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January 9, 2025 29 mins
Gary and Shannon have the latest coverage on the Palisades Fire, the Sunset Fire and the Eaton Canyon Fire.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI
AM six forty, the Gary and Shannon Show on demand
on the iHeartRadio app.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
We're ending up this latest daily briefing on what was
referred to earlier today as the fire siege that we
have seen at the beginning of twenty twenty five. Out
of state resources good news continue to arrive in to
this area as we battle these continued fires. The National

(00:29):
Weather Service does say that the red flag conditions are
going to stay in effect through Friday probably. And the
number that I was always the number that I was
always questioning, was the thirty thousand people who had been evacuated.
The sheriff said there were one hundred and eighty thousand
people who are under current evacuation orders, one hundred and

(00:53):
eighty thousand and then another two hundred thousand under evacuation
warnings throughout La counted.

Speaker 1 (01:00):
I was listening to Conway last night when the Hollywood
fire broke out, and you could just hear it in
his voice or he was kind of like, oh no,
not another one, not there, And I think everyone had
that gut punch as well. I mean, we talk about
from the Palisades to Altadena and then you know, it
just kept getting worse. I mean, usually we're used to

(01:22):
covering these fires, and you know, there's the initial burst
and the initial devastation and the homes lost, and then
twenty four hours later, it's a different kind of vibe.
It hasn't been that way. It's been what's next, What's next?
Since the Palisades fire erupted.

Speaker 2 (01:37):
Yeah, and the Palisades Fire itself continues to grow. This
is a very I mean today it's what you would
probably consider more normal fire behavior. Yeah, but it's going
the other direction now. I mean when it started.

Speaker 3 (01:51):
On Tuesday, what day is today?

Speaker 4 (01:53):
Today is Thursday?

Speaker 3 (01:54):
Today? Thursday.

Speaker 2 (01:55):
When it started on Tuesday, it was going from the
hill down to the beach. Now it's going up north
towards the valley and east towards the four or five.

Speaker 3 (02:05):
Much much slower.

Speaker 2 (02:06):
I mean, that's the benefit of having very little wind.
But it is going in those uphill areas, which it
tends to go faster than if it were going downhill
or on flat lane.

Speaker 1 (02:17):
And I'm wondering if they said those backfires to protect
even more homes in the Palisades. It doesn't sound like
there's many left. Honestly, the devastation is vast there. I
mean there are no roads, really, I mean there are roads,
but there's no homes. And you know, we're talking about
it this morning about yeah, okay, so your home survives,

(02:38):
your home, maybe one other home on the road, those
are not inhabitable.

Speaker 2 (02:42):
Well, one of the images from this morning was right
along pch in Malibu area, where right past Dukes. We
were talking about a few dozen homes right along the
strand right along the beach in Malibu, and they were
they're gone, and then there's one still standing or two
still standing.

Speaker 3 (02:58):
And I mean, you're poin. So what do you go
back to?

Speaker 1 (03:02):
You don't I mean, at least you have your stuff
that's in your home. Your home probably smells and your
stuff will always smell like fire. But at least, I
guess you have your stuff. But you can't live there.
I mean, it's not safe to live in a neighborhood
where everything's been decimated like that. And why would you
why would you want to live in the apocalypse.

Speaker 2 (03:18):
There's still a lot We talked about this at the
end of the show yesterday. There are a lot of
questions that need to be answered. Whether it's by fire officials,
by political officials, whoever, about what it is that's going
on at what caused this, what prompted this, Why we
were so un or should say, incapable of handling it.
I mean a lot of it is just the wind.

(03:39):
You could could do anything right. There was no amount
of water in the tanks, There's nothing. There are questions
that simply will go will never have a fulfilling answer.

Speaker 3 (03:49):
You'll never be able to pin the blame on anybody.

Speaker 1 (03:51):
You were never going to minimize the devastation. But there
are questions that have been addressed. I still think it's
a little too early, but they're surfacing to the fire
department on the city level when you're dealing with the
most devastating fire in city history. The lack of water pressure,
and then of course the statewide effort to keep the

(04:12):
water in northern California from coming down here because of
the Baby smelt.

Speaker 3 (04:16):
So all of that stuff.

Speaker 2 (04:19):
Insurance, I mean, that's another massive issue that we'll be
talking about over of course of the next few days
and weeks and probably months.

Speaker 1 (04:25):
To be honest, a lot of the insurance policies canceled.
What James Wood said four months ago.

Speaker 3 (04:30):
Just months ago.

Speaker 2 (04:31):
Yeah, And it's not just there, it's not just in
the Palisades.

Speaker 3 (04:34):
This is a California thing.

Speaker 2 (04:35):
This is something that's happening throughout the Western United States,
concentrated here in Kema.

Speaker 1 (04:39):
Well, and it's going to keep getting worse because the
fires get worse and we live in these urban wildlife
interface areas all over the California area.

Speaker 2 (04:47):
A quick rundown of what we know, and we're going
to go out to Altadena here in just a second.
The Palisades fires up to seventeen two hundred plus acres
as of right now. They said the number of damaged
or destroyed buildings is into the thousands, thousands some of
Right now, the eastern and northern flanks of the fire

(05:07):
are moving towards the four or five. They're moving north
towards the vout very very slowly compared to what we
saw twenty four forty eight hours ago. But that is
one of the things that is still growing. Eaten fire
in Altadena. Pasadena's up at ten thousand, six hundred acres,
and they said most of the growth in that one
has been significantly stopped. But you're still talking about over

(05:30):
a thousand. Again, they just they don't have a good
count on this yet, but over a thousand structures damaged
or destroyed. The rest of the fires, they're fine, Like,
let's worry about the two big ones.

Speaker 3 (05:41):
Those are the ones that we're going to be talking about.

Speaker 1 (05:44):
We talked about Alta Dina. I live in a town
over from Alta Dina and it was one of the
areas where I looked when we were looking to buy
a house and move in that area. And the thing
about Alta Dina is it's very special. It's one of
the places with great history in this area. It is
got kind of a small town feel about it. You

(06:05):
brought up yesterday the loss of things like the hardware store.
You've seen a lot of businesses. It's not just wildland,
but there's a lot of wildland in Altadena there. I
go hiking there all the time. That area has all
been devastated. But you saw a lot of homes go up.
A lot of that checkerboard type style of a home

(06:26):
is here gone across the street.

Speaker 4 (06:29):
It's fine.

Speaker 1 (06:31):
The home next to that one across the street gone
on the flip side of the street, the home is standing.
This was also one of those areas where there were
not a lot of first responders seen, and not a
lot of people telling put down your hoses and leave.
In fact, I know at least personally a few people
that stayed behind and were just watering down trees and
fences yesterday because the first responders were spread so thin there.

(06:55):
But the devastation now is just becoming apparent. Michael Monks
is there. He is at the corner of Mariposa there
in El Molino. Is that right, Michael?

Speaker 5 (07:06):
That's exactly right right outside where that hardware store used
to be. It is a scene of just utter destruction,
like something out of a Hollywood set. It's just unbelievable
to stand here and absorb this. I mean, we've seen
some of them, will tell you that we've seen some
of the TV. I'm sorry of the neighborhood itself, where
there are just power lines down. You can't recognize which home,

(07:28):
where one home starts and the other one ends because
of the fire and the collapsed nature of the buildings.
What is it that you're seeing from that intersection. It's
a tale of four corners really, and Shannon really explained
it well. I mean, there's it's so random how this

(07:49):
fire chows what to destroy, because there are, of course
blocks that are leveled, and then there are other blocks
where one or two homes were taken in.

Speaker 3 (07:58):
The one in the middle wasn't. It's just been so
strange to see that.

Speaker 5 (08:01):
I'll tell you right now, it looks and feels like
it's the evening already. It's only barely twenty after nine,
and the sun is this weird shade of pink. It's
tucked behind clouds and smoke. The air is thick, it's
very difficult to breathe. But here at this intersection, on
one side, one corner, that hardware store in an old

(08:22):
brick strip mall next to an insurance agent's that's gone.
The frame is still standing. Across the street from that,
everything is completely leveled. Then coming over to the other
side of the street, there's a corner, and it's an
interesting site because there's this sign, just a small wooden sign,
facing the corner advertising rentals in the Mariposa town Homes,

(08:46):
and that sign has not suffered a lick of damage. Meanwhile,
behind the sign, the town homes are gone, completely flattened
and leveled. And then the last corner is particularly interesting
because the buildings, so for no damage at all, and
it just happens to be a fire station. And so
as I'm standing here, I'm watching a lot of the
firefighters who are clearly coming back from the thick of it,

(09:09):
taking a little rest, taking a little break, and I'm
watching them get right back in their trucks and head
back out. Another interesting scene that I saw right here
in this neighborhood, in on a side of the street
that does not appear to have suffered any damage at all.
There seem to be a couple I guess that we're
standing out here, likely the homeowners, and there was a
little bit of smoldering in their mault near the curb

(09:29):
on the street, and they were tending to it. They
were digging it out and pouring a little bit of
water on there. So there are residents who are still
here despite what has happened to their neighbors across the street,
and it looks like they are playing defense right now
against any of those floating embers. I can tell you
there's lots of smoke coming off the ground. There are
little pockets of flames. The cars on the street just

(09:51):
burned out, Utility poles split in half, wires hanging again.
It just looks apocalyptic, something out of a scene from
The Walking Dead.

Speaker 1 (10:01):
I've seen more people in Alta Dina just appearing in
shock and in tears, and it's a lot of whiplash
there still. Because this was one of those fires where
there was no time. I think what I've heard from
people who live there is we didn't even know there
was a fire burning there until.

Speaker 4 (10:21):
It was time.

Speaker 1 (10:22):
It was almost too late to evacuate, let alone getting
an evacuation warning and an evacuation order. It was just
it happened so suddenly, and then coming back to find out, wait,
there was a fire. Wait I had to evacuate, and wait,
I don't have a house left, and the businesses are gone.

Speaker 5 (10:40):
In a blink of an eye, this beautiful city has
just been decimated. And you characterized it well, Shannon. I mean,
there's this little side street that is a private street.
There's a sign out front that makes that clear, and
you can tell even now that that street led to
some beautiful homes, and the only remnants of those homes
there's a white picket fence that is half standing and

(11:04):
also half charred to the ground.

Speaker 3 (11:07):
And then you have.

Speaker 5 (11:07):
These beautiful chimneys and fireplaces that once stood inside these
lovely homes and now stand out here like a graveyard.

Speaker 2 (11:20):
The other issue I think is, I mean, outside of
the loss of obvious home stuff, in your home memories,
all of that, you're talking about people whose place of
work is also gone.

Speaker 3 (11:33):
In many instances, I mean.

Speaker 2 (11:35):
There are people who work here who have lost jobs,
but they have a job.

Speaker 3 (11:40):
I mean, our building is still standing.

Speaker 2 (11:41):
They are going to be people who have lost their
home and whatever place of business that they were supposed
to be going to.

Speaker 5 (11:48):
That's right, and so that is very impactful to the workers,
to the owners of the business, to the owners of
the properties. And it also attacks the character of a community.
When you think about a small hardware store, how long
have people been shopping there? How many generations have stories
from when they needed something and got some help at
that place. We see it here in Altadena, we see

(12:11):
the devastation in the palisades. The character of these communities
have been lost as well, in addition to people's personal
items and of course the loss of some lives.

Speaker 3 (12:25):
Michael, we'll check back in with you. Thank you for that.
Thank you, guys. Michael.

Speaker 2 (12:29):
Monks there out there in Altadena, Elmalina and Mariposa Street,
that intersection right next to one of the fire stations.
As he was reporting, Amy King made a comment this
morning that I thought that is also one of those
conversations for down the road, but Michael kind of touched
on it right there, which is the loss of the
character of a neighborhood. And when we were talking yesterday

(12:51):
with the head of the Palisades Community Council, she was
discussing what the personality of Pacific Palisades, and I mean
this is obviously it's la and a lot of people.
If you're anywhere east of here, you're going to be
reading stories about celebrities that have lost their homes or
because they're the ones who generate the headlines, but just

(13:12):
the sheer number, I mean, the images of these neighborhoods
in the Palisades. There's not a house standing, and the
idea that there are thousands of structures, I mean to
me that seems like it Ell States is gone. They're
just neighborhoods like just as decimated and you're losing with
that what she described yesterday as sort of that Midwest

(13:33):
small town feel on a bluff overlooking the beautiful Pacific Ocean,
and Alta Dina has that as well in parts of
that Pacady and those Some of those homes are built,
I mean, one hundred and twenty years ago, and.

Speaker 1 (13:45):
It's going to take a decade at least to rebuild
and to get businesses back up and all of that.
It's just it's a long road to hoe, you know what.
I'm kind of done with. And I don't mean to
be a negative person, but I'm really done with all
of the we as Angelino's are strong and we will

(14:06):
overcome and blah blah blah blah.

Speaker 4 (14:09):
I don't care.

Speaker 1 (14:10):
Right now, the freaking smoke is still rising from the
homes where families.

Speaker 4 (14:15):
Built their lives. Tell us what we're going to do.

Speaker 1 (14:19):
Tell us where people can get food and shelter, and
where how you're going to get the water situation fixed
locally and statewide, and where people can go. And tell
us more about Airbnb giving away free lodgings, and tell
us which hotels are going to be offering free rooms
because not everybody has money that spend displaced.

Speaker 4 (14:37):
Tell us that stuff.

Speaker 1 (14:39):
Enough of your bad sea grade poetry, like nobody needs
to hear that crap.

Speaker 4 (14:43):
There's no stomach for that crap right now.

Speaker 3 (14:46):
What I want to know is and this.

Speaker 1 (14:49):
For the love, that is the way we stand here united, Jesus,
Marian Joseph.

Speaker 6 (14:54):
United and stand strong.

Speaker 1 (14:56):
Only think she said good in that whole thing was Tuesday?

Speaker 3 (15:00):
Who is that for?

Speaker 1 (15:02):
That's what people who do not have any sort of
realization how real people are living right now, that's the
same crap.

Speaker 4 (15:10):
I almost at a bad word.

Speaker 1 (15:11):
Eric Garcetti would say, or all the people who live
in their ivory west side towers, you know the stuff
that people are so out of touch with humanity. How
can you be out of touch with somebody who loses
their home. Don't you have a home, don't you have stuff?
Don't you have a family?

Speaker 4 (15:25):
I mean, how can you be that out of touch?
Right now? I just don't get it completely.

Speaker 2 (15:30):
That's why I pulled that cut, was because I wanted
to make fun of it as just so tone deaf
for what needs to be what we need to see
and hear action from them right now?

Speaker 3 (15:40):
Action. All right, it's gonna be a good day.

Speaker 4 (15:44):
Is it gonna be a good day?

Speaker 3 (15:45):
Well, it's gonna be a better day.

Speaker 1 (15:46):
Yes, it's gonna Well, I hope. So, yes, the wind
is I'll be happy when the wind event.

Speaker 3 (15:52):
Is over, Yes, and that is coming soon.

Speaker 2 (15:53):
So we'll talk more about what's going on fire wise,
et cetera throughout the day Today.

Speaker 4 (15:59):
John cobe elt.

Speaker 1 (16:00):
In overnight twelve midnight to three am. In fact, I
didn't get a chance to listen because yeah, but I mean,
doesn't that sound kind of nice like going to sleep?
John Coe belts on the radio. No, no, sounds soothing. Well,
I don't know what John after dark sounds like. I mean,

(16:21):
I know what John after sunset looks like. But that's
well after I told you I think on Monday or
Tuesday about the BBC shipping news and how that is
a big draw for people, people who have no interest
in shipping directions or traffic or wind or any sort
of forecast. But yet the guy who does the BBC

(16:42):
shipping news for the BBC obviously has such a soothing
voice that people subscribe to this and go to sleep
to the shipping news on the routine. What a nice
compliment for him, isn't it. Yeah, maybe you could do
some sort of shipping news thing. I wouldn't know the
I wouldn't know the first thing. Well, just try to
make it up, wing it and use a British accent.

(17:03):
I'll close my eyes and see if I can go
to sleep.

Speaker 3 (17:06):
There is one giant shipload of oil being shipped through
the Suez Canal.

Speaker 1 (17:11):
See that's pretty good. That's pretty good. I got a
little sleepy. Well, that's great. So one of the estimators,
I don't even know what would you would say estimations
an estimation made by an estimator about what kind of
I mean, ballpark we're talking when it comes to damage

(17:33):
from the fires that have broken out in the last
couple of days. Between fifty two and fifty seven billion
dollars in damage is what they're and that's this is
the first forty eight hours after this thing broke out.
That's the first number that we've gotten to put that
in context. That obviously would be the worst in terms

(17:58):
of damage and property damage. The worst disaster in the
history of California, the nineteen ninety four Northridge earthquake, by comparison,
was somewhere about thirty billion dollars in property damage. Thirty billion,
and this we're talking about fifty to fifty seven billion.

Speaker 2 (18:21):
Some of the most expensive real estate in the country.
But that's not even what makes this that expensive. It's
that it's so widespread, and it's not just one two
million dollar house or a one point four million dollar
house in Altadena. This is thousands of them. Chief meteorologists

(18:43):
for ACU Weathers said it's already one of the worst
wildfires in history, and if a large number of additional
structures are burned in the coming days, it would be
the worst wildfire in modern history based on not just
the number of structures burned, but also economic loss.

Speaker 3 (18:57):
We talked yesterday. CalFire keeps a list.

Speaker 2 (19:01):
It's just a depressing list of the top twenty wildfires
based on different in the state of California, based on
different metrics. One of them is the size, the top
twenty in size, the top twenty in damage, and then
the top twenty in terms of loss of property and
the campfire. The one that burned through Paradise burned about

(19:23):
eighteen thousand structures, I think is what they said, and.

Speaker 3 (19:25):
Killed eighty five people.

Speaker 2 (19:27):
This one could surpass that, if not in the deaths,
then almost certainly in the number of people I'm sorry,
in the number of properties that are lost and.

Speaker 3 (19:40):
The death toll.

Speaker 2 (19:40):
I wanted to mention as well because Sheriff Robert Luna
said something at this news conference, which was it was
rare and it was important, especially in a situation like this.
The death toll has been reported at five in the
Eton fire, the one in Altade in Nepasadena. Yesterday, it
was two. Today, the numbers overnight in this morning were five.

(20:03):
And when he talked about it, he said, I'm not
going to give you a death toll for a couple
of reasons.

Speaker 3 (20:08):
Number one, we're not quite sure.

Speaker 2 (20:11):
We don't have our trained eyes on whatever it is,
and I don't know if they're finding bodies or whatever.
But he said, we need to make sure we get
this right, because this is not there's no rush right.
It doesn't like you've said many times about the acreage
of things like this, the acreage doesn't matter. If it's seventeen,
that teny, twelve thousand, that doesn't matter. What matters is

(20:33):
people's lives and property. And at this point the exact
death toll, we know people have died. We know that
that makes it a deadly fire, and that's what's important.

Speaker 3 (20:43):
And he said in.

Speaker 2 (20:44):
Response to one of these questions in this news conference
today I'm gonna make it. I'm gonna make sure before
we start getting into that story, you believe that death
toll is not accurate and do you think it's less
than that?

Speaker 7 (20:57):
Based on all the information that I've received in the
last probably eight hours, I want to be more confident
in the specific information that I'm getting. So what we're
doing now is going back through everything, because you've got
to understand the urgency, the chaotic nature of what we're
dealing with, and we're still in the middle of that.

(21:20):
So I want to make sure that as we go forward,
at least for the Sheriff's Department, we're actually having our
homicide unit involved because they do they only do murder investigations.
They do death investigations. That I'm going to change the
system and verify each number because I don't care if
it's just one. That's somebody's family, that's somebody we love
and care for, So I want to make sure that's

(21:42):
solid before we start presenting that information. Unfortunately, based on
the preliminary information I've seen, at least in the both
the two large fires that we're dealing with on each
side of the county, Unfortunately, I think the death toll
will rise.

Speaker 3 (21:57):
Now listen, And that's the acknowledgment. He knows it's going
to go up.

Speaker 2 (22:01):
It doesn't matter if it's five or four or seven
right now, because it is going to go up, unfortunately,
and he wants to make sure he gets.

Speaker 4 (22:07):
It, gets it right, and I'd love to hear it.

Speaker 2 (22:10):
It's such a refreshing comment from a situation like that.

Speaker 1 (22:13):
And it's not poetry. It's not the BS about well,
we're going to stand strong and be the thing in
this and the light it sounds real person and the
show our better angels or whatever, None of that, none
of that BS.

Speaker 3 (22:24):
It's just listen.

Speaker 2 (22:25):
I want to get it right because I know that
people are going to be affected by whatever numbers come out,
because they're not just numbers, they're actual.

Speaker 3 (22:33):
People, all right.

Speaker 1 (22:34):
Coming up next one of the most dramatic scenes you know,
and I'm not even going to qualify it.

Speaker 4 (22:40):
It's all been dramatic.

Speaker 1 (22:41):
It's all been awful and horrific and a freaking nightmare
since Tuesday morning.

Speaker 4 (22:47):
Last night was the most recent nightmare.

Speaker 1 (22:49):
I guess you could say the freshest nightmare when you
saw the Hollywood Hills go up in flames, and spotting
almost immediately. The Magic Castle Hotel was in jeopardy at
one point. Coming up, we are going to talk to
the man who operates the Magic Castle Hotel about what happened,
how things stand now, and what's next. The four big

(23:10):
fires burning right now, it looks like just complete devastation
at the Palisades. I haven't seen I've seen maybe one
or two homes standing. Maybe it's just the news coverage
is focusing on the neighborhoods that have been completely decimated.
But it looks like I'm looking at an overhead grid
right now, and it is just it's a war zone.

Speaker 2 (23:31):
It's war I mean sections of even even Sunset, those
buildings along Sunset that are the larger, you know, they
housed a couple of different businesses or you know, even
those are the buildings are gutted. They're still standing, but
they're gutted. And then hundreds of homes throughout those I
think they call in the Alphabet streets they're in Palisades

(23:52):
that are just they're just gone.

Speaker 4 (23:55):
Well another oh no.

Speaker 1 (23:57):
Last night I heard Conway talk about it as this
fire was breaking out in the Hollywood Hills. Darren Ross
is the owner of service. Free Hospitality operates a Magic
Castle Hotel, obviously an institution there in Hollywood.

Speaker 4 (24:11):
Darren, thanks for your time this morning.

Speaker 6 (24:13):
Well, yeah, good morning. Thank you for having me.

Speaker 1 (24:15):
So walk us through your experience last night as this
thing was unfolding.

Speaker 6 (24:20):
Yeah. Sure. I had got home from work, starting to relax,
and then got word that this fire broke out. Came
right back to the hotel and all of a sudden
we were under evacuation orders and we evacuated our hotel,
and on my way back in, I saw the glow
of the fire. It seemed pretty close. Looked like it

(24:44):
was on the other side of Le Brea and the
Running Cannon area. But yeah, it was a pretty scary
sight to see on my way in and got to
work and we safely evacuated our hotel.

Speaker 4 (24:58):
How many people are we talking? How many do you
have to get out of there?

Speaker 6 (25:02):
Yeah we have. We have thirty nine rooms. We were
about Yeah, we're about ninety five percent occupied last night,
so a pretty full hotel with families and kids and luggage,
you know, and going on onto Franklin Avenue, which was
just packed as everybody was evacuating.

Speaker 1 (25:20):
It seemed like it was gridlock there through Hollywood, but
it died down relatively quickly. It seems like everyone got
out right away. Now, your area, much like we saw
with the Palisades and the Alta Dina area, I mean
Altadena kind of knew they were on the radar of
the winds coming down from the mountains and the foothills.
Pacific Palisades has that super large wild land area right

(25:44):
above it. But it must have been a shock when
when you heard the news that there was a fire
encroaching on your area.

Speaker 6 (25:53):
It was a shock. We of course, we all hope
for the best, for more of the of course, the
hotel to be protected, and an historic club next door
to be protected. It's funny, there was a there was
an image going around and I started getting messages from
all of the country, all over the world, Australia.

Speaker 3 (26:11):
There was a.

Speaker 6 (26:12):
Picture of the club with this glow behind it that
looked like it was on fire. But the fire was
actually about a half a mile away. But there was
a scary site, not the club's first first run in
with the fire.

Speaker 3 (26:27):
What's I mean, everything's fine.

Speaker 2 (26:29):
The evacuation orders were lifted a couple of hours ago,
so today is going to be different. Do you just
let people back in? How does that work trying to
reoccupy the hotel?

Speaker 6 (26:38):
Absolutely, So we've we've been in communication with our guests
via email and our Facebook page, keeping them, keeping them informeds. Like,
the evacuation order was actually lifted at about twelve forty
in the morning, so we notified everybody around that time.
And right now as we speak, people are trickling back
into the hotel, enjoying breakfast in our courtyard ard and

(27:01):
things seem to be back to normal.

Speaker 2 (27:04):
In a situation like that, and the location that you're in,
is this something that you had even planned for?

Speaker 3 (27:10):
Is there? Do you guys have procedures for this on
a regular basis?

Speaker 6 (27:14):
Yeah, I mean absolutely, I mean we have, we have
evacuation plans, you know, living in an earthquake country for
you know, for sure, for sure. It just depends on
the circumstance. So we send everybody to kind of the
south end of Hollywood Boulevard, which was outside the evacuation
so we were just on a cusp of the evacuation boundaries.

(27:35):
So Hollywood Hills, Hollywood Hills High School was an evacuation center.
The rose of the Hollywood Roads famous Roosevelt Hotel was
not in the evacuation uh area, so we sent some
people there. Some people stay there for the night.

Speaker 1 (27:52):
You guys had a fire there Halloween a handful of
years ago.

Speaker 6 (27:57):
We did, Yeah, Halloween on a twenty eleven. God, I
was the guy who hired the roofing company to redo
the roof there. And yeah, a nice showman left the
torch down a little too long and that's what started
the fire. And yeah, there were no no injuries, but

(28:19):
a whole lot of damage. And the firefighters did such
an incredible job. I think it was one hundred and
twenty six firefighters showed up to help save that historic building.

Speaker 1 (28:29):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (28:30):
Well good.

Speaker 2 (28:30):
I'm glad everybody's safe and I'm glad you guys are
getting back to business. Darren Ross operates a Magic Castle
Hotel over the just over the hill, right over there.

Speaker 3 (28:38):
Darren, thanks for your time again today. I really appreciate it.

Speaker 6 (28:41):
Thank you so much. Have a great morning. Man.

Speaker 4 (28:43):
That's quite the response. It's like, what five strike teams.

Speaker 2 (28:46):
Yeah, but the good news is that's that fires out.

Speaker 3 (28:50):
All those evacuations in that area have been left in.

Speaker 1 (28:52):
I was watching or listening to some of the television coverage,
and it was.

Speaker 4 (28:56):
Like, oh, run and cannyon. I hike there every day.
Well it's like, oh.

Speaker 2 (29:02):
Boy, it's a I was telling you off the air,
like I I've slept for a long time last night
because I was up all the night before, but I
also slept in a home with a bed exactly.

Speaker 1 (29:14):
I mean. It's a very human thing to make something
about you where you want to connect to somebody who's
going through something, or I want to connect to anybody.

Speaker 3 (29:23):
I know how tired you are.

Speaker 1 (29:24):
But yeah, in situations like this, when that human condition
to connect happens, sometimes it can come off the wrong.
I do it all the time. See I just did it.
We'll stay on top of the fire right here on
Gary and Channer.

Speaker 3 (29:38):
You've been listening to The Gary and Shannon Show.

Speaker 2 (29:40):
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