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January 10, 2025 32 mins
Gary and Shannon begin the show with coverage of a new fire called the Archer Fire burning in Granada Hills.
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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. What a week we have had
in Los Angeles. And next week, as we mentioned, another
wind event will be happening on Monday. Looks like we've
got three separate wind events and so we'll get a
forecast on those from the National Weather Service coming up next.

Speaker 2 (00:23):
So keep it right here.

Speaker 3 (00:24):
We have been keeping our eyes on what we know
now as the Archer Fire. This is burning up in
the Granada Hills area. So if you're headed up I five,
for example, and you're going to go towards the Santa
Clarita Valley, this is just before you get to the
New Hall Pass and it's kind of off to your
left there. There's not any homes immediately in the area
where it is burning, but there's also nothing to slow

(00:45):
it down. It's just a bunch of dry grass and
a little bit of brush up in that area. So
the winds are pretty light in that area, but the
smoke is coming through the north end of the San
Fernando Valley and it is going to be pretty visible
for a lot of places. There are at least a
couple of helicopters that are already there. We've seen some
fire crews driving up into that neighborhood, so they're making

(01:08):
quick work of this, they hope. But it has expanded
so it's well above the two or three acres that
we saw before. Again, this is a fire burning in
the Granada Hills area up in the north end of
the San Fernando Valley.

Speaker 1 (01:21):
I don't think if I don't know if you have
noticed it, but I feel like I have on social
media Twitter, for example, more so this fire than in
fires past. And we've kind of seen this when it
comes to true crime stories that are just developing, where
you see all these amateur sleuths doing all their own

(01:41):
research online right into the various players of different news
stories that are going on, and digging into people's backgrounds.
I felt like I saw more footage from people who
are not reporters in fire zones, just trying to get
maybe the hits or the exposure or what have you,
and they look like they're not in the best areas.
From what I remember being a reporter out there and

(02:03):
being told where to stay away from, what to look
forward to know which areas to stay away from when
covering a fire.

Speaker 2 (02:09):
It just seems like, and again it might be a
story for next week.

Speaker 1 (02:13):
If the authorities have encountered more people that have no
business being out there when the flames are eating up
these homes.

Speaker 3 (02:19):
They absolutely have just if I am to trust some
of the TV reporters, especially in I would say like
Wednesday night, after most of the flames had burned through
the Palisades, for example, some of those reporters were standing
in that parking lot at will Rogers State Beach because
it was I mean, it was an open place for
them to stand, but that they were referring to, you know,

(02:43):
and they're all alone. They're not standing with the fire
department or anything like that. They're all there by themselves.
And they do have the ability. Members of the media
do have the ability to go into across fire lines
or police lines in these cases, to get into those areas,
taking their lives into their own hands and with knowledge.
And the fire department would usually say to you, hey,

(03:07):
don't go in that area, like you're saying. But the
TV reporters were saying that sometimes they were getting the
pushback from either CHP or Sheriff's Department whoever might be
running security on the line because they don't have a
way to verify that your media credential is a real
media credential. And there's so many people out there who,
like you said, are these new I don't want to

(03:31):
say generation, a new type of journalist, perhaps that they're
trying to take advantage of this situation to get those
clicks for themselves, to get that notoriety, and they are
not following the same kinds of rules even they're not
following the same kind of common sense other reporters would.

Speaker 1 (03:51):
It used to be you had to have a CHP
issued press badge or an LA County Sheriff's Department press badge,
usually both of those, at least when I start, you
had to have both of those to be able to
gain access to specific areas. And now it seems like
that line is blurred on what kind of credential will
get you where, And unfortunately, I think it's putting people

(04:12):
in harm's way more often than not, especially when you
look at events like this.

Speaker 3 (04:15):
Yeah, and it's I don't think I mean, we're seeing
a good example of this now, but the nature of fire,
especially fires like this wind driven wild land fires or
wind driven fires that go in these neighborhoods. It's hard
to underestimate. I'm sorry, Yeah, it's hard to am I

(04:37):
saying that right, It's hard to underestimate the power and
the behavior of these things. You and I both covered fires,
and I know that I have had some pretty close
calls in areas that I thought were going to be safe,
and wind picks up, shifts directions, something else catches fire.
It takes one little thing. You've got fire on both

(04:58):
sides of the road that you thought was a an
escape route and it's not. And that just comes from
kind of the experience of being in there and doing
those fire kind of stories. Some of these people don't
have that experience. I'm not saying I'm experted at it
at all. I'm saying that when I've done it, it's

(05:18):
scared the living tar out of me.

Speaker 2 (05:21):
All right, Well, we've.

Speaker 1 (05:21):
Got a handful of other stories that are going on
that we have kind of put on pause the last
couple of days.

Speaker 4 (05:27):
So what else is going on that's next hour? Oh?

Speaker 2 (05:32):
I'm sorry, Oh you're fine.

Speaker 4 (05:33):
You're in a different time zone.

Speaker 2 (05:34):
I am in a different time zone.

Speaker 1 (05:37):
I just got a text from Kana saying that we're
going to do what's happening, and that means next hour,
that doesn't mean right now.

Speaker 4 (05:44):
No, it's fine.

Speaker 1 (05:45):
I was feeling bad because I went on and on
during during what we were.

Speaker 4 (05:48):
Supposed to do with this.

Speaker 1 (05:51):
I did want to spend a couple of minutes talking
about the idiot with the drone, the drone that glided
with the Super Scooper over the Palisades fire. I'm actually
prize this didn't happen sooner, not with a Super Scooper
that was kind of like the big splash right that
it was one of our biggest air craft that we've got,
and one of the first ones and only ones that
was able to take to this fire with those wins.

Speaker 2 (06:14):
But I'm surprised that we haven't.

Speaker 1 (06:15):
Heard of other drone interference, maybe not collisions, but so
far with this fire.

Speaker 2 (06:20):
But still, nonetheless, it's very.

Speaker 1 (06:22):
Depressing and annoying that a drone collided with a Super
Scooper and made that aircraft have to land.

Speaker 3 (06:30):
This was Chief Moroni, County Fire Chief Maroni this morning
explaining what happened.

Speaker 5 (06:34):
We did have a drone incursion yesterday at the Palisades fire.
Unknown exactly what time this small drone hit the wing
of our COL four fifteen Super Scooper aircraft that we
currently have on contract from the Province of Quebec. The
pilots were unaware that they hit the drone. It wasn't

(06:56):
until they landed at Vanui's airport that they the maintenance
staff noticed that there was a fist sized hole in
the leading edge of the round inboard of the landing light.

Speaker 3 (07:07):
Yeah, I saw it last night. I mean, I would
describe it much larger than a fist. It looks like
about the size of a couple of baseball gloves or something.
But the chief did say it can be repaired, they believe,
and that they do expect to have the availability of
that one back in the year by Monday.

Speaker 2 (07:25):
It is a federal crime.

Speaker 1 (07:27):
You could get a year in prison to interfere with firefighting.
There's a civil penalty of up to seventy five grand
against any drone pilot who interferes.

Speaker 2 (07:35):
And I say, you.

Speaker 3 (07:36):
Throw the book at whoever this is. Well, do you
know who agrees with you is Nathan Hawkman. He was
also at that news conference.

Speaker 6 (07:43):
If you're thinking that it's fine, to send a drone
up in the area for your own amusement, or you
want to get information that nobody else can get, and
you do it in one of these areas that for
which drones are not permitted.

Speaker 4 (07:56):
I'll repeat one more time.

Speaker 6 (07:58):
You will be as you will be prosecuted, and you
will be punished to the full extent of the law.

Speaker 1 (08:05):
There's time I'm kind of annoyed. Not annoyed, that's not
the right turn.

Speaker 4 (08:09):
I you're surprised.

Speaker 1 (08:10):
I know I have heard that you will be arrested,
you will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.

Speaker 2 (08:16):
So many times that it's so watered down.

Speaker 1 (08:18):
I would love somebody to get up there and just
be like, we are going to ruin your life if
you try to take down our firefighting aircraft, or you
get even close to it, or you just are a
dumb ass, we are going to ruin your life.

Speaker 2 (08:32):
That's what I want to hear.

Speaker 1 (08:36):
Did you see the imprint of the drone on the
Super Scooper By the way, it's like one of the
It's like one of those cartoons where the cartoon runs
through the wall and it's like.

Speaker 4 (08:45):
The the exact outline.

Speaker 2 (08:47):
The exact outline.

Speaker 1 (08:48):
It's the exact outline on the Super Scooper. It's like
there's the hole and then there's the two little wings
that kind of shoot out that have dented the sides
of the hole that it made.

Speaker 4 (09:00):
I didn't see that.

Speaker 3 (09:05):
The one active place that we're looking at right now
is a new fire that has popped up in the
Granada Hills area. For the most part, it looks like
this is not going to get too out of hand.
There are I've counted three helicopters, several ground crews, hand
crews that are out there in the area right above
Sesnon Boulevard if you know where Balboa goes under the

(09:27):
freeware over the freeway sorry on I five as you
just head up towards the New Hall Pass. They have
issued a couple of evacuation places areas with the following boundaries,
the east boundary of Balboa and I five, the west
boundary of Tampa, the south Sesnon and the North Sunshine

(09:47):
Canyon Road right there next to the landfill. Those areas
are to be are that area, I should say is
to be evacuated. There is some structured defense going on
that I said that they do have several units, several
fire units in the neighborhoods.

Speaker 4 (10:05):
They're protecting homes.

Speaker 3 (10:07):
The fire itself has been burning to the north, so
away from the neighborhoods, but the smoke it looks like,
is blowing sort of to the south and to the southwest.

Speaker 4 (10:16):
So they are doing what they can.

Speaker 3 (10:18):
A bunch of bulldozers out there as well, trying to
cut some fire. They said it is. It's still only
maybe an acre or two. It looked much larger than
that earlier. So and a couple of helicopters, like I said,
doing fire drops on this water drops on this fire
again towards Granada Hills. If you're headed north in the
San Fernando Valley on I five, it's just off to

(10:40):
the west of the freeway.

Speaker 4 (10:41):
There.

Speaker 3 (10:41):
Following a story of a brand new fire, this one
is burning up on the Granada Hills area known as
the Archer Fire, and it's burning just off of Sesnon
into the into the hills up there. A lot of
the Mike Antonovitch open Space is up there. You've got
old Melviny Park that's nearby. The fire itself is only
a couple of acres, but there is an evacuation order

(11:03):
that has been posted. So if you're in this area
in Granada Hills, the east border is going to be
where Balboa meets I five. The west border is Tampa,
the south border Cessnon and then the north border is
Sunshine Canyon Road. If you're up in any of those
areas there, they're asking you to get out right now.

Speaker 1 (11:23):
They say the fires pushing hard towards the Tuscan Drive area,
that structures are threatened there, so they've called an additional
resources for structure protection.

Speaker 2 (11:34):
Just moments ago.

Speaker 4 (11:35):
This, by the way, this is a reaction. Is that
the right word.

Speaker 3 (11:40):
The quick reaction of dozens of fire crews onto this
thing shows just how aggressively they are fighting every single
one of these new spot fires that has come up.
I mean, we obviously have the two big fires that
we've been paying attention to, the Palisades Fire on Palisades
and then the Eton fire and the Altadena area, but
any one of these little ones that has continued to

(12:02):
pop up, they get on immediately.

Speaker 7 (12:04):
Well.

Speaker 1 (12:05):
Also, it's helpful in that regard that the Hurst fire
is right next door, you know, as opposed to the
distance between the Palisades and Alta Dina, you kind of
saw the same thing with the Hollywood Hills fire, and
then when that house went up in Studio.

Speaker 2 (12:17):
City, they were able to get there quick because they
were right there.

Speaker 4 (12:20):
So we'll keep an eye on that.

Speaker 3 (12:22):
We want to talk about what's going on weather wise,
because it seems like the last couple of days it
has gradually been improving in terms of the conditions. But
we're not necessarily going to end this thing yet because
the red flag warning is expected to expire tonight, but
that doesn't mean it's the last time we see a
red flag warning.

Speaker 1 (12:40):
Mike Wafford is with the National Weather Service, joins US
now to get a look at next week and these
Santa Ana events that are on our doorstep. Mike, thanks
for your time today. Absolutely So what are we looking
at coming on Monday?

Speaker 8 (12:56):
Yeah, well, you're absolutely right. We are ending some red
plag warnings this afternoon and evening, but we are expecting
another event to come back at us Saturday night into Sunday,
so we're going to be doing some additional red flag warnings,
particularly for the mountain areas. And we've got another event,

(13:19):
another high wind event expected perhaps even stronger as we
get into Monday and especially Tuesday, so we're definitely not
out of the woods yet.

Speaker 4 (13:28):
We haven't.

Speaker 3 (13:30):
Is the expectation that's going to be anywhere close to
as aggressive as the winds were earlier this week.

Speaker 8 (13:37):
No, it really is not. But you know, we're still
looking at winds in the forty to sixty mile per
hour range, which is very significant and especially with these
existing fires, that could really exacerbate things.

Speaker 1 (13:50):
So when we're talking about sustained winds and gus, do
we have any idea yet or we're just too far out?

Speaker 8 (13:56):
Yeah, well, you know, we're thinking somewhere around the forty
mile prior range. We could see some locally stronger guests
in our typical really high wind areas up there in
the mountains. So you know, that's our initial guests at
this point, but we'll see as we get a little closer.

Speaker 7 (14:12):
You know.

Speaker 3 (14:12):
One of the weird things about this event, I guess
you want to call it early this week was that
there was some rain and snow up in the mountains
that was sort of on the front end of all
of this. Any expectation that we see some precipitation in
the next week.

Speaker 8 (14:27):
Well not with this particular event. There are a few
signals that we're seeing as we get into later next
week Thursday, Friday. Potentially a little upper low that's kind
of hanging around that could move into the area and
drop a little bitter rain. I don't know that it
would be enough to really have that much of a significance,

(14:48):
but we'll keep an eye on that and see how
it develops as we get closer.

Speaker 1 (14:53):
Has that been a conversation amongst y'all who watched this,
the fact that we haven't had rain in eight months?
Or is that just kind of usually we get a
little October, November, December and just just nothing this time around.

Speaker 8 (15:07):
Absolutely, we were talking about this long before that, actually,
and you know, we were putting information out that you know,
this has been the start that one of the driest
winters ever, at least the start that we have on records.
So yeah, and that's obviously playing a big role because
everything's so dry and just really crisp and ready to go.

Speaker 3 (15:30):
Mike Wafford, National Weather Service, Thanks for your time today.

Speaker 8 (15:33):
Oh yeah, very welcome.

Speaker 4 (15:34):
Absolutely.

Speaker 3 (15:35):
Yeah, it's gonna be a I'm hoping that fire crews
get enough of a break over the course of this
weekend that they're ready for whatever's coming. I don't know
if you follow Mike Row, Dirty jobs guy, Mike Row,
he ran into a crew. He's been stationed at a
hotel basically down on the West Side because he's been

(15:56):
out of his house, and he ran into a fire
crew that came down from Mount Shasta last night.

Speaker 2 (16:03):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (16:04):
And they're all the way down from Shasta and they
were they were getting basically a good night's sleep before
they were going doing their rotation to go through and
relieve some of the local fire crews that have been
going i mean pretty much non stop since Tuesday night
to get them in there. And there's just I mean,
there's it's a it's an incredible system. We've talked before
about that mutual aid system and the partnerships between not

(16:28):
just the local agencies, but statewide and and interstate relationships
between these fire agencies that they can step in and
take over because listen, a hillside's a hillside, whether it's
when it's burning, so they can do what they can
to protect homes and businesses and people's lives there. There

(16:49):
is a new evacuation warning that has been issued. This
is for the Archer fire up in the Granada Hills
area north San Fernando Valley. If you are in that area,
I mean, if you if you know that is above
Sesnon Boulevards or Omelvenny Park, that's where the fire is.
And if you can smell the smoke and see the
flames in everything, they're expecting you to get out of

(17:11):
there or be ready to go. They do have some
boundaries that they have listed for the absolute evacuation order,
which is balbo At I five on the east. On
the west side Tampa Avenue. South border is Cesnon and
then the north border is Sunshine Canyon Road. There's not
a lot of homes that are affected by the actual
evacuation order, but the others just below Cesnon should be

(17:36):
paying attention because they are in an evacuation warning area
as of right now.

Speaker 4 (17:41):
So just to keep an eye on that.

Speaker 1 (17:43):
If you've never heard Chris Rock do his bit on insurance,
you've got to hear it. I mean, it's probably twenty
plus years old, but it's a great bit. I mean
he nails it, you know, talking about how it shouldn't
be called insurance, it should be called in case S.

Speaker 2 (17:58):
In case S happens.

Speaker 1 (18:00):
The experts now looking at what's going on in the
pure scope of the devastation and the number of insurance
payouts that are going to have to materialize, they say,
it's incredibly difficult to gauge a timeline of when the
victims will receive those payouts. They say, anywhere from a
few weeks to several years.

Speaker 4 (18:22):
Yeah, this is not a process.

Speaker 3 (18:25):
Listen, in the best circumstances where you were, say, the
only person who lost a home in your neighborhood and
you want to rebuild, that process alone takes months and
years because if you think of the bureaucratic morass that
you have to go through to pull permits, to get
plans approved, to make change or I mean, all of

(18:49):
these things take a lot of time. And now the
system to do that is going to be overwhelmed by
four or five thousand other homeowners who want to do
this same thing that you want to do.

Speaker 1 (19:01):
Brian Brasswell, as a senior vice president at an independent
insurance broker it's called the Daniel and Henry Company, says
the timing depends on the insurance company, the coverage in place,
and the policy terms as well as volume. He says
companies are inundated with claims. Imagine you have something like
one hundred claims a month, all of a sudden you
have one million.

Speaker 4 (19:21):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (19:22):
Yeah, it's unbelievable. The price tag, and I don't want
to diminish the emotional impact of what this is, but
the price tag itself, they're talking about as high as
one hundred and fifty billion dollars, which would put it
on par with some of the worst disasters that we've
seen in this country.

Speaker 4 (19:42):
Now.

Speaker 3 (19:42):
The Insurance Commission, Ricardo Laura did come out today. He
was part of that news conference that took place in
downtown LA to talk about things that he says he's
going to be able to do to help people recover
from all of this. He has moratory empowers. He says
he's going to prevent insurance co companies from canceling or
non renewing policies in these wildfire impacted areas so that

(20:05):
people don't have to worry about the added stress of
trying to find new insurance on all of this. He
also said that he's going to issue a notice calling
on insurance companies to stop any of the pending non
renewals or cancelations for any properties that are located near
the wildfires, if they're not already protected by the mandatory moratorium.

(20:25):
He also is demanding that these insurance companies come to
him with an emergency plan. How are you going to
serve the people that are your customers. I've heard of
a couple of insurance companies that have already purchased office
space in la I mean more local to the fire

(20:50):
scenes themselves, whether it's Pasadena or somewhere in Santa Monica,
for example, to be close to the Palisades, so that
they have offices and actual footprints where people can come
and begin this process or continue this process of figuring
out their claims, what's going to be covered, what's not
going to be covered, and what the next steps are
going to be.

Speaker 2 (21:09):
I mean, listen to this, they say.

Speaker 1 (21:11):
In some cases, these companies may just flat out deny
the claim, hoping nothing will ever come of it. They
deny the claim knowing they'll end up getting sued, but
at least the denial and waiting for the lawsuit to
get filed will buy them more time. Because insurance companies
are constantly analyzing their data, computing how much money they

(21:33):
need to have in reserves at a given time for
paying claims, so they only have X amount of dollars.
So somebody with the same amount of damage as you
might get paid first, just because the numbers are crunching
for them when they call or they get the paperwork
across the desk that it works. But by the time
you do, suddenly they're going to say, no, we got

(21:53):
to just deny that and just punt it down the road.

Speaker 2 (21:56):
I mean, how frustrating is that.

Speaker 3 (21:58):
Well, and it's one of those things that when you
have insurance on your house, the expectation probably is that
you you never want to use it. Obviously you never
want to have to use it, but that if you did,
it would be something like the oven was left on,
or it's an individual thing where it's just your house.

(22:20):
And now, like you said, you've got thousands and thousands
of people filing claims all at the same time.

Speaker 4 (22:28):
It's just gonna be a nightmare.

Speaker 3 (22:30):
The Commissioner again, the insurance Commissioner, Ricardo Laura, says that
there's gonna be an insurance support workshop coming up next
weekend eighteenth and nineteenth to help people figure out their
insurance policies and this claims process, also providing information about
available resources for rebuilding and recovery.

Speaker 2 (22:48):
And I have a question.

Speaker 4 (22:49):
I don't know if I have an answer.

Speaker 1 (22:52):
You know, how people that have money can just like
pay their way out of things that are annoying?

Speaker 4 (22:58):
Sure is there?

Speaker 2 (23:00):
Oh my computer just shut off. That's unfortunate.

Speaker 4 (23:02):
You didn't plug it in.

Speaker 2 (23:03):
I didn't bring the battery. You know, I didn't bring
the charger. I never bring the charger.

Speaker 4 (23:07):
You don't know how things work.

Speaker 1 (23:08):
I'm consistent, I'm consistent. Appreciate that, consistently irresponsible when it
comes to chargers. But I'm wondering if there's some sort
of like it's kind of like, I have a friend
who works in concierge medicine, where if you're a rich person,
you hire her. She hooks you up with a concierge

(23:31):
doctor and handles all the paperwork, all the appointments, scheduling,
all of the if you need transportation, things like that.
She kind of just takes control of your life in
that regard and gets in and does all that, makes
all the calls, fills out all the paper work, does
all the scheduling. All of that is there that can
you pay your way out of? If you're like one

(23:52):
of the people that has tons of money of dealing
with insurance companies, like in terms of like you can
call somebody and just be like, hey, my house burned down.
Can you handle the disaster that is the insurance industry.

Speaker 4 (24:07):
I'm sure there is. I'm sure.

Speaker 3 (24:09):
I'm sure that people, especially not to overgeneralize, but especially
some of those customers in the palisades, are going to
have people to do that for them.

Speaker 2 (24:18):
Right, I'm assuming they do.

Speaker 1 (24:19):
That's just like one of those things the other half
or the other one percent lives where you're just like,
I'm sure they have.

Speaker 2 (24:25):
People for that.

Speaker 4 (24:26):
They don't have to wait on the phone to get
an agent. Right Yeah.

Speaker 1 (24:30):
It's always the richest people that have the least inconvenience,
right Yeah, I mean I get it makes sense.

Speaker 3 (24:36):
But well, listen, one of the things that frustrates people
in situations like this is for those of us who
have not been directly impacted by these fires, a sense
of helplessness. To a lot of people, a sense of
maybe not being able to do anything to help out.
But you can. In fact, iHeartMedia LA and the Dream
Center LA are stepping up. We are going to try

(24:58):
to do what we can in to provide some hope
and some relief and some resources to the community. Whether
you need support, maybe this is this is hitting a
little too close to home, or you have lost your
home and you need some help, or you're looking for
a way to get off your button do something about it.
The Dream Center and iHeartMedia are standing with La County.

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LA mentioned the fire that is burning up with the

(26:02):
Granada Hills area. For the most part, looks like forward
progress on that fire has slowed or completely stopped, so
that's good. That was the Archer fire it's at about
thirty one thirty two acres something like that. So the crews,
I mean, this swift action that they took once that
thing popped up was pretty amazing. So that thing is

(26:23):
out for the most part. Hand crews are down there
and they are up there, I should say, and are
mopping it up. It has again they have said that
the forward progress stopped at thirty one and a half acres.
The evacuation order that was in that area has been
simply downgraded to a warning. But again, if you know
where that is, up the north end of the San

(26:43):
Fernando Valley, right where I five goes starts to go
up over the New Hall Pass is where that fire was.

Speaker 1 (26:49):
We will absolutely stay on top of all the developments
as they come up here when it comes to the fires,
covering the fires, where we're at with containment, any new
fires and things like that. It's something It hit me
when we were talking to Michael Monks and he was
talking about peeing into a Stanley cup and it made
me laugh so hard and I thought.

Speaker 2 (27:08):
Gosh, it feels good to laugh.

Speaker 1 (27:10):
So we will be bringing you what you learned this
week on Gary and Shannon as well as the nine
nuggets you need to know. Because yes, we can stay informed,
we also need to have a little bit of comic relief.

Speaker 2 (27:22):
I do believe a.

Speaker 4 (27:23):
Little bit of levity.

Speaker 7 (27:23):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (27:24):
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(27:44):
listening to the Gary and Shannon Show.

Speaker 4 (27:46):
Didn't want to play for you a couple of quick talkbacks.

Speaker 9 (27:48):
Gary and Shannon, longtime listener, California born and raised, living
here in shah Halis, Washington. Now pass seventy five hundred
and our local fire department here in town is sending
a truck down with fire people on it. And I
think the state of Washington I saw in the news
last night, is sending five trucks, but even our little

(28:12):
town of seventy five hundred people is sending a truck
down to health there.

Speaker 3 (28:16):
We got a message also from somebody yesterday who lives
in northern Oregon, and they said that they're sending a
bunch of trucks down.

Speaker 1 (28:22):
I love Shahlis, I love Centralia, I love them all,
Love them all.

Speaker 7 (28:28):
Hi Gearing, Shannon. Hey, I work with rock stars, and
believe me, any rock stars or celebrities up there that
have any kind of success, they're not making any of
those calls. They've already got assistance that handle groceries and
stuff like that, so something like this, absolutely they're not

(28:49):
going to be handling it themselves, which it's part of
being rich. I guess, yes, yeah, that's a good point.

Speaker 2 (28:56):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (28:57):
Hey, if something happens with my stuff, do you think
you seem like you could handle this kind.

Speaker 4 (29:01):
Of stuff, handle insurance stuff.

Speaker 2 (29:04):
I'll pay you in compliments.

Speaker 1 (29:07):
No, And I won't sing for as long as you
don't want me to sing for No, I won't come
to work for as long as you don't want me
to even.

Speaker 4 (29:17):
With a good insurance company.

Speaker 3 (29:19):
And I have a good insurance company, And I guess
my definition of what is a good insurance company is
any time I've had to deal with them, they've been
incredibly appeasing.

Speaker 4 (29:28):
They're easy, easy to work with. That's nice, it's really great.

Speaker 3 (29:32):
It's USAA, and I don't they are not paying me
to say that or anything. Although listen, if they're listening,
they have been fantastic for me, for my family, and
it's been great. That makes I still that makes no
difference because I still do not want to have to
deal with usually because it's a problem, right. I mean,

(29:54):
when you have to call an insurance company, it's usually
because something has gone wrong. You don't call them to
celebrate unless you're adding somebody. You know, you're adding a
new kid to the policy or something like that.

Speaker 2 (30:04):
Yeah, And it's one thing.

Speaker 1 (30:05):
I mean, they've been great for you when you've needed
them for whatever. But now, I mean, how many insurance
companies are going to be great for everybody when there's
this kind of volume.

Speaker 4 (30:14):
Yeah, that I mean can't be well.

Speaker 3 (30:16):
And that's that's I think the Insurance Commission was trying
to address that today when he was saying this is
going to be an all hands on deck, not just
for the for his agency, but he's trying to impart
that upon the the insurance companies. We're going to need
you to do your absolute best for as many people
as you possibly can. We are getting we've got it.

(30:40):
Just a report a short time ago. Law enforcement has
been requested to go to Topanga Canyon Road area to
help get people out of there. Some people are impeding
firefighting operations.

Speaker 2 (30:54):
Oh boy, I hope these aren't the hippie hiker people.

Speaker 3 (30:58):
Well, there are areas that up there, there's some structures
that are immediately threatened by this increased fire activity on
that edge of the Palisades fire, along with the super
Scooper that's been in the air. They just showed a
short time ago one of the big, huge tankers that
had come through and dropped a huge line of fozchek
on one of the ridge lines there to try to

(31:19):
protect some of the infrastructure up there. But law enforcement
has been requested up there to residents that may have
stayed behind. And you know that if the firefighters have
to rescue you, that means they can't do the thing
that they are actually named for, which is fight the fire.

Speaker 4 (31:34):
So you're in the way if you didn't already get out,
all right.

Speaker 2 (31:38):
Have you heard about that Delta flight at Atlanta this morning? No,
we'll talk about it.

Speaker 1 (31:43):
They had to go down the slides we'll talk about
what's happening when we come back to Gary.

Speaker 2 (31:47):
I am shamp.

Speaker 3 (31:48):
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