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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Did you know?
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Christopher Walkin says he's never owned a cell phone or
sent an email. He avoids modern technology, never owned a
cell phone, doesn't use email, social media, and he says
he watches his own show on DVDs and he has
a satellite dish at home. So I think that's kind of.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Interesting call him. He would sound too scary on the phone.
I wouldn't want to call him. Oh, never mind.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Christopher walking but yeah, let's bring in Alex Stone from
ABC News and Alex I would imagine living in LA.
Have you seen like a bunch of you see famous
people much or every.
Speaker 4 (00:47):
Now and then, Yeah, you'll see them, or they'll drive
up next to you at a stop light and you
look over and go oh. I had Jay Leno one
time as I was driving down the freeway. He was
in a convertible and he like went by and waved.
I mean he was just waving at everybody.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
But like it's he's like, hey, there's Alex for maybe Yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:03):
Right, yeah, So it's yeah, every now and then, you
definitely see it. I feel like with the Christopher Walking
it doesn't really surprise me though that it seems like
he would not be the one that would be all
all techie, he's I was just looking.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
He's eighty one years old.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
But I don't know how you live without a cell
phone these days, even even like one of those what
are the old person ones that that.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
They advertise, the flip phones.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
Yeah, but but they've got the like a lady bug
on him or giant numbers.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Two buttons, ones for the ambulance, ones for the undertaker,
and it's all you need.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Yeah, I think that's fascinating. And you know what, the
one word that popped into my head when I saw
the headline was lucky.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
He is lucky.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
He doesn't have to deal with any of that. I
feel like it's Pandora's box for me. It's like too
late now, especially with what we do for a living.
It's just impossible now to have that turn.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
I hate social media, so you know anyway, so I.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
Wonder what he does for entertainment. Probably reads the newspaper
her and reads magazines and kicks puppies, watches little It's no.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
He wants more cow Bell, he told Will Will Ferrell
said one time that he's like, you know, you ruined
my life, Like he told me to say, you ruined
my life with that skit on SNL or something along
those lines, like the cow bell you know more cow
bell thing. I just thought it was, you know, pretty funny.
But man, he and uh what was that the the
(02:28):
Denzel Washington movie That is the one that stands out
to me with him that he was in, uh man
on fire, Holy cow.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
He was so good in that, so good.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Anyway, nat stuff.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
Since he was on the boat that night, like still
you know, yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
I just think that's interesting that you are you you
know there you would see famous people all the time
I've been doing I was like, man, I can't.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
I need to ask him about that if you but
you're like, ah, we do.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
You'll see somebody said there do.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
You have to do a double take, like, oh, that's
really them.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
Sometimes they're like wait what I thought they'd be taller
or whatever. You recognize them, but you don't know why
you recognize you know that guy.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
But right, hey, this is pretty interesting the wildfires. The
audio here of the rescuing of this woman that was
left beyild. I thought, I think this is probably pretty interesting.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
It's pretty incredible audio to here.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
So the eaton Fire was exploding on the morning of
January eighth, The buildings were all going up in flames
all around Alta Dina, and there were two La County
Sheriff's deputees who aren't even assigned out to Dina, but
they were sent in to help. And they were told
to clear an evacuated senior living complex that had already
been evacuated everybody should have been out. And they arrived
thinking it was empty, just give it one more look,
(03:45):
and Deputy Quinn Alconis and Deputy Nicholas Martinez, they got
there immediately they knew it wasn't totally clear. There was
an elderly confused resident out front walking a dog with
the flames moving in, and they were just like out
walking their dog in the middle of the fire.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
This is what it sounded like right off the bat.
Speaker 5 (04:02):
You can't be walking right now.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
So they tell that resident to wait there while they
go inside. They'd be back to take them to safety,
but first he'd go inside the evacuated, smoky, dark, without
electricity building that they thought was empty, the senior living
home to double check, and the fire was moving in
all around. You can hear them watching the fire through
the windows as they were going through the building.
Speaker 6 (04:28):
Shars apartment, anybody inside service apartment, anybody inside just like
monitor looking out the windows to see like where the fire?
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Oh shoot that.
Speaker 5 (04:46):
Shirt right now? Oh my god.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
They can see the fire coming in. And then they
hear a faint voice down the hallway and they run
toward it.
Speaker 6 (04:55):
Hello, Hello, Yes, where are you?
Speaker 4 (05:01):
Where are you?
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (05:06):
Hi?
Speaker 5 (05:07):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Perfect?
Speaker 6 (05:08):
Is there anyone else with you?
Speaker 2 (05:09):
No?
Speaker 6 (05:10):
Ok where where are you at?
Speaker 5 (05:11):
What? Which room were you from?
Speaker 1 (05:14):
I've been trying to find a way out. Let's get
you out here, Let's get you out.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
So in the darkness there, all alone, this woman using
a walker and she was fully dressed, had somehow been
left behind when everybody else went, and she hadn't been
able to hear the orders to get out when everybody left,
because she had hearing aids in that or they were
on the charger, but she didn't have them in until
she got up.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
And then she said this, I don't worry.
Speaker 5 (05:39):
Okay, thank goodness, we've been yelling.
Speaker 6 (05:42):
Did you hear us?
Speaker 3 (05:42):
I didn't hear. I'm deaf.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Okay, I'm charge my hair is I'm one hundred years old.
And her asked, don't lose me.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
So we caught up with Deputies Alconis and Martinez today
and they told us this.
Speaker 5 (05:58):
I was shocked, and I was relieved. I was relieved
that we were able to be that for this lady,
that we were able to savor and you know, comfort
her and get additional units there so that we could
help her down the stairs because she also had a
walk her and it was kind of tough for her
to get downstairs and things like that.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
And Deputy Martinez said he's never experienced anything like this.
He wanted them to treat her, you know, like his mother, grandmother.
He would want them treated if if they had this problem.
And police came upon them and they had thought everybody
was out in that moment.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Back in my mind, I hope that everyone was out.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
So typically when I've walked in the many empty hallways
searching for things, but I'd never had anyone yell out
help before.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
So it was definitely very concerning. We got her out
to safety as soon as possible.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
It's not clear how she got left behind. That senior
living apartment complex actually ended up Okay, it didn't burn,
but it's you know, had smoke damage and other things.
It's still closed, but she's going to be all right.
The Sheriff's department tells us there were now to reunite
Deputies Alconus and Martinez with her so they can give
her a hug.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
But they brought her to safety.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
They got her out of there and got her out
of the the evac zone, but somehow she got left behind.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
God bless those people, God bless the fire. I mean
that is absolutely.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
There were a lot of heroic stories, whether it be
firefighters or Sheriff's deputies or LAPD officers or you know
medics just who.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Were running in during the fire and pulling people out
of their homes.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Man, thank you for sharing this story, Alex. In that sound,
that audio, that is priceless. That is amazing, man, unbelievable.
Alex Stone, ABC News out of Los Angeles. Alex, thanks again,
appreciate you get it.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Thanks guys to see you.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Man, sweet little lady made me want to cry. Don't
lose me.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
I can't believe it. Man.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
That wow, yeah, that is that is Uh.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
You know she's in the darkness. I mean you think
about that and uh, you know being you know, be disoriented.
You know, she's deaf, she's a hundred and you know
that's going on, God bless those people that saved her.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Man.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
We're fortunate where you and I, I mean, we're both
old guys now, but we're we're cognizant old guys that
can take care of ourselves that we have to. But
you know, you have to think, what what does the
future hold? Will there come that time when I say,
don't lose me? Yeah? That It just it's hard not
to think about that.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
And then also, you know, sixty ninety seconds, one hundred
and twenty seconds later, would it have been too late?
Speaker 3 (08:35):
Yeah for her?
Speaker 1 (08:36):
And you know I can't.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
It's hard to think. You make it that far in
your life, to one hundred years old, and you go,
is this really how it's going to end?
Speaker 5 (08:47):
You know?
Speaker 3 (08:48):
Or to be oblivious the lady walking the dog having
no idea that, oh my gosh, everything's burning around you.
You're out walking the dog and whistling a tune because
you just have no idea what's happening around you. That's
that's a sad that's a sad picture, it really is.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
You know.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
I know we have been inundated with stories about the
California wildfires and stuff like that, but and you know,
I'm sure there are people like, you know, gosh, how
much more are we going to because we are hearing
about a GoFundMe? Or I guess there's you know, you
got some acts that are going to perform and the
(09:26):
money is going for those people, those victims. And then
you have people going, what happened? What about Carolina? What
about them? What about what happened with them? And the
seven hundred dollars or seven hundred and fifty dollars they
were offered and nobody's trying any I mean, those are
valid feelings, but man, you got to think that even
though you're going, it's Kevin Newsome, it's you know, a
(09:49):
bunch of liberals that I mean, when you hear a
hundred year old woman like that and that story, I mean,
how many of those stories are out there? And then
how many of those people perished that were like her
maybe or whatever? And that's I don't care how you
stack it, man, that's sad. That's really said. Man that
(10:10):
if that doesn't get you, I mean, what will what
could get you? It's crazy, like, don't lose me, you know,
And it's like, man, that kind of puts it in perspective,
doesn't it.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
Yeah, I mean, I'm sure you can tell it. Yeah,
it got to me. I just I don't know, Yeah,
I don't. I don't fear old. I just fear not
not being me when I'm old.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Yeah, yes, I know exactly what you're talking about. I
think that's what a lot of people think about. But
then how many people make it into their eighties and
nineties and they're you know.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Smart as a whip, you know what I mean, yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
Kind of thing.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
But uh, man, that's powerful. That audio is incredibly powerful.
I gotta be honest. When I booked Alex for this,
I was not expecting this, Like the way that it
hit me, like listening to it, I was not expecting that. Man,
God bless those people.
Did you know?
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Christopher Walkin says he's never owned a cell phone or
sent an email. He avoids modern technology, never owned a
cell phone, doesn't use email, social media, and he says
he watches his own show on DVDs and he has
a satellite dish at home. So I think that's kind of.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Interesting call him. He would sound too scary on the phone.
I wouldn't want to call him. Oh, never mind.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Christopher walking but yeah, let's bring in Alex Stone from
ABC News and Alex I would imagine living in LA.
Have you seen like a bunch of you see famous
people much or every.
Speaker 4 (00:47):
Now and then, Yeah, you'll see them, or they'll drive
up next to you at a stop light and you
look over and go oh. I had Jay Leno one
time as I was driving down the freeway. He was
in a convertible and he like went by and waved.
I mean he was just waving at everybody.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
But like it's he's like, hey, there's Alex for maybe Yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:03):
Right, yeah, So it's yeah, every now and then, you
definitely see it. I feel like with the Christopher Walking
it doesn't really surprise me though that it seems like
he would not be the one that would be all
all techie, he's I was just looking.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
He's eighty one years old.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
But I don't know how you live without a cell
phone these days, even even like one of those what
are the old person ones that that.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
They advertise, the flip phones.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
Yeah, but but they've got the like a lady bug
on him or giant numbers.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Two buttons, ones for the ambulance, ones for the undertaker,
and it's all you need.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Yeah, I think that's fascinating. And you know what, the
one word that popped into my head when I saw
the headline was lucky.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
He is lucky.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
He doesn't have to deal with any of that. I
feel like it's Pandora's box for me. It's like too
late now, especially with what we do for a living.
It's just impossible now to have that turn.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
I hate social media, so you know anyway, so I.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
Wonder what he does for entertainment. Probably reads the newspaper
her and reads magazines and kicks puppies, watches little It's no.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
He wants more cow Bell, he told Will Will Ferrell
said one time that he's like, you know, you ruined
my life, Like he told me to say, you ruined
my life with that skit on SNL or something along
those lines, like the cow bell you know more cow
bell thing. I just thought it was, you know, pretty funny.
But man, he and uh what was that the the
(02:28):
Denzel Washington movie That is the one that stands out
to me with him that he was in, uh man
on fire, Holy cow.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
He was so good in that, so good.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Anyway, nat stuff.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
Since he was on the boat that night, like still
you know, yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
I just think that's interesting that you are you you
know there you would see famous people all the time
I've been doing I was like, man, I can't.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
I need to ask him about that if you but
you're like, ah, we do.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
You'll see somebody said there do.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
You have to do a double take, like, oh, that's
really them.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
Sometimes they're like wait what I thought they'd be taller
or whatever. You recognize them, but you don't know why
you recognize you know that guy.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
But right, hey, this is pretty interesting the wildfires. The
audio here of the rescuing of this woman that was
left beyild. I thought, I think this is probably pretty interesting.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
It's pretty incredible audio to here.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
So the eaton Fire was exploding on the morning of
January eighth, The buildings were all going up in flames
all around Alta Dina, and there were two La County
Sheriff's deputees who aren't even assigned out to Dina, but
they were sent in to help. And they were told
to clear an evacuated senior living complex that had already
been evacuated everybody should have been out. And they arrived
thinking it was empty, just give it one more look,
(03:45):
and Deputy Quinn Alconis and Deputy Nicholas Martinez, they got
there immediately they knew it wasn't totally clear. There was
an elderly confused resident out front walking a dog with
the flames moving in, and they were just like out
walking their dog in the middle of the fire.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
This is what it sounded like right off the bat.
Speaker 5 (04:02):
You can't be walking right now.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
So they tell that resident to wait there while they
go inside. They'd be back to take them to safety,
but first he'd go inside the evacuated, smoky, dark, without
electricity building that they thought was empty, the senior living
home to double check, and the fire was moving in
all around. You can hear them watching the fire through
the windows as they were going through the building.
Speaker 6 (04:28):
Shars apartment, anybody inside service apartment, anybody inside just like
monitor looking out the windows to see like where the fire?
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Oh shoot that.
Speaker 5 (04:46):
Shirt right now? Oh my god.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
They can see the fire coming in. And then they
hear a faint voice down the hallway and they run
toward it.
Speaker 6 (04:55):
Hello, Hello, Yes, where are you?
Speaker 4 (05:01):
Where are you?
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (05:06):
Hi?
Speaker 5 (05:07):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Perfect?
Speaker 6 (05:08):
Is there anyone else with you?
Speaker 2 (05:09):
No?
Speaker 6 (05:10):
Ok where where are you at?
Speaker 5 (05:11):
What? Which room were you from?
Speaker 1 (05:14):
I've been trying to find a way out. Let's get
you out here, Let's get you out.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
So in the darkness there, all alone, this woman using
a walker and she was fully dressed, had somehow been
left behind when everybody else went, and she hadn't been
able to hear the orders to get out when everybody left,
because she had hearing aids in that or they were
on the charger, but she didn't have them in until
she got up.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
And then she said this, I don't worry.
Speaker 5 (05:39):
Okay, thank goodness, we've been yelling.
Speaker 6 (05:42):
Did you hear us?
Speaker 3 (05:42):
I didn't hear. I'm deaf.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Okay, I'm charge my hair is I'm one hundred years old.
And her asked, don't lose me.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
So we caught up with Deputies Alconis and Martinez today
and they told us this.
Speaker 5 (05:58):
I was shocked, and I was relieved. I was relieved
that we were able to be that for this lady,
that we were able to savor and you know, comfort
her and get additional units there so that we could
help her down the stairs because she also had a
walk her and it was kind of tough for her
to get downstairs and things like that.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
And Deputy Martinez said he's never experienced anything like this.
He wanted them to treat her, you know, like his mother, grandmother.
He would want them treated if if they had this problem.
And police came upon them and they had thought everybody
was out in that moment.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Back in my mind, I hope that everyone was out.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
So typically when I've walked in the many empty hallways
searching for things, but I'd never had anyone yell out
help before.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
So it was definitely very concerning. We got her out
to safety as soon as possible.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
It's not clear how she got left behind. That senior
living apartment complex actually ended up Okay, it didn't burn,
but it's you know, had smoke damage and other things.
It's still closed, but she's going to be all right.
The Sheriff's department tells us there were now to reunite
Deputies Alconus and Martinez with her so they can give
her a hug.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
But they brought her to safety.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
They got her out of there and got her out
of the the evac zone, but somehow she got left behind.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
God bless those people, God bless the fire. I mean
that is absolutely.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
There were a lot of heroic stories, whether it be
firefighters or Sheriff's deputies or LAPD officers or you know
medics just who.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Were running in during the fire and pulling people out
of their homes.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Man, thank you for sharing this story, Alex. In that sound,
that audio, that is priceless. That is amazing, man, unbelievable.
Alex Stone, ABC News out of Los Angeles. Alex, thanks again,
appreciate you get it.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Thanks guys to see you.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Man, sweet little lady made me want to cry. Don't
lose me.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
I can't believe it. Man.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
That wow, yeah, that is that is Uh.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
You know she's in the darkness. I mean you think
about that and uh, you know being you know, be disoriented.
You know, she's deaf, she's a hundred and you know
that's going on, God bless those people that saved her.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Man.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
We're fortunate where you and I, I mean, we're both
old guys now, but we're we're cognizant old guys that
can take care of ourselves that we have to. But
you know, you have to think, what what does the
future hold? Will there come that time when I say,
don't lose me? Yeah? That It just it's hard not
to think about that.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
And then also, you know, sixty ninety seconds, one hundred
and twenty seconds later, would it have been too late?
Speaker 3 (08:35):
Yeah for her?
Speaker 1 (08:36):
And you know I can't.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
It's hard to think. You make it that far in
your life, to one hundred years old, and you go,
is this really how it's going to end?
Speaker 5 (08:47):
You know?
Speaker 3 (08:48):
Or to be oblivious the lady walking the dog having
no idea that, oh my gosh, everything's burning around you.
You're out walking the dog and whistling a tune because
you just have no idea what's happening around you. That's
that's a sad that's a sad picture, it really is.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
You know.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
I know we have been inundated with stories about the
California wildfires and stuff like that, but and you know,
I'm sure there are people like, you know, gosh, how
much more are we going to because we are hearing
about a GoFundMe? Or I guess there's you know, you
got some acts that are going to perform and the
(09:26):
money is going for those people, those victims. And then
you have people going, what happened? What about Carolina? What
about them? What about what happened with them? And the
seven hundred dollars or seven hundred and fifty dollars they
were offered and nobody's trying any I mean, those are
valid feelings, but man, you got to think that even
though you're going, it's Kevin Newsome, it's you know, a
(09:49):
bunch of liberals that I mean, when you hear a
hundred year old woman like that and that story, I mean,
how many of those stories are out there? And then
how many of those people perished that were like her
maybe or whatever? And that's I don't care how you
stack it, man, that's sad. That's really said. Man that
(10:10):
if that doesn't get you, I mean, what will what
could get you? It's crazy, like, don't lose me, you know,
And it's like, man, that kind of puts it in perspective,
doesn't it.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
Yeah, I mean, I'm sure you can tell it. Yeah,
it got to me. I just I don't know, Yeah,
I don't. I don't fear old. I just fear not
not being me when I'm old.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Yeah, yes, I know exactly what you're talking about. I
think that's what a lot of people think about. But
then how many people make it into their eighties and
nineties and they're you know.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Smart as a whip, you know what I mean, yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
Kind of thing.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
But uh, man, that's powerful. That audio is incredibly powerful.
I gotta be honest. When I booked Alex for this,
I was not expecting this, Like the way that it
hit me, like listening to it, I was not expecting that. Man,
God bless those people.
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