December 5, 2024 • 16 mins
Evelyn Erives chats with Chief Wieser from the Riverside County Fire Department/CAL FIRE about fire season and tips to help your family stay safe in an emergency.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is iHeartRadio's Inland Empire Community Spotlight. Welcome to this show.
We're so happy to have you here. Hey, it's Evelyn Erivez,
your host of the Community Spotlight. I have got a
great guest with me today. He is Chief Wiser from
the Riverside County Fire Department. I'm so happy to have
you here, especially since it is fire season and there
(00:20):
is a lot to cover. So thank you first off
for being here with us.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Well, it's a pleasure to be here. Thank you for
having me on the show.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Yeah, Well, we got to get a lot of information
out to the Inland Empire. Since we've already had a
few fires this year, we already know it may be
a tough season. It may be a tough season. What
are you anticipating at this point.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Well, fall is usually our toughest time in southern California
for a while on firest and I think everybody saw
the smoke in the sky in September. There's a great
fires that were burning, right, So you know what's funny
for me, I always think that during the world cheries
is our toughest time to fight fires. When I was young,
I was always as signed a fires in the world series.
It's always a time. So your world series is just finished,
Dodgers one, yes, but this is a fall time where
(01:04):
we usually have sant Anta wins and those fires usually
you grow pretty quick as they are pushed by wind.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Yeah. Absolutely, So let's start with first things first. Sure,
people need information. What's the best way for them to
get information about a fire in the area.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Well, there's really Our websites are really kind of the
best ways to go, and you can follow us at
CalFire r RU. But our website is our vcfire dot
org and that's Robert Victor Charlie fire dot org. Right,
it's a website you can go and you can actually
see what's going on with fires as well as just
(01:45):
our calls that we're going on every day.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Right, And there's also a way you can sign up
for alerts that way.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Too, right, Well, there is. So our alerting system is
really important not only for fires, but for earthquakes and
any other kind of large disasters that may or may
not happen in an empire. And you can know that.
You can sign up those with rifcoready dot org and
Riftcoready allows you to get alerts to your cell phone
so where you are is where it might be happening,
(02:12):
and you can see if you are in an evacuation
warning or evacuation order area, it shows up on your
phone that way. It's it's a good way to see
what's going on and keep informed.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
So for someone like me, I'm in the media all
the time. I follow the social media pages and I
always feel like they're very good. They might not be
updated every day because they don't need to be if
there's not a fire, but once there is a fire,
they are updated, they are on it and they're issuing
those you can see like, Okay, there's an evacuation a
new order that just went into place, and that is
(02:44):
at CalFire. Are you right?
Speaker 2 (02:48):
CalFire okay, r are you yeah? Which stands for the
Riverside Ranger you did from back in the day, were
so cal Fire and Callifornia. There are twenty one units.
There's there's fifty eight counties, but they're divided in not
every county as CalFire in it, but those that do that,
(03:08):
we provide the protection for the wild land and so
many areas that we're just one of twenty one units.
So it's Riverside reg from back in the whole days.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Wow, okay, that makes a lot of sense to so
with the recent fires, the one that well, the ones
that we felt like we were sort of surrounded, right,
there was three amounts of fires. Was CalFire on all
of those, all of them, every.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
One of them, you bet. So we're but we're also
there with our partners as well. So I want to
make sure that your listeners understand where they're not only
CalFire is there, but local government so like LA County
or San Bordino County or Orange County or LA they're
all there, yeah, as well as our federal partners US
(03:50):
four services there and providing all the tools to put
those fires out. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Yeah, and we're so grateful, right, well, it takes all
of them. Oh it does. Yes, you guys are all amazing.
I'm just always so thankful. So let's talk about evacuation zones.
What is the best way to know your evacuation zone?
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Well, again, we talked about signing up for RIFCO, right,
So I think RIFCO ready is the best way to
know that. So when you sign up for that, then
when there are emergencies, you'll start getting a warning, which
is telling you that it's time to make sure that
you're fully ready to go, that your car is packed up,
(04:30):
and remembering all those things that you need to be
able to take. And then when there's an order, then
it's time. You'll see an order, it's a change, and
that's when we're asking you to leave so that our
emergency workers can get in and protect what needs to
be protected. When people don't go during an order, what
happens is is that the clog the streets when it's
(04:51):
too late, and then also we wind up taking valuable
resources to save people instead of your own right, so
pens where people way too long and then they're on
the phone because they're in a panic because now they
waited too long, and now we have to take those
resources just to rescue you instead of doing fixt brush.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Yeah, I saw it as like a ready set go, right,
ready set go. If you get ready, be prepared and
all of the rest.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
So the one thing that you know you brought up
was the ready part, and the ready part really is
about here in southern California, and like you just talked about,
where we're kind of in the toughest parts of our
far season. You got to be just ready. And what
we mean by that is inside your vehicle, you want
to make sure that you have some water and they're
the drinking water. If you live in an area where
you need to get out, you need to keep an
(05:39):
eye on your your fuel. You don't really want it
to be down on the empty.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Okay, are you a finger at me? I am a
little bit.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Beyond the empty, the red, just beyond the red, you
know here in southern California in the part you gotta
have a little bit of fuel in the tank to
get out right and and and have those things. Think
about cloud based saving your stuff more on the cloud,
or having it and something that's small, whether it's a
thumb drive or some other mobile device that you can
(06:09):
just have in your car so you can take all
those important things too. Yes, it's probably being ready.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
That's the part of being ready. Yeah, yeah, because I
know you think about it ready as being is right now,
right when there's not a threat. All ready is right now,
you're prepared. My husband recently started carrying water in the
car and I kind of made it. I was making
fun of him because I was like, it always rolls
around back there, like you just secure it. It's like
I'm always hearing the bottles rolling, but now I'm like, oh,
(06:35):
there's a good reason to have water there.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
There is. Well, it's just like when when even at
your home. Yeah, you know, we talked about being ready
about having an evacuation for your own home. Sometimes people forget,
especially when they've got kids and those things that when
there's a god forbids someone has a fire in their house,
you need to practice for those things or an earthquake
(06:59):
that might happen, and you just practice first, and so
your children know the way for them to be able
to get out, or what does the smoke detectors sound like?
And what do you expect them to do? And where
are we going to meet? Right during an emergency, It's
it's not always the best time to try to figure
that out. When they're smoking inside your house. It's scary too,
So do you have to be prepared for those things?
(07:21):
And part of that preparation is also thinking about the
big earthquake that may or may not happen California. Right,
do you have something at your home where you have
water stored?
Speaker 1 (07:35):
And now we just started, well we did it about
a year ago. Sure, and I talked to my husband
too about getting you know, they sell those kids at
like Sam's Club that you can go and have, Like,
we need to just start buying one of those kids,
like you know, six months or something like that, just
to have them and my son, which is so crazy. Coincidentally, today,
so a lot of the schools don't do this anymore,
(07:56):
but they used to have the emergency kits, right, we
all used to have to go to school. I don't
remember when I was a kid, we had these kids
that we had to bring that had like a little
blanket in it, like those little uh you know, I
can't think of the foil looking blankets, yeah, you know,
and all the different crackers and things. And my son's
school started doing that again, is that right?
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (08:16):
And I thought, oh my god, that's so funny. I
haven't done this since I was a kid. None of
the public schools asked of that recently, and I'm thinking
we need to bring that back. There's been a lot
of earthquakes lately.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Well, you know, we live in southern California, and we
all know right that we're always supposed to be prepared
for the big one, and we've you know, historically in
southern California, you had some decent sized earthquakes. I hope
that your listeners and really do understand that, really, if
there's a big emergency like that, they're going to be
on their own for a few days at least. We
(08:48):
always tell people about three days. There's there's not going
to be someone knocking at your door or making sure
you're okay. You need to be able to be a
little self sufficient, have your own water, your own food,
maybe a little shelter outside, right, to be able to
have blankets or something to keep you and the kids,
you know, a little sheltered from where you are. I think,
(09:09):
and understanding some of the basics of how to turn
the gas off at your house or some of those
real basic things. That's part of that ready piece. Right
to be ready to think about those things and have
purpose for a while then fire. The best thing I
can always tell people if they have avacuate is shut
your doors and shut your garage door. Oh Oka say,
people will leave their garage door. You know they're leaving,
(09:30):
and they forget to hit the button or I don't
know why, and then embers can get into the garage
and start a fire right and stars our house right,
So it's one of those things we just want to
make sure people are mindful to shut their windows, shut
their doors, shut their garage before they leave and get
out of there.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
Yeah, obviously knowing your neighborhood is a big thing too, right,
especially with little kids. You know, they're on their tablets
in the car, they're not paying attention to their surreality
at the time. This is probably one of those things.
It's like, let's go for a walk around the neighborhood
and if we need to find an escape route, let's
figure this out. We'll make it a thing together, right.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Well, Like you're saying, having a meeting spot for your
family if there's an emergency, where are you and the
kids all going to meet at in the front of
your house? Is there is there a bush or a
tree or a sign or the mailbox that sits out
on the curb, whatever that's going to be right? How
are we going to do that and where we have
that ability to have that accountability real quick? We know
the kids and you and your spouses or whoever is
(10:31):
all safe and sound, whoever's in your house.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
So you say water in your kids, some food for
a couple of days, anything else, what are some more
essential items we should have in a kit.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Like that, Well, without a doubt, maybe some battery batteries, right,
everybody loves batteries, and a lot of us like our
cell phones, so I know I like mine. And the
ability to be able to charge that. You know, there's
all kinds of things that everybody can do to figure
that out on their own. And how it be able
to charge some of their electronics and do those things.
(11:03):
You have to think about your house not being a
place you can occupy anymore. Right, his structural damage, it's
not safe. So where do you where do you go?
Where do you you know, go in the backyard, front
yard where that's going to be your little campsite for
a little bit, and how you how you make that happen.
You might want something to heat things up, You might
need a little of that. So you have to think
(11:23):
about those things.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
Yeah, little things narrators or portable chargers. I feel like
portable charge is a big one.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Yeah. Well, and when and even where you store your
your things. So maybe not storing them in the garage
because the garage maybe not maybe a thing to be
able to get into, you know, I know, Uh, metal
trash cans are always really a good thing to store
stuff in because they're a metal, right, you can steal
them up, wrap it right. So I don't know about
where you live, but where I live there are barments
(11:51):
in my neighborhood. No on things and get through classics
not always the best, but metal seam work a little better.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
Oh for me, smart, you're giving me ton of ideas,
and hopefully it's helpful, helpful to everybody. Insurance papers, documents
things like that too, right, absolutely, Oh my goodness.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Well, you know some of that stuff where you talk
about those really important documents, you want to separate them
from inside your house. So you know, there's some places
like we talked about the cloud based things, which are
probably pretty good as well as some people still have
safety posit boxes. I don't. I don't. Some people still
use those too, right, Some people have that as well. Yeah,
you know, so many of us like me. I've lived
(12:31):
in my home for so many years, and I forget
that I switched my batteries out like a good person.
But then I forget that my how old. My smoke
detectors are too carbon oxide detectors then, so people should
take a look at those dates as well, and ensure
that they have good UL approved smoke detectors carbon oxide detectors.
Right now, the industry is saying about ten years is
how long you want to have those in place. But
(12:54):
you know, everybody us to take a look at it,
make sure, like how old is that again? Yeah, and
see see what it is.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Okay, So let's talk about the unimaginable happens. There's a
fire in your neighborhood, your home is damaged. We had
a very close friend of ours here at the radio
station who lost her home recently in a fire. What
are those next steps? What is the how do you
go into working with the fire department about that situation.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
Well, so that's a great question, and I think that one.
It is terrible, horrible to lose your everything. I always
talk about people's homes. Is there everything, because it's everything,
it is, it's sure everything, it's your safety shelter, it's
all your staff. So when that happens, usually there's a
lot of shock when that happens, and you're going through
those steps of that take some of the programs being offered.
(13:49):
Red Cross will usually be there, talk to them, listen
to what they have to offer. Make sure that you
get those taken care of, right, those things of shelter
and food and clothing for you and your family, Like,
get that first covered, and then you have to work
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through the process, which is your insurance company. And that's
a time consuming a situation, but that's the process that
you have to go through and and and get through.
I think your friends probably in the middle of that now.
And it's not it's not the easiest thing to be
able to do.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
It's it's very tough, and we are. We're pulling for her.
We're rooting for her every single day because she's just
such a truper, such a trooper about it all. Well,
before we go, because I think we're covering a lot.
What else is there anything else you'd like to cover?
What should people know that we're missing right now?
Speaker 2 (14:46):
Well, we've talked to we've covered almost everything. You know
you can think of a lot. For emergencies and being prepared,
I always remember that one of the things I say
is that don't be lucky, be prepared. Sometimes people try
to live on luck, and I don't believe in luck.
I believe in being prepared, and so be prepared for
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what could happen and have those honest, open dialogue with
you and your family on what to do for emergency.
I think that we often don't talk about that, but
we need to and it's okay to every once in
a while practice it and what we're going to do.
And I think those are good things to be able
to do as a family and to be that way.
And like we talked about all the websites and I'm
(15:30):
sure you're going to show them or talk about them more.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
Make sure makes.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
People you sign up for a KO and be ready.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
Yeah, be ready, be ready. You chief, thank you for
having had a great time. Come back again. I hope
you have a safe fire season. I know it's I
hope there's no more. Okay, that's all I'm gonna say
right now. I hope there's no more. Like you know,
that's what you're here for. So we appreciate you and
thank you.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
For all you do. Yeah, you're welcome. Thanks for having me.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
Have a great day and that with iheartradios in an
Empire commune.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
If you spotlight
This is iHeartRadio's Inland Empire Community Spotlight. Welcome to this show.
We're so happy to have you here. Hey, it's Evelyn Erivez,
your host of the Community Spotlight. I have got a
great guest with me today. He is Chief Wiser from
the Riverside County Fire Department. I'm so happy to have
you here, especially since it is fire season and there
(00:20):
is a lot to cover. So thank you first off
for being here with us.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Well, it's a pleasure to be here. Thank you for
having me on the show.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Yeah, Well, we got to get a lot of information
out to the Inland Empire. Since we've already had a
few fires this year, we already know it may be
a tough season. It may be a tough season. What
are you anticipating at this point.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Well, fall is usually our toughest time in southern California
for a while on firest and I think everybody saw
the smoke in the sky in September. There's a great
fires that were burning, right, So you know what's funny
for me, I always think that during the world cheries
is our toughest time to fight fires. When I was young,
I was always as signed a fires in the world series.
It's always a time. So your world series is just finished,
Dodgers one, yes, but this is a fall time where
(01:04):
we usually have sant Anta wins and those fires usually
you grow pretty quick as they are pushed by wind.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Yeah. Absolutely, So let's start with first things first. Sure,
people need information. What's the best way for them to
get information about a fire in the area.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Well, there's really Our websites are really kind of the
best ways to go, and you can follow us at
CalFire r RU. But our website is our vcfire dot
org and that's Robert Victor Charlie fire dot org. Right,
it's a website you can go and you can actually
see what's going on with fires as well as just
(01:45):
our calls that we're going on every day.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Right, And there's also a way you can sign up
for alerts that way.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Too, right, Well, there is. So our alerting system is
really important not only for fires, but for earthquakes and
any other kind of large disasters that may or may
not happen in an empire. And you can know that.
You can sign up those with rifcoready dot org and
Riftcoready allows you to get alerts to your cell phone
so where you are is where it might be happening,
(02:12):
and you can see if you are in an evacuation
warning or evacuation order area, it shows up on your
phone that way. It's it's a good way to see
what's going on and keep informed.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
So for someone like me, I'm in the media all
the time. I follow the social media pages and I
always feel like they're very good. They might not be
updated every day because they don't need to be if
there's not a fire, but once there is a fire,
they are updated, they are on it and they're issuing
those you can see like, Okay, there's an evacuation a
new order that just went into place, and that is
(02:44):
at CalFire. Are you right?
Speaker 2 (02:48):
CalFire okay, r are you yeah? Which stands for the
Riverside Ranger you did from back in the day, were
so cal Fire and Callifornia. There are twenty one units.
There's there's fifty eight counties, but they're divided in not
every county as CalFire in it, but those that do that,
(03:08):
we provide the protection for the wild land and so
many areas that we're just one of twenty one units.
So it's Riverside reg from back in the whole days.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Wow, okay, that makes a lot of sense to so
with the recent fires, the one that well, the ones
that we felt like we were sort of surrounded, right,
there was three amounts of fires. Was CalFire on all
of those, all of them, every.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
One of them, you bet. So we're but we're also
there with our partners as well. So I want to
make sure that your listeners understand where they're not only
CalFire is there, but local government so like LA County
or San Bordino County or Orange County or LA they're
all there, yeah, as well as our federal partners US
(03:50):
four services there and providing all the tools to put
those fires out. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Yeah, and we're so grateful, right, well, it takes all
of them. Oh it does. Yes, you guys are all amazing.
I'm just always so thankful. So let's talk about evacuation zones.
What is the best way to know your evacuation zone?
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Well, again, we talked about signing up for RIFCO, right,
So I think RIFCO ready is the best way to
know that. So when you sign up for that, then
when there are emergencies, you'll start getting a warning, which
is telling you that it's time to make sure that
you're fully ready to go, that your car is packed up,
(04:30):
and remembering all those things that you need to be
able to take. And then when there's an order, then
it's time. You'll see an order, it's a change, and
that's when we're asking you to leave so that our
emergency workers can get in and protect what needs to
be protected. When people don't go during an order, what
happens is is that the clog the streets when it's
(04:51):
too late, and then also we wind up taking valuable
resources to save people instead of your own right, so
pens where people way too long and then they're on
the phone because they're in a panic because now they
waited too long, and now we have to take those
resources just to rescue you instead of doing fixt brush.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Yeah, I saw it as like a ready set go, right,
ready set go. If you get ready, be prepared and
all of the rest.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
So the one thing that you know you brought up
was the ready part, and the ready part really is
about here in southern California, and like you just talked about,
where we're kind of in the toughest parts of our
far season. You got to be just ready. And what
we mean by that is inside your vehicle, you want
to make sure that you have some water and they're
the drinking water. If you live in an area where
you need to get out, you need to keep an
(05:39):
eye on your your fuel. You don't really want it
to be down on the empty.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Okay, are you a finger at me? I am a
little bit.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Beyond the empty, the red, just beyond the red, you
know here in southern California in the part you gotta
have a little bit of fuel in the tank to
get out right and and and have those things. Think
about cloud based saving your stuff more on the cloud,
or having it and something that's small, whether it's a
thumb drive or some other mobile device that you can
(06:09):
just have in your car so you can take all
those important things too. Yes, it's probably being ready.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
That's the part of being ready. Yeah, yeah, because I
know you think about it ready as being is right now,
right when there's not a threat. All ready is right now,
you're prepared. My husband recently started carrying water in the
car and I kind of made it. I was making
fun of him because I was like, it always rolls
around back there, like you just secure it. It's like
I'm always hearing the bottles rolling, but now I'm like, oh,
(06:35):
there's a good reason to have water there.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
There is. Well, it's just like when when even at
your home. Yeah, you know, we talked about being ready
about having an evacuation for your own home. Sometimes people forget,
especially when they've got kids and those things that when
there's a god forbids someone has a fire in their house,
you need to practice for those things or an earthquake
(06:59):
that might happen, and you just practice first, and so
your children know the way for them to be able
to get out, or what does the smoke detectors sound like?
And what do you expect them to do? And where
are we going to meet? Right during an emergency, It's
it's not always the best time to try to figure
that out. When they're smoking inside your house. It's scary too,
So do you have to be prepared for those things?
(07:21):
And part of that preparation is also thinking about the
big earthquake that may or may not happen California. Right,
do you have something at your home where you have
water stored?
Speaker 1 (07:35):
And now we just started, well we did it about
a year ago. Sure, and I talked to my husband
too about getting you know, they sell those kids at
like Sam's Club that you can go and have, Like,
we need to just start buying one of those kids,
like you know, six months or something like that, just
to have them and my son, which is so crazy. Coincidentally, today,
so a lot of the schools don't do this anymore,
(07:56):
but they used to have the emergency kits, right, we
all used to have to go to school. I don't
remember when I was a kid, we had these kids
that we had to bring that had like a little
blanket in it, like those little uh you know, I
can't think of the foil looking blankets, yeah, you know,
and all the different crackers and things. And my son's
school started doing that again, is that right?
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (08:16):
And I thought, oh my god, that's so funny. I
haven't done this since I was a kid. None of
the public schools asked of that recently, and I'm thinking
we need to bring that back. There's been a lot
of earthquakes lately.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Well, you know, we live in southern California, and we
all know right that we're always supposed to be prepared
for the big one, and we've you know, historically in
southern California, you had some decent sized earthquakes. I hope
that your listeners and really do understand that, really, if
there's a big emergency like that, they're going to be
on their own for a few days at least. We
(08:48):
always tell people about three days. There's there's not going
to be someone knocking at your door or making sure
you're okay. You need to be able to be a
little self sufficient, have your own water, your own food,
maybe a little shelter outside, right, to be able to
have blankets or something to keep you and the kids,
you know, a little sheltered from where you are. I think,
(09:09):
and understanding some of the basics of how to turn
the gas off at your house or some of those
real basic things. That's part of that ready piece. Right
to be ready to think about those things and have
purpose for a while then fire. The best thing I
can always tell people if they have avacuate is shut
your doors and shut your garage door. Oh Oka say,
people will leave their garage door. You know they're leaving,
(09:30):
and they forget to hit the button or I don't
know why, and then embers can get into the garage
and start a fire right and stars our house right,
So it's one of those things we just want to
make sure people are mindful to shut their windows, shut
their doors, shut their garage before they leave and get
out of there.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
Yeah, obviously knowing your neighborhood is a big thing too, right,
especially with little kids. You know, they're on their tablets
in the car, they're not paying attention to their surreality
at the time. This is probably one of those things.
It's like, let's go for a walk around the neighborhood
and if we need to find an escape route, let's
figure this out. We'll make it a thing together, right.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Well, Like you're saying, having a meeting spot for your
family if there's an emergency, where are you and the
kids all going to meet at in the front of
your house? Is there is there a bush or a
tree or a sign or the mailbox that sits out
on the curb, whatever that's going to be right? How
are we going to do that and where we have
that ability to have that accountability real quick? We know
the kids and you and your spouses or whoever is
(10:31):
all safe and sound, whoever's in your house.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
So you say water in your kids, some food for
a couple of days, anything else, what are some more
essential items we should have in a kit.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Like that, Well, without a doubt, maybe some battery batteries, right,
everybody loves batteries, and a lot of us like our
cell phones, so I know I like mine. And the
ability to be able to charge that. You know, there's
all kinds of things that everybody can do to figure
that out on their own. And how it be able
to charge some of their electronics and do those things.
(11:03):
You have to think about your house not being a
place you can occupy anymore. Right, his structural damage, it's
not safe. So where do you where do you go?
Where do you you know, go in the backyard, front
yard where that's going to be your little campsite for
a little bit, and how you how you make that happen.
You might want something to heat things up, You might
need a little of that. So you have to think
(11:23):
about those things.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
Yeah, little things narrators or portable chargers. I feel like
portable charge is a big one.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Yeah. Well, and when and even where you store your
your things. So maybe not storing them in the garage
because the garage maybe not maybe a thing to be
able to get into, you know, I know, Uh, metal
trash cans are always really a good thing to store
stuff in because they're a metal, right, you can steal
them up, wrap it right. So I don't know about
where you live, but where I live there are barments
(11:51):
in my neighborhood. No on things and get through classics
not always the best, but metal seam work a little better.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
Oh for me, smart, you're giving me ton of ideas,
and hopefully it's helpful, helpful to everybody. Insurance papers, documents
things like that too, right, absolutely, Oh my goodness.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Well, you know some of that stuff where you talk
about those really important documents, you want to separate them
from inside your house. So you know, there's some places
like we talked about the cloud based things, which are
probably pretty good as well as some people still have
safety posit boxes. I don't. I don't. Some people still
use those too, right, Some people have that as well. Yeah,
you know, so many of us like me. I've lived
(12:31):
in my home for so many years, and I forget
that I switched my batteries out like a good person.
But then I forget that my how old. My smoke
detectors are too carbon oxide detectors then, so people should
take a look at those dates as well, and ensure
that they have good UL approved smoke detectors carbon oxide detectors.
Right now, the industry is saying about ten years is
how long you want to have those in place. But
(12:54):
you know, everybody us to take a look at it,
make sure, like how old is that again? Yeah, and
see see what it is.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Okay, So let's talk about the unimaginable happens. There's a
fire in your neighborhood, your home is damaged. We had
a very close friend of ours here at the radio
station who lost her home recently in a fire. What
are those next steps? What is the how do you
go into working with the fire department about that situation.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
Well, so that's a great question, and I think that one.
It is terrible, horrible to lose your everything. I always
talk about people's homes. Is there everything, because it's everything,
it is, it's sure everything, it's your safety shelter, it's
all your staff. So when that happens, usually there's a
lot of shock when that happens, and you're going through
those steps of that take some of the programs being offered.
(13:49):
Red Cross will usually be there, talk to them, listen
to what they have to offer. Make sure that you
get those taken care of, right, those things of shelter
and food and clothing for you and your family, Like,
get that first covered, and then you have to work
(14:10):
through the process, which is your insurance company. And that's
a time consuming a situation, but that's the process that
you have to go through and and and get through.
I think your friends probably in the middle of that now.
And it's not it's not the easiest thing to be
able to do.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
It's it's very tough, and we are. We're pulling for her.
We're rooting for her every single day because she's just
such a truper, such a trooper about it all. Well,
before we go, because I think we're covering a lot.
What else is there anything else you'd like to cover?
What should people know that we're missing right now?
Speaker 2 (14:46):
Well, we've talked to we've covered almost everything. You know
you can think of a lot. For emergencies and being prepared,
I always remember that one of the things I say
is that don't be lucky, be prepared. Sometimes people try
to live on luck, and I don't believe in luck.
I believe in being prepared, and so be prepared for
(15:08):
what could happen and have those honest, open dialogue with
you and your family on what to do for emergency.
I think that we often don't talk about that, but
we need to and it's okay to every once in
a while practice it and what we're going to do.
And I think those are good things to be able
to do as a family and to be that way.
And like we talked about all the websites and I'm
(15:30):
sure you're going to show them or talk about them more.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
Make sure makes.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
People you sign up for a KO and be ready.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
Yeah, be ready, be ready. You chief, thank you for
having had a great time. Come back again. I hope
you have a safe fire season. I know it's I
hope there's no more. Okay, that's all I'm gonna say
right now. I hope there's no more. Like you know,
that's what you're here for. So we appreciate you and
thank you.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
For all you do. Yeah, you're welcome. Thanks for having me.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
Have a great day and that with iheartradios in an
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