People can get themselves out right when an evacuation order comes,
you know what to do. Pets are a different story
and they need her help, our help, and Pasadena Humane
is one of the shelters who's helping.
Speaker 5 (27:34):
They've opened up.
Speaker 3 (27:36):
They're one of the small animal shelters where people can
take their animals. And we talked to Kevin McManus this
morning and they have taken in three hundred and fifty
animals and he said the animals that came in yesterday
are the ones who may have been left behind, the
ones who got lost and maybe they got scared and
took off and they're coming in with burn injuries, but
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they're taking care of them and that's what we're doing.
Pasadena Humane.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
Does we have a connection, Amy who now leads the
Wiggle Waggle Google Google Popolympicalypicic that we do every year
for the Pasadena Humane Society. So we're going to be
talking to Kevin McManus, who is the communications director.
Speaker 4 (28:24):
And that's at seven thirty.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
All right, this is KFI AM six forty live on
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 5 (28:32):
You've been listening to Wake Up Call with me Amy King.
Speaker 3 (28:35):
You can always hear wake Up Call five to six
am Monday through Friday on KFI AM six forty and
anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
six forty and now Handle on the news. Ladies and gentlemen,
here's Bill Handle.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
All right? Do I start with good morning?
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (00:24):
I think so. I think because it was better than
yesterday morning. The better morning here on a Thursday, January ninth,
Bill Handle and the morning crew on KFI. And I
want to tell you something in a minute. It just
occurred to me, and as I was watching TV last night.
Speaker 4 (00:42):
First let me say.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Hello, And there you are on a Thursday morning. Good morning,
Good morning, Amy is still Thursday.
Speaker 5 (00:50):
Good morning, Good morning Bill in your Disneyland.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Sweatshirt.
Speaker 4 (00:56):
You know, there's a time.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
As much as I hate fires, but there's a time,
you know, I sometimes wish that a fire would go
through your closet.
Speaker 4 (01:03):
Wow, you know what I was.
Speaker 5 (01:05):
I was putting my go bag together last night.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Yes, I was Disney memorabile. Allow.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
I understand Kelly was thinking about him, like what should
I take? Should I take my Disney Spirit jerseys?
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Of course you should in them.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
And let's not to forget the mouse ears.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
I did not pack mouse ears anyway.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
So I wish this was TV.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
So every day we'll see a different outfit than Amy
wears that has Disneyland or Disney you're mickey on it.
Speaker 5 (01:30):
I did not wear Disney yesterday.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
Oh that's right, you didn't.
Speaker 6 (01:33):
Okay, all right, Neil, good morning, Good morning, Willie Wolf
and Kno good morning.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
All right. So, as I just mentioned television, of course
today we're going to talk about the fires, naturally, because
that is the big news.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
You know, last night I watch ABC News.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
You know, ninety percent of the news coverage last night
was the fires.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
It can a big deal, Bill it is.
Speaker 6 (01:57):
You know, it's a bigger deal than I thought it was,
because you don't give a crap about anything that doesn't
affect you personally.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
Yeah, but that's besides the point, or maybe that is
the point.
Speaker 6 (02:08):
Your pants would have to be on fire for you
to go, let's cover this.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
Yeah, probably, But I was.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
And you know David Muir who is the host of ABC,
they flew him in so he anchored.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
From the fire one of the fire areas, and.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
The reporters, the national reporters were there and I knew
it was a big story. I knew it was covered internationally,
but it was. It is a bigger story than I anticipated.
The same thing. With the death of Kobe, I didn't
quite get how big a story it was, And going
way back the death of Frank Sinatra, it's much bigger.
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I was in Norway at the time. By the way,
if you remember when Frank Sinatra died.
Speaker 6 (02:54):
How could we remember that you were in Norway when
Frank Sinatra died.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Because it's all about me in this case, the dead
Frank Sinatra. Because I was on vacation and all of
a sudden, Frank Sinatra is about to die. And David Hall,
our previous program director, said, get to a radio station.
Your show is on. You're gonna host the show because
it's such a big deal. So I went to their
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national radio station and it was these big Soviet blocks buildings,
you know, those big staliness, solid concrete buildings. There was
the radio one was built in the thirties, and then
the television one that was built in the fifties looked
just like it. And so I'm sitting there broadcasting just
a quick story. I'm sitting there broadcasting and the engineer,
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this woman who they l speak perfect English, said do
you know where you're sitting, big cavernous room, in this
big desk with a microphone in front of it. Do
you know where you're sitting? And I said, no, that
is exactly the spot where Quizzling announced the puppet government
under Nazi Germany at the start of World War One,
I started World War Two. I went, whoa, you know
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how a history not? I am wow?
Speaker 4 (04:10):
And it was I went out of my mind. Okay,
that's just where were you?
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Norway?
Speaker 4 (04:14):
Oh I see wow?
Speaker 2 (04:16):
All right, now a quick story about us our coverage,
and I generally try not to blow our horn, as
you know, saying oh, we're great, We're terrific. Oh, we're
just bitching people here. But as I was watching television
last night and I channeled surf, I go through all
the local stations to see what's going on and how
it's being covered. I noticed that the coverage was basically
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the same, you know, announcing the fier arey, here's a
weather report, reporters out on the field, walking along, Look
at the building behind me, look at this, look down
the street, interviewing someone. I've lost everything and it's heartbreaking.
I mean to see someone that's actually lost, but that's
the coverage. And then I think in this often happens
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where I'm jealous of television because there's a lot of
visual that we can't and don't use. I mean, the
theater of the mind is a wonderful thing. And I
like radio far more than I like television, not only
having done television. It's a complete waste of time. In
my opinion, it's not you. It's a producer talking in
your IU D in the ear. You know where the ID.
Speaker 5 (05:24):
It's not an IUD in your ear?
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Oh okay, so whatever the hell it is I FB yeah, okay,
I was close. So in any case, you're it's not you.
It's some producer telling you what to say. And so
I get jealous of the coverage because they have the visuals.
And then I think of, here's what we do. For example,
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today we're going to have the PR communications officer at
the pacaday in the Humane Society and get into not
just you can donate, you can have your animal be
dropped off, but get into the story.
Speaker 6 (06:00):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
The same thing with Joel Larsguard. We're gonna have him
today about insurance issues, what's going on. They don't do
that on television. They do the quick, dirty story, Boom,
you're done. But here's your visual. And that's what I
love about what we do. And this one, this one,
I'm gonna blow our horn and say that's what makes
during times like this, that that's what makes it worth listening. Uh,
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today we're gonna get Jim Keiney on who is going
to talk about the medical aspects of the pollutants.
Speaker 6 (06:29):
And uh, well they just call him Jim Kenney. You
know he works for a living. Why don't you call
him doctor Keeney.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Oh, because we've been on such friend you know, basis
of a friendship for so long. Okay, we're going to
talk to doctor Jim, the doctor Jim Keeney. Okay, he's
a doctor, doctor, he's a doctor doctor. And uh, we're
gonna have h Well, the pastor of Humane Society. We
have a connection a big one here. Uh do you
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remember our previous aim JJL Amy plus about eighty pounds,
was with us and she was well connected.
Speaker 4 (07:09):
By the way, JJL is fine with that. Okay, she lost.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
About eighty five and she's looking absolutely great and it's
no longer going to be jj L. It's JJ you know.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
And we still have that connection to pass the passa
humane because she has passed the leash to me and
now I do the wiggle waggon.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Yeah, yeah, I was about to say that, say so
we maintain a very very good connection, and she started
and Amy, thank you, Amy for beating me to the punch,
but Amy continues it. So there is there's kind of
a neat connection we have. And then we're going to
spend a real long time ripping at least a segment
ripping into Karen Bass, who was in Ghana while this
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was going on, and well, really, Mayor, what were you
doing in Ghana? And she answered, she went, you know,
that's uh they speak. That's one of the.
Speaker 6 (08:04):
She's fluent in that language. You know, I do you
know what? I love the La Times. They were writing
a story about that, which we'll get into. But they said,
while ever present on social media, and I'm like, you know,
she was in Ghana and I kept thinking, bull crap,
(08:25):
that wasn't her on social media? Some lackey is posting
general information on her you know, X account or whatever
it was. And they were like, while ever present from
far away, No, she wasn't.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
She Whiz people, let's go ahead and take a break,
and we're going to get into unfortunately, the news and
I guess it's relatively good that this massive explosion moving
at eighty miles an hour, the fire is a little
bit better. Correct me if I'm wrong on this one,
but I think we're saying light at the end of
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the tunnel, too much light. But I think we're doing that. Amy.
I'm going to throw it to you for the latest
in terms of the hard facts, that is the number
of acres burned, evacuations, and what's going.
Speaker 4 (09:14):
On beyond the last night.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
Okay, so we are expecting an update at eight o'clock,
so we're expecting these numbers to change. But what we
have is active fire zero percent surrounded in Palisades, still burning,
more than seventeen thousand acres burned, over one hundred thousand evacuated,
and about a thousand structures have burned.
Speaker 5 (09:34):
We're talking about.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
Homes, schools, businesses, restaurants, churches, you name it.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
Maybe I'm a little bit more optimistic because those numbers
have not really changed very much in terms of the
thousand structures that I was listening to last night. But
it could be that we're going to get a big,
big update.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
Exactly, we don't know until they give us an update,
and again they haven't given updates on any of the
fire since yesterday, So as you mentioned, when they do,
because yesterday we went from dozens up to a thousand
right for the Palisades fire, So that's that one. In
the fire that's burning in Altadena near Pasadena, it's ten
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thoy six hundred acres, about seventy thousand people evacuated, and
there are varying numbers, but the latest we've seen is
nine hundred and seventy two structures destroyed. And in the
Pasadena Water District they're seeing don't drink the water bottled
water only. It's not even a boil order. It's bottled
water only because of contamination from the fires. The Hurst
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fire in Silmar, that's the one that's burning north of
the two ten and east of the just or south
of the five fifty sorry five fourteen interchange. That one's
burned about eight hundred and fifty five acres. There are
evacuation orders, but no reports of any buildings home structures
being burned at the point. And this is something we
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haven't seen on any of these fires that are raging
out of control. Ten percent surrounded at this point, so
firefighters are actually making some headway on that one in
of course, the sunset fire that broke out last night
about five point thirty. That's the one that was in
the run In Canyon area and quickly spread to almost
fifty acres. Lots of evacuations were ordered, people got out,
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clogged streets, it was a mess. But most of the
evacuation orders have now been lifted and the water dropping
helicopters really made a difference in that one and we're
able to stop it from spreading into neighborhoods.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Yeah, a couple of things. When we were on the
air yesterday, we would have you during when daylight hours
said we had no idea of the extent of the
fire other than sort of a guess this is the
fire department, because they really didn't know how many structures
because the aircraft weren't in the air well yesterday, I
think towards the end of the afternoon aircraft were able
to go in the air and so we are going
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to get.
Speaker 4 (11:54):
A much better idea.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
Also, and yesterday looking at Instagram of high end or
celebrities names that you recognize who have lost their homes,
and that list is extraordinary and I can't tell you
how many people who have contacted me, texted me, who
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in fact have evacuated? I had an hour with my
shrink yesterday. I usually do a zoom call with my psychologist.
What a shocker that have a therapist, right, Neil?
Speaker 4 (12:27):
Only an hour?
Speaker 2 (12:28):
Yeah? At only an hour? And Neil, I don't know
if Neil and who have known probably for almost thirty years,
there's ever been a moment that I didn't have a therapist,
neurotic jew all that stuff. Anyway, she had evacuated and
she really no place to go, so she went into
a humane Seltzer shelter. So I was doing my therapy
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with her and there were horses in the background and
dogs moving around. Let me tell you how pleasant that was.
Speaker 6 (12:55):
How could she not own her own island at this point?
Being your shrink? Yeah, the amount of time and money spent.
I mean, seriously, she should have a small country by now.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Yeah. It's it's really very depressing, very depressing. I mean
it's uh, it's and I do it twice a week
Tuesdays and Thursdays. Tuesdays, I hate my mother when I
have sex with the dog, and then on Thursday it's
just the reverse. Okay, enough of that, fort there's something.
Speaker 5 (13:29):
About Oedipus Rex in there.
Speaker 6 (13:30):
Oh yeah with the dog literally, yeah, okay, Uh.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
In any case, Uh, we're gonna get somewhat of an idea.
But amy based on what I said and what I
have seen, and you guys have been at it all night,
Neil and Cobalt and Conway and Moe did five hours
last night. I mean, it's kind of crazy. Do I
have it right where? It's sort of the the It
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has turned a corner, not so much containment, but in
terms of the raging wildfires that were moving at one
hundred miles an hour down the hills.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
Well, not necessarily. Okay, the winds have died down considerably.
We are still expecting some gusty winds. But if you
saw a picture of the fire that's burning above Altadena,
they Eaton Canyon fire. There was a whole hillside in
the dark of night, and it looked like street lights
dotting the hillside, but it wasn't. It was fires. I mean,
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so fire is still burning, actively burning, and houses are
still being destroyed.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
I got a text yesterday today. I was supposed to
have a meeting with a couple of management folks at
KFI and got a text from one of them saying,
I can't make it to the meeting. I lost my
house in the Palisades and I don't know what to do.
And it's, I mean, absolutely heartbreaking. We'll be getting a
lot of that.
Speaker 4 (14:52):
There is.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
Lindsay's cousin who had built their dream house. She and
her husband had built their dream house in Malibu. It
burnt to the ground, so they built it again, and
we don't know if it's around and do you build
it a third time? And at some point you say, yeah,
(15:17):
I don't think so when do you walk away? And
we're not talking about a shack on silts in the
Louisiana Bayou that takes you three days to put together. Either.
Speaker 4 (15:30):
It's the devastation is it's tough, it really is to.
Speaker 5 (15:33):
See that, and the not knowing is really difficult.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
My brother's an architectural photographer and he's been working on
a house that's in the Palisades for a year where
they're documenting the construction because this is some really wall
house and so he's been working on it. Actually it's
been a couple of years that they go and they
photograph it as it's being built, and they said, we
don't know if it's even still there, and so it'll
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be interesting to see.
Speaker 6 (15:58):
You know, I think you have a false sense of
it mellowing out right now because the winds are not
as insane.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Yeah, and maybe you're right.
Speaker 6 (16:09):
I've got seven cameras in front or seven TVs in
front of me, and there is no dearth of.
Speaker 4 (16:18):
Fire footage live right now.
Speaker 6 (16:21):
And you know all the la USD schools are closed,
You've got smoke, horrible air quality.
Speaker 4 (16:30):
I don't think it's over. No, I know it's not over.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
I mean, that's granted, But as I'm here, I am
an unusually optimistic and that I think we're at a
different point than we were yesterday. We won't know. You
may be right, Amy may be right, and when the
press conference comes in at eight am this morning, we
may just shake our heads and just wonder at how
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quickly and how much more devastation, how much more blittering
of homes and businesses, there are we are in the
midst of historical incident here in southern California. Last night
I was watching national news in ABC specifically last night,
ninety percent of the broadcast was of these fires. Extraordinary
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with US Fred Fielding, who is the LA Fire Department
Public Service Public Information officer. Fred. Thanks for taking the
time to talk to us. I would like you to
comment on a couple of statements that were made yesterday
through the various agents. Do I have that wrong? Oh?
I'm sorry? What am I talking about? I'm already I'm
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already an hour and a half, an hour ahead of us.
You know, here's the problem, And I'm not going to
blame myself. You know, Chris Berry, who is our management
interimped walked in the studio and he started talking to me,
and he knows how easily I am distracted. So this
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is Chris's fault, not mine.
Speaker 4 (18:07):
All right, Okay, why don't we go back?
Speaker 2 (18:11):
I'm sorry, I was looking up at the rundown again.
Speaker 4 (18:15):
My fault. Cono, stop looking at me this way?
Speaker 2 (18:18):
Please? What do you mean?
Speaker 1 (18:20):
You know?
Speaker 2 (18:21):
You don't look at me like a I'm a complete moron?
I mean.
Speaker 4 (18:26):
Yeah. And your paper that Anna prepares for you, you do nothing.
You just have to read it and look pretty.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Thursday, January ninth, twenty twenty five. Hi, I'm Bill Handle.
Speaker 4 (18:42):
This is KFI. He's actually reading athetic.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
All right.
Speaker 4 (18:49):
When he jokes he has to read.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Two Jews walk into a bar. Okay, let's uh just
continue on.
Speaker 6 (18:57):
He has cute cards for when he's loved making ooh ah,
Bobby baby.
Speaker 4 (19:05):
Sorry, misread that.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
All right, back we go more handle on the news.
Sorry about that, everybody, Amy and me, Neil. So let's
let's go through a couple of things that we still
have to cover. One of those is the number of
people that are without power in southern California. Hundreds of
thousands people without power, Amy, do we have some geography
(19:30):
on that.
Speaker 5 (19:31):
We do, and we have numbers for you.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
So three hundred and twelve thousand of those are so
Cal Edison customers, nine LADWP customers, thirty six hundred Glendale
Water and Power customers, and fifteen hundred of them are
Pasadena Water and Power portions of the city like Pacific Palisades,
Hollywood Hills. They had power intentionally turned off during the firefight.
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Other areas, including throughout the San Fernando Valley where a
friend of mine has had her power out for like
two full days at least, have also been affected.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
I tell you hundreds of thousands of people without power,
and I have people that I know it's now what
three days no power? My daughter, who is has no power,
went to her roommate's cousin who is in Manhattan Beach,
and she called me last night she said, I'm on
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my way, and she got there and she took her
two dogs, the big Kendall and Vinnie. I mean those
are two like seventy five pound dogs who went down there,
and she says, now I can get some food because
there's just there's been no power at my place. So
whether they're not alone, and the problem is no one
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can of course tell us they have no power because
there's no power, and they don't have any juice left
on their phones because there's no power to charge their phones,
and it is a mess.
Speaker 4 (20:54):
Backup batteries, do you know?
Speaker 6 (20:55):
There are and I can't remember the name right now,
but it's about the size of a credit card. It
could fit in your wallet. And there emergency chargers for
your phone. They're in my go bag, they're in you
know there. It really is not difficult to back yourself up.
You can find other ones that will charge your phone
with a double a battery.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
Huh See, I didn't know that. I just keep my
phone charged. It makes sense. So if anybody just contact
Neil and he'll tell you where to go on that.
Oh by oh, I'm sorry you can't contact Neil because
you have no power and you have no batteries.
Speaker 6 (21:30):
That's right, Well, then, who they're not listening to us?
Then they are because they have their hand crank radios.
Speaker 4 (21:38):
Which you used growing up.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
Not even gonna go there, covered wagon, I am not
even going to go there, all right.
Speaker 6 (21:47):
Cruise continued to battle of fires all over the south Land,
including Hollywood Hills, and they knocked down the Studio City fire,
thank god, that was a structure fire. And then we
saw the solar drive there in Hollywood Hills shortly after
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five point thirty.
Speaker 4 (22:09):
You've been hearing Amy King talk.
Speaker 6 (22:11):
About that, that they had sixty acres or so, and
the chaos that ensued in these very narrow streets that
are throughout the Hollywood Hills was insane. And to see
it completely blocked off, that's when we actually started getting
(22:33):
the most. My wife and I started getting the most
texts and people calling because they heard there was these
massive traffic jams throughout Sunset and the like.
Speaker 4 (22:43):
Because of that.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
We heard, I mean, you can imagine the authorities driving
down or moving down the side of a road and
telling people get out of your cars, abandon your cars
and start walking or running down the hill while they're
trying to get first responders up and everything is blocked.
I mean, well, a lot of this fire is unprecedented
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in terms of its size, scope, its effects.
Speaker 6 (23:09):
It's just it's Shannon Fairn referred to it as generational,
and I think she's spot on there that this is
not something that you're going to see again. This is
a big generational event.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
It's described. We hear this on the news, we hear this,
We hear us talking about the dystopian post apoc, post pop,
post apoc elliptic. Oh see, it wasn't spelled correctly, and
you didn't put that word right on my board.
Speaker 6 (23:39):
Watching your face try to defecate that word out of
your mouth was the weirdest thing I've ever seen.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
Thank you.
Speaker 4 (23:48):
It was a poke a to see you do it exactly.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
Okay, this is why I have a rough time being
hired outside of the station.
Speaker 4 (23:57):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
Mayor Bass is back, and she's come back to a
literal and political firestorm. She left on Saturday to head
to Ghana part of a presidential delegation, and Saturday is
when the National Weather Service really started ratcheting up its
warnings about the windstorm and the potentially devastating, deadly windstorm
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that they were warning about. And on Tuesday, when the
worst of the fires were starting, she was attending the
inauguration of Ghana's new president. She returned to Lax got
off the plane and there's a video of a sky
News or border just peppering her with questions, Madam mayor,
have you absolutely nothing to say about the citizens today
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who are dealing with this disaster? Madam Mayor should you
have been here, Madam Mayor do you regret not being
in La when this devastation was hitting?
Speaker 5 (24:49):
She didn't answer, she didn't look at him.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
She got real violent. She was going to get hit
pretty hard by this one. You know, at seven o'clock
we're going to talk about more about But keep in
mind someone becomes mayor, they're on an airplane visiting, for example,
sister cities. You know, LA has more sister cities of
which the mayor travels all over the world than a
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fundamentalist Mormon family. It's all sister cities out there and inaugurations.
Speaker 4 (25:21):
And let me ask you, why would the mayor of Los.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
Angeles go to an inauguration of a Gananian or Ghanian president.
Where is the connection?
Speaker 4 (25:31):
What does that have to do with our world?
Speaker 6 (25:34):
Stay here, fill the potholes, make it safe, and make
sure that we have what we need for firefighters.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
Yeah, we're going to rip into her seven o'clock legitimately.
Speaker 4 (25:45):
And it's not so much.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
As she even going there, because that's just the political
Those are just political.
Speaker 4 (25:51):
Fun junkets that elected officials get.
Speaker 5 (25:53):
So why should she get to have political fun junkets.
Speaker 4 (25:56):
Because that's what they do. Because that's what they do,
she should way.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
Well, she was wrong in terms of not anticipating what
was happening because it was called for a couple of days.
She should have been an airplane two days.
Speaker 4 (26:09):
Before or a day before.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
But on top of that, she cut the funding of
the fire department.
Speaker 4 (26:17):
Yeah, and that.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
Is Boy, there's some answers that we're going to need
on that one. All right, that's coming up at seven
point fifty.
Speaker 4 (26:26):
All right.
Speaker 6 (26:26):
Uber Lift, they are offering free rides to evacuated wildfire
residents in southern California.
Speaker 4 (26:33):
Here, so.
Speaker 6 (26:36):
The shelter locations valid for free uber rides or the
Pastina Civic Auditorium, Westwood Recreation Center, El Camino Real Charter
High School and Richie Valence Recreation Center, and they are
giving you the ability if you register to get a
free Uber ride up to forty dollars by applying the
promo code wild Fire twenty five in the wallet section
(27:00):
of their Uber app.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
Yeah lift up to twenty five dollars. Both of them
are giving free rides, which is neat good for them. Frankly,
I would take Uber because it give you more money.
Speaker 4 (27:12):
You can stop off and pick some things up on
the way, just.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
On the way, and it's good for them, good for
them coming to the table.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
People can get themselves out right when an evacuation order comes,
you know what to do. Pets are a different story
and they need her help, our help, and Pasadena Humane
is one of the shelters who's helping.
Speaker 5 (27:34):
They've opened up.
Speaker 3 (27:36):
They're one of the small animal shelters where people can
take their animals. And we talked to Kevin McManus this
morning and they have taken in three hundred and fifty
animals and he said the animals that came in yesterday
are the ones who may have been left behind, the
ones who got lost and maybe they got scared and
took off and they're coming in with burn injuries, but
(28:00):
they're taking care of them and that's what we're doing.
Pasadena Humane.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
Does we have a connection, Amy who now leads the
Wiggle Waggle Google Google Popolympicalypicic that we do every year
for the Pasadena Humane Society. So we're going to be
talking to Kevin McManus, who is the communications director.
Speaker 4 (28:24):
And that's at seven thirty.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
All right, this is KFI AM six forty live on
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 5 (28:32):
You've been listening to Wake Up Call with me Amy King.
Speaker 3 (28:35):
You can always hear wake Up Call five to six
am Monday through Friday on KFI AM six forty and
anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
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