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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. Marla te is Neil Sevadra
in for Gary and Shannon today. They are on I
believe they're on vacation, right. They just not together but separately.
If they it'd be weird, like how all those Shannons.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Two Shannons who, by the way, hosted one day.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Yeah I heard it.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
I heard, Yeah, she did great.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
She was annoyed that I referred to her as the
backup Shannon. I was joking.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
She's number one Shannon. Of course, get it straight.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Of course, So covering the fires as we are in
kind of a tiny bit of a lull.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
I hate to say that because firefighters aren't.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
But as far as weather goes yet, we do have
a pretty stern weather warning.
Speaker 4 (00:50):
The sternest from National Weather Service tomorrow. That is the
Particularly Dangerous Situation PDS.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Is the formal name of the warning.
Speaker 4 (00:59):
It's the highest go This is what was in place
last Tuesday when the Palisades fire first broke out. So
wind's expected anywhere between forty five miles per hour to
seventy miles per hour, plus last week it exceeded eighty
miles per hour, so it's.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
A little little a little bit better, but still we
have to prepare for the worst.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
We were talking with James Brotherton, meteorologists with the National
Weather Service, and Marlon and I were trying to get
a scale of things to come. He says, it's going
to be the wind is going to be moving north.
We know that the wind gusts are looking between forty
five miles and seventy miles an hour, all those things.
So we posed to him on a scale of one
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to ten. Last week being a ten, where is this
weather event, wind event going to land?
Speaker 3 (01:47):
And he says, I'd put it at about a nine,
and I peed myself.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Yeah, yeah, it's nearly.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
I expected maybe six or seven.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
At this partner suting hairs.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
I know, but when you like a nigh like he's
like nine. He didn't even go well, maybe a.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Say nine, And I went, oh, okay, so interesting, Okay.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
I'm so happy to be able to bring him on
and actually meet him in person. Who's here in studio
with this because I admire his work here at KFI.
Michael Monks, good to have you glad to be here.
Sorry we're having to talk about this. You've spent a
lot of your morning and a lot of your recent
days at the Palisades fire. You were out there again
early today. What did you see?
Speaker 5 (02:30):
Well?
Speaker 6 (02:30):
I took an assessment of the damage. This is one
of those clear, crisp, beautiful southern California winter days. And
so the contrast between experiencing this and looking out in
the beautiful ocean and the seaside and understanding why people
want to live in the Palisades and then seeing the
smoldering ashes of that community all around your feet, it's
still so shocking. So I spent a couple of hours
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there this morning, and then I headed over to Brentwood,
which is obviously full of concerned in individuals wondering what's
to come of this. I heard the interview you guys
said earlier with the meteorologists. I was driving back to
the station, and like you when he said, oh, I
would compare this to a nine. If last week we're
a ten on a scale of you know, warning seriousness,
then this is a nine.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Man that doesn't feel good.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
And the direction, you know, we had some time in
the Palisades where it was pushing. The winds were pushing south,
which is the ocean horrible. But we saw those visuals
that you could only see in southern California, where you
have a lifeguard stand on fire on the beach.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
The only thing that stopped it was the Pacific.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
So now you shift that north and then tell me
it's going to be a nine and I go.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
So you're out.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
You go from the Palisades, which is you give the
dichotomy of seeing the beauty of the view that everybody
wants there and then the sheer destruction. You moved to Brentwood,
another high end, lovely place to live, and the vibe
is people just fearful.
Speaker 6 (04:04):
It's an interesting vibe. The air outside smells better today,
like it's clear, it's crisp, but there is something, you know,
intangible in the air, and it's like uncertainty. You can
certainly since that in Brentwood. Parts of Brentwood, I've lost power,
So there are many streets and busy intersections that don't
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have working traffic signals. For example, there are businesses that
could not open today even if they wanted to because
of the lack of power. So I visited the Brentwood Villages.
All that stuff is shut down. I went over to
the Brentwood Countrymart area on twenty sixth Street, which is
a lovely little business district next to Sandacente on twenty
sixth Street, and there are businesses open, and there are
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a few people walking, and so I made my way around,
talked to some business owners.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
How are you feeling?
Speaker 6 (04:50):
What's the sense of what's to come?
Speaker 3 (04:54):
You know?
Speaker 6 (04:54):
Some of the businesses had notes on their door We're
done for now. We'll be back when Hell has stopped
burning its fury upon southern California. Others are there, but
you sense in the air. I'm not the and I
wasn't wrong in my sense because I talked to one
woman who runs a makeup shop over there and says
that we would usually be so busy right now, but
there was no one about. I also, and I believe
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I gave this sound to Jacob. I talked to Samir Goalie,
who operates the Brentwood Country Mart shoe repair.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
You know what, hey, hey, ty, look because you know
I want to hear this. Let's listen to this when
we come back. Can you stay?
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Oh, I'm sorry, we up against the break. Yeah, like
my apologies.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
No no, no, no U s O B. Neil filtering filter. Yes, sorry, folks.
Neil survdri Marlata is in for Gary and Shannon. Today
we were when you were last with us, we were
talking to our very own Michael Monks about as he
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went through the Palisades fire again today on site there
moving to Brentwood, and you said you talked to some folk,
because let's be honest, everyone's waiting for the other shoe
to drop.
Speaker 6 (06:05):
You gotta wonder are we next, you know, no matter
where you are, and with these winds coming, they could
exacerbate what is already destroying parts of our city. It
could create new problems for us, and so there's just
fear all over. This is one of those disasters that
has touched all of us physically really in a way
that others haven't.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
And someone you know, oh yeah, I remember, and I
think we're so used to those new terms for whether
that we roll our eyes a cyclone this or whatever
that when you heard the very bland marketing of wind event,
everybody kind of went, Okay, we've had wind before, and
we know the santannas, and it's weird to have them.
I guess during the cooler months, I suppose, and we think,
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holy hell, not nobody could have expected this. So now
that kind of knocked us off of our you know,
high horse, and we were like, hey, we'll be fine,
and now we're going there's another one coming. And so
you spoke to people that are some are opening their shops,
some are not opening their shops in the Brentwood area.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
Why don't you set up that up.
Speaker 6 (07:11):
Well, Brentwood has been in the line of fire, you know,
very recently, and the Brentwood country Mark, which is a
really lovely place full of unique independent businesses and restaurants,
is up against the border of the evacuation warning area
right at San Vicente. But there were people walking about,
there were people doing business, but not like what they
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would expect. I spoke with some of your goalie. He
operates the Brentwood country Mark shoe repair store, where he's
been for forty three years, and this is what he
had to say about it.
Speaker 7 (07:42):
Yeah, it's so sad, really sad. I mean I'm beginning customers,
the few customers that have been getting lost their homes
or Yeah, I have two three customers that came in
and Tommy, they had lost their homes, friends lost their
homes and and it's just really really sad just to
see this. Yeah, business been really quiet.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
There's nobody coming out, coming out, coming in.
Speaker 7 (08:07):
Yeah, it's just I've been here for forty three years
and this is the worst it's ever been. Actually the
worst fire it's ever been.
Speaker 6 (08:15):
The worst fire it's ever been. And that's what you
keep hearing is like people in other California, no fires.
Right when you get hired to be a reporter at KFI,
they give you fire clothes because you're going to cover fires.
But nothing like this has ever happened. And while being
in the Palisades this morning and seeing their business district
completely decimated, that unique independent business district they had in
your Palisades Elementary school completely scorched, and then to go
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to Brentwood, which is they're hovering on the edge, you think, man,
this could all be different, you know, with one bad
turn of the wind.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
And you know, to hear him forty three years never
experienced anything like this. Not a lot of foot traffic
for his store that he's trying to keep open today.
And then you have to think about all the southbound
off ramps are closed, from the four oh five Those
remain closed since Friday night. The idea of course to
keep traffic to a minimum on the west side because
of all the firefighters and emergency responders that are there.
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So it's it's going to be a rough next the
rest of the week ultimately, right, because we have to
really get through Wednesday, and worst case scenario, there's something
else that breaks out and this continues beyond Wednesday.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Let's hope not.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Another note on that. And I couldn't help thinking about
Michael listening to that audio. Can you imagine, Marlae, You're
you're shop owner in this area, your livelihood is basically shatter.
You say that foot traffic. Someone comes in and does
need something and they lost their house. Yeah, oh that'll
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be seven twenty five. I mean, are you going to
so you're going to not charge them and then you're
not gonna and then you're gonna go. It's like, what
do you How do you open your business in a
place that's estimated and try and do business?
Speaker 3 (10:04):
Heartbreaking like in so many levels.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
It's like the level like COVID, you know that it
affected everything.
Speaker 6 (10:12):
I had this exact conversation last week with a friend
privately about the comparison to COVID, because COVID was something
that broke out and the news all of us had
to talk was just here's what the disease is, here's
who it's hurting. But as time went on, there were
all of these associated stories that ere merged from it,
and you know, we got to tell those stories as well.
And that's what's going to happen here. This is not
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just about the fire. There's going to be a lot
to tell. And one thing, as far as the businesses go,
especially these small ones that are now struggling in an
already difficult time to be operating a business, there are
some places that survived in spite of the fact that
all of their neighbors burned down. And I was just
wondering what must that feel like. And I don't mean
just the guilt, Like I'm sure there's some sort of
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feeling of relief that all my building is still standing,
whatever I had in there is still okay. But is
your business still alive when the district is gone, the
customer base around you is burned down? I mean, is
that a loss too? And that's the type of recovery
we're going to have to watch.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
There's a lot of survivors guilts, you know, why me?
That kind of why am I still standing? If you will?
And the same thing for neighborhoods that have been completely decimated.
And you've seen that, and I've seen it in Palasades
as well, where there's one lone house standing. Sure, I
can go home eventually. I mean, you got to imagine
there's no power there. But can you imagine going home
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to a neighborhood that looks like a movie set?
Speaker 1 (11:39):
Oh, I've heard people talk about that that they look
out and there's no neighbors, they just have to do
nothing anymore. But some every you still have to have
a seedling. I mean, there has to be there still
has to be shops that are trying to strive to
stay alive, because that's not going to help the rebuild
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for them to be gone or any to keep all this.
There's so many layers of sorrow that are going to
be a part of this.
Speaker 6 (12:13):
And we can't begin to peel them back yet, Neil,
because we're in the midst of it still. It's been
going on for days and with this forecasted win situation,
we've got on the horizon now this thing is not over.
So forget about grief, forget about rebuilding, forget about blame
and a lot of respect because we're still in the
midst of this.
Speaker 4 (12:33):
Meanwhile, there are people who are in hotels saying, who's
going to pay for this? I've been in a hotel
for almost a week. Now do I get compensated? Where's
FEMA coming to play? I mean, it's just how about
my insurance? It's absolutely overwhelming.
Speaker 6 (12:47):
I heard Conway talk last week that the people here
who are impacted, and I hate to bring in the
economic status of folks who sure have been impacted, but
these are wealthy areas. Not everybody who lives in these
areas are wealthy. A lot of people, yeah, but not
we're talking palade, right, I mean, you know when you're
talking about palisades, you know these are Conway made the
point that these are people who are going to be
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dealing with the government in a new way, and they're
not going to take it. You know, they're not used
to having these obstacles when they want something, and so
it's going to be curious to watch how a natural
disaster plays out when the people who suffered them, you know,
who really suffer the most. Are people of means you
implying that maybe they'll vote differently. I don't know if
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they'll vote differently or what kind of demands will be made,
but it will be interesting to see how quickly things
might be done because of the influencer cloud that they
might have.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
Well, I would hope that talking with Supervisor Catherine Barger,
that she seems like a person of action, and she
was some of the first She was the first voice
that I heard about wanting to cut red tape and
make the process simpler, and I think I think that's
going to play a big es.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
She was whether somebody's famous.
Speaker 4 (14:03):
Saturday, she was out there saying, you know, I've already
done my part to cut the red tape for the
permitting process. Obviously, Governor knwsoon came out and said all
of the executive orders should try and streamline the process.
But to your point, LA County Supervisor Chair Katherine Barker said,
I'm doing all I can to make sure that we
can rebuild quickly, because again I mentioned the tubs fire
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up in the Bay Area in northern California and Santa
Rosa in particular, they're still rebuilding going on.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
And that was in twenty eighteen. I believe.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
Oh, I got to imagine it's glacious. How you like this? Hey, listen,
The bad news is you lost your entire home. The
good news is you get to deal with bureacracy. God,
and nobody does bureaucracy like here. Yeah, I mean, the
government here is quite inefficient. And so I'm curious about
what type of lasting change may come from this because
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of what happened to us. It may have taken this
disaster for some changes.
Speaker 6 (15:00):
And again I'm not blaming any type of politician, you know,
I'm a journalist here. We'll ask a lot of pointed questions.
But I mean, when you observe city Hall and the
county as I do up close so regularly, you see
how slow it is and will that change because of
the magnitude of this disaster.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
It hoped that they so semple out, like spread out
and have like you're dealing with this. This is a
human being. Everyone in this neighborhood is dealing with this person.
They're going to get you answers or feel the something
where you're not on a freaking phone tree, please press one.
Speaker 4 (15:34):
Now well, and then also let's talk about upgrading the
fire hydrant system and our reservoir system and making sure
that we are able to handle something like this again,
because it will happen.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
Yeah, I'm no scientist, but in a fire situation, water good.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
We're good, all right.
Speaker 4 (15:54):
We're talking about the issue of water, and not just
this water shortages in the firefight, but is it safe
to drink the water? There's been drink notices do not
drink notices affecting many people in Pasadena, for instance.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
And joining us on the line is Lee.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
Jung from Jonathan Leon.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
Oh, I'm so sorry.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
Director of La DWP Water Quality Division, which is exactly
who we need to talk to.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
Yes, I'm sorry that I got your name wrong.
Speaker 5 (16:27):
That's quite all right, Good afternoon. So Jonathan Lee Young.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
Here, Jonathan.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
We've been getting a lot of questions. I'm sure this
is you know, this is right in your wheelhouse. About
how far from the fire, what areas should people be showering?
If so, should it be a cold shower, hot shower?
All these things? Can you please shed some light.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
On it for us.
Speaker 5 (16:52):
We'll glad to so. So. First, the folks that are
in the immediate air area of the fire, structures, fire
damage and high temperatures. Those are the ones that are
of most concerned simultaneous to losing pressure. So if you're
not in one of those direct areas, say adjacent to
at this point, that do not drink notice does not
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apply to you yet. So it is very focused for
us in the Palisades area right now, it's the nine
zero two seven to two zip code and portions of
the nine zero four zero two zip code north of
Supulvida of Thesanbacente Boulevard.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
Now, you said that there is a drop in pressure,
is that assigned to them in addition to the fact
you just gave out area or zip codes.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
There is that a.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
Sign that something's there problematic with the water, right That's
a great question.
Speaker 5 (17:47):
So we will tend to take a phased approach to respond.
When you initially lose pressure to an area that allows
the opportunity for certain contaminants to flow back into your
water system. Them and what you're focused on at that
juncture are bacteriological contaminants or microbials. Henceforth, we would release
a boil water notice for an area that lost pressure
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for say an extended period of time, and that happened
actually for us on Wednesday, January eighth in the Palisades area.
But once there is more fire damage, more than say
three hundred acres of fire damage, that fire and the
high temperatures creates the risks that plastic type materials or
wood type materials can be melted and they can release
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potential contaminants from homes backflowing into the system. So that's
that second phase when we will elevate something to it.
Do not drink at that stage.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
So beyond that, do not drink.
Speaker 4 (18:45):
You have some rules of the road, if you will,
in terms of how to handle day to day life,
like wash your clothes in cold water. If the clothes
dryer does not vent outside, avoid using it.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
Can you talk about some of those?
Speaker 7 (19:00):
Sure?
Speaker 5 (19:00):
Yeah, And as much as this is an inconvenience, at
the same time, we do want to protect public health,
so the hence we do have to issue the notice.
But there are some things to make this a little
bit more manageable and I think tips that are useful
for our customers. We do want to limit the temperature
or use of hot water, so higher temperatures and using
it for an extended period of time can create an
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elevated risk of releasing some of these contenminants which are
volatile organic compounds or semi volatile organic compounds. Hence that's
the reason for that. So also when taking a shower,
you know you might not want to ingest, but again
be mindful of the time and keep the temperature kind
of a warm temperature so that you don't really running
the risk of releasing volatile organic compounds. There's also some
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safeguards with your dishwasher. Washing dishes in it is fine,
but try to find like a air dry setting where
you're not really releasing steam and things like that. So
those are some of the tips we would advise for
our customers, and I think on our boil water notice
on our website we have that for our customers to
find and read for themselves.
Speaker 4 (20:04):
And you also have the water distribution locations that you've
set up as well.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
That's correct.
Speaker 5 (20:09):
We currently have two distribution locations set up in the
Palisades area. One is at the Westwood Recreation Center on
thirteen fifty South Suppulvita Boulevard in la We also have
another one right outside of the Brentwood Country Club, which
is located on seven point forty one South Gretna Greenway.
We may look at establishing more, but at this juncture,
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anyone who comes by can pick up a case of water.
We encourage you to have an ID, but it's absolutely
not necessary.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
Excellent LADWP Jonathan Leung, Director there Water Quality Division. We
appreciate you taking the time to come in. There's been
so many questions about it, and it was good of
you to come on and answer them for us. Stay
safe out there, and we appreciate all that you're doing.
Speaker 5 (20:59):
Same. We really appreciate it. And again just emphasizing this
do not drink for the Palisse area. It applies to
La Los Angeles. There may be four or five other communities.
I understand they're working with the state Regulator Division of
Drinking Water and have similar notices they're working through.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
Could you know, thank you so much.
Speaker 5 (21:16):
Okay, thank you.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
Marla Tea is Neil Savedra in today for Gary and Shannon.
You've got John Cobalt coming up moments from now at
one o'clock to take the rain and give you everything
you need to know about what's going on. Of course,
the fires still raging. I mean I know it's you know,
we can sit here with the winds dying down, and
the air looks relatively clean. It's beautiful outside, blue Sky's
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something wicked this way, comes, I fear, because we're looking
at another wind event coming our way, probably near the
end of tomorrow into Windnesday.
Speaker 4 (21:52):
Yes, the morning most seems the most dangerous time that
everybody meteorologists, firefighters, everybody most concerned about.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
And it will be.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
Going north, it sounds like, and we'll see what fresh
new hell that brings with it. Fingers crossed that it
it doesn't. But the firefighters are out there, nothing has
changed to them. The winds may be died down, but
they're still in the front lines trying to contain what
are we at thirty thirty three percent containment for for
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the Eating fire and Offadena and we're hovering around seventeen
percent fourteen the past, up from eleven.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (22:38):
So, and you know, obviously I'm not sure how much
we expressed it today, but I want to make sure
we express our huge gratitude to everybody on the front lines,
all the firefighters out there who are doing incredible work.
It's just hats off to you. We thank you working
around the clock. And you know, we talk about we're
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getting so much help from other states countries. We have
Mexican firefighters who arrived at Lax on Saturday. They're now
out there on the front lines. Canadian firefighters there, thank you.
We need the help.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
Yeah, it's amazing again to see all hands on deck
is always a beautiful thing. I'm waiting for the one
guy who goes, you know what, screw those first responders.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
I haven't heard that yet. Everybody's been pretty positive, right.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
I would hope, so, I would hope so.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
But I did see did you see the video that
someone took inside?
Speaker 3 (23:37):
It looked like don't.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
Make fun, but yes, I do know what the insides
a fast food restaurants look like.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
It looked like an in and out burger.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
Yes, there, and they were all lined up, firefighters well
lined up to get a meal.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
And people started a plodding.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
It was awesome. They walked in.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
Did you not like care up? I did what that
stuff gets me?
Speaker 2 (23:56):
It was a beautiful thing.
Speaker 4 (23:57):
It was as if you know, the royalty walked in
and they are yeah, you know, and everybody just turned
around because you could just see the entourage of I
believe it was La f.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
D that they walked in.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
I think so.
Speaker 4 (24:13):
It was La f D, maybe a dozen of them
and obviously they had a moment and they needed some
food and they got it in and Out And I think.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
In and Out is treating first responders right now. Anyways,
I think that they aren't charging first responders.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
There's a lot of places I love that.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
That's great, and I think that's it's a powerful statement
of things. And I said this on Saturday. Doing fire coverage,
is you gotta take it. You got to let people
thank you. I know you might be like, hey, it's
my job, but you gotta take it.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
You it is. It's really the least we can do.
It's like little things and.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
Just seeing people come together and and the intense work
that people are doing that aren't fire that it isn't
their job, but they're doing what they can is amazing.
Andrew Gruhle, chef Andrew Gruhle.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
Oh for Calico Fish House.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
Yes, he's doing amazing stuff with the Dream Center, the
Dream Center. We are partnered with the Dream Center as well,
and it just it just does my heart good to
see people like that. And Andrew Gruhle and his family,
beautiful family, and I've known him for some time. He's
just a very kind person. He and his wife and
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their children just very focused on doing what they can
and running a business. While they're doing all that, making
trips out here to Los Angeles for Orange County.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
Yeah, if people don't know what we're talking about.
Speaker 4 (25:45):
So Andrew Gruhle is a restaurant tour and he has
a Calico Fish House and Huntington Beach, and he took
it upon himself to say, we are going to collect
donations and we're going to run that up to La
to the Dream Center, which does God's.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
Work, phenomenal work, right, and even Andrew was saying, they
are so organized, they're making it so easy to get
the goods to people.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
And right, it's not like, well, where's my stuff going
to go?
Speaker 4 (26:15):
You know exactly where it's going to go when it
goes to the Dream Center, and that somebody will benefit
from it. So Andrew has become a collection site, his
restaurant has, and then they've been making runs up to
the Dream Center, and I know that they've been overwhelmed
in a most positive way from donations from the community
(26:35):
and they're still doing it and the Dream Center, in fact,
I know, I know, I know Matthew Barnett. He's the
CEO and founder of the Dream Center. And the day
that really the fires broke out and evacuations centers needed
to be opened, we had a family on the air
talking about they had nowhere to go, and I got
(26:58):
a text and it said, have them come to the
Dream Center and they get their own room, they get
you know, taking care of they get clothes, they get food,
and we'll take them in.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
And sure enough they went. I mean that was how
quick was the mister.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
Rogers saying that his mom taught him always look for
the helpers or something.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
Yes, I always look for the helpers.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
So as chef Andrew Grule, I was follow him online.
I'm trying to.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
Post his stuff as well at Fork Reporter at Fork
Reporter on Instagram and trying to repost as much stuff
as I can, as well as some photos I've taken.
But I saw in exchange where a lot of people
are sending food and supplies via Amazon to Calico Fish
House in Huntington Beach, and he said that one of
(27:46):
the drivers came delivered and emptied the truck out with
all the stuff.
Speaker 3 (27:53):
It was the end of his shift.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
He went and returned the truck or whatever came back
to help load with all the other stuff. So Andrew
Uh hit up Jeff Bezos on social media and saying, hey,
I just wanted to tell you this is what one
of your drivers did.
Speaker 3 (28:10):
Above and beyond.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
Is Jeff Bezos.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
Also Jeff Bezos, Bezos whatever I work with Handle he
calls them bezos and screwed me up.
Speaker 3 (28:17):
Bezos?
Speaker 1 (28:18):
Is that how we're going to end the show? Really,
all of this, I appreciate it. Listen, I've had a
hard time trying to pronounce our newspeople's names.
Speaker 3 (28:29):
I don't think it's a real name.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
I love Bezos. That's so funny.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
I had to write, you know, I do get that
from Handle. Handle calls him Bezos, and I think it
just it sticks. Yeah, well Jeff, Jeff is going to
totally rib me when.
Speaker 3 (28:43):
We're on the yacht.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
Yeah yeah that way.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
Yeah, come on, Savage, get it right, said hi? Oh man,
very close, very close. Wait, we look like two scoops.
So one of Vanilla, one of Mocha. It's just great.
Yeah see what I did there?
Speaker 2 (28:58):
Yeah I did.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
Marla is a treat. My friend is not ended. Tell
everybody how they can see you tonight on Fox eleven.
Speaker 4 (29:06):
Barring breaking news, I'll be there from five to seven
tonight and ten to eleven thirty. Of course, if all
hell breaks loose, we'll be on commercial free for your coverage.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
So catch us on Fox eleven. And thank you, Neil.
Always a pleasure to work with.
Speaker 3 (29:21):
You, all right, see you against you my friend.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
Okay, all right, Neil savadrap Marlatte is out for the day.
You've got John Cobelt coming in to take the reins,
and then you have Conway mo Kelly of course, and
back with Handle in the morning, and of course wake
up call prior at five am, so go know where.
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