January 8, 2025 • 30 mins
Gary and Shannon have the latest on the Palisades Fire, the Eaton Fire, the Hurst Fire and Woodley Fire.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI
AM six forty the Gary and Shannon Show on demand
on the iHeartRadio app. Now, the most destructive in LA
City history. More than one hundred excuse me, one thousand
structures destroyed, obviously by and large homes. You can bet
a thousand homes have been destroyed in the Palisades.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
We're going to get lucky if that number stays what
it is. And that sounds weird, but I mean, you
compare it to some of the more destructive wildfires that
we've seen in the state of California, and it is
the tunnel fire that I mentioned from the Oakland Hills
back in nineteen ninety one. They're about twenty nine hundred
structures that burned. The campfire up in Paradise, more than
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eighteen thousand structures burned.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
And this is.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
As this smoke clears, as we do get more firefighting
air resources up there to map this thing, to go
through and to you know, once they can get their
heads above water basically pardon the pun, and get it
into those neighborhoods and go house by house to see
the destruction. I mean, I don't know how that number
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doesn't go up.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
You're just seeing the shock and people's faces and people's
eyes because a lot of people, especially in the Altadena area,
I mean the Palisades initially, yes, same thing where they
were not even given time to be told to get out.
They had to get out before any sort of evacuation
warning or orner was even given, because that thing took
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off so quickly and just blasted down the mountain there,
which is why Palisades Drive was overrun, which is why
cars were abandoned, which is why the fire service had
to bulldoze them out of the way to get up
to fight that thing with what they could do at
a fire burning that angrily Alta Dina as well Alta
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Dina overnight. That fire erupted about six thirty seven o'clock,
and man, it took off quicker than people knew knew
about it. We heard from Ernest earlier in the show
who said, you know, yeah, we knew there was a
fire nearby, but we went to bed. We woke up,
the embers were flying at the bedroom window.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
We walk out.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Everything's on fire, both sides of the alley, all the
homes on the block. We just grab what we could
I yelled fire, We got the hell out of there.
I think a lot of people are in complete shock still.
And some of those people went back to their neighborhoods
and their home was completely gone. They're telling people that
if you don't have to go to work, stay home.
If you can stay home, get off the roads, let
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the firefighters and the incoming firefighters get to where they
need to be when you're looking at all, whether it's
Silmar or the Palisades, Alzadina or anywhere in between those places.
Door dash services have been suspended in areas including the Palisades,
Santa Monica, Westwood, Brentwood, Calabasas, Pasadena, San Fernando, Santa Clarita,
Northridge because they understand the importance of staying off the
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roads and letting the emergency vehicles wherever they need to be.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Just saw on X that Governor Newsom has deployed the
California National Guard. They will work alongside cal Fire to
get through what is going to be very tough several days.
The California National Guard disaster response in emergency preparedness, they
train for things like this. They're not just going in
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there willy nilly. They're also not going to be Hopefully
they don't have to be the frontline defenders when it
comes to actually fighting the fires, but they do receive
training to fight brush fires, including fire training courses during emergencies. Obviously,
National guardsmen can also support operations like security logistics during
major fires like this. So the National Guard has been
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called in to assist in all of the first responders,
to assist with all of the other first responders and
the duties that.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
They have in front of them.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Malibu is not getting a lot of attention, but certain
areas of Malibu have been wiped out completely as well.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
And listen, there's something weird that happened yesterday when we
started talking about the wind event. I mean, when we
were planning the show, we were talking about wind is
going to be the thing. We have to come back
to the wind. We got to make sure that we
talk about the wind, that this is a serious enough
situation that combined with the lack of rain that we've had,
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you know, we've had I think it's downtown LA had
sixteen hundreds of an inch over the course of six
plus months, when we usually have three and a half
or four and a half inches of rain. At this time,
we knew that this was going to be a big deal.
A few weeks ago, when the Malibu fire started, it
did not materialize in the same way. It didn't happen
the same way, even though we were in one of
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those particularly dangerous situations, and thankfully it didn't materialize the
way this one did. I mean, this one is, to
your point, devastating. What we thought was a two thousand
acre fire yesterday, now we know is well over eleven
thousand acres and growing because of zero zero percent containment
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on that thing today. And it went straight, it went
straight west towards Malibu, and some of those areas, some
of those homes that are just west of Duke's Restaurant
on Pch are gone and there is nothing left but
a charred foundation in some cases.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
All right, we are taking your calls when one hundred
and five to zero one KFI. If you have any
experiences today yesterday, loved ones, you let us know.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
One eight hundred five to one five three four. We'll
come back with more of those calls. Yeah. I noticed
this morning as the sun was coming up, both in
the Pacific Palisades area and also over in Altadena that
there was an expectation that you would see some amount
of destruction. I mean, we knew that that was coming,
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just based on the absolute terrorizing images from last night,
knowing that the darkness was hiding some of the destruction,
and then when the sudden came up, it was going
to be even worse than that. And we've seen in
cases before fires like this that do cause destruction, but
not this widespread, you know, not up and down a
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road as far as you can see every single home
or mobile home or a car or whatever. It is
just completely destroyed. The development that we just found out
about a short time ago is that Governor Gavin Newsom
has apparently activated the California National Guard to come in
and help out with all kinds of things with logistics,
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with law enforcement, with evacuations, with care for people who
have been evacuated. They do have some wildland fire training
as well, so I don't know if you're going to
see a whole lot of them out on the actual
fire lines themselves. It is a good move simply because
we've got to get some rest. Some of these crews
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have been out there for twenty six hours, and you
think about the toll that it takes on somebody who
stays up all night because they've got to pack up
their house and get out. Think about the physical activity
that is required to be out in those hills, or
to be on a fire truck, or to be in
someone's backyard and try to save their house.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
And they grab sleep where they can, you know, twenty
minutes here, twenty minutes there, But they're putting themselves in
danger the little amount of sleep that they have been
able to put together. Again, the word the latest is
the fire out of the Palisades burned now more than
eleven thousand plus acres that is going to go up.
That number is no match for this year devastation. And
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we use that word all the time right when we
talk about natural disasters or fires, wind events things like that. Hurricanes,
tornadoes would have you devastation. But it really sounds trite
when you look at what has become of so many
people's homes. More than a thousand homes lost in the
Palisades alone, hundreds in the Altadena area.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
I believe the.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Count is at one hundred, but you see footage and
it's got to be more. Again, a lot of people
didn't even know that this was a possibility. They didn't
know evacuating was going to be a possibility for them
because the fire moves so quickly in both of these places.
And so to go from just having a Tuesday night
at home to suddenly your powers out, you're told to
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get out, you're grabbing things, you leave, You see your house,
your streets already on fire. You come back this morning
and everything's gone. I can't believe the kind of shock
that's going to go on in your life for the
coming days and weeks. Probably the Palisades Fire now the
most destructive in La City history.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
To that end, the in the Palisades fire. I was
watching James Wood's Twitter account, Yes, yeah, and he had
quite an interesting timeline in that he, over the course
of a few hours, had basically said, listen to the
people have reached out, thanks for being concerned, just letting
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you know that we were able to evacuate successfully. Don't
know at this moment if our home is still standing,
but sadly the houses on the street are not. That
was about twenty hours ago, So that would have been
just about four o'clock in the afternoon yesterday, and from
that point it was about an hour after that which
just informed the next door neighbor's houses on fire. Fortunately
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they were evacuated that same hour. We cleared and built
pathways on our hillside and sprinkler systems that can be
remotely managed. We also did brush clearance per local fire
prevention mandates. I'm hoping it's done some good. It's hard
to beat the windows this, It's hard to beat the
winds this time of year, though it's sometime careless. And
then he said at one point that all the smoke
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detectors were going off in his house and transmitting to
their phones. And this is obviously after they had evacuated.
He said, I couldn't believe our lovely little home in
the hills held on this long. It feels like losing
a loved one. The only reason I point him out is,
I mean he's a large enough celebrity name that a
lot of people are going to be able to follow
him and see see his posts on X. But just
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that timeline of he originally thought this was a fire
and that it was going to be okay, but the
videos that he took from out his back porch seeing
the flames get closer and closer, and then finally making
that decision to abandon. I mean, you you abandon ship.
You got to get out and you take what you
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can with you. But to be able to now technologically
watch this thing go in front of you, I mean
you can watch it on a ring camera, if you
are a doorbell camera, if you still have electricity at
your house. And then, like he said, all these smoke
detectors in the hall and the house started going off
and he was being notified of it as it was
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slowly taking overtaking the house that he had lived in.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
Video that makes me cry.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
It's from the I think it's the Altadena fire. And
this guy's house is fully engulfed, as are many on
this street, and there are firefighters there and they're on
top of the roof and it's fully in golf like
I said, and they're battling this thing on the first story,
in the second story, and the ladders up to the
roof on the second story. Firefighter climbs down from the
ladder and gives the guy his cat that the homeowner,
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and he grabs the cat and he's cradling the cat
in his arms and the cat is panting. Cat's mouth
is open, tongue is hanging out and the cat is panting,
and the guy is in tears and he's cradling the
cat to the ground, hugging the cat like just so
thankful that his as his home is burning to the ground,
lost everything, and the firefighter hands on the cat over
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the fence like.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
It's the sweetest picture.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
It's the sweetest video of like, you know, just stuff
versus what matters. And I know that just stuff sounds
so stupid right now, especially if you've lost everything or
know what that's like, because it's not just stuff. But
when you think of like pets and your loved ones
and everything and your neighbors, if everyone's safe, that's something
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We're going to.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Go live downtown La again. LAPD Chief Jim McDonald holding
a news conference.
Speaker 4 (12:13):
You know, be ready to go pack what you need up,
but then please comply with these orders. Then we don't
give them put them out lightly. When we believe that
you're in the path of the fire, we're going to
order that evacuation and we really really need your compliance
on that because if we have to send people in
to try and make rescues, those people are putting their
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lives on the line directly for something that could have
been avoidable. Sheriff Louana mentioned looting. That's something that we
also have to watch out for. That is incredible that
we'd even have to talk about that during these tragic times.
But we are going to take that also extremely seriously
and we will follow up with that in the strongest
way possible.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
Again, the LPD Chief Jim McDonald there from a news conference.
There was a point that was made earlier lamer care
and Bass is not yet in La although the expectation
is that she's arriving back soon. When they held a
news conference earlier today, they did mention that she was
at the time that they held the news conference, she
was in Dallas on her way eventually back to La.
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She had been in Africa. She'd been in the nation
of Ghana, I believe for an inauguration. She was one
of the guests at the inauguration. So this will continue
through the day. The Palisades Fire is now up over
eleven thousand, eight hundred acres, the largest of the fires.
That is not a surprise. It continues to burn zero
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percent containment. The Eaten Fire in the Altadena Pasadena areas
up over ten thousand, six hundred acres, according to the
Angelis National Forest And we do know that there were
a couple of fatalities in that eaten fire. We don't
know why, we don't know what the cause was, but
the fire department did say this morning that there were
two fatalities also a number of significant injuries in both
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of those incidents. One of the telling comments today was
from the county chief, Anthony Mark, the county fire chief,
that said, we were not ready for this. And it
wasn't that they simply didn't see it coming. It was
that they didn't see this many fires coming this quickly. Yeah,
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and they're really even if even if all they were
doing was concentrating all of their resources on the Palisades fire,
they may not have been able to do much of
anything differently.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
No, No, because because it took off so fast, it.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
Took off so fast, the conditions were so bad, they
were so in over their head and there.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
Was no way in and such a small way out.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Continuing well over twenty four hours of our special fire
coverage here in southern California, New York Post headline this
morning with just the most devastating fire images lost Angelus, Wow,
the Palisades Fire burning out the Pacific Palisades Santa Monica
Malibu area is up over eleven eight hundred acres. According
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to a firefighter for La City. They said it started
as a backyard fire, but didn't get into the specifics
of what that exactly meant, but the county did say
that more than one thousand structures have been destroyed. At
this point, they didn't have any fatalities reported in that fire,
but a high number of what they referred to as
significant injuries.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
Including to first responders, making it the most devastating fire
in Los Angeles history.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
The Eton Fire, burning your Altadina and Pasadena is up
over ten thousand, six hundred acres according to the Angelus
National Forest. Now that one did have a couple of fatalities,
but they don't know the cause of the fatalities, number
of significant injuries, and well over one hundred structures they
say destroyed. I mean, you could just you could see
that in some of the early television reports from today.
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Multiple homes in many areas along the foothills there that
were destroyed in Altadina and Pasadena.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
Not that it matters, but it is Awards season. Critics
Choice Awards ceremony has been postponed. The AFI Awards has
been postponed. The King's Game tonight has been postponed as well.
Everything seems to be shutting down. Everyone says to stay
home if you can. Like we mentioned, this wind event
continues into tomorrow, I believe until tomorrow afternoon. Now, the
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most destructive wins, as we have reiterated, have already passed.
Those were last night between ten pm and five am.
And if you were in the fire arees, you felt
and wins like you've never felt before. I compared my
backyard there in the two ten Foothill area to just
a freaking popcorn machine with the tables and the chairs
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and the plants and everything else in the backyard, very
small backyard, but just continuing to bounce around as long
as I was there till we were evacuated. So it's
a crazy, crazy time, a lot of shock, a lot
of fear that's going on right now as people return
to nothing. Some neighborhoods still without firefighters because the agencies
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are spread too thin, are putting out their own fires
and trying to stop the flames from reaching the houses
if they haven't already done so.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
And yeah, you are going to see the red flags
continue in terms of the fire weather warnings, because while
we won't see sixty seventy eighty mile an hour gusts anymore,
doesn't look like we will still see gusts of twenty
five thirty five miles an hour, which are plenty to
cause multiple problems. We might not see the embers flying
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two three miles through the air like we saw last night,
but we still see some very active flames throughout the
fires and Pacific Palisades and altaden Opasadena.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
Well, like we talked about those embers yesterday, they didn't
need to be sneaky. They were just going to be
taken by the wind for whatever attack that they were
going to be destined for when it comes to the
next house or even a mile or two miles down
the way. But now is time for those sneaky embers,
the ones that may not be as obvious sneaking from
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home to home, from a burning home to a home
maybe that's just across the street. We've seen these fires
be very weird in the way that they move from
home to home on the same street, right And most
of the time that's because those sneaky embers will just
kind of drift across the street, nestle in the eaves
and attack that home from the inside.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
The other big fire that we're keeping an eye on
is up in the northern end of the San Fernando Valley.
The Hearst fire burning in Silmar is up about seven
hundred acres. If there's any silver lining in that arena,
it's that it is apparently burning in sort of the
old burn scar of the Saddle Ridge fire which went
through that area a few years ago. That is the
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one that could potentially cause closure of a couple of fruit.
We know that the at least the westbound two ten
was closed for quite a while, and there are exits
along the five to get to the two ten that
have been closed as well, as long as you see
some of those evacuations in those same areas.
Speaker 5 (19:15):
Little Garriash, I mean, this is Danny Martinez again. I
was just wondering how many more insurance companies are going
to quit writing policies here in California because of the
fires and all the policies are going to have to
pay out not only house policies, but out of policies.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
You know, that is an interesting That's one of those
that'll be a story for another day, but a story nonetheless.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
Absolutely, there's going to be a lot of stories that
we get to after the initial shock and awe is over.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
What's far from being over.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
I'd love to say that this is a done deal,
but these fires remain out of control. We talked with
Sue Cole from the Pacific Policies Community Council. She brought
up a good point when we spoke to her earlier
this morning, and she said that, you know, she talked
about the homes being gone, her home, she doesn't know
about her friends have lost homes. But it's the schools
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that are gone. It's the businesses that are gone. You've
seen churches gone in Pasadena, you see schools gone in Altadena.
It's just centers of community, not just homes, centers of family,
but centers of the community that are gone as well.
And we saw this in Paradise when the whole town
was wiped out.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
The hardware store, the gas station that you stop by
every morning to fill up and all of that.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
Stuff is gone.
Speaker 6 (20:31):
Hey, Gary, Hay Shannon, just want to thank you guys
for giving all the news and eclipse about this terrible fire.
My folks are eighty five and my dad's got dementia
and they lost power last night. They're up in Eagle
Rock next to Pasadena, and my mom was freaking out,
so I told her to just grab your transistor radio
put on AM six forty so you can keep in
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touch with what's going on. You guys are always funny,
but now you guys are given some serious hero work,
and I want to thank.
Speaker 5 (20:59):
You, not hero.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
A couple of images that we saw that will and
he brings up. One of them was the image of
the people being escorted out of that rest home in
Altadena last night when wheelchairs and being walked out to
get to a safe area. The other one was the
burned out line of cars on Palisades Drive from this morning.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
I mean, it's hard enough thinking about you're in the
golden time of your life and you've got to be
wheeled out of your of your home already and then
wheeled out.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
Of your home home. And then you know the.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
Angels that were helping all those people, and I don't
know where they went. I'm assuming they're places for them
to go, but just you know, you're so lucky if
you have somewhere to go.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
So lucky.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
We're going to try to hook up with Alex Stone,
who is covering the fire in Altadena for ab Snows
and for us. In a few minutes a.
Speaker 7 (21:55):
I'm da Hawkman is being interviewed, which is ridiculous. He
did say because you know, there's been two looters that
have been arrested. Two looters, yes, which is so disgusting.
But he's basically saying that anybody that's taking advantage of
people who are leaving their homes, they're pretty much going
to be locked.
Speaker 3 (22:13):
And that's good.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
But Nathan Hoffman has run to every microphone that exists
in LA since he was elected.
Speaker 3 (22:19):
This is a little overkill.
Speaker 7 (22:20):
Sorry, it's okay, It's okay, But I just like his message.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
To the criminals.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
It's true that fire, the one burning in the Altad
Nepacadyen the areas up over ten thy six hundred acres,
was the latest that we saw. Have been out there
all morning. ABC's Alex Stone has been covering that fire
for them and for us and Alex what's going on
out there?
Speaker 3 (22:40):
Now?
Speaker 8 (22:42):
Hey there guys, I'm on Sacramento Street right now and
it is just home after home, still burning. We had
seen some burning earlier today and still there was a
garage that just a moment ago collapsed. In fact, still
the power lines. One of the power poles just disconnected,
burned to the base in tim tumbling in and gave
us a bit of a scare. But there are a
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number of homes along this street that are now gone.
I was just talking to one of the home owners.
He says that he came home and early this morning
his home was already on fire. He got off of
work and came home. He's got an American flag that
is waving in the front of the home. It's got
burn marks in it right now, but it continues to
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wave in the wind. But there are no firefighters on
this street that they've driven by. There's not a lot
they can do. Seems that they are out of engine.
Some Pasadena firefighters came in a pickup truck. They got
up out, they looked around at a garage that was
beginning to go up, and then they left from there
that there's just not a lot they can do.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
It seems like it's a treaws situation, that this is
a mass casualty event when it comes to homes burning,
whether it be the Palisades or all Ta Dina and
firefighters are determining who's on the grain, the yellow and
the red you know tarps, essentially of what they can
save and what has no chance. And I'm as hard
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as as it is to move over that red tarp
or that yellow tarp to help all the people on
the green.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
It's got to be really frustrating for them.
Speaker 8 (24:18):
Yes, I think you're exactly right. And then they're deciding
what they can save and what they can't save. We
sell them putting a lot of water on a home
on one of the main streets here, and there were
a number of engines out of Long Beach that stayed
there and continue to put water on it, and then
they left, and now it's going up in flames. They
just don't have, you know, you stop and you waste
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the ban power of four or five engines to sit
there and put a lot of water on the homes
and then they leave and it goes up anyway. So
I think with a lot of these homes, as you mentioned,
they're kind of freizing and figuring out what they can
and can't do. And we know that there is help
coming in from We've heard from the Phoenix Fire Department.
We know around Arizona, Nevada, Oregon, Washington, they're all heading
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this way right now, so there is help coming in.
But in the meantime where it is mainly Pasadena fire
and Long Beach fire and others who are helping out here,
they just don't have enough people to deal with this,
and so you've got neighborhoods like this street where the
homes are just going up in flames.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
Or there are neighbors that are there that stuck around
and are trying to save the other homes. We've seen,
We've seen plenty instances of that and heard from some
people who were doing just that. You know, they may
have lost their own home, but they were willing to
stick around and try to protect the ones of their neighbors.
Speaker 8 (25:35):
You're right, there are a couple of gentlemen who are
on a rooftop in front of me, and a woman
who is out front watering her own land. But there
are a couple of guys up on a rooftop using
garden hose is doing whatever they can to try to
stop their home from going up in flames, and it's
working so far. You know, Typically the advice is don't
do that because your garden hose is never gonna be
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able to compete again the wildfire flames that it's not
a firefighter hose and the ability to put that much
water on. But they're doing whatever they can to try
to wet their roof, and so far it's working. But
as I look around in these neighborhoods, it is just
plume after plume going up right now, that there are
so many homes that are burning here.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
Right now, Alex, it seemed like with this fire, just
like in the Palisades, that definitely and I know you
have to go, but that people just didn't even have
time to know they were going to be evacuated before
they had to get the hell out.
Speaker 8 (26:31):
Well, that's the thing. And then the one guy was
talking to a moment ago and he said, a gun
out of work and he came home and he knew
that there was the fire in Pacific Palisades. He didn't
know about this and came home and his home was burning,
and it seemed like it came out of nowhere. And
as I'm talking to, their explosions all around us right
now as ammunition in the homes as a gas that
propane tanks are going up vehicles are burning in the
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street right here. That it's just one after another. And
even though it's not the one hundred mile an hour
in guys, it was nuts this morning at about three
thirty or four o'clock in the morning, it really was
one hundred mile an hour wind. And that has died down.
That's not going on anymore, but it's still breezy, and
it's enough with these live members in the air to
jump from home to home and the heat from one
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home to go to the next home and then to
start that on fire as well.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
Alex Stone Sellar, job as usual, We appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (27:24):
Stay safe out there, man, you're.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
Going thank Obviously, today is basically just catching up in
terms of catching up with the information, the size of
the fires, the directions of the wind, the where people
go if they do have to evacuate them. Fascinated Convention
Center has sort of become a main hub for some people,
and like you mentioned, that's where the news conference is
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going to take place a little bit later. But there
are other questions that obviously we will get to over
the course of the next couple of days and weeks,
I mean, and some of them are the obvious questions
of can we get another ingress egress route into Pacific Palisades,
you know, the Summit area, the Highlands area. Was there
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enough water pressure? Is there a way for us to
guarantee water pressure in a situation like that? The hazmat
situations that will exist for weeks or months in some
of these places where if you've got if you've got
the cars that just just look at the cars that
burned and the I don't know the process of cleaning
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up after a car has burned, to get that out
of the area, to make sure that all of the
hazardous not just hazardous materials, but then all the hazardous conditions.
You've got the power lines that have gone down, the
hundreds of power poles that have probably been lost, the
wires that continue to drape across some of these areas,
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and then how long it's going to take to get
basic services back up and running in some of those areas,
whether it's Pacific Palisades, When you're going to get electricity back,
how long does it take so CAT Energy or Department
of Water and Power to come and get these lines
re energized, and then just some of the basics, you know,
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how do you recover, How did how does a neighborhood,
how does it, How does a town like Pacific Palisades recover?
How does an individual neighborhood recover? And then how do
you as a family or as an individual come through
something like this where you lose as much as you
do in just the course of a quick couple of
minutes or maybe a couple of hours.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
In some case, you're seeing the best of humanity too,
of people helping neighbors, helping family, helping friends, people reaching out.
It's one of those things that really does restore your
faith in humanity at the same time ripping your heart
out for a lot of people.
Speaker 3 (29:50):
So be cool to each other, don't be a.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
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on the iHeartRadio app. Now, the most destructive in LA
City history. More than one hundred excuse me, one thousand
structures destroyed, obviously by and large homes. You can bet
a thousand homes have been destroyed in the Palisades.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
We're going to get lucky if that number stays what
it is. And that sounds weird, but I mean, you
compare it to some of the more destructive wildfires that
we've seen in the state of California, and it is
the tunnel fire that I mentioned from the Oakland Hills
back in nineteen ninety one. They're about twenty nine hundred
structures that burned. The campfire up in Paradise, more than
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eighteen thousand structures burned.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
And this is.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
As this smoke clears, as we do get more firefighting
air resources up there to map this thing, to go
through and to you know, once they can get their
heads above water basically pardon the pun, and get it
into those neighborhoods and go house by house to see
the destruction. I mean, I don't know how that number
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doesn't go up.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
You're just seeing the shock and people's faces and people's
eyes because a lot of people, especially in the Altadena area,
I mean the Palisades initially, yes, same thing where they
were not even given time to be told to get out.
They had to get out before any sort of evacuation
warning or orner was even given, because that thing took
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off so quickly and just blasted down the mountain there,
which is why Palisades Drive was overrun, which is why
cars were abandoned, which is why the fire service had
to bulldoze them out of the way to get up
to fight that thing with what they could do at
a fire burning that angrily Alta Dina as well Alta
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Dina overnight. That fire erupted about six thirty seven o'clock,
and man, it took off quicker than people knew knew
about it. We heard from Ernest earlier in the show
who said, you know, yeah, we knew there was a
fire nearby, but we went to bed. We woke up,
the embers were flying at the bedroom window.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
We walk out.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Everything's on fire, both sides of the alley, all the
homes on the block. We just grab what we could
I yelled fire, We got the hell out of there.
I think a lot of people are in complete shock still.
And some of those people went back to their neighborhoods
and their home was completely gone. They're telling people that
if you don't have to go to work, stay home.
If you can stay home, get off the roads, let
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the firefighters and the incoming firefighters get to where they
need to be when you're looking at all, whether it's
Silmar or the Palisades, Alzadina or anywhere in between those places.
Door dash services have been suspended in areas including the Palisades,
Santa Monica, Westwood, Brentwood, Calabasas, Pasadena, San Fernando, Santa Clarita,
Northridge because they understand the importance of staying off the
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roads and letting the emergency vehicles wherever they need to be.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Just saw on X that Governor Newsom has deployed the
California National Guard. They will work alongside cal Fire to
get through what is going to be very tough several days.
The California National Guard disaster response in emergency preparedness, they
train for things like this. They're not just going in
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there willy nilly. They're also not going to be Hopefully
they don't have to be the frontline defenders when it
comes to actually fighting the fires, but they do receive
training to fight brush fires, including fire training courses during emergencies. Obviously,
National guardsmen can also support operations like security logistics during
major fires like this. So the National Guard has been
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called in to assist in all of the first responders,
to assist with all of the other first responders and
the duties that.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
They have in front of them.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Malibu is not getting a lot of attention, but certain
areas of Malibu have been wiped out completely as well.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
And listen, there's something weird that happened yesterday when we
started talking about the wind event. I mean, when we
were planning the show, we were talking about wind is
going to be the thing. We have to come back
to the wind. We got to make sure that we
talk about the wind, that this is a serious enough
situation that combined with the lack of rain that we've had,
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you know, we've had I think it's downtown LA had
sixteen hundreds of an inch over the course of six
plus months, when we usually have three and a half
or four and a half inches of rain. At this time,
we knew that this was going to be a big deal.
A few weeks ago, when the Malibu fire started, it
did not materialize in the same way. It didn't happen
the same way, even though we were in one of
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those particularly dangerous situations, and thankfully it didn't materialize the
way this one did. I mean, this one is, to
your point, devastating. What we thought was a two thousand
acre fire yesterday, now we know is well over eleven
thousand acres and growing because of zero zero percent containment
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on that thing today. And it went straight, it went
straight west towards Malibu, and some of those areas, some
of those homes that are just west of Duke's Restaurant
on Pch are gone and there is nothing left but
a charred foundation in some cases.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
All right, we are taking your calls when one hundred
and five to zero one KFI. If you have any
experiences today yesterday, loved ones, you let us know.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
One eight hundred five to one five three four. We'll
come back with more of those calls. Yeah. I noticed
this morning as the sun was coming up, both in
the Pacific Palisades area and also over in Altadena that
there was an expectation that you would see some amount
of destruction. I mean, we knew that that was coming,
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just based on the absolute terrorizing images from last night,
knowing that the darkness was hiding some of the destruction,
and then when the sudden came up, it was going
to be even worse than that. And we've seen in
cases before fires like this that do cause destruction, but
not this widespread, you know, not up and down a
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road as far as you can see every single home
or mobile home or a car or whatever. It is
just completely destroyed. The development that we just found out
about a short time ago is that Governor Gavin Newsom
has apparently activated the California National Guard to come in
and help out with all kinds of things with logistics,
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with law enforcement, with evacuations, with care for people who
have been evacuated. They do have some wildland fire training
as well, so I don't know if you're going to
see a whole lot of them out on the actual
fire lines themselves. It is a good move simply because
we've got to get some rest. Some of these crews
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have been out there for twenty six hours, and you
think about the toll that it takes on somebody who
stays up all night because they've got to pack up
their house and get out. Think about the physical activity
that is required to be out in those hills, or
to be on a fire truck, or to be in
someone's backyard and try to save their house.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
And they grab sleep where they can, you know, twenty
minutes here, twenty minutes there, But they're putting themselves in
danger the little amount of sleep that they have been
able to put together. Again, the word the latest is
the fire out of the Palisades burned now more than
eleven thousand plus acres that is going to go up.
That number is no match for this year devastation. And
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we use that word all the time right when we
talk about natural disasters or fires, wind events things like that. Hurricanes,
tornadoes would have you devastation. But it really sounds trite
when you look at what has become of so many
people's homes. More than a thousand homes lost in the
Palisades alone, hundreds in the Altadena area.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
I believe the.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Count is at one hundred, but you see footage and
it's got to be more. Again, a lot of people
didn't even know that this was a possibility. They didn't
know evacuating was going to be a possibility for them
because the fire moves so quickly in both of these places.
And so to go from just having a Tuesday night
at home to suddenly your powers out, you're told to
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get out, you're grabbing things, you leave, You see your house,
your streets already on fire. You come back this morning
and everything's gone. I can't believe the kind of shock
that's going to go on in your life for the
coming days and weeks. Probably the Palisades Fire now the
most destructive in La City history.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
To that end, the in the Palisades fire. I was
watching James Wood's Twitter account, Yes, yeah, and he had
quite an interesting timeline in that he, over the course
of a few hours, had basically said, listen to the
people have reached out, thanks for being concerned, just letting
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you know that we were able to evacuate successfully. Don't
know at this moment if our home is still standing,
but sadly the houses on the street are not. That
was about twenty hours ago, So that would have been
just about four o'clock in the afternoon yesterday, and from
that point it was about an hour after that which
just informed the next door neighbor's houses on fire. Fortunately
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they were evacuated that same hour. We cleared and built
pathways on our hillside and sprinkler systems that can be
remotely managed. We also did brush clearance per local fire
prevention mandates. I'm hoping it's done some good. It's hard
to beat the windows this, It's hard to beat the
winds this time of year, though it's sometime careless. And
then he said at one point that all the smoke
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detectors were going off in his house and transmitting to
their phones. And this is obviously after they had evacuated.
He said, I couldn't believe our lovely little home in
the hills held on this long. It feels like losing
a loved one. The only reason I point him out is,
I mean he's a large enough celebrity name that a
lot of people are going to be able to follow
him and see see his posts on X. But just
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that timeline of he originally thought this was a fire
and that it was going to be okay, but the
videos that he took from out his back porch seeing
the flames get closer and closer, and then finally making
that decision to abandon. I mean, you you abandon ship.
You got to get out and you take what you
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can with you. But to be able to now technologically
watch this thing go in front of you, I mean
you can watch it on a ring camera, if you
are a doorbell camera, if you still have electricity at
your house. And then, like he said, all these smoke
detectors in the hall and the house started going off
and he was being notified of it as it was
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slowly taking overtaking the house that he had lived in.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
Video that makes me cry.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
It's from the I think it's the Altadena fire. And
this guy's house is fully engulfed, as are many on
this street, and there are firefighters there and they're on
top of the roof and it's fully in golf like
I said, and they're battling this thing on the first story,
in the second story, and the ladders up to the
roof on the second story. Firefighter climbs down from the
ladder and gives the guy his cat that the homeowner,
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and he grabs the cat and he's cradling the cat
in his arms and the cat is panting. Cat's mouth
is open, tongue is hanging out and the cat is panting,
and the guy is in tears and he's cradling the
cat to the ground, hugging the cat like just so
thankful that his as his home is burning to the ground,
lost everything, and the firefighter hands on the cat over
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the fence like.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
It's the sweetest picture.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
It's the sweetest video of like, you know, just stuff
versus what matters. And I know that just stuff sounds
so stupid right now, especially if you've lost everything or
know what that's like, because it's not just stuff. But
when you think of like pets and your loved ones
and everything and your neighbors, if everyone's safe, that's something
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We're going to.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Go live downtown La again. LAPD Chief Jim McDonald holding
a news conference.
Speaker 4 (12:13):
You know, be ready to go pack what you need up,
but then please comply with these orders. Then we don't
give them put them out lightly. When we believe that
you're in the path of the fire, we're going to
order that evacuation and we really really need your compliance
on that because if we have to send people in
to try and make rescues, those people are putting their
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lives on the line directly for something that could have
been avoidable. Sheriff Louana mentioned looting. That's something that we
also have to watch out for. That is incredible that
we'd even have to talk about that during these tragic times.
But we are going to take that also extremely seriously
and we will follow up with that in the strongest
way possible.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
Again, the LPD Chief Jim McDonald there from a news conference.
There was a point that was made earlier lamer care
and Bass is not yet in La although the expectation
is that she's arriving back soon. When they held a
news conference earlier today, they did mention that she was
at the time that they held the news conference, she
was in Dallas on her way eventually back to La.
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She had been in Africa. She'd been in the nation
of Ghana, I believe for an inauguration. She was one
of the guests at the inauguration. So this will continue
through the day. The Palisades Fire is now up over
eleven thousand, eight hundred acres, the largest of the fires.
That is not a surprise. It continues to burn zero
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percent containment. The Eaten Fire in the Altadena Pasadena areas
up over ten thousand, six hundred acres, according to the
Angelis National Forest And we do know that there were
a couple of fatalities in that eaten fire. We don't
know why, we don't know what the cause was, but
the fire department did say this morning that there were
two fatalities also a number of significant injuries in both
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of those incidents. One of the telling comments today was
from the county chief, Anthony Mark, the county fire chief,
that said, we were not ready for this. And it
wasn't that they simply didn't see it coming. It was
that they didn't see this many fires coming this quickly. Yeah,
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and they're really even if even if all they were
doing was concentrating all of their resources on the Palisades fire,
they may not have been able to do much of
anything differently.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
No, No, because because it took off so fast, it.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
Took off so fast, the conditions were so bad, they
were so in over their head and there.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
Was no way in and such a small way out.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Continuing well over twenty four hours of our special fire
coverage here in southern California, New York Post headline this
morning with just the most devastating fire images lost Angelus, Wow,
the Palisades Fire burning out the Pacific Palisades Santa Monica
Malibu area is up over eleven eight hundred acres. According
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to a firefighter for La City. They said it started
as a backyard fire, but didn't get into the specifics
of what that exactly meant, but the county did say
that more than one thousand structures have been destroyed. At
this point, they didn't have any fatalities reported in that fire,
but a high number of what they referred to as
significant injuries.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
Including to first responders, making it the most devastating fire
in Los Angeles history.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
The Eton Fire, burning your Altadina and Pasadena is up
over ten thousand, six hundred acres according to the Angelus
National Forest. Now that one did have a couple of fatalities,
but they don't know the cause of the fatalities, number
of significant injuries, and well over one hundred structures they
say destroyed. I mean, you could just you could see
that in some of the early television reports from today.
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Multiple homes in many areas along the foothills there that
were destroyed in Altadina and Pasadena.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
Not that it matters, but it is Awards season. Critics
Choice Awards ceremony has been postponed. The AFI Awards has
been postponed. The King's Game tonight has been postponed as well.
Everything seems to be shutting down. Everyone says to stay
home if you can. Like we mentioned, this wind event
continues into tomorrow, I believe until tomorrow afternoon. Now, the
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most destructive wins, as we have reiterated, have already passed.
Those were last night between ten pm and five am.
And if you were in the fire arees, you felt
and wins like you've never felt before. I compared my
backyard there in the two ten Foothill area to just
a freaking popcorn machine with the tables and the chairs
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and the plants and everything else in the backyard, very
small backyard, but just continuing to bounce around as long
as I was there till we were evacuated. So it's
a crazy, crazy time, a lot of shock, a lot
of fear that's going on right now as people return
to nothing. Some neighborhoods still without firefighters because the agencies
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are spread too thin, are putting out their own fires
and trying to stop the flames from reaching the houses
if they haven't already done so.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
And yeah, you are going to see the red flags
continue in terms of the fire weather warnings, because while
we won't see sixty seventy eighty mile an hour gusts anymore,
doesn't look like we will still see gusts of twenty
five thirty five miles an hour, which are plenty to
cause multiple problems. We might not see the embers flying
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two three miles through the air like we saw last night,
but we still see some very active flames throughout the
fires and Pacific Palisades and altaden Opasadena.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
Well, like we talked about those embers yesterday, they didn't
need to be sneaky. They were just going to be
taken by the wind for whatever attack that they were
going to be destined for when it comes to the
next house or even a mile or two miles down
the way. But now is time for those sneaky embers,
the ones that may not be as obvious sneaking from
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home to home, from a burning home to a home
maybe that's just across the street. We've seen these fires
be very weird in the way that they move from
home to home on the same street, right And most
of the time that's because those sneaky embers will just
kind of drift across the street, nestle in the eaves
and attack that home from the inside.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
The other big fire that we're keeping an eye on
is up in the northern end of the San Fernando Valley.
The Hearst fire burning in Silmar is up about seven
hundred acres. If there's any silver lining in that arena,
it's that it is apparently burning in sort of the
old burn scar of the Saddle Ridge fire which went
through that area a few years ago. That is the
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one that could potentially cause closure of a couple of fruit.
We know that the at least the westbound two ten
was closed for quite a while, and there are exits
along the five to get to the two ten that
have been closed as well, as long as you see
some of those evacuations in those same areas.
Speaker 5 (19:15):
Little Garriash, I mean, this is Danny Martinez again. I
was just wondering how many more insurance companies are going
to quit writing policies here in California because of the
fires and all the policies are going to have to
pay out not only house policies, but out of policies.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
You know, that is an interesting That's one of those
that'll be a story for another day, but a story nonetheless.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
Absolutely, there's going to be a lot of stories that
we get to after the initial shock and awe is over.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
What's far from being over.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
I'd love to say that this is a done deal,
but these fires remain out of control. We talked with
Sue Cole from the Pacific Policies Community Council. She brought
up a good point when we spoke to her earlier
this morning, and she said that, you know, she talked
about the homes being gone, her home, she doesn't know
about her friends have lost homes. But it's the schools
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that are gone. It's the businesses that are gone. You've
seen churches gone in Pasadena, you see schools gone in Altadena.
It's just centers of community, not just homes, centers of family,
but centers of the community that are gone as well.
And we saw this in Paradise when the whole town
was wiped out.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
The hardware store, the gas station that you stop by
every morning to fill up and all of that.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
Stuff is gone.
Speaker 6 (20:31):
Hey, Gary, Hay Shannon, just want to thank you guys
for giving all the news and eclipse about this terrible fire.
My folks are eighty five and my dad's got dementia
and they lost power last night. They're up in Eagle
Rock next to Pasadena, and my mom was freaking out,
so I told her to just grab your transistor radio
put on AM six forty so you can keep in
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touch with what's going on. You guys are always funny,
but now you guys are given some serious hero work,
and I want to thank.
Speaker 5 (20:59):
You, not hero.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
A couple of images that we saw that will and
he brings up. One of them was the image of
the people being escorted out of that rest home in
Altadena last night when wheelchairs and being walked out to
get to a safe area. The other one was the
burned out line of cars on Palisades Drive from this morning.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
I mean, it's hard enough thinking about you're in the
golden time of your life and you've got to be
wheeled out of your of your home already and then
wheeled out.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
Of your home home. And then you know the.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
Angels that were helping all those people, and I don't
know where they went. I'm assuming they're places for them
to go, but just you know, you're so lucky if
you have somewhere to go.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
So lucky.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
We're going to try to hook up with Alex Stone,
who is covering the fire in Altadena for ab Snows
and for us. In a few minutes a.
Speaker 7 (21:55):
I'm da Hawkman is being interviewed, which is ridiculous. He
did say because you know, there's been two looters that
have been arrested. Two looters, yes, which is so disgusting.
But he's basically saying that anybody that's taking advantage of
people who are leaving their homes, they're pretty much going
to be locked.
Speaker 3 (22:13):
And that's good.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
But Nathan Hoffman has run to every microphone that exists
in LA since he was elected.
Speaker 3 (22:19):
This is a little overkill.
Speaker 7 (22:20):
Sorry, it's okay, It's okay, But I just like his message.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
To the criminals.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
It's true that fire, the one burning in the Altad
Nepacadyen the areas up over ten thy six hundred acres,
was the latest that we saw. Have been out there
all morning. ABC's Alex Stone has been covering that fire
for them and for us and Alex what's going on
out there?
Speaker 3 (22:40):
Now?
Speaker 8 (22:42):
Hey there guys, I'm on Sacramento Street right now and
it is just home after home, still burning. We had
seen some burning earlier today and still there was a
garage that just a moment ago collapsed. In fact, still
the power lines. One of the power poles just disconnected,
burned to the base in tim tumbling in and gave
us a bit of a scare. But there are a
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number of homes along this street that are now gone.
I was just talking to one of the home owners.
He says that he came home and early this morning
his home was already on fire. He got off of
work and came home. He's got an American flag that
is waving in the front of the home. It's got
burn marks in it right now, but it continues to
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wave in the wind. But there are no firefighters on
this street that they've driven by. There's not a lot
they can do. Seems that they are out of engine.
Some Pasadena firefighters came in a pickup truck. They got
up out, they looked around at a garage that was
beginning to go up, and then they left from there
that there's just not a lot they can do.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
It seems like it's a treaws situation, that this is
a mass casualty event when it comes to homes burning,
whether it be the Palisades or all Ta Dina and
firefighters are determining who's on the grain, the yellow and
the red you know tarps, essentially of what they can
save and what has no chance. And I'm as hard
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as as it is to move over that red tarp
or that yellow tarp to help all the people on
the green.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
It's got to be really frustrating for them.
Speaker 8 (24:18):
Yes, I think you're exactly right. And then they're deciding
what they can save and what they can't save. We
sell them putting a lot of water on a home
on one of the main streets here, and there were
a number of engines out of Long Beach that stayed
there and continue to put water on it, and then
they left, and now it's going up in flames. They
just don't have, you know, you stop and you waste
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the ban power of four or five engines to sit
there and put a lot of water on the homes
and then they leave and it goes up anyway. So
I think with a lot of these homes, as you mentioned,
they're kind of freizing and figuring out what they can
and can't do. And we know that there is help
coming in from We've heard from the Phoenix Fire Department.
We know around Arizona, Nevada, Oregon, Washington, they're all heading
(25:02):
this way right now, so there is help coming in.
But in the meantime where it is mainly Pasadena fire
and Long Beach fire and others who are helping out here,
they just don't have enough people to deal with this,
and so you've got neighborhoods like this street where the
homes are just going up in flames.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
Or there are neighbors that are there that stuck around
and are trying to save the other homes. We've seen,
We've seen plenty instances of that and heard from some
people who were doing just that. You know, they may
have lost their own home, but they were willing to
stick around and try to protect the ones of their neighbors.
Speaker 8 (25:35):
You're right, there are a couple of gentlemen who are
on a rooftop in front of me, and a woman
who is out front watering her own land. But there
are a couple of guys up on a rooftop using
garden hose is doing whatever they can to try to
stop their home from going up in flames, and it's
working so far. You know, Typically the advice is don't
do that because your garden hose is never gonna be
(25:59):
able to compete again the wildfire flames that it's not
a firefighter hose and the ability to put that much
water on. But they're doing whatever they can to try
to wet their roof, and so far it's working. But
as I look around in these neighborhoods, it is just
plume after plume going up right now, that there are
so many homes that are burning here.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
Right now, Alex, it seemed like with this fire, just
like in the Palisades, that definitely and I know you
have to go, but that people just didn't even have
time to know they were going to be evacuated before
they had to get the hell out.
Speaker 8 (26:31):
Well, that's the thing. And then the one guy was
talking to a moment ago and he said, a gun
out of work and he came home and he knew
that there was the fire in Pacific Palisades. He didn't
know about this and came home and his home was burning,
and it seemed like it came out of nowhere. And
as I'm talking to, their explosions all around us right
now as ammunition in the homes as a gas that
propane tanks are going up vehicles are burning in the
(26:54):
street right here. That it's just one after another. And
even though it's not the one hundred mile an hour
in guys, it was nuts this morning at about three
thirty or four o'clock in the morning, it really was
one hundred mile an hour wind. And that has died down.
That's not going on anymore, but it's still breezy, and
it's enough with these live members in the air to
jump from home to home and the heat from one
(27:16):
home to go to the next home and then to
start that on fire as well.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
Alex Stone Sellar, job as usual, We appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (27:24):
Stay safe out there, man, you're.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
Going thank Obviously, today is basically just catching up in
terms of catching up with the information, the size of
the fires, the directions of the wind, the where people
go if they do have to evacuate them. Fascinated Convention
Center has sort of become a main hub for some people,
and like you mentioned, that's where the news conference is
(27:47):
going to take place a little bit later. But there
are other questions that obviously we will get to over
the course of the next couple of days and weeks,
I mean, and some of them are the obvious questions
of can we get another ingress egress route into Pacific Palisades,
you know, the Summit area, the Highlands area. Was there
(28:09):
enough water pressure? Is there a way for us to
guarantee water pressure in a situation like that? The hazmat
situations that will exist for weeks or months in some
of these places where if you've got if you've got
the cars that just just look at the cars that
burned and the I don't know the process of cleaning
(28:33):
up after a car has burned, to get that out
of the area, to make sure that all of the
hazardous not just hazardous materials, but then all the hazardous conditions.
You've got the power lines that have gone down, the
hundreds of power poles that have probably been lost, the
wires that continue to drape across some of these areas,
(28:54):
and then how long it's going to take to get
basic services back up and running in some of those areas,
whether it's Pacific Palisades, When you're going to get electricity back,
how long does it take so CAT Energy or Department
of Water and Power to come and get these lines
re energized, and then just some of the basics, you know,
(29:16):
how do you recover, How did how does a neighborhood,
how does it, How does a town like Pacific Palisades recover?
How does an individual neighborhood recover? And then how do
you as a family or as an individual come through
something like this where you lose as much as you
do in just the course of a quick couple of
minutes or maybe a couple of hours.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
In some case, you're seeing the best of humanity too,
of people helping neighbors, helping family, helping friends, people reaching out.
It's one of those things that really does restore your
faith in humanity at the same time ripping your heart
out for a lot of people.
Speaker 3 (29:50):
So be cool to each other, don't be a.
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