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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. Neil Savedra and Marla teas in
for Gary and Shannon today.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Happy to be with you. Obviously, a lot.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Of information still coming out about the urban wildfires, which is,
you know, so often we see these massive wildfires one
hundred thousand acres and you know, we go, that's horrible,
but we hear these big numbers. When we hear fourteen
thousand acres and change, we go, gosh, that seems small,
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but imagine this in an urban area. Manhattan is just
over fourteen thousand acres. So imagine if someone calls from
the East coast and said Manhattan just burned down.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Yeah, that's exactly what it's like. And fourteen thousand plus
acres for the Eton fire, almost twenty four thousand for
the Palisades fire, and that one's just fourteen percent contained.
I know you've been hearing that from Amy King giving
you the latest numbers. So always vital information. A woman
who has vital information represents the eleventh District for La
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City Council. That is, Councilwoman Tracy Park, you've been out front.
Of course, a lot of your district is the west side,
so you're heavily impacted. A councilwoman, thanks so much for
hopping on with us today.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
Happy to be here. I wasn't under these circumstances.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
We know what you mean. What is the latest for
your constituents right now?
Speaker 5 (01:33):
So we want to.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
Let folks know that fire suppression activity in the area continues.
As I'm sure you've all been following along, our brave
firefighters put up and heroic effort to save Mandeville Canyon.
But this fire is continuing to burn, and as we
head into today and tomorrow and into Wednesday, we are
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expecting those wins to pick back up, recreating circumstances similar
to what happened last Tuesday when the Palisades fire erupted.
So many areas are still under mandatory evacuations. It's really
important that folks in those areas stay out, and that
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folks in warning areas are packed and ready to go.
These winds can shift and this fire could grow and
spread very very quickly. Also, I know a lot of
people really want to get back up to their properties
to see if they have a home or anything left,
and unfortunately, right now we are not able to accommodate
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that because of the wind conditions. Our number one priority
is making sure that our first responders can get to
where they need to be to put this fire out
and save lives and protect properties. And until these red
flag warnings have been lived, did intel our utilities can
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address the multitude of broken gas lines and water pipes
and down wires and make the area safe, We're not
going to be able to resume those visits. I know
that that is really frustrating for folks, but to me personally,
I want people to know that I hear the frustration,
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and I think it is really important for everyone who
has been impacted by this to have an opportunity to
come back, even if it's to find that there is
nothing left, because I want everyone to see with their
own eyes what happened to our beautiful and beloved palisades.
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This is beyond devastating.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
The intensity of this. We can hear in your voice
obviously that regardless of titles or badges or anything that
we wear, these experiences are tough on everybody, and we
all live in these neighborhoods ourselves, and I just want
you to know that I appreciate that and can hear
that in your voice.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
These these are my friends and my neighbors, not just
my constituents, and so many people have lost everything. It's
this is catastrophic at a level that we have never seen,
and that and.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
You know we can hear the pain again. Obviously, We're
so sorry. We're so sorry for everyone who's going through this.
As you say that, the catastrophe that we've seen unfold
in the last six days, and then you mentioned how
tomorrow here we go again with the so called PDS,
the particularly dangerous situation, the highest warning that the National
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Weather Service can in fact put out there. How are you?
How are the departments? How are they preparing to handle
this again?
Speaker 4 (04:56):
So we have an incredible infusion of fire suppression resources
and assets, the mutual aid response from our partners at
the county, how fire surrounding cities, states, even countries have
risen to this occasion and provided the support and resources
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we need. There are fire engines pre deployed in preparation
for the fire's advancement and anticipated winds. As the weather
has cooperated, assets have been in the air dropping water
and flame retardant. We are throwing every resource available at
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this to make sure that we can keep it under control.
That we have got to get this fire out and
we have got to make the area safe because we're
not there yet, we are not out of the woods,
and so right now the primary focus is to keep
this under control, to keep people safe, but that requires
everyone's cooperation.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Councilwoman Tracy Park is on with us, of course, from
the eleventh district, heavily impacted, to say the least.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
When you hear about.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
The wind concerns and the red flag warnings that are
coming some forty five to seventy mile per hour gusts,
are you being told about the direction? Is the direction
going to be similar to the direction of the winds
that we experienced just about a week ago.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
So I would defer to the fire department and weather
professionals on this. There are eyes on the ground constantly
using technology, paying very very close attention to this.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Have what are the what are big questions being asked
of you and your office right now from your constituents.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
So I have thousands, tens of thousands of constituents who
have lost everything, So that the range of questions covers
everything from where am I going to sleep tonight? To
how am I going to get my kids enrolled back
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in school? What does a recovery and rebuilding process look like?
How do I get assistants for my small business? What
do I do with my employees? Never mind the questions
related to recovery and rebuilding? How? When? What are we
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going to do to make this an orderly, expedient process
that fully restores the palisades and makes these residents whole?
Speaker 5 (07:53):
Well, these questions.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
Are insurmountable, but we are working through all of them.
Across agencies, across city departments. We are all coming together
and looking at the recovery of la.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Oh gosh, it's totally overwhelming. Totally overwhelming. I know that
you know County and city have been working hand in hand,
and that Supervisor Barber announced the disaster resources centers from
FEMA that will be operational as of tomorrow, two of them,
one at UCLA and one at Pasadena Community College tomorrow,
So those are good resources. Obviously, you can contact the councilwoman,
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Tracy Park her district office herself. You are very accessible.
We appreciate your time. Thanks so much for hopping on
and we'll be watching and you know, praying for the
best for everybody.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
Thanks Marla, and if folks who have been impacted need anything,
they are welcome to come by the Council District eleven,
Westchester park Field office. We have a massive donation system
set up there and we have lots and lots of
things that people may need, so everybody should feel free
to come by. We really appreciate how every community from
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Westchester to mar Vista to Venice to West La and
Ladera have pitched in to make these donations and set
these operations up. So we are here to support and
I am going to do everything in my power. My
singular focus moving forward, it's to make it right for
the Pacific Palisades and all of Los Angeles that has
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been impacted.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Heavyweight on your shoulders, indeed, just know it works both ways.
We're here to disseminate any information from your office that
you may need to get out to the people as well,
and that extends out to you at any time.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Of course.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
That is the voice of Councilwoman Tracy Park the eleventh
district ravaged by the fires, and we thank you for
taking the time to come on with us. Mar La
Tays Neil Savador filling in. Happy to be with you
to disseminate the information that we have for you regarding
the fires and the stories beyond. Right now, we want
to go to James Brotherton from the National Weather Service. James,
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welcome to KFI.
Speaker 5 (10:09):
Good morning, Neil and Marla. Good to be here and
thanks for the opportunity to chat with you about the
extreme weather conditions.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Yeah, so explain, this particular warning is an intense one
most serious warning that can be issued.
Speaker 5 (10:26):
Correct, That's correct when it comes to fire weather conditions.
Our red flag warning particularly dangerous situation is the most
extreme way that we have to message those conditions whenever
we're forecasting the combination of extreme weather and very dry conditions.
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So we do use that to get the word out
to let everybody know that need to be very, very
very safe when it comes to fire in this type
of weather environment.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
We've been told obviously numbers like forty five miles per
hour to seventy miles per hour are to be expected
through all of this.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
What about direction?
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Are we looking at similar directions as last week when
the fires erupted, and I mean direction is going to
be an important part of how these flames react.
Speaker 5 (11:26):
Right, That's a big factor. And the local winds are
very very dependent on the terrain. But generally we're looking
at a northerly wind component. So whenever that's channels through
the terrain, the canyons and the valleys below the mountains,
then we get that drainage effect with the winds flowing
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over the mountains and down through the canyons. So sometimes
you know that does get steered, you know, more to
the northeast or a little bit to the northwest sometimes,
but yeah, generally that northerly wind direction is what we're
looking at in those strongest conditions. Really we're looking at
through Wednesday morning. The strongest winds, as you said, gusts
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around seventy miles per hour continue to be possible. Strongest
winds are usually going to occur overnight into the morning hours,
and then usually the coast we might get just a
brief sea breezey each afternoon, and it's just very localized.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
Can you put this into horse historical significance for us?
I know that the PDS has been issued recently coincidentally,
if you will, in November and December, and here we
are in January, so it seems like it's not that
rare at this point, but it is a rare occurrence,
right It.
Speaker 5 (12:48):
Is very rare generally speaking. The situation we're looking at
right now is that we're right now one of the
driest seasons on records. We just have had very very
little rain in the area. So we're looking at the
combination of those weather conditions with very dry ground fuels,
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so that is basically triggering those extreme warnings. So it
is very rare to get those. But since we're looking
at such a dry season right now, that's why it's
happening more often than normal, so we don't Unfortunately, we
don't have any significant rain in the forecast. That's what
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we need is some widespread rain just to diminish the
very dry fuel conditions.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
Yeah, that was going to be my next question, when
am we going to get some rain? Because I originally
over the weekend meteorologist we're saying maybe slight chance this Thursday,
and now it's being pushed back to even next week,
and even then it's not significant.
Speaker 5 (13:58):
That's correct. Yeah, Right now, we really aren't looking at
any any real notable chances of rain in the next
seven to ten days unfortunately. So yeah, that dry pattern
looks to continue keeping the storm storm path as well
to our north. So it's just really hard to get
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any rainfall this far south in California in that jet
stream storm track is pretty far to the north, to
the north of US so far this season, Wow, this is.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
We saw winds and the weather phenomenon that I'd never
seen in my fifty five years here in the Southland.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
That was insane.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
Comparatively, I know, we're still looking at forty five to
seventy mile proor gusts on a scale of one to ten,
last week being a ten. What do you think this
wind event is.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
Going to be.
Speaker 5 (15:00):
Oh, yeah, the winds are I would say probably a
nine compared to last week. But yeah, very.
Speaker 4 (15:11):
Right.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
Yeah, yeah, that's not something to look forward to. As
you say, in the north.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
Going towards the north is going to be another experience
as that pushes towards you know, the mountains versus the
water last time, much of it, so much more to come.
We're certainly not out of the the woods yet for
lack of a better term, but thanks so much. That's
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James Brotherton, meteorologists with the National Weather Service, We appreciate
you taking the time to come on.
Speaker 5 (15:48):
Thank you, Marlon Neil good to talk to you this
morning and we'll chat sin.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
It was our pleasure. Thank you. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
So this is you know, what I kept And this
is a horrible analogy, but let's hear it counts. A woman,
Tracy Park was on and she's talking about people wanting
to go see the houses and stuff. I can't help
but think about this as an active shooter situation that
I know that there's things that people want to see,
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but it's not done. No, it's still active. And I
know that it's like if it's burned down your house
and maybe the fire has moved on that you think
you want to get up there and see it. But
there's structures, even if they're standing, are not safe. You
don't know the structural integrity. You don't know what will
stand what won't.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
We don't you know.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
Sometimes even the very roads, depending on what they're made of,
could be melted. I noticed this driving up to the
mountains the other day. In that fire area, massive swaths
of roads were completely redone. They had to be remade
because they probably had melted away. And so there's a
lot to this and we have to be patient because
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right now it's kind of feeling like there's a little
bit of a dip and the winds have died.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
Down in many areas.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
Yeah, don't be fooled.
Speaker 5 (17:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
And I'm still fearful of what to come.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
And it's hard to be patient if you're out of her,
if you've lost your home number one, or if you're
out of your home and you're you know, in a
hotel room. I just want to get home, but you
have to. You cannot return home until it is one
hundred percent safe to do.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
Absolutely, Marla Tea is Neil savedra in today until one o'clock.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
We'll hand it over to John Cobalt. And uh John
is on today, isn't he? Yes? Okay? I know that
they had him evacuating and all of that run running
out with his bearded dragons.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
So and other pets.
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Speaker 1 (18:20):
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audio from the press conference just moments ago. I'm going
to bring it up here to hear the authorities talking
about the cause of.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
That's been you know, of course, that's wherever one question
what has caused all these fires?
Speaker 7 (18:44):
I was looking at whether or not New Year's Eve
fireworks might have been a trigger for the Palisades fire
with something then flaring up later. I know you mentioned
the Eaton Canyon fire, But can you tell us, for example,
is Arson being viewed definitely as the cause of the
thun is that fire? Could somebody just walk us through
each of them?
Speaker 6 (19:04):
Did she talked about?
Speaker 3 (19:05):
Yes?
Speaker 8 (19:06):
Yeah, I mean I could talk about so right now
we have the task force that is robust, that is
their identifying cause and origin for each of these separate fires.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
There's so many of them there.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
None have been ruled out of Arson.
Speaker 8 (19:21):
They're ongoing investigations, but also the Palisades fire specifically, since
that's the one that's still rampant in the city of
Los Angeles. There's been no definitive determination that it is
is arson at this point, but we're looking.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
At every angle.
Speaker 7 (19:37):
Anything more specific.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
It's an ongoing investigation.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
If I could, I would.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
I don't have the answer for yet.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
Interested, thank you, and we're going to go right here right.
So that was the voice of Dominic Choi. He was
the interim LAPD chief before Jim McDonald took over. So
you know, not a lot of information out of that,
but you heard the report or bring up something that
a lot of people are talking about, and that is
the fact that there was a small fire that happened
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New Year's Eve that burned for a few hours before
fire officials said that they were able to put it
out in the Palisades area. This was at Skull Roke
pardon me, Skull Rock north of Sunset Boulevard. It's an
area that's very familiar with which hikers in Alahatia.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
Short hike up to Mescal Ridge that trail there and
there's this rock there that looks like a skull and
I guess you could imagine Marla, what you know, cool
appeal that be because you can see the Skull Rock.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
And the Pacific Ocean in the views, and so people
gather up there.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
Okay, so there was a small fire that was put out,
and so people were wondering was this reignited? And you
heard Chief Choy basically say, we don't have that information yet,
we don't have a definitive answer. And then as it
relates to the Eton fire, people have There's been some
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early photos and videos taken by residents that actually captured
what appeared to be the first flames of the deadly
eating fire burning right at the base of a southern
California Edison electrical transmission tower before those flames raced down
the canyon toward homes, and an official investigator for the
California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection says, we are
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looking at that as a starting point for this fire.
So cal Edison says they do not believe their electrical
equipment was responsible. That's not a surprise, they say that. Nonetheless,
that is potentially being investigated as a cause.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
They're going to come out, Yeah, that's probably us. Yeah,
that looks like our work.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
Yeah, we'll take the blame.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
I will tell you this, as you talked about and
as we heard in that little snippet from the press
conference about the fireworks and the possibility of fireworks right
for the New Year's fire.
Speaker 5 (21:57):
Right.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
Well, the one team, a specialized team that came in
from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and the Explosives
is arriving in LA today and they're going to be
on the scene looking through things. So that's an interesting group,
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the explosives part. If maybe there were fireworks involved, we
probably fall into that category, right, So maybe that's an
interesting tell as to what the investigation, at least the
starting point of the investigation to see as to what's
going on.
Speaker 3 (22:34):
We've had so many fires though, because that question started
with the Sunset fire. So the Sunset fire broke out,
I believe losing track Thursday. That was the one in
the Hollywood Hills that evacuated. Oh yeah, Walk of Fame
and the Dolby Theater.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
Another cluster truck by the way that I felt, if
you have the time to evacuate and tell people evacuation warning,
don't you think the city would be like get traffic
cops out there, that red lock.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
That was horrendous.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
It was a nightmare on the roads. We had our
cameras out there and no one could go anywhere. Everyone's
going nowhere fast. But the original question to the chief
or to officials today about the cause was the Sunset fire.
People are saying that it was arson related. Then, of
course the Kenneth fire, the one that started, I know,
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threatened some of your family members' homes, that started in
the West Hills area and went toward Calabasas where there
was an arson suspect who was detained and linked to
that fire. And then LAPD came out and said, well,
we picked him up on a warrant, and come to
find out, we don't think that he's the one who
started the fire, even though he was caught reportedly with
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a blowtorch or with a blowtorch, yeah, trying to light things.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
On motor vehicle of some kind. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
So people have questions hearing that.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
By the way, more and more stories about people in
their neighborhood seeing someone walking around with a lit flame, yes,
an open flame.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
Rather, I've gotten a lot of questions about that.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
So the night before that guy was picked up, we
had friends and neighbors text us saying, hey, we just
found some guy walking around with an open flame trying
to light I don't know if his trash cans or
something on fire. And I'm seeing more that you don't
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know after the fact, whether it's copycats or people are
you know, mind playing with them in any shiny object
as a flame either way, But the fact that we
had that happened the night before and then that guy
was caught, I thought was pretty strange. Is the best
in the worst of everyone? Can I tell you we
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are our own worst enemies from WingNuts trying to fly
their drone into Superstar.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
Spokesperson Eric Scott, I know he's been on the air here,
he was. I talked to him on Saturday and he told, uh,
said Fox eleven that they counted forty eight drones, forty
eight flying in the Palisades Fire airspace and you got
to imagine, and of course one of those hit the
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Super Scooper, which put it out of commission again. The
Super Scooper. We got word today from Ely County Fire
chief that it will be flying again tomorrow, so we'll have.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
Two a softball sized hole or something.
Speaker 5 (25:35):
In the wing.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
Yeah, it was described as a fist size hole in
the wing.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
You gotta I mean my fist, not yours, right, a
bigger fi Okay, I'm just saying like, they'll be fine.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
They'll be fine. This Super Scooper is fine. Put it
back up there.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
That's crazy.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
You're taking out eight thousand gallons is what those things
pick up.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
That's what you're taking off the fire.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
It's unfortunate, it's unacceptable. So that one has been fixed.
It will be up in the air tomorrow. But forty
eight drones, forty eight a lot of those.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
I'm a drone pilot. I would never ever think of
one putting it up high enough or in the case something.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
And they're still looking for the person who operated the
drone that hit the Super Scooper. It's a federal crime.
Up to twelve years in prison.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
Oh please double it, Kim six forty it's Gary and
Shannon showed Neil and Marla tays in for Gary and
Shannon going through you know initial things. You get massive wins,
you get a massive fire that breaks out into within
a day, into three four fires last week. But with
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that comes the the periphery, the other stories, people trying,
people that lost homes, the lives. The number of fatalities
continues to grow.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
Is that twenty four now?
Speaker 2 (26:51):
Yeah, and you know a lot of it has been
in the eaten fire side of things.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
I think there were four, I didn't want to say
only there were four in the Palisades fire. And so
we're finding that there is many more in the Eaten fire,
and as officials have been saying, sadly, there's going to
be more.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
Oh yeah, and you know they found more charred remains
over the weekend, and yes, there will be more, as
terrible as that is. And you know, before we're going
to the break, you were talking about how this crisis
like this brings out the best in humanity and also
the worst in humanity. And that brings us to all
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of the arrests that have happened in the evacuation zones.
Not all for looting, but there have been a significant
amount of looters arrested. And this became a problem early
on where Elli Keunty Sheriff Robert Luna, he came out
and said, I'm we're going to have a curfew. So
that curfew stands. The curfew is six to six. But
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yesterday he went out there and said. Bottom line, regardless
of the six to six, if you are in an
evacuation zone in the Palisades area or the Eton fire
area and you are not a resident, you are subject
to arrest again around the clock.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
So people are getting nailed for other things just because
they're in that area, because they have weapons on them
that they shouldn't have, because you know, these types of things,
and they're going, hey, we're going to get you for
if you're doing something in that area.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
You're not supposed to be there, no.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
Need to be there.
Speaker 5 (28:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (28:32):
The most egregious that I've heard is what just came out,
and that is a man dressed in a legit fire
fighting uniform.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
Your jacket, the name on it robbery burglary, I could
still remember. I think I can still remember the name
on the jacket. I think it's Butte Beutte. I think
is what's on there for Butte County. No, I think
that was the name that like the firefighters, like where
that firefighter.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
Name would be.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
Okay, okay, because I was so appalled by the concept,
You're right, it's the lowest of the low and at
that point it's like, let's just but to.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
Add to the egregiousness of all of this. So Luna
was out there and he saw a firefighter sitting down
what he thought was taking a break. So he went
up to him and said, hey, are you okay? Sort
of thanks for everything, not knowing that this was the
impostor who was in handcuffs and LAPD had just arrested him.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
I thought he was one of our heroes.
Speaker 3 (29:42):
Yeah, and the antithesis of that. So thirty people have
been arrested in the Eton fire area, four in the
Palisades area, and Nathan Hawkman the New DA. Of course,
he means business. He's not messing around.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
Who's been evacuated himself, well not himself, he's been evacuated
from his home.
Speaker 3 (30:02):
Thank you, thank you for the clarification. Yeah, he says,
we're going to throw the book at you. I love it,
and the kitchen sink, all of it.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
Yeah, pulled the kitchen sink into the book, and then
a couple of chunks of concrete steel girders and then
throw that.
Speaker 3 (30:19):
In and there were What we learned also is what
can you loot from a decimated home?
Speaker 2 (30:27):
Well, they're going to the neighboring homes.
Speaker 3 (30:29):
That are you know evacuated. No, but we also learned
that the aluminum on certain vehicles, for instance, that is
still sellable. I mean that's how desperate people are.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
Well, not only that, but think about if your catalytic
converters that people are stealing anyways. There are metals in
all kinds of things there and if they're going to
sift through stuff or take the time to do any
of that, there's these are people who are willing to
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steal from people have already lost everything.
Speaker 3 (31:06):
Yeah, they're not thinking about the losses themselves.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
Unfortunately.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
Talking to our very own Touola Sharp who came on
Saturday with me and I you know, no one loved
this man. He's just a really good guy and remains
positive in the face of much adversity in his life.
The kidney recipient and all of those things. He just
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very positive. And he said, you know, his house is
still standing mostly, but it's so damaged. They think he
thinks it's unlivable. They don't think they'll ever be able
to live in there again because of smoke damage. So
there are places that are still standing that are like
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completely you know, it's done right.
Speaker 3 (32:03):
They don't have to be burned of the ground.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
Yeah, you know the heat. We talked about the intense heat.
Imagine that that even though it's still standing. He says,
the windows are warped. Things are you know, you can
see that the garage door is warped. That there's all
these weird things. He hasn't been in there, but imagine
anything in that house could be melted as well, or
could be.
Speaker 3 (32:26):
I missed that on Saturday because I was working, So
I'm sorry to hear that about Twala Sharp and just just.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
A fabulous human being. And you know family home is
up there as well.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
There's just a lot of loss still on the way,
and I fear we're not out of the woods yet
because we still have those winds coming. And some great progress,
don't get me wrong, some great progress. I'm glad to
see numbers change and rise.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
When it comes to the containment.
Speaker 1 (33:01):
You have thirty three percent containment on the Eaton fire,
which is great news, and then fourteen percent containment on
the Palisades fire that had hovered at eleven percent for sometimes.
Speaker 3 (33:10):
A couple of days. And a lot of people get
confused by what containment means. It doesn't mean necessarily that
the flames are out it means that the fire crews
have been able to put lines that would contain those
flames from not spreading further around the entire perimeter. So
when all hell broke loose again for the Palisades Fire
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on Friday, when it started to burn from the Palisades
and head east toward Menevo Canyon, that just made the
containment line even further out.
Speaker 5 (33:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (33:41):
Oh, it's like it could slip out right.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
You can contain it on one side because the winds
are going there, and then it will move in another direction.
Speaker 2 (33:47):
And now that containment drops and I believe it.
Speaker 3 (33:50):
Burned an extra one thousand acres from Friday to Saturday,
just like that. And yes, we are in a red
flag warning. A window right now basically means high winds,
but the worst is yet to come. That's tomorrow through Wednesday.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
Yeah, and just know that as things progress or they
move in certain directions, that we go back to special
coverage here on KFI as well. We're waiting to hear
how that goes. But if that goes, you'll probably hear
me again early tomorrow morning before a my King but
three am to five. Yeah, we'll keep you posted on
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that as we shift around to make sure that the
winds and everything you need to know is getting into
your hands, all right. Marla Taaz with Fox eleven is
here with me today. Neil Savedra at the Helm with
Marla until one o'clock and we're in for Gary and Shannon,
so we've got much more to get into and some
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important people that we will be talking to, including Dean Sharp.
One of the questions we've been getting a lot of
is HVAC systems. When can you use them if you're
in or near the fire areas? And we'll have more
coming up, so go nowhere. You've been listening to the
Gary and Shannon Show, you can always hear us live
on KFI AM six forty nine am to one pm
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