January 8, 2025 • 37 mins
ICYMI: Hour ONE of ‘Later, with Mo’Kelly’ Presents – Live Coverages of the SoCal Fires from Pacific Palisades, to Eaton & Beyond with Pacific Palisades Community Council President Sue Kohl & Los Angeles County Supervisor Lindsey P. Horvath - on KFI AM 640…Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty mo Kelly.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
And as we continue, KFI is continuing coverage of the
fire's plural, not only the Palisades fire, but also the
emerging Eaton Canyon fire. We're getting information on that, and
if you're just tuning in, we're gonna reset some things.
There's a lot of information out there. We don't know
where you are in the processing of that information. Maybe
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you are just getting in your car, maybe you're just
getting off work and you're just getting all this information
which is being thrown at you. So we're gonna slow
down and we're going to reset a lot of what
we do know for sure. And I say that with
a caveat that it should change over the course of
the evening. I'm gonna be with you all the way
up until midnight, and then Tim Conway Junior is going
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to come back to the studio bless his heart, and
go from midnight to three am. Neil Savagor will be
in from three to five am, and then Amy King
will take over the course of things with wake up
call at five am. But here is what we do
know for sure. As of this moment that the Pacific
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Palisades fire began today around ten thirty am. We do
not know the cause. At this point of the blaze,
it's grown quickly. You've probably seen some of the video
and the pictures so far, and at this point more
than twenty nine hundred acres have been burned. Multiple homes, unfortunately,
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have been destroyed. And speaking of homes, some ten thousand
homes have been threatened. The Theater Palisades has been destroyed.
I use that as just an entry into the destruction,
the devastation. We'll get into the exasperation and desperation of
those who have been impacted. And it cannot be overstated.
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Some thirty thousand people are under mandatory evacuation orders right now,
and I think that's important to highlight that if you
are in and around that area, and when I say
around that area, you need not wait for a mandatory
evacuation order, And even though you may be outside of
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that area, it's something to consider before you get to
a point where you run out of options. You might
have seen some of the videos of the people who
were stranded in their cars and they decided to go
on foot trying to evacuate themselves, their family members, their pets,
and they just left their cars right in the middle
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of the road. You don't want to find yourself in
the situation. If you need some extra assistance or time
in which to get to an alternative safe location, you
don't want to wait to the last moment. We're talking
about real people's lives, real people who've lost their homes today,
and there's more bad news that I have to report
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because of the Santa Ana Wins. Can reasonably expect that
this fire is going to grow immeasurably and possibly skip
over into other areas because of the Santa Ana wins.
At about midnight, we're told that the winds should be
at their strongest around midnight tonight. That's what we're watching
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to see, and we're going to hear from different voices
over the course of the evening. We expect to be
joined at the bottom of the hour by the President
of the Pacific Palisades City Council, Sue Cole, who will
give us some information. She was someone who was evacuated
herself today and she will give us some insight as
far as what she had to go through, what she's
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hoping to do in the coming days and how the
area of the city is keeping it together. There's a
number of things we do want to tell you about
these mandatory evacuations, and this should change. But this is
the latest information that we have, and of course, working
in concert with Eileen Gonzalez of the KFI twenty four
hour News, we will continue to give this information as
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quickly and thoroughly as possible throughout the evening into the morning.
But mandatory evacuation orders have been issued from Merrimack Road
west to Panga Canyon Boulevard and south to pH and
this is coming from the La Fire Department. Topega Canyon
Beach and Tuna Canyon Park in La County are also
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under mandatory evacuation orders. The swath between Carbon Beach and
Malibu and Las Floridas Canyon Road up to Pima Road
is under an evacuation warning and fire officials have worn
the surrounding area to be prepared to leave quickly. As
I was saying just a little bit earlier, shelters you
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might have seen, or if you haven't seen, the Westwood
Recreation Center, which is at thirteen fifty South Supulvida Boulevard.
The shelter also accepts small animals, and I know as
someone who has two dogs in our family, they are
like family members. But you have to plan in advance.
You have to take them into consideration. If you might
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have an evacuation order or if you have to go
somewhere in a short amount of time, please plan in advance.
These are the most recent road closures that we can
tell you about. Southbound Pacific Coast Highway is closed at
Tapanga Canyon Boulevard. Southbound Pacific Coast Highway is closed at
Lost Flora's Canyon Road, and southbound Pacific Coast Highway a
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coastline drive. But I can tell you this, this is
a perfect time to pull out your ways app and
your Google Maps and you will get to see a
lot of those road closures on the map and that
will give you obviously up to the minute information. Governor
Gavin Newsom has declared the area a excuse me, disaster area,
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and we will get excuse me to declare the state
of emergency. And if you've seen some of the video,
some of the images, and I'm not saying this to
be funny and I'm not trying to say this for effect.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
It looks like something out of a movie.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
I don't remember when I ever saw fire flying horizontally
because of the wind. And this is not something that
firefighters are able to wrap up their equipment and their
resources around at this point. And you may hear different
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voices talking about how, at least early on, there weren't
any firemen because one, they were trying to evacuate individuals,
and also it's in a location which is very difficult
for firefighters to reach. This is Jan who was talking
about how she didn't see in her evacuation any firemen.
Speaker 5 (06:47):
I think the whole town is going to go because
it's so windy right now that they don't have a
grasp on anything right now. Top here. They were down
at the where it started down in the highlands, and
in realize how fast I was going to come up here,
and it is up here, and again there's no firemen
up here, none, none.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
And Jan is one of probably many people who have
a legitimate concern about losing their home. We've seen some
homes go up in flames, unfortunately, and the fire is
going to grow. But this is the reality of what
we're dealing with. And Jen verbalizes that.
Speaker 5 (07:25):
I have a feeling that I won't have a place
to live anymore in my beautiful town that I have
loved forever. And I hate to say, if life goes on,
you have to go on. What can you do? I
have my dog, I have my car, I have my
sole security and my birth certificate.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
We're going to be with you the rest of the
evening all the way to midnight. And as I said earlier,
Cafe is going to be on this story. And also
we're looking at a newer fire which has started to
burn an eating canyon near Alta, Dina. We're going to
have the latest on that and so much more. So
just keep it right here. Cafe is going to stay
on this through the night into the morning. As I said,
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Tim Coomway Junior will be joining us. We'll be coming
back to the station at midnight tonight, Neil Savagia at
three am, and Amy King will start the whole day
over at five am tomorrow. So keep it right here.
I'm Mo Kelly k if I AM six forty. We're
live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
K if I AM six forty mo Kelly here as
we continue our coverage of now multiple fires burning in
southern California.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Of course, the Pacific Palisades Fire, which has.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Burned more than twenty nine hundred acres and it is
by all accounts growing. It is threatening more than ten
thousand homes. Thirty thousand people are presently under mandatory evacuation,
and we know that because of the Santa Ana wins,
that this could be possibly much worse as the night
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goes on into the morning. The Governor, Gavin Newsom has
declared a state of emergency, and he's going to say
it time and time again. I'm going to say it
time and time again. Please listen to the fire orders.
If you receive a mandatory evacuation order, please follow it
for not only your safety, but for the safety of others,
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safety of first responders, so there are not other people
that they have to try to go save or extract
from their homes or from those neighborhoods. This was the
governor some time ago, earlier today, and.
Speaker 6 (09:32):
The fact that people were still not evacuated, still did
not heed the warning we're just coming down the canyon
is a reminder of how serious this moment is and
how important it is you listen to these evacuation orders,
having just quite literally an hour or so ago, gone
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up the canyon and saw firsthand the impact of these
swirling winds and the embers, and the number of structures
that are destroyed, not a few many structures already destroyed.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
You'll hear over the course of the evening about the
difficulty of people trying to evacuate first by car and
then on foot, leaving their cars unfortunately in the middle
of the roadway. For what I've read and what I've seen,
people did not leave their keys in the car, so
obviously no one could move the car, so after a
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certain point bulldozers had to be employed to remove the cars.
Listen to this as far as from ABC, as far
as how some of these evacuations have gone.
Speaker 7 (10:37):
The fire erupting in the Pacific Palisade to put Hills
west of Los Angeles, fire trucks racing to the scene,
aircraft attacking from above, but those efforts no match for
those devastating Santa Ana winds. The entire population of Pacific
Palisades ordered to evacuate, Traffic gridlocked for miles, drivers stuck
beside burning hillsides, some setting out on foot, vehicles catching fire.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
And when you say on foot, it could be a
rather long distance. You could be traveling or trying to
flee with a family member who cannot move quickly, could
be with a child, could be with a child and
another family member, a child, family member and a pet.
All these things have to be taken into account prior
to you deciding to leave.
Speaker 7 (11:23):
Meacan Garment, her daughter and their dog evacuating on foot
after they abandoned their vehicle.
Speaker 8 (11:28):
Well, the smoke just got really bad. So I just
started packing up all of our stuff and we got
in the car to go, and then all the cars
were abandoned, so I had nowhere to go, So I
just had to get out of my car and start walking.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
The smoke is so bad.
Speaker 7 (11:41):
Authority helping the family to shafety.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Let me back up to those abandoned cars, and I
know people were well meaning. You were trying to evacuate,
You were trying to follow the evacuation orders, but for
whatever reasons, there was a bottleneck and it got to
the point where you knew you really you could no
longer drive. There was no way that you could make
it down the canyon by driving. So if you haven't
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seen the video, there are these rows and rows of
cars extending more than a mile sitting in the roadway.
And then eventually bulldozers had to be brought in to
move the cars just so first responders could make it
up the hill and find people, save people's need be
and also at fire trucks where they can at least
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get close to the edge of the fire.
Speaker 9 (12:31):
Yeah, I want to take to your live right now.
So we just took cute talisades. All of these cars
were pitched so all of the driver's panic, they took
their keys. This Talisavees drive as well as Sunset Bulevart.
This dozer is just moving these vehicles out of the way.
So if this is your car, unfortunately, it's an emergency
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situation and this is what they have to do. They
are moving the cars as we speak. Unfortunately, there are
dozens of cars. This looks like a movie set. Unfortunately
this is real La County fire. They have to do
what they have to do. They need to clear a path,
so literally they're moving the cars to SUVs.
Speaker 6 (13:11):
We're seeing Mercedes, very.
Speaker 9 (13:13):
Nice vehicles testless up here, but that's because the car owners.
They took their keys and they just started running. They
left the cars here as the firefighters were trying to
clear the pathway, clear the roadway. This is an emergency
situation where you know they need to get up to
the homes. They want to make sure people are not
trapped up there. But this line of cars probably goes
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about three hundred feet deep at least as long as
I can see from this bird's eye view. So we're
kind of staying back. They're in a situation mirror where
they are literally moving these vehicles out of the way.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
Yes, it is causing.
Speaker 9 (13:51):
Damage, as you can hear from the screeching noises, but
that is what they have to do.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
That is what we are seeing. That's what we're hearing us.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
We're learning about these evacuation orders in Pacific Palisades. And
the reason why I wanted to spend a little time
on that is because as this ursioning Eaton Canyon fire
and Alta Dina starts to grow, we have to be
mindful of that same possibility where people will be as
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to evacuate, you have to consider whether you have any
special needs things that you may have to do just
to prepare to evacuate and Tula. I know you have lived,
do live, have been in that area for many many years.
You know it far better than I do. If I
were to ask about Eating Canyon, that type of terrain,
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what might be white, what might we be looking at?
What would you say?
Speaker 10 (14:47):
Eaton Canyon is about three and a half miles away
from where I live. In communication with my mother just
to see what reports are coming her way, to see
if anything they have to happen, where may need to evacuate.
Right now looking at some of the fire with what
we're seeing here on kt LA, this is a tinder box,
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you know. Eaton Kane is a place where everyone loves
to go and hike. There's a beautiful waterfall when you
get up to the top and it and it is
a real attraction in you know, the city of Altadena, Pasadena.
And when you when I'm driving by anytime I'm going
to the movies or wherever, I drive along Alta Dina
Drive and make my way over towards where the movie
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theater is. And I can tell you it is just
dry brush, a lot of green, but a lot of
dry green because of how dry it's been and it is.
It's very scary to see this because it's literally like
about a box of matches.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
Cannot be any more serious than that. And I was
just to let you know.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
I was telling two Wall was like, look, if you
need to leave to make sure your family is safe,
you make sure you do that, because we can't wait
until the last second to make these arrangements or make
sure that everyone is safe. You may have an elderly
relative that you have to give special consideration to do that. Now,
do not wait until then. Get in contact with that person. Now,
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find out their status, find out where they are. They
may not even be aware that there is a fire
within a five mile radius of their residence. So you
cannot wait to the last second. And we are going
to be right here the whole evening to make sure
you have as much information as possible, that it's accurate,
that it's thorough, and it's helpful to not only protect you,
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but keep you in an informed place where you could
possibly let your neighbors know, let your friends know. You
may have family members and the impacted areas. And that's
why KFI is here. We're going to stay here the
rest of the night, all through the night into the morning.
If you're just tuning in, you may not know. I'm
going to be with you from now until midnight. Then
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Tim Conway Junior, who was on from four to seven
already today, is going to come back to the station
and he's going to rejoin you from midnight until three am.
Neil Savadra from three to five am, and then Amy
King will take over in a normal time slot at
five o'clock and start today all the way over. So
if you need information, if you're concerned about where the
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fire is going, how close it is to you, how
it might impact you, evacuation orders, where you need to go,
school closures, we will have all that information. In fact,
Island Gonzales will be on it as well for the
rest of the evening, So keep it right here, and
when we come back, we hope to be joined on
the phone by Sue Cole, who is the president of
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the Pacific Palisades Community Council, who was evacuated earlier today.
I'm going to get her insight as far as what
she has seen, what she's experienced, and what her own
neighbors and family are going through.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
Right now, you're listening to Later with Mo Kelly on
demand from KFI am six forty.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
I'm o Kelly.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
As we continue our coverage of the multiple fires now
the Pacific Palisades fire, which has burned more than twenty
nine hundred acres and threatens ten thousand homes. Multiple homes
have already been destroyed, and we're also watching dis versioning
fire and Eaton Canyon, which is right above Alta Dina.
And as we talk about the Palisades fire, I wanted
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to bring someone on who has some first hand experience
with what is happening today, and coming on the show
right now is Sue Cole, who is the president of
the Pacific Palisades Community Council.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
Sue, how are you this evening?
Speaker 11 (18:40):
All things considered, Well, it's definitely a difficult day and
difficult night. My family evacuated early today, but in the
past hour we've learned that our block has burned, so
our neighborhood, which is in the middle of the flats
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in the village, is on fire. I'm pretty sure we've.
Speaker 12 (19:04):
Lost our home.
Speaker 11 (19:06):
And there's so many different neighborhoods in the Palisades where
people have lost their homes. And I just pray that
everybody was able to get out because access in and
out of the Palisades is extraordinarily difficult. There's very few
roads in and out. Just leaving the Sunset and then
parts of Sunset and Pch were closed. So I was
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very grateful to get my family out early today, and
I just pray for everybody there. Our town is devastated,
start to finish. Every neighborhood has been impacted.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
What time did you receive the evacuation order and did
what time did you act upon it?
Speaker 11 (19:52):
Well, I heard that evacuation orders being given for other
areas up in the Hills at about ten thirty this morning,
so we closed our office, went home, and I just
made the decision I wasn't going to wait for an
evaculation order for our neighborhood. We packed up pets, medications,
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family photos, Unfortunately no clothes, but we packed everybody up
and left. And as we were driving out, I want
to say it was probably about noon, I got word
from our council person, Tracy Park, that our entire area,
all of the palises had been ordered to evacuate. So
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we didn't waste any time, you know, we just took
time to grab a few things.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
Was it relatively safe?
Speaker 2 (20:44):
I don't want to say easy, but was it manageable
trying to evacuate via car or did you have to
abandon your car after a certain point?
Speaker 11 (20:53):
Okay, the neighborhood I live in is a block away.
It sunse Up Boulevard, so we were just able to
get down the Sunset, head east on Sunset to the
four or five and get out of town. The people
who had to abandon their cars early on were coming
from the Paleasades Highlands because there's one road up and
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one road down, so they were abandoning their cars and
going on foot trying to get down to the ocean,
and unfortunately, some of them were driving on the longside
of the street, which caused a major issue for the
fire trucks trying to get up, so they had to
bring in giant machinery to move cars out of the
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road to get up to the fire. And then the
fire made its way all the way down Sunset Boulevard
to Pate, so both Sunset and Pch were closed, and
then the Keen Freedway was closed, and they had to
close so many roads, so people had a hard time
getting out. That's the biggest problem we have in the
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Palasade is getting out have you been.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
Able to contact any of your neighbors or have you
been able to find out their status? Now, you said
that you feel that you might have lost all of
your neighborhood, but have you been able to contact anyone?
Speaker 11 (22:14):
Well, I don't know that all of the neighborhood went,
because you know, usually there's houses that end up staying.
But I've seen photographs of my block on fire, and
I've heard from some of my neighbors that they've lost
their homes, and certainly a lot of other neighborhoods. I
have friends who live in all the different neighborhoods in the Palisades,
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and I don't know about their individual homes, but I
know homes in all their neighborhoods are burning.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
How long have you lived in the Palisades.
Speaker 11 (22:45):
Over thirty years? And some of our schools are burning,
our high school, our elementary school, all kinds of places
are burning. It's just the most to stop a thing
that happened, and I don't even know how many years,
because quite often it's just up in the hills. And
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in this case, it started in the hills and then
it came down. And now, from what I understand, a
lot of people in Brentwood are being evacuated as well.
Manibelle Canyon and all those areas in the hills in
Brentwood and the Windsor are supposed to be staying in
full force for at least another twenty four hours. So
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that's it.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
MS Cole. I'm not going to hold you much longer.
You have far more important things to do than talk
to me. But I think it's important that people hear
your voice and hear your story. You were able to evacuate,
you were able to evacuate your pets and other family members.
But what is the first step that you're going to
take after today?
Speaker 11 (23:47):
I have to tell you, I haven't thought that far.
I'm just grateful that we're all here. I'm safe, and
we won't be going back to the palisades obviously until
it's over, and I don't know what there will be
to go back to.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
Honestly, who is with you right now? As far as family, My.
Speaker 11 (24:05):
Husband, one of my five adult children, and our other
kids live in other parts of the state and other
parts of the country, and we've certainly've got we've got
three dogs, so that's our closest family here.
Speaker 3 (24:24):
But everyone is together and everyone is physically safe.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
Yes, Sue Cole, who is the president of the Pacific
Palisades Community Council, thank you for obviously what you're doing
for your neighbors and your neighborhood, and thank you for
coming on and sharing your story. And also in spite
of all of what is going on, you are helping
other people right now.
Speaker 11 (24:45):
Thank you so much. I help all of your listeners
will pray for us in the Colify.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
Absolutely, we're going to continue our coverage of the fires
in Pacific Palisades and also Eating Canyon, and as more
information comes in, we'll make sure to give it to
you directly.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
You're listening too. Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
As we continue our coverage of the fires burning not
only in Pacific Palisades but Eaton Canyon above Alta. Dina,
let me talk about that just a moment. If you
don't know, or if you're just tuning in La County,
firefighters are battling a second brush fire, and it has
a potential for quick growth. In fact, it's already burned
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more than two hundred acres and it began relatively recently
in the Eaton Canyon area near Altadena. The fire was
first reported around six forty pm in the area above
Alta Dina. This is according to the LA Fire Department,
and early numbers from firefighters showed the blaze had engulfed
more than two hundred acres of brush and was burning
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uphill at a rapid pace. And if you weren't listening
last segment, the reason I talk about that is fires
can move very quickly. We have the Santa Ana wins.
It can skip roads, it can skip areas across areas
very very quickly. And so if you should receive a
recommended evacuation order, don't wait for the mandatory one. Please
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leave your homes as quickly and expeditiously as possible. And
it got me thinking about always having a go bag.
Last segment, we were hearing the very heart wrenching story
of Sue Cole, who, she says, presumably has lost her
house in everyone on her block has lost their houses
in Pacific Palisades. But she did not pause, she did
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not wait. She heard the evacuation order, and she and
her family left immediately. And if she is right that
she lost her house just following the evacuation order, saved
her life, saved her family members' lives, and obviously she
was prepared to leave at that moment's notice. And everyone
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should have a go bag. And I know that's a
weird way to determine, but you always should be ready
to go in a moment's notice in case of an emergency.
Speaker 13 (27:10):
This is but not normal.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
But not everyone may know what is supposed to be
in a go bag, and so this is just for
anyone who may be wondering what you should put in
it or what you should be putting in it right
now in case that you have to leave at a
moment's notice.
Speaker 13 (27:27):
Now, this latest shaker is another reminder that we should
be prepared for future quakes and other natural disasters.
Speaker 14 (27:33):
Shakeout News Orange County Report Michelle Jeely has some tips
on how to.
Speaker 13 (27:37):
Be ready first aid kits. We have bandages when.
Speaker 14 (27:42):
The ground shakes in southern California. It's a reminder to
get ready for an emergency. Experts say one of the
easiest things to do is pack what's known as a
go bag filled with essentials.
Speaker 13 (27:54):
You may lose a lot of stuff in an earthquake.
To have that go bag ready to go, whether it's
in your car, whether it's not your bedside, could be
a matter of life and death for you and your family.
Speaker 14 (28:03):
Flash light, the idea is to have it stocked with
supplies to get your family through the first seventy two
hours and readily available in case of an earthquake.
Speaker 13 (28:12):
Batteries and multiple batteries different sizes properly to go with
different things. You want to have a drinking supply of water,
nonperishable that could last you up to three days, including food.
We do have meals that are ready to eat. You
can buy these at various stores or other type of
dry goods that will last.
Speaker 14 (28:30):
Basically medical supplies in a first aid kit and a tourniquit,
a whistle and a pocket knife.
Speaker 13 (28:38):
Last ah so a good old adjustable wrench.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
This is for many opportunities.
Speaker 13 (28:43):
To turn off a gas leak in your home, water
leak or anything else from either inside or outside. You
want to know where those valves are. A gas leak
can be just as dangerous after the earthquake.
Speaker 14 (28:53):
Lee Kaser will mobilize with dozens of other Orange County
officials here at the Emergency Operation Center Ontiago Canyon when
a major earthquake hit to guide the disaster response. And
here are some other things that you should have in
your bag. Medication, cash, pet food if you have pets
to care for, an extra set of prescription glasses, and
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don't forget your ID.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
Stephen, you and I are in similar circumstances. We're dealing
with aging parents, and you can't only think about just yourself.
If I think of a go bag, it's not just me.
I always have to always have to be mindful of
my mother, who's in her mid eighties. Like if this
fire were in a different part of town, I have
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to think about her leaving at a moment's notice and
making sure that she's aware of the circumstances. She may
not be listening to KFI right now, she may not
have the TV on and knowing that there is imminent danger,
or she might be an immediate danger. How do you
try to navigate that when you're dealing with a parent
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who may not be in the best of health.
Speaker 12 (30:06):
That's a difficult question because it also ties up to
their personality. Because my dad is very I kind of
got it from him, but he's very He kind of
looks away from everything around the world and just focuses
on what's important. To him at that time. So luckily
I'm very close physically. I live very close to him,
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so if something like this were to happen, I would
luckily be able to just scoop him up and take
him out, and I would just handle all the well
I don't think he has a go bag, but all
the stuff that he would actually need to continue day
by day if there was a really, really bad emergency.
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This is a conversation I do have with my mother
as far as making sure that I know where her
medication is, know where the important documents are. If we're
talking about something like a fire, you know, we need this,
we need that. We got to make sure that we
can take that.
Speaker 3 (31:04):
Now.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
The good news is, in today's world, a lot of
that can be stored online in the cloud. But there's
still physical documentation and there are physical pictures. There are
mementos that she would want to take with her if
need be at a moment's notice. But you have to
talk about that in advance. And I think we have
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someone who's joining us right now. I think it's Supervisor Horrorvath. Yes,
hold on one second, We're going to get her on
the line and get some information on the Pacific Palisades fire.
Just go ahead and put it on hold. Just go
and put it on hold. We'll just take it right now.
So joining us on the show right now is La
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County Supervisor Lindsey Horvath, who's going to give us the
latest supervisor what's bringing her up. Supervisor Horrorvath, thank you
for joining the show under short notice. Let me just
get out of the way, and that you address the
KFI audience as far as what they need to know
right about now.
Speaker 15 (32:05):
Absolutely, we are under evacuation orders. Close to ten thousand
people are under an evacuation order, about forty seven hundred
homes are under that order, and even more are in
the evacuation warning area. We know that these orders are
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very important in order to keep not only the residents
themselves safe. Obviously we want to keep everybody safe and
not have any casualties, but we also want to make
sure that our frontline firefighters, law enforcement emergency personnel who
are working to keep people safe, get this fire contained
and protect people's neighborhoods and property that they're staying safe too.
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So the most important thing people can do is follow
the evacuation orders that are being issued and take these
orders very seriously.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
I know that there's a lot of information which is
flowing from a lot of sources and different origin points.
Do we know when there's going to be an updated
media advisory where we get a press conference and have
some sort of sort of better understanding where we are?
Speaker 3 (33:10):
Is that going to be tomorrow morning at this point?
Speaker 15 (33:13):
Yes, so we had one at four pm, but we
know that the worst of the winds haven't yet hit us,
So from ten pm tonight to about five in the
morning is going to be the worst of it. So
we intend to have a press conference at eight in
the morning and that will be That's what the current
plan is. But of course, given the conditions that are
yet to come, we'll have to contend with that throughout
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the night and make that determination at that time. But
that's the plan right now.
Speaker 2 (33:41):
We know that the La County Supervisors the border of Supervisor,
they're responsible for the allocation of resources in moments just
like these. We know that there is another brush fire
which is growing in Eaton Canyon right above Altadna. I
don't know, I don't think that it's in your area
of responsibility, but just do how do the Ellie County
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Board of Supervisors, how do they manage situations like these?
Speaker 15 (34:06):
Yeah, so I did text a little bit back and
forth with Supervisor Burger when I heard her district was
also impacted through this eat and fire, and it is growing.
You know, we have we have a lot of training
that we do throughout the year in our district. We
host community events for emergency preparedness to make sure that
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people know at a time of emergency, you know, should
your power go out, should your cellular connection be down,
should your internet be down? You know, how do you
access information, how do you stay informed, and how do
you make sure that you're staying safe? Because when the
emergency hits, you're thinking about all kinds of other things.
So the best thing that you can do, to be
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the best thing you can do is be prepared. That
being said, we know a lot of this information doesn't
really hit folks until a situation has come to them
that requires them to be paying attention. And then so
there are a lot of people today for whom this
felt like a surprise, even though you know, late last
week the National Weather Service was already informing us that
the confluence of conditions that we're seeing which create the
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PDS circumstance that we have been on alert now for
several days from the National Weather Service. You know, this
is this is the set of conditions that is put
people at high risk, and so we need to make
sure that people know how to how to access that information,
how to stay informed, and then then in this time
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of emergency, that they are able to follow those evacuation
orders and stay in communication to stay safe.
Speaker 2 (35:40):
I'm not going to hold you long, just want to
ask you this one other question, and you may not
know the answer to this, but I feel compelled to ask. Anyway,
do you know if resources have been called in from
outside the state, like Arizona or Nevada to also help
in this endeavor.
Speaker 15 (35:55):
Well, what I do know is the governor shared at
this afternoon that he's with the President, who was also
in my district tonight, actually that the federal government has
issued authorization for vehicles that are essential to fighting this
fire and its complexity. So you know, some of the tools,
some of the vehicles that need to be called upon
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her are not resources that La County has in its possession,
but we ask for them at a time like this,
and in this case, the state resources, the governor declared
a state of emergency and so all state resources are available.
There were resources from northern California that were deployed in
southern California just in the area over the weekend. So
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we have been in preparation. We are calling on resources
from far and wide. All hands are on deck. City, County,
state and federal government are all working together to put
our best foot forward and make sure we contain this
thing and keep people safe as best as possible. So
the most important thing at this time is partnership and
the way that people can be a partner to our
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first responders right now is heating those evacuation warnings because
it not only keeps the community safe, but it also
keeps our first responders safe.
Speaker 2 (37:07):
LA County Supervisor Lindsay Horrbeth, Supervisor Horrorbat, thank you for
coming on under really short notice. I hit you like
three minutes ago and then you came right on the show.
Thank you so much because it's a opportunity.
Speaker 15 (37:18):
All right, we'll talk to you of course, all right,
thank you.
Speaker 3 (37:22):
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Speaker 2 (37:23):
We will continue our coverage of the fires not only
in Pacific Palisades but also eating canyons, So keep it
right here for the latest.
Speaker 3 (37:30):
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Speaker 2 (00:06):
And as we continue, KFI is continuing coverage of the
fire's plural, not only the Palisades fire, but also the
emerging Eaton Canyon fire. We're getting information on that, and
if you're just tuning in, we're gonna reset some things.
There's a lot of information out there. We don't know
where you are in the processing of that information. Maybe
(00:27):
you are just getting in your car, maybe you're just
getting off work and you're just getting all this information
which is being thrown at you. So we're gonna slow
down and we're going to reset a lot of what
we do know for sure. And I say that with
a caveat that it should change over the course of
the evening. I'm gonna be with you all the way
up until midnight, and then Tim Conway Junior is going
(00:48):
to come back to the studio bless his heart, and
go from midnight to three am. Neil Savagor will be
in from three to five am, and then Amy King
will take over the course of things with wake up
call at five am. But here is what we do
know for sure. As of this moment that the Pacific
(01:08):
Palisades fire began today around ten thirty am. We do
not know the cause. At this point of the blaze,
it's grown quickly. You've probably seen some of the video
and the pictures so far, and at this point more
than twenty nine hundred acres have been burned. Multiple homes, unfortunately,
(01:30):
have been destroyed. And speaking of homes, some ten thousand
homes have been threatened. The Theater Palisades has been destroyed.
I use that as just an entry into the destruction,
the devastation. We'll get into the exasperation and desperation of
those who have been impacted. And it cannot be overstated.
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Some thirty thousand people are under mandatory evacuation orders right now,
and I think that's important to highlight that if you
are in and around that area, and when I say
around that area, you need not wait for a mandatory
evacuation order, And even though you may be outside of
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that area, it's something to consider before you get to
a point where you run out of options. You might
have seen some of the videos of the people who
were stranded in their cars and they decided to go
on foot trying to evacuate themselves, their family members, their pets,
and they just left their cars right in the middle
(02:36):
of the road. You don't want to find yourself in
the situation. If you need some extra assistance or time
in which to get to an alternative safe location, you
don't want to wait to the last moment. We're talking
about real people's lives, real people who've lost their homes today,
and there's more bad news that I have to report
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because of the Santa Ana Wins. Can reasonably expect that
this fire is going to grow immeasurably and possibly skip
over into other areas because of the Santa Ana wins.
At about midnight, we're told that the winds should be
at their strongest around midnight tonight. That's what we're watching
(03:18):
to see, and we're going to hear from different voices
over the course of the evening. We expect to be
joined at the bottom of the hour by the President
of the Pacific Palisades City Council, Sue Cole, who will
give us some information. She was someone who was evacuated
herself today and she will give us some insight as
far as what she had to go through, what she's
(03:40):
hoping to do in the coming days and how the
area of the city is keeping it together. There's a
number of things we do want to tell you about
these mandatory evacuations, and this should change. But this is
the latest information that we have, and of course, working
in concert with Eileen Gonzalez of the KFI twenty four
hour News, we will continue to give this information as
(04:03):
quickly and thoroughly as possible throughout the evening into the morning.
But mandatory evacuation orders have been issued from Merrimack Road
west to Panga Canyon Boulevard and south to pH and
this is coming from the La Fire Department. Topega Canyon
Beach and Tuna Canyon Park in La County are also
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under mandatory evacuation orders. The swath between Carbon Beach and
Malibu and Las Floridas Canyon Road up to Pima Road
is under an evacuation warning and fire officials have worn
the surrounding area to be prepared to leave quickly. As
I was saying just a little bit earlier, shelters you
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might have seen, or if you haven't seen, the Westwood
Recreation Center, which is at thirteen fifty South Supulvida Boulevard.
The shelter also accepts small animals, and I know as
someone who has two dogs in our family, they are
like family members. But you have to plan in advance.
You have to take them into consideration. If you might
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have an evacuation order or if you have to go
somewhere in a short amount of time, please plan in advance.
These are the most recent road closures that we can
tell you about. Southbound Pacific Coast Highway is closed at
Tapanga Canyon Boulevard. Southbound Pacific Coast Highway is closed at
Lost Flora's Canyon Road, and southbound Pacific Coast Highway a
(05:27):
coastline drive. But I can tell you this, this is
a perfect time to pull out your ways app and
your Google Maps and you will get to see a
lot of those road closures on the map and that
will give you obviously up to the minute information. Governor
Gavin Newsom has declared the area a excuse me, disaster area,
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and we will get excuse me to declare the state
of emergency. And if you've seen some of the video,
some of the images, and I'm not saying this to
be funny and I'm not trying to say this for effect.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
It looks like something out of a movie.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
I don't remember when I ever saw fire flying horizontally
because of the wind. And this is not something that
firefighters are able to wrap up their equipment and their
resources around at this point. And you may hear different
(06:27):
voices talking about how, at least early on, there weren't
any firemen because one, they were trying to evacuate individuals,
and also it's in a location which is very difficult
for firefighters to reach. This is Jan who was talking
about how she didn't see in her evacuation any firemen.
Speaker 5 (06:47):
I think the whole town is going to go because
it's so windy right now that they don't have a
grasp on anything right now. Top here. They were down
at the where it started down in the highlands, and
in realize how fast I was going to come up here,
and it is up here, and again there's no firemen
up here, none, none.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
And Jan is one of probably many people who have
a legitimate concern about losing their home. We've seen some
homes go up in flames, unfortunately, and the fire is
going to grow. But this is the reality of what
we're dealing with. And Jen verbalizes that.
Speaker 5 (07:25):
I have a feeling that I won't have a place
to live anymore in my beautiful town that I have
loved forever. And I hate to say, if life goes on,
you have to go on. What can you do? I
have my dog, I have my car, I have my
sole security and my birth certificate.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
We're going to be with you the rest of the
evening all the way to midnight. And as I said earlier,
Cafe is going to be on this story. And also
we're looking at a newer fire which has started to
burn an eating canyon near Alta, Dina. We're going to
have the latest on that and so much more. So
just keep it right here. Cafe is going to stay
on this through the night into the morning. As I said,
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Tim Coomway Junior will be joining us. We'll be coming
back to the station at midnight tonight, Neil Savagia at
three am, and Amy King will start the whole day
over at five am tomorrow. So keep it right here.
I'm Mo Kelly k if I AM six forty. We're
live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
K if I AM six forty mo Kelly here as
we continue our coverage of now multiple fires burning in
southern California.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Of course, the Pacific Palisades Fire, which has.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Burned more than twenty nine hundred acres and it is
by all accounts growing. It is threatening more than ten
thousand homes. Thirty thousand people are presently under mandatory evacuation,
and we know that because of the Santa Ana wins,
that this could be possibly much worse as the night
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goes on into the morning. The Governor, Gavin Newsom has
declared a state of emergency, and he's going to say
it time and time again. I'm going to say it
time and time again. Please listen to the fire orders.
If you receive a mandatory evacuation order, please follow it
for not only your safety, but for the safety of others,
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safety of first responders, so there are not other people
that they have to try to go save or extract
from their homes or from those neighborhoods. This was the
governor some time ago, earlier today, and.
Speaker 6 (09:32):
The fact that people were still not evacuated, still did
not heed the warning we're just coming down the canyon
is a reminder of how serious this moment is and
how important it is you listen to these evacuation orders,
having just quite literally an hour or so ago, gone
(09:54):
up the canyon and saw firsthand the impact of these
swirling winds and the embers, and the number of structures
that are destroyed, not a few many structures already destroyed.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
You'll hear over the course of the evening about the
difficulty of people trying to evacuate first by car and
then on foot, leaving their cars unfortunately in the middle
of the roadway. For what I've read and what I've seen,
people did not leave their keys in the car, so
obviously no one could move the car, so after a
(10:27):
certain point bulldozers had to be employed to remove the cars.
Listen to this as far as from ABC, as far
as how some of these evacuations have gone.
Speaker 7 (10:37):
The fire erupting in the Pacific Palisade to put Hills
west of Los Angeles, fire trucks racing to the scene,
aircraft attacking from above, but those efforts no match for
those devastating Santa Ana winds. The entire population of Pacific
Palisades ordered to evacuate, Traffic gridlocked for miles, drivers stuck
beside burning hillsides, some setting out on foot, vehicles catching fire.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
And when you say on foot, it could be a
rather long distance. You could be traveling or trying to
flee with a family member who cannot move quickly, could
be with a child, could be with a child and
another family member, a child, family member and a pet.
All these things have to be taken into account prior
to you deciding to leave.
Speaker 7 (11:23):
Meacan Garment, her daughter and their dog evacuating on foot
after they abandoned their vehicle.
Speaker 8 (11:28):
Well, the smoke just got really bad. So I just
started packing up all of our stuff and we got
in the car to go, and then all the cars
were abandoned, so I had nowhere to go, So I
just had to get out of my car and start walking.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
The smoke is so bad.
Speaker 7 (11:41):
Authority helping the family to shafety.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Let me back up to those abandoned cars, and I
know people were well meaning. You were trying to evacuate,
You were trying to follow the evacuation orders, but for
whatever reasons, there was a bottleneck and it got to
the point where you knew you really you could no
longer drive. There was no way that you could make
it down the canyon by driving. So if you haven't
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seen the video, there are these rows and rows of
cars extending more than a mile sitting in the roadway.
And then eventually bulldozers had to be brought in to
move the cars just so first responders could make it
up the hill and find people, save people's need be
and also at fire trucks where they can at least
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get close to the edge of the fire.
Speaker 9 (12:31):
Yeah, I want to take to your live right now.
So we just took cute talisades. All of these cars
were pitched so all of the driver's panic, they took
their keys. This Talisavees drive as well as Sunset Bulevart.
This dozer is just moving these vehicles out of the way.
So if this is your car, unfortunately, it's an emergency
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situation and this is what they have to do. They
are moving the cars as we speak. Unfortunately, there are
dozens of cars. This looks like a movie set. Unfortunately
this is real La County fire. They have to do
what they have to do. They need to clear a path,
so literally they're moving the cars to SUVs.
Speaker 6 (13:11):
We're seeing Mercedes, very.
Speaker 9 (13:13):
Nice vehicles testless up here, but that's because the car owners.
They took their keys and they just started running. They
left the cars here as the firefighters were trying to
clear the pathway, clear the roadway. This is an emergency
situation where you know they need to get up to
the homes. They want to make sure people are not
trapped up there. But this line of cars probably goes
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about three hundred feet deep at least as long as
I can see from this bird's eye view. So we're
kind of staying back. They're in a situation mirror where
they are literally moving these vehicles out of the way.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
Yes, it is causing.
Speaker 9 (13:51):
Damage, as you can hear from the screeching noises, but
that is what they have to do.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
That is what we are seeing. That's what we're hearing us.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
We're learning about these evacuation orders in Pacific Palisades. And
the reason why I wanted to spend a little time
on that is because as this ursioning Eaton Canyon fire
and Alta Dina starts to grow, we have to be
mindful of that same possibility where people will be as
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to evacuate, you have to consider whether you have any
special needs things that you may have to do just
to prepare to evacuate and Tula. I know you have lived,
do live, have been in that area for many many years.
You know it far better than I do. If I
were to ask about Eating Canyon, that type of terrain,
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what might be white, what might we be looking at?
What would you say?
Speaker 10 (14:47):
Eaton Canyon is about three and a half miles away
from where I live. In communication with my mother just
to see what reports are coming her way, to see
if anything they have to happen, where may need to evacuate.
Right now looking at some of the fire with what
we're seeing here on kt LA, this is a tinder box,
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you know. Eaton Kane is a place where everyone loves
to go and hike. There's a beautiful waterfall when you
get up to the top and it and it is
a real attraction in you know, the city of Altadena, Pasadena.
And when you when I'm driving by anytime I'm going
to the movies or wherever, I drive along Alta Dina
Drive and make my way over towards where the movie
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theater is. And I can tell you it is just
dry brush, a lot of green, but a lot of
dry green because of how dry it's been and it is.
It's very scary to see this because it's literally like
about a box of matches.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
Cannot be any more serious than that. And I was
just to let you know.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
I was telling two Wall was like, look, if you
need to leave to make sure your family is safe,
you make sure you do that, because we can't wait
until the last second to make these arrangements or make
sure that everyone is safe. You may have an elderly
relative that you have to give special consideration to do that. Now,
do not wait until then. Get in contact with that person. Now,
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find out their status, find out where they are. They
may not even be aware that there is a fire
within a five mile radius of their residence. So you
cannot wait to the last second. And we are going
to be right here the whole evening to make sure
you have as much information as possible, that it's accurate,
that it's thorough, and it's helpful to not only protect you,
(16:38):
but keep you in an informed place where you could
possibly let your neighbors know, let your friends know. You
may have family members and the impacted areas. And that's
why KFI is here. We're going to stay here the
rest of the night, all through the night into the morning.
If you're just tuning in, you may not know. I'm
going to be with you from now until midnight. Then
(17:00):
Tim Conway Junior, who was on from four to seven
already today, is going to come back to the station
and he's going to rejoin you from midnight until three am.
Neil Savadra from three to five am, and then Amy
King will take over in a normal time slot at
five o'clock and start today all the way over. So
if you need information, if you're concerned about where the
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fire is going, how close it is to you, how
it might impact you, evacuation orders, where you need to go,
school closures, we will have all that information. In fact,
Island Gonzales will be on it as well for the
rest of the evening, So keep it right here, and
when we come back, we hope to be joined on
the phone by Sue Cole, who is the president of
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the Pacific Palisades Community Council, who was evacuated earlier today.
I'm going to get her insight as far as what
she has seen, what she's experienced, and what her own
neighbors and family are going through.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
Right now, you're listening to Later with Mo Kelly on
demand from KFI am six forty.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
I'm o Kelly.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
As we continue our coverage of the multiple fires now
the Pacific Palisades fire, which has burned more than twenty
nine hundred acres and threatens ten thousand homes. Multiple homes
have already been destroyed, and we're also watching dis versioning
fire and Eaton Canyon, which is right above Alta Dina.
And as we talk about the Palisades fire, I wanted
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to bring someone on who has some first hand experience
with what is happening today, and coming on the show
right now is Sue Cole, who is the president of
the Pacific Palisades Community Council.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
Sue, how are you this evening?
Speaker 11 (18:40):
All things considered, Well, it's definitely a difficult day and
difficult night. My family evacuated early today, but in the
past hour we've learned that our block has burned, so
our neighborhood, which is in the middle of the flats
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in the village, is on fire. I'm pretty sure we've.
Speaker 12 (19:04):
Lost our home.
Speaker 11 (19:06):
And there's so many different neighborhoods in the Palisades where
people have lost their homes. And I just pray that
everybody was able to get out because access in and
out of the Palisades is extraordinarily difficult. There's very few
roads in and out. Just leaving the Sunset and then
parts of Sunset and Pch were closed. So I was
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very grateful to get my family out early today, and
I just pray for everybody there. Our town is devastated,
start to finish. Every neighborhood has been impacted.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
What time did you receive the evacuation order and did
what time did you act upon it?
Speaker 11 (19:52):
Well, I heard that evacuation orders being given for other
areas up in the Hills at about ten thirty this morning,
so we closed our office, went home, and I just
made the decision I wasn't going to wait for an
evaculation order for our neighborhood. We packed up pets, medications,
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family photos, Unfortunately no clothes, but we packed everybody up
and left. And as we were driving out, I want
to say it was probably about noon, I got word
from our council person, Tracy Park, that our entire area,
all of the palises had been ordered to evacuate. So
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we didn't waste any time, you know, we just took
time to grab a few things.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
Was it relatively safe?
Speaker 2 (20:44):
I don't want to say easy, but was it manageable
trying to evacuate via car or did you have to
abandon your car after a certain point?
Speaker 11 (20:53):
Okay, the neighborhood I live in is a block away.
It sunse Up Boulevard, so we were just able to
get down the Sunset, head east on Sunset to the
four or five and get out of town. The people
who had to abandon their cars early on were coming
from the Paleasades Highlands because there's one road up and
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one road down, so they were abandoning their cars and
going on foot trying to get down to the ocean,
and unfortunately, some of them were driving on the longside
of the street, which caused a major issue for the
fire trucks trying to get up, so they had to
bring in giant machinery to move cars out of the
(21:38):
road to get up to the fire. And then the
fire made its way all the way down Sunset Boulevard
to Pate, so both Sunset and Pch were closed, and
then the Keen Freedway was closed, and they had to
close so many roads, so people had a hard time
getting out. That's the biggest problem we have in the
(21:59):
Palasade is getting out have you been.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
Able to contact any of your neighbors or have you
been able to find out their status? Now, you said
that you feel that you might have lost all of
your neighborhood, but have you been able to contact anyone?
Speaker 11 (22:14):
Well, I don't know that all of the neighborhood went,
because you know, usually there's houses that end up staying.
But I've seen photographs of my block on fire, and
I've heard from some of my neighbors that they've lost
their homes, and certainly a lot of other neighborhoods. I
have friends who live in all the different neighborhoods in the Palisades,
(22:35):
and I don't know about their individual homes, but I
know homes in all their neighborhoods are burning.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
How long have you lived in the Palisades.
Speaker 11 (22:45):
Over thirty years? And some of our schools are burning,
our high school, our elementary school, all kinds of places
are burning. It's just the most to stop a thing
that happened, and I don't even know how many years,
because quite often it's just up in the hills. And
(23:08):
in this case, it started in the hills and then
it came down. And now, from what I understand, a
lot of people in Brentwood are being evacuated as well.
Manibelle Canyon and all those areas in the hills in
Brentwood and the Windsor are supposed to be staying in
full force for at least another twenty four hours. So
(23:29):
that's it.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
MS Cole. I'm not going to hold you much longer.
You have far more important things to do than talk
to me. But I think it's important that people hear
your voice and hear your story. You were able to evacuate,
you were able to evacuate your pets and other family members.
But what is the first step that you're going to
take after today?
Speaker 11 (23:47):
I have to tell you, I haven't thought that far.
I'm just grateful that we're all here. I'm safe, and
we won't be going back to the palisades obviously until
it's over, and I don't know what there will be
to go back to.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
Honestly, who is with you right now? As far as family, My.
Speaker 11 (24:05):
Husband, one of my five adult children, and our other
kids live in other parts of the state and other
parts of the country, and we've certainly've got we've got
three dogs, so that's our closest family here.
Speaker 3 (24:24):
But everyone is together and everyone is physically safe.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
Yes, Sue Cole, who is the president of the Pacific
Palisades Community Council, thank you for obviously what you're doing
for your neighbors and your neighborhood, and thank you for
coming on and sharing your story. And also in spite
of all of what is going on, you are helping
other people right now.
Speaker 11 (24:45):
Thank you so much. I help all of your listeners
will pray for us in the Colify.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
Absolutely, we're going to continue our coverage of the fires
in Pacific Palisades and also Eating Canyon, and as more
information comes in, we'll make sure to give it to
you directly.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
You're listening too. Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
As we continue our coverage of the fires burning not
only in Pacific Palisades but Eaton Canyon above Alta. Dina,
let me talk about that just a moment. If you
don't know, or if you're just tuning in La County,
firefighters are battling a second brush fire, and it has
a potential for quick growth. In fact, it's already burned
(25:27):
more than two hundred acres and it began relatively recently
in the Eaton Canyon area near Altadena. The fire was
first reported around six forty pm in the area above
Alta Dina. This is according to the LA Fire Department,
and early numbers from firefighters showed the blaze had engulfed
more than two hundred acres of brush and was burning
(25:48):
uphill at a rapid pace. And if you weren't listening
last segment, the reason I talk about that is fires
can move very quickly. We have the Santa Ana wins.
It can skip roads, it can skip areas across areas
very very quickly. And so if you should receive a
recommended evacuation order, don't wait for the mandatory one. Please
(26:12):
leave your homes as quickly and expeditiously as possible. And
it got me thinking about always having a go bag.
Last segment, we were hearing the very heart wrenching story
of Sue Cole, who, she says, presumably has lost her
house in everyone on her block has lost their houses
in Pacific Palisades. But she did not pause, she did
(26:37):
not wait. She heard the evacuation order, and she and
her family left immediately. And if she is right that
she lost her house just following the evacuation order, saved
her life, saved her family members' lives, and obviously she
was prepared to leave at that moment's notice. And everyone
(27:00):
should have a go bag. And I know that's a
weird way to determine, but you always should be ready
to go in a moment's notice in case of an emergency.
Speaker 13 (27:10):
This is but not normal.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
But not everyone may know what is supposed to be
in a go bag, and so this is just for
anyone who may be wondering what you should put in
it or what you should be putting in it right
now in case that you have to leave at a
moment's notice.
Speaker 13 (27:27):
Now, this latest shaker is another reminder that we should
be prepared for future quakes and other natural disasters.
Speaker 14 (27:33):
Shakeout News Orange County Report Michelle Jeely has some tips
on how to.
Speaker 13 (27:37):
Be ready first aid kits. We have bandages when.
Speaker 14 (27:42):
The ground shakes in southern California. It's a reminder to
get ready for an emergency. Experts say one of the
easiest things to do is pack what's known as a
go bag filled with essentials.
Speaker 13 (27:54):
You may lose a lot of stuff in an earthquake.
To have that go bag ready to go, whether it's
in your car, whether it's not your bedside, could be
a matter of life and death for you and your family.
Speaker 14 (28:03):
Flash light, the idea is to have it stocked with
supplies to get your family through the first seventy two
hours and readily available in case of an earthquake.
Speaker 13 (28:12):
Batteries and multiple batteries different sizes properly to go with
different things. You want to have a drinking supply of water,
nonperishable that could last you up to three days, including food.
We do have meals that are ready to eat. You
can buy these at various stores or other type of
dry goods that will last.
Speaker 14 (28:30):
Basically medical supplies in a first aid kit and a tourniquit,
a whistle and a pocket knife.
Speaker 13 (28:38):
Last ah so a good old adjustable wrench.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
This is for many opportunities.
Speaker 13 (28:43):
To turn off a gas leak in your home, water
leak or anything else from either inside or outside. You
want to know where those valves are. A gas leak
can be just as dangerous after the earthquake.
Speaker 14 (28:53):
Lee Kaser will mobilize with dozens of other Orange County
officials here at the Emergency Operation Center Ontiago Canyon when
a major earthquake hit to guide the disaster response. And
here are some other things that you should have in
your bag. Medication, cash, pet food if you have pets
to care for, an extra set of prescription glasses, and
(29:17):
don't forget your ID.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
Stephen, you and I are in similar circumstances. We're dealing
with aging parents, and you can't only think about just yourself.
If I think of a go bag, it's not just me.
I always have to always have to be mindful of
my mother, who's in her mid eighties. Like if this
fire were in a different part of town, I have
(29:41):
to think about her leaving at a moment's notice and
making sure that she's aware of the circumstances. She may
not be listening to KFI right now, she may not
have the TV on and knowing that there is imminent danger,
or she might be an immediate danger. How do you
try to navigate that when you're dealing with a parent
(30:02):
who may not be in the best of health.
Speaker 12 (30:06):
That's a difficult question because it also ties up to
their personality. Because my dad is very I kind of
got it from him, but he's very He kind of
looks away from everything around the world and just focuses
on what's important. To him at that time. So luckily
I'm very close physically. I live very close to him,
(30:27):
so if something like this were to happen, I would
luckily be able to just scoop him up and take
him out, and I would just handle all the well
I don't think he has a go bag, but all
the stuff that he would actually need to continue day
by day if there was a really, really bad emergency.
(30:50):
This is a conversation I do have with my mother
as far as making sure that I know where her
medication is, know where the important documents are. If we're
talking about something like a fire, you know, we need this,
we need that. We got to make sure that we
can take that.
Speaker 3 (31:04):
Now.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
The good news is, in today's world, a lot of
that can be stored online in the cloud. But there's
still physical documentation and there are physical pictures. There are
mementos that she would want to take with her if
need be at a moment's notice. But you have to
talk about that in advance. And I think we have
(31:25):
someone who's joining us right now. I think it's Supervisor Horrorvath. Yes,
hold on one second, We're going to get her on
the line and get some information on the Pacific Palisades fire.
Just go ahead and put it on hold. Just go
and put it on hold. We'll just take it right now.
So joining us on the show right now is La
(31:47):
County Supervisor Lindsey Horvath, who's going to give us the
latest supervisor what's bringing her up. Supervisor Horrorvath, thank you
for joining the show under short notice. Let me just
get out of the way, and that you address the
KFI audience as far as what they need to know
right about now.
Speaker 15 (32:05):
Absolutely, we are under evacuation orders. Close to ten thousand
people are under an evacuation order, about forty seven hundred
homes are under that order, and even more are in
the evacuation warning area. We know that these orders are
(32:26):
very important in order to keep not only the residents
themselves safe. Obviously we want to keep everybody safe and
not have any casualties, but we also want to make
sure that our frontline firefighters, law enforcement emergency personnel who
are working to keep people safe, get this fire contained
and protect people's neighborhoods and property that they're staying safe too.
(32:47):
So the most important thing people can do is follow
the evacuation orders that are being issued and take these
orders very seriously.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
I know that there's a lot of information which is
flowing from a lot of sources and different origin points.
Do we know when there's going to be an updated
media advisory where we get a press conference and have
some sort of sort of better understanding where we are?
Speaker 3 (33:10):
Is that going to be tomorrow morning at this point?
Speaker 15 (33:13):
Yes, so we had one at four pm, but we
know that the worst of the winds haven't yet hit us,
So from ten pm tonight to about five in the
morning is going to be the worst of it. So
we intend to have a press conference at eight in
the morning and that will be That's what the current
plan is. But of course, given the conditions that are
yet to come, we'll have to contend with that throughout
(33:36):
the night and make that determination at that time. But
that's the plan right now.
Speaker 2 (33:41):
We know that the La County Supervisors the border of Supervisor,
they're responsible for the allocation of resources in moments just
like these. We know that there is another brush fire
which is growing in Eaton Canyon right above Altadna. I
don't know, I don't think that it's in your area
of responsibility, but just do how do the Ellie County
(34:02):
Board of Supervisors, how do they manage situations like these?
Speaker 15 (34:06):
Yeah, so I did text a little bit back and
forth with Supervisor Burger when I heard her district was
also impacted through this eat and fire, and it is growing.
You know, we have we have a lot of training
that we do throughout the year in our district. We
host community events for emergency preparedness to make sure that
(34:28):
people know at a time of emergency, you know, should
your power go out, should your cellular connection be down,
should your internet be down? You know, how do you
access information, how do you stay informed, and how do
you make sure that you're staying safe? Because when the
emergency hits, you're thinking about all kinds of other things.
So the best thing that you can do, to be
(34:49):
the best thing you can do is be prepared. That
being said, we know a lot of this information doesn't
really hit folks until a situation has come to them
that requires them to be paying attention. And then so
there are a lot of people today for whom this
felt like a surprise, even though you know, late last
week the National Weather Service was already informing us that
the confluence of conditions that we're seeing which create the
(35:11):
PDS circumstance that we have been on alert now for
several days from the National Weather Service. You know, this
is this is the set of conditions that is put
people at high risk, and so we need to make
sure that people know how to how to access that information,
how to stay informed, and then then in this time
(35:32):
of emergency, that they are able to follow those evacuation
orders and stay in communication to stay safe.
Speaker 2 (35:40):
I'm not going to hold you long, just want to
ask you this one other question, and you may not
know the answer to this, but I feel compelled to ask. Anyway,
do you know if resources have been called in from
outside the state, like Arizona or Nevada to also help
in this endeavor.
Speaker 15 (35:55):
Well, what I do know is the governor shared at
this afternoon that he's with the President, who was also
in my district tonight, actually that the federal government has
issued authorization for vehicles that are essential to fighting this
fire and its complexity. So you know, some of the tools,
some of the vehicles that need to be called upon
(36:17):
her are not resources that La County has in its possession,
but we ask for them at a time like this,
and in this case, the state resources, the governor declared
a state of emergency and so all state resources are available.
There were resources from northern California that were deployed in
southern California just in the area over the weekend. So
(36:38):
we have been in preparation. We are calling on resources
from far and wide. All hands are on deck. City, County,
state and federal government are all working together to put
our best foot forward and make sure we contain this
thing and keep people safe as best as possible. So
the most important thing at this time is partnership and
the way that people can be a partner to our
(37:00):
first responders right now is heating those evacuation warnings because
it not only keeps the community safe, but it also
keeps our first responders safe.
Speaker 2 (37:07):
LA County Supervisor Lindsay Horrbeth, Supervisor Horrorbat, thank you for
coming on under really short notice. I hit you like
three minutes ago and then you came right on the show.
Thank you so much because it's a opportunity.
Speaker 15 (37:18):
All right, we'll talk to you of course, all right,
thank you.
Speaker 3 (37:22):
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (37:23):
We will continue our coverage of the fires not only
in Pacific Palisades but also eating canyons, So keep it
right here for the latest.
Speaker 3 (37:30):
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