January 10, 2025 • 27 mins
Gary and Shannon bring on KFI’s Michael Monks with an update on the Palisade Fire.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to kf
I AM six forty the Gary and Shannon Show on
demand on the iHeartRadio app. You know, I'm in Houston
here for the wild Card game Chargers Texans, and I
was walking around, you know how we don't have anybody
that works in La Yes.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
It's a ghost studios, not just because of fires, not
just because of COVID.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
It's just been a ghost town here, right.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
It's like this huge building with like six people in
it anyway, So like when we walk around there, it's
not a problem for me to have my tourettes. I
was walking around in the hallways here and it's an
iHeart studio, so it kind of looks like home, but
it's not, you know, with the iHeart insignia, same kind
of glass doors, red red walls.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
Things like that.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Yeah, And I was walking in the bathroom and I
was like, las us Center and then I was like,
uh oh, and I kind of looked at her.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
I told you the other day, I said, listen, we
need to cut down this singing just a bit, keep
you to one song.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
And I tried, I really should be let out of
our little cage there I tried.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
The National Guard is in town, they are in place.
They are going to help enforce a curfew that was
announced just last night went into place all of the
Palisades and eaten fire areas and all areas that are
under evacuation orders. There is a curfew in place between
six pm and six am. Sheriff Luna at the news
(01:31):
conference this morning said, you are subject to arrest if
you are in those areas at that time, even if
you live there. He said, it's not to try to
punish people, it's try to protect the properties that exist,
and the easiest way to do that is with a
pretty blanket curfew from six pm to six am again
in those areas of the Palisades and eaten Fires, and
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any other areas where there is an evacuation order in place.
Side not the red flag warnings are expected to expire
at about six o'clock tonight, but the National Weather Services
the gusty winds out of the North could come back
Sunday and the early part of next week.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
I just got an alert from the Watch Duty app,
which has been incredible throughout these all of these incidents
and a bunch of evacuation orders and warnings have been
lifted for Glendale, which is great as well. Every time
we get an alert that something's been lifted, it's been nice.
Michael Monks has been spending some time in the Pacific Palisades,
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joins us now with the latest of what he has
been able to take in from the scene there.
Speaker 5 (02:40):
Good morning, Gary, Good morning Shannon.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Yes it is.
Speaker 5 (02:43):
You know, you see the images from ten thousand feet
and it's shocking to come up close to it. It's
something that won't leave your mind maybe ever, it's just
so disturbing to see one of the most aspirational places
of LA basically wiped off the map. I'll let you know.
If my connection is bad, go ahead and dump me.
I'll try to call in on the phone. It's been
(03:04):
really difficult to get proper coverage out here, so I've
been moving around a lot. I'm at will Rogers State
Beach right now, and you know, it's one of those
California days. On one side, when you look out, you
have the water and the sun shining a little bit,
but the haze has blocked much of the horizon and
then Pacific Coast Highway, no civilian traffic really at all.
It's all emergency vehicles and not just our own. I've
(03:27):
seen fire trucks from San Francisco. I've seen fire trucks
from Clark County, Nevada, Las Vegas, so this is quite
a scene. I haven't seen the National Guard yet, but
as you noted just now, Gary, they are apparently on
their way to the various areas hit and that's only
going to add to the surreality of what we're experiencing
in these places, because it does look like a war zone,
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and a fresh one. The way the smoke is still
kind of coming off of the ground and some of
these burned out places. Oh, I spoke too soon. The
National Guard has literally just rolled in past this beach.
They are going past me right now. I'm seeing the
big humbis the camouflage. Here they come. So the National
Guard has arrived in Pacific Palisades right this moment.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Hey tell us about these hikers that you were able
to talk to, all right, you know, I mentioned I
was looking for some service and I've had to move
around a lot, and I found myself next to some
portolettes on.
Speaker 5 (04:22):
The on Pacific Coast Highway and was able to get
a signal there, so I set up shop.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
I know, in case I had to pee too.
Speaker 5 (04:29):
It's like, all right, I got a signal and a toilet.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
Hey, when you're a re border, you know the free bathroom.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Good point.
Speaker 5 (04:36):
Oh absolutely not, no question, because this Stanley cup was
about to be filled.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
So we all got luck.
Speaker 5 (04:42):
Anyway, these two guys, these two guys were walking and
you know, I'm from downtown La, so I'm a little
shady when you know folks are approaching me that I
don't know, because you gotta stay alert. And they did
look a little dirty and weird, but they approached and
they were asking if I had any water, and I did, thankfully.
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I hadn't dumped out the cup to pee in it,
so I had the water still in there, and so
I let them drink it. And I asked them, you know,
where did you guys come from? And they were hiking,
and so originally I thought, oh my god, what a
story to think that you went up into the trails
before all hell broke loose and you're just now getting out. No,
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sixteen hours ago is when they decided it was a
great idea to go hiking near the Palisades.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
And it didn't go well for them. As you can't imagine.
They're alive.
Speaker 5 (05:35):
They weren't harmed, but they had no supplies left, they
were sweaty, they were tired.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
They went.
Speaker 5 (05:43):
I went in a little piece of the interview.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
Oh, and then all of a sudden.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
If you want to hear, it's.
Speaker 6 (05:49):
Crazy, and we're like oh, and we were like, okay,
well fine, we would turn back around, and we'd love to.
We saw a whole bunch of orange and we're like,
maybe just keep going the same direction, kind of think
we kind of already made the dumb mistake and just
keep going. And then yeah, we got by like this
rock corner and we were like, do we keep going
or not? And we said, screw it, let's just like
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stay here for like ten minutes. And that ten minutes
became like three four hours, and we literally had like
like hell fire waves going over us. But we're in
rock and I've traveled quite a bit, so I was
kind of aware that, like, as long as you're not
somewhere super combustible, all you have to worry about is
asphyxiation suffocation.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
So it gets just get low.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
God, the evolution of Michael Monks should not be overlooked
this week from going to the evacuation center and not
wanting to disturb people who were evacuated being sensitive to that,
to nearly peeing in his cup and talking to hobos
on drugs coming out of the hiking trails and the flames.
It has been an evolution and I'm here for it.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
It's a growing experience.
Speaker 5 (06:53):
And I'll also let you know that I relate to
your turettes because I mean, I'm sitting here in this
war zone waiting for this life hit to come up.
But I'm like, I feel incredible. You know, you hear
these things enough and you start to lose your mind.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
I know, I know, I hear you, and I do
love I do love that.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
One of the hikers said, I've traveled quite a bit,
and then that somehow translates into him becoming a fire
behavior expert.
Speaker 5 (07:20):
Well, he seemed a little silly, but he's from up
in Bear Springs Valley, he says, and that seems like
a pretty nice place. So, I mean, they weren't completely crazy,
but they did something crazy, and you could tell that
they regretted. In fact, I asked them that, and he
says that he probably shouldn't have. I asked you know,
they couldn't use their phones either. There's no service up here,
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so they could not get a hold of anybody to
even tell them that they were stupid and went into
these trails, which is probably a good thing, he says,
because if they had to be airlifted, he would have
owed about fifty five thousand dollars to the state of California.
But when he finally met the first responders of the
police outside the trails, they got a scolding and directed
on their way. No, he was like, I was sad
they didn't give us a ride, Like, oh, there's some
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things going on here.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
I mean, talk about a bill that would never be
So take a hike, you know what. It feels really
good to laugh. Thank you, Michael.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
It's always my pleasure. Michael Monk's out there in Pacific Palisades. Okay, So.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Keana producer Keana just got about ten fifteen minutes ago,
got another alert that she needed to evacuate.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
Is she anywhere near a fire zone?
Speaker 3 (08:33):
No, right, she's in the other room.
Speaker 4 (08:35):
I know that, But I mean is her residence?
Speaker 3 (08:38):
No?
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Do they go based off of where your phone is
or where you live?
Speaker 7 (08:43):
Well?
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Mine, the way I have it set up is it
goes through location services. So this morning, when I drove
through what was an evacuation warning area, it gave me
an alert that says you're entering an evacuation warning area.
That was for about four minutes on the freeway, and
then I got here again. This is after I was
woken up by the false alert alert at four am,
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and then the other one from night before four pm.
The explanation for this is completely unnecessary. What is necessary
is the county explaining how they're going to prevent it
from happening again and how they're going to restore trust
in this app that they are using to try to
get information out.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
We'll talk about it when we come.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
This is why I don't have any of those alerts
set up by way.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
I know.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Well, we're continuing to talk about the fires. Of course,
we will talk a little bit later into more detail
about the iHeartMedia Los Angeles teaming up with the Dream
Center LA committed to providing immediate support and resources to
anybody in need during these incredible fire siege that we
have seen. You can donate at the Dreamcenter dot org
(09:53):
slash donate actively collecting and distributing a bunch of disaster
relief supplies for communities, and we need things like bottled water,
sports drinks, non perishable food items, hygiene products obviously, clothing
and blankets, flash lights, batteries, portable phone chargers for power
outages that people are still dealing with, pets, food and supplies.
(10:16):
We'll talk more about it as we get through the
as we get through the day today, but dreamcenter dot
org slash donate is one way you can do that.
You mentioned Shannon's in Houston today for tomorrow's wild Card
game between the Chargers and the text and.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
So I have time for a brief story. Of course, Okay,
here's a brief story. May not be that brief. I'm
a little long winded.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
So yesterday, thank you off Yesterday. I have a clock. Yesterday.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
We get to the facility and everyone's wearing LA Fire
Department hats, La County Fire Department hats. The whole team,
the whole staff, we're all wearing them, right, We wear
them on the plane. We get to Houston, where it's
wonder raining and cold and you could breathe and it
was incredible. And we get to the hotel and it's
(11:09):
a it's an older Marriott and we get We get
there and it's always a crush to the elevators, right,
so it's a large influx of people to be getting
upstairs at one time.
Speaker 4 (11:22):
But anyway, I.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Get upstairs and we get got it about nine thirty.
I hadn't really eaten anything, and so I ordered a pizza. Listen,
I'm rationalizing the pizza. I ordered a pizza. I wanted pizza, Okay,
I wanted right. So I go downstairs to get my
pizza to pick it up from the Uber Eats. It's
about ten o'clock and at ten o'clock local time, and
(11:44):
the elevator is taking forever.
Speaker 4 (11:45):
I'm on the tenth floor. It's taking forever and ever
and ever, Like, what the hell's going on? Whatever?
Speaker 1 (11:49):
So I get downstairs or I'm all my way down
and offensive coordinator comes into the elevators like, can you
believe that the elevators are stuck again?
Speaker 4 (11:58):
I said what?
Speaker 1 (11:59):
Because it when we were in Dallas, there was a
group of guys that got stuck in an elevator, justin
Herbert included Dan Felt's wife was in there for two
and a half hours, okay.
Speaker 4 (12:11):
And so it was a big story.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
Jim Harbaugh came out, was like, I wish I was
stuck in that elevator.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
I want to be in the war.
Speaker 7 (12:18):
You know.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
It was like this great team building moment. You know,
one of the things that Justin he doesn't often post
to social media, but every time he has, he hashtags
no elevators. The team even had hats made with a
picture of an elevator and a red ex going through it.
It's been a huge deal for the fan base. Everyone's
kind of bonded together over no elevators this season.
Speaker 4 (12:40):
So I get.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
Downstairs and I see and Greg Grolman's like look, and
I look at the elevator and it's clearly stuck in
between the floors. And so there were some coaches on it,
a couple players. I think John Spanos was on there
as well. So I get downstairs finally to the lobby
and the police the fire department's there and he Waston
Fire Department, and then they're coming in with all their equipment,
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and here's a contention of us in the lobby all
wearing La Fire Department hats as the Houston Fire Department's
coming in.
Speaker 4 (13:09):
So it was very funny. They were able to make
quick work out of it.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
I think they were only stuck in there for about
twenty minutes, but it was just and then I saw
the GM this morning.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
I go, maybe this is a good sign.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
He's like absolutely, He's like, we won that game, so.
Speaker 4 (13:22):
Here we go.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
He's about the state of Texas and the elevator and
the elevators all right. Well, listen, a lot of people
are being having their heads put on a stake because
of what's been going on in terms of fire response
and fire preparedness. I think this guy might be the
first guy to lose his job.
Speaker 8 (13:40):
I can't express enough how sorry I am for this experience.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
This is the guy in charge of La County's Office
of Emergency Management, the agency that's responsible for now at
least two false alerts that went out on everybody list.
Speaker 4 (13:57):
These two missus.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Patricia says she got three false alerts. She said, the
first two she loaded the car. The second or the
third alert, she made a cup of tea.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
Yeah, and that's the problem. There had been some announcement.
I didn't know where it come came from. I didn't
hear it, but somebody said the Chargers game was postpone removed.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
Yeah, Amy's okay, Well, I got a couple texts from
people that it may have been in one of Amy's newscasts.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
Oh well that wasn't, because I'll hear it. No, no, no, no.
The Rams game that's scheduled for Monday night has been
moved out of so far to what is it state Arizona.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
To Glendale, Arizona.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
Yeah, so the game will take place, and in fact,
tickets are on sale for season ticket holders for the
Rams right now. If you're here and you want to
make plans and go to the game Monday in Arizona.
For the first two hours of ticket sales, it's only
open to Ram season ticket holders, and then at noon,
I guess the NFL opens it up to everybody else.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
God bless her Art's trying to pack that with Rams
fans when you know that the Vikings fans travel with
a hunger, with a drive, with the give me the
Lombardi Trophy spirits.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
They give me the trophy spirit.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
Yes, they are hungry that fan base. I love the
Vikings fan base, by the way. They are good people.
We wish I could say the same for the Rams.
Speaker 4 (15:22):
I can't.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
Wow. Oh you're gonna make friends.
Speaker 4 (15:25):
I don't care.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
That's that's something about you that's awful.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
They're awful fans. They use those noise makers there. It's
so far the Rams fans do, which because they.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
Know the World Cup soccer ones, the Vuzelas or whatever
they are.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
Now they're like they're they're smaller, and it's like it's
like it's an admonition, like they know that there's not
enough of them, so they have to amplify the sound
of each person.
Speaker 4 (15:49):
Wow, it's true, sad.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
La County is in the hot seat, and I mean
that both ways. La County itself has been sending out
false alert for people to evacuate, or at least telling
them that they are in evacuation warning zones. I got
one yesterday afternoon. I got one this morning at four am.
Keana got one about nine to forty five. And we're
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not the only ones, hey.
Speaker 9 (16:13):
Garan Chan, I love the show. I also got those
false notifications. I'm down in Orange County. My wife got
one this morning. And I actually lived in Honolulu when
we got the false notification about the nuclear warhead that
was going to come and decimate the island a handful.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
Of years ago.
Speaker 9 (16:30):
What they found there, and I'm sure what they'll find
here is it's the human element sitting behind the computer
pushing the buttons that causes the false notifications. Just my thought.
Take care.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
So Kevin McGowan is the director of the Office of
Emergency Management and his explanation of what's going wrong.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
Is so stupid, It is so.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Idiotic that it almost defies credulity to even play it.
Speaker 8 (16:58):
First of all, I want to clear this is not
human driven. There is no one sitting at a desk
right now initiating emergency alerts. I want to restate that
right now, as these alerts are being issued, they are
not being activated or initiated by a person.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
Okay, does that make you feel better that it's not
a human being who is sending out false alerts a
little bit?
Speaker 3 (17:29):
Why?
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Because humans are more likely to error than machines are.
If they're machines that are calibrated correctly to know exactly
which areas are affected, which I believe would involve a
human at some stage.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
Well, okay, that's that's the key. It should involve a
human at some stage if there's if there's an alert
that's going to go out to the entire county, why
isn't there somebody in that chain of command that can
click a yes or a no button. Yes this needs
to go out to the entire county, or no, we
need to rethink this before we send the alert.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
The thing I don't like about it is the complete
lack of accountability.
Speaker 4 (18:08):
Say we screwed up.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
There's so few times when people will have the balls
to get up and be.
Speaker 4 (18:13):
Like, I screwed up. We screwed up. This is screwed up,
you know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
It's just like this, like you said, obfuscating all the
time from all of these people. I did a deep
dive on this kid, Kevin McGowan, wanting to know what
his deal.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
Is lot tea dot com? Is that where he looked?
Speaker 1 (18:30):
No, Actually, he's a veteran. He was in the army
for eight years. He went to Harvard, he did some
time with FEMA, Naval postgraduate school, went to got his
bachelor's poll PSI from North Carolina, went to Pepperdine for
his masters. So there's a little low tea mixed in
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there with FEMA and well some other things. But I mean,
he is a veteran. He's only been on the job
since twenty nineteen, so it's kind of been like a
dead zone. I guess you could say after COVID and
all of that, but but you got to have accountability
when you're the director of emergency services and those things
go wrong. I mean, it's right there in the title, right.
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This is when people need somebody the most. It's an emergency.
And if you're the head of the department that's going
to be decimating the information, disseminating the information, then you
need to be accountable. You need to make sure all
the t's are crossing, the eyes are dotted, the buck
stops with you, and if you're not willing to get
up there and say that, then that's a problem.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
I mean he was asked that in an interview very
early this morning that I heard. Kevin McGowan was asked
where does the buck stop? Who is responsible for this?
And he refused to say who it was. I mean,
I mean it's him. He's the director of the Office
of Emergency Management. This is his buck to stop, and
I'm glad he's got his best people on it. He
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talks about the state level, the femal level, they're all
trying to help out figure out what's the ghost in
the shell here, what's the bug in the system that's
causing these things to go out? But in the meantime, listen,
it's an inconvenience for someone like me. I haven't had
to evacuate. My house is still standing. I haven't lost
anybody to these fires. But imagine if you're one of
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the tens of thousands of people who has had to
evacuate or has lost their home or property or car
or their loved ones to this fire, and you keep
getting these false alerts.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
I think the bigger detriment is what happens when you
get one of these alerts and it's real.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
And you make you make a cup of tea instead
of getting your stuff in the car and getting.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
Out of there.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
Well, you make an educated guess best based on the
fact that you got three alerts in air the last time.
Speaker 4 (20:47):
This time, you know it should be talked about too.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
And we're kind of out of time here, but I
do want to get into the forecast for next week
because it's not great.
Speaker 4 (20:57):
But you set out.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
These boy that cry wolf of alerts and they just
get watered down the next time they're absolutely real. And
also think about people who have pets, you know, multiple
dogs or cats or what have you. And every time
they're loading up the car and the crates and the
food and the pets and the whole bit. And then
they drive down the block and they realize, oh, wait,
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there's nothing on fire here. Wait was that an error?
And then and then you don't know where to go
to find out what is What I.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
Will say this, Kevin McGowan did give information to do
just that.
Speaker 8 (21:30):
I ask everyone that gets an alert to verify if
they are in an evacuation warning or order to go
to alert, La dot org, La County dot gov, slash
emergency or dial to one one for assistance.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
Now those three areas should have.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
The other one is the Watch Duty app and that
Genesis Protect app that have very updated information, which is
where I went this morning to figure out that.
Speaker 4 (21:59):
It was a FALSEIL arm.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
But that's just me.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
We got word of another fire. This one is up
in the north San Fernando Valley, again near where the
Hearst fire was in Silmar, but this one is on
the west side of I five. It's sort of in
the Granada Hills area, just as I five goes up
and over the New Hall Pass.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
It would be off to the west side.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
It's only about an acre or two, but it is
in an area that is burning. It's burning uphill. There's
very light flashy fuels in that area. Again, that's in
the north San Fernando Valley in.
Speaker 4 (22:31):
Then is this the one called the Archer Fire?
Speaker 3 (22:34):
That is the Archer Fire? Okay?
Speaker 1 (22:35):
Yeah, they say light flashy fuels, winds at about five
to ten miles per hour.
Speaker 4 (22:40):
Isn't that nice to hear? No homes threatened there?
Speaker 2 (22:44):
Well, we have teamed up with Dream Center Allay to
try to bring some amount of relief essential disaster relief
supplies to some of the communities that communities that have
been impacted by these fires. Joining us to talk more
about this whole pro Clint Carlton, Director of Disaster Relief
for Dream Center, La Clint, thanks for thanks for picking
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up this mantle with us and trying to get things done.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
How's it going, Hey.
Speaker 7 (23:10):
Thank you guys, Gary and Shannon. We appreciate what you
guys are doing over there with iHeart and and KFI.
We we couldn't do it without people like you getting
the word out about what the Dream Center is doing.
The thing is is right now, I stand in the
middle parking lot. There's over four hundred volunteers. There's a line.
We have a line set up here at the Dream Center.
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If you don't know about the Dream Center, we were
at one on one in Alvarado. We're the Old Queen
of Angels Hospital. So we have a giant parking lot
stand in the middle of parking lot right now, and
we have a drop off location where people can drop
off items to help people. And then we have a
pickup location where people that have been affected by the fires,
the very fires, I mean, we're adding another one on
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as you just said, where people can pick up items
in Necessity's water, they can pick up palace for the family,
baby supplies, diapers because a lot of these families they
just ran out of their house with nothing, just to
clothes on our back. Our founder and CEO, Matthew Barnet,
he literally left his house. He had just his clothes
on his back, and so we're having to float him
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as he's out serving people as well. Today.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
Pretty much every disaster, not just in Los Angeles but
around the country, the Dream Center has been a haven
for people in terms of throwing open your doors. I
think a lot of people in various different disasters at
least since I've been in La past twenty five years
or so, that where people have even relocated to La
(24:39):
from other parts of the country after spending some time
at the Dream Center and getting on their feet.
Speaker 7 (24:45):
Yeah. Yeah, we during if you've noticed, during Katrina, that
was one of the first big ones that I started
working on. I'm the director of disaster relief for the
Dream Center, and during Katrina, we took in people that
were their homes were demolished during the hurricane, and we
they were able. We had a chef, I remember, a chef,
Eddie Murphy, actually got him a job at his restaurant.
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And so that's the thing about the Dream Centered day
is there's a lot of these shelters that are temporary shelters,
but some of these people have lost their homes and
that are staying here and they're scared and they don't
know there's so much uncertainty going on right now with insurance,
and so we want to give them time to rebuild
their life, and so we tell them where they come in,
there's no deadline for you to leave right now. If
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your family needs to stay here for six months, nine
months a year to get yourself back on track. That's
what you're gonna do. But that's what we do with
everyone's life. When we deal with the homeless families, when
we're dealing with the veterans, we say we give them
the luxury of time. And I think that's what the
Dream Center's doing today.
Speaker 3 (25:44):
What are the easiest ways for people to give?
Speaker 7 (25:48):
Easiest ways to give, I would say text relief to
three three one zero zero. Text relief to three three
one zero zero. Or you can go to kf I
am sixty dot com backslash donate if you want to
get finance, so you can go on and check that.
If you want to volunteer, you can come down here
and volunteer. But also if you want to drop off items, howels, sheet, bedsheets,
(26:12):
just your basic necessities. We need those right now. Cases
of water, so they can come down bring it down
to the Dream Center. We're going to be here till
late in the night receiving donations, so drop off your
donation anytime you want. We're going to be here.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
That is awesome.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
Clint, again, thank you for what it is that you
guys are doing there at the Dream Center. We're very
happy to be able to partner with you and try
to make a difference over the next couple of days
and weeks.
Speaker 7 (26:39):
Hey, garyan Chin and we appreciate you guys, and thanks
for getting the word out and we're honored to partner
with KFI on this again.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
What they need nonperishable food items, bottled water, hygiene products, clothing, blankets,
baby supplies, air purifiers, things like flashlights, batteries, first aid kits,
pet food and supplies, cleaning supplies. Again, you can drop
off the essential items there at the Dream Center, but
also monetary donations dreamcenter dot org slash donate. You can
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go to KFIAM six forty dot com slash donate or
text the word relief to three three one zero zero.
Speaker 4 (27:15):
All right, coming up next.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
La County Fire officials say that our area is in
a much better posture than we were earlier this week thankfully. Today, however,
CRUs are bracing for another red flag warning expected to
begin on Monday. We'll get details coming up in the
next hour right here on Gary and Shannon.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
You've been listening to the Garyandshannon Show. You can always
hear us live on KFIAM six forty nine am to
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This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to kf
I AM six forty the Gary and Shannon Show on
demand on the iHeartRadio app. You know, I'm in Houston
here for the wild Card game Chargers Texans, and I
was walking around, you know how we don't have anybody
that works in La Yes.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
It's a ghost studios, not just because of fires, not
just because of COVID.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
It's just been a ghost town here, right.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
It's like this huge building with like six people in
it anyway, So like when we walk around there, it's
not a problem for me to have my tourettes. I
was walking around in the hallways here and it's an
iHeart studio, so it kind of looks like home, but
it's not, you know, with the iHeart insignia, same kind
of glass doors, red red walls.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
Things like that.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Yeah, And I was walking in the bathroom and I
was like, las us Center and then I was like,
uh oh, and I kind of looked at her.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
I told you the other day, I said, listen, we
need to cut down this singing just a bit, keep
you to one song.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
And I tried, I really should be let out of
our little cage there I tried.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
The National Guard is in town, they are in place.
They are going to help enforce a curfew that was
announced just last night went into place all of the
Palisades and eaten fire areas and all areas that are
under evacuation orders. There is a curfew in place between
six pm and six am. Sheriff Luna at the news
(01:31):
conference this morning said, you are subject to arrest if
you are in those areas at that time, even if
you live there. He said, it's not to try to
punish people, it's try to protect the properties that exist,
and the easiest way to do that is with a
pretty blanket curfew from six pm to six am again
in those areas of the Palisades and eaten Fires, and
(01:54):
any other areas where there is an evacuation order in place.
Side not the red flag warnings are expected to expire
at about six o'clock tonight, but the National Weather Services
the gusty winds out of the North could come back
Sunday and the early part of next week.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
I just got an alert from the Watch Duty app,
which has been incredible throughout these all of these incidents
and a bunch of evacuation orders and warnings have been
lifted for Glendale, which is great as well. Every time
we get an alert that something's been lifted, it's been nice.
Michael Monks has been spending some time in the Pacific Palisades,
(02:32):
joins us now with the latest of what he has
been able to take in from the scene there.
Speaker 5 (02:40):
Good morning, Gary, Good morning Shannon.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Yes it is.
Speaker 5 (02:43):
You know, you see the images from ten thousand feet
and it's shocking to come up close to it. It's
something that won't leave your mind maybe ever, it's just
so disturbing to see one of the most aspirational places
of LA basically wiped off the map. I'll let you know.
If my connection is bad, go ahead and dump me.
I'll try to call in on the phone. It's been
(03:04):
really difficult to get proper coverage out here, so I've
been moving around a lot. I'm at will Rogers State
Beach right now, and you know, it's one of those
California days. On one side, when you look out, you
have the water and the sun shining a little bit,
but the haze has blocked much of the horizon and
then Pacific Coast Highway, no civilian traffic really at all.
It's all emergency vehicles and not just our own. I've
(03:27):
seen fire trucks from San Francisco. I've seen fire trucks
from Clark County, Nevada, Las Vegas, so this is quite
a scene. I haven't seen the National Guard yet, but
as you noted just now, Gary, they are apparently on
their way to the various areas hit and that's only
going to add to the surreality of what we're experiencing
in these places, because it does look like a war zone,
(03:50):
and a fresh one. The way the smoke is still
kind of coming off of the ground and some of
these burned out places. Oh, I spoke too soon. The
National Guard has literally just rolled in past this beach.
They are going past me right now. I'm seeing the
big humbis the camouflage. Here they come. So the National
Guard has arrived in Pacific Palisades right this moment.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Hey tell us about these hikers that you were able
to talk to, all right, you know, I mentioned I
was looking for some service and I've had to move
around a lot, and I found myself next to some
portolettes on.
Speaker 5 (04:22):
The on Pacific Coast Highway and was able to get
a signal there, so I set up shop.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
I know, in case I had to pee too.
Speaker 5 (04:29):
It's like, all right, I got a signal and a toilet.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
Hey, when you're a re border, you know the free bathroom.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Good point.
Speaker 5 (04:36):
Oh absolutely not, no question, because this Stanley cup was
about to be filled.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
So we all got luck.
Speaker 5 (04:42):
Anyway, these two guys, these two guys were walking and
you know, I'm from downtown La, so I'm a little
shady when you know folks are approaching me that I
don't know, because you gotta stay alert. And they did
look a little dirty and weird, but they approached and
they were asking if I had any water, and I did, thankfully.
(05:03):
I hadn't dumped out the cup to pee in it,
so I had the water still in there, and so
I let them drink it. And I asked them, you know,
where did you guys come from? And they were hiking,
and so originally I thought, oh my god, what a
story to think that you went up into the trails
before all hell broke loose and you're just now getting out. No,
(05:24):
sixteen hours ago is when they decided it was a
great idea to go hiking near the Palisades.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
And it didn't go well for them. As you can't imagine.
They're alive.
Speaker 5 (05:35):
They weren't harmed, but they had no supplies left, they
were sweaty, they were tired.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
They went.
Speaker 5 (05:43):
I went in a little piece of the interview.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
Oh, and then all of a sudden.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
If you want to hear, it's.
Speaker 6 (05:49):
Crazy, and we're like oh, and we were like, okay,
well fine, we would turn back around, and we'd love to.
We saw a whole bunch of orange and we're like,
maybe just keep going the same direction, kind of think
we kind of already made the dumb mistake and just
keep going. And then yeah, we got by like this
rock corner and we were like, do we keep going
or not? And we said, screw it, let's just like
(06:09):
stay here for like ten minutes. And that ten minutes
became like three four hours, and we literally had like
like hell fire waves going over us. But we're in
rock and I've traveled quite a bit, so I was
kind of aware that, like, as long as you're not
somewhere super combustible, all you have to worry about is
asphyxiation suffocation.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
So it gets just get low.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
God, the evolution of Michael Monks should not be overlooked
this week from going to the evacuation center and not
wanting to disturb people who were evacuated being sensitive to that,
to nearly peeing in his cup and talking to hobos
on drugs coming out of the hiking trails and the flames.
It has been an evolution and I'm here for it.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
It's a growing experience.
Speaker 5 (06:53):
And I'll also let you know that I relate to
your turettes because I mean, I'm sitting here in this
war zone waiting for this life hit to come up.
But I'm like, I feel incredible. You know, you hear
these things enough and you start to lose your mind.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
I know, I know, I hear you, and I do
love I do love that.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
One of the hikers said, I've traveled quite a bit,
and then that somehow translates into him becoming a fire
behavior expert.
Speaker 5 (07:20):
Well, he seemed a little silly, but he's from up
in Bear Springs Valley, he says, and that seems like
a pretty nice place. So, I mean, they weren't completely crazy,
but they did something crazy, and you could tell that
they regretted. In fact, I asked them that, and he
says that he probably shouldn't have. I asked you know,
they couldn't use their phones either. There's no service up here,
(07:43):
so they could not get a hold of anybody to
even tell them that they were stupid and went into
these trails, which is probably a good thing, he says,
because if they had to be airlifted, he would have
owed about fifty five thousand dollars to the state of California.
But when he finally met the first responders of the
police outside the trails, they got a scolding and directed
on their way. No, he was like, I was sad
they didn't give us a ride, Like, oh, there's some
(08:05):
things going on here.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
I mean, talk about a bill that would never be
So take a hike, you know what. It feels really
good to laugh. Thank you, Michael.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
It's always my pleasure. Michael Monk's out there in Pacific Palisades. Okay, So.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Keana producer Keana just got about ten fifteen minutes ago,
got another alert that she needed to evacuate.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
Is she anywhere near a fire zone?
Speaker 3 (08:33):
No, right, she's in the other room.
Speaker 4 (08:35):
I know that, But I mean is her residence?
Speaker 3 (08:38):
No?
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Do they go based off of where your phone is
or where you live?
Speaker 7 (08:43):
Well?
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Mine, the way I have it set up is it
goes through location services. So this morning, when I drove
through what was an evacuation warning area, it gave me
an alert that says you're entering an evacuation warning area.
That was for about four minutes on the freeway, and
then I got here again. This is after I was
woken up by the false alert alert at four am,
(09:06):
and then the other one from night before four pm.
The explanation for this is completely unnecessary. What is necessary
is the county explaining how they're going to prevent it
from happening again and how they're going to restore trust
in this app that they are using to try to
get information out.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
We'll talk about it when we come.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
This is why I don't have any of those alerts
set up by way.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
I know.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Well, we're continuing to talk about the fires. Of course,
we will talk a little bit later into more detail
about the iHeartMedia Los Angeles teaming up with the Dream
Center LA committed to providing immediate support and resources to
anybody in need during these incredible fire siege that we
have seen. You can donate at the Dreamcenter dot org
(09:53):
slash donate actively collecting and distributing a bunch of disaster
relief supplies for communities, and we need things like bottled water,
sports drinks, non perishable food items, hygiene products obviously, clothing
and blankets, flash lights, batteries, portable phone chargers for power
outages that people are still dealing with, pets, food and supplies.
(10:16):
We'll talk more about it as we get through the
as we get through the day today, but dreamcenter dot
org slash donate is one way you can do that.
You mentioned Shannon's in Houston today for tomorrow's wild Card
game between the Chargers and the text and.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
So I have time for a brief story. Of course, Okay,
here's a brief story. May not be that brief. I'm
a little long winded.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
So yesterday, thank you off Yesterday. I have a clock. Yesterday.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
We get to the facility and everyone's wearing LA Fire
Department hats, La County Fire Department hats. The whole team,
the whole staff, we're all wearing them, right, We wear
them on the plane. We get to Houston, where it's
wonder raining and cold and you could breathe and it
was incredible. And we get to the hotel and it's
(11:09):
a it's an older Marriott and we get We get
there and it's always a crush to the elevators, right,
so it's a large influx of people to be getting
upstairs at one time.
Speaker 4 (11:22):
But anyway, I.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Get upstairs and we get got it about nine thirty.
I hadn't really eaten anything, and so I ordered a pizza. Listen,
I'm rationalizing the pizza. I ordered a pizza. I wanted pizza, Okay,
I wanted right. So I go downstairs to get my
pizza to pick it up from the Uber Eats. It's
about ten o'clock and at ten o'clock local time, and
(11:44):
the elevator is taking forever.
Speaker 4 (11:45):
I'm on the tenth floor. It's taking forever and ever
and ever, Like, what the hell's going on? Whatever?
Speaker 1 (11:49):
So I get downstairs or I'm all my way down
and offensive coordinator comes into the elevators like, can you
believe that the elevators are stuck again?
Speaker 4 (11:58):
I said what?
Speaker 1 (11:59):
Because it when we were in Dallas, there was a
group of guys that got stuck in an elevator, justin
Herbert included Dan Felt's wife was in there for two
and a half hours, okay.
Speaker 4 (12:11):
And so it was a big story.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
Jim Harbaugh came out, was like, I wish I was
stuck in that elevator.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
I want to be in the war.
Speaker 7 (12:18):
You know.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
It was like this great team building moment. You know,
one of the things that Justin he doesn't often post
to social media, but every time he has, he hashtags
no elevators. The team even had hats made with a
picture of an elevator and a red ex going through it.
It's been a huge deal for the fan base. Everyone's
kind of bonded together over no elevators this season.
Speaker 4 (12:40):
So I get.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
Downstairs and I see and Greg Grolman's like look, and
I look at the elevator and it's clearly stuck in
between the floors. And so there were some coaches on it,
a couple players. I think John Spanos was on there
as well. So I get downstairs finally to the lobby
and the police the fire department's there and he Waston
Fire Department, and then they're coming in with all their equipment,
(13:01):
and here's a contention of us in the lobby all
wearing La Fire Department hats as the Houston Fire Department's
coming in.
Speaker 4 (13:09):
So it was very funny. They were able to make
quick work out of it.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
I think they were only stuck in there for about
twenty minutes, but it was just and then I saw
the GM this morning.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
I go, maybe this is a good sign.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
He's like absolutely, He's like, we won that game, so.
Speaker 4 (13:22):
Here we go.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
He's about the state of Texas and the elevator and
the elevators all right. Well, listen, a lot of people
are being having their heads put on a stake because
of what's been going on in terms of fire response
and fire preparedness. I think this guy might be the
first guy to lose his job.
Speaker 8 (13:40):
I can't express enough how sorry I am for this experience.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
This is the guy in charge of La County's Office
of Emergency Management, the agency that's responsible for now at
least two false alerts that went out on everybody list.
Speaker 4 (13:57):
These two missus.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Patricia says she got three false alerts. She said, the
first two she loaded the car. The second or the
third alert, she made a cup of tea.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
Yeah, and that's the problem. There had been some announcement.
I didn't know where it come came from. I didn't
hear it, but somebody said the Chargers game was postpone removed.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
Yeah, Amy's okay, Well, I got a couple texts from
people that it may have been in one of Amy's newscasts.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
Oh well that wasn't, because I'll hear it. No, no, no, no.
The Rams game that's scheduled for Monday night has been
moved out of so far to what is it state Arizona.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
To Glendale, Arizona.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
Yeah, so the game will take place, and in fact,
tickets are on sale for season ticket holders for the
Rams right now. If you're here and you want to
make plans and go to the game Monday in Arizona.
For the first two hours of ticket sales, it's only
open to Ram season ticket holders, and then at noon,
I guess the NFL opens it up to everybody else.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
God bless her Art's trying to pack that with Rams
fans when you know that the Vikings fans travel with
a hunger, with a drive, with the give me the
Lombardi Trophy spirits.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
They give me the trophy spirit.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
Yes, they are hungry that fan base. I love the
Vikings fan base, by the way. They are good people.
We wish I could say the same for the Rams.
Speaker 4 (15:22):
I can't.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
Wow. Oh you're gonna make friends.
Speaker 4 (15:25):
I don't care.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
That's that's something about you that's awful.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
They're awful fans. They use those noise makers there. It's
so far the Rams fans do, which because they.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
Know the World Cup soccer ones, the Vuzelas or whatever
they are.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
Now they're like they're they're smaller, and it's like it's
like it's an admonition, like they know that there's not
enough of them, so they have to amplify the sound
of each person.
Speaker 4 (15:49):
Wow, it's true, sad.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
La County is in the hot seat, and I mean
that both ways. La County itself has been sending out
false alert for people to evacuate, or at least telling
them that they are in evacuation warning zones. I got
one yesterday afternoon. I got one this morning at four am.
Keana got one about nine to forty five. And we're
(16:12):
not the only ones, hey.
Speaker 9 (16:13):
Garan Chan, I love the show. I also got those
false notifications. I'm down in Orange County. My wife got
one this morning. And I actually lived in Honolulu when
we got the false notification about the nuclear warhead that
was going to come and decimate the island a handful.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
Of years ago.
Speaker 9 (16:30):
What they found there, and I'm sure what they'll find
here is it's the human element sitting behind the computer
pushing the buttons that causes the false notifications. Just my thought.
Take care.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
So Kevin McGowan is the director of the Office of
Emergency Management and his explanation of what's going wrong.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
Is so stupid, It is so.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Idiotic that it almost defies credulity to even play it.
Speaker 8 (16:58):
First of all, I want to clear this is not
human driven. There is no one sitting at a desk
right now initiating emergency alerts. I want to restate that
right now, as these alerts are being issued, they are
not being activated or initiated by a person.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
Okay, does that make you feel better that it's not
a human being who is sending out false alerts a
little bit?
Speaker 3 (17:29):
Why?
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Because humans are more likely to error than machines are.
If they're machines that are calibrated correctly to know exactly
which areas are affected, which I believe would involve a
human at some stage.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
Well, okay, that's that's the key. It should involve a
human at some stage if there's if there's an alert
that's going to go out to the entire county, why
isn't there somebody in that chain of command that can
click a yes or a no button. Yes this needs
to go out to the entire county, or no, we
need to rethink this before we send the alert.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
The thing I don't like about it is the complete
lack of accountability.
Speaker 4 (18:08):
Say we screwed up.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
There's so few times when people will have the balls
to get up and be.
Speaker 4 (18:13):
Like, I screwed up. We screwed up. This is screwed up,
you know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
It's just like this, like you said, obfuscating all the
time from all of these people. I did a deep
dive on this kid, Kevin McGowan, wanting to know what
his deal.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
Is lot tea dot com? Is that where he looked?
Speaker 1 (18:30):
No, Actually, he's a veteran. He was in the army
for eight years. He went to Harvard, he did some
time with FEMA, Naval postgraduate school, went to got his
bachelor's poll PSI from North Carolina, went to Pepperdine for
his masters. So there's a little low tea mixed in
(18:51):
there with FEMA and well some other things. But I mean,
he is a veteran. He's only been on the job
since twenty nineteen, so it's kind of been like a
dead zone. I guess you could say after COVID and
all of that, but but you got to have accountability
when you're the director of emergency services and those things
go wrong. I mean, it's right there in the title, right.
(19:13):
This is when people need somebody the most. It's an emergency.
And if you're the head of the department that's going
to be decimating the information, disseminating the information, then you
need to be accountable. You need to make sure all
the t's are crossing, the eyes are dotted, the buck
stops with you, and if you're not willing to get
up there and say that, then that's a problem.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
I mean he was asked that in an interview very
early this morning that I heard. Kevin McGowan was asked
where does the buck stop? Who is responsible for this?
And he refused to say who it was. I mean,
I mean it's him. He's the director of the Office
of Emergency Management. This is his buck to stop, and
I'm glad he's got his best people on it. He
(19:55):
talks about the state level, the femal level, they're all
trying to help out figure out what's the ghost in
the shell here, what's the bug in the system that's
causing these things to go out? But in the meantime, listen,
it's an inconvenience for someone like me. I haven't had
to evacuate. My house is still standing. I haven't lost
anybody to these fires. But imagine if you're one of
(20:19):
the tens of thousands of people who has had to
evacuate or has lost their home or property or car
or their loved ones to this fire, and you keep
getting these false alerts.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
I think the bigger detriment is what happens when you
get one of these alerts and it's real.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
And you make you make a cup of tea instead
of getting your stuff in the car and getting.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
Out of there.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
Well, you make an educated guess best based on the
fact that you got three alerts in air the last time.
Speaker 4 (20:47):
This time, you know it should be talked about too.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
And we're kind of out of time here, but I
do want to get into the forecast for next week
because it's not great.
Speaker 4 (20:57):
But you set out.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
These boy that cry wolf of alerts and they just
get watered down the next time they're absolutely real. And
also think about people who have pets, you know, multiple
dogs or cats or what have you. And every time
they're loading up the car and the crates and the
food and the pets and the whole bit. And then
they drive down the block and they realize, oh, wait,
(21:19):
there's nothing on fire here. Wait was that an error?
And then and then you don't know where to go
to find out what is What I.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
Will say this, Kevin McGowan did give information to do
just that.
Speaker 8 (21:30):
I ask everyone that gets an alert to verify if
they are in an evacuation warning or order to go
to alert, La dot org, La County dot gov, slash
emergency or dial to one one for assistance.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
Now those three areas should have.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
The other one is the Watch Duty app and that
Genesis Protect app that have very updated information, which is
where I went this morning to figure out that.
Speaker 4 (21:59):
It was a FALSEIL arm.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
But that's just me.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
We got word of another fire. This one is up
in the north San Fernando Valley, again near where the
Hearst fire was in Silmar, but this one is on
the west side of I five. It's sort of in
the Granada Hills area, just as I five goes up
and over the New Hall Pass.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
It would be off to the west side.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
It's only about an acre or two, but it is
in an area that is burning. It's burning uphill. There's
very light flashy fuels in that area. Again, that's in
the north San Fernando Valley in.
Speaker 4 (22:31):
Then is this the one called the Archer Fire?
Speaker 3 (22:34):
That is the Archer Fire? Okay?
Speaker 1 (22:35):
Yeah, they say light flashy fuels, winds at about five
to ten miles per hour.
Speaker 4 (22:40):
Isn't that nice to hear? No homes threatened there?
Speaker 2 (22:44):
Well, we have teamed up with Dream Center Allay to
try to bring some amount of relief essential disaster relief
supplies to some of the communities that communities that have
been impacted by these fires. Joining us to talk more
about this whole pro Clint Carlton, Director of Disaster Relief
for Dream Center, La Clint, thanks for thanks for picking
(23:06):
up this mantle with us and trying to get things done.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
How's it going, Hey.
Speaker 7 (23:10):
Thank you guys, Gary and Shannon. We appreciate what you
guys are doing over there with iHeart and and KFI.
We we couldn't do it without people like you getting
the word out about what the Dream Center is doing.
The thing is is right now, I stand in the
middle parking lot. There's over four hundred volunteers. There's a line.
We have a line set up here at the Dream Center.
(23:31):
If you don't know about the Dream Center, we were
at one on one in Alvarado. We're the Old Queen
of Angels Hospital. So we have a giant parking lot
stand in the middle of parking lot right now, and
we have a drop off location where people can drop
off items to help people. And then we have a
pickup location where people that have been affected by the fires,
the very fires, I mean, we're adding another one on
(23:53):
as you just said, where people can pick up items
in Necessity's water, they can pick up palace for the family,
baby supplies, diapers because a lot of these families they
just ran out of their house with nothing, just to
clothes on our back. Our founder and CEO, Matthew Barnet,
he literally left his house. He had just his clothes
on his back, and so we're having to float him
(24:16):
as he's out serving people as well. Today.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
Pretty much every disaster, not just in Los Angeles but
around the country, the Dream Center has been a haven
for people in terms of throwing open your doors. I
think a lot of people in various different disasters at
least since I've been in La past twenty five years
or so, that where people have even relocated to La
(24:39):
from other parts of the country after spending some time
at the Dream Center and getting on their feet.
Speaker 7 (24:45):
Yeah. Yeah, we during if you've noticed, during Katrina, that
was one of the first big ones that I started
working on. I'm the director of disaster relief for the
Dream Center, and during Katrina, we took in people that
were their homes were demolished during the hurricane, and we
they were able. We had a chef, I remember, a chef,
Eddie Murphy, actually got him a job at his restaurant.
(25:06):
And so that's the thing about the Dream Centered day
is there's a lot of these shelters that are temporary shelters,
but some of these people have lost their homes and
that are staying here and they're scared and they don't
know there's so much uncertainty going on right now with insurance,
and so we want to give them time to rebuild
their life, and so we tell them where they come in,
there's no deadline for you to leave right now. If
(25:28):
your family needs to stay here for six months, nine
months a year to get yourself back on track. That's
what you're gonna do. But that's what we do with
everyone's life. When we deal with the homeless families, when
we're dealing with the veterans, we say we give them
the luxury of time. And I think that's what the
Dream Center's doing today.
Speaker 3 (25:44):
What are the easiest ways for people to give?
Speaker 7 (25:48):
Easiest ways to give, I would say text relief to
three three one zero zero. Text relief to three three
one zero zero. Or you can go to kf I
am sixty dot com backslash donate if you want to
get finance, so you can go on and check that.
If you want to volunteer, you can come down here
and volunteer. But also if you want to drop off items, howels, sheet, bedsheets,
(26:12):
just your basic necessities. We need those right now. Cases
of water, so they can come down bring it down
to the Dream Center. We're going to be here till
late in the night receiving donations, so drop off your
donation anytime you want. We're going to be here.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
That is awesome.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
Clint, again, thank you for what it is that you
guys are doing there at the Dream Center. We're very
happy to be able to partner with you and try
to make a difference over the next couple of days
and weeks.
Speaker 7 (26:39):
Hey, garyan Chin and we appreciate you guys, and thanks
for getting the word out and we're honored to partner
with KFI on this again.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
What they need nonperishable food items, bottled water, hygiene products, clothing, blankets,
baby supplies, air purifiers, things like flashlights, batteries, first aid kits,
pet food and supplies, cleaning supplies. Again, you can drop
off the essential items there at the Dream Center, but
also monetary donations dreamcenter dot org slash donate. You can
(27:07):
go to KFIAM six forty dot com slash donate or
text the word relief to three three one zero zero.
Speaker 4 (27:15):
All right, coming up next.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
La County Fire officials say that our area is in
a much better posture than we were earlier this week thankfully. Today, however,
CRUs are bracing for another red flag warning expected to
begin on Monday. We'll get details coming up in the
next hour right here on Gary and Shannon.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
You've been listening to the Garyandshannon Show. You can always
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