January 22, 2025 • 30 mins
Gary and Shannon start the third hour of the show with the Swamp Watch and bring LIVE coverage on the Hughes Fire.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI
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Speaker 2 (00:07):
We have another fast moving fire that is expanding pretty quickly.
This is up in the Castaic Lake area, right off
of Lake Hughes Road. There have already been a couple
of evacuation warnings that have been sent out.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
If funer.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Castake Lake is right alongside I five as it heads
north up towards the Grapevine. The fire itself is said
to be on both sides of Lake Hughes Road, and
as of right now, the evacuation warning areas are basically
the entire perimeter of Castaic Lake over towards I five
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down into the four Bay area. So there's a bunch
of homes, some of the businesses right there in Castaic
on the right side the east side of the freeway
that are under evacuation warnings as of now. They said
that there is considered to be a pretty rapid rate
of spread. It's simply fifty to one hundred acres as
of a few minutes ago, and they are requesting at
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least four air tankers. Again, the Hughes fire burning on
both sides of Lake Hughes Road, just to the northeast
of Castaic Lake. If you're on I five, you're headed
north or you're coming into La headed south, you're going
to see this smoke.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
It is pretty significant and will cover I five.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
The smoke will cover I five over the course of
the next couple of hours.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Probably, would you like your Jeopardy question before we dive
into the flurry of activity going on in Washington? Winners
for one thousand dollars. In nineteen ninety three, she became
the first African American woman to win the Nobel Prize
for literature.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Uh what year?
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Ninety three?
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Maya Angelou?
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Yeah, Tony Morrison.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
There were three may Angelou, Alice Walker, Tony Moore, and
we're going to be the three that I was gonna choose.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Well, okay, next time you can just we can do
multiple choice.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
If you'd like. Okay, that would be great. Again.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
We will keep an eye on the hues fire burning
up northern La County right alongside a Casteak Lake. Looks
like they've updated one of those evacuation warnings into an
evacuation order. This will be a BA on the northern
sections of Casteak Lake. There's not a lot out there,
so there's not a lot of people to evacuate. But
if you're in that Casteak Lake State Recreation Area north
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of the lake, they are. They have upgraded that to
an evacuation order, which means you.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Got to get out, all right.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Well, the president's decision to pardon just f and part
on them all is still getting a lot of reaction,
shall we say, on Capitol Hill in the lake is
where we kick off swamp.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Watch politician, which means I'm a cheat and a liar.
And when I'm not kissing babies, I'm still in their lollipops.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
Yeah, we got The real problem is that our leaders
are done.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
The other side never quits what.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
I'm not going anywhere.
Speaker 5 (03:07):
So that is how you train the swat.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
I can imagine what can be and be unburdened by
what has been. You know, Americans have always been gone
at present.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
They're not stupid.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
A political flunder is when a politician actually tells the truth.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
Whether people voted for you werena swap watch, They're all
counted on.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
I said this earlier and I stand by it. I
do believe that there was too much too many details
going on to take all of these January sixth rioters
or protesters, whatever you want to call them, on a
case by case basis. I think that everyone kind of
comes down on the idea that if you attacked police
officers that day, you should not be pardoned, especially violent attacks.
(03:46):
But that was not the case. There was just too
much to go through. I think for a president who
has no tension span to take things case by case,
it's onerous. It takes a long time. But anyway, you
meant at the time when we were talking about this
earlier that now all the people who have been pardoned,
especially the people who carried out violence on police officers,
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kind of have a giant arrow pointing to their head
as they move forward in their lives by media outlets
or what have you. Let's not forget law enforcement. In fact,
the first person has already been a victim of this,
shall we say, I don't like to call them victims,
but has fallen to this way of thinking. This was
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a defendant from January sixth, whose felony assault charges were
dismissed yesterday. He has now been arrested on federal gun
charges today. They have been pending for nearly two years
in Florida. His name is Danielle or Daniel Ball, excuse me,
one of the hundreds charged with violence aimed at police,
and he was pardoned. His charges were dismissed because of
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President Trump. More than a thousand people were pardoned well.
He was being held in preach trial detention in DC
because of what a magistrate judge described as some of
the most violent and serious offenses of any of the
charges being brought against people there. January sixth, He's charged
with hurling an explosive device into the Lower West Terrace,
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which was packed in that tunnel of the capital. The explosion,
the magistrate judge says, allegedly disoriented officers caused hearing loss.
Some of the officers had this hearing loss for months.
He threw a large piece of wood into the line
of officers protecting the capital. He was a felon in
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possession of a firearm.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
And by the way, this is whether the President decided
to do this at last minute or not. He's going
to get heat from his own party. He doesn't care.
Clearly he doesn't care. But there are Republican lawmakers who
have come out. Jerry Moran Republican senator out of Kansas.
It's wrong to pardon individuals convicted of violent crime, especially
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if many of the victims were law enforcement officers. Bill Cassidy,
Republican Louisiana. It's not right people who assault police officers.
If they do the crime, they should do the time.
Lisa Murkowski, SU's in Collins. More moderate members of the
Republican Party said that they do not support pardons for
people convicted of violent crimes. Tom Tillis out of North Carolina.
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These are some of the more conservative though. He had
concerns with any pardon for people who do harm to
a police officer full stop, and said the pardon of
anybody committed who committed violence against an officer is a
bad idea. Mitch McConnell, no one should excuse violence, and
particularly violence against police officers.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
He's going to have to answer.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
I think the President is going to be asked about
some of these specific offenders and the violence that they
are accused of and in many places, many times convicted
of perpetrating against police officers, the specifics, and I don't
know how he gets away from these.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Listen.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
I know the January sixth Committee did away with the evidence.
And but we're talking about people who are convicted in
courts of law, not in Congress. Some of them may
have been brought up and testified before Congress, but we're
talking about people who who were convicted in courts of law,
and in many cases simply admitted to their behavior, admitted
to what they did, and they were still pardoned. This
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Hue fire, by the way, burning near Castaic is now
up over five hundred acres. That was quick and it's
not going to be out anytime soon. This Hughes fire
is burning at Lake Hughes Road and Dry Gulch Road.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
It is sort of just north east of Castaic Lake.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
The smoke plume from this thing is making its way
all the way out to the coast. It is over
I five as you head north up towards the Grapevine.
It's going to be visible very very for a very
large distance. We know that they have already asked for
at least four Now they're saying an additional eight helicopters
have been asked for fires about five hundred acres with
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a continued rapid rate of spread, burning to the west
with strong winds. Incident Command says that there is one
evacuation order area and that is right around Casteak Lake,
basically the borders of Casteak Lake. If you're in that area,
you know what's going on. This is Lake Hughes area.
That is that it's encroaching upon cast Diak. It's Lake
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Hughes Road, right.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Because Lake Hughes is right underneath or Casteak Lake is
right underneath Lake Hughes, right, correct.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
But Hughes is up.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Isn't it farther up into the mountains, right? But isn't
it it's coming towards Castile. Oh, it's coming towards Castagk
I got it.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Okay, Yeah, And that is I mean, like I said,
there's not a lot of homes on the north and
east side of Casteak Lake, but there are a bunch
along the west side between the lake and I five,
and those those areas between the lake and I five
for the most part, that's evacuation warned.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Tailor place Martens.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Yeah, some of those, some of those homes that are
in that area, you might want to be paying a
time to what's going on. Maybe get ready, But the
evacuation order is only for the northern side for the
most part. Those two arms, the northern arms of Castaic Lake.
But it's getting bigger and there are a handful of
things that could burn pretty significantly. So anyway, Hughes fire
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five hundred plus acres north of Casteak Reservoir Casteak Lake
and moving to the west, is.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
What they're saying right now. So we'll keep an eye
on this.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
It has taken off. Evacuation warnings have been issued Bitter Canyon,
Charlie Canyon, Castaic Lake as well.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Just about every area immediately bordering Castaic Lake is now
under an evacuation order, and that includes the area between
the lake and I five, so the Martins Naylor Place area,
and as you get closer down towards the dam and
the Castake Lagoon. There is at least one elementary school
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that is in that area, the North Lake Hills Elementary School,
and there's a series of neighborhoods that are down there
also that are likely going to be under evacuation orders.
This smoke is clearly visible. If you're in the Santa
Clarita Valley, you can see it. We've also gotten some
calls from people who said they can see it as
far away as the four or five one eighteen intersection
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on the of San Fernando Valley side of the hills.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
Rapid rate of spread. There are what's being described as
heavy spotting. You know what that means, a number of
spot fires aside from the major ignition point there. This
thing has taken off. I mean it was fifty acres
and then it was five hundred.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Yeah, very very quick. We first got word of it
just a short time ago. It was fifty to one hundred.
It's gone up to five hundred plus. That number is
going to likely it will likely expand pretty significantly. They
said that the fire has reportedly spotted a cross castagg
light to the west side of the l which is
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right near the Old Ridge Route road, will likely impact
I five at some point. The smoke is clearly impacting
I five, and you could see from some of the
from the firewatch cameras it that it has covered. It's
not down to the level of the freeway. So traffic
is still running right now on I five, but again,
evacuation orders and warnings issued right around Castaic Lake. Everywhere
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immediately bordering the lake is currently under an evacuation order
as of right now, and then several areas nearby are
also under evacuation warnings. If you've gotten the alert, we've
done this role. We've done this before, even people in
that area have done this before. Where if you are
under the evacuation warning, the expectation is that you're going
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to be packed and ready to go. You do not
have to wait for that order. Now you feel like
you need to get out, you can absolutely get out.
Speaker 5 (11:54):
Man.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
If I learned anything from these fires, it's just don't
even wait.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
They had requested originally four helicopters. That request was bumped
by eight more, so they're expecting a lot of air
fight on this I guess. One of the positives is
that it's pretty close to Lancaster, which is where they
do run a lot of the larger air tankers out of.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
It's a quick turnaround for them to get there and back.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
Incident Command one minute ago requested evacuation orders from Lake
Hughes Road to Templan Highway as well, so.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
That's up farther to the north r SB cast Dick.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
But again, this thing is pretty huge and is getting
quicker as rapidly expanding. You mentioned Incident command and the
evacuation zones. There are a couple of different ways that
you can follow along, and we've talked about them before.
At the beginning of the fires, we talked about the
watch Duty app, which has been an invaluable resource not
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just for people who have been impacted by the fires,
but people looking for information about the fires. The other
one is the Genesis app with an A, G, E,
N A s YS Genesis that will help you figure
out which evacuation zone you are in.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
I mean they're names.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
There's letters in the cas Bitter Canyon and Lace zero
one six. I mean, it doesn't mean anything if I
tell you that zone because very few people know what
they're in. But you can find out very quickly which
zone you're in. That will then alert you immediately if
you're in a zone that needs to get out as
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quickly as possible. The Hughes Fire burning on Lake Hughes
Road near Castaic Lake and is burning towards the west
towards the lake again some reports that there may be
some spotting on the west side of the lake.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
Already.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
There's some neighborhoods along the west side of Castaic Lake
before it gets to I five and those places are
all under evacuation orders as of right now we.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
Will stay on top of this fast moving fire. There.
They're calling at the hues fire evacuations ordered, and this
thing does not show any signs of slowing down anytime soon.
We'll stay on top of it right here.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
There were some other stories that were going on today,
specifically one out of Nashville. A couple students were killed
another student injured after a shooting inside a high school.
There in one of the suburbs of Nashville, a couple
students shot by another in the cafeteria.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
It was a seventeen year old shooter that killed himself
after shooting and killing a female student. Two others were
injured there at Antioch High School. They're being treated at
Vanderbilt University Medical Center. They say there were two school
resource officers in the building when the shooting happened, but
they were not in the immediate vicinity of the cafeteria
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where this all went down. By the time they got there,
all the shooting had been stopped.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
I'm counting about a dozen fixed wing and as many
as seven helicopters over This fire that is burning near
Castaic Lake is a pretty large fire, somewhere between five
hundred and one thousand acres have burned in what they're
calling the Hughes Fire. Fire itself started near Lake Hughes Road,
which is just sorry, yeah, north and east of Castaic Lake.
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The evacuation order area is the entire lake itself, the
areas that immediately border the shoreline of the lake, and
then an area just north of it as well that
have been ordered evacuated. It goes basically from one side
of Castaic Lake all the way to the west towards
I five under evacuation orders right now, those.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
Warnings are in place for like you were saying, a
circular area. Basically every place in the media vicinity of
Castaic Lake under mandatory evacuation orders, so Sloane Canyon, Charlie Canyon,
Bitter Canyon, stretching nearly to Samberg if you know, the
area on the north and as far east as far
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east of Green Valley.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
So if you go up five and you get past
sort of where the Hungry Valley off road area is.
One thirty eight is the road that splits off to
the east and goes out towards Lancaster, et cetera. The
evacuation orders don't go all the way that far, but
the warnings do go up to the one thirty eight,
So this whole thing, the expectation is that it's going
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to get much larger before they have a chance to
put this thing under control. The fire, the smoke itself.
We've been getting calls from people who have seen it
way out the one twenty six. There's a couple shots
on social media on Twitter already of buildings in downtown
LA that they can see the smoke plume from this fire.
It's that large, which on the one hand, is an
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indicator of how big the fire is, but on the
other it means perhaps that the wind is not as
dangerous as it could be.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
Still blowing.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
We're still under our red flag warning obviously, but compare
that to what we saw in the Palisades fire when
it started. That fire didn't rise very high because the
wind was blowing its so quickly. Once it would get
into the into the sky.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
This thing went from fifty acres to five hundred like that.
It's got quite the rum way, a lot of area
to chow through there for this fire.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
But yeah, like you.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
Said, the winds are not what we saw. Just a
lot of fuel up there as well.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
To give you an idea. Again.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
The evacuation orders are all around Castac Lake if you
are anywhere close to the lake itself. Those neighborhoods that
are kind of wedged between I five and the Castak
Lagoon just below the dam, those are all under evacuation
orders as of right now. Several businesses that are right
there Alongstak Castak Road, the Old Ridge Route as it
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winds its way through Castak before going up the hill,
all of those areas under evacuation order right now.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
You see some DC tens up there, which is nice
to see. You've also got a lot of lower flying
aircraft dropping water on this as well that you're not
going to see from the overhead pictures.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
The winds in the area right now, they said current
wind gusts right around thirty miles an hour in Castak Junction,
but also in the Santa Clarita, the Greater Santa Clarita area.
So they have not yet said that they are going
to be closing I five, but it is going to
be impacted clearly by the smoke from this fire. They
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just also expanded the evacuation warning areas to the west side.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
Of I five.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Yeah, I see Gorman Well five Golden State. Gorman area
has been issued a warning there. They're now saying that
this thing is estimated about one thousand acres. So this
is how quick it's moving.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
Hughes Fire.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
It's burning in Castaic Lake area along Lake Hughes Road,
which goes from Castak up over the hill towards Lancaster.
About halfway up that road is where this fire is
believed to have started more than an hour ago. The
evacuation orders exist around the entire lake of Castaic Lake
and then an outer perimeter there of evacuation warning. So
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basically from where this fire started on the east side
of Castaic Lake all the way over to I five,
even if you're on the west side of I five,
you're currently under an evacuation warning.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
Yeah, it would make sense since they were worried about
that Sandberg area right there in the Lake Hughes templan
Highway portion right there north of Castaic Lake, it would
make sense that Gorman would be under a warning. I
mean that's pretty close to the I five right there,
Samberg area, it's close.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
Enough, and there's one thirty eight nothing there to slow
it down, right, So from Castaic Lake all the way
to Pyramid Lake, our evacuation orders or warnings. Lake Hughes
Road itself is closed in both directions. Hey, if you're
up there, give us a shout.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
Yeah, let us know.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
In fact, if you can see this, why not give
us a call at eight hundred five two zero one
five three four eight hundred five to two oh one KFI.
Keeping an eye on the Hughes fire burning near Casteak Lake,
north of the Casteak Reservoir. That's their evacuation orders and
warnings have been issued again. We have advised many times
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to download that watch Duty app let let you know
if you are in one of those evacuation warning or
order areas, or even the Genesis app g e NA SYS,
because those are two great apps that will keep you updated.
We are keeping an eye on the Hughes fire. This
is burning up in the Casteak Lake area. And as
we mentioned, the evacuation orders have expanded once again. And
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this is significant because the new evacuation orders are for
the west side of I five along the Parker Road
area Sloane Canyon Road. That's going to include a couple
of schools, including Casteak High School. Also along the Hillcrest Parkway.
If you know all those neighborhoods that are there just
off of I five and the Old Road, the Cambridge area,
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in the Hasley Canyon Road area. That's a few thousand
people probably that that effects. So again, the evacuation orders
because of this fire near Castagg Lake have expanded to
the west side of I five. We've seen a bunch
of people say that they can see the fire itself.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
In fact, Matt is in Santa Clarita. He joins us. Now, Matt,
what do you see?
Speaker 5 (21:30):
Yeah, I see the mainly the planning front burning towards
probably like northeast. I would say, you can see four
six wing aircraft making Pauschek drops. Now, winds blowing mainly
to the west southwest.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
Do you get the idea that that's the direction the
fire itself is going is to the west.
Speaker 5 (21:54):
No, I think it's burning more towards the northeast. The
winds are blowing the smoke.
Speaker 6 (21:58):
To the south.
Speaker 5 (22:00):
US They've shifted a little bit, you know, over the
past ten or fifteen minutes, but predominantly they're going southwest.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
Yeah, all right, yeah, go ahead.
Speaker 5 (22:14):
No, I'm saying that the flames, just the flaming front
seems to be moving more towards the northeast, and I
count for fixed wing aircraft they can flash check drops
right now on the flaming front. I can see flames
from where I am, but the firefighters seem to be
getting a pretty good hold hold on it. I mean,
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I'm not a firefighter, but I can I can see
progress being made.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
Yeah, they were quick to jump on that air attack
there with several different of the smaller firefighting aircraft of
flying lower to the ground there. The spot fires, while problematic,
are not as problematic as when we saw the spot
at least at this point when we saw the spot
fires and the palisades, because every spot fire you saw
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when you're not in wild land is I don't know,
a neighborhood, and so this is definitely steep and rocky
terrain they're dealing with. But for right now they've been
able to contain this thing to that wild land area
as they fight this thing from the sky. But yeah,
five hundred acres presently they say, some estimates are up
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to one thousand. No containment obviously whatsoever. And they do
have the big DC tens out there spreading that retardant
trying to stop the spread of what seems to be
a fire that just took off with a vengeance.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
Eight hundred five to zero one five three four. Eric
is in Santa Clarita as well. Eric, What do you
have going on?
Speaker 4 (23:42):
Yeah, we just pushed out from work where up by
the one twenty six and Commerce Center Drive or what
twenty sixth and Commerce Center Drive we left. The smoke
was starting to head towards our building. So it's coming
towards coming towards the one twenty sixth a little bit.
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The smoke was really bad. I saw the smoke started
the change directing a little bit and exactly what map
that I see the DC tents pulling off right now.
I'm headed into I'm headed into San Franciscito right now.
It looks like it's still open. Some lust for that, Yeah,
but there is a lot of white smoke to the
other side, and so the that's right, they're attacking it
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really really well, a lot of white.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
Smoke on that side that San Franciscito the other direction, yeap, Eric.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
That San Franciscito that you're talking about it but does
border one of the evacuation warning areas. As you get
deeper up into the Bitter Canyon area out towards the
old Saint Francis Dam, so just be aware of that. Again,
the evacuation orders have expanded to the west side of
I five, So if you are if you're along that's
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Sloan Canyon Road or the Hillcrest Drive. Chance this is
our Hillcrest Parkway. I should say you are likely in
an evacuation order area. There's an elementary school and a
middle school, Castak Elementary, Castaic Middle School, Castaic High School
are all under those evacuation order areas. So those kids,
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I mean, listen, teachers, administrators, they know what they're doing
because they have They've lived in fire country for a while.
I do believe this is the first evacuation that Castaic
High School has headed, because it's a newer multiple.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
Schools right now as we speak, being evacuated. As you
mentioned with those latest orders.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
Candy is calling from Valencia. Candy, what do you see?
Speaker 5 (25:39):
Well, I was at the pharmacy. Valencia is also on
fire and nobody I can't find any reports. I'm in
my car driving to work, but.
Speaker 4 (25:47):
It's all black. To sack is not black.
Speaker 5 (25:50):
It's white smoke. But it's supposed to be by Valencia
High School.
Speaker 3 (25:57):
Are you saying there is a fire near Valencia High School?
Speaker 5 (26:01):
Yeah, and it's all black.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
I think you may be seeing what we're talking about,
this Hues fire.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
There is no fire near Valencia right now. There's definitely
a black sky near Valencia Industrial Center there, but yeah, no,
this is the active fire that we're dealing with. The
Hues fire there north and moving towards the east. It
seems like of Castaic Lake. There several different communities along
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Eye five under warnings or mandatory evacuation orders as well.
They've got strike teams in these rural neighborhoods there. They
were quick to order at least ten strike teams, ten
task force units, a dozen of those water tenders that
you're probably not going to see if you're watching aerial
coverage because the smoke is so thick and so high
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up in the air and these fly relatively low to
the ground. The water tenders, they are there, they are
on the scene. They were ordered more than an hour ago.
You will see the DC tens, however, that keep a
higher elevation as they try to blanket the unburned areas
with retardant to kind of force this thing back onto itself.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
Antonio is calling from Santa Clarita. Antonio, what do you see?
Speaker 6 (27:16):
Uh? Yeah, I was coming into work and I gotta
get off of McBean, like two exits before Magic Mountain
and there's the hills like maybe half an hour a
mile if that. They're starting to small puckets of fires
or white smoke that I don't know if it's part
of the bigger I could see the bigger fire beyond
the ridge, but there's a it's definitely coming this way.
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The wind is blowing up McBean towards the I five,
so it's bringing the smoke kind of this way towards
Santa Clarita area. So I don't know if the fire
is traveling this way or that. It's like I would
say half a mile if that from the Henry Mell Hospital.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
Awesome, all right, Antonio, thanks for your report.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
Awesome.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
Well, I mean, well, I don't know how you even
they have He mentioned one of the guys mentioned that
he was at that industrial center that is along the
one twenty six and I five and that is now
under an evacuation warning, as is that whole Live Oak
area of Valverde that's deeper into the Canyon there on
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the west side. All of those areas now under evacuation
warnings or orders.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
There is from the National Weather Service a high wind
warning for the Santa Clarita Valley in effect from two
this afternoon to ten pm this evening. They say a
high wind warning in effect from ten this evening to
two pm tomorrow. They say northeast winds and that's what
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we're seeing right fifteen to thirty miles per hour with
GUS of forty five this evening GUS to fifty five
for the high wind warning. After ten northeast winds thirty
five to fifty miles per hour GUS to sixty five. Again,
this is for the Santa Clarida Valley and western Santa
Monica Mountains wreck area.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
As of right now, it still appears that I five,
both directions through Castaic and points north, are open, but
that could change because on both sides of the freeway
right there in Castaic, especially right at the Parker Road exit,
both sides of I five are under evacuation orders at Castaic,
Parker Road, Lake Hughes Road. And again, I don't know
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how long I five is going to be open, but
as of right now, it is open, so we will
keep an eye on this again. The Hughes fire burning
up in the Castake Lake area. Several areas and several
hundred homes and a few schools under evacuation orders.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
Bridge Route Road now looks like it has spread to
the west side of Ridge Route Road. This is definitely
a fire to be concerned about, and we will stay
on top of it bring you all the latest as
it happens right here on Gary and Shannon.
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Speaker 2 (00:07):
We have another fast moving fire that is expanding pretty quickly.
This is up in the Castaic Lake area, right off
of Lake Hughes Road. There have already been a couple
of evacuation warnings that have been sent out.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
If funer.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Castake Lake is right alongside I five as it heads
north up towards the Grapevine. The fire itself is said
to be on both sides of Lake Hughes Road, and
as of right now, the evacuation warning areas are basically
the entire perimeter of Castaic Lake over towards I five
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down into the four Bay area. So there's a bunch
of homes, some of the businesses right there in Castaic
on the right side the east side of the freeway
that are under evacuation warnings as of now. They said
that there is considered to be a pretty rapid rate
of spread. It's simply fifty to one hundred acres as
of a few minutes ago, and they are requesting at
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least four air tankers. Again, the Hughes fire burning on
both sides of Lake Hughes Road, just to the northeast
of Castaic Lake. If you're on I five, you're headed
north or you're coming into La headed south, you're going
to see this smoke.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
It is pretty significant and will cover I five.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
The smoke will cover I five over the course of
the next couple of hours.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Probably, would you like your Jeopardy question before we dive
into the flurry of activity going on in Washington? Winners
for one thousand dollars. In nineteen ninety three, she became
the first African American woman to win the Nobel Prize
for literature.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Uh what year?
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Ninety three?
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Maya Angelou?
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Yeah, Tony Morrison.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
There were three may Angelou, Alice Walker, Tony Moore, and
we're going to be the three that I was gonna choose.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Well, okay, next time you can just we can do
multiple choice.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
If you'd like. Okay, that would be great. Again.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
We will keep an eye on the hues fire burning
up northern La County right alongside a Casteak Lake. Looks
like they've updated one of those evacuation warnings into an
evacuation order. This will be a BA on the northern
sections of Casteak Lake. There's not a lot out there,
so there's not a lot of people to evacuate. But
if you're in that Casteak Lake State Recreation Area north
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of the lake, they are. They have upgraded that to
an evacuation order, which means you.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Got to get out, all right.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Well, the president's decision to pardon just f and part
on them all is still getting a lot of reaction,
shall we say, on Capitol Hill in the lake is
where we kick off swamp.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Watch politician, which means I'm a cheat and a liar.
And when I'm not kissing babies, I'm still in their lollipops.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
Yeah, we got The real problem is that our leaders
are done.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
The other side never quits what.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
I'm not going anywhere.
Speaker 5 (03:07):
So that is how you train the swat.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
I can imagine what can be and be unburdened by
what has been. You know, Americans have always been gone
at present.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
They're not stupid.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
A political flunder is when a politician actually tells the truth.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
Whether people voted for you werena swap watch, They're all
counted on.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
I said this earlier and I stand by it. I
do believe that there was too much too many details
going on to take all of these January sixth rioters
or protesters, whatever you want to call them, on a
case by case basis. I think that everyone kind of
comes down on the idea that if you attacked police
officers that day, you should not be pardoned, especially violent attacks.
(03:46):
But that was not the case. There was just too
much to go through. I think for a president who
has no tension span to take things case by case,
it's onerous. It takes a long time. But anyway, you
meant at the time when we were talking about this
earlier that now all the people who have been pardoned,
especially the people who carried out violence on police officers,
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kind of have a giant arrow pointing to their head
as they move forward in their lives by media outlets
or what have you. Let's not forget law enforcement. In fact,
the first person has already been a victim of this,
shall we say, I don't like to call them victims,
but has fallen to this way of thinking. This was
(04:32):
a defendant from January sixth, whose felony assault charges were
dismissed yesterday. He has now been arrested on federal gun
charges today. They have been pending for nearly two years
in Florida. His name is Danielle or Daniel Ball, excuse me,
one of the hundreds charged with violence aimed at police,
and he was pardoned. His charges were dismissed because of
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President Trump. More than a thousand people were pardoned well.
He was being held in preach trial detention in DC
because of what a magistrate judge described as some of
the most violent and serious offenses of any of the
charges being brought against people there. January sixth, He's charged
with hurling an explosive device into the Lower West Terrace,
(05:15):
which was packed in that tunnel of the capital. The explosion,
the magistrate judge says, allegedly disoriented officers caused hearing loss.
Some of the officers had this hearing loss for months.
He threw a large piece of wood into the line
of officers protecting the capital. He was a felon in
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possession of a firearm.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
And by the way, this is whether the President decided
to do this at last minute or not. He's going
to get heat from his own party. He doesn't care.
Clearly he doesn't care. But there are Republican lawmakers who
have come out. Jerry Moran Republican senator out of Kansas.
It's wrong to pardon individuals convicted of violent crime, especially
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if many of the victims were law enforcement officers. Bill Cassidy,
Republican Louisiana. It's not right people who assault police officers.
If they do the crime, they should do the time.
Lisa Murkowski, SU's in Collins. More moderate members of the
Republican Party said that they do not support pardons for
people convicted of violent crimes. Tom Tillis out of North Carolina.
(06:19):
These are some of the more conservative though. He had
concerns with any pardon for people who do harm to
a police officer full stop, and said the pardon of
anybody committed who committed violence against an officer is a
bad idea. Mitch McConnell, no one should excuse violence, and
particularly violence against police officers.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
He's going to have to answer.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
I think the President is going to be asked about
some of these specific offenders and the violence that they
are accused of and in many places, many times convicted
of perpetrating against police officers, the specifics, and I don't
know how he gets away from these.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Listen.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
I know the January sixth Committee did away with the evidence.
And but we're talking about people who are convicted in
courts of law, not in Congress. Some of them may
have been brought up and testified before Congress, but we're
talking about people who who were convicted in courts of law,
and in many cases simply admitted to their behavior, admitted
to what they did, and they were still pardoned. This
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Hue fire, by the way, burning near Castaic is now
up over five hundred acres. That was quick and it's
not going to be out anytime soon. This Hughes fire
is burning at Lake Hughes Road and Dry Gulch Road.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
It is sort of just north east of Castaic Lake.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
The smoke plume from this thing is making its way
all the way out to the coast. It is over
I five as you head north up towards the Grapevine.
It's going to be visible very very for a very
large distance. We know that they have already asked for
at least four Now they're saying an additional eight helicopters
have been asked for fires about five hundred acres with
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a continued rapid rate of spread, burning to the west
with strong winds. Incident Command says that there is one
evacuation order area and that is right around Casteak Lake,
basically the borders of Casteak Lake. If you're in that area,
you know what's going on. This is Lake Hughes area.
That is that it's encroaching upon cast Diak. It's Lake
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Hughes Road, right.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Because Lake Hughes is right underneath or Casteak Lake is
right underneath Lake Hughes, right, correct.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
But Hughes is up.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Isn't it farther up into the mountains, right? But isn't
it it's coming towards Castile. Oh, it's coming towards Castagk
I got it.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Okay, Yeah, And that is I mean, like I said,
there's not a lot of homes on the north and
east side of Casteak Lake, but there are a bunch
along the west side between the lake and I five,
and those those areas between the lake and I five
for the most part, that's evacuation warned.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Tailor place Martens.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Yeah, some of those, some of those homes that are
in that area, you might want to be paying a
time to what's going on. Maybe get ready, But the
evacuation order is only for the northern side for the
most part. Those two arms, the northern arms of Castaic Lake.
But it's getting bigger and there are a handful of
things that could burn pretty significantly. So anyway, Hughes fire
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five hundred plus acres north of Casteak Reservoir Casteak Lake
and moving to the west, is.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
What they're saying right now. So we'll keep an eye
on this.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
It has taken off. Evacuation warnings have been issued Bitter Canyon,
Charlie Canyon, Castaic Lake as well.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Just about every area immediately bordering Castaic Lake is now
under an evacuation order, and that includes the area between
the lake and I five, so the Martins Naylor Place area,
and as you get closer down towards the dam and
the Castake Lagoon. There is at least one elementary school
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that is in that area, the North Lake Hills Elementary School,
and there's a series of neighborhoods that are down there
also that are likely going to be under evacuation orders.
This smoke is clearly visible. If you're in the Santa
Clarita Valley, you can see it. We've also gotten some
calls from people who said they can see it as
far away as the four or five one eighteen intersection
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on the of San Fernando Valley side of the hills.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
Rapid rate of spread. There are what's being described as
heavy spotting. You know what that means, a number of
spot fires aside from the major ignition point there. This
thing has taken off. I mean it was fifty acres
and then it was five hundred.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Yeah, very very quick. We first got word of it
just a short time ago. It was fifty to one hundred.
It's gone up to five hundred plus. That number is
going to likely it will likely expand pretty significantly. They
said that the fire has reportedly spotted a cross castagg
light to the west side of the l which is
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right near the Old Ridge Route road, will likely impact
I five at some point. The smoke is clearly impacting
I five, and you could see from some of the
from the firewatch cameras it that it has covered. It's
not down to the level of the freeway. So traffic
is still running right now on I five, but again,
evacuation orders and warnings issued right around Castaic Lake. Everywhere
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immediately bordering the lake is currently under an evacuation order
as of right now, and then several areas nearby are
also under evacuation warnings. If you've gotten the alert, we've
done this role. We've done this before, even people in
that area have done this before. Where if you are
under the evacuation warning, the expectation is that you're going
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to be packed and ready to go. You do not
have to wait for that order. Now you feel like
you need to get out, you can absolutely get out.
Speaker 5 (11:54):
Man.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
If I learned anything from these fires, it's just don't
even wait.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
They had requested originally four helicopters. That request was bumped
by eight more, so they're expecting a lot of air
fight on this I guess. One of the positives is
that it's pretty close to Lancaster, which is where they
do run a lot of the larger air tankers out of.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
It's a quick turnaround for them to get there and back.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
Incident Command one minute ago requested evacuation orders from Lake
Hughes Road to Templan Highway as well, so.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
That's up farther to the north r SB cast Dick.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
But again, this thing is pretty huge and is getting
quicker as rapidly expanding. You mentioned Incident command and the
evacuation zones. There are a couple of different ways that
you can follow along, and we've talked about them before.
At the beginning of the fires, we talked about the
watch Duty app, which has been an invaluable resource not
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just for people who have been impacted by the fires,
but people looking for information about the fires. The other
one is the Genesis app with an A, G, E,
N A s YS Genesis that will help you figure
out which evacuation zone you are in.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
I mean they're names.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
There's letters in the cas Bitter Canyon and Lace zero
one six. I mean, it doesn't mean anything if I
tell you that zone because very few people know what
they're in. But you can find out very quickly which
zone you're in. That will then alert you immediately if
you're in a zone that needs to get out as
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quickly as possible. The Hughes Fire burning on Lake Hughes
Road near Castaic Lake and is burning towards the west
towards the lake again some reports that there may be
some spotting on the west side of the lake.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
Already.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
There's some neighborhoods along the west side of Castaic Lake
before it gets to I five and those places are
all under evacuation orders as of right now we.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
Will stay on top of this fast moving fire. There.
They're calling at the hues fire evacuations ordered, and this
thing does not show any signs of slowing down anytime soon.
We'll stay on top of it right here.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
There were some other stories that were going on today,
specifically one out of Nashville. A couple students were killed
another student injured after a shooting inside a high school.
There in one of the suburbs of Nashville, a couple
students shot by another in the cafeteria.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
It was a seventeen year old shooter that killed himself
after shooting and killing a female student. Two others were
injured there at Antioch High School. They're being treated at
Vanderbilt University Medical Center. They say there were two school
resource officers in the building when the shooting happened, but
they were not in the immediate vicinity of the cafeteria
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where this all went down. By the time they got there,
all the shooting had been stopped.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
I'm counting about a dozen fixed wing and as many
as seven helicopters over This fire that is burning near
Castaic Lake is a pretty large fire, somewhere between five
hundred and one thousand acres have burned in what they're
calling the Hughes Fire. Fire itself started near Lake Hughes Road,
which is just sorry, yeah, north and east of Castaic Lake.
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The evacuation order area is the entire lake itself, the
areas that immediately border the shoreline of the lake, and
then an area just north of it as well that
have been ordered evacuated. It goes basically from one side
of Castaic Lake all the way to the west towards
I five under evacuation orders right now, those.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
Warnings are in place for like you were saying, a
circular area. Basically every place in the media vicinity of
Castaic Lake under mandatory evacuation orders, so Sloane Canyon, Charlie Canyon,
Bitter Canyon, stretching nearly to Samberg if you know, the
area on the north and as far east as far
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east of Green Valley.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
So if you go up five and you get past
sort of where the Hungry Valley off road area is.
One thirty eight is the road that splits off to
the east and goes out towards Lancaster, et cetera. The
evacuation orders don't go all the way that far, but
the warnings do go up to the one thirty eight,
So this whole thing, the expectation is that it's going
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to get much larger before they have a chance to
put this thing under control. The fire, the smoke itself.
We've been getting calls from people who have seen it
way out the one twenty six. There's a couple shots
on social media on Twitter already of buildings in downtown
LA that they can see the smoke plume from this fire.
It's that large, which on the one hand, is an
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indicator of how big the fire is, but on the
other it means perhaps that the wind is not as
dangerous as it could be.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
Still blowing.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
We're still under our red flag warning obviously, but compare
that to what we saw in the Palisades fire when
it started. That fire didn't rise very high because the
wind was blowing its so quickly. Once it would get
into the into the sky.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
This thing went from fifty acres to five hundred like that.
It's got quite the rum way, a lot of area
to chow through there for this fire.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
But yeah, like you.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
Said, the winds are not what we saw. Just a
lot of fuel up there as well.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
To give you an idea. Again.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
The evacuation orders are all around Castac Lake if you
are anywhere close to the lake itself. Those neighborhoods that
are kind of wedged between I five and the Castak
Lagoon just below the dam, those are all under evacuation
orders as of right now. Several businesses that are right
there Alongstak Castak Road, the Old Ridge Route as it
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winds its way through Castak before going up the hill,
all of those areas under evacuation order right now.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
You see some DC tens up there, which is nice
to see. You've also got a lot of lower flying
aircraft dropping water on this as well that you're not
going to see from the overhead pictures.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
The winds in the area right now, they said current
wind gusts right around thirty miles an hour in Castak Junction,
but also in the Santa Clarita, the Greater Santa Clarita area.
So they have not yet said that they are going
to be closing I five, but it is going to
be impacted clearly by the smoke from this fire. They
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just also expanded the evacuation warning areas to the west side.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
Of I five.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Yeah, I see Gorman Well five Golden State. Gorman area
has been issued a warning there. They're now saying that
this thing is estimated about one thousand acres. So this
is how quick it's moving.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
Hughes Fire.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
It's burning in Castaic Lake area along Lake Hughes Road,
which goes from Castak up over the hill towards Lancaster.
About halfway up that road is where this fire is
believed to have started more than an hour ago. The
evacuation orders exist around the entire lake of Castaic Lake
and then an outer perimeter there of evacuation warning. So
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basically from where this fire started on the east side
of Castaic Lake all the way over to I five,
even if you're on the west side of I five,
you're currently under an evacuation warning.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
Yeah, it would make sense since they were worried about
that Sandberg area right there in the Lake Hughes templan
Highway portion right there north of Castaic Lake, it would
make sense that Gorman would be under a warning. I
mean that's pretty close to the I five right there,
Samberg area, it's close.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
Enough, and there's one thirty eight nothing there to slow
it down, right, So from Castaic Lake all the way
to Pyramid Lake, our evacuation orders or warnings. Lake Hughes
Road itself is closed in both directions. Hey, if you're
up there, give us a shout.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
Yeah, let us know.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
In fact, if you can see this, why not give
us a call at eight hundred five two zero one
five three four eight hundred five to two oh one KFI.
Keeping an eye on the Hughes fire burning near Casteak Lake,
north of the Casteak Reservoir. That's their evacuation orders and
warnings have been issued again. We have advised many times
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to download that watch Duty app let let you know
if you are in one of those evacuation warning or
order areas, or even the Genesis app g e NA SYS,
because those are two great apps that will keep you updated.
We are keeping an eye on the Hughes fire. This
is burning up in the Casteak Lake area. And as
we mentioned, the evacuation orders have expanded once again. And
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this is significant because the new evacuation orders are for
the west side of I five along the Parker Road
area Sloane Canyon Road. That's going to include a couple
of schools, including Casteak High School. Also along the Hillcrest Parkway.
If you know all those neighborhoods that are there just
off of I five and the Old Road, the Cambridge area,
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in the Hasley Canyon Road area. That's a few thousand
people probably that that effects. So again, the evacuation orders
because of this fire near Castagg Lake have expanded to
the west side of I five. We've seen a bunch
of people say that they can see the fire itself.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
In fact, Matt is in Santa Clarita. He joins us. Now, Matt,
what do you see?
Speaker 5 (21:30):
Yeah, I see the mainly the planning front burning towards
probably like northeast. I would say, you can see four
six wing aircraft making Pauschek drops. Now, winds blowing mainly
to the west southwest.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
Do you get the idea that that's the direction the
fire itself is going is to the west.
Speaker 5 (21:54):
No, I think it's burning more towards the northeast. The
winds are blowing the smoke.
Speaker 6 (21:58):
To the south.
Speaker 5 (22:00):
US They've shifted a little bit, you know, over the
past ten or fifteen minutes, but predominantly they're going southwest.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
Yeah, all right, yeah, go ahead.
Speaker 5 (22:14):
No, I'm saying that the flames, just the flaming front
seems to be moving more towards the northeast, and I
count for fixed wing aircraft they can flash check drops
right now on the flaming front. I can see flames
from where I am, but the firefighters seem to be
getting a pretty good hold hold on it. I mean,
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I'm not a firefighter, but I can I can see
progress being made.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
Yeah, they were quick to jump on that air attack
there with several different of the smaller firefighting aircraft of
flying lower to the ground there. The spot fires, while problematic,
are not as problematic as when we saw the spot
at least at this point when we saw the spot
fires and the palisades, because every spot fire you saw
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when you're not in wild land is I don't know,
a neighborhood, and so this is definitely steep and rocky
terrain they're dealing with. But for right now they've been
able to contain this thing to that wild land area
as they fight this thing from the sky. But yeah,
five hundred acres presently they say, some estimates are up
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to one thousand. No containment obviously whatsoever. And they do
have the big DC tens out there spreading that retardant
trying to stop the spread of what seems to be
a fire that just took off with a vengeance.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
Eight hundred five to zero one five three four. Eric
is in Santa Clarita as well. Eric, What do you
have going on?
Speaker 4 (23:42):
Yeah, we just pushed out from work where up by
the one twenty six and Commerce Center Drive or what
twenty sixth and Commerce Center Drive we left. The smoke
was starting to head towards our building. So it's coming
towards coming towards the one twenty sixth a little bit.
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The smoke was really bad. I saw the smoke started
the change directing a little bit and exactly what map
that I see the DC tents pulling off right now.
I'm headed into I'm headed into San Franciscito right now.
It looks like it's still open. Some lust for that, Yeah,
but there is a lot of white smoke to the
other side, and so the that's right, they're attacking it
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really really well, a lot of white.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
Smoke on that side that San Franciscito the other direction, yeap, Eric.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
That San Franciscito that you're talking about it but does
border one of the evacuation warning areas. As you get
deeper up into the Bitter Canyon area out towards the
old Saint Francis Dam, so just be aware of that. Again,
the evacuation orders have expanded to the west side of
I five, So if you are if you're along that's
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Sloan Canyon Road or the Hillcrest Drive. Chance this is
our Hillcrest Parkway. I should say you are likely in
an evacuation order area. There's an elementary school and a
middle school, Castak Elementary, Castaic Middle School, Castaic High School
are all under those evacuation order areas. So those kids,
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I mean, listen, teachers, administrators, they know what they're doing
because they have They've lived in fire country for a while.
I do believe this is the first evacuation that Castaic
High School has headed, because it's a newer multiple.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
Schools right now as we speak, being evacuated. As you
mentioned with those latest orders.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
Candy is calling from Valencia. Candy, what do you see?
Speaker 5 (25:39):
Well, I was at the pharmacy. Valencia is also on
fire and nobody I can't find any reports. I'm in
my car driving to work, but.
Speaker 4 (25:47):
It's all black. To sack is not black.
Speaker 5 (25:50):
It's white smoke. But it's supposed to be by Valencia
High School.
Speaker 3 (25:57):
Are you saying there is a fire near Valencia High School?
Speaker 5 (26:01):
Yeah, and it's all black.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
I think you may be seeing what we're talking about,
this Hues fire.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
There is no fire near Valencia right now. There's definitely
a black sky near Valencia Industrial Center there, but yeah, no,
this is the active fire that we're dealing with. The
Hues fire there north and moving towards the east. It
seems like of Castaic Lake. There several different communities along
(26:30):
Eye five under warnings or mandatory evacuation orders as well.
They've got strike teams in these rural neighborhoods there. They
were quick to order at least ten strike teams, ten
task force units, a dozen of those water tenders that
you're probably not going to see if you're watching aerial
coverage because the smoke is so thick and so high
(26:53):
up in the air and these fly relatively low to
the ground. The water tenders, they are there, they are
on the scene. They were ordered more than an hour ago.
You will see the DC tens, however, that keep a
higher elevation as they try to blanket the unburned areas
with retardant to kind of force this thing back onto itself.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
Antonio is calling from Santa Clarita. Antonio, what do you see?
Speaker 6 (27:16):
Uh? Yeah, I was coming into work and I gotta
get off of McBean, like two exits before Magic Mountain
and there's the hills like maybe half an hour a
mile if that. They're starting to small puckets of fires
or white smoke that I don't know if it's part
of the bigger I could see the bigger fire beyond
the ridge, but there's a it's definitely coming this way.
(27:36):
The wind is blowing up McBean towards the I five,
so it's bringing the smoke kind of this way towards
Santa Clarita area. So I don't know if the fire
is traveling this way or that. It's like I would
say half a mile if that from the Henry Mell Hospital.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
Awesome, all right, Antonio, thanks for your report.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
Awesome.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
Well, I mean, well, I don't know how you even
they have He mentioned one of the guys mentioned that
he was at that industrial center that is along the
one twenty six and I five and that is now
under an evacuation warning, as is that whole Live Oak
area of Valverde that's deeper into the Canyon there on
(28:17):
the west side. All of those areas now under evacuation
warnings or orders.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
There is from the National Weather Service a high wind
warning for the Santa Clarita Valley in effect from two
this afternoon to ten pm this evening. They say a
high wind warning in effect from ten this evening to
two pm tomorrow. They say northeast winds and that's what
(28:43):
we're seeing right fifteen to thirty miles per hour with
GUS of forty five this evening GUS to fifty five
for the high wind warning. After ten northeast winds thirty
five to fifty miles per hour GUS to sixty five. Again,
this is for the Santa Clarida Valley and western Santa
Monica Mountains wreck area.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
As of right now, it still appears that I five,
both directions through Castaic and points north, are open, but
that could change because on both sides of the freeway
right there in Castaic, especially right at the Parker Road exit,
both sides of I five are under evacuation orders at Castaic,
Parker Road, Lake Hughes Road. And again, I don't know
(29:27):
how long I five is going to be open, but
as of right now, it is open, so we will
keep an eye on this again. The Hughes fire burning
up in the Castake Lake area. Several areas and several
hundred homes and a few schools under evacuation orders.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
Bridge Route Road now looks like it has spread to
the west side of Ridge Route Road. This is definitely
a fire to be concerned about, and we will stay
on top of it bring you all the latest as
it happens right here on Gary and Shannon.
Speaker 2 (29:55):
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