January 10, 2025 • 37 mins
ICYMI: Hour TWO of ‘Later, with Mo’Kelly’ Presents – Live Coverages of the SoCal wildfires with thoughts on the firefighting aircraft that was hit by a civilian drone, to a look at the resources available to help for SoCal wildfire victims and MORE - 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.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Forty kf I Am six Mo Kelly Here.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
We're live everywhere in the iHeartRadio app. When I was
driving in today and I want to say, it is
in the four o'clock hour, and I got to ask
Stephan if it happened to him. I got to ask
Mark Runner if it happened to him. I was driving
and I got this emergency alert saying that my area
had been slated for mandatory evacuation. And I'm thinking, like,
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wait minute, what is what is this all about? So
I pulled over because I was driving. I needed the
specific information. Am I going to continue to the studio
or am I gonna turn around and go home get
my dogs and then bring them to the office or whatever.
Because it was gonna be a mandatory evacuation. I had
to think about that. Because my wife wasn't close by,
it was probably gonna have to be me. But I
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need to know what I was dealing with. Before I
could get all the way over, I got a secondary notification,
which is saying disregard the previous one that was meant
for like Kerrn County.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
I'm paraphrase, and I'm thinking, like, wait a minute.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
You did not just send me a my bad, sorry,
we sent out the wrong emergency alert to the wrong
three million people.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
Is that what you just SAI, because that's what it was.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
And I was asking other people didn't get the alert
and say, yeah, they got the alert.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
They got two alerts inside of five minutes.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
One was saying, you're in this mandatory evacuation area and
of course it's an emergency alert. I'm going to take
it seriously. And then I started to act on it seriously.
And then before I could even find the information because
I wanted to check out where was because the first
alert didn't tell you. The parameters just said you're in
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the mandatory evacuation area. Well, what fire? And I checked
my fire alert app. I couldn't find anything. I couldn't
get the information for the for the emergency alert. And
then I got the secondary alert, which said, oh, my bad.
That was our fault, our mistake. We send that to
the wrong people. We sent it to La County, and
we meant to send it to like Kerrent County. It
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was Current County. I don't know if you got that.
A few of my friends did get it, so it
wasn't just my imagination I was at first, I was relieved.
It's like, oh, thank goodness, thank goodness, because I was concerned.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
I had already started hearing of.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
I would say, unverified they were being vetted, unverified reports
of people trying to commit arson and start fires in
a number of areas. I've seen pictures of people trying
to set fires in Santa Monica, in different parts of
LA outside of the established fire zones, the established impact zones.
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For me, it was plausible, it was believable that my
area was now in the impacted zone. For all the
conversations that we've had about go bags and making sure
that you have what you need for pets, we talked
to a representative of Pasadena Humane last night. I internalized
all that information. I freshened up my go bag in
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the past couple of days. I made sure all my
pet stuff was in front of the door. My wife
and I sat down. We had a long conversation about
if this, then that, if that, then this what we're
going to do in a variety of circumstances. If it
should so happen that we would have to leave quickly
or unexpectedly, and I thought on the way in it
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was going to be that much moment, and then about
five minutes later.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
Saying, oh, we're just joking.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
I mean, it's not funny, but it's one of those
things where like, don't do that to me. You can't
make those mistakes. Emergency alert system, you you just can't
make those mistakes. Now, Stephan, did it happen to you?
Because we live in generally the same area. I was
gonna say I did.
Speaker 5 (04:21):
Not get that, but I am one hundred percent on
your side that you can't do that. It's like double
triple check to make sure that whatever announcement that's gonna
go out there is correct. You're going to start a
literal panic when you do something like that.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
Absolutely, and it.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
May have been an honest mistake, but there's certain honest
mistakes you just cannot make.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
We're not talking.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
About an amber alert that someone might ignore, not disrespecting,
I'm just being honest. We get the amber alerts, we
get the silver alerts, We get all these alerts, and
sometimes we may pay attention to them. Just being honest,
sometimes we don't.
Speaker 5 (05:10):
We get them all. But like to your point, an
amber alert you'll see on the freeway, and if it's,
you know, a silver Corolla versus a black Honda, Yeah,
that's different. And I think it's human nature.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
I tend to pay more attention to Amber alerts when
I'm actually driving and I'm actually going to encounter cars.
If i get an Amber alert and I'm at home,
there's not a whole lot for me to do other
than walk outside and hope that that car is driving
by me at that moment. But if I'm on the freeway,
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I'm definitely going to pay attention to any emergency alert.
Speaker 6 (05:55):
I was in the shower when that happened, and all
I'll say is it's good that I was in the
shower at the time.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
You talk about today, So you talking about the same
one I was talking about. Yeah, it was quite alarming,
so you got both of them.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
I wasn't panicked, but I was very very concerned, very
concerned because it came out of nowhere and I'm thinking like,
oh my gosh, there's a major fire right outside my door.
Because I had just left my house. I was maybe
and Stephan would know this. I'm on the one Tin
North at maybe Manchester, so I'm just in other words,
I'm close enough where I could turn right back around.
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I'd come back to the house. I was like, you
could just go back home, right, I could have gotten
off of Manchester and made a big loop back to
the house. But I need to know what I was
dealing with, because I'm not just going to panic and
run back to the house.
Speaker 4 (06:49):
I need to know.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Do I need to call my wife and coordinate with
her and tell her, Hey, I'm going to get the dogs.
I'm going to get the because we already have our
essential items. It's all ready to go. It's like right
in front of the front door, where we just walk in,
pick it up, get the dogs, and go. I didn't
know if it was like deaf Con one or not.
I was like, we were like deaf Con three at
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that point.
Speaker 4 (07:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (07:12):
Yeah, I'm glad to be good and stocked up on
blood pressure pressure meds at this point. I mean, some
of those things will make you jump out of your skin.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
Yeah, especially right now now. Five days ago, I probably
wouldn't have given it a second thought. But we're not
five days ago. You know, we're at a point where
I can only speak for me. Six people I know
have lost their houses twala, his numbers in the twenties.
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If I remember correctly, we're all at very levels of
stress and we have to be clear on what is
happening and what is not happening.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
Goes back to our conversation last night. Mark.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
You may remember about trying to make sure we give
people correct information, necessary information. Not for me, I have
no desire to do political analysis right now. There will
be a time for that. We can hold people accountable
and all that kind of stuff. But for me, I'm
more concerned with making sure that people know how to
get the necessary resources. They can find shelter, they can
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find food, and they can start the process with FEMA.
All those things are of greatest importance to me right now.
Speaker 6 (08:30):
Right now, what people need is information that they can
rely on in a dire, life threatening emergency. And they
don't need opportunists to use the emergency to escapegoat their
political opponents. What kind of person does that.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
Well, I will say this, I will say this, there
is something to be said for holding politicians accountable. But
here's the reality. You're not holding anyone accountable now. You're
just spouting off at the mouth right now, You're not
getting anyone fired. There is no election, there is no
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investigation which is underway other than whether something is arson
or not. Yes, there will be an analysis that there
will be some sort of look at our systems and
where they fell short, whether civic officials fell short in
their responsibilities. They'll be a post mortem, absolutely, But you
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know what, the the whole point of a post mortem is,
it's after the effect, post after.
Speaker 6 (09:31):
Yeah, you can accuse me of being a little simplistic
in my outlook, but these are the kinds of occasions
that really illustrate the good guys and the bad guys.
Like mister Rogers said, look for the helpers and look
for the people who we are spreading disinformation. I cannot
emphasize this enough and we touched on it last night.
Twitter slash x is an absolute cesspool of disinformation.
Speaker 4 (09:54):
I get, And let me just talk about the whole
KFI matrix.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
I get how it can be confusing because I am
not sitting in the chair as a newsperson. I'm trying
to give straight information, but I'm not a newsperson. I've
worked as a newsperson. But when I'm sitting in this
chair for KFI, I'm giving opinion and editorial for the
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most part most of the time. But when we have
natural disasters or we have some sort of emergency position
of situation, my responsibilities change explicitly and implicitly. Explicitly, Hey MO,
we need you to do this, We need you to repeat,
we need you to make sure that you disseminate this
information so the general public has it.
Speaker 4 (10:38):
YadA YadA, yeah, blah blah blah. That's explicit. That's what
they tell us to do.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
Implicitly, I hold myself to a certain standard to make
sure that everyone I know, let me put this away.
I think about everyone I know and care about and love,
and from there, I think, what would I want to
tell them?
Speaker 4 (10:56):
What do they need to know?
Speaker 3 (10:58):
What is it which would help them protect them and
best serve them between now and midnight? And I'm in
my mind talking to those people and other people happen
to be living in listening in, Like I'm talking to
my wife right now, saying, Hey, got your go bag ready?
Speaker 4 (11:18):
Have you got this? Have you got that?
Speaker 3 (11:19):
When we're having the conversation with Pasadena Humane, I'm thinking
as if, like my wife is listening in on this
conversation with me, the information which would be most beneficial
to the people I love and care about, and then
by extension, everyone else is listening in on it because
for me, and I can't speak for anyone else. For me,
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trying to dissect the ills of Karen Bass and the
La City Council.
Speaker 6 (11:49):
Does nothing for my wife. It's a cheap shot, it's hacky.
And whether you're in news or opinion, and I've done
plenty of both, how could you live with yourself knowing
that you put this information out onto the public's airwaves
that could get someone hurt or killed?
Speaker 4 (12:04):
Exactly.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
I am six forty mom Kelly with you. I'll be
with you until midnight, and I'll give you the best
information that we've got.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
You're listening to later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 4 (12:33):
K IF.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
I am six forty Kelly Here. We're live everywhere on
the iHeartRadio app. Last sec when I was telling you
about how I was driving into work, getting myself in
the right headspace to talk about the fires, talk about
from a different vantage point, give more anecdotes. We'd have
an update on some of the fires, as well as
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the press conference which they've been having each day. Wanted
to make sure that you listening you had the most
important information. Also was information that you could trust. That's
something that's very important to me because, as I was
saying before, I'm thinking about the people that I know
and care about the most.
Speaker 4 (13:11):
What would they need to hear, what would they need
to know? What is it that I should warn them about?
Speaker 3 (13:18):
And we try to give you links to follow services
which are offered organizations which could be helpful. And I
want to make sure that you have what you need.
When I was driving in to reset the story, I
got not one, but two emergency alerts. And this is
to highlight exactly what I mean. The accurate information is
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so key, and it also has to be accessible information.
I was going back to my notifications on my phone
and the first emergency alert came in at three point
fifty eight pm today, So, yeah, I just left the
house and it says emergency Alert EXTRA. So already I'm
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on height and awaaren this is like, oh hell, here
we go. And it says this is an emergency message
from the Los Angeles County Fire Department and evacuation warning
in all caps in evacuation warning has been issued in
your area. Remain vigilant of any threats and be ready
to evacuate, Gather loved ones, pets and supplies, continue to
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monitor local news.
Speaker 4 (14:25):
YadA YadA, YadA, blah blah blah.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
My location setting is on, so it is specific to
where I am and where I live. I think that
they're talking to me directly. That's at three point fifty
eight pm. I'm driving Mark Runners in the shower, and
Stephan is already here getting ready to start the Tim
Conway Junior Show.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
We're all busy.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
Then I get the emergency alert at four nineteen pm
and it says, disregard last evacuation warning.
Speaker 4 (14:57):
What do you mean disregard? How can I just disregards?
Speaker 3 (15:00):
Like oops, our bad And it says it was for
Kenneth fire only. But in both of the messages it
says go to ALERTLA dot org for more information.
Speaker 4 (15:14):
What did I do?
Speaker 3 (15:15):
I tried to go to ALERTLA dot org for more information,
and I don't know if it was because there were
so many people trying to access the website. I'll give
them the benefit of the doubt, but I could not
go to ALERTLA dot org for more information. The website
would not load. Maybe it was just overwhelmed by all
the people who received the first and or second emergency alert,
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and they wanted to have more information about either of
them or both of them. And I tried both times
trying to figure out what the hell was going on,
and it wasn't until I could actually get to the
work and look up the different fires to know exactly
what they were talking about. But I know that I
couldn't have been the only one who was scared out
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of his mind for absolutely no reason.
Speaker 4 (16:03):
Not that the emergency alert was not important.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
It's just that, going back to what I was saying
and what Mark Ronald was saying, the information has got
to be correct. You have to get it right. Why
Because you're impacting people's lives. You are getting in the
way of them doing what they need to do to
either protect their family or get their family to safety.
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And it may have been an innocent mistake, but when
it comes to emergency alerts, you have got to get
those right. I'm not saying that I know how easy
or how difficult it is to send out those push
notification alerts, but this is one of those times where
you can easily set off a panic.
Speaker 4 (16:46):
I was panicked just in my car.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
I was very, very concerned that there was a fire
right next to my house, or someone was trying to
commit arson right next to my house, and I need
to turn my car around, get my dog, whordinate my wife,
where we're going to meet up, where we're going to
stay that night, and if we could get ourselves to
a hotel. Oh and all by the way, get to
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Burbank and do five hours on KFI. That was what
was going through my mind. Now, Mark Ronner, he was
worried about getting a towel. But you know, we're at
different points in our day. I seem to have that
kind of luck when it comes to emergencies. When there
was a massive earthquake in Seattle before I had to
head into work, I was sitting in my computer checking
email in my underpants. So this kind of thing tends
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to happen. Well, I mean, if you're going to check
your email, you might as well be comfortable. Of course,
there's nothing wrong with checking email in your draws.
Speaker 6 (17:40):
I'm sure there were people ready to rush outside who
were in even more compromising situations than me.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
Yeah, I've never really had any problem with that. For example,
I remember the North rich earthquake, which was basically four
point thirty in the morning, and what are you gonna do?
Sleep in your clothes? My point exactly. And if I remember,
I was living in an apartment in Torrents and it
started shaking. You know when you're when you have an
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earthquake which wakes you up. I think it scares you
even more because you don't have your senses about you
as of yet. So it startled me awake, and I
jumped out of bed and I was standing in the
middle of the floor of my draws, and I said, okay,
is this kickquake going to get really bad? And what
I remember about the quake it was long in duration.
It felt like it was long, like twenty five seconds
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in duration. And I was sleeping in my underwear. You know, sorry,
I gotta tell you. And I was thinking, like, well,
if it gets really bad, I'm just running outside. I
didn't have time if it was going to be deadly,
to search through the closet or to find some clothes
that I might have thrown around the room on the floor,
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to put some clothes on to run outside.
Speaker 6 (18:51):
You don't see that in the movies. And I don't
want to make light of anything related to what we're
going through right now. But just coincidentally, last week, we
were rewatching the old seventies earthquake film, the one that
came out in sense around in the theaters. Do you
remember that?
Speaker 7 (19:04):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (19:04):
Absolutely.
Speaker 6 (19:05):
It didn't show anybody running outside in their underpants, and
I think it should have if accuracy was the goal.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
Everybody seemed to be prepared for the eventual disaster in
that regard, and that's not real life. And that's part
of the reason why we're here to give you as
much information to prepare you in advance of something, also
what you can utilize during a disaster, and we'll come back.
We'll give you some other resources where you can get
some free food, free shelter, free supplies, free services to
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help you and your family if you should be in
need right now because of these mini fires going on
around southern California.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 4 (20:19):
Six forty.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
I'm O Kelly, and I'll be with you until midnight
tonight Neils of Age. I believe it's coming in around
three am to keep the information flowing, and then you
have Amy King at five AM and the regular progression
of the KFI shows, and as I was driving in,
I'm always thinking about the types of information that I
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want to make sure that people know about, and then
I just got the answer, because they had this press
conference at five o'clock. It was one of the few
in my humble estimation whether it was some real information given,
not just platitudes, not just patting each other on the back,
but information for people who might have been displaced, who
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want to start the process of applying for federal aid,
all of that, and someone who is very good at it,
who has come on with me a number of times.
We're trying right now to get her back on the
show so we can talk to her at length. Is
Ellie County Supervisor Lindsay Horvath. She took part in the
press conference today and we're trying to see if we
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can get her on later tonight. But she's been very, very,
very busy, because you know, doing media is not her
first responsibility, but helping allocate the resources to fight these
fires within her district, that's her first priority. So we
completely understand. But this is what Supervisor Horvath had to
say and the vice and information she had to give earlier.
Speaker 8 (21:49):
Our West Hills Hidden Hills, Calabasas residents are under evacuation
order and evacuation warning for the Kenneth fire. As you heard,
it just started over two hours ago, and at the
rate of spread and the density of the communities in this.
Speaker 9 (22:07):
Area, it is serious.
Speaker 8 (22:10):
Please act swiftly, move quickly, evacuate now to protect your life,
the lives of your community members, and the lives of
our first responders.
Speaker 9 (22:24):
A shelter has been established.
Speaker 8 (22:25):
At El Camino Real Charter School at five to four
for zero Valley Circle in Woodland Hills. Continue to stay
updated at Emergency dot LA County dot gov to ensure
we can protect lives during this critical time. I've been
in touch with most of the elected leaders in this
area and we are united in our commitment to keeping
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people safe. Our independent cities have lived through this before.
They are resilient and they are strong, but they must
stay informed. Your partnership is critical to our success in
keeping you safe. To those impacted by these devastating.
Speaker 9 (23:08):
Fires, my heart is with you.
Speaker 8 (23:12):
The grief that we have witnessed out there is immense
as we see homes and neighborhoods changed forever, and as
the time goes on, it feels heavier.
Speaker 9 (23:26):
We are weary, but we will not break.
Speaker 8 (23:30):
The county is here for you, both in the crisis
and on the road ahead.
Speaker 9 (23:36):
For my third.
Speaker 8 (23:37):
District communities impacted by Palisades Sunset and Hearst fires the
Pacific Palisades. Due to the President's Major Disaster Declaration, impacted
community members can start applying for relief now.
Speaker 9 (23:50):
As you heard.
Speaker 8 (23:51):
Please visit Disaster Assistance dot gov or call eight hundred
six ' to one FEMA to get started. For my
residence in the Tapanga Canyon, I've been in contact with
Chief Moroni and Captain C two and Tapanga Canyon is
the number one priority for Palisades fire area today. For them,
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Personnel both aerial and on the ground are being deployed
to protect our Topanga Canyon communities and we are here
for you, and every resource is committed to you.
Speaker 9 (24:23):
And your safety.
Speaker 8 (24:25):
To our residence in Malibu Beyon alert for additional evacuation
instructions due to the Kenneth fire. We know you are
already suffering so much and we are fighting even greater devastation.
Speaker 9 (24:39):
We are here for you.
Speaker 8 (24:41):
Santa Monica's curfew remains active from sunset to sunrise, and
their evacuation orders are unchanged today. Santa Monica Mayor Lana
Negretti is here with us this afternoon, and we stand
strong with all Santa Monicans. Hollywood, the Sunset Fire is
contained with no structures destroyed. All evacuation orders have been lifted.
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Please continue to stay alert and move with caution as
you return to your homes. Crews are still working, so
your safety is their and our priority. I want to
especially thank Senator Shift and FEMA Administrator Chris Well for
their support. Alongside many present here, I was able to
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join so many in visiting and learning from our extraordinary firefighters,
our law enforcement officials and first responders at the Palisades
Fire Incident Command Post earlier Today.
Speaker 9 (25:39):
They are digging even deeper.
Speaker 8 (25:42):
Despite treacherous conditions and long hours. Help is on the
way for them, but we know you will have our
back until then. Shortly after that, President Biden called me
personally to offer his additional support.
Speaker 9 (25:59):
His compassion knows no bounds.
Speaker 8 (26:01):
And his deep understanding of our pain means he has
our back too. With that, I want to close and
talking about the devastation that people are feeling. Mental health
supports continue to be available through the county's Department of
Mental Health eight hundred eight five four seven seven seven
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to one. We have sent mental health professionals out to
many of the shelter locations to ensure that while people
are waiting, they are beginning their healing process and getting
the support that they need. The Disaster Distress Helpline is
also available for crisis counseling. You can call our text
eight hundred nine eight five five nine nine zero. Our
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county is doing everything possible to respond to these fires
and to work towards containment, but please continue to follow
evacuation orders and stay vigilant. I know it is hard
to walk away from everything that you have invested yourself in, but.
Speaker 9 (27:01):
If you don't, it puts us all at risk.
Speaker 8 (27:05):
Please follow these evacuation orders, take care of yourselves and
each other.
Speaker 9 (27:12):
The only way we get through this is together.
Speaker 8 (27:15):
We will protect our communities and come through this stronger.
Speaker 4 (27:21):
We'll have more. In just a moment, I'm O Kelly,
I AM six forty. We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
You're listening to Later with Mo Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six.
Speaker 7 (27:31):
Forty KFIM six forty.
Speaker 3 (27:53):
We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app and just want
to let you know a statement has just come in
from Southern CALIFORNI Edison and as we know, with these fires,
there have been widespread power outages. Some of them were
the result of fires exploding transformers, and some of them
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were preemptive to prevent larger disruption because of the fires
in Southern California Edison. If you happen to be an
SEE customer, this would apply to you, and it says
as of this morning, three hundred and twenty seven thousand,
six hundred and fifty four customers are without power. We
have restored service to approximately one hundred thousand customers since
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the start of the wind event. We have thousands of
field resources working tirelessly to restore power and have requested
mutual assistance from other outside utility slash contractors and they
are arriving tomorrow and the hardest hit areas. Some of
the challenges we are working through include limited access to
active wildfire areas to assess scope of damaged to equipment,
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air quality, and high winds that continue to ground drones
and aircraft that aid damage assessments. Additional Santa Ana wins
are in the forecast this weekend and early next week. Unfortunately,
some customers who have service restored may experience additional power
shutoffs due to the unpredictable nature of wildfire and wind conditions.
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For others, outages may extend into next week as the
winds persist. And if you need more information, you can
always visit SCE dot com and you can also report
outages at eight hundred six one nine one one and
that's from Southern California Edison. And just to remind people,
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if you happen to be in the Pasadena area, unsafe
water alert is still in effect. You are not to
drink tap water in the evacuation areas. It doesn't say
anything about not bathing with it, So I'm going to
say air on the side of caution. If you can
avoid that water altogether, it would make good sense to
avoid it. And for those in LA if you or
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your loved ones need emergency housing, Airbnb is providing free
short term housing. They are partnering with La County through
two one one and it's real simple. All you got
to do is called two one one for support. For
more information, can go to airbnb dot org and maybe
you've been evacuated and you're looking for a place to
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get some food. There are a number of places which
are offering free food. Shake Shack is offering free Shack
Burgers at any location across La County and that deal
will be valid until Sunday. Mike's excuse me, Mounted Mike's
Pizza in Pasadena will be offering free meals and a
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place to rest for first responders.
Speaker 4 (30:54):
Thank you, Mountain, Mike's Pizza, and Sizzler.
Speaker 8 (30:58):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (30:58):
They have a number of things in which they're offering.
They're offering free meals to first responders and evacuees. The
meal includes a choice of a six ounce steak, six jumble,
Crispy shrimp, or Malibu Chicken entree, alongside a choice of
side and fountain drink. The deal is available until January twelfth.
And let me just jump in there. I know some
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of you idiots are going to say that you've been
evacuated when you haven't because you just want to go
over to Sizzler and get some free food.
Speaker 4 (31:26):
Sizzler does rule.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
W don't do it because I know if I were
thirty years younger, I would be tempted to do it
as well, but don't do it.
Speaker 4 (31:34):
Don't do it.
Speaker 3 (31:34):
I know it's tempting to say, well, we live close
to an evacuated area, and you would have tried to
get over.
Speaker 4 (31:41):
Look.
Speaker 3 (31:41):
I was the guy who said, who went to Denny's
because Dennis, you used to be able to get a
free meal, free grand slam on your birthday. And I
went into Dinny's a number of times. That was not
my birthday. I'm not proud of it. Have even dining
detch to Denny's. Not proud of it.
Speaker 4 (31:59):
You cannot xp your Denny's sins on the air. I
say that to say I'm not better than anyone. I'm
just saying, don't be like me.
Speaker 5 (32:09):
I hope there's a video when you lay down the
twenty at that I'm gonna do it because I know
where exactly what you're talking where you're talking about, yeah.
Speaker 4 (32:17):
And you know what.
Speaker 3 (32:18):
I need someone to videotape it because I know they
won't know what the hell I'm doing a why, but
I want proof that I'm paying for my sins with tax.
Speaker 4 (32:29):
You cannot purchase your salvation mode.
Speaker 3 (32:32):
Or wait, could you do that? Didn't they used to
during the Protestant Reformation.
Speaker 6 (32:35):
Oh yeah, papal indulgences is what they were calling indulgences.
You get no indulgence. What were you saying, Stepan?
Speaker 5 (32:42):
I was gonna say, maybe get a Grand Slam, Like
have the whole video of you getting a Grand Slam,
but then you leave an extra twenty Okay, I think
that would be cool, But I I drive past that
place a couple of times a week.
Speaker 4 (32:59):
Let me just reset the story.
Speaker 3 (33:00):
Everyone back in my clubbing days and this is like
just out of college, So this is like twenty two
twenty three, me and my boys who later became my
best best man and groomsman at my wedding.
Speaker 6 (33:12):
Your accomplices.
Speaker 3 (33:14):
Yes, yes, we would go to the Red Onion in
Redondo Beach and we were good friends with the DJ,
and back then we didn't have any money, we really did.
We were just there to meet women, so we would
get there early and they would let us in for
free dance, try to get as many numbers as we could,
and the little money that we had, we would go
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to Denny's because we would be so hungry at two
in the morning whatever time it was, and we'd always
go to the same Denny's, which was across from Dilama Mall.
Speaker 4 (33:46):
It's on Hawthorne Boulevard, right.
Speaker 3 (33:48):
At just north of Carson. We go to that Denny's,
and on this one occasion, the waitress was just taking
too long to come get our money.
Speaker 4 (34:01):
So we wanted to pay our check. We want to
go home. We were tired.
Speaker 3 (34:04):
We went up to the front counter and we waited,
and I said something to the effect of this person
ex explative, has one minute to come take my money
or I'm leaving. Well, that minute came and went, and
so we came, and then we went. We were going
to the car, and she came out running after us.
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I want to think she was maybe ten years older
than us, so she's got to be like sixty five
years old.
Speaker 4 (34:31):
Now she's still alive. I don't remember her name.
Speaker 3 (34:34):
But we dined and we ditched, and I felt guilty
about it. To this day, statute of Limitations has clearly passed.
It expired, all right, So this is like nineteen ninety two,
ninety three, more than thirty years ago.
Speaker 4 (34:47):
I still remember this.
Speaker 6 (34:48):
Wow, there's the legal statute of limitations, but not the moral.
Speaker 3 (34:52):
Yeah, that's exactly right. And I said that one day.
I was going to go back to that very same Danny's.
I don't know if it's even owned by the same
people as a franchise.
Speaker 6 (35:02):
You're just gonna wait for everybody involved to die of
natural causes, aren't you.
Speaker 3 (35:07):
No, I'm going to give them that twenty. It may
be in the form of a tip. I may just
walk in and just put a twenty on account and
say here, someone will benefit from this.
Speaker 4 (35:17):
Here have some bitcoin, ma'am. Now I don't do bitcoin,
that's for sure.
Speaker 3 (35:21):
I will give them a twenty dollars bill and I
will walk out. And to Stephan's point, I need someone
to actually film it, tape it. When am I second film,
We don't film anymore video tape it, you.
Speaker 4 (35:33):
Know, record it live. We will go install live. Still
We're going live. Oh yeah, lie, that would be fun.
Right after I get out of my way. Moo, okay,
that was a great. We're gonna put them all together.
Speaker 3 (35:49):
We're just gonna put them all together and then they'll
take me to the bee farm. But true story, I'm
going to pay that back, not gonna pay it forward.
I'm gonna pay it back and clear my conscience one
of these days and we'll make sure that everyone gets
to see it. So that is the story behind the
Dennis and I relate that to the whole Sizzler deal
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where they're offering this free meal to first responders and evacuees. Again,
the meal includes the choice of a six out steak,
six jungle Crispy shrimp, or Malibu Chicken entree. I think
I've had all this, alongside a choice of side and
fountain drink. The deal is available until January twelfth. And
I was saying, not to be a moralist, not to
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be high and mighty. I'm just saying, as a former criminal,
don't take advantage of something like this or some other
place which is offering food to people who've been displaced,
evacuees or first responders.
Speaker 4 (36:49):
Don't do it. I know you're inclined to do it,
but you will rule the day.
Speaker 3 (36:53):
You will be you will be beside yourself with guilt
for the rest of your natural life.
Speaker 6 (36:58):
And you know, a serious he whips out through the day,
because not long after that he's going to say it
will behoove you well. Does beg the question whether it
Oh God, oh God, look at the time.
Speaker 3 (37:10):
But it's a true story. It's a true story, so
just don't do it. I'm asking you. Don't be a
criminal like I used to be. Thirty two years ago.
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We're live everywhere in the iHeartRadio app. When I was
driving in today and I want to say, it is
in the four o'clock hour, and I got to ask
Stephan if it happened to him. I got to ask
Mark Runner if it happened to him. I was driving
and I got this emergency alert saying that my area
had been slated for mandatory evacuation. And I'm thinking, like,
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wait minute, what is what is this all about? So
I pulled over because I was driving. I needed the
specific information. Am I going to continue to the studio
or am I gonna turn around and go home get
my dogs and then bring them to the office or whatever.
Because it was gonna be a mandatory evacuation. I had
to think about that. Because my wife wasn't close by,
it was probably gonna have to be me. But I
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need to know what I was dealing with. Before I
could get all the way over, I got a secondary notification,
which is saying disregard the previous one that was meant
for like Kerrn County.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
I'm paraphrase, and I'm thinking, like, wait a minute.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
You did not just send me a my bad, sorry,
we sent out the wrong emergency alert to the wrong
three million people.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
Is that what you just SAI, because that's what it was.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
And I was asking other people didn't get the alert
and say, yeah, they got the alert.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
They got two alerts inside of five minutes.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
One was saying, you're in this mandatory evacuation area and
of course it's an emergency alert. I'm going to take
it seriously. And then I started to act on it seriously.
And then before I could even find the information because
I wanted to check out where was because the first
alert didn't tell you. The parameters just said you're in
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the mandatory evacuation area. Well, what fire? And I checked
my fire alert app. I couldn't find anything. I couldn't
get the information for the for the emergency alert. And
then I got the secondary alert, which said, oh, my bad.
That was our fault, our mistake. We send that to
the wrong people. We sent it to La County, and
we meant to send it to like Kerrent County. It
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was Current County. I don't know if you got that.
A few of my friends did get it, so it
wasn't just my imagination I was at first, I was relieved.
It's like, oh, thank goodness, thank goodness, because I was concerned.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
I had already started hearing of.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
I would say, unverified they were being vetted, unverified reports
of people trying to commit arson and start fires in
a number of areas. I've seen pictures of people trying
to set fires in Santa Monica, in different parts of
LA outside of the established fire zones, the established impact zones.
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For me, it was plausible, it was believable that my
area was now in the impacted zone. For all the
conversations that we've had about go bags and making sure
that you have what you need for pets, we talked
to a representative of Pasadena Humane last night. I internalized
all that information. I freshened up my go bag in
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the past couple of days. I made sure all my
pet stuff was in front of the door. My wife
and I sat down. We had a long conversation about
if this, then that, if that, then this what we're
going to do in a variety of circumstances. If it
should so happen that we would have to leave quickly
or unexpectedly, and I thought on the way in it
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was going to be that much moment, and then about
five minutes later.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
Saying, oh, we're just joking.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
I mean, it's not funny, but it's one of those
things where like, don't do that to me. You can't
make those mistakes. Emergency alert system, you you just can't
make those mistakes. Now, Stephan, did it happen to you?
Because we live in generally the same area. I was
gonna say I did.
Speaker 5 (04:21):
Not get that, but I am one hundred percent on
your side that you can't do that. It's like double
triple check to make sure that whatever announcement that's gonna
go out there is correct. You're going to start a
literal panic when you do something like that.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
Absolutely, and it.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
May have been an honest mistake, but there's certain honest
mistakes you just cannot make.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
We're not talking.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
About an amber alert that someone might ignore, not disrespecting,
I'm just being honest. We get the amber alerts, we
get the silver alerts, We get all these alerts, and
sometimes we may pay attention to them. Just being honest,
sometimes we don't.
Speaker 5 (05:10):
We get them all. But like to your point, an
amber alert you'll see on the freeway, and if it's,
you know, a silver Corolla versus a black Honda, Yeah,
that's different. And I think it's human nature.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
I tend to pay more attention to Amber alerts when
I'm actually driving and I'm actually going to encounter cars.
If i get an Amber alert and I'm at home,
there's not a whole lot for me to do other
than walk outside and hope that that car is driving
by me at that moment. But if I'm on the freeway,
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I'm definitely going to pay attention to any emergency alert.
Speaker 6 (05:55):
I was in the shower when that happened, and all
I'll say is it's good that I was in the
shower at the time.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
You talk about today, So you talking about the same
one I was talking about. Yeah, it was quite alarming,
so you got both of them.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
I wasn't panicked, but I was very very concerned, very
concerned because it came out of nowhere and I'm thinking like,
oh my gosh, there's a major fire right outside my door.
Because I had just left my house. I was maybe
and Stephan would know this. I'm on the one Tin
North at maybe Manchester, so I'm just in other words,
I'm close enough where I could turn right back around.
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I'd come back to the house. I was like, you
could just go back home, right, I could have gotten
off of Manchester and made a big loop back to
the house. But I need to know what I was
dealing with, because I'm not just going to panic and
run back to the house.
Speaker 4 (06:49):
I need to know.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Do I need to call my wife and coordinate with
her and tell her, Hey, I'm going to get the dogs.
I'm going to get the because we already have our
essential items. It's all ready to go. It's like right
in front of the front door, where we just walk in,
pick it up, get the dogs, and go. I didn't
know if it was like deaf Con one or not.
I was like, we were like deaf Con three at
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that point.
Speaker 4 (07:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (07:12):
Yeah, I'm glad to be good and stocked up on
blood pressure pressure meds at this point. I mean, some
of those things will make you jump out of your skin.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
Yeah, especially right now now. Five days ago, I probably
wouldn't have given it a second thought. But we're not
five days ago. You know, we're at a point where
I can only speak for me. Six people I know
have lost their houses twala, his numbers in the twenties.
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If I remember correctly, we're all at very levels of
stress and we have to be clear on what is
happening and what is not happening.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
Goes back to our conversation last night. Mark.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
You may remember about trying to make sure we give
people correct information, necessary information. Not for me, I have
no desire to do political analysis right now. There will
be a time for that. We can hold people accountable
and all that kind of stuff. But for me, I'm
more concerned with making sure that people know how to
get the necessary resources. They can find shelter, they can
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find food, and they can start the process with FEMA.
All those things are of greatest importance to me right now.
Speaker 6 (08:30):
Right now, what people need is information that they can
rely on in a dire, life threatening emergency. And they
don't need opportunists to use the emergency to escapegoat their
political opponents. What kind of person does that.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
Well, I will say this, I will say this, there
is something to be said for holding politicians accountable. But
here's the reality. You're not holding anyone accountable now. You're
just spouting off at the mouth right now, You're not
getting anyone fired. There is no election, there is no
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investigation which is underway other than whether something is arson
or not. Yes, there will be an analysis that there
will be some sort of look at our systems and
where they fell short, whether civic officials fell short in
their responsibilities. They'll be a post mortem, absolutely, But you
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know what, the the whole point of a post mortem is,
it's after the effect, post after.
Speaker 6 (09:31):
Yeah, you can accuse me of being a little simplistic
in my outlook, but these are the kinds of occasions
that really illustrate the good guys and the bad guys.
Like mister Rogers said, look for the helpers and look
for the people who we are spreading disinformation. I cannot
emphasize this enough and we touched on it last night.
Twitter slash x is an absolute cesspool of disinformation.
Speaker 4 (09:54):
I get, And let me just talk about the whole
KFI matrix.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
I get how it can be confusing because I am
not sitting in the chair as a newsperson. I'm trying
to give straight information, but I'm not a newsperson. I've
worked as a newsperson. But when I'm sitting in this
chair for KFI, I'm giving opinion and editorial for the
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most part most of the time. But when we have
natural disasters or we have some sort of emergency position
of situation, my responsibilities change explicitly and implicitly. Explicitly, Hey MO,
we need you to do this, We need you to repeat,
we need you to make sure that you disseminate this
information so the general public has it.
Speaker 4 (10:38):
YadA YadA, yeah, blah blah blah. That's explicit. That's what
they tell us to do.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
Implicitly, I hold myself to a certain standard to make
sure that everyone I know, let me put this away.
I think about everyone I know and care about and love,
and from there, I think, what would I want to
tell them?
Speaker 4 (10:56):
What do they need to know?
Speaker 3 (10:58):
What is it which would help them protect them and
best serve them between now and midnight? And I'm in
my mind talking to those people and other people happen
to be living in listening in, Like I'm talking to
my wife right now, saying, Hey, got your go bag ready?
Speaker 4 (11:18):
Have you got this? Have you got that?
Speaker 3 (11:19):
When we're having the conversation with Pasadena Humane, I'm thinking
as if, like my wife is listening in on this
conversation with me, the information which would be most beneficial
to the people I love and care about, and then
by extension, everyone else is listening in on it because
for me, and I can't speak for anyone else. For me,
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trying to dissect the ills of Karen Bass and the
La City Council.
Speaker 6 (11:49):
Does nothing for my wife. It's a cheap shot, it's hacky.
And whether you're in news or opinion, and I've done
plenty of both, how could you live with yourself knowing
that you put this information out onto the public's airwaves
that could get someone hurt or killed?
Speaker 4 (12:04):
Exactly.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
I am six forty mom Kelly with you. I'll be
with you until midnight, and I'll give you the best
information that we've got.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
You're listening to later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 4 (12:33):
K IF.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
I am six forty Kelly Here. We're live everywhere on
the iHeartRadio app. Last sec when I was telling you
about how I was driving into work, getting myself in
the right headspace to talk about the fires, talk about
from a different vantage point, give more anecdotes. We'd have
an update on some of the fires, as well as
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the press conference which they've been having each day. Wanted
to make sure that you listening you had the most
important information. Also was information that you could trust. That's
something that's very important to me because, as I was
saying before, I'm thinking about the people that I know
and care about the most.
Speaker 4 (13:11):
What would they need to hear, what would they need
to know? What is it that I should warn them about?
Speaker 3 (13:18):
And we try to give you links to follow services
which are offered organizations which could be helpful. And I
want to make sure that you have what you need.
When I was driving in to reset the story, I
got not one, but two emergency alerts. And this is
to highlight exactly what I mean. The accurate information is
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so key, and it also has to be accessible information.
I was going back to my notifications on my phone
and the first emergency alert came in at three point
fifty eight pm today, So, yeah, I just left the
house and it says emergency Alert EXTRA. So already I'm
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on height and awaaren this is like, oh hell, here
we go. And it says this is an emergency message
from the Los Angeles County Fire Department and evacuation warning
in all caps in evacuation warning has been issued in
your area. Remain vigilant of any threats and be ready
to evacuate, Gather loved ones, pets and supplies, continue to
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monitor local news.
Speaker 4 (14:25):
YadA YadA, YadA, blah blah blah.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
My location setting is on, so it is specific to
where I am and where I live. I think that
they're talking to me directly. That's at three point fifty
eight pm. I'm driving Mark Runners in the shower, and
Stephan is already here getting ready to start the Tim
Conway Junior Show.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
We're all busy.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
Then I get the emergency alert at four nineteen pm
and it says, disregard last evacuation warning.
Speaker 4 (14:57):
What do you mean disregard? How can I just disregards?
Speaker 3 (15:00):
Like oops, our bad And it says it was for
Kenneth fire only. But in both of the messages it
says go to ALERTLA dot org for more information.
Speaker 4 (15:14):
What did I do?
Speaker 3 (15:15):
I tried to go to ALERTLA dot org for more information,
and I don't know if it was because there were
so many people trying to access the website. I'll give
them the benefit of the doubt, but I could not
go to ALERTLA dot org for more information. The website
would not load. Maybe it was just overwhelmed by all
the people who received the first and or second emergency alert,
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and they wanted to have more information about either of
them or both of them. And I tried both times
trying to figure out what the hell was going on,
and it wasn't until I could actually get to the
work and look up the different fires to know exactly
what they were talking about. But I know that I
couldn't have been the only one who was scared out
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of his mind for absolutely no reason.
Speaker 4 (16:03):
Not that the emergency alert was not important.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
It's just that, going back to what I was saying
and what Mark Ronald was saying, the information has got
to be correct. You have to get it right. Why
Because you're impacting people's lives. You are getting in the
way of them doing what they need to do to
either protect their family or get their family to safety.
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And it may have been an innocent mistake, but when
it comes to emergency alerts, you have got to get
those right. I'm not saying that I know how easy
or how difficult it is to send out those push
notification alerts, but this is one of those times where
you can easily set off a panic.
Speaker 4 (16:46):
I was panicked just in my car.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
I was very, very concerned that there was a fire
right next to my house, or someone was trying to
commit arson right next to my house, and I need
to turn my car around, get my dog, whordinate my wife,
where we're going to meet up, where we're going to
stay that night, and if we could get ourselves to
a hotel. Oh and all by the way, get to
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Burbank and do five hours on KFI. That was what
was going through my mind. Now, Mark Ronner, he was
worried about getting a towel. But you know, we're at
different points in our day. I seem to have that
kind of luck when it comes to emergencies. When there
was a massive earthquake in Seattle before I had to
head into work, I was sitting in my computer checking
email in my underpants. So this kind of thing tends
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to happen. Well, I mean, if you're going to check
your email, you might as well be comfortable. Of course,
there's nothing wrong with checking email in your draws.
Speaker 6 (17:40):
I'm sure there were people ready to rush outside who
were in even more compromising situations than me.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
Yeah, I've never really had any problem with that. For example,
I remember the North rich earthquake, which was basically four
point thirty in the morning, and what are you gonna do?
Sleep in your clothes? My point exactly. And if I remember,
I was living in an apartment in Torrents and it
started shaking. You know when you're when you have an
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earthquake which wakes you up. I think it scares you
even more because you don't have your senses about you
as of yet. So it startled me awake, and I
jumped out of bed and I was standing in the
middle of the floor of my draws, and I said, okay,
is this kickquake going to get really bad? And what
I remember about the quake it was long in duration.
It felt like it was long, like twenty five seconds
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in duration. And I was sleeping in my underwear. You know, sorry,
I gotta tell you. And I was thinking, like, well,
if it gets really bad, I'm just running outside. I
didn't have time if it was going to be deadly,
to search through the closet or to find some clothes
that I might have thrown around the room on the floor,
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to put some clothes on to run outside.
Speaker 6 (18:51):
You don't see that in the movies. And I don't
want to make light of anything related to what we're
going through right now. But just coincidentally, last week, we
were rewatching the old seventies earthquake film, the one that
came out in sense around in the theaters. Do you
remember that?
Speaker 7 (19:04):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (19:04):
Absolutely.
Speaker 6 (19:05):
It didn't show anybody running outside in their underpants, and
I think it should have if accuracy was the goal.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
Everybody seemed to be prepared for the eventual disaster in
that regard, and that's not real life. And that's part
of the reason why we're here to give you as
much information to prepare you in advance of something, also
what you can utilize during a disaster, and we'll come back.
We'll give you some other resources where you can get
some free food, free shelter, free supplies, free services to
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help you and your family if you should be in
need right now because of these mini fires going on
around southern California.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 4 (20:19):
Six forty.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
I'm O Kelly, and I'll be with you until midnight
tonight Neils of Age. I believe it's coming in around
three am to keep the information flowing, and then you
have Amy King at five AM and the regular progression
of the KFI shows, and as I was driving in,
I'm always thinking about the types of information that I
(20:42):
want to make sure that people know about, and then
I just got the answer, because they had this press
conference at five o'clock. It was one of the few
in my humble estimation whether it was some real information given,
not just platitudes, not just patting each other on the back,
but information for people who might have been displaced, who
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want to start the process of applying for federal aid,
all of that, and someone who is very good at it,
who has come on with me a number of times.
We're trying right now to get her back on the
show so we can talk to her at length. Is
Ellie County Supervisor Lindsay Horvath. She took part in the
press conference today and we're trying to see if we
(21:26):
can get her on later tonight. But she's been very, very,
very busy, because you know, doing media is not her
first responsibility, but helping allocate the resources to fight these
fires within her district, that's her first priority. So we
completely understand. But this is what Supervisor Horvath had to
say and the vice and information she had to give earlier.
Speaker 8 (21:49):
Our West Hills Hidden Hills, Calabasas residents are under evacuation
order and evacuation warning for the Kenneth fire. As you heard,
it just started over two hours ago, and at the
rate of spread and the density of the communities in this.
Speaker 9 (22:07):
Area, it is serious.
Speaker 8 (22:10):
Please act swiftly, move quickly, evacuate now to protect your life,
the lives of your community members, and the lives of
our first responders.
Speaker 9 (22:24):
A shelter has been established.
Speaker 8 (22:25):
At El Camino Real Charter School at five to four
for zero Valley Circle in Woodland Hills. Continue to stay
updated at Emergency dot LA County dot gov to ensure
we can protect lives during this critical time. I've been
in touch with most of the elected leaders in this
area and we are united in our commitment to keeping
(22:49):
people safe. Our independent cities have lived through this before.
They are resilient and they are strong, but they must
stay informed. Your partnership is critical to our success in
keeping you safe. To those impacted by these devastating.
Speaker 9 (23:08):
Fires, my heart is with you.
Speaker 8 (23:12):
The grief that we have witnessed out there is immense
as we see homes and neighborhoods changed forever, and as
the time goes on, it feels heavier.
Speaker 9 (23:26):
We are weary, but we will not break.
Speaker 8 (23:30):
The county is here for you, both in the crisis
and on the road ahead.
Speaker 9 (23:36):
For my third.
Speaker 8 (23:37):
District communities impacted by Palisades Sunset and Hearst fires the
Pacific Palisades. Due to the President's Major Disaster Declaration, impacted
community members can start applying for relief now.
Speaker 9 (23:50):
As you heard.
Speaker 8 (23:51):
Please visit Disaster Assistance dot gov or call eight hundred
six ' to one FEMA to get started. For my
residence in the Tapanga Canyon, I've been in contact with
Chief Moroni and Captain C two and Tapanga Canyon is
the number one priority for Palisades fire area today. For them,
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Personnel both aerial and on the ground are being deployed
to protect our Topanga Canyon communities and we are here
for you, and every resource is committed to you.
Speaker 9 (24:23):
And your safety.
Speaker 8 (24:25):
To our residence in Malibu Beyon alert for additional evacuation
instructions due to the Kenneth fire. We know you are
already suffering so much and we are fighting even greater devastation.
Speaker 9 (24:39):
We are here for you.
Speaker 8 (24:41):
Santa Monica's curfew remains active from sunset to sunrise, and
their evacuation orders are unchanged today. Santa Monica Mayor Lana
Negretti is here with us this afternoon, and we stand
strong with all Santa Monicans. Hollywood, the Sunset Fire is
contained with no structures destroyed. All evacuation orders have been lifted.
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Please continue to stay alert and move with caution as
you return to your homes. Crews are still working, so
your safety is their and our priority. I want to
especially thank Senator Shift and FEMA Administrator Chris Well for
their support. Alongside many present here, I was able to
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join so many in visiting and learning from our extraordinary firefighters,
our law enforcement officials and first responders at the Palisades
Fire Incident Command Post earlier Today.
Speaker 9 (25:39):
They are digging even deeper.
Speaker 8 (25:42):
Despite treacherous conditions and long hours. Help is on the
way for them, but we know you will have our
back until then. Shortly after that, President Biden called me
personally to offer his additional support.
Speaker 9 (25:59):
His compassion knows no bounds.
Speaker 8 (26:01):
And his deep understanding of our pain means he has
our back too. With that, I want to close and
talking about the devastation that people are feeling. Mental health
supports continue to be available through the county's Department of
Mental Health eight hundred eight five four seven seven seven
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to one. We have sent mental health professionals out to
many of the shelter locations to ensure that while people
are waiting, they are beginning their healing process and getting
the support that they need. The Disaster Distress Helpline is
also available for crisis counseling. You can call our text
eight hundred nine eight five five nine nine zero. Our
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county is doing everything possible to respond to these fires
and to work towards containment, but please continue to follow
evacuation orders and stay vigilant. I know it is hard
to walk away from everything that you have invested yourself in, but.
Speaker 9 (27:01):
If you don't, it puts us all at risk.
Speaker 8 (27:05):
Please follow these evacuation orders, take care of yourselves and
each other.
Speaker 9 (27:12):
The only way we get through this is together.
Speaker 8 (27:15):
We will protect our communities and come through this stronger.
Speaker 4 (27:21):
We'll have more. In just a moment, I'm O Kelly,
I AM six forty. We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
You're listening to Later with Mo Kelly on demand from
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Speaker 7 (27:31):
Forty KFIM six forty.
Speaker 3 (27:53):
We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app and just want
to let you know a statement has just come in
from Southern CALIFORNI Edison and as we know, with these fires,
there have been widespread power outages. Some of them were
the result of fires exploding transformers, and some of them
(28:14):
were preemptive to prevent larger disruption because of the fires
in Southern California Edison. If you happen to be an
SEE customer, this would apply to you, and it says
as of this morning, three hundred and twenty seven thousand,
six hundred and fifty four customers are without power. We
have restored service to approximately one hundred thousand customers since
(28:37):
the start of the wind event. We have thousands of
field resources working tirelessly to restore power and have requested
mutual assistance from other outside utility slash contractors and they
are arriving tomorrow and the hardest hit areas. Some of
the challenges we are working through include limited access to
active wildfire areas to assess scope of damaged to equipment,
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air quality, and high winds that continue to ground drones
and aircraft that aid damage assessments. Additional Santa Ana wins
are in the forecast this weekend and early next week. Unfortunately,
some customers who have service restored may experience additional power
shutoffs due to the unpredictable nature of wildfire and wind conditions.
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For others, outages may extend into next week as the
winds persist. And if you need more information, you can
always visit SCE dot com and you can also report
outages at eight hundred six one nine one one and
that's from Southern California Edison. And just to remind people,
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if you happen to be in the Pasadena area, unsafe
water alert is still in effect. You are not to
drink tap water in the evacuation areas. It doesn't say
anything about not bathing with it, So I'm going to
say air on the side of caution. If you can
avoid that water altogether, it would make good sense to
avoid it. And for those in LA if you or
(30:09):
your loved ones need emergency housing, Airbnb is providing free
short term housing. They are partnering with La County through
two one one and it's real simple. All you got
to do is called two one one for support. For
more information, can go to airbnb dot org and maybe
you've been evacuated and you're looking for a place to
(30:30):
get some food. There are a number of places which
are offering free food. Shake Shack is offering free Shack
Burgers at any location across La County and that deal
will be valid until Sunday. Mike's excuse me, Mounted Mike's
Pizza in Pasadena will be offering free meals and a
(30:51):
place to rest for first responders.
Speaker 4 (30:54):
Thank you, Mountain, Mike's Pizza, and Sizzler.
Speaker 8 (30:58):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (30:58):
They have a number of things in which they're offering.
They're offering free meals to first responders and evacuees. The
meal includes a choice of a six ounce steak, six jumble,
Crispy shrimp, or Malibu Chicken entree, alongside a choice of
side and fountain drink. The deal is available until January twelfth.
And let me just jump in there. I know some
(31:19):
of you idiots are going to say that you've been
evacuated when you haven't because you just want to go
over to Sizzler and get some free food.
Speaker 4 (31:26):
Sizzler does rule.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
W don't do it because I know if I were
thirty years younger, I would be tempted to do it
as well, but don't do it.
Speaker 4 (31:34):
Don't do it.
Speaker 3 (31:34):
I know it's tempting to say, well, we live close
to an evacuated area, and you would have tried to
get over.
Speaker 4 (31:41):
Look.
Speaker 3 (31:41):
I was the guy who said, who went to Denny's
because Dennis, you used to be able to get a
free meal, free grand slam on your birthday. And I
went into Dinny's a number of times. That was not
my birthday. I'm not proud of it. Have even dining
detch to Denny's. Not proud of it.
Speaker 4 (31:59):
You cannot xp your Denny's sins on the air. I
say that to say I'm not better than anyone. I'm
just saying, don't be like me.
Speaker 5 (32:09):
I hope there's a video when you lay down the
twenty at that I'm gonna do it because I know
where exactly what you're talking where you're talking about, yeah.
Speaker 4 (32:17):
And you know what.
Speaker 3 (32:18):
I need someone to videotape it because I know they
won't know what the hell I'm doing a why, but
I want proof that I'm paying for my sins with tax.
Speaker 4 (32:29):
You cannot purchase your salvation mode.
Speaker 3 (32:32):
Or wait, could you do that? Didn't they used to
during the Protestant Reformation.
Speaker 6 (32:35):
Oh yeah, papal indulgences is what they were calling indulgences.
You get no indulgence. What were you saying, Stepan?
Speaker 5 (32:42):
I was gonna say, maybe get a Grand Slam, Like
have the whole video of you getting a Grand Slam,
but then you leave an extra twenty Okay, I think
that would be cool, But I I drive past that
place a couple of times a week.
Speaker 4 (32:59):
Let me just reset the story.
Speaker 3 (33:00):
Everyone back in my clubbing days and this is like
just out of college, So this is like twenty two
twenty three, me and my boys who later became my
best best man and groomsman at my wedding.
Speaker 6 (33:12):
Your accomplices.
Speaker 3 (33:14):
Yes, yes, we would go to the Red Onion in
Redondo Beach and we were good friends with the DJ,
and back then we didn't have any money, we really did.
We were just there to meet women, so we would
get there early and they would let us in for
free dance, try to get as many numbers as we could,
and the little money that we had, we would go
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to Denny's because we would be so hungry at two
in the morning whatever time it was, and we'd always
go to the same Denny's, which was across from Dilama Mall.
Speaker 4 (33:46):
It's on Hawthorne Boulevard, right.
Speaker 3 (33:48):
At just north of Carson. We go to that Denny's,
and on this one occasion, the waitress was just taking
too long to come get our money.
Speaker 4 (34:01):
So we wanted to pay our check. We want to
go home. We were tired.
Speaker 3 (34:04):
We went up to the front counter and we waited,
and I said something to the effect of this person
ex explative, has one minute to come take my money
or I'm leaving. Well, that minute came and went, and
so we came, and then we went. We were going
to the car, and she came out running after us.
(34:26):
I want to think she was maybe ten years older
than us, so she's got to be like sixty five
years old.
Speaker 4 (34:31):
Now she's still alive. I don't remember her name.
Speaker 3 (34:34):
But we dined and we ditched, and I felt guilty
about it. To this day, statute of Limitations has clearly passed.
It expired, all right, So this is like nineteen ninety two,
ninety three, more than thirty years ago.
Speaker 4 (34:47):
I still remember this.
Speaker 6 (34:48):
Wow, there's the legal statute of limitations, but not the moral.
Speaker 3 (34:52):
Yeah, that's exactly right. And I said that one day.
I was going to go back to that very same Danny's.
I don't know if it's even owned by the same
people as a franchise.
Speaker 6 (35:02):
You're just gonna wait for everybody involved to die of
natural causes, aren't you.
Speaker 3 (35:07):
No, I'm going to give them that twenty. It may
be in the form of a tip. I may just
walk in and just put a twenty on account and
say here, someone will benefit from this.
Speaker 4 (35:17):
Here have some bitcoin, ma'am. Now I don't do bitcoin,
that's for sure.
Speaker 3 (35:21):
I will give them a twenty dollars bill and I
will walk out. And to Stephan's point, I need someone
to actually film it, tape it. When am I second film,
We don't film anymore video tape it, you.
Speaker 4 (35:33):
Know, record it live. We will go install live. Still
We're going live. Oh yeah, lie, that would be fun.
Right after I get out of my way. Moo, okay,
that was a great. We're gonna put them all together.
Speaker 3 (35:49):
We're just gonna put them all together and then they'll
take me to the bee farm. But true story, I'm
going to pay that back, not gonna pay it forward.
I'm gonna pay it back and clear my conscience one
of these days and we'll make sure that everyone gets
to see it. So that is the story behind the
Dennis and I relate that to the whole Sizzler deal
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where they're offering this free meal to first responders and evacuees. Again,
the meal includes the choice of a six out steak,
six jungle Crispy shrimp, or Malibu Chicken entree. I think
I've had all this, alongside a choice of side and
fountain drink. The deal is available until January twelfth. And
I was saying, not to be a moralist, not to
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be high and mighty. I'm just saying, as a former criminal,
don't take advantage of something like this or some other
place which is offering food to people who've been displaced,
evacuees or first responders.
Speaker 4 (36:49):
Don't do it. I know you're inclined to do it,
but you will rule the day.
Speaker 3 (36:53):
You will be you will be beside yourself with guilt
for the rest of your natural life.
Speaker 6 (36:58):
And you know, a serious he whips out through the day,
because not long after that he's going to say it
will behoove you well. Does beg the question whether it
Oh God, oh God, look at the time.
Speaker 3 (37:10):
But it's a true story. It's a true story, so
just don't do it. I'm asking you. Don't be a
criminal like I used to be. Thirty two years ago.
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