SoCal Fire Coverage: Thursday Jan. 9 2025

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
It's the Valentine in the Morning replay.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
Welcome to the breakfast table, a Valentine in the Morning,
I laughed heartily.

Speaker 3 (00:07):
I help, it's respectful to say I love you.

Speaker 4 (00:09):
The full show podcast starts right now.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
What a four to three? My fam, It is Valentine
in the Morning. Good morning, Good morning, Jill. You made
it to New York I see huh oh, hold on,
we're not hearing you.

Speaker 5 (00:21):
Is your mic on? Jill?

Speaker 2 (00:24):
Your mic is on? Okay, that's program one. That's correct.
Let me try some other. Well that would make no sense.
Which one? Oh, it's SAS two?

Speaker 4 (00:35):
Oh?

Speaker 5 (00:35):
I thought it was SAS one. Good morning, Hi yah,
how are you?

Speaker 6 (00:40):
I'm in New York City, and my gosh, am I
a modern woman?

Speaker 5 (00:44):
Why are you a modern woman?

Speaker 6 (00:45):
I walked to work this morning.

Speaker 5 (00:46):
M hmm.

Speaker 6 (00:47):
I couldn't believe it. I found my way here, didn't
have to take a subway or a taxi or an uber,
and I made my way to the iHeart Studios, got
up here all on my own, and I feel I'm
no longer a pass your princess like I was in Japan.

Speaker 5 (01:02):
Right.

Speaker 6 (01:02):
I did all my own and I'm so proud.

Speaker 2 (01:04):
Well, last time you're in New York for radio, you're
with me. This is all you on your own right,
It's all me.

Speaker 6 (01:11):
But wow, and it is freezing here.

Speaker 5 (01:15):
Called oh stone the ground. Oh you love that though,
I do?

Speaker 6 (01:18):
Yeah, yeah. So it was a little strange leaving Los
Angeles yesterday with everything going on.

Speaker 2 (01:24):
Deserting Los Angeles is a phrasing Los Angeles many. I
have a group chat with your family. They're all calling
you deserted. Oh really, yeah, it's bad. It got bad
overnight the winds. The winds should die down a bit,
but they're not gone.

Speaker 5 (01:40):
That's the thing.

Speaker 2 (01:40):
Still twenty twenty five miles of our guests and stuff,
some up to like forty five to fifteen. Certain areas
definitely different, but so many things will wake up to
a lot of PCCh businesses just gone, homes just gone.
Fifty to seventy five percent of the Palisade's just gone,
is what they think. They'll know more at eight o'clock
this morning, course, and the light comes up and everything
alta dina. Some more deaths out in that area, I believe,

(02:02):
and that fire is being incredibly problematic. Some other fires
popped up last night at Hollywood Hills, fire. Obviously they'd
gotten that one taking care of. I think I don't
want to be the guy that says this, but I'm
thinking it, and I listen, my background in law enforcement
does not give me any reason to say any of this.

Speaker 5 (02:18):
Right. Is anybody thinking these are being intentionally set? That's
what my wife kept saying last night.

Speaker 6 (02:24):
I was thinking the same thing.

Speaker 5 (02:26):
I'm just asking.

Speaker 3 (02:27):
You know, it's like, never been this much, this many
populated areas. We we always have Santa Anas.

Speaker 2 (02:33):
We haven't had these devastating Santa ana Is in like
ten plus years, they say, right, and these fires. Embers
do fly to get spot fires, of course, but every
firefighter we ever had on the airs, I always till spotfires,
you know, like a mile or so down the road.
Whatever you get a spot fire, not twenty five miles
thirty five. None of these fires are next to each other,
you know what I mean. That Palisades fire didn't cause
the eating fire. The eating fire didn't cause into whatever fire.

(02:54):
And so I don't know, maybe some weren't, maybe some were.
But I'm starting to wondering. Then a little fire is
popping up by me out there in the TiO area,
in some deeper into Venturial County and stuff.

Speaker 5 (03:06):
I'm just starting to and.

Speaker 2 (03:07):
I have no reason to know that, and I have
no knowledge of ours, and I have no knowledge of
any of that stuff. But I was sitting there with
my wife last time. I'm like, it's just too many fires.
We get fires, it happens, But this stuff is so devastating.
So many people have lost their homes. Colin school's out again,
Lac is out, Those schools are all out. And he
had gone out just to get out of the house

(03:28):
yesterday and met up with his buddy at like a
coffee shop or something just down the street.

Speaker 5 (03:32):
Right.

Speaker 2 (03:32):
I was fine with that. I said, keep in touch,
you know, be aware of evacuations. It could hit any
area anytime.

Speaker 1 (03:38):
Right.

Speaker 2 (03:38):
He goes, okay, and it comes up and he goes
dad and bumped in two of my friends who had
lost their homes. So two kids from his school go
to you know, live in the Pacific Palaces and lost
their homes. And then the school had reached out because
apparently quite a few kids live in the Pacific Palisades
to go to Colin School and they had all lost
their homes. So it's just so devastating people here at work,
have lost their homes. I know, you know people yourself

(03:59):
that have lost their homes or been impacted greatly by this.
And it just seems like a lot to me. And
again I have no knowledge of how that stuff works.
Maybe you're a firefighter, maybe you're watching this, or somebody
in a firefighter family might be like, yeah, we're talking
about this our house too. I get the embers flying stuff,
but it's just so many different areas.

Speaker 3 (04:16):
I mean, they were talking about that this morning and
they were saying, with the winds the way they weren't,
it could easily be the one spark of a chain
on the freeway of a trailer that's dragging a chain
happens okay, all right, one gust at the wrong time
could send that into the.

Speaker 2 (04:28):
Bushes, and it could explain all right, maybe I'm wrong that,
I mean, I who know, it's like it's still like
that's still a hard coincidence to fathom as well. So yeah,
it just seems like a lot, you know what I mean,
And a lot of spot fight and the spot fires
because those of the things from the embers, but a lot
of little fires popping up too, and they get them
knocked down they get it because that watch Duty app
that everyone downloaded shows you a lot shows when Ford
progress has stopped when they released the you know, strike
teams and helicopters and stuff. So they seem to get

(04:50):
it handled. Some of the small ones to popping up.
Now the big ones are just out of control. But
just seems like a lot. When your wife was sinking
the same thing she was, she was saying the same thing.

Speaker 7 (04:59):
At first, I was like, you know, that couldn't be it.
But then it is in such like populated areas, like
they're so like that.

Speaker 5 (05:07):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (05:08):
It's yeah, you're right that too. That's true too. It's
not like this is happening in the middle of the
Anti National Forest or I don't know.

Speaker 5 (05:15):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (05:16):
But you got to New York safe and sound. That's good.
We're glad to hear that. And everything's crossed your mind too.

Speaker 5 (05:21):
Did it?

Speaker 6 (05:21):
Yeah, that's my mind. When I landed and I saw
the new fire in Studio City and I was like,
what did the world is happening?

Speaker 5 (05:28):
And did you see the fires from the airplane?

Speaker 6 (05:30):
No, I didn't. Just the way you took off, now, okay, yeah,
just where I was sitting. I didn't see it.

Speaker 2 (05:34):
My sister got out last night. She was on a
flight to UH Boston. She was taking a red eye.
She got out last night, so thank God for her good.
But the freeways by the way are empty, yeah, aren't they.

Speaker 7 (05:46):
Yeah, it's interesting where I am. The smoke is so
heavy that there was some traffic, but then once you get.

Speaker 5 (05:53):
Through the same Gabriel Valley, it was like wide over right.

Speaker 3 (05:56):
I was kind of nervous because I was here a
little bit later yesterday and I left it maybe four
four thirty, and I feel like, normally that's almost a
two hour trip home to Orange County.

Speaker 5 (06:04):
Not so much.

Speaker 3 (06:04):
I got home like an hour, seriously, just over an hour,
and I was very shocked.

Speaker 5 (06:08):
Crazy. Well, there you go. It's one of four to
three my fans found Inday morning. We're all here. How
are you doing this Thursday morning?

Speaker 2 (06:14):
If you want to reach out three one o four three,
we'd love to chat with you too, if you haven't
had a friendly voice talking in a while. Eight six
six five four four ifm eight six six five four
four six nine three six, we were here for you
guys this morning. Lovely lavender top Jill, very nice oh,
thank you so much.

Speaker 5 (06:29):
Chills and New Yorks.

Speaker 2 (06:30):
We're looking at her on a computer screen on zoom
and it looks like she's in her tailor swift Era
or two.

Speaker 6 (06:35):
Thank you.

Speaker 5 (06:36):
What a compliment.

Speaker 6 (06:37):
Yeah, I appreciate that. I'm in my Taylor swift Era.

Speaker 2 (06:40):
Isn't she into that color?

Speaker 5 (06:43):
Hayes?

Speaker 6 (06:44):
Look at this guy. I've never been more proud.

Speaker 5 (06:49):
Just a bug go past my face.

Speaker 3 (06:50):
No, it's been around this studio all morning. It's bugging me. H.

Speaker 5 (06:55):
I think it's from you.

Speaker 3 (06:56):
No, the one bug, like a little gnat or something
just flew past my face. There was a little natin here.

Speaker 1 (07:01):
It's been driving me.

Speaker 2 (07:02):
And if I thought it was like just a floater
in my eye or something like that of an old injury.
But no, it's a little bug because apparently a pig
pen over here brings bugs with them.

Speaker 8 (07:13):
In the Valentine in the morning one of full three
my FM nineties two.

Speaker 2 (07:17):
No, a lot of kings obviously out of school today,
many schools being canceled. L e ost is a full
throttle we're out today, right. We saw up because wasn't
it yesterday that there were day before?

Speaker 9 (07:29):
Was it?

Speaker 5 (07:29):
They were not full throttle out. Correct.

Speaker 7 (07:31):
Yeah, and we were hearing from people that said.

Speaker 2 (07:33):
Like, what's going on? Why are we not keeping the
kids home? With the fires and the smoke and everything else.
Freeway is pretty clear, you know from what I could
tell when I was coming in this morning. Sorry, you
guys are going through this. We're no stranger to wild
fires living in Colorado. Praying for all the families who
lost their homes and businesses. Uh, there's some texts coming in.
I do believe these fires were set by a human
because immedia just want to put it out there. You

(07:53):
guys are the first person to say it. I agree
with you.

Speaker 5 (07:56):
Guys. Oh boy, we.

Speaker 7 (07:57):
Don't know anything.

Speaker 9 (07:58):
We don't.

Speaker 2 (07:59):
We were just here like we're at dinner table, but
this is our breakfast table. So we just see how
you're We have no reason to know anything, so don't
bring us into what was that, Jill mean.

Speaker 6 (08:09):
Anything we've ever seen before. So that's why we're thinking, like,
how is this happening?

Speaker 9 (08:14):
Right?

Speaker 5 (08:14):
And it was honestly was Jill's idea. She was the
one who said it first.

Speaker 2 (08:18):
So that's how I recall it to in cases any
litigation involved here. But I mean I sat back and
I don't want to start like, you know, you don't
say stuff like that because you don't want to start panic,
right or anything like that.

Speaker 5 (08:28):
But it's just like, I don't know.

Speaker 2 (08:29):
Man, a lot of fires Oak Park Unified clothes today
as well. Jill, how's your baby making error going? I
heard Val talking about your tail swift error. How's the
baby making error going? Was there a send off for you?

Speaker 6 (08:45):
There was no sendoff?

Speaker 5 (08:46):
Yeah, because you left from the studio yesterday.

Speaker 6 (08:48):
Right, Yeah, so I saw him yesterday morning as I
was leaving for work and there was no sendoff. You know,
we were all business at that point, no pleasure and
uh so there's no baby making air happening right now
because I will not be home until Sunday.

Speaker 4 (09:04):
Man.

Speaker 5 (09:04):
I do love the daily updates.

Speaker 3 (09:06):
It's kind of nice.

Speaker 5 (09:08):
Please keep us in full.

Speaker 6 (09:09):
We should have like a whole No, I don't think so.

Speaker 2 (09:12):
Like early on the show, because you know what, you know,
when do the kids in the cart like seven o'clock
or so, what's going on?

Speaker 6 (09:18):
Well, if that's the case, and you guys all need
to chime in as well.

Speaker 2 (09:21):
I'm not he he's sniffed, right, so he got sniffs
the zombaby making air there that doesn't And then my
family was IVF so we know. I'm like, my guys,
is like a shopping cart with one bad wheel. This
is going around to a circle.

Speaker 6 (09:36):
That doctor said, yes, if you're making me talk about instances. Oh,
and you guys should tell yours too.

Speaker 5 (09:45):
All right, last time was Hawaii.

Speaker 7 (09:48):
Oh congrats brora long ago.

Speaker 5 (09:52):
No, okay, because they don't ask me the time before.

Speaker 2 (09:54):
That, I'll say, last time was Hawaii? Are you two
thousand and I remember that trip fondly was such a
great time. But we do the old road to Hannah,
if you know what I mean. Oh, it's five forty
six and it's one of four three, my fam this
is Valentine in the morning, hope, put a smile on
your face. Anything we can do to help you, guys,
Obviously we're seeing a lot of go funmies going up

(10:16):
with the fires and stuff, and just vet those and
contribute to the ones that you believe are fair if
you want to, if you can, I know a lot
of people are going to be really swamped. And I
was thinking today with Colin, I should ask him, buddy,
with all your your friends, because a lot of his
friends had.

Speaker 5 (10:31):
Lost homes in the palstays.

Speaker 2 (10:33):
I'm like, are any of your size get into that closet,
start digging up some hoodies and different things for these
kids that might be your size. You know, it's not
always just about here's money, go do that. There might
be other options we can do as well, and if
we think of some, we'll get it out there. And
you can, of course always think of ideas too and
share them with us. One of four to three, my Fami,

(10:53):
it is Valentine in the morning for the pala seats fired.
The news did say it was started by a backyard
fire in one of the homes. Okay, so I was
unaware of that, So we take back everything. Jill said
that was me. But at Hollywood Hills pop it up
last night too, and run you And I mean who
here has hiked run you in?

Speaker 5 (11:10):
I have never never, really I know all the hikes
you've done. I know and I've always wanted to do
and I've never done it either. I've lived here for ages.
I'd running is running wasn't a cool hike?

Speaker 9 (11:21):
Chill.

Speaker 6 (11:22):
Yeah, I've done it a couple of times, and especially
first dates, which that's tough because you're trying not to
act winded and you know, out of breath and out
of shape.

Speaker 5 (11:32):
I did that once.

Speaker 3 (11:32):
I went on a first date hike and it was
a medium hike, and so it's like, I'm in shape.
I could do a medium hike. I couldn't breathe, I
couldn't talk. It was so she schooled me really and
I really like thought I was in shape. And it
was the most awkward first date because yeah, yeah.

Speaker 5 (11:47):
Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 (11:49):
Then you go for the kids. You're like yeah, and
I like, you're a dog, right. I never did hikes
for first dates orthing like that. I did a couple
of dates where we did bikes, you know, okay, cool. Yeah,
we did like, uh well mountain bikes through Walden Pond
back in the Boston, Massachusetts area and stuff, you know
where Henry David Throw did his writings Walden Pond.

Speaker 5 (12:12):
Whoa, I know, I know his house is still there.
I think, like some little cottage or something.

Speaker 9 (12:17):
I think.

Speaker 6 (12:18):
But so we go biking you there, Yeah, I know
Leilani likes your Shakespeare.

Speaker 5 (12:22):
Did you ever know she doesn't? She does not? When
did you think Leilani likes me resenting Shakespeare?

Speaker 6 (12:27):
We just talked about it, and I said, she liked it.

Speaker 2 (12:30):
You dreamt, No, she does not like me called in
and loved it. Yeah, somebody called and loved it. My
wife is over my stuff.

Speaker 4 (12:37):
For years, you know.

Speaker 6 (12:39):
Well did you ever use that on data?

Speaker 2 (12:41):
Oh yeah, I weaponized Shakespeare? Really, yeah, like there were
some you know, listen, we're all different levels of intelligence, right,
And some people thought I wrote it love towards love
like schoolboys from their books, but love from love with
sad and heavy looks.

Speaker 5 (13:01):
See how she leans and chee come on her hand?
Oh that irec love upon that hand, that I might
touch that cheek man? Did you write that?

Speaker 9 (13:08):
Yes?

Speaker 10 (13:11):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (13:12):
Now my wife is too smart. She's over all my stuff,
like even Mike the beginning. I think she'd liked me
in the beginning.

Speaker 11 (13:20):
You know.

Speaker 2 (13:23):
God, I am funny and I am happily married twenty
six years. By the way, just in case you're taking
this the wrong way, but I'm very sarcastic as well.

Speaker 5 (13:30):
Obviously.

Speaker 2 (13:31):
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Speaker 5 (13:55):
We're just just like you.

Speaker 2 (13:57):
You know, Brian's out there on the weekends, ay so
with his kids. You know, I'm on travel ball duty
with my son playing soccer. Jill's looking to start a family.
John just moved in his girlfriend in an Orange County.
You know, we're just like you. We're shopping at the
same places, we're doing the same things, and we are
just like you in the sense that we were gutted

(14:17):
by these fires and devastated because we have many friends
affected by them, just like you have many friends. And
it also might be you affected and if it is,
I'm very very sorry, and we were.

Speaker 5 (14:26):
Praying for you.

Speaker 2 (14:27):
And as these fires get put out, we'll do everything
we can to support our community as well.

Speaker 4 (14:33):
Dex Valentine in the morning at three one oh four
to three.

Speaker 2 (14:38):
One of four to three, my family. It is Valentine
in the morning. What are you doing, Jill? You're looking
at a door, You're looking out a window. What's going
on there?

Speaker 6 (14:45):
There was quite a commotion outside of the little studio
door that I'm in. I'm in New York City, and
there was a lot of people talking and laughing, and
so I tried to see who they were and if
I could recognize anybody. But I don't know any of them.

Speaker 5 (14:56):
You wanted to be seen, didn't you.

Speaker 6 (14:58):
No, I was gonna in New York Hello, Yeah.

Speaker 2 (15:01):
To be seen, right. She's try for to the job.
She's trying to get one of the morning shows in.

Speaker 5 (15:06):
New York City or something, you know, a Good Morning America. Yes,
oh that's right.

Speaker 2 (15:11):
She so like wants to be on Good Morning America
or be a dancing ranger at Disney one or the other.

Speaker 6 (15:16):
You know, yeah, I'll take either one.

Speaker 2 (15:18):
So Jill's not here in our studio. She left us
defend the fires on our own, and she deserted us.
I want you to know that, Los Angeles.

Speaker 6 (15:25):
No, and that's really truly how I think.

Speaker 5 (15:27):
I don't feel that way. I'm teasing nothing.

Speaker 6 (15:29):
I don't know, but I was very uneasy about leaving,
just knowing like my parents still don't have the power.
I have friends who are losing their homes. Like it's
just no, I understand, so scary to leave.

Speaker 2 (15:38):
No, you had to go as a company thing. And
it was for a Netflix premiere of a movie with
Jamie Fox and Cameron Diaz.

Speaker 6 (15:44):
Yeah, it's called Back in Action, which we found out
yesterday they've canceled the premiere.

Speaker 2 (15:49):
So I find out from Jill this morning, as I
always give Jill like a call before work, and we
talked about you guys, man, you're back, And so I
called her up and she goes, yeah, I can believe
they cancel the premiere. I'm like, oh, are you're on
your way? And she goes, no, I mean I tickets
paid for. We're gonna hang out, hang out New.

Speaker 5 (16:06):
York a bit.

Speaker 2 (16:06):
You know.

Speaker 6 (16:07):
I believe I still have some duties to do on Friday.
But the screening that was supposed to be tonight, they
canceled that. They said, due to the tragic fires, we'll
be canceling our Back in Action New York City premiere.
We recognize many in our industry and their loved ones
are currently affected and our thoughts are with them at
this time. So they're canceling them due to the fires.
And so when I saw that last night, I thought

(16:30):
I should look into getting a flight home then. But
there might be some things. As of right now, it's
still on on Friday, the interviews. The interviews.

Speaker 2 (16:39):
Yeah, so would you have a chance to see the
movie or you get an interview Jamie Fox and Cameron
Diaz without seeing the movie.

Speaker 6 (16:43):
I'm hoping maybe they send a screener something, yeah, or
maybe we just do it without seeing the movie and
just just talking.

Speaker 5 (16:49):
Or maybe they just they.

Speaker 2 (16:50):
Got a little place where they invite you and the
other journalists they invited to New York to just, you know,
just sit down and watch a movie, not a not
a premiere. There's no red carbon, not just like, hey, guys,
we rented this AMC theater. Go watch the movie. Because
I know you have to interview Jamie Fox and Cameron
Diaz on Fridays.

Speaker 6 (17:03):
Yeah, yeah, we'll see what happens.

Speaker 5 (17:05):
Gotcha.

Speaker 6 (17:06):
I walked to work today, which was crazy, uh huh.
Walking from the hotel to the iHeart Studios in New York,
I felt like Carrie Bradshaw just walk in the streets
of Manhattan.

Speaker 2 (17:16):
Well, once again, Jill, the rest of us are fighting
for it out here. But I'm glad you're having a
sex and the city moment, you know.

Speaker 6 (17:22):
I'm so sorry.

Speaker 2 (17:23):
You're right right, Listen, you deserve it. You deserve it,
you really do. Have you checked in with your family though, Jill?
Are they still doing okay?

Speaker 6 (17:30):
Everybody's okay?

Speaker 5 (17:33):
You walk to work? No yet, I did it, Okay.

Speaker 6 (17:36):
My parents still don't have power, but luckily their house
in Silmar is okay. I've seen story after story on
Instagram of either friends losing their home or being evacuated
or just you know, knowing someone. So my family's okay.

Speaker 5 (17:52):
Good. Are you h still without power?

Speaker 9 (17:54):
Bray?

Speaker 5 (17:55):
I got it late last You got it late last night. Okay,
So a little little gotcha for for us? Yeah, no,
I hear you. Laura, what about you? The power? Stay on?
Or is it out?

Speaker 2 (18:05):
Laura's got a bad voice, She's can I talk about
your Yeah? Yeah, yeah, she's a little asthmatic. So that's
something a lot of people here in southern California with
the air quality, have been dealing with having problems breathing.

Speaker 5 (18:16):
So you're gonna be very, very careful with that.

Speaker 11 (18:18):
It's really terrifying, and my heart goes out to anyone
with asthma because it's a silent situation where people are
just struggling. It's very hot, but we are fine in
Marina del Ray. But I was just telling the team
last night, we were sitting on the couch and we
looked out to the right and we look up towards
Hollywood and all of a sudden, this huge blaze the
SUNI terrifying. It is just my heart goes out to

(18:39):
everyone right now because it is going up so quickly
and it's spreading so quickly, it's crazy.

Speaker 2 (18:44):
There'll be opportunities for us to obviously help everybody affected
by this fire who's lost to home or you know,
lost their businesses, lost their livelihood. We'll have a time
to do that, but the first things first to get
people to safety and get the fires put out, and
then weaken as a community in southern California flecked on
this and do what we can to help people as well.

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Speaker 2 (19:13):
You need to know right now, six twenty two. It
is Valentine in the morning. This is one of four
to three MIFM. The fires burning through southern California have
become the worst natural disaster in Los Angeles in decades.
In total, over one hundred thousand people have been forced
to evacuate. Imagine that one hundred thousand people who don't
have a home right now. Last night, a new fire
broke out in the Hollywood Hills. It covered about forty acres.

(19:35):
It's burning in a very densely populated area about a
mile away from the Hollywood Walk of Fame, the Magic Castle,
and the Hollywood Bowl. Thousands of firefighters are battling these fires,
and in a rare urgent plea, LAFD officials ask all
off duty firefighters in the city to help. If you've
got firefighter experience, raise your hand, because they need help
right now. Red flag mornings will linger across most of

(19:57):
southern California today and tomorrow. The winds are expected to diminish.
Thank God for that. California's wildfire season typically begins in
June or July runs to October, with fires in January
are not unprecedented. Honestly, the way it is in southern California,
I think we all expect it to be any time
of the year at this point, John, what's trending?

Speaker 3 (20:16):
So Uber and Lifter also pitching into helps some evacuees
this week. Residents who have been ordered to vacate their homes.
You can get a credit from Uber or lyft to
get to an evacuation area for this entire week. So
there's some codes you got to use. We'll throw this
up on our Instagram and the stories at Valentine in
the morning. That what's trending on socials?

Speaker 2 (20:31):
Sorry John to jumped in. Of course his six twenty
three eight is one of four to three MIFM. Jill's
not here. Today's in New York. She was going for
premiere which got canceled, and they're in New York. But
a lot of the people for the premiere obviously have
homes and families or West Coast based folks, and I'm
sure Cameron has Jamie Fox, who are a part of
this movie also have homes and family members out here

(20:52):
as well.

Speaker 6 (20:53):
That's what I was thinking as well. I'm going close
as a part of this film as well, and I
just know probably a lot of the cast and crew,
you know, coming from.

Speaker 2 (21:00):
Yeah, there's a ton of celebrities too that actually live
in the Palisades, which got hit the heartest so far
by these fires. It's just like you said earlier, when
you go on Instagram, your feet is just clogged with
people who have lost everything. And as time goes on,
as we get these fires put out, then there will

(21:20):
be a time to rebuild people's lives, not just their homes,
but to help them rebuild their lives as well.

Speaker 5 (21:26):
I wish you it's the less my friend one U
four to three, my family.

Speaker 2 (21:33):
It is Valencin in the morning, six twenty eight, Thursday,
January ninth, Good morning. I hope wherever you are your
family is safe and you're safe. And if you happen
to be somebody who lost their home and you're listening
to our show right now, I am so sorry and
I hope that your family is safe. I'm so sorry
about you know, when you lose a house, that's what

(21:54):
they'd called it for a while, but I think more
newscasters now people on TV have caught on that it's
not a house, it's a home, you know, because that's
where your kids took their first steps. Perhaps so that's
where your kids wanted to come home to great news,
you know, they wanted to share something with you. Or
that's where the memories were made. The Christmas trees, the
Thanksgiving dinners, all those things, the Halloween decorations, the knock

(22:15):
of the door, of the trick retreats, and the tough
moments in your life too. There's still memories. They're part
of a home. It's not necessarily the structure itself, but
it's some memories created with inside that home. If you
were somebody listening who has lost that, we are here
for you. If you guys want to reach out eight
sixty sixty five four to FORURFM to share your story,
to talk to us, to be part of a friendly
morning show that just gathers around a breakfast table, We're

(22:37):
all here. I'm here. My DA's Valentine. If you're new
to the show, I've been married twenty six years. I
have a sixteen year old son named Colin. I have
two dogs, Hans Solo and Landell Colorissian. Yeah, we're Star
Wars fans, shout them out.

Speaker 5 (22:51):
This is my friend Jill.

Speaker 6 (22:52):
She's in New York today though I'm in New York today,
but born and raised in the San Fernando Valley. I
am recently married. We're hoping to start a family soon.
I love Broadway, I love Disney. This is our friend
John good Morning.

Speaker 3 (23:04):
Also born and raised right here in southern California. Recently
moved out with all my roommates that I graduated college
with and I moved in with my girlfriend. So it's
been a new chapter in my life.

Speaker 5 (23:13):
There's a big boy. No, he's left the frat house
up in front of us. He really is. Oh, we're
so proud. Here's our producer, Brian Verton.

Speaker 7 (23:22):
Yeah, it's representing the San Gabriel Valley. And don't forget Laura,
our social media director want.

Speaker 5 (23:28):
Her voice is tough.

Speaker 2 (23:29):
She's got asthma though, so she's like, ah, poor kid,
did you wear a mask coming in? Laura?

Speaker 12 (23:35):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (23:36):
Right, Oh my gosh.

Speaker 2 (23:37):
All right, six point thirty, This is Valentine in the Morning.
Feel free to reach out and be part of our show.
You can Texas three one oh four to three wherever
you are. A lot of people listen to the iHeartRadio
app too from across the country. So I hope you
don't mind that. A lot of our show is keeping
people up to date in the fires in southern California.
But you can text it at three one oh four
to three or call eight six six five four four
my FM.

Speaker 4 (23:56):
Text Valentine in the Morning at three one oh four three.

Speaker 2 (24:01):
All right, you to six thirty six. This is one
of four to three my family. It is Valentine in
the Morning. The weather today sixties low seventies. National Weather
Service said that after an early minor uptick today, the
winds are expected to go back down slightly during the day,
but we'll peak again tonight into early tomorrow morning, so
we're not out of this winds yet. I do not
think though we're getting from what I've been following the winds,

(24:21):
we're gonna get those massive, massive winds that we had
yesterday in the day before. I don't think we're getting those.
But still we're getting gusts enough that could drive some members.
So we just hope the winds die down enough that
these firefighting apparatuses can get up into the air, from
the helicopters to the super soakers and all those things.
So the peak again tonight into early tomorrow morning with

(24:42):
the Winds are saying forty six and Burbank forty two
and Long Beach. Jill will have some entertainment headlines coming up.

Speaker 6 (24:48):
Award shows are now being postponed due to the fires.
I'll give you the latest coming up at six fifty seven.

Speaker 2 (24:53):
A conversation with our boss here, Paul, off the air
a second ago, and he brought up a great point.

Speaker 5 (24:58):
So many people have lost their homes.

Speaker 2 (25:00):
And then, much like in a tornado, or much like
in certain storms, you see the one house for whatever reason,
there's no rhyme or reason to it. It's just the
way it goes, the one house that wasn't lost amidst
a house of twenty that were lost, and you're thankful
that you know, your.

Speaker 5 (25:18):
Possessions whatever in that house are saved.

Speaker 2 (25:21):
But how do you go back to living in that
house when the twenty houses around you are gone, and
the shopping center's gone, and the high school's gone, and
you know that all has to be torn down and cleaned,
and you're living in that you know, it's just it's
not good. I e suppose either way, sure, your possessions
were saved and everything like that, but then you have
to live there while they try and clean up all

(25:44):
that mess, which will take possible years. I mean the palisades,
they will rebuild it. And those people they have a
strong fortitude, I think from everything we've seen on Instagram
in the news, people are like, we're gonna rebuild. We're
gonna rebuild our community. But that takes time. It takes
a lot of time, it really does. Six point thirty eight.
This is one of four three MIFM. It is Valentine
in the morning. Hope you guys as you start your day,

(26:06):
are doing okay. So many schools have been canceled. Leost
is fully out. My son's school is canceled again today.
I don't know if they'll have school tomorrow or not.
It might just be a full week thing for a
lot of the schools here in SoCal and for a
lot of kids that you know in the palaces that
went to schools there and the schools are gone.

Speaker 5 (26:23):
They don't know where they're going to go to school.

Speaker 2 (26:25):
They you know, they were struggling to find out where
I'm going to sleep tonight with all the evacuations. Obviously
a lot of hotels and stuff are jam packed. So
it is nice that people are putting up rooms for
folks on Instagram and stuff like that, and having that
kind heart spirit to try and make a difference. And
I started thinking about that too. I'm like, we got
a bedroom downstairs at my house, and I started thinking,

(26:46):
you know, maybe one of Colin's buddies, you know, maybe
they need a room for a kid or stfthing. I
don't know if I have room for a family, but
you know, of course I don't know. I'm just spit
ball because you don't want to separate a family. Say
here's my kid, you take care of him. But if
going to school with my son or something like that,
we have that extra room. Maybe this's the way we
can help them out in that respect, I'm thinking, or

(27:07):
even just.

Speaker 6 (27:08):
A place to shower or charge their phone, you know,
just to of course go, you know, just to get
the life necessity things that they need. Right now.

Speaker 2 (27:16):
Shout to Planet Fitness too. They're allowing people to come in, shower,
do all that stuff. If you've been affected by the fires,
no worries.

Speaker 3 (27:22):
Yeah, is that what they're doing? Christ responders and evacuees
all right?

Speaker 5 (27:25):
Six thirty nine.

Speaker 2 (27:26):
This is one of four three my fam It is
Valentine in the morning. If you do want important to
show three one of four three is the quickest way
to get through.

Speaker 5 (27:31):
That's our text line. It shows up right here in
the studio three one oh four to three.

Speaker 4 (27:36):
No, it's a bad I do. How can I.

Speaker 2 (27:43):
Sixty six one four three, My fam, it's Valentine in
the morning. Lost is off today. I don't think Orange
County has really been affected, right John, As far.

Speaker 3 (27:50):
As you know, you can smell smoke.

Speaker 5 (27:52):
That's about it.

Speaker 6 (27:53):
Right.

Speaker 2 (27:53):
John's down there in Huntington Beach. He's and his girlfriend
got a place together. He's adulting, growing up in front
of her very eyes. Everything like that.

Speaker 3 (28:01):
Such a millennial term is and.

Speaker 5 (28:03):
I use that on purpose, John, is is your girlfriend? Okay?
Her work and everything?

Speaker 3 (28:08):
Yeah, I mean they're working from home, just to be sure,
but they have they have an office here in La
So a lot of their employees have been affected. Oh god, okay,
some have lost homes, Oh my god.

Speaker 2 (28:17):
They've asked most people here an iHeart. I thinks still
Paul sent that an email was a day before or something,
tell people stay home. I think that's still in effect,
right yeah, And a lot of like managers and stuff
here at I heart will tell their employees just stay home.

Speaker 5 (28:28):
And I told my sister this. Yesterday.

Speaker 2 (28:30):
Kathleen was in town to visit my mom who's in
memory care. She is laid on said Alzheimer's and do
it okay, And she's in town visiting my mom and
my sister. Kathleen's great, most empathetic person you'll ever meet,
very sweet, just great. And she even slept over at
the memory care center one night. I was like, you
can do that, sorry, Jill, Your Michael was not good, not.

Speaker 6 (28:51):
In a bed, right, She's stayed in the chair.

Speaker 5 (28:54):
Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 9 (28:55):
Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (28:56):
So there's like a recliner. It's like a big recliner
that helps you end up and sit down that my
mom has in her room. So my sister Kathleen says,
she goes, I'll just sleep over because I want to
see how they handle things at the you know, middle
of the night.

Speaker 5 (29:06):
I want to see how they treat mom in the
middle of the night. Everything like that.

Speaker 2 (29:09):
And uh, she got changed, my sister Kathleen. In the
middle of the night. Alex came in and changed Jerry's like,
I don't know.

Speaker 5 (29:15):
I did have everyone there, they really do.

Speaker 2 (29:18):
But so she just left and she I was telling
her yesterday, I go, A lot of people are working
from home, and she goes, and they're not letting you
work from home.

Speaker 13 (29:27):
Go.

Speaker 2 (29:28):
No, we did that during the pandemic and stuff, and
it didn't It's not as the chemistry is not there
so much, you know what I mean.

Speaker 5 (29:35):
She's okay, she goes in. Jill can't work. I go
Chill's in New York. She just bailed. She went for
some press junket for a movie that's not even going
to be premiered.

Speaker 6 (29:43):
Now I know they canceled the premiere. No, I'm I
was sad to leave. Yeah, we want to leave, we know,
we know.

Speaker 5 (29:51):
But you did leave pretty fast though.

Speaker 9 (29:54):
I had to.

Speaker 6 (29:54):
I had to make my flight.

Speaker 2 (29:55):
I had to leave right at were there yesterday till
eleven o'clock, trying to give you as much fire cover
just pot possible because we were a live local radio
show and ten o collect I was like, well, I
gotta go to the airport.

Speaker 5 (30:05):
Guys, I'm so sorry, gotta go.

Speaker 6 (30:07):
I'm sorry.

Speaker 5 (30:07):
Best of luck with everything. Check out my family when
you can.

Speaker 6 (30:10):
But we are lucky that we are able to do
the show from anywhere. But Valentini even during the pandemic,
you were barely doing it from home. You were still
going in.

Speaker 2 (30:19):
Yeah, we only did it from home like two weeks
and Brian and I both were in here. And God
doesn't that I mean, when we're looking at the stuff
we're dealing with right now, these fires and people losing
their homes and stuff, life can seem very surreal at points,
and you look back at the pande as John calls it,
we look at the pandemic stuff and being in here
and that's what four years ago, three four years ago,

(30:39):
and Brian and I were in here like every day
with big pieces of plastic between us, like they had
plastic walls they'd made, like that was gonna make any
difference whatsoever, you know, and driving the Dodger Stadium to
get tested every day.

Speaker 5 (30:54):
You know, it seems like a world away. And you
were out of the studio for a year and a half.
That is so wild to me when you look back
at that, is it just but we got through that
and we'll get through this.

Speaker 9 (31:05):
You know.

Speaker 5 (31:06):
It's strange too.

Speaker 2 (31:08):
That usually, and I'll be honest, I'm usually the guy
that goes you see a celebrity have a problem, like oh,
you're rich whatever, blah blah blah. It's heartbreaking for everybody.
You can be Ben Affleck, you can be Ben Wilson,
you can be Ben Jones. It's heartbreaking for everybody you
see in TV who has lost these homes. Because whether
you're a star not a star, whether your home is

(31:28):
eighteen million or two hundred thousand, well your home's undred thousand,
let me know where you're living. But no matter what
it is, obviously it's your home. And we're just gonna
have to be there for everybody that has lost a business,
a home, a livelihood. It's just gonna be really tough
recovery time. But first things first to get the fires
put out and then we'll move on from there. But

(31:49):
also there's a lot of people evacuated. They're looking for
residences and there's only so many places you can go,
so many hotels you can go, and a lot of
hotels are stepping up giving discounts, everything like that. But
so Kathleen when she was checking out yesterday, Kathleen from
the hotel because she didn't want to stay with me.
Long story short, the dogs. The dogs drive a crazy.
So anyway, she's at a little hotel down the street.
She goes that place was just flooded with the vacuees,

(32:12):
just absolutely flooded with the vacuees. Six point fifty. This
is Valentine in the morning and it was one o
four to three MYFM. Sun's coming up. Another update we
expect on acreage and the status of the fires, coming
up at eight o'clock this morning, one oh four to
three MYFM.

Speaker 4 (32:26):
Here's what's coming up in entertainment headlines.

Speaker 6 (32:31):
Well, speaking of celebrities, Jeane Smart, who is up for
a ton of awards this award season, she has an
idea to help the victims of the fires and the firefighters.
I'll tell you what she said right off traffic.

Speaker 4 (32:42):
One o four to three my FM Entertainment headlines.

Speaker 6 (32:47):
The Critics' Choice Awards were supposed to take place Sunday
at the Santa Monica Airport's Barker Hangar, but they've been
postponed to January twenty sixth due to the fires, and
the reschedule event will still take place at the air
but they said, this unfolding tragedy has already had a
profound impact on our community. All our thoughts and prayers
are with those battling the devastating fires and with all

(33:08):
who have been affected. And speaking of award season, Jeane Smart,
who stars on Hacks, she posted yesterday and said attention,
with all due respect during Hollywood season of celebration, I
hope any of the network's televising the upcoming awards will
seriously consider not televising them then donating the revenue they

(33:29):
would have garnered to victims of the fires and the firefighters.
And a lot of celebrities chiming in and agreeing with
her statement, I'm Jill with their intiment headlines Jill, thank you, Hope,
my term mind.

Speaker 5 (33:41):
Mike Gon Jill, thank you for that. It's six fifty three.

Speaker 2 (33:43):
It's one of four to three, my fam this is
Valentine in the morning, not going to do the Battle
of Sexes today. Just doesn't feel right to do stuff
like that a day like this. We do have a
young lady coming up on the show, though, right Brian, Yes, sir.
I think she's got some really good advice. I saw
a segment she had done on Instagram. She sadly had
lost her home ten years ago, and what she learned

(34:03):
from that I think will be important for all of us.
To hear, because I'm not sure if you're listening right
now and you've lost your home, You've got a lot
of better things to do than listen to us in
the morning, right You got a lot of stuff on
your plate trying to take care of yourself and your family.
So I get that you may not be in that
situation right now, but all of us know somebody in
that situation. So the information that we garner from this

(34:23):
young lady who's gone through this process of losing a home,
the information we get from her could be valuable for
all of us to share in our friends circle with
people that might have lost their home.

Speaker 4 (34:35):
Were good.

Speaker 2 (34:42):
One a four to three mile family. It's Valentine in
the Morning's Patty on the line. So and this will
be interesting conversation because I wanted to talk to somebody
that's kind of been through this before with fires.

Speaker 5 (34:52):
Hey, Patty, good.

Speaker 14 (34:53):
Morning everyone, what a good morning, Patty, good morning.

Speaker 5 (34:57):
It's just it's unbelievable.

Speaker 2 (34:58):
I've seen what Patty did on one of our sister
stations on their Instagram, and Patty Rodriguez, who was on
the Secret Show for a number of years, suffered her
own personal tragedy years ago.

Speaker 5 (35:08):
You lost your home, what like ten years ago, Patty, ten.

Speaker 14 (35:11):
Years ago, back in twenty fourteen, I did, Oh my god, So.

Speaker 5 (35:16):
You know exactly what people are feeling this morning.

Speaker 14 (35:20):
There is no pain than losing everything all at once,
and it happens in minutes, and there's to this day.
I just I it's very difficult for me to describe
that feeling. But but I you know, like I've been
telling everyone the last two days, I promise everyone that's

(35:41):
listening who has lost their homes that even though I
doesn't feel like it right now, you will get through it.
You will come out of this stronger, because that's what
we do. That's exactly what we do.

Speaker 2 (35:53):
Yeah, give me some of the tips that you garnered
from losing your home that could help help somebody who
now not today obviously they're still grieving and going through
this process and probably trying to find you know, shelter
and everything and stuff. But as the days and weeks
go on, what are some of the steps that you
would tell them to make and to avoid.

Speaker 14 (36:16):
And that's exactly what I mean. I think right now
we are all in this greeting process and there's no
need to go through the process of the insurance claim.
But I do suggest you contact your insurance immediately. You
do contact your mortgage company immediately. I would suggest you

(36:39):
get a complete copy of your policy, read through it,
take your time with it. Document every single conversation you
have with your insurance provider and also with your mortgage company,
and if you get on the phone with them, record
the conversation, because I promise you you will not remember
anything right, You're just not in that headspace right now.

Speaker 2 (37:03):
Now, I will point out, just as one little quick note,
recording conversation is illegal unless you let that person know it.
But the iPhone that has a little feature, I guess
got the update. We can record a conversation if you
simply say to the person, listen, I'm going to forget
all this. I'm going to devastated spot. Do you mind
if I record it? You'll be totally fine.

Speaker 14 (37:19):
With that, absolutely absolutely, And take note of your insurance
living expend limits your policy if you have that available
in your policy. You should have an extend limit that
covers the living expenses that you go through this process.
And the most important part I tell everyone, do not

(37:40):
rush this process. There's no need for you to be
rushing this. There's plenty of time. Focus on your friends
and family right now, on your children, on your parents.
Do not sign anything. Do not be pressure to sign anything.
Any time you will be You're going to be approached
by sharks, by scammers, by ambulance chasers. Yeah, question everything,

(38:06):
and just just take your time. You have plenty of
time to get through this.

Speaker 2 (38:13):
Everybuilding, Yeah, rebuilding is a process, is going to take time.
And like Patty says, write stuff down, keep all your
receipts and what you had mentioned there. And I never
even thought about this, Patty. I understand insurance pretty well
because I had at a large claim in my house
recently from a flood, and so I went through that
process and stuff, but not a fire, obviously.

Speaker 5 (38:32):
And one thing that I.

Speaker 2 (38:34):
Never thought of was you're continuing to pay that mortgage
on a place that no longer exists. So does the
mortgage company stop that, Patty? Do they put a pause
on that? How does that work well?

Speaker 7 (38:46):
For me?

Speaker 14 (38:47):
That was not the case. But what I've been telling
folks that have been reaching out to me is you
call your mortgage company and maybe now they have options
and they can work with you. But in my case,
ten years ago, I had to continue making the mortgage
payment all while I was rebuilding at the same time.

Speaker 5 (39:05):
Unbelievable.

Speaker 2 (39:06):
You're making a mortgage payment, you're paying taxes, all that
stuff on a property that's no longer there. I would
think that in a case like this, with the massive
amount of loss of these fires, there is at least
a pause or some lack of penalties and stuff. And
maybe somebody listening knows that answer. You can jump in
on that one. But I think the takeaway with Patty
is like, take your time, do your due diligence, write

(39:29):
stuff down, keep as many accurate records as you can.
And obviously it's better to have these policies ahead of time,
but if you don't, make sure you reach out and
get your policies.

Speaker 3 (39:39):
Absolutely, and Patty, it's so interesting to hear this from
this perspective of my life now. My mom lost her
home twenty years ago, right and I was back. I
was a kid back then, like I didn't really understand
what was going on, and she would always say, like,
for whatever reason, the insurance company never ended up paying
because of whatever loopole that ended up happening, and I
was too young to understand it.

Speaker 1 (39:57):
Right.

Speaker 3 (39:57):
But now being at this stage in my life, hear
how it goes, it just it hits different, you know.

Speaker 14 (40:02):
I mean, I think I think we all know that
the insurance companies are what are wanting to maximize their
savings to when it comes to paying out their policy.

Speaker 6 (40:13):
Uh.

Speaker 14 (40:13):
But for that reason, we have to be uh there,
we have to fully understand our yea, our policy and
ensure that we are getting paid out, especially as you
know you you're walk you're going back to your to
your street, your neighborhood, and you and your house is
completely gone and the insurance should have to pay out

(40:35):
every single time.

Speaker 9 (40:36):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (40:37):
Absolutely, And obviously insurance in California has been very hard
for a lot of us with past wildfires, and I'm
afraid it's gonna be harder in the future too. So
you're paying insurance money for a reason, you should be
getting what you do for that same reason.

Speaker 5 (40:49):
Patty, thank you very much. How are you doing? How's
your family doing?

Speaker 7 (40:52):
Okay, we're good.

Speaker 14 (40:54):
Uh, you know, we're just paying and it's heartbreaking to
be our city the way to right now, how's.

Speaker 5 (41:02):
Your how's your personal stress?

Speaker 2 (41:04):
If you don't mind me asking, because seeing something like
this could be incredibly triggering for somebody.

Speaker 14 (41:10):
Oh absolutely, I can feel you know, I've been having
nightmare so that day driving back home and seeing my
house up and playing, yeah, I know this all too well,
and I can, I can. I can still smell the fire.
Uh and and I I think you know, I remember

(41:30):
someone asking me what do you need right now? And
the question is underwear.

Speaker 5 (41:36):
Okay, that's good to know, because I was we've.

Speaker 14 (41:40):
Lost you know, you lose everything, you have nothing.

Speaker 5 (41:44):
I was wondering that earlier myself.

Speaker 2 (41:46):
So I'm glad you said that because my son Colin,
at his school, many many, many kids are in the
Pacific Palisade area, and he's got many friends that have
lost their homes. And just today I was on the air,
I'm like, maybe she'd tell me keep to going to
this closet. He's got a couple buddies about the same
size as him. Grab some hoodies and stuff, grab some clothes,
and I don't know, maybe that's something to share too,

(42:08):
you know.

Speaker 14 (42:08):
Yeah, well yeah, you need absolutely, you need toothbrushes, you
need there's your bear. Now you have nothing, everything's gone.
And I remember walking into Target for the first time.
I had a friend of you know, I was so
blessed that so many friends reached out to help, and

(42:31):
I felt so numb because it just felt like nothing
mattered right and you and then that's what happened.

Speaker 7 (42:39):
You.

Speaker 14 (42:39):
You are the person before the fire and you and
the person after the fire. And I know that's what
that conversation you have right now, But you just become
a different person life. You see life just differently.

Speaker 2 (42:51):
You know, life has a way. Sometimes they're giving you
blinders and much like a horse, they put blinders on
the old horse that you can see just where he
was going. And in moments like this, I'm sure or Patty,
you felt like you'd blind yours on to what was
really important life and that's centered on your family and
your friends, and you know, the other stuff just disappears in.

Speaker 14 (43:09):
Some respects it to me, it's so like maybe at
that moment you'll have the research. And as you all know,
a year later, I started my company. I think I
looked at my three year old son during those months
after the fire, and I said, I have to make
you proud. Life too fragile, and I have to find

(43:30):
the strength inside me to create a legacy for you.
And that's when I started my children's publishing company a
year or later.

Speaker 9 (43:38):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (43:38):
And by the way, she blew up.

Speaker 6 (43:42):
Yeah, guarantee you have one of those books in your
house right now.

Speaker 5 (43:45):
Yeah, and then you're coming again. Patty. What's it called.

Speaker 14 (43:48):
It's called Little Libos.

Speaker 5 (43:49):
And so that's a books that are in Spanish and English.

Speaker 9 (43:52):
Right correct.

Speaker 14 (43:53):
Yeah, we published my language children's books.

Speaker 2 (43:55):
Amazing. If you don't have one of the books, get
them for your kids. Because the girl just blew up
and just followed her dreams. And that was after she
went through this tragedy. Patty, thank you for coming on.
I appreciate your time.

Speaker 14 (44:08):
Thank you all.

Speaker 10 (44:09):
I love you all.

Speaker 5 (44:09):
Come by say hi some time. We'ven't seen you in years.

Speaker 3 (44:11):
Yeah, and I miss you all.

Speaker 14 (44:13):
I missed you all. I'll be back soon.

Speaker 5 (44:15):
Okay. Thanks Patty, thanks you. Okay.

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Speaker 2 (44:30):
JEP twenty two, It is Valentine in the morning. This
is one of four to three mifm thousands of firefighters
battling multiple wildfires across La including in the Pacific Palisades,
the San Gabriel Valley, Stilmar, and now in the Hollywood
Hills as well. The wind should be slightly less powerful today,
thank god, but they are still causing issues for crews
that are strugglingly contained the seventeen thousand acre Palisades Fire,

(44:51):
which has destroyed at least one thousand structures. Many of
those are homes. It's already the most destrictive wildfire in
the history of Los Angeles. LA County and city officials
will hold a press conmerce at eight o'clock this morning.
We'll keep an eye on that for you. The latest
updates in the wild fires should be released, and the
recovery efforts as well, and things that some of us
didn't know about. In Pasadena believe they have in that

(45:13):
passad New Water District. They don't want you to drink
the water out there, stick with bottled water, and for
certain areas of the palaces that weren't destroyed, they're telling
you not to drink the water unless you boil it.

Speaker 5 (45:23):
So we'll have some of those updates coming up too.

Speaker 2 (45:25):
Multiple school districts have closed schools today, including LA USD,
Santa Monica and Maliby unified, Burbank unified, al Hammer unified
or Kadia Unified, as Zusa Utified, Baldwin Park Unified, dwart
The Unified, al Monte Unified, Glen Dill unified. Locking you
out of unified clothes, last Urgeness unified, Monroevi Unified, Garba Unified,
Mountain Unified, Pasadena Unified, Rose Mead Unified, sam Marini unified,

(45:46):
Temple City unified.

Speaker 5 (45:47):
Saying Gabriel unified.

Speaker 2 (45:48):
Those are the ones that we know of in the
old days, and has grown up as a kid, it's
a joy to hear that on the radio. It's not
a joy today as a young man. I grew up
in an area of Connecticut where we get snow days
quite often, and you sat by your radio with baited breath,
waiting to hear your school called Saint Bernard's High School
no school today and you go, hooray. It's a different,
different feeling for kids today. And I am very sad

(46:10):
for that.

Speaker 5 (46:11):
John. What is trending out there?

Speaker 3 (46:13):
So we've heard different hotels and Airbnb's doing different things
to help evacuees. Well, Airbnb is now put out a
statement offering free temporary housing for people who've been displaced
by the wildfires. Some of these days are literally completely free.
They're funded by both Airbnb and some of the generosity
of the Airbnb hosts who are offering some of their homes.
So if you or some of you know could benefit
from something like that, there is a link to a

(46:33):
form to fill out, so I'll make sure that gets
up on our Instagram. In the stories at Valentine in
the Morning, John Cammuchi, that's what's trending on socials.

Speaker 2 (46:39):
Some of the good news we're hearing that's just coming
across because we're a live radio show. The Sunset fire
evacuation orders should be fully lifted at seven thirty this morning,
so just minutes from now, they believe they have that
Sunset fire under control. It is not the biggest, it
is not the deadliest fire, obviously, but getting anything into
control right now and allowing some of those assets, the
air assets and the ten ankers in the ground to

(47:00):
move on to different fires is a good thing as well.

Speaker 5 (47:03):
So that's a little bit of good news right there.

Speaker 2 (47:06):
Seven twenty four it's Valentine in the Morning, eight sixty
sixty five four four my FM, My fam. It is
Valentine in the morning. This is one of four to
three MYFM. Hi Janet, welcome to the show.

Speaker 15 (47:20):
Hey, good morning, Valentine.

Speaker 6 (47:21):
How are you.

Speaker 5 (47:21):
I'm doing okay, but more importantly, how are you doing? Janet?

Speaker 10 (47:24):
You know, I'm holding holding, holding it together for my son,
but he's a sleep front now, so I'm able to
kind of go through the emotion of it. He's twenty
six years old and having to evacuate because of the
eating fire. And I never listened to you guys on iHeart.
I always listened to you on in my car. He
and I've actually listened to you since he was like

(47:46):
ten years old, so we've been longtime listeners. And this
morning I was just drawn to listen to you and
iHeart and your words this morning. We're just so comforting
just that you're giving embassy and understanding to the situation
for these these young people. Really, he's a victim of
graduating during COVID and all that from Chapmain and they've

(48:07):
found through a lot, and your empathy is just so agated.

Speaker 2 (48:11):
Thank you. I'm so sorry for what you and your
son are going through in this. You know, it's touched
everybody's life. My house is safe right now, my family
is safe right now, and I pray that continues. But
I know that so many families are not safe, and
their house is gone and their home is gone. And
you bring up such an important point too. For a
certain generation. You know your son going through what he

(48:35):
did in high school with COVID, and for a lot
of people, years seem to be lost, moments seem to
be lost, and then a home disappears and you're evacuated
and more moments are lost, and that mental stress. I
got talk to our friend Patty a few minutes ago.
I worry about the mental toll that takes on people,
and if anybody's experiencing that, I think one of the

(48:57):
best things we can do is let them know that
we can for them.

Speaker 5 (49:01):
We have empathy for them.

Speaker 2 (49:02):
We may not fully understand it ourselves, because it hasn't
happened to us. I cannot tell you what losing a
home feels like, but I can tell you that I'm
here for you.

Speaker 15 (49:10):
And I so appreciate that. I'm just thinking about like
when he called the day before you yesterday and had
to evacuate, and just yesterday seeing all of his neighborhood
in Altadeen, all the places that he visited. You know,
he's establishing himself as as a young man living on
his own in that and seeing that devastation is just
so resetting. But he he came here just really with

(49:32):
that emotion. We're out here in Riverside and he has
the place to be, And I think it's so important
for us to really just have that understanding and empathy,
like you said, even though we aren't experienced the connectedness
that we have to have for humanity.

Speaker 1 (49:46):
Yeah, it's so needed.

Speaker 2 (49:48):
And listen, there go you or I but for the
grace of God. I mean, we could experience that tomorrow,
We could experience it today.

Speaker 5 (49:54):
We don't know.

Speaker 2 (49:54):
These fires are still burning. They're doing their very best
and hopefully they're going to make some progress today and everything.

Speaker 5 (50:00):
But there go your rib but for the grace of God.
So we all need to be there for each other.

Speaker 2 (50:05):
And Patty, that's one of the things I talk to,
you know, with the higher ups here at iHeart and
stuff like that, because so many people have been affected,
and we're obviously a local station. We have our other
local stations here of My Heart, and I'm assuming all
the other radio companies too. We'll all kind of have
to band together and do everything we can to support people.
And the information we just got from Patty who was
on the air and talking about the one thing she

(50:25):
needed the most, like was underwear and socks in that
moment because everything was gone, you know, So it's important
to talk about this stuff.

Speaker 9 (50:32):
Yeah, and I do.

Speaker 15 (50:33):
I just so appreciate you. And that's like I said,
just compelled to text and kind of share my story
a little bit. But I appreciate you every morning, and
your team is just you.

Speaker 10 (50:42):
Just you show up in a way what we need
right now, and that's so important.

Speaker 9 (50:46):
Valentine.

Speaker 10 (50:46):
Just keep doing what you're doing. I appreciate you.

Speaker 5 (50:48):
You got it. We'll do that. Please give our best
your son.

Speaker 15 (50:51):
Okay, all right, thank you so much.

Speaker 5 (50:52):
Thanks Janet, take.

Speaker 6 (50:53):
Care to Valentine.

Speaker 4 (50:55):
In the morning. At three one oh four to three.

Speaker 2 (50:59):
Whether to day, temperature sixties, low seventies. The National Weather
Service said that after an early minor uptick today, the
winds are expecting to back down slightly during the day.

Speaker 5 (51:08):
Thank god.

Speaker 2 (51:08):
They'll peaking in tonight into early tomorrow morning. I do
not think this is going to be like the winds
we've had. There's still dangerous winds in that respect, but
not like what we've had though. I do think, unfortunately,
our red flag warning will continue past tomorrow when it's
set to expire. I think that'll probably end up continuing.
Forty five Monterie Park, forty seven Santa Na. Jill's got

(51:29):
some entertainment headlines coming up. Oh I forgot to turn
you on. I'm sorry again.

Speaker 6 (51:34):
Celebrities like Paris, Hilton, Billy Crystal, they're speaking out about
the devastation we are all witnessing and experiencing. I'll tell
you what they said about losing their homes coming up
at seven point fifty.

Speaker 5 (51:45):
So Paris lost her home, Billy Crystal lost his home.
Oh my god.

Speaker 6 (51:48):
And I'm brody and on a fairis Eugene Levy, John Goodman,
Like the list.

Speaker 5 (51:53):
Is just so long.

Speaker 2 (51:54):
I saw Ben Affleck was evacuating Jennifer Garner's ex wife
their house ashion Kutcher. Jen's house was just down the street.
I don't know if they lost it or not, but
so many people lived in that Palisade's area. You know,
Jill's not here today, She's actually in New York. She'd
flown to New York yesterday and we're kind of worried
about her getting out, But you got out, okay, Yeah.

Speaker 6 (52:14):
Got out fine. All flights at least from the Jet
Blue terminal were all on time. There were no problems there,
and then getting to lax was the quickest that I've
ever experienced. Is because people aren't on the roads. You
people aren't having.

Speaker 2 (52:26):
Good stay off the road, so any fire apparatus and
stuff can get through.

Speaker 5 (52:30):
Same thing coming to the work this morning.

Speaker 2 (52:31):
The roads are quite clear because a lot of people
obviously with school now, so many schools in southern California,
especially in La County and Ventura County not so much
OC but obviously Lavntre County have kept their kids' homes.
That takes a lot of people off the road. But
Jill went to New York for Netflix and iHeart. She
was going to be covering a movie there with Cameron

(52:53):
Diaz and Jamie Fox, but that premiere got canceled, yet
Jill decided to stay in New York for a couple
of days and enjoy yourself as.

Speaker 5 (53:02):
I understand it, understand it.

Speaker 7 (53:03):
That's the information we're receiving your life.

Speaker 3 (53:06):
You know, you're able to do whatever you.

Speaker 6 (53:07):
Want, guys. No, so you found this out very very
late last night that the premiere was canceled, and of
course things are getting canceled in LA but then all yes,
in New York they're canceling it as well. But there's
stuff that's happening on Friday for the film that as
of right now, is still going to be happening. So
I decided to stay just in case the Friday events happen,

(53:31):
and I'll come home Friday night just in case, right,
just in case.

Speaker 5 (53:34):
Right, So you've got no plans for the rest of today, right, yeah,
h huh. Right in New York on her own near Broadway, right,
I was going there too, near Broadway, And you know what,
go ahead, you deserve it. We'll be happy for you.
We'll be here doing what we do.

Speaker 2 (53:55):
But if you end up going to a Broadway show
or something New York because you're such a Broadway for.

Speaker 6 (53:58):
Shinado, I got it to bed early. We've got a
show tomorrow, you know. D text me saying I should
go see Wicked.

Speaker 5 (54:07):
So like, Lord, do that, Lord, text go see Wicked.

Speaker 7 (54:11):
Haven't you seen it like thirty times?

Speaker 6 (54:13):
I've seen it fourteen times now.

Speaker 5 (54:15):
They canceled the performance here in La the other night,
right they.

Speaker 6 (54:17):
Did, yeah last night, and I'm sure they will again.

Speaker 2 (54:20):
No, of course, And that's the right thing there. I
think you'll see a lot of cancelations throughout the rest
of the week. Maybe uh, there's no sense of normalcy
in certain respects, but maybe things will start to open
up and stuff again next week.

Speaker 5 (54:30):
That's what my prediction is and stuff. But we got
to get these fires handled. Well.

Speaker 2 (54:33):
I'm glad you doing okay, and you sound fantastic. Sounds
like the microphone. Everything in New York is working good.

Speaker 6 (54:38):
So I love our iHeart studios in New York. They're
so nice, and everybody that works here is so nice.

Speaker 2 (54:44):
Yeah, that's a phrase. It gets said often. I love
our iHeart studios in New York.

Speaker 6 (54:52):
Ours are great too, No.

Speaker 2 (54:53):
Ours are fine. Ours are fine. This spend a lot
of money in New York. They really did right, no doubt.
This is don't speak. It is seven to forty and one.
It's Valentine in the morning.

Speaker 11 (55:00):
You and me.

Speaker 5 (55:05):
One of fourth read my mammy.

Speaker 2 (55:06):
It is Balance in the morning. He was just looking
at the David Muir stuff. I hadn't I hadn't seen that, John,
I mentioned to being Jill new about this too, I guess.
And this is from the New York Post. You'll happens
to be in New York right now for a premiere
that's not gonna happen due to the fires. Uh may
have seen as anchor David Mrrors being mocked in social
media for using clamps to cinch his flame retarding jacket

(55:27):
while broadcasting the scene of the deadly fires here in
Los Angeles.

Speaker 5 (55:30):
Hmm, I didn't see it.

Speaker 6 (55:33):
Turned he I haven't seen an either, so he just
turned to the back.

Speaker 5 (55:36):
Have you seen it, John, Yeah, he's okay.

Speaker 3 (55:37):
He's pointing at some of the wreckage and he's kind
of turning around and then you can see they are like,
it looks like clothes pins to hold the jacket to him.
So it's kind of slim fit?

Speaker 9 (55:46):
Is that what it was for?

Speaker 5 (55:46):
To make us some fit? Did he respond to this
at all or anything?

Speaker 2 (55:49):
Not that there's no other reason it could have been
to I don't know, because it was interfering he's holding
the mic.

Speaker 5 (55:54):
I guess, I don't know.

Speaker 2 (55:56):
I give him a bit of grace and see, but yeah,
I guess social media there all over that one.

Speaker 3 (56:02):
Definitely giving him a hard time.

Speaker 5 (56:03):
His arms look pretty ripped in it, but he looks great.

Speaker 2 (56:06):
I was trying to watch the video, but so many
people are trying to watch it. It's not loading on
my phone. Yeah, I mean, I'm guessing that or we're
having Wi Fi problems.

Speaker 5 (56:15):
I'm not sure.

Speaker 2 (56:16):
It's seven forty six. It is one of four to
three MIFM. This is Valentin in the morning. We're waiting
for another press conference at eight o'clock this morning. Well,
let you know the latest day is with these fires,
they give updates on structures, they give updates on you know, containment,
They'll give updates on a lot of things. A couple
of fires popped up overnight. That one in Hollywood looks
like they knocked that down and up. Do they feel
confident on that one? And they've already canceled evacuations in

(56:39):
the Hollywood area. We are some people that live in
that area too, don't we around here?

Speaker 7 (56:43):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (56:43):
Well, Ellen, kay, I was going to say, does Ellen
live there? She was evacuated?

Speaker 9 (56:46):
She was? She?

Speaker 5 (56:47):
Okay, I believe she might be here now, Texter.

Speaker 9 (56:51):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (56:52):
And then there's a lot of people much like you know,
in your lives that have lost their homes, and it
touches everybody right, because there's plenty of people here at
iHeart just down the hall that work in the sales
department and programming department and stuff that have lost their
homes as well. We'll get the full update though it
will make sure we follow it for you coming up
eight o'clock this morning, one.

Speaker 4 (57:12):
Oh four to three my FM. Here's what's coming up
in entertainment.

Speaker 6 (57:16):
Headlines, and these devastating fires have caused several cancelations and
postponements in the entertainment world. I'll tell you all about
that right after traffic.

Speaker 4 (57:25):
One o four to three my FM. Entertainment headlines.

Speaker 6 (57:30):
The devastating fires have caused several cancelations and postponements in Hollywood.
Premiers have been canceled. The Critics' Choice Awards were supposed
to take place this Sunday, they had moved to the
twenty six, and also production came to a halt yesterday
on dozens of shows like Hacks, Suits, La Gray's Anatomy,
and Jimmy Kimmel Live. And so many celebrities are posting
about losing their homes on social media. Paris Hilton, saying,

(57:53):
heartbroken beyond words. Sitting with my family watching the news
and seeing our home in Malibu burned to the ground
on live TV is something no one should ever have
to experience. This home was where we built so many
precious memories. And then Billy Crystal lost the home he
and his wife lived in since nineteen seventy nine, and
he said, yeah, words cannot describe the enormity of the

(58:14):
devastation we are witnessing and experiencing. We ache for our
friends and neighbors who have also lost their homes and
businesses in this tragedy. Adam Brody and Link Measter lost
their home on a Ferris, Eugene Levy, John Goodman, Ricky Lake,
Spencer Pratt, and Heidi Montag, Diane Warren and it now
it looks like Mandy Moore's home in Altadena was also lost. Gosh,

(58:35):
I'm Jill with aeron Timid Headlines.

Speaker 2 (58:37):
Seven point fifty four. It's Valentine in the morning. This
is one of four to three MIF and the rebuild
on something like this too. I don't know how long
that takes. When was the Lahina fire that was Was
it a couple of years ago, or maybe just a
year ago, I can't remember. We just happened to be
vacationing there recently and we're driving down the road and
they've built up some walls on some of the main streets,

(58:57):
and I think it's just so tourists don't see the
devastation to be brutally on honest, But a lot of
those homes have not been rebuilt, and some of the
people just left the area and just never came back,
and the landscape is still scarred with foundations and brick
walls of homes that just haven't been rebuilt, and they're
struggling probably still to get that area.

Speaker 5 (59:15):
Back up to speed.

Speaker 6 (59:17):
And that via was twenty twenty three.

Speaker 2 (59:18):
Oh was it really okay? Seven fifty four. It's Valence
out in the morning. This is one of four to
three myff, my famian, it is Valence out in the morning.
Want to carry a bit of this because I think
it's important to get it to you in a timely manner.
We could wait and give information later on, but they're

(59:38):
doing an update right now in the wildfires. Here on
the podium, I believe it's Catherin Barger up there. Let's
listen in a little bit here website.

Speaker 1 (59:46):
In addition, the state has activated CalFire.

Speaker 12 (59:49):
Management Team three and assign them to the Eaton Canyon incident.
They will be joining Federal Management Team five in their
ongoing efforts. We hope as early as tomorrow, CalFire Team
three will be tasked with overseeing victims, search operations and
damage inspections, to facilitate debris removal operations and setting up

(01:00:12):
disaster recovery assistance centers. This will allow Federal Management Team
five to focus on firefighting operations and the active front.

Speaker 2 (01:00:23):
One of the good things they've talked about is air
assets are now able to get up because winds have
died down a little bitout.

Speaker 12 (01:00:28):
Juridictional boundaries between the city and the county. We are
managing the various resources that are coming online with the
increasing demands on our first responders. I saw this firsthand
driving through the streets of Alcadena yesterday driving up Lake Avenue.

Speaker 1 (01:00:47):
The devastation could not be missed.

Speaker 12 (01:00:50):
The number of homes, businesses, and buildings that were on
the fire dwarfed in any sense of available resources. Is
a very unique and special part of the fifth District.
It is a community that embodies the spirit of a
big small town, a community full of rich culture, history,

(01:01:16):
and one that passionately supports the small businesses that drive
its economy in the community. It is also one of
the only communities in Los Angeles County that manages the
urban wildland interface.

Speaker 1 (01:01:30):
Altadena is a resilient community.

Speaker 12 (01:01:33):
They have seen some significant battles before, but the scale
of the impact today is larger than anything that I
have seen in my career. The loss of historic resources
at Eton Canyon Nature Center, Farnsworth Park, and the Altadena
Golf Course cannot be measured. I saw fire engines and

(01:01:55):
companies from El Dorado County.

Speaker 2 (01:01:58):
This is Catherine Barger speaking from the us LA County
Board of Supervisors in an effort we're expecting after her
to an update on containment of the fires. Any progress
have made of the fires. Of course, the amount of
acreage and homes that may have been lost in these fires.
Usually that will come up when the fire department makes
it to the podium unacceptable.

Speaker 12 (01:02:18):
You will be hearing from our DA hawkman shortly regarding
his efforts to hold these individuals accountable, and I promise
you you will be held accountable.

Speaker 2 (01:02:29):
She's referencing there that some looters have been arrested already
going into some homes that have suffered fire damage.

Speaker 12 (01:02:35):
The emergency order will be strictly enforced by the Sheriff's Department,
who are proactively patrolling to protect these communities from looting
in any criminal activity. They have made twenty arrests of
individuals who will be held accountable.

Speaker 1 (01:02:53):
For the actions that they've taken.

Speaker 12 (01:02:56):
I want to thank President Joe Biden and Governor Gavin
Newsom for pledging to bring federal and state resources to
help Los Angles County in our moment of need. President
Biden's disaster declaration includes the promise of public assistance and
individual assistance.

Speaker 2 (01:03:14):
It is shocking that they've already caught twenty people going
to the homes of evacuees trying to steal stuff. Nathan Hockman,
who's a new DA you remember he just got voted
in this past election period. He was talking yesterday, look
directly right into the camera. Creepiest thing, but well done.
Right into the camera, goes, we will get you.

Speaker 12 (01:03:37):
I'm like this board and this county will continue to
do everything in our power to ensure the safety of
our residents as we look forward to the path of recovery.
With that, I would like to introduce Supervisor Lindsay Horbath.

Speaker 4 (01:03:54):
Super Bowl at the Mayor likes an stealer confessions.

Speaker 1 (01:03:58):
Okay, so who are we going to mayor baths. I'd
like to introduce La City Marraorbause. Thank you, Supervisor. One voice.

Speaker 16 (01:04:12):
That is the way we speak, and that is the
way we stand here united Los Angeles will stand united
and stand strong. So first of all, my thoughts are
with the thousands of Angelinos who are impacted by this emergency.
As more Angelinos were forced to make the terrifying decision
to evacuate our priorities.

Speaker 5 (01:04:33):
Ok I was waiting for some updates, but this is
Mayor bast I just talking about.

Speaker 1 (01:04:36):
The city protect homes, the winds con.

Speaker 2 (01:04:39):
We'll get an update on the acres and stuff. We'll
keep following it for you. But I thought they might
go straight to the fire Marcus. I wanted some important information.
There's one fourth three, my fam. This is Valentine in
the morning. It is eight eleven. Good morning, Thank you
for turning the show on today. If you want to
reach out to me part of a show at any point,
you can always do that three one oh four to
three three one oh four three, Natalia Perez is and

(01:05:00):
invites me do a great job, keeps us a breast
of the traffic. Traffic has been less problematic obviously because
a lot of people are home the schools, most of
them in the La Ventura counties are out Orange County. Course,
not as affected by the fires per ses, maybe a
little bit of smoke, but obviously affected by knowing people
in La and Ventura County.

Speaker 5 (01:05:18):
One of four three mi Fami.

Speaker 2 (01:05:19):
It is a balance out in the morning, keeping you
abreast of what's going on out there and kind of
putting you on the ground, so to speak. One of
our iHeart reporters from KFI, Michael Monks, and the phone line, Michael,
where are you right now?

Speaker 9 (01:05:31):
I'm an Altadena. I'm standing on the corner of Marplosa
Street and El Molino Avenue, and it is a very
strange scene of destruction that is almost seemingly random because
there are home completely walked wiped out right and then
near feet away across the street dad corner homes that

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look like they would have last week. That's what's so
crazy to see right now.

Speaker 2 (01:05:55):
So you're seeing destruction and at the same time stuff
that survived that destruction. If you're like your so to speak,
of boots in the ground, walking on the earth, so
to speak, can you just look around and paint a
picture of what you see where you are.

Speaker 9 (01:06:10):
Yeah, just to give you an idea of what I
mean by the randomness of this destruction. Like I said,
I'm on the corner of Mariposa Street and Elmalina Avenue,
and all four corners have a little bit of a
difference to them. I'm standing in front of them on
one of the corner. But Mariplosa town Homes for rent.
This sign has no damage to it at all whatsoever.

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Mere feet behind the sign advertising the town homes, there
are no town homes. They're gone. They're burned to the ground.
There is smoke coming off of the rubble that used
to be these homes that the owners were trying to
rent out. When you look across the street, the firefighters
have set up shop in a building that is completely fine.
On the other corner, you see the frame of a

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brick strip mall that looks pretty old, early to mid century,
and there used to be a State farm agency in there.
There used to be a hardware store not anymore. It's
all gone. And then the last corner, everything it's flattened,
and you see cars that are black. You see the
smoke coming off of the ground. Still, I've got one

(01:07:14):
of these utility poles split half hanging by I don't
know what, I guess the wires above right, and the
smoke is coming off of that. And so it's just
a scary situation. But you saw this same thing play
out all across the town as I was driving into
this location this morning. Houses burned to the ground, only
the chimney tops sticking up, and then other houses right

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next door or across the street completely fine.

Speaker 2 (01:07:37):
It's a it's so surreal when we see that that chimney,
something that would hold a fire, is the only thing
that's safe from the fire, the chimney.

Speaker 5 (01:07:43):
You know, it's very strange.

Speaker 9 (01:07:45):
Yeah, it is, and it's it's it's like a skyline
of chimney tops.

Speaker 13 (01:07:50):
Here.

Speaker 5 (01:07:50):
You've just got what looks like a mock up of
us right of your phone's cutting in. Out.

Speaker 2 (01:07:56):
Let me ask you this because if we did get
an updated eighty cols just lined up, we'll give people
some of the acreage updates and stuff in a few
minutes here. But from your vantage point on the ground,
and obviously you're seeing all this destruction and everything. Can
you see the actual fire line. Does it seem to
be that things are getting better? Is it going in
the right direction, so to speak? How are the winds,
et cetera.

Speaker 9 (01:08:17):
The winds are not as bad as they were yesterday.
The air is really bad. The smoke is intense, it's thick,
and the crews here are allowing the media to get
to some spots. I'm in one of those spots right.
It's so volatile a situation. Though I can't currently see
the main flames, what I do see are the remnants
of what blew through here in recent days. And I'll

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tell you there are still little threats here. I see
a couple at a house right here on the other
side of the street, and there's a little bit of
smoke that's coming up out of their mulks. Now, their
house has been fine so far, but a little bit
of a smoke patch coming out of their mulk. They're
digging it up, knocking it into the streets and in
their yards.

Speaker 2 (01:08:57):
So they're out their front yard digging up any part
of the that's burning sumultusm and they're just throwing that
out into the street, trying to save their house from
another spotfire starting up.

Speaker 5 (01:09:06):
I assume.

Speaker 9 (01:09:08):
That's what it seems like. I mean, you must assume
that there are some embers that are still flying.

Speaker 5 (01:09:11):
Around right right, and you clearly you have a mask on.
I assume, right, that's what we're hearing.

Speaker 9 (01:09:17):
I do, Yeah, I have it. And it's interesting to
put this in ninety five mask on and it's doing
a pretty good job. But it kind of takes you
back to COVID when you put the mask on, and
the scenes are similar to that too. The streets are
mostly clear, there's not a lot of traffic. There is
an ominous sense to the air. It was just very
very twenty twenty.

Speaker 2 (01:09:39):
Does the out of curiosity? Does the mask work? Is
that providing you enough relief from the smoke?

Speaker 14 (01:09:47):
Go far?

Speaker 9 (01:09:48):
So good? Oka?

Speaker 1 (01:09:48):
Yeah?

Speaker 9 (01:09:49):
I mean obviously you know you're able to breathe in it,
so some of the air is coming through. I can
smell and taste the smoke. It feels like a campfire
that maybe got a little out of he and a
little too intense. That's what it smells like. That's what
it cases like.

Speaker 2 (01:10:04):
Yeah, yeah, this is iHeart, reported Michael Monks. He's on
the scene right now. This is the eating fire. Is
that it's called forgiving sony fires?

Speaker 5 (01:10:10):
I forget you.

Speaker 2 (01:10:11):
Have you had a chance, Michael's interact with anybody? And
I know, with iHeart, I hope you do this with
a bit of decorum.

Speaker 13 (01:10:19):
I know you do.

Speaker 5 (01:10:20):
But have you interacted with the folks there?

Speaker 2 (01:10:23):
What's the mental state of some of the people you've
come in contact with that are like the couple on
the front lawn trying to dig up the dirt that's
on fire and stuff.

Speaker 5 (01:10:30):
Have you interacted with anybody?

Speaker 11 (01:10:33):
I have?

Speaker 9 (01:10:34):
And you know, it's interesting because that couple, I saw
a few other people walk up to them. This guy
overheard somebuddy ate it, and so there are people walking
around the neighborhood taking in the situation. It's not just
a pleasant Saturday afternoon walk. Like. People have managed to
keep their spirits up as best they can despite what's happening.

(01:10:56):
Obviously it's devastating, you've lost a lot, but I think
people have realized based on all the ones I talked
to so far today and and yesterday when I was
more focused on the palasade. There seems to be a
sense that, Hey, I'm alive and that's the most important thing. Right.

Speaker 2 (01:11:12):
That's a realization that comes to play for many of
us when we go through anything life changing, life threatening
like that, that you realize the most important thing are
the people in your life, not the things in your life.

Speaker 9 (01:11:20):
Right. That's exactly what's happening here because there are no
things left on so many of these properties.

Speaker 2 (01:11:26):
Yeah, Michael, thank you for the update. Be safe is
your uh, your life? Your family?

Speaker 5 (01:11:32):
You guys say, we're safe.

Speaker 9 (01:11:35):
My spouse and I are downtown, so we can smell
the fire, but we're not really threatened by it right now,
so we'll hang in there. And I hope everybody listening
and you guys as well do the same.

Speaker 2 (01:11:43):
Thank you, Thanks for the update. Appreciate that, my friend,
my pleasure. It's eight twenty four. This is one of
four to three, my fam it is Valentine in the Morning.
If you want to reach out directly to our show,
it is three one oh four to three.

Speaker 13 (01:11:57):
Dream comes.

Speaker 2 (01:12:00):
Carpenter Feather. It's one of four three MYTHM. This is
Valentine in the Morning. Thank you for taking the time
to join us in the show today. I know you've
got a lot of stress in your life, and if
we can do anything to help you, not necessarily necessarily
relieve that stress, because I.

Speaker 5 (01:12:14):
Mean, I don't know if I can do that. I'm trying,
We're all trying.

Speaker 2 (01:12:18):
But if we can do anything to help you mitigate
or help you just realize that you're not in this
on your own, especially people who are directly impacted by
this fire, I hope we're doing that for you. Talking
to Michael Monks at iHeart reporter, who's on the ground
at the eating fire, it's interesting to hear for the

(01:12:40):
standpoint of somebody's eyes, who's right there. You know, you
see images on TV and stuff like that, but the
human voice when it comes across to you and there,
it is muffled and you're interacting with it. And he's
talking about the randomness of the fire and how one
house is still there and this is a sign that says,
you know, townhomes for rent, but yet all the town
homes are gone, but the sign is still fine. It

(01:13:03):
is something powerful to hear that as days go by,
we will build, we'll rebuild, and we will.

Speaker 5 (01:13:10):
At iHeart course, hopefully.

Speaker 2 (01:13:11):
I'm speaking for the company now and I may not
have any right to, but I know that we'll do
our very best to help people out. And it's amazing
how Hollywood's come alive, the celebrities, the stars of southern
California already donating money to the American across and different
foundations and agencies that are reputable that will do the
very best to help out. We've all seen so many

(01:13:31):
gofundmes already up, and I assume that the vast majorities
are real, but please do your due diligence, due diligence
and make sure that they are real. Sorry, Mesta and Colin. Yesterday,
when he got home, he had gone out just to
get out of the house. He was going to start crazy,
and went out for a coffee with his friend or
something and bumped into two of his friends from school,
and both this young lady and these young men had

(01:13:52):
both lost their homes in the Palisades fire. And so
many of us will know somebody directly impacted as many
people here at iHeart that lost our homes from Altadena
to Palisades. And the update now I think Alta Dina's
over a thousand plus structures have been lost. And when
we say structures, a lot of those are homes, you know.
I'm sure some are shopping centers, and some are banks

(01:14:14):
and businesses. But yet those banks and businesses and shopping
centers all have people that work there. And so for
some people, you've lost your home and your livelihood. A
text came in a few minutes ago. Here hotel workers.
We're doing our best to accommodate those we can, but
our teams are also dealing with evacuations, and some of
our team members have lost their homes, but yet they've
come to work. We only have so many rooms and

(01:14:36):
so many places to eat. Please don't yell at us.
We're doing our best. Thanks Ben. So obviously, I think
we should all be aware, even if we're not directly
impacted by these fires, in the loss of our homes,
we have friends, neighbors, and associates that are so how
we interact with each other throughout these days is important.
There'll be a point down the road, maybe where we
all get back to going, Hey, get out of my way,
you stole my parking spot, whatever, And please God, that

(01:14:58):
happens right in a joking way, I say that, but
in the meantime, how we interact and how we deal
with each other is important. If you'd like to interact,
to deal with us, you can always reach out at
three one oh four three. That's our text line. We
read stuff right off that all the time, three one
oh four three.

Speaker 4 (01:15:13):
Next Valentine in the morning at three one oh four
to three.

Speaker 2 (01:15:17):
All right, it is eight thirty three. The weather today,
temps sixties, low seventies. National Weather Service said that after
an early minor ip tick today, the winds are expected
to back down slightly during the day. Please God, we
want those air assets in the air right. They'll peak
again tonight into early tomorrow morning. Fifty two al Hambra
fifty in Orange. Jill does have some entertainment headlines coming up, Valentine.

Speaker 6 (01:15:38):
You just mentioned celebrities doing their part. Jamie Lee Curtis
has just pledged a ton of money to help LA
fire relief funds. I'll tell you what she's doing coming
up at eight.

Speaker 2 (01:15:46):
Fifty Mark, Good morning, good morning, thanks for coming on
our show.

Speaker 5 (01:15:51):
What's going on? Bud? How are you?

Speaker 10 (01:15:55):
Uh?

Speaker 13 (01:15:58):
No, We in the Alsadina area and it's kind of
funny Wednesday night. I don't know, it's what day to
day it was in the track. Tuesday night, we were
trying to go to dinner and my son saw the
fire in the distance, and I said, let's let's go
to the end of the street and just check it
out real quick. And once we at the end of
the street, we realized it was pretty dangerous, so we

(01:16:19):
ran back and luckily my wife made us do a checklist,
and we went through the checklist and got those things,
and you know, got maybe three four days worth the
close and bugged out to Redlands, where my mom lives.
And then in the morning, I was watching the news
and we saw a house that was literally six houses

(01:16:40):
south from us on fire, and I just decided, I'm
going to go back and see if maybe if the
house is still there, can grab us a few more things.
But by the time I got there and turned the corner,
it just.

Speaker 2 (01:16:52):
Gone, Oh, Mark, I'm so sorry. I can't I can't
even imagine. So you and to trying salvage grab anything
you could know that there's a fire six houses down
the street, and you turned a corner and I'm I
don't know what that feeling was, but you turn a
corner and I assume your heart to stop.

Speaker 5 (01:17:12):
You must just lost breath.

Speaker 13 (01:17:15):
Yeah, I mean it was it was yeah, I mean
that was all all you could do because it was
weird too, like the house to our left and to
our right were still there.

Speaker 2 (01:17:24):
Yeah, but ours was gotten and there's no rhyme or
reason to that. We've heard stories like this before where
one house is still standing. You know, the house is
not sitting there directly across the street measure from each other.

Speaker 5 (01:17:33):
There's no rhyme or reason to it.

Speaker 2 (01:17:36):
You got out safe, though, right, everybody? Your family, immediate
family safe?

Speaker 13 (01:17:41):
Yep, No, we got out, got out safe. In fact,
I was luckily when when we saw the fire, I
called a couple of friends who were close, and because
of my call, literally they got to get home and
get a few things and safe from their stuff too.

Speaker 5 (01:17:54):
Oh my god, where are you? Where are you at now?

Speaker 9 (01:17:57):
You sat?

Speaker 5 (01:17:57):
Are you sing? Redlands? You said with your mom?

Speaker 13 (01:18:00):
Yeah? So Redlands is my hometown. Okay, so we uh,
we bugged out and we're kind of just crashing here
for the moment, but we got to figure out how
to get kind of closer to Altaden again, to get
my son, My son's fourteen.

Speaker 5 (01:18:14):
How's he doing?

Speaker 2 (01:18:15):
I mean, this is impactful in so many different ways, right,
but we worry about our kids more than anything in life.

Speaker 5 (01:18:20):
How's your son doing.

Speaker 13 (01:18:22):
I think he's still a little it hasn't really hit
him yet, like it fells sur real.

Speaker 5 (01:18:27):
Yeah, he did ask.

Speaker 13 (01:18:28):
He did ask kind of if we could, uh like
go back to the area and kind of check things out.
I think he wants to, you know, see for herself
with what happened.

Speaker 2 (01:18:39):
Whether that's closure or not or I don't know. I've
never been in that situation, so I can't speak to
what's right?

Speaker 5 (01:18:45):
Is your wife? Okay?

Speaker 13 (01:18:47):
I mean we're both I think just still a bit
in shock. I don't think it's completely hit. I mean
other than like that kind of laughed. I I since
I went out there yesterday, I realized, okay, I've only
got so many clothes, so I was in underwear while
I was washing clothes to get the smoke smell out.

Speaker 16 (01:19:03):
Right.

Speaker 2 (01:19:04):
We talked to a young lady today and it was
Patty Rodriguez. And Patty's been a friend of us for
a number years. She lost her home in a wild
fire ten years ago. And she actually said kind of
something like you just said right there.

Speaker 5 (01:19:15):
She goes.

Speaker 2 (01:19:16):
The thing that I needed the most was socks and underwear.
You know, I just didn't have those things because all
of a sudden, you are bare to the world in
many different ways, you know.

Speaker 13 (01:19:27):
Yeah, I know, it's crazy the fact that that's that's
kind of why I decided to Just then, I was
walking walking the dog and I heard her and I
was like, you know what, I've listened to you guys,
well you specifically Valentine since your your other radio station days.
So that's how old I am, right, But I I
just like was like, I'm finally one of those moments

(01:19:47):
where yeah, you call in and say.

Speaker 2 (01:19:49):
Hi, oh man, I'm sorry. This is the moment that
you and I have a conversation together. I appreciate you
listening to over all these years. I don't know what
we can do immediately to help you. Is your anything
that you need immediately? Have you talked to your insurance company?
I mean, what's what do you need today?

Speaker 5 (01:20:05):
Mark?

Speaker 11 (01:20:07):
Uh?

Speaker 13 (01:20:08):
And that's that's that's the hard thing. It's like I
don't even know how to answer it yet, just because
I don't. I mean, I guess, I mean, a new house,
lots of people that that and and I don't even
know you know, you know, Yeah, that's fair, it's weird.

Speaker 5 (01:20:27):
Yeah, I don't want to put any pressure on you.

Speaker 6 (01:20:29):
Well, can we get your your venmo or something so
that you can take care of dinner for your family
tonight as a show, you know, just one less thing
off your plate.

Speaker 13 (01:20:37):
Yeah, that would that would be great. I can I
can send it to you guys.

Speaker 2 (01:20:41):
Yeah, just send it to Brian. I know you can
be a touch of Brian in the text line here
and stuff. We'll take care of that. We'll do what
we can. Uh, are you This is gonna sound stupid,
and please, this is not me looking for a joke.
It's a very valid question. Are you a heavier set guy?

Speaker 13 (01:20:56):
I am not all right?

Speaker 5 (01:20:57):
So my clothes are out. Can you what size? Wat
nice waist? I mean, I know that sounds drastically silly.

Speaker 13 (01:21:05):
But I'm actually thirty to thirty two, depending on how
in shape I'm at.

Speaker 3 (01:21:11):
I'm gonna bring him over. We'll go through my stuff together.

Speaker 5 (01:21:13):
You got some stuff for him. I might have some
stuff for you from ten years ago. I could try that.

Speaker 2 (01:21:20):
Your son, what what size is he is? The average
fourteen year old boy? I've got a sixteen year old
son who's got a lot of clothes.

Speaker 13 (01:21:27):
He uh, what is He's about five four right now.
He's my wife's My wife's tiny, she's four ten, so,
oh my gosh. So he's not super tall yet, but
he's actually starting to sprout.

Speaker 5 (01:21:41):
All right.

Speaker 2 (01:21:41):
That might be Brian's clothes. You know, my family seems
to be struggling to give you clothes here. That is
Brian right there, got you man? Uh, Mark, I'm so sorry.
I hope that just talking to us provides a little
bit of relief. And I hope you hear the empathy
because we are. We're so sorry for you. We're so
sorry for many people, but been beneath that and past that,

(01:22:02):
we're there for you.

Speaker 7 (01:22:03):
You know.

Speaker 2 (01:22:04):
I want you to know that because many people here
at I Heeart have lost their homes, you know, walked
up and down the hall. There's somebody that we know
that's lost their home as well. So even though so
in the California said a massively large area, and people
look at Los Angeles in Hollywood, it is a massively
large footprint, we can be a small town. We can
be a neighbor to each other. And I hope that
you will find that from us and other entities and

(01:22:25):
friends and family in the coming days, months, and years.

Speaker 13 (01:22:29):
Yeah, I know, I really appreciate that. In fact, I
wanted to say, really appreciated your coverage yesterday because as
I was driving back out, just like being able to
hear everything, and you guys staying on the air, you
staying a little longer. It just it was all helpful.
I mean, it's kind of nice to have a voice
you hear all the time with you when that was happening.

Speaker 5 (01:22:49):
Yeah, no, I'm We're happy to do that. It's that's
our job, you know, that's our job.

Speaker 2 (01:22:54):
Hang on though, so I can get your information off
youre Mark, Okay, right, all right, thank you, my friend,
you got it.

Speaker 5 (01:23:00):
Hang tight. So that's us.

Speaker 2 (01:23:02):
You pick up a phone line and Brian said he
was in a hold before we did traffic and you know,
the weather and stuff like that. This is such a
reality to this situation for so many of us that
it really sets in when you talk to somebody and
you hear in their voice their life. You hear in
the vocal changes, the ups and downs, the intonations of

(01:23:22):
words that pauses see and when I asked Mark, I'm
like what can we do for you? And he didn't
have an answer, you know, not necessarily because so many
people still in shock, and that will change over the
next number of days as they get these fires out.
When we assess the situation, my famy, it's Valentine in morning?

(01:23:48):
Is there something to that as we go forward? And
I I've never taken a class about emergency preparedness and
stuff like that. And to be honest, you guys know
it used to be police officer, and when I was
a cop in Connecticut. I mean I was a cop
in a small town in Connecticut. You know, let's be
honest with the amount of stuff that I saw on
a regular basis. I you know, as police officer, did

(01:24:09):
lots of highway patrols, speed trapps, different things, and responded
to a lot of domestics. Domestics were a big thing
in a small town in Connecticut in the middle of
the winter because people were just like sitting at home drinking,
God forbid.

Speaker 5 (01:24:22):
Not a good scene.

Speaker 2 (01:24:23):
So today, I responded to a lot of that stuff
as a young man, So I learned a lot about that,
but never really too natural disasters per se, even though
we had hurricanes and stuff like that. So I'm wondering
after we talked to Mark, if one of the things
that really would be good and perhaps with some organizations
out there, that could lead us down the right path
here at iHeart as we try and put our heads
together to see what we can do. It's not just
monetary type stuff, right, that will be one thing monetarily

(01:24:45):
supporting people, But the clothing thing. You have no clothes,
and not everybody's gonna be able to rush down to
Target or something like that with a bunch of money
and buy stuff and then things.

Speaker 5 (01:24:55):
Do sell out too.

Speaker 2 (01:24:56):
Is there a way to get the clothes off our
back so to speak, you know, to donate clothes? Like
John will check his closet because he's got about the
same size as Mark and stuff.

Speaker 3 (01:25:05):
And honestly, I have too many clothes for my closet,
Like I'm legit going to go in there and go
through them today and.

Speaker 2 (01:25:09):
Just see if you can help him out in that way.
It's an instant way to get to somebody and get
them clothes, and it's also not giving them the job
of going out going shopping and looking for clothes and
doing all that stuff and paying. Maybe it's too much
at that point where it's a lot better for them
to use that money for food and other necessary resources.
If we can get them clothes in a quick manner.

(01:25:32):
There must be I mean, it's at Salvation Armies. Who
is it that would help out with something like that,
and we all did like clothes drive. I'm kind of
spitballing here, and I hope the bosses hear me at
iHeart too, because that might be something that is instantly
accessible to us, right and instantly attainable and instantly necessary
because a lot of people left their home, hopefully with
the go bag, but some left with the clothes off

(01:25:54):
their back, and there are no more clothes, you know,
So if anybody wants to lead us in that right direction, yeah, jil.

Speaker 6 (01:26:00):
Even if we could do something there at the station,
like in the loading dock, you know, everybody from iHeart
brings their stuff and then you can stop by if
you're in near burbank take what you need. We could
totally put something together like that hole.

Speaker 2 (01:26:10):
Yeally, it might be as simple as that, you know.
So they are working and stuff in the background. I
do know that I just don't know what the plans
are so to speak, right now, because We're still trying
to get through these fires too. Eight forty seventy. It's
one of four to three MIFM. This is Valentine in
the morning. Jill not in the studio today. She's actually
in New York. She left last night, got out in

(01:26:30):
a flight last night. She was required to go to
New York. She didn't want to go. She actually did
not want to go. She didn't have the heart to
tell Netflix this, no, no, but.

Speaker 6 (01:26:41):
It was for work. So I came and the premiere
that was supposed to happen tonight, it was for Back
in Action with Jamie Fox and Candias on Netflix. That
was canceled tonight. And so there are some things still
planned tomorrow to be able to do, like the work
portion of as of right now is still happening. We'll see, right. Yeah,
But I'm in New York City and it's being away.

Speaker 2 (01:27:02):
It is it's hard being away from your family and
the fires. I understand that, but I've also been told
off the air that you're in a very nice hotel.

Speaker 6 (01:27:09):
I am in a very nice hotel. It's so nice,
twenty four hour room service, which I'm not used to.

Speaker 5 (01:27:20):
Wow, Yeah, I am not.

Speaker 6 (01:27:22):
Used to that.

Speaker 9 (01:27:24):
Off.

Speaker 2 (01:27:24):
You go, Wow, it must be Niceflix New York.

Speaker 6 (01:27:28):
Jill is on it.

Speaker 2 (01:27:29):
Netflix is loaded, right, aren't they? You know it's a funny.
Jill and I went to New York a few months
ago for a radio award. We stated the shadiest Airbnb.

Speaker 6 (01:27:38):
It was scary.

Speaker 5 (01:27:39):
It was so scary.

Speaker 2 (01:27:40):
The uber driver said, get in there now and lock
the door. You don't want to be on the streets.
Netflix was paid for that.

Speaker 6 (01:27:47):
I'm in our iHeart studios in New York City. Yeah,
and I just smell a Zanya like. It just smells
so good in here right now. I don't know what's
going on. I haven't been outside the studio since we
started our show. But just smells like Italian food and
it's delicious.

Speaker 5 (01:28:01):
Huh, must be nice.

Speaker 3 (01:28:03):
Yeah, well it smells like seven rolls from time to time.

Speaker 5 (01:28:07):
Not now, John, not how One O four to three
my FM.

Speaker 4 (01:28:12):
Here's what's coming up in entertainment headlines.

Speaker 6 (01:28:16):
Of course, a lot of postponemans and rescheduling going on
in Hollywood and celebrities chiming in about losing their homes.
I'll tell you the latest coming up after traffic one
O four.

Speaker 4 (01:28:25):
To three my FM, entertainment headlines.

Speaker 6 (01:28:29):
Actress Jamie Lee Curtis has announced plans to donate one
million dollars towards fire Really Fund. She said the money
would come from her family foundation, which she formed with
her husband and her children. She said, to support our
great city and state and the great people who live
and love there. Jamielee Curtis said she's in communications with
the governor and the mayor as to where those funds

(01:28:50):
need to be directed for the most impact, and a
lot being canceled or rescheduled in Hollywood right now due
to the fires. The Screen Actors Guild we're supposed to
announce her not for their awards live, but the event
was canceled due to the fire, so they did announce
the denominations. But Gene Smart, who stars in Hacks, and
she's been nominated on all different award shows this past season.

(01:29:12):
She says, with all due respect, during Hollywood season of celebration,
I hope any of the network's televiseding the upcoming awards
will seriously consider not televising them and donating the revenue
they would have garnered to victims of the fires and
the firefighters. I'm jill with their entertainment headlines.

Speaker 2 (01:29:28):
All right, Jill, thank you eight fifty six. This is
one of four to three mifm. Our show is called
Valentine in the Morning. If you're needws to our show,
I know people are finding us at all different times.
Thank you for taking a moment to come to our show.
We have a lot of people reaching out that listen
to cross the entire country, wishing all of us here
in La the very best and praying for us. iHeart
is a fantastic company, has a large platform, large footprint too,

(01:29:51):
and people listen to us all across the country on
the free iHeartRadio app. So it is nice to see
messages coming in from people listening elsewhere for everybody here
in La Post circle So one four to three MYFM,
it is Valentine in the Morning. Haven't been out to

(01:30:13):
the balcony yet today house to smoke from that fire?

Speaker 5 (01:30:16):
Have we looked?

Speaker 7 (01:30:17):
I haven't been out there either.

Speaker 5 (01:30:18):
Yes, it was so dark.

Speaker 2 (01:30:19):
Yes, it was the worst when we walked out in
the balcony, and we're just all idiots honestly at iHeart
because we walked out there every show walked down and
looked at it from the fifth floor. Balcony, and all
we did was let a ton of smoke into the
building that killed everybody's voice. So you gotta be careful
that anybody asthmatic as well. Of course, have that mass
candy for round about. Monitor the aqui as much as
you're monitoring should you be evacuated if you're in a

(01:30:40):
certain area. Right, of course, you got to monitor the
AQI the air quality as well to make sure that
you are not in a spot where it can be
problematic with particulate matter and everything that's in these houses.
Some of these houses in that Alta edifire are much older,
one hundred year old homes, and there's a lot of
stuff in those homes.

Speaker 5 (01:30:58):
That you don't want burning and going up into the air.

Speaker 6 (01:31:00):
You know, there was let me get my phone really fast, Okay,
something that I didn't know I should have had turned
on in my settings, and I saw a couple of
people post about it on social media, and I thought, oh,
I need to do this.

Speaker 5 (01:31:14):
Everybody, get your phone. Jill just gonna walk us through
something ahead.

Speaker 6 (01:31:16):
Okay, you probably already have yours turned on.

Speaker 5 (01:31:18):
Well I hope I do, but let's see.

Speaker 6 (01:31:20):
So you go to settings settings, then notifications.

Speaker 2 (01:31:24):
Is this only for iPhones? Jill, yes, obviously being very
mean to anybody else.

Speaker 6 (01:31:29):
I'm sorry your iPhone.

Speaker 5 (01:31:32):
Okay, my iPhone. We go to settings, we go to.

Speaker 6 (01:31:34):
Notifications, Medications, then emergency alerts.

Speaker 5 (01:31:37):
Where's that.

Speaker 6 (01:31:40):
It's down?

Speaker 5 (01:31:41):
Let's see, I don't see them.

Speaker 2 (01:31:44):
Mine one more time, settings notifications, and then I don't
see emergency alerts on. Mine is far way down the bottom,
scrolling down. Yes, yes, emergency alerts is on for me.

Speaker 6 (01:31:58):
Local awareness on, yes it is, okay, mine was off? Okay,
all right, so they turned on local awareness and then
that way Apple uses your location.

Speaker 5 (01:32:09):
So that's why drive it into work.

Speaker 6 (01:32:11):
All I get is right out that yesterday. No, Oh,
I wonder why I'm not getting those awareness was off?

Speaker 3 (01:32:20):
Interesting?

Speaker 2 (01:32:20):
Oh thank god you'll have them now because they are
non stop currently. As you especially as you drive down
a freeway, you enter another evacuation zone, you know. So
that's why mine are going off constantly. And they went
off on the way to work today before it got
the freeway. So the fire had spread that palasads fired
to another zone, and they were giving people the early
evacuation notices their yeah, and mine, we're off. It's the uh.

(01:32:42):
And then public safety alerts you have then on. Yes,
you have amber alerts on obviously, hmm. Yeah, emergency alerts.
It's under settings all the way down the bottom. You
have emergency alerts turned on. Local awareness uses your approximate
location to alert you of things in the area. So
even if you're traveling or going through an area fromamiliar
with that, if there was a problem there, it would

(01:33:02):
go off right your job, Jill, thank you.

Speaker 6 (01:33:05):
Hey, welcome.

Speaker 5 (01:33:07):
Of course already heard it on. Of course, Mom, you know,
I mean, was it on for you, John? No, it
was not your youngsters. It wasn't on for you, bro,
It was not on for me. My gosh. Guys, Yeah,
what told me you never shared that information? I didn't
know I had to share it. I thought it was
just on for everybody. I don't know.

Speaker 8 (01:33:28):
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Speaker 4 (01:33:35):
It's three things you need to know right now.

Speaker 2 (01:33:38):
So the fire is burning through southern California. Have become
the worst natural disaster in Los Angeles in decades. The
latest update from laun fire officials shows that nearly one
hundred and eighty thousand people have been evacuated. One hundred
and eighty thousand people not sleeping in their own beds.

Speaker 5 (01:33:52):
Think about that.

Speaker 2 (01:33:53):
Over two thousand structures have been destroyed. The worst of
the Senate and it winds now behind us, but the
National Weather Services long winds and critical fire weather will
persist until at least tomorrow night.

Speaker 5 (01:34:03):
It also might get extended. We'll see.

Speaker 2 (01:34:05):
They do not drink water order has been issued for
Pasadena and evacuated zones around the eating fire. Apparently debris
could have impacted the quality of the water in the area.
Fists are urging people to not to try to treat
the water yourself by boiling or filtering any other method. Instead,
the city passing in advises everyone drink bottled water for
the time being, So anyone in that passing in area

(01:34:27):
are assume with the Pasadena Water District, drink bottled water
from this point forward. Drink bottled water from this point
forward until told otherwise. John, what's trending.

Speaker 3 (01:34:38):
We've talked a lot about free places or discounted stays.
We have those links up on our Instagram for evacuees.
But Planet Fitness is also offering their facilities free for
evacuees and first responders. You can come in, use the shower,
the locker room, the Wi Fi. Even some homes that
may not be under mandatory evacuation, they may still be
without power for a while. I know Brian was out
of power for almost twenty four hours, a little bit
more so he needed to shower for some time. If

(01:35:00):
you do need one as well, or you know someone
who does, you can direct them to a Planet Fitness
for free. I'm John Comuchi. That's what's training on socials.

Speaker 5 (01:35:05):
Oh my god.

Speaker 2 (01:35:06):
Sky five is up in the air right now from KTLA.
They've done a fantastic job, by the way, and they're
showing the Palisades from the air. The level of destruction
that you can see from the air is unbelievable. It
honestly looks like a bomb went off. There's nothing left.

(01:35:29):
They're showing. It's from Via de la Oras passing Beirut
Ave right now to Mescal Canyon Road, Mount Holyoake av
looking at it from there and it's just so much distruction.
It's destruction. It's and they just keep going. The camera

(01:35:50):
just keeps panning and you keep seeing more and more destruction.
Everything just gone. A house here and there may be saved,
but otherwise Samoa Way Park ave unbelievable, just absolutely unbelievable.

Speaker 5 (01:36:08):
All right.

Speaker 2 (01:36:08):
It is one of four to three, my fam. This
is Valentine the morning. One of four to three, my
famin is Valentine that morning. Some of the good news today,
the winds should be less oppressive. These Sunset fire is
now under control.

Speaker 5 (01:36:23):
That's good.

Speaker 2 (01:36:25):
A lot of people from work also evacuated during that
fire last hours. Popped up in the early evening hours,
so one of those is under control, and hopefully they're
making progress on these other fires as well.

Speaker 5 (01:36:37):
It is nine to forty four. Lisa Fox have been
here at ten o'clock this morning. She'll be taken over.

Speaker 2 (01:36:41):
We stand a little bit on a little later yesterday,
just to get you the most accurate information as a
team that we could. But she'll be here at her
regular schedule time of ten o'clock this morning. Jill's in
New York. She will be off gallivanting, living her best
life while the rest of us hold down everything here
in Los Angeles.

Speaker 6 (01:36:58):
I know, I feel so bad. I did notice Ay
Chipotle on my walk over this morning, and I think
I'll be going there.

Speaker 2 (01:37:04):
That's the target that Chipotle today for you. It's very funny.
Is your family have power back up and running?

Speaker 6 (01:37:10):
My parents are still without power, still without power.

Speaker 5 (01:37:12):
Where are they at?

Speaker 6 (01:37:13):
They're in Northridge.

Speaker 5 (01:37:14):
They're in the north Ridge. It's still no power in Northridge. Wow.

Speaker 6 (01:37:17):
Yeah. And coming up in their backyard, they just see
just a ton of smoke that was not there yesterday.

Speaker 5 (01:37:23):
So that they're looking at then, we're not sure, Oh.

Speaker 6 (01:37:27):
God, where that one is coming from. Okay, but my
mom just sent the family group chat a photo and
they're so without power. And I told them to go
to my place in Santa Clear take a shower. So
he might be doing that today. We'll see.

Speaker 5 (01:37:42):
Oh that's good.

Speaker 2 (01:37:42):
Okay, your husband's okay. You checked him with him too, Yep.

Speaker 6 (01:37:45):
He's okay. He's out in Riverside, and luckily he's okay.

Speaker 5 (01:37:50):
It's not the time to be doing that stuff. I'm
still sorry, all right, I apologize you.

Speaker 2 (01:37:54):
He's uh, he's okay, though, he said he's good.

Speaker 6 (01:37:57):
House is good. He packed up the cars Tuesday night
just to be safe, and so they're still packed up.

Speaker 5 (01:38:04):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:38:04):
I still have to go back in the car this morning.
I mean, I had three or four different bags that
I put into my car when it came into work yesterday,
and one of them was my laptop.

Speaker 5 (01:38:12):
And sure you know, you're like, oh, it's your laptop.

Speaker 2 (01:38:14):
I'm like, well, a lot of our financial stuff is
on there and old family photos and things like that.
So just grab that. You can also just put it
in a hard drive. Just grab the hard drive. Maybe
one day you put everything in the cloud. Don't worry
about it, right, But so I brought that back in
the house last night when I left this morning. Again,
even though we're not in immediate fire danger at my house,
we're like one evacuation zone over, I go, WEE. Let

(01:38:35):
me just throw the car again so my wife and
sudden don't have to worry about that. So I put
that in the car again for me, so if they
get evacuated, to just grab their own stuff and not
have to worry about anything that I have and everything smart, yeah,
I thought, So be careful with the air quality. That's
a big thing that's come to play now too. The
air quality index is available for most of you on
your phones. When you click on any of your weather apps,
We're likely you can scroll down and find the AQI,

(01:38:58):
and a lot of our voices have gotten horse from
the smoke. Burbank was dramatically affected by that AQI yesterday
like three p forty two is a high at a
scale of zero to five hundred, So do be careful
with that, Lisa. We'll be here at ten o'clock this morning, one.

Speaker 4 (01:39:12):
Oh four to three. My sm Entertainment headlines.

Speaker 6 (01:39:17):
A lot has been postponed and rescheduled in Hollywood. The
Critics Choice Awards were supposed to take place Sunday at
the Santa Monica Airport's Barker Hangar. That's been postponed to
January twenty sixth due to the fires. They said, this
unfolding tragedy has already had a profound impact on our community.
All our thoughts and prayers with those battling the devastating
fires and with all who have been affected, and a
lot of celebrities. Posting on social media, Paris Hilton said

(01:39:40):
she's heartbroken beyond words. Sitting with my family watching the
news and seeing our home in Malibu burned to the
ground on live TV is something no one should ever
have to experience. And Billy Crystal lost the home he
and his wife lived in since nineteen seventy nine, and
he said, words cannot describe the enormity of the devastation
we are witnessing and experiencing. We ache for our friends
and neighbors who have also lost their homes and businesses

(01:40:03):
in this tragedy. I'm Jill with Nativid Headlines.

Speaker 5 (01:40:06):
Jill as I always say, thank you for your show.

Speaker 6 (01:40:09):
Thank you for your show.

Speaker 2 (01:40:09):
Sean, thank you for your show. You, Brian Burton, thank
you for your show. You our friend Michael Pullman in
New York City, thank of your show. Laura and the Couch,
thank you for your show. Then Talia Press, thank you
for your show as well. Lisa will be here next
Please be safe out there, do what you can for
your neighbors that are in need. Will be here again
tomorrow morning, and as the time goes on, and hopefully

(01:40:30):
we get these fires under control, we'll work together as
a community to rebuild and to do what's necessary to
support each other.

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