January 10, 2025 • 48 mins
ICYMI: Hour FOUR of ‘Later, with Mo’Kelly’ Presents – Live Coverages of the SoCal wildfires with call-ins from the KFI listeners - on KFI AM 640…Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Forty KFI Mo Kelly Live Everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
We want to make sure always that you are best
informed as we navigate through these both natural disasters and
also man made disasters. We have more and more reports
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of attempts of arson coming in. You heard Mark Ronner
discuss the one person who's been arrested in regard to
the Kenneth fire, and that is an open investigation as
to whether that was arson. So this is a very
fluid situation, as they say, and we want to make
sure you have the best information to not only protect yourself,
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but also protect your family and make sure they are safe.
And I'm quite sure there are people who are listening
who may not be directly affected. If so, God bless you.
Maybe you are of the opinion you want to help
someone where you are, God bless you, and we're going
to give you some information right now how you can
do that. But also want to open up the phones.
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The reason is I want to hear from you. A
lot is transpired since we last talked on the phone
when all these fires started, and I want to hear
what has been happening in your lives, what you've seen,
what you've experienced, if you can see the fires, if
you have been displaced by the fires, you've been in
one of the evacuation zones. Definitely want to hear from
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you at eight hundred five to zero one KFI, eight
hundred five to two zero one five three four. If
you are with your family and you don't know where
you can go, if you're looking for a place to
go and you want information, give us a call it
eight hundred five to two zero one KFI, eight hundred
five to two zero one five three four. We want
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to hear your stories. We want to hear what is
going on with you, if you're okay, if there's help
that you need, if you're unsure of where to take
your pets, or what is going to be happening in
the next forty eight hours, and you just needed someone
to talk to, give us a call it eight hundred
five two zero one kfive eight hundred five two zero
one five three four. And as I was saying, I
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know there's someone listening who just wants to help right
where they are. Well, there are places that you can donate,
not only money, but supplies clothes and so forth. You
can donate to the Red Cross. The American Red Cross
is on the ground supporting residents and the Red Cross
is working to provide save shelter, food, emotional support, and
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health services to support Red Cross disaster relief. With a donation,
you can visit Redcross dot org or you can call
eight hundred Red Cross, or you can text the word
Red Cross to nine zero nine nine and make a
ten dollars donation. You can donate to the United Way
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of Greater Los Angeles, which focuses on longer term recovery
efforts to support members of the community, and the group
said it is working with community partners to assess the
impact on the ground in the LA area. You can
donate to support United Ways efforts there at a United
Way of Greater Los Angeles. I'm sorry it does not
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list the website, but I know you can find it.
You can donate to Emergency Network of Los Angeles and
it provides assistance to people affected by disasters. E INLA
is illegally registered five oh one C three funded by grants,
member dues and donations. You can give to the Los
Angeles Regional Food Bank and they are working with government agencies,
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nonprofit and faith based partners, and others to respond to
the fires throughout LA County. They are accepting food donations
between eight am and five pm at its two distribution centers,
again between eight am and five pm at seventeen thirty
four East forty first Street in LA and twenty three hundred.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
PELIASA P E.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
L L I, S SI E R Place and Industry, California.
And the food bank is also accepting volunteers. If you
like to volunteer, you can reach out to the Los
Angeles Regional Food Bank and if you're just tuning in,
we open up the phones.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
We'd like to hear from you.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
If you have eyes on the ground in one of
these impacted zones, be it close to Pacific Palisades, or
maybe you lived in Pasadena or Altadena, maybe live in
Santa Monica and can see the flames, we definitely want
to hear from you. You can give us a call
at eight hundred five to zero one KFI eight hundred
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five to two zero one five three four. And also
we talked about this press conference earlier today where there
was a lot of good information for people who may
be in need. And we heard from FEMA Administrator Diann
Chris well as well, and here's what she had to say.
Speaker 4 (05:02):
First, I would just like to start by saying, on
behalf of President Biden, Vice President Harris, and the entire
Biden Harris administration, our hearts go out to everybody who
has been impacted by this truly tragic event. And I
think as you heard Mayor Bass lay out her really
aggressive vision for how you're going to rebuild, I just
want you to know, Mayor that we are going to
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be here with you, thank you along the way to
help you rebuild in a way that makes you stronger
and more resilient. As the firefighters continue to bring in
resources and support the suppression efforts for these fires. With
the Major Disaster declaration, we now have the ability to
begin having those conversations about recovery as well as healthy
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individuals who have lost everything on jumpstart their road to recovery.
If you live in Los Angeles County and you have
been impacted by this disaster, you can register for FEMA assistants.
You can go to Disaster Assistance dot gov. That's the
best way to get into our system and start that process.
You should also contact your insurance company because we will
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need that information as well as we start to work
with you on your claim. Some of the things that
you're going to be eligible for, if you incurred costs
for temporary lodging as you evacuated, if you're going to
need longer term lodging because you're displaced from your home
for a period of time, If you need repairs to
your home, we have some financial assistance that can help there.
If you lost other things like a vehicle, we have
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some financial assistance. We know that everybody's situation is going
to be different. For each person, it's going to be
unique to them. We want to be able to work
with each of you individually to help you on that
road to recovery, help you get to the right resources,
whether it's FEMA resources, complementing what your insurance company may provide,
or bringing in our nonprofit partners to help make sure
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that we have a holistic recovery for everybody that's been impacted.
But we'll also work with you mayor for things like
temporary schools, temporary road repair if you need that. All
these temporary measures that are going to be needed to
help stabilize the community. As you start to rebuild, and
especially with the debris removal, and as President Biden announced,
we're going to cover that debris removal and all of
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your emergency protective measures at one hundred percent for one
hundred and eighty days because we know it's going to
take a long time to get that debris removal out.
I think what I'll just say in closing here is
we know that recovery is complicated, and for something as
catastrophic as what I have seen so far here across
Los Angeles, we know that this recovery is going to
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be complicated, but it is doable when we all come
together with the city, the state, the federal government, our
nonprofit partners. When we work together, as you can see
behind us here, anything is possible and we will help
you rebuild in a way that makes you stronger there.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
And of course, if you missed any of this information,
it will be on our website, in the podcast at
KFI AM six for you dot com, or wherever you
download the past the podcast for later with mo Kelly.
So don't forget that there's another resource just in case
you missed some of this or couldn't remember you couldn't
write it down, we'll have it for you. And also,
once again, our phones are open at eight hundred and
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five two zero one, five three four. I would like
to hear from you how you are navigating this process,
some of the obstacles that you may have encountered through evacuation,
trying to find shelter, maybe trying to find placement for
pets or large animals. If you're unsure about that, please
reach out to us now, and I want to hear
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how you're feeling, how you're doing. A lot has transpired
in southern California over the past forty eight to seventy
two hours. You heard my previous conversation with Darren, who
is a Los Angeles firefighter. Did not give all of
his information because he wasn't supposed to be talking to us,
but it was important to hear what he had to
say about what was happening on the ground and some
of the difficulties that firefighters were encountering emotional to the
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logistics of the job. And it was good to hear that,
to hear from someone who's from the Altadena community and
having to deal with the devastation of his own community
where he was from. And I know that he's not
the only one who is going through it emotionally as
all of us are as well. So give us a
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call at eight hundred five to zero one five three
four eight hundred five two zero one five three four.
But before we go to break, I also wanted you
to hear from John O'Brien, who's the Chief Deputy of
Emergency Operations, from the press conference earlier today.
Speaker 5 (09:33):
Tonight, I'll start by giving an update update on the
Eaton fire affecting the communities of Altadena, Pasadena, Sierra Madre, Arcadia,
and Monrovio. The Los Angeles County Fire Department remains in
unified command with Pasadena Fire, Sierra Madre Fire, Arcadia Fire,
the United States Forest Service, and cal Fire, as well
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as the Sheriff's Department in our local law enforcement agencies.
Fire is now over thirteen thousand, six hundred and nine
acres and still remains zero percent contained. We have one
five hundred and twenty seven firefighting personnel assigned and mutual
aid resources from across the state and nation arriving to
assist with this fire. We have had several firefighter injuries
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reported and estimate that over five thousand structures have been destroyed.
This is based on aerial imagery that's been provided. We
expect those numbers can change either go up or down
based on additional mapping of the fire as well as
when our damage inspection teams get out there and complete
their thorough damage assessment of the burn area. We also
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had one firefighter injured today who sustained injuries battling the
fire and is currently at a local area hospital. The
cause of the fire is unknown and remains under investigation
as the Soon as the cause is determined, we will
be sure to get information out to all. As Supervisor
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Horvath and Chief Crowley mentioned, the Kenneth fires started just
after two thirty pm today in West Hills and has
grown over eight hundred acres in that short period of time.
We have a significant augmentation of ground and air resources
assigned with evacuations currently in the communities of West Hills,
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Hidden Hills, and Calabasas. Additional information will be provided as
this incident develops.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
By encourage all to be.
Speaker 5 (11:30):
Vigilant and visit Lacounty dot gov forward Slash emergency for
the latest incident information. The number of resources assigned to
this fire siege event has increased significantly and we are
in a much better position than we were earlier in
the week. Out of state resources continued to arrive in
Los Angeles County, and we are appreciative of our fire
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partners from throughout the Western United States for providing assistance
to Los Angeles County in our time of need. Regarding
the current red flag warning, the National Weather Service predicts
the warning will remain in effect for Los Angeles County
and the majority of Ventura County through Friday, with another
likely event impacting both counties earlier next week. I encourage
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all residents and communities to remain vigilant as we weather
this fire siege together and again visit Lacunty dot gov
forward slash emergency for the latest information on all incidents.
And lastly, I want to acknowledge the tireless efforts of
MIT's Los Angeles County Fire Department personnel and all the
firefighters who are here assisting both on the lines and
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those behind the scenes who continue us place themselves in
harm's way to protect the residents and property of this
great county. Thank you for always being there and continuing
to be a safe as and take care of yourself
excuse me, those around you and the people who need
us most.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
That was John O'Brien, chief Deputy of Emergency Operations for
La County. And we've opened up the phone lines. When
we come back, we'll take your calls. We want to
hear from you what you're experiencing, what you're feeling, some
of your needs, some of what you've seen, you know,
just driving around the city, the fires you may have seen,
if you've been evacuated, if you have a story to tell,
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if you have concerns to share, we want to hear him.
At eight hundred five to zero one KFI eight hundred
five to two zero one five three four.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI Am six forty.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
I was talking to Tawala.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
He was telling me about his day and if you
just being unsure as far as the status of his house,
what might lie ahead for him and his family. And
I know his concerns are no different than your concerns,
because these fires have impacted all of us, maybe not
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all of us directly, but maybe only one degree of separation.
You know someone who's been evacuated, You know someone maybe
you have they haven't told you yet, but there's someone
you know who lost their home who won't have a
home to go back to.
Speaker 6 (14:21):
My co parent works at a school in Pacific Palisades
and she has spent the last two days calling parents
to provide comfort and solace and reach out to just
let them know that that as a community, that they
are there. And she's got a list of some thirty
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families who have literally lost everything, made it out of
their houses with just the clothes on their back.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
And it's this.
Speaker 6 (14:56):
Misconception about the Palisades where it's just wealthy people living
there who've got money to burn, and it just whatever
the rich people. It couldn't be further from the truth.
These are people who a lot of families who've been
there forever before it became this wealthy, you know, rich area.
And even though there are some families who have wealth,
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it doesn't matter when you lose everything.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
Don't you lose everything in.
Speaker 6 (15:21):
One fell swooping one day you don't have Oh well,
I'll just go buy another house, you know tomorrow money.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
You just don't. It's not that type of community.
Speaker 6 (15:30):
And that's what's something that I keep hearing these people say, Oh,
it's just the rich people and da da da, it's
eat the rich, you know, stuff like that. And I'm like,
that is a problem that we are trying to assign
wealth to whether or not we should care about people.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
I'm like, that's the weirdest thing to me.
Speaker 6 (15:49):
I'm like, these are people who, no matter what, lost everything, home,
every belonging they've had. These are individuals with children, small children,
who've lost their lives. I mean, this is going to
scar them for life.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
These are people.
Speaker 6 (16:03):
Some people have said, we will not be coming back
to this area at all.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
We will not be coming back.
Speaker 6 (16:08):
We we can't be in this area anymore because it's
just it was such a horrifying experience. And so it's
it's when you see how vast this fire is and
how much area we're covering now in Calabasis, you know,
it's it's it's it seems to be everywhere, and everywhere
they're popping up. I don't care how they're popping up.
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It's we have to make sure that we keep our
heart front and center when we are talking about these things,
not here on the radio and even sometimes here on
the radio, but amongst each other.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
This is a human issue. We've opened up the phones.
Give us a call it eight hundred five two zero
one five three four. We want to hear your stories,
your experiences, things that you've seen, things that you smelled,
you know, just driving through the city, smelling the smoke,
seeing the ash. Sometimes we've talked about this cause some PTSD,
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there are people. If you've lived in California long enough,
this is probably not the first caller. I mean, excuse me,
the first fire that you have dealt with living in
southern California. So let's go to the phones right now.
Let's talk to John in Orange County? John, how are
you tonight?
Speaker 7 (17:21):
All things considered, doing pretty well myself personally, and fortunately
my family is all in clear of all the problems up.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
There, but we all know that can change very quickly.
Speaker 7 (17:34):
I totally agree, especially with the information that the winds
are supposed to be blowing south tomorrow, so you never
can tell what's going on. But I had my question
and reason I called, is you always everybody's talking about
Newsom and Bass. How many cities, incorporated cities are actually involved?
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Is it just La all right? It is it other cities?
What about their mayors and stuff? Can't they what are
we hearing from them? Well, I because Bass has already
screwed things up.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
I am with you on the civics lesson a lot
of people don't know that Mayor Karen Bass is only
the mayor of Los Angeles, and when we talk about
these other cities like Pasadena and Alta Dina and these
unincorporated areas of LA, we're not talking about Karen Bass.
And that's why we've had on, for example, Lindsay Horbath
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Ellie County Board of Supervisors. Who has those responsibilities then?
Speaker 3 (18:32):
For me?
Speaker 2 (18:32):
And you got me on a rant now, John, That's
part of the reason why I try not to get
into the blame and the political aspect of it, because
I want people to stay focused on who is the
person is going to help us. Who is the person
responsible for the services which you're going to be provided,
be it FEMA, be it more local Ellie County Board
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of Supervisors. Who is that person who is responsible for
allocating resources?
Speaker 3 (18:58):
That for me is more important.
Speaker 7 (19:01):
Well, I'm saying years ago, I used to work up
at La County Sheriff's Communications Center, and whenever we had
that earthquake. During that period of time, it was understood
that the sheriff was a senior elected person in the county.
I don't think I've heard too much from the sheriff.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
Well, we did play some audio from Sheriff Robert Lona
early today. He was talking about the curfews which have
now since been up committed and heard that the various
evacuation zones. He did give the admonition as far as
looters and would be arsonists to stay out of the
evacuation zones he has had a presence.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
I'm just saying as a matter of record.
Speaker 7 (19:49):
Yeah, Well, I appreciate all the broadcast you and all
the others have been doing in the time you're putting
in there and try and keep the community in aware
of what's going on in the area up there, and
all the people are in our prayers.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
So I wish you were great eving John, thank you
so much.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
And all we can do is do what we can
with what we have right where we are, and hopefully
we as a community will be better for it come tomorrow,
because we have to go through all this together. Let's
get in another call before we go to break. Let's
talk to Sean in Santa Clarita. Sean, how is your evening,
all things considered, well, all.
Speaker 8 (20:30):
Things considered all right. But early this morning I received
for a batch of four evacuation notices. But there are
all sorts of names in those streets, like Zilsa and Balboa,
which weren't here in Santa Clarita. So I called nine
one to one, and the operator says it was a
complete place to forget about it, to I pay any
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attention to it. So I got another two the evacuation
notices nine one one again and said nope, make no differ.
Then I got another two, followed by something similar to
what you got about the Kenneth fire, saying, paid no
attention these evacuations. How to do with the Kenneth spire.
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So I just want to let you know that you
were not alone in getting all sorts of strange evacuation notices.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
I'm glad, thank you for that, and it confirms what
I suspected. But it also reminds us how important correct
information is, because if we are confused by it, we
may maybe unwittingly, just tune them out and not pay
attention to the real notice, you know, the real information
when there's real danger, almost like the Chicken Little Story,
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the sky is falling. You keep getting these notices and
you're not sure which one to follow. It gets very confusing,
and then if there's actual danger approaching, you don't know
what to do.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
But thank you for let me.
Speaker 8 (21:55):
That's why I call on total the authority and say,
what's going on here?
Speaker 3 (21:59):
Now? I can't.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
I haven't seen any evacuation notice for Santa Clarita specifically, Mark.
Speaker 8 (22:08):
No, No, no, no, not at all, Mark Runner.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
I'm going to jump in up.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
I'm asking my news man, have you to the Bester
dollars seen anything for Santa Clarita.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
I have not.
Speaker 9 (22:16):
Let's see here. No, I'm not seeing anything, but I'll
keep my eyes open.
Speaker 3 (22:19):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
So, if anything, we just wanted to be able to
confirm your suspicions that we don't have any information supporting that.
Speaker 8 (22:26):
Right, the streets of it that were that were indicated
like you, Selza and Balboa and others were no longer.
They're not in Santa Clear here in still Mark, So
it made no sense to I've been getting them getting
this evacuation. That's why I called nine right.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
But but the only thing I would recommend is in
the future, I would not call nine one one because
that takes away from emergency resources. I would recommend that
there are probably online resources that you would be able
to use. Heck, you could even go to KFI six
forty dot com. We probably have a listing there of
all the evacuation areas and then you can find that information.
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But now I'm glad we've cleared that up. But that's
the only thing.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
I committed against.
Speaker 8 (23:10):
All Right, you certainly couldn't go to a serious satellogue.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
Could you. No, you can't do that part of a
bygone era. But well, Sean, okay, let me interrupt you.
Go ahead.
Speaker 9 (23:22):
I'm looking right now at the website for fire dot
CA dot gov, and I'm not seeing any evacuation orders
for that area at all. That's the Hurst fire, by
the way, and it is now seven hundred and seventy
one acres and they've got it thirty seven percent contained,
so no evacuation orders thereby go, Sean.
Speaker 3 (23:40):
Thank you have a great evening, sir.
Speaker 8 (23:43):
How would you do.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
It's mo Kelly.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
We will have more of your calls, and if you
don't know, we're taking your calls right now at eight
hundred five to zero one KFI eight hundred five two
zero one five three four. We want to hear about
your experiences, what you've seen today, maybe some things that
you're unsure if I'm clear on. Maybe you're looking for
certain services where you can get help or assistance. Maybe
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you want to be the helper and the person who
provides assistance and you're not exactly sure how to do that.
That's why we're here right now, So give us a
call at eight hundred five to zero one KFI. Eight
hundred five to zero one five three four. Scott and
Costa Mesa, keep on hanging on the line. Will be
with you next and keep it right here. We're live
everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
You're listening to Later with mo Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
KFI mo Kelly.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
We're live everywhere in the iHeartRadio app, and we had
opened up the phones at eight hundred five to zero
one four to hear from you. Talk to us about
what you've seen over the course of the day, what
you've experienced over the course of the day, or even
the past few days. If you happen to be an evacuee,
we want to hear your story. Eight hundred five two
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zero one five three four. Maybe you lost your house unfortunately,
talk to us about some of the decisions that you're
going to have to make in the coming hours and days,
how you plan to go about it. Eight hundred five
to zero one five three four, And we definitely want
to give you some information on how you can get
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some assistance. If you need shelter assistance, people can call
two one one for shelter, social and health service information.
For food assistance, the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank is
working with its network of more than six hundred partner
agencies to assess needs and also help assist people. There's
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Blaze Pizza in Glendale, free eleven inch pizzas in four cheese, Pepperoni, Redvine,
and Herbivore located at thirty two to ten Glendale Galleria.
These restaurants are offering free meals to evacuees and first responders. Crustacean,
interestingly enough, in Beverly Hills, d Town Pizzeria which is
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eight four two four Santa Monica Boulevard in West Hollywood. Again,
these restaurants are offering free meals for evacuees and first responders.
There's Dudley Market nine Dudley Avenue in Venice, Fiorelli Pizza
at ten thirty nine Abbot Kenny Boulevard and Venice. There's
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norms you have to check participating locations. There's saw A
Craft Kitchen at eleven oh nine East twelfth Street in
Los Angeles, Sunday Gravy eleven twenty two, Sentinela Avenue in Inglewood,
and Yeastie Boys. They have multiple locations. And we'll come
back to this list in just a moment. Let's go
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to the phones. Scott in Costa Mesa, thank you for
holding tell us what have you been seeing and what
have you experienced today in the past few days.
Speaker 10 (27:16):
Well, you know, you know, my heart aches for all
those victims, like everybody else, you know, just so sending.
There's tons of love, but you know this is picking
at a scar of mine that I'm revisiting the emotions
of the OC firestorm in Laguna Beach, right, And I
just want to just to talk about like one hundred
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and eighty days of UH of one hundred percent coverage
from the government that's going to go so fast, time
is going to go flying by, And I just urge
anybody who's been a victim to to get on get
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on it to be Is it a FEMA.
Speaker 3 (28:04):
It's FEMA.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
You had to clarify you have one hundred and eighty
days to uh contact FEMA and start that process.
Speaker 3 (28:12):
But go ahead, Scott.
Speaker 10 (28:14):
Well, now I'm wondering because, like with I'm in Coast
to Mesa and just driving down Coast Highway after the
fires and laguna, you know, it was decades later that
there were still just empty foundations, you know, and people
that just can't redo what was lost. And so I'm
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I'm curious to know of like this one hundred and
eighty days. It sounded like it's just debris removal? Is
it more than that, like actually rebuilding? I wonder what
really the details are. And I just.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
Know that's a great question for those who don't know.
The federal government has pledged to match one hundred percent
of the cost to rebuild the Los Angeles Southern California area.
And Scott's question as well, is that rebuilding people's houses,
what's it going to do for businesses? Are we just
talking about the city's infrastructure. Yes, those devils will have
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to be in the details, and I can't tell you
specifically because those details have not been laid out. The
only thing that we know is that the federal government
has pledged one hundred percent match, which has not happened
before in that regard as positive, But we don't know
put us away.
Speaker 3 (29:42):
I don't believe it's.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
Going to be everyone's going to have their house rebuilt
as it was prior to this tragedy.
Speaker 3 (29:49):
I don't think it's that well.
Speaker 10 (29:52):
Just my love to everyone and this that let's all
just sort of put the crap of what we were
before aside and let's.
Speaker 7 (30:06):
Be together on.
Speaker 10 (30:09):
More than just recovery, that we are all just human
and just love each other.
Speaker 3 (30:19):
That's all.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
Hey, Scott, from your lips to God's ears, I want
to thank you for calling in tonight. Let's talk to
Rita in Los Angeles. Rita, how are you doing tonight?
As I'd say to everyone, all things considered.
Speaker 11 (30:34):
Yeah, thank you, I'm doing well, thankfully.
Speaker 12 (30:37):
But what I wanted to share is I was very surprised.
Speaker 11 (30:40):
This happened to me. I was leading at a downtown
LA last night. Way over there. First of all, my
car was covered with debris all over it, which looked
like ash all the way over there. And secondly, as
I'm coming down one of the main drags. I think
it was either Wilshire or Third Street, heading towards Beverly Hills,
and believe that the Pacific Palisades issue was so enormous
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that it was like a big a tornado cloud, huge
and black, going to be all the way to the
ground and going way up into the sky. I could
see it all the way from coming out of downtown LA.
Speaker 12 (31:21):
And then thirdly, as.
Speaker 11 (31:22):
I'm heading towards Beverly Hills. Two yesterday, I came across
the new Independent fire at the Hollywood Hills. As I
was crossing the other streets that cut across, it was
like it was right there. I could see it, and
I filmed it on my phone right on the hill,
very bright and orange.
Speaker 3 (31:40):
I know what you mean. I was coming in a
different direction.
Speaker 2 (31:43):
For example, when I was coming home going home last night,
I'm going down to one thirty four and getting closer
to downtown.
Speaker 3 (31:50):
You can see the fire in the Hollywood Hills.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
And I hit the one ten going south and I
looked to my right, looking westward, I can see even
in the middle of the night, the fire is still
burning in the Pacific Palisades. Is just like ring of
fire all around this area, and it is really disconcerting
when you think about the number of lives that has impacted,
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the number of homes and structures which have been destroyed,
And even though I personally directly have not been impacted yet,
and I say that, thank you Jesus, I know that
a lot of lives have been changed forever for all
of this, and I know exactly what you mean.
Speaker 3 (32:28):
Just the sight of it all can be overwhelming. Gree
are you there? Do we lose you?
Speaker 7 (32:37):
Yeah?
Speaker 11 (32:37):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (32:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 12 (32:38):
I listened to everything you said, but the thing that
surprised me the most was how far away I was,
and how it was so enormous it looked like it
was just a few blocks in front of me.
Speaker 2 (32:50):
I will say this, when you're looking at it on TV,
it doesn't provide the same perspective as when you're driving
or when you're seeing it up close. You may see
it on TV from a helicopter view, or you may
see a newsperson standing on a particular street, but you
don't get a real sense of how extensive the number
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of these fires are, how many they are, how expansive
they are, until you see it for yourself. In person
as you're driving around town, as you're looking into the
hills and you can see it's just like the Hollywood
Hills fire, the Santa fire. How it was just lighting
up the night sky. You don't really get it until
you get out there and see it for yourself.
Speaker 7 (33:32):
So true.
Speaker 2 (33:33):
Yeah, rit I want to thank you for calling in
tonight and please be safe out there.
Speaker 11 (33:39):
We'll do and same with you and yours.
Speaker 3 (33:41):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (33:48):
Let's talk to Linda in Calabasas. Linda, good evening. How
are you.
Speaker 13 (33:54):
Good evening? Can you hear me?
Speaker 3 (33:55):
Yes? I can.
Speaker 13 (33:57):
I'm getting a lot of alerts at the same time.
I'm speaking as Hughes, so they pardon me for that.
I have two locations in Calabasas and unfortunately, well one
of them is being manned because we have looters coming
through last night, so that's kind of a problem.
Speaker 3 (34:15):
Uh.
Speaker 13 (34:15):
The other location, they've just sent us information at the
powers back and as a mandatory evacuation. That one is
the Kenneth Fire. The first one is the Pali Saved fire,
which is also has reached almost the Calabasas, and that
one was where the looters came through last night, but
the police were able to catch them and they have
police manned at stations in that area now. But the
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other location is the Kenneth fire which started earlier today
started the Victory Trail, which is like Victory and Valley
Circle and anyway, that one fire was burning almost directly
to my house. Mandatory evacuation. Power has been out for
three days and there's been no even sos on your phone.
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There's no nine one one calls, no services whatsoever, no internet, nothing,
And then they just said, oh, you could return, everything
is fine. I just returned and there's still no power.
So the power company, the you know, Edison, the police
department and the fire department, and they don't know what
each other is doing. Unfortunately. The night before last, I
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went to a certain location and I want to give
street names, but I guessed a certain location. I couldn't
get through, and I asked the police what's going on.
They said, we have eyes on a fire up here.
I said, I just left the police, I mean the
fire's department, and they said that there was no fire.
They said, we have eyes on it. So I went
back to the fire department, and I said, the police
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are saying that you can't go through there. There's eyes
on the fire. And they said, we don't know about it.
And this is the fire department is less than a
mile away from where the police were stopping people.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
Well, let me collage you up in there. I want
to come to the defense of our first responders. When
you have multiple incidents going on simultaneously, sometimes they're not
sharing the exact same information, and I can understand why
there might be gaps in it. I don't begrudge or
blame them for not being on the exact same page
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on all these fires at the exact same time when
all these resources are delegated in so many different ways.
So if anything, I'm to give first responders.
Speaker 13 (36:31):
Yeah, I one hundred percent agree with you. My concern
was that the fire department that knew nothing about it
was a mile away from the police. So I said,
you guys might want to go talk to the police
down there. Got it's a mile from the station and
they didn't know about it. So it's just a little concerning.
And they said, and I was explaining to them where
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it was, they didn't know. Because we're getting so much help.
Thank god, you know, we're getting so much help. We
have so many fabulous resources from everywhere. That's really great.
The only problem with that is the people who are
here are from other areas monitoring Guardinia, other areas, and
they don't know our area. So if you start talking
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to them about street names and stuff, they don't know
what you're talking about.
Speaker 2 (37:15):
Yeah, they wouldn't know because I lived not too far
from Guardina, and if you put me up in Calabasas,
I wouldn't know X Street from Y Street.
Speaker 3 (37:22):
Just being honest, exactly. No, but that's great to know.
Speaker 2 (37:26):
My question to you before I let you go, Linda,
you said you hadn't had power for a number of days,
is that I don't know if it's safe.
Speaker 3 (37:33):
For you to stay with no power.
Speaker 2 (37:35):
I know southern California Edison has made it clear that
it may be a day or two before they can
get power restored, depending on where you are.
Speaker 13 (37:46):
So, as I said, I was, I just received notification
that power was back on.
Speaker 3 (37:51):
Oh oh, it is back on.
Speaker 14 (37:52):
I'm sorry, that's what.
Speaker 13 (37:53):
The notification was. I've just driven to the area and
it's just completely black. So even though I received notification
it is not on as of yet, so maybe they're
going to turn it out. I'm going to stick around
for another half an hour and see if it actually
does come back on. If not, then and I asked
other people that live in my area and they said
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they also received that notification, but it's completely black.
Speaker 2 (38:18):
I do know that in our reporting that Southern California,
Edison said, yes, power may come on, but it may
be intermittent depending on the high wind event which is
expected tonight in all the other variables that they can't
control are said.
Speaker 13 (38:35):
The power has been restored, although it may go out
again on Friday due to expected wind conditions.
Speaker 3 (38:42):
Yeah, yeah, I wish I had better, infam You never.
Speaker 13 (38:44):
Know, It's just a lot going on in California right now,
you know. And obviously my heart goes out to all
those that have, you know, lost things and are devastated
by you know, by loved ones that are hurting and
all of that. But you know, it's just I'm doing
the best that I can, trying to communicate from one
place to the other, and when other people know what's
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going on, to kind of be a lays on when
I can, and.
Speaker 2 (39:09):
We thank you and appreciate you for that. Linda, thank
you so much for calling you tonight.
Speaker 13 (39:13):
Thank you for doing your work show. Appreciate it.
Speaker 14 (39:16):
That's a great night.
Speaker 3 (39:17):
Be well.
Speaker 2 (39:18):
Let's talk to Maggie in Woodland Hills. Maggie, you sound
like you might be right in the middle of what
has been happening today.
Speaker 3 (39:26):
Are you safe all that? Maggie? Turned out your radio?
Speaker 15 (39:35):
Maggy's on.
Speaker 3 (39:36):
I'm okay, Maggie, this is MO. How are you.
Speaker 15 (39:41):
Hid? I know your show? My first question, George, he's
not going to be any more.
Speaker 2 (39:50):
No, he's still on KFI. It's just as we're covering
the fires. You might hear some of him a little
bit later on tonight, but the fires will take for
President's right now.
Speaker 15 (40:01):
So my second question, thank you so much for I
have my second question. I try to help. I have,
I plan it make it really a lot of things
from Westley to Aria. I don't know how I get
in that video west Can I think?
Speaker 3 (40:19):
Okay, it's hard for me to hear you with your radio.
Is there any way you can turn down your radio? Please?
Speaker 15 (40:25):
Oh it's too far. So my second my sex okay, yes, better.
Speaker 3 (40:40):
Yes, a little bit better. Maggie. Okay, let's try with
that second question again, please.
Speaker 15 (40:45):
So my second question is I tried to help this
fire station. I just want to make sure how from
a Gourda Heels and Westley, how we can take supply
over there. It's a lot of blanket, I make it ready,
a lot of stove or can use it my heart
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with these sepos where we have to go.
Speaker 14 (41:11):
Okay, final way for.
Speaker 15 (41:13):
Me, I just want to make sure do you know
any place any kids or scoot something around Agura heem
oh colabats west Land.
Speaker 2 (41:26):
I would recommend that you don't try to donate to
the area, but you donate to one of the organizations
which are accepting donations. And I was giving out some
of that information earlier, like if you want to donate
to the Red Cross, you can donate money there the
United Way of Greater Los Angeles. And the reason I
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say that is because they're trying to keep people out
of the impacted areas and the evacuated zones.
Speaker 3 (41:54):
And if you were trying.
Speaker 2 (41:55):
To take clothes or food to the impacted areas, I
can guarantee you they would turn you away and I don't.
And to your point, since it's a long drive away,
I don't want you to drive all that way for
no reason.
Speaker 3 (42:07):
Does that make sense?
Speaker 15 (42:10):
Yeah, it is only that don't have any like you
mentioned org, donation, like church, oh seigog oh whatever? Okay,
because I buy somef a blanket, I really everything branding
you Now, it's so cold, excry to help your people
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make them warm. And the food how I can't take
the food?
Speaker 3 (42:35):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (42:35):
What I'm gonna do, I'm gonna put you on hold, Maggie,
and then at the end of this hour, I'm gonna
come talk to you directly and give you that information
so it'll be easier if I do that, is all right?
Speaker 3 (42:46):
Can I get you a whole for a moment.
Speaker 15 (42:48):
Sure, Thank you so much for I have that.
Speaker 2 (42:50):
Appreciate all right, thank you for calling in, Maggie, and
I'll talk to you just a second. Off there, Let's
talk to James real quick as we finish out these hour.
Speaker 3 (42:59):
James, how are you in the high desert?
Speaker 14 (43:02):
Well, I'm okay, mo. First of all, I just have
two questions very quickly and strictly on character and nothing else.
For the first question, okay, I would like to know
how many fires has the chief of the Los Angeles
Fire department, the DEI hire. How many fires has that
person ever fought? Okay, how about the question?
Speaker 2 (43:24):
Okay, hold on, James, Hold on, James, that is not
a legitimate question because you're calling to insult the chief
when you say DEI hired.
Speaker 13 (43:34):
I'm not.
Speaker 14 (43:34):
I'm just asking because after listening to all the stuff like,
for instance, like the water towers and stuff like that,
and she said, well, that's above my pay grade or
that I don't know. I thought that was kind of
odd because usually, you know her, the surrogates who handle
that stuff would would least have her to be informed
on that. And there was no answer to that question.
Speaker 15 (43:55):
And a lot of the.
Speaker 14 (43:55):
Water cakes down at Pacific Palisades were empty. Okay, so please,
I'm not in no way in trying to insult anybody.
Speaker 2 (44:03):
Well wait, wait, if you say DEI hire, you're insulting her.
Let's let's be clear. I want to be absolutely clear.
And if you call her a DEI higher, that's an insult.
Speaker 14 (44:12):
I'm strictly talking on the fact that the way she's
been going about on these press conferences, I'm not.
Speaker 2 (44:18):
Getting any answers, and that is a legitimate subject to address.
Speaker 3 (44:23):
Hey, but I want to be clear when you call her.
Speaker 14 (44:27):
That's all I'm saying. I'm not getting any answers. And
my second question is the insurance companies. They have their
own meteorology departments for firing demity, most of them done.
My second question is how far in advance would they
know about this weather with the weather models that they do,
that this is coming? Is why they canceled their insurance.
Speaker 2 (44:46):
Well, I can't speak to conspiracy theories. I do know
that if you have been impacted by these events, and
we have someone in the studio who is impacted by
these events, you should talk to your insurance companies sooner
than later, because the insurance company's job is to make
sure that they don't pay out on those policies. We
saw this with in Florida with Hurricane Helene, where people
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lost their houses and they and they ended the insurance
before they even paid off on a lot of those claims.
But I can't speak to any type of the conspiracy
conspiracy theory about them knowing in advance, because I don't
think we can predict the weather as of yet.
Speaker 14 (45:25):
Not to disagree, well, I've just been in meteorology myself
and I've just seen some of the models where they
where they try to you know, in the military they
do the same thing especially, But that's all I'm just saying.
I'm not trying to say a conspiracy. If it comes
off like that, my apologies. Have so much respecting for you, sir,
because I've listened to you ever since you first started
(45:47):
the KFI. I do appreciate that, and I really do.
And by the way, could you play the Los Angeles
national anthem sometimes for Randy Newman of I Love LA
because a lot of people would love to hear maybe
on an outrour or something man, because I love LA.
Speaker 3 (46:04):
I think we could do that.
Speaker 14 (46:06):
I love l A and never forget. And that's all
I have to say, sir, And thank you for taking
my call and my apologies if I came out the
wrong way. It's just the communication, the way that the
chief was coming off would not be information that I
thought she would have on hand.
Speaker 13 (46:24):
Uh.
Speaker 14 (46:24):
That's that's that's why I felt so confused and I wondered,
you know, I mean, I mean, I don't know her experience,
so I don't know, well, put it this way, experience,
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (46:35):
I got to go in a second.
Speaker 2 (46:36):
But there are two conversations here, there's a conversation of
whether LA Fire Chief Crowley is giving the requisite information
given the circumstances of this disaster. I think that that's
a fair question to ask. If you couch it within
the the the insult, and that's the word I'm want
to use, that she's a dei higher because those those
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are the words that you use.
Speaker 3 (46:58):
That's something altogether different.
Speaker 2 (47:00):
If you want to question whether she gave the requisite
answers and the requisite information by all means, if you're
going to put it within the suspicion of that she
was unqualified to begin with, because she's a woman that
I'm going to take issue with that because I believe
the La County Fire Department knows better about their employees
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than any of us.
Speaker 3 (47:22):
I trust them.
Speaker 14 (47:24):
Adam Corolla said as well, that's why that's what he
was questioning. So that's that's where my question is. What
mister Corolla had said, Well.
Speaker 2 (47:31):
All I know is Adam Carolla is not a specialist
when it comes to fighting fires.
Speaker 3 (47:37):
He's a comedian.
Speaker 14 (47:37):
I understood. So I appreciate you, and I appreciate him.
Made the Lord, whatever God you pray to give the
blessings to all the people who've been affected.
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We want to make sure always that you are best
informed as we navigate through these both natural disasters and
also man made disasters. We have more and more reports
(00:28):
of attempts of arson coming in. You heard Mark Ronner
discuss the one person who's been arrested in regard to
the Kenneth fire, and that is an open investigation as
to whether that was arson. So this is a very
fluid situation, as they say, and we want to make
sure you have the best information to not only protect yourself,
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but also protect your family and make sure they are safe.
And I'm quite sure there are people who are listening
who may not be directly affected. If so, God bless you.
Maybe you are of the opinion you want to help
someone where you are, God bless you, and we're going
to give you some information right now how you can
do that. But also want to open up the phones.
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The reason is I want to hear from you. A
lot is transpired since we last talked on the phone
when all these fires started, and I want to hear
what has been happening in your lives, what you've seen,
what you've experienced, if you can see the fires, if
you have been displaced by the fires, you've been in
one of the evacuation zones. Definitely want to hear from
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you at eight hundred five to zero one KFI, eight
hundred five to two zero one five three four. If
you are with your family and you don't know where
you can go, if you're looking for a place to
go and you want information, give us a call it
eight hundred five to two zero one KFI, eight hundred
five to two zero one five three four. We want
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to hear your stories. We want to hear what is
going on with you, if you're okay, if there's help
that you need, if you're unsure of where to take
your pets, or what is going to be happening in
the next forty eight hours, and you just needed someone
to talk to, give us a call it eight hundred
five two zero one kfive eight hundred five two zero
one five three four. And as I was saying, I
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know there's someone listening who just wants to help right
where they are. Well, there are places that you can donate,
not only money, but supplies clothes and so forth. You
can donate to the Red Cross. The American Red Cross
is on the ground supporting residents and the Red Cross
is working to provide save shelter, food, emotional support, and
(02:37):
health services to support Red Cross disaster relief. With a donation,
you can visit Redcross dot org or you can call
eight hundred Red Cross, or you can text the word
Red Cross to nine zero nine nine and make a
ten dollars donation. You can donate to the United Way
(03:00):
of Greater Los Angeles, which focuses on longer term recovery
efforts to support members of the community, and the group
said it is working with community partners to assess the
impact on the ground in the LA area. You can
donate to support United Ways efforts there at a United
Way of Greater Los Angeles. I'm sorry it does not
(03:22):
list the website, but I know you can find it.
You can donate to Emergency Network of Los Angeles and
it provides assistance to people affected by disasters. E INLA
is illegally registered five oh one C three funded by grants,
member dues and donations. You can give to the Los
Angeles Regional Food Bank and they are working with government agencies,
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nonprofit and faith based partners, and others to respond to
the fires throughout LA County. They are accepting food donations
between eight am and five pm at its two distribution centers,
again between eight am and five pm at seventeen thirty
four East forty first Street in LA and twenty three hundred.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
PELIASA P E.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
L L I, S SI E R Place and Industry, California.
And the food bank is also accepting volunteers. If you
like to volunteer, you can reach out to the Los
Angeles Regional Food Bank and if you're just tuning in,
we open up the phones.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
We'd like to hear from you.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
If you have eyes on the ground in one of
these impacted zones, be it close to Pacific Palisades, or
maybe you lived in Pasadena or Altadena, maybe live in
Santa Monica and can see the flames, we definitely want
to hear from you. You can give us a call
at eight hundred five to zero one KFI eight hundred
(04:45):
five to two zero one five three four. And also
we talked about this press conference earlier today where there
was a lot of good information for people who may
be in need. And we heard from FEMA Administrator Diann
Chris well as well, and here's what she had to say.
Speaker 4 (05:02):
First, I would just like to start by saying, on
behalf of President Biden, Vice President Harris, and the entire
Biden Harris administration, our hearts go out to everybody who
has been impacted by this truly tragic event. And I
think as you heard Mayor Bass lay out her really
aggressive vision for how you're going to rebuild, I just
want you to know, Mayor that we are going to
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be here with you, thank you along the way to
help you rebuild in a way that makes you stronger
and more resilient. As the firefighters continue to bring in
resources and support the suppression efforts for these fires. With
the Major Disaster declaration, we now have the ability to
begin having those conversations about recovery as well as healthy
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individuals who have lost everything on jumpstart their road to recovery.
If you live in Los Angeles County and you have
been impacted by this disaster, you can register for FEMA assistants.
You can go to Disaster Assistance dot gov. That's the
best way to get into our system and start that process.
You should also contact your insurance company because we will
(06:05):
need that information as well as we start to work
with you on your claim. Some of the things that
you're going to be eligible for, if you incurred costs
for temporary lodging as you evacuated, if you're going to
need longer term lodging because you're displaced from your home
for a period of time, If you need repairs to
your home, we have some financial assistance that can help there.
If you lost other things like a vehicle, we have
(06:27):
some financial assistance. We know that everybody's situation is going
to be different. For each person, it's going to be
unique to them. We want to be able to work
with each of you individually to help you on that
road to recovery, help you get to the right resources,
whether it's FEMA resources, complementing what your insurance company may provide,
or bringing in our nonprofit partners to help make sure
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that we have a holistic recovery for everybody that's been impacted.
But we'll also work with you mayor for things like
temporary schools, temporary road repair if you need that. All
these temporary measures that are going to be needed to
help stabilize the community. As you start to rebuild, and
especially with the debris removal, and as President Biden announced,
we're going to cover that debris removal and all of
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your emergency protective measures at one hundred percent for one
hundred and eighty days because we know it's going to
take a long time to get that debris removal out.
I think what I'll just say in closing here is
we know that recovery is complicated, and for something as
catastrophic as what I have seen so far here across
Los Angeles, we know that this recovery is going to
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be complicated, but it is doable when we all come
together with the city, the state, the federal government, our
nonprofit partners. When we work together, as you can see
behind us here, anything is possible and we will help
you rebuild in a way that makes you stronger there.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
And of course, if you missed any of this information,
it will be on our website, in the podcast at
KFI AM six for you dot com, or wherever you
download the past the podcast for later with mo Kelly.
So don't forget that there's another resource just in case
you missed some of this or couldn't remember you couldn't
write it down, we'll have it for you. And also,
once again, our phones are open at eight hundred and
(08:08):
five two zero one, five three four. I would like
to hear from you how you are navigating this process,
some of the obstacles that you may have encountered through evacuation,
trying to find shelter, maybe trying to find placement for
pets or large animals. If you're unsure about that, please
reach out to us now, and I want to hear
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how you're feeling, how you're doing. A lot has transpired
in southern California over the past forty eight to seventy
two hours. You heard my previous conversation with Darren, who
is a Los Angeles firefighter. Did not give all of
his information because he wasn't supposed to be talking to us,
but it was important to hear what he had to
say about what was happening on the ground and some
of the difficulties that firefighters were encountering emotional to the
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logistics of the job. And it was good to hear that,
to hear from someone who's from the Altadena community and
having to deal with the devastation of his own community
where he was from. And I know that he's not
the only one who is going through it emotionally as
all of us are as well. So give us a
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call at eight hundred five to zero one five three
four eight hundred five two zero one five three four.
But before we go to break, I also wanted you
to hear from John O'Brien, who's the Chief Deputy of
Emergency Operations, from the press conference earlier today.
Speaker 5 (09:33):
Tonight, I'll start by giving an update update on the
Eaton fire affecting the communities of Altadena, Pasadena, Sierra Madre, Arcadia,
and Monrovio. The Los Angeles County Fire Department remains in
unified command with Pasadena Fire, Sierra Madre Fire, Arcadia Fire,
the United States Forest Service, and cal Fire, as well
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as the Sheriff's Department in our local law enforcement agencies.
Fire is now over thirteen thousand, six hundred and nine
acres and still remains zero percent contained. We have one
five hundred and twenty seven firefighting personnel assigned and mutual
aid resources from across the state and nation arriving to
assist with this fire. We have had several firefighter injuries
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reported and estimate that over five thousand structures have been destroyed.
This is based on aerial imagery that's been provided. We
expect those numbers can change either go up or down
based on additional mapping of the fire as well as
when our damage inspection teams get out there and complete
their thorough damage assessment of the burn area. We also
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had one firefighter injured today who sustained injuries battling the
fire and is currently at a local area hospital. The
cause of the fire is unknown and remains under investigation
as the Soon as the cause is determined, we will
be sure to get information out to all. As Supervisor
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Horvath and Chief Crowley mentioned, the Kenneth fires started just
after two thirty pm today in West Hills and has
grown over eight hundred acres in that short period of time.
We have a significant augmentation of ground and air resources
assigned with evacuations currently in the communities of West Hills,
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Hidden Hills, and Calabasas. Additional information will be provided as
this incident develops.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
By encourage all to be.
Speaker 5 (11:30):
Vigilant and visit Lacounty dot gov forward Slash emergency for
the latest incident information. The number of resources assigned to
this fire siege event has increased significantly and we are
in a much better position than we were earlier in
the week. Out of state resources continued to arrive in
Los Angeles County, and we are appreciative of our fire
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partners from throughout the Western United States for providing assistance
to Los Angeles County in our time of need. Regarding
the current red flag warning, the National Weather Service predicts
the warning will remain in effect for Los Angeles County
and the majority of Ventura County through Friday, with another
likely event impacting both counties earlier next week. I encourage
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all residents and communities to remain vigilant as we weather
this fire siege together and again visit Lacunty dot gov
forward slash emergency for the latest information on all incidents.
And lastly, I want to acknowledge the tireless efforts of
MIT's Los Angeles County Fire Department personnel and all the
firefighters who are here assisting both on the lines and
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those behind the scenes who continue us place themselves in
harm's way to protect the residents and property of this
great county. Thank you for always being there and continuing
to be a safe as and take care of yourself
excuse me, those around you and the people who need
us most.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
That was John O'Brien, chief Deputy of Emergency Operations for
La County. And we've opened up the phone lines. When
we come back, we'll take your calls. We want to
hear from you what you're experiencing, what you're feeling, some
of your needs, some of what you've seen, you know,
just driving around the city, the fires you may have seen,
if you've been evacuated, if you have a story to tell,
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if you have concerns to share, we want to hear him.
At eight hundred five to zero one KFI eight hundred
five to two zero one five three four.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI Am six forty.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
I was talking to Tawala.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
He was telling me about his day and if you
just being unsure as far as the status of his house,
what might lie ahead for him and his family. And
I know his concerns are no different than your concerns,
because these fires have impacted all of us, maybe not
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all of us directly, but maybe only one degree of separation.
You know someone who's been evacuated, You know someone maybe
you have they haven't told you yet, but there's someone
you know who lost their home who won't have a
home to go back to.
Speaker 6 (14:21):
My co parent works at a school in Pacific Palisades
and she has spent the last two days calling parents
to provide comfort and solace and reach out to just
let them know that that as a community, that they
are there. And she's got a list of some thirty
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families who have literally lost everything, made it out of
their houses with just the clothes on their back.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
And it's this.
Speaker 6 (14:56):
Misconception about the Palisades where it's just wealthy people living
there who've got money to burn, and it just whatever
the rich people. It couldn't be further from the truth.
These are people who a lot of families who've been
there forever before it became this wealthy, you know, rich area.
And even though there are some families who have wealth,
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it doesn't matter when you lose everything.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
Don't you lose everything in.
Speaker 6 (15:21):
One fell swooping one day you don't have Oh well,
I'll just go buy another house, you know tomorrow money.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
You just don't. It's not that type of community.
Speaker 6 (15:30):
And that's what's something that I keep hearing these people say, Oh,
it's just the rich people and da da da, it's
eat the rich, you know, stuff like that. And I'm like,
that is a problem that we are trying to assign
wealth to whether or not we should care about people.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
I'm like, that's the weirdest thing to me.
Speaker 6 (15:49):
I'm like, these are people who, no matter what, lost everything, home,
every belonging they've had. These are individuals with children, small children,
who've lost their lives. I mean, this is going to
scar them for life.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
These are people.
Speaker 6 (16:03):
Some people have said, we will not be coming back
to this area at all.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
We will not be coming back.
Speaker 6 (16:08):
We we can't be in this area anymore because it's
just it was such a horrifying experience. And so it's
it's when you see how vast this fire is and
how much area we're covering now in Calabasis, you know,
it's it's it's it seems to be everywhere, and everywhere
they're popping up. I don't care how they're popping up.
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It's we have to make sure that we keep our
heart front and center when we are talking about these things,
not here on the radio and even sometimes here on
the radio, but amongst each other.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
This is a human issue. We've opened up the phones.
Give us a call it eight hundred five two zero
one five three four. We want to hear your stories,
your experiences, things that you've seen, things that you smelled,
you know, just driving through the city, smelling the smoke,
seeing the ash. Sometimes we've talked about this cause some PTSD,
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there are people. If you've lived in California long enough,
this is probably not the first caller. I mean, excuse me,
the first fire that you have dealt with living in
southern California. So let's go to the phones right now.
Let's talk to John in Orange County? John, how are
you tonight?
Speaker 7 (17:21):
All things considered, doing pretty well myself personally, and fortunately
my family is all in clear of all the problems up.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
There, but we all know that can change very quickly.
Speaker 7 (17:34):
I totally agree, especially with the information that the winds
are supposed to be blowing south tomorrow, so you never
can tell what's going on. But I had my question
and reason I called, is you always everybody's talking about
Newsom and Bass. How many cities, incorporated cities are actually involved?
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Is it just La all right? It is it other cities?
What about their mayors and stuff? Can't they what are
we hearing from them? Well, I because Bass has already
screwed things up.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
I am with you on the civics lesson a lot
of people don't know that Mayor Karen Bass is only
the mayor of Los Angeles, and when we talk about
these other cities like Pasadena and Alta Dina and these
unincorporated areas of LA, we're not talking about Karen Bass.
And that's why we've had on, for example, Lindsay Horbath
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Ellie County Board of Supervisors. Who has those responsibilities then?
Speaker 3 (18:32):
For me?
Speaker 2 (18:32):
And you got me on a rant now, John, That's
part of the reason why I try not to get
into the blame and the political aspect of it, because
I want people to stay focused on who is the
person is going to help us. Who is the person
responsible for the services which you're going to be provided,
be it FEMA, be it more local Ellie County Board
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of Supervisors. Who is that person who is responsible for
allocating resources?
Speaker 3 (18:58):
That for me is more important.
Speaker 7 (19:01):
Well, I'm saying years ago, I used to work up
at La County Sheriff's Communications Center, and whenever we had
that earthquake. During that period of time, it was understood
that the sheriff was a senior elected person in the county.
I don't think I've heard too much from the sheriff.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
Well, we did play some audio from Sheriff Robert Lona
early today. He was talking about the curfews which have
now since been up committed and heard that the various
evacuation zones. He did give the admonition as far as
looters and would be arsonists to stay out of the
evacuation zones he has had a presence.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
I'm just saying as a matter of record.
Speaker 7 (19:49):
Yeah, Well, I appreciate all the broadcast you and all
the others have been doing in the time you're putting
in there and try and keep the community in aware
of what's going on in the area up there, and
all the people are in our prayers.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
So I wish you were great eving John, thank you
so much.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
And all we can do is do what we can
with what we have right where we are, and hopefully
we as a community will be better for it come tomorrow,
because we have to go through all this together. Let's
get in another call before we go to break. Let's
talk to Sean in Santa Clarita. Sean, how is your evening,
all things considered, well, all.
Speaker 8 (20:30):
Things considered all right. But early this morning I received
for a batch of four evacuation notices. But there are
all sorts of names in those streets, like Zilsa and Balboa,
which weren't here in Santa Clarita. So I called nine
one to one, and the operator says it was a
complete place to forget about it, to I pay any
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attention to it. So I got another two the evacuation
notices nine one one again and said nope, make no differ.
Then I got another two, followed by something similar to
what you got about the Kenneth fire, saying, paid no
attention these evacuations. How to do with the Kenneth spire.
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So I just want to let you know that you
were not alone in getting all sorts of strange evacuation notices.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
I'm glad, thank you for that, and it confirms what
I suspected. But it also reminds us how important correct
information is, because if we are confused by it, we
may maybe unwittingly, just tune them out and not pay
attention to the real notice, you know, the real information
when there's real danger, almost like the Chicken Little Story,
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the sky is falling. You keep getting these notices and
you're not sure which one to follow. It gets very confusing,
and then if there's actual danger approaching, you don't know
what to do.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
But thank you for let me.
Speaker 8 (21:55):
That's why I call on total the authority and say,
what's going on here?
Speaker 3 (21:59):
Now? I can't.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
I haven't seen any evacuation notice for Santa Clarita specifically, Mark.
Speaker 8 (22:08):
No, No, no, no, not at all, Mark Runner.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
I'm going to jump in up.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
I'm asking my news man, have you to the Bester
dollars seen anything for Santa Clarita.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
I have not.
Speaker 9 (22:16):
Let's see here. No, I'm not seeing anything, but I'll
keep my eyes open.
Speaker 3 (22:19):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
So, if anything, we just wanted to be able to
confirm your suspicions that we don't have any information supporting that.
Speaker 8 (22:26):
Right, the streets of it that were that were indicated
like you, Selza and Balboa and others were no longer.
They're not in Santa Clear here in still Mark, So
it made no sense to I've been getting them getting
this evacuation. That's why I called nine right.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
But but the only thing I would recommend is in
the future, I would not call nine one one because
that takes away from emergency resources. I would recommend that
there are probably online resources that you would be able
to use. Heck, you could even go to KFI six
forty dot com. We probably have a listing there of
all the evacuation areas and then you can find that information.
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But now I'm glad we've cleared that up. But that's
the only thing.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
I committed against.
Speaker 8 (23:10):
All Right, you certainly couldn't go to a serious satellogue.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
Could you. No, you can't do that part of a
bygone era. But well, Sean, okay, let me interrupt you.
Go ahead.
Speaker 9 (23:22):
I'm looking right now at the website for fire dot
CA dot gov, and I'm not seeing any evacuation orders
for that area at all. That's the Hurst fire, by
the way, and it is now seven hundred and seventy
one acres and they've got it thirty seven percent contained,
so no evacuation orders thereby go, Sean.
Speaker 3 (23:40):
Thank you have a great evening, sir.
Speaker 8 (23:43):
How would you do.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
It's mo Kelly.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
We will have more of your calls, and if you
don't know, we're taking your calls right now at eight
hundred five to zero one KFI eight hundred five two
zero one five three four. We want to hear about
your experiences, what you've seen today, maybe some things that
you're unsure if I'm clear on. Maybe you're looking for
certain services where you can get help or assistance. Maybe
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you want to be the helper and the person who
provides assistance and you're not exactly sure how to do that.
That's why we're here right now, So give us a
call at eight hundred five to zero one KFI. Eight
hundred five to zero one five three four. Scott and
Costa Mesa, keep on hanging on the line. Will be
with you next and keep it right here. We're live
everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
You're listening to Later with mo Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
KFI mo Kelly.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
We're live everywhere in the iHeartRadio app, and we had
opened up the phones at eight hundred five to zero
one four to hear from you. Talk to us about
what you've seen over the course of the day, what
you've experienced over the course of the day, or even
the past few days. If you happen to be an evacuee,
we want to hear your story. Eight hundred five two
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zero one five three four. Maybe you lost your house unfortunately,
talk to us about some of the decisions that you're
going to have to make in the coming hours and days,
how you plan to go about it. Eight hundred five
to zero one five three four, And we definitely want
to give you some information on how you can get
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some assistance. If you need shelter assistance, people can call
two one one for shelter, social and health service information.
For food assistance, the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank is
working with its network of more than six hundred partner
agencies to assess needs and also help assist people. There's
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Blaze Pizza in Glendale, free eleven inch pizzas in four cheese, Pepperoni, Redvine,
and Herbivore located at thirty two to ten Glendale Galleria.
These restaurants are offering free meals to evacuees and first responders. Crustacean,
interestingly enough, in Beverly Hills, d Town Pizzeria which is
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eight four two four Santa Monica Boulevard in West Hollywood. Again,
these restaurants are offering free meals for evacuees and first responders.
There's Dudley Market nine Dudley Avenue in Venice, Fiorelli Pizza
at ten thirty nine Abbot Kenny Boulevard and Venice. There's
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norms you have to check participating locations. There's saw A
Craft Kitchen at eleven oh nine East twelfth Street in
Los Angeles, Sunday Gravy eleven twenty two, Sentinela Avenue in Inglewood,
and Yeastie Boys. They have multiple locations. And we'll come
back to this list in just a moment. Let's go
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to the phones. Scott in Costa Mesa, thank you for
holding tell us what have you been seeing and what
have you experienced today in the past few days.
Speaker 10 (27:16):
Well, you know, you know, my heart aches for all
those victims, like everybody else, you know, just so sending.
There's tons of love, but you know this is picking
at a scar of mine that I'm revisiting the emotions
of the OC firestorm in Laguna Beach, right, And I
just want to just to talk about like one hundred
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and eighty days of UH of one hundred percent coverage
from the government that's going to go so fast, time
is going to go flying by, And I just urge
anybody who's been a victim to to get on get
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on it to be Is it a FEMA.
Speaker 3 (28:04):
It's FEMA.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
You had to clarify you have one hundred and eighty
days to uh contact FEMA and start that process.
Speaker 3 (28:12):
But go ahead, Scott.
Speaker 10 (28:14):
Well, now I'm wondering because, like with I'm in Coast
to Mesa and just driving down Coast Highway after the
fires and laguna, you know, it was decades later that
there were still just empty foundations, you know, and people
that just can't redo what was lost. And so I'm
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I'm curious to know of like this one hundred and
eighty days. It sounded like it's just debris removal? Is
it more than that, like actually rebuilding? I wonder what
really the details are. And I just.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
Know that's a great question for those who don't know.
The federal government has pledged to match one hundred percent
of the cost to rebuild the Los Angeles Southern California area.
And Scott's question as well, is that rebuilding people's houses,
what's it going to do for businesses? Are we just
talking about the city's infrastructure. Yes, those devils will have
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to be in the details, and I can't tell you
specifically because those details have not been laid out. The
only thing that we know is that the federal government
has pledged one hundred percent match, which has not happened
before in that regard as positive, But we don't know
put us away.
Speaker 3 (29:42):
I don't believe it's.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
Going to be everyone's going to have their house rebuilt
as it was prior to this tragedy.
Speaker 3 (29:49):
I don't think it's that well.
Speaker 10 (29:52):
Just my love to everyone and this that let's all
just sort of put the crap of what we were
before aside and let's.
Speaker 7 (30:06):
Be together on.
Speaker 10 (30:09):
More than just recovery, that we are all just human
and just love each other.
Speaker 3 (30:19):
That's all.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
Hey, Scott, from your lips to God's ears, I want
to thank you for calling in tonight. Let's talk to
Rita in Los Angeles. Rita, how are you doing tonight?
As I'd say to everyone, all things considered.
Speaker 11 (30:34):
Yeah, thank you, I'm doing well, thankfully.
Speaker 12 (30:37):
But what I wanted to share is I was very surprised.
Speaker 11 (30:40):
This happened to me. I was leading at a downtown
LA last night. Way over there. First of all, my
car was covered with debris all over it, which looked
like ash all the way over there. And secondly, as
I'm coming down one of the main drags. I think
it was either Wilshire or Third Street, heading towards Beverly Hills,
and believe that the Pacific Palisades issue was so enormous
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that it was like a big a tornado cloud, huge
and black, going to be all the way to the
ground and going way up into the sky. I could
see it all the way from coming out of downtown LA.
Speaker 12 (31:21):
And then thirdly, as.
Speaker 11 (31:22):
I'm heading towards Beverly Hills. Two yesterday, I came across
the new Independent fire at the Hollywood Hills. As I
was crossing the other streets that cut across, it was
like it was right there. I could see it, and
I filmed it on my phone right on the hill,
very bright and orange.
Speaker 3 (31:40):
I know what you mean. I was coming in a
different direction.
Speaker 2 (31:43):
For example, when I was coming home going home last night,
I'm going down to one thirty four and getting closer
to downtown.
Speaker 3 (31:50):
You can see the fire in the Hollywood Hills.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
And I hit the one ten going south and I
looked to my right, looking westward, I can see even
in the middle of the night, the fire is still
burning in the Pacific Palisades. Is just like ring of
fire all around this area, and it is really disconcerting
when you think about the number of lives that has impacted,
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the number of homes and structures which have been destroyed,
And even though I personally directly have not been impacted yet,
and I say that, thank you Jesus, I know that
a lot of lives have been changed forever for all
of this, and I know exactly what you mean.
Speaker 3 (32:28):
Just the sight of it all can be overwhelming. Gree
are you there? Do we lose you?
Speaker 7 (32:37):
Yeah?
Speaker 11 (32:37):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (32:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 12 (32:38):
I listened to everything you said, but the thing that
surprised me the most was how far away I was,
and how it was so enormous it looked like it
was just a few blocks in front of me.
Speaker 2 (32:50):
I will say this, when you're looking at it on TV,
it doesn't provide the same perspective as when you're driving
or when you're seeing it up close. You may see
it on TV from a helicopter view, or you may
see a newsperson standing on a particular street, but you
don't get a real sense of how extensive the number
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of these fires are, how many they are, how expansive
they are, until you see it for yourself. In person
as you're driving around town, as you're looking into the
hills and you can see it's just like the Hollywood
Hills fire, the Santa fire. How it was just lighting
up the night sky. You don't really get it until
you get out there and see it for yourself.
Speaker 7 (33:32):
So true.
Speaker 2 (33:33):
Yeah, rit I want to thank you for calling in
tonight and please be safe out there.
Speaker 11 (33:39):
We'll do and same with you and yours.
Speaker 3 (33:41):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (33:48):
Let's talk to Linda in Calabasas. Linda, good evening. How
are you.
Speaker 13 (33:54):
Good evening? Can you hear me?
Speaker 3 (33:55):
Yes? I can.
Speaker 13 (33:57):
I'm getting a lot of alerts at the same time.
I'm speaking as Hughes, so they pardon me for that.
I have two locations in Calabasas and unfortunately, well one
of them is being manned because we have looters coming
through last night, so that's kind of a problem.
Speaker 3 (34:15):
Uh.
Speaker 13 (34:15):
The other location, they've just sent us information at the
powers back and as a mandatory evacuation. That one is
the Kenneth Fire. The first one is the Pali Saved fire,
which is also has reached almost the Calabasas, and that
one was where the looters came through last night, but
the police were able to catch them and they have
police manned at stations in that area now. But the
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other location is the Kenneth fire which started earlier today
started the Victory Trail, which is like Victory and Valley
Circle and anyway, that one fire was burning almost directly
to my house. Mandatory evacuation. Power has been out for
three days and there's been no even sos on your phone.
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There's no nine one one calls, no services whatsoever, no internet, nothing,
And then they just said, oh, you could return, everything
is fine. I just returned and there's still no power.
So the power company, the you know, Edison, the police
department and the fire department, and they don't know what
each other is doing. Unfortunately. The night before last, I
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went to a certain location and I want to give
street names, but I guessed a certain location. I couldn't
get through, and I asked the police what's going on.
They said, we have eyes on a fire up here.
I said, I just left the police, I mean the
fire's department, and they said that there was no fire.
They said, we have eyes on it. So I went
back to the fire department, and I said, the police
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are saying that you can't go through there. There's eyes
on the fire. And they said, we don't know about it.
And this is the fire department is less than a
mile away from where the police were stopping people.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
Well, let me collage you up in there. I want
to come to the defense of our first responders. When
you have multiple incidents going on simultaneously, sometimes they're not
sharing the exact same information, and I can understand why
there might be gaps in it. I don't begrudge or
blame them for not being on the exact same page
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on all these fires at the exact same time when
all these resources are delegated in so many different ways.
So if anything, I'm to give first responders.
Speaker 13 (36:31):
Yeah, I one hundred percent agree with you. My concern
was that the fire department that knew nothing about it
was a mile away from the police. So I said,
you guys might want to go talk to the police
down there. Got it's a mile from the station and
they didn't know about it. So it's just a little concerning.
And they said, and I was explaining to them where
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it was, they didn't know. Because we're getting so much help.
Thank god, you know, we're getting so much help. We
have so many fabulous resources from everywhere. That's really great.
The only problem with that is the people who are
here are from other areas monitoring Guardinia, other areas, and
they don't know our area. So if you start talking
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to them about street names and stuff, they don't know
what you're talking about.
Speaker 2 (37:15):
Yeah, they wouldn't know because I lived not too far
from Guardina, and if you put me up in Calabasas,
I wouldn't know X Street from Y Street.
Speaker 3 (37:22):
Just being honest, exactly. No, but that's great to know.
Speaker 2 (37:26):
My question to you before I let you go, Linda,
you said you hadn't had power for a number of days,
is that I don't know if it's safe.
Speaker 3 (37:33):
For you to stay with no power.
Speaker 2 (37:35):
I know southern California Edison has made it clear that
it may be a day or two before they can
get power restored, depending on where you are.
Speaker 13 (37:46):
So, as I said, I was, I just received notification
that power was back on.
Speaker 3 (37:51):
Oh oh, it is back on.
Speaker 14 (37:52):
I'm sorry, that's what.
Speaker 13 (37:53):
The notification was. I've just driven to the area and
it's just completely black. So even though I received notification
it is not on as of yet, so maybe they're
going to turn it out. I'm going to stick around
for another half an hour and see if it actually
does come back on. If not, then and I asked
other people that live in my area and they said
(38:14):
they also received that notification, but it's completely black.
Speaker 2 (38:18):
I do know that in our reporting that Southern California,
Edison said, yes, power may come on, but it may
be intermittent depending on the high wind event which is
expected tonight in all the other variables that they can't
control are said.
Speaker 13 (38:35):
The power has been restored, although it may go out
again on Friday due to expected wind conditions.
Speaker 3 (38:42):
Yeah, yeah, I wish I had better, infam You never.
Speaker 13 (38:44):
Know, It's just a lot going on in California right now,
you know. And obviously my heart goes out to all
those that have, you know, lost things and are devastated
by you know, by loved ones that are hurting and
all of that. But you know, it's just I'm doing
the best that I can, trying to communicate from one
place to the other, and when other people know what's
(39:05):
going on, to kind of be a lays on when
I can, and.
Speaker 2 (39:09):
We thank you and appreciate you for that. Linda, thank
you so much for calling you tonight.
Speaker 13 (39:13):
Thank you for doing your work show. Appreciate it.
Speaker 14 (39:16):
That's a great night.
Speaker 3 (39:17):
Be well.
Speaker 2 (39:18):
Let's talk to Maggie in Woodland Hills. Maggie, you sound
like you might be right in the middle of what
has been happening today.
Speaker 3 (39:26):
Are you safe all that? Maggie? Turned out your radio?
Speaker 15 (39:35):
Maggy's on.
Speaker 3 (39:36):
I'm okay, Maggie, this is MO. How are you.
Speaker 15 (39:41):
Hid? I know your show? My first question, George, he's
not going to be any more.
Speaker 2 (39:50):
No, he's still on KFI. It's just as we're covering
the fires. You might hear some of him a little
bit later on tonight, but the fires will take for
President's right now.
Speaker 15 (40:01):
So my second question, thank you so much for I
have my second question. I try to help. I have,
I plan it make it really a lot of things
from Westley to Aria. I don't know how I get
in that video west Can I think?
Speaker 3 (40:19):
Okay, it's hard for me to hear you with your radio.
Is there any way you can turn down your radio? Please?
Speaker 15 (40:25):
Oh it's too far. So my second my sex okay, yes, better.
Speaker 3 (40:40):
Yes, a little bit better. Maggie. Okay, let's try with
that second question again, please.
Speaker 15 (40:45):
So my second question is I tried to help this
fire station. I just want to make sure how from
a Gourda Heels and Westley, how we can take supply
over there. It's a lot of blanket, I make it ready,
a lot of stove or can use it my heart
(41:06):
with these sepos where we have to go.
Speaker 14 (41:11):
Okay, final way for.
Speaker 15 (41:13):
Me, I just want to make sure do you know
any place any kids or scoot something around Agura heem
oh colabats west Land.
Speaker 2 (41:26):
I would recommend that you don't try to donate to
the area, but you donate to one of the organizations
which are accepting donations. And I was giving out some
of that information earlier, like if you want to donate
to the Red Cross, you can donate money there the
United Way of Greater Los Angeles. And the reason I
(41:47):
say that is because they're trying to keep people out
of the impacted areas and the evacuated zones.
Speaker 3 (41:54):
And if you were trying.
Speaker 2 (41:55):
To take clothes or food to the impacted areas, I
can guarantee you they would turn you away and I don't.
And to your point, since it's a long drive away,
I don't want you to drive all that way for
no reason.
Speaker 3 (42:07):
Does that make sense?
Speaker 15 (42:10):
Yeah, it is only that don't have any like you
mentioned org, donation, like church, oh seigog oh whatever? Okay,
because I buy somef a blanket, I really everything branding
you Now, it's so cold, excry to help your people
(42:31):
make them warm. And the food how I can't take
the food?
Speaker 3 (42:35):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (42:35):
What I'm gonna do, I'm gonna put you on hold, Maggie,
and then at the end of this hour, I'm gonna
come talk to you directly and give you that information
so it'll be easier if I do that, is all right?
Speaker 3 (42:46):
Can I get you a whole for a moment.
Speaker 15 (42:48):
Sure, Thank you so much for I have that.
Speaker 2 (42:50):
Appreciate all right, thank you for calling in, Maggie, and
I'll talk to you just a second. Off there, Let's
talk to James real quick as we finish out these hour.
Speaker 3 (42:59):
James, how are you in the high desert?
Speaker 14 (43:02):
Well, I'm okay, mo. First of all, I just have
two questions very quickly and strictly on character and nothing else.
For the first question, okay, I would like to know
how many fires has the chief of the Los Angeles
Fire department, the DEI hire. How many fires has that
person ever fought? Okay, how about the question?
Speaker 2 (43:24):
Okay, hold on, James, Hold on, James, that is not
a legitimate question because you're calling to insult the chief
when you say DEI hired.
Speaker 13 (43:34):
I'm not.
Speaker 14 (43:34):
I'm just asking because after listening to all the stuff like,
for instance, like the water towers and stuff like that,
and she said, well, that's above my pay grade or
that I don't know. I thought that was kind of
odd because usually, you know her, the surrogates who handle
that stuff would would least have her to be informed
on that. And there was no answer to that question.
Speaker 15 (43:55):
And a lot of the.
Speaker 14 (43:55):
Water cakes down at Pacific Palisades were empty. Okay, so please,
I'm not in no way in trying to insult anybody.
Speaker 2 (44:03):
Well wait, wait, if you say DEI hire, you're insulting her.
Let's let's be clear. I want to be absolutely clear.
And if you call her a DEI higher, that's an insult.
Speaker 14 (44:12):
I'm strictly talking on the fact that the way she's
been going about on these press conferences, I'm not.
Speaker 2 (44:18):
Getting any answers, and that is a legitimate subject to address.
Speaker 3 (44:23):
Hey, but I want to be clear when you call her.
Speaker 14 (44:27):
That's all I'm saying. I'm not getting any answers. And
my second question is the insurance companies. They have their
own meteorology departments for firing demity, most of them done.
My second question is how far in advance would they
know about this weather with the weather models that they do,
that this is coming? Is why they canceled their insurance.
Speaker 2 (44:46):
Well, I can't speak to conspiracy theories. I do know
that if you have been impacted by these events, and
we have someone in the studio who is impacted by
these events, you should talk to your insurance companies sooner
than later, because the insurance company's job is to make
sure that they don't pay out on those policies. We
saw this with in Florida with Hurricane Helene, where people
(45:10):
lost their houses and they and they ended the insurance
before they even paid off on a lot of those claims.
But I can't speak to any type of the conspiracy
conspiracy theory about them knowing in advance, because I don't
think we can predict the weather as of yet.
Speaker 14 (45:25):
Not to disagree, well, I've just been in meteorology myself
and I've just seen some of the models where they
where they try to you know, in the military they
do the same thing especially, But that's all I'm just saying.
I'm not trying to say a conspiracy. If it comes
off like that, my apologies. Have so much respecting for you, sir,
because I've listened to you ever since you first started
(45:47):
the KFI. I do appreciate that, and I really do.
And by the way, could you play the Los Angeles
national anthem sometimes for Randy Newman of I Love LA
because a lot of people would love to hear maybe
on an outrour or something man, because I love LA.
Speaker 3 (46:04):
I think we could do that.
Speaker 14 (46:06):
I love l A and never forget. And that's all
I have to say, sir, And thank you for taking
my call and my apologies if I came out the
wrong way. It's just the communication, the way that the
chief was coming off would not be information that I
thought she would have on hand.
Speaker 13 (46:24):
Uh.
Speaker 14 (46:24):
That's that's that's why I felt so confused and I wondered,
you know, I mean, I mean, I don't know her experience,
so I don't know, well, put it this way, experience,
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (46:35):
I got to go in a second.
Speaker 2 (46:36):
But there are two conversations here, there's a conversation of
whether LA Fire Chief Crowley is giving the requisite information
given the circumstances of this disaster. I think that that's
a fair question to ask. If you couch it within
the the the insult, and that's the word I'm want
to use, that she's a dei higher because those those
(46:57):
are the words that you use.
Speaker 3 (46:58):
That's something altogether different.
Speaker 2 (47:00):
If you want to question whether she gave the requisite
answers and the requisite information by all means, if you're
going to put it within the suspicion of that she
was unqualified to begin with, because she's a woman that
I'm going to take issue with that because I believe
the La County Fire Department knows better about their employees
(47:21):
than any of us.
Speaker 3 (47:22):
I trust them.
Speaker 14 (47:24):
Adam Corolla said as well, that's why that's what he
was questioning. So that's that's where my question is. What
mister Corolla had said, Well.
Speaker 2 (47:31):
All I know is Adam Carolla is not a specialist
when it comes to fighting fires.
Speaker 3 (47:37):
He's a comedian.
Speaker 14 (47:37):
I understood. So I appreciate you, and I appreciate him.
Made the Lord, whatever God you pray to give the
blessings to all the people who've been affected.
Speaker 3 (47:46):
Mofi Am six forty. We're live everywhere in the iHeartRadio app.
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