January 14, 2025 • 33 mins
ICYMI: Hour THREE of ‘Later, with Mo’Kelly’ Presents – Ongoing Coverages of the SoCal wildfires going ‘Beyond the Box Score’ with regular guest contributor Jackie Rae; Long Beach Post/WNBA Reporter and host of ‘The Jackie Rae Show,’ weighing in on the sports world’s reaction to fires - 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 forty.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Oe Kelly, Jackie Ray. We're going beyond the box Score
and we're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
Jackie Ray.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
It's been one hell of a week and a half,
I would say, just going on in southern California. You
know the basics that at this point the Rams played
earlier tonight against the Minnesota Vikings. They didn't play at
SOFI Stadium, they played out in Arizona. And you had
the Lakers playing at home tonight in downtown Los Angeles,
and you had the Clippers playing down the street from
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SOFI tonight.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
The game's still going on right now.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
I know they're different leagues, but why the different expectations
as far as appropriate, not appropriate, timely, untimely to move
these games. We know the NBA they postponed the previous
Laker and Clipper games, but now they're playing tonight. The
wins are gusting right now. Can hear it outside the studio?
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The games are going going on in LA except for
the Rams there in Arizona.
Speaker 4 (01:02):
I you know, I.
Speaker 5 (01:03):
Can't explain this one because in my mind, the NFL
especially should have at least played in La versus moving
to the State Farm Arena. Considering all the homes that
now don't have fire insurance.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
The optics of that just looks bad to me.
Speaker 5 (01:18):
You would have been better playing off in so far
so when we have teams like you said, the Clippers
are playing, I don't understand the logic. I do get
because I was one of the first people that said,
it's just weird going about I went to karaoke last night.
It still felt very, very weird to be there having
a good time when earlier in the day I had
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just been out to Alta Dina donating and seeing how
it's this weird dichotomy of feeling sad and then doing
something that feels great. So I'm not upset that they
moved forward, because at the end of the day, we
have to move forward, but it just seems like the
timing is a little bit.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
Off to me.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
In previous shows, I talked about the historical implications of
canceling or postponing games, how the nation by and large
has hued more closely to playing the games as a
way of ensuring emotional continuity. I talked about how the
World Series was not canceled. During World War Two. I
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talked about how rare it was to cancel games except
for like the eighty nine earthquake in San Francisco or
nine to eleven. Had to be very very extreme reasons
to cancel or postponed games. Not that this is not
along those levels. But going back to what I said before,
it seems like there's an inconsistency and the approach where
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inside the same city, on the same street, you have
a game which is going on, and if you don't know,
into a dome, it's literally one block away on the
same street as Sofi Stadium. And having these games on
where you put off in any way that there are
games going on. Going back to your point of kind,
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I'm moving on with life and celebrating and having fun
and you know, goat Lakers. Oh, by the way, the
city's burning down right.
Speaker 5 (03:07):
It's a tough one because if you're here, if you're
listening from abroad, it's not something that you feel like
it impacts the I live in Long Beach, and now
in Long Beach, the air quality was bad. Long Beach
is thirty miles away from where the fire is, so
it's not like it's just exclusive to the Palisades or
Pasadena or Allta Dina. It's literally affecting a large range
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of people and places. People with asthma in Long Beach
are having a hard time, so it really doesn't matter
that you're so far away. On the contrast, what we've
seen is and I think this is why people are
having a hard time with the games just resuming as normal.
So cow has had an amazing outreach of people. People
have been boots on the ground, immediately taking off work
to go and help people, try to help people find
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pets or maybe even albums that have priceless memorabili in them.
So people have really stepped up to help their fellow neighbor.
So it again, I'm not upset that it's moving forward,
but I understand when you're talking about people who have
lost everything and don't have the means to replace it.
Sometimes I think internally we would want those who have
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more to step up more. So maybe that's what we're
seeing where people are saying it's just a game. You
guys can take this off and even donate time and
money and resources to help people who have lost everything.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
So I understand both sides of it.
Speaker 5 (04:26):
I don't know if there's an answer, but there is
an inconsistency, and I would love the teams to just
sit down and say going forward, because as long as
humans exist, there's going to be tragedies that impact us.
Going forward, this is how we are going to move
when it comes to canceling games or not canceling games,
because if there's a policy set, then there's nothing.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
To argue about.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Let's drill down on that one because I know, watching
the Lakers, or watching the Clippers, or watching the NFL
football playoff games this weekend, yes, there's the obligatory thoughts
and prayers.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
Our hearts are with the people who are so in
Los Angeles.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Please go to NFL dot com, forward slash donat or something.
They will do the minimum. But what should be the
expectation as far as the involvement of these leagues. That's
part one, and also of the players. It's one thing
to say, you know, we shouldn't play the game. It's
another thing to say, Hey, the Lakers, you as an
organization need to be doing more.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
You Clippers need to be doing more.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
You Chargers and Rams need to be doing more as
an organization. And also my word pressure on players to
get involved as well.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
What would you say to that?
Speaker 4 (05:36):
Well, I always say players are people.
Speaker 5 (05:38):
JJ Reddick lost his home, the head coach of the
LA Lakers, he lost his home in the Palisades fire,
and now he has to go out and coach a game.
And I don't know if you've ever had that kind
of loss, It is difficult to just go back out there.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
Athletes do it all the time.
Speaker 5 (05:52):
We saw Isaiah Thomas do it when he lost I
believe was a sister or whatnot.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
So we've seen players do this over and over again.
Speaker 5 (05:59):
But it's difficult, and so I think instead of saying yes,
there needs to be a policy in play as far
as what we're going to do as an organization, but
when you're talking about people, I do think backing away
and letting people is in players in this case. But
people who are impacted by this have the space to
be impacted by this for more than just a day
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or two. Kawhi Leonard had to take a step away
from the Clippers because his family had to evacuate. So
we're not talking about people who aren't impacted and just
these superstars that are making this kind of money, they
are also impacted. They want to help and they need
the space to do it. So maybe it's a case
by case situation. I do understand the knee jerk reaction
of thinking that people that have more should do more.
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There's that, but I also think that people who are
impacted should have the space to be impacted.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
I wonder, and it's not for me to try to
get in the head of JJ Reddick you mentioned right
and coach the Los Angeles Lakers. Lakers are finishing up
their game right now against the San Antonio Spurs at
Crypto dot Com Arena, but I know that JJ Reddick's
head cannot be fully invested in the Lakers or that game.
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It just can't be because we are to your point humans.
I wonder, and I'm not blaming Genie Buss, but I
would ask her the question. Was there any conversation where
you said, JJ, I appreciate you wanting to coach, but
right now I need you to take care of your
business so you are even better coach on the other
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side of this tragedy, because I remember when Kareem Abdul
Jabbar's house burned down, he wasn't thinking about basketball.
Speaker 5 (07:38):
Nope, it's difficult, like when you think, sometimes people say, oh,
I just want to get back to work, no matter
what it is, I want to get back to work
to keep my mind off of it. When I lost
my dad, that was what I did. I mourned for
three months and I was like, I want to get
back to work. I thought three months was enough time.
And then I got back to work and every fifteen
minutes I have to run to the bathroom because I'm crying.
You know, so you don't really know how you're going
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to mentally move. But losing everything and just seeing him
talk about it in a practice and talking about what
it was, you could see that kind of in play.
He was solid for a minute and then he wasn't.
And that's what human emotions do. So again, I think
humans need space to be humans and just deal with
these types of things.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
We'll have more on this in just a moment.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
KFI Mo Kelly and Jackie Ray. We're continuing to go
Beyond the box Score and we're live everywhere on the
iHeartRadio app, and we're also continuing our conversation about athletes, sports,
and also tragedy. There are these expectations that we have
of athletes as people, athletes as performers, and athletes as
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representatives of communities. Invariably, there will come a point in time.
And this is not some grand prediction. It's just that
I've lived on this earth long enough to have seen
and I know it's coming. There will be some grand
pronouncement by an athlete about these fires, about the response
to the fires. And I'm not trying to predicate it's
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going to be this or that. I just know it's coming.
Someone's going to have a microphone in front of their face.
They're gonna be asked a question, and they're gonna be
asked and they're going to answer as honestly as possible.
How much grace do you give athletes for something like this?
And I know this is hypothetical, but you know they're
going to say something which is gonna piss half the
people off.
Speaker 5 (09:32):
That's a great question, because as a journalist who's been
in that situation, I would give a tremendous amount of
grace in this specific instance because of the tragedy, and
I would probably ask if, especially if it if it
was a response that I knew was inflammatory, I would
definitely give a follow up question that would give them
a chance to maybe clarify that.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Say that again, that is so key because a lot
of times you only hear the question, which could lead
the athlete to it in flatt platy air quotes response,
but there's no follow up to give the athlete room
to further elaborate, right.
Speaker 5 (10:07):
And I think that's important as a journalist to do
that because again, not just a journalist, I'm also a
human and I've been in situations. I'm pretty calculated with
my words, so I'm not saying it's never happened to me.
But when your emotions are at the forefront of your mind,
I don't care how calculated you are, You're going to
speak from an emotional place. So that journalistic integrity says,
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ask that follow up question.
Speaker 6 (10:31):
Now.
Speaker 5 (10:31):
If they double down on that, now you can run
with it. But I do think we should allow people
enough grace to speak in their emotion and then clarify
their emotion, especially when they're dealing with tragedy.
Speaker 4 (10:42):
But that's not the society we live in.
Speaker 5 (10:44):
The society even if they do, even if someone does
follow up with a great question, and they clarify they're
gonna lead with the inflammatory comment because that's going to
get more clicks and more views. So but I think
that that's what in my journalism, that's what I lead
with the humanity of the player, the humanity of everyone.
So I think that's what we need to lean into,
especially in times of tragedy.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
All right, let's keep going down this road. We talk
about the responsibility of players. We talked about the responsibility
of organizations and employees of an organization, So let's talk
more about the responsibility of journalists, specifically sports journalists. What
other recommendations might you have other than asking that follow
up question? Don't just ask JJ Reddick about what he
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feels about again, hypothetically what he feels about the response
to the fires. If you don't have an adequate follow up,
But what are the recommendations would you have?
Speaker 5 (11:34):
I would recommend you go to an area that has
been damaged by the fire. If you're following me on
Instagram at Jackie Ray TV. I went out and I
saw that, and I'm telling you, the devastation that you
see in real life is nothing like the devastation you
see on television, it just hits different.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
The smell and the air is different.
Speaker 5 (11:54):
As you're stepping on the ground and you're stepping over
glass that has exploded from a car, or you'll see
a baby crib that you can just make it out
because of the little bars, but it's burned to the ground.
You can literally see humanity or someone's life burned to
the ground. So it gives you a frame of reference
that will allow you to have grace because now you
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can picture yourself in that situation.
Speaker 4 (12:16):
When you're just talking about what you see on TV, it.
Speaker 5 (12:19):
Does look like a lot of armor againon movies that
I see, so we can easily just say that's happened
over there. But when you put yourself in that situation
as a journalist, it gives you a frame of reference
to tap into to help you not only understand where
that athlete is coming from, but to feel their emotion
and then thereby give them more grace, which I think
we should do that across the board sometimes, I think,
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especially Americans, we have these opinions about people and we've
never been in their shoes. So if you put yourself
in somebody's shoes, it enables you to have a little
bit more grace.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Boy, you are preaching tonight to bring up grace and
then to say imagine yourself in that person's shoes.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
It seems a very simple formulation.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
But I guess it's kind of complex because people, for
the most part, are not willing to do that. We
all have these opinions and recommendations from literally thousands of
miles away, but aren't emotionally impacted, aren't physically impacted, aren't
in any way connected to what actually is going on here.
I've heard all sorts of opinions about California and what
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the HeLa fire departments supposed to do from like Australia.
Are Australia, Yeah, I know, you know something about fires,
but you don't know anything about la what's going on.
You don't know anything about Santa Ana wins. And then
also the people who want to politicize this for their
own purposes, their own personal political purposes and Grant stunding.
There will be the investigation, you know, there will be
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a post mortem, as I said, and we'll find out
who was wrong and why to what degree, what facilities
and structures and parameters whatever failed, and the people who
didn't meet the bark, but right now, it should be
about the.
Speaker 5 (13:56):
People, because the people are who's suffering. And if you
can't see it in your heart to I saw a
woman who lives in the Palisades, and that's the thing.
The Palisades has been the point of contention for a
lot of people. If you guys don't live in California,
let me just put it out here right now. Everybody
in California is not rich. Everybody in California does not
have the means to build a new house. I don't
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care if they live in Beverly Hills or the Pacific Palisades.
Speaker 4 (14:21):
Whatever you have.
Speaker 5 (14:22):
In your head about the money out here, just throw
it in the trash because it's not real.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
Life, and it sure doesn't cover everything like that. That's
a whole different conversation.
Speaker 5 (14:31):
Right So, I saw a woman who lived in the
Pacific Palisades, which is an affluent area, but she lives
completely off the land. And again the insurance, the fire
insurance specifically for that area was canceled, and this woman's
heart was overjoyed.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
She was crying because she knew her house was burned down.
Speaker 5 (14:51):
She didn't have the means to replace it because again
her whole life is. She lives off the land. But
then her sheep ran up to her and she found
out her her sheep were alive. And the joy that
that woman had, you would have thought that someone had
given her a million dollars. So again, you don't know
what people are going through. But in that moment, it
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wasn't about the materialistic things. It was about an animal,
a group of animals that brought her joy and she
knew she hadn't lost everything. Just open your hearts and
your minds a little bit to just that it's not
about the house. It's about what the house represents, the
life that people built, how they chose to raise their family,
their animals, things. This is a whole person's culture, if
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you will, in one space and it's gone now, So
have a little empathy.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
Your word is the last word and the best word.
I'm o Kelly.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
She's Jackie Ray KFI AM six forty were live everywhere
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Speaker 1 (15:49):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
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Speaker 2 (15:54):
From We've been giving you a lot of information on
the course of the evening. Be sure if there's something
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as it happens. But Twala does a wonderful job at
putting this podcast together so you can have all the
relevant information, especially in a time like now. Earlier in
the show, we were talking about the fires from a
law enforcement perspective. We listen back to the remarks of
La County DA Nathan Hawkman, who basically was letting everyone
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know he's following through on his promises to prosecute crimes
in a way that we haven't seen for a few
years since George Cascone was in that seat. We also
heard from Sheriff Robert Luna talking about respecting the curfew
and how you'll be arrested if you're in the wrong
place at the wrong time, stay out of the evacuated
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zone owns, and also we heard from LAPD Assistant Chief
Dominic Troy, who was detailing people are not being arrested
for just crimes related to the fire. Talked about how
an individual was arrested regarding the use of illegal use
of a drone. Also people who were doing things completely
not connected to the events, but just happened to be
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in an area committee of crime and they were subsequently arrested. Now,
I want to talk about it from the fire first
responders perspective, from what we heard earlier today. First up
is LAPD Chief Crowley from this morning.
Speaker 7 (17:38):
But to start off with just a moment to share
with everybody out there that's been impacted by these wildland fires,
that the entire LAFD family sworn civilian, our city family,
mayor Bass City leadership, everybody, Our thoughts and hearts and
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prayers go out to you as we continue to push
forward and mitigate this emergency. We understand the impacts and
we're working and will continue to work very, very very
hard for everyone. Another point I want to make is
that also we are so very grateful for the firefighters
and the first responders that have already arrived and continue
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to arrive in the southern California region. We absolutely know
that we cannot do this on our own, and we
are tremendously appreciative of all of your continued support as
the increasing wind event is upon us as we speak.
The Los Angeles City Fire Department has maximized our resource
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capabilities and response capabilities. All available LAFD resources.
Speaker 4 (18:48):
Have been staffed.
Speaker 7 (18:50):
I have strategically preposition engine strike teams and task forces
which are dedicated to rapid response for any new fire
that breaks out in the city. In addition, I've directed
the Fire Prevention Bureau to augment wildfire patrols in high
hazard areas the Palisades fire. Your LFD remains committed to
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this fire and we have significant number of engines that
have been dedicated to this fire. The crews that are involved,
we have crews from up and down the state outside
of the state, have made excellent, excellent work overnight mopping
up flare ups and hotspots. Their primary focus last night
was on the Maneville Canyon area, and this fire is
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now at twenty three thousand, seven hundred and thirteen acres
with fourteen percent containment. With five thousand, one hundred and
twenty three personnel assigned to the Palisades incident, firefighters will
continue to work diligently throughout the day to increase containment
and prevent further fire spread. Again, I want to focus
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our my comments on the amount of resources that are
here in the Palisades, from the first responders all the
way up to our incident command teams. Again, we're going
to keep working really, really hard for you. Just a
brief comment on the Hearst fire. It's been held to
seven and ninety nine acres with ninety five percent containment. Again,
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thank you to the community members that are out there
for remaining vigilant.
Speaker 8 (20:22):
We are not in the clear.
Speaker 7 (20:24):
I want to make sure of that we are not
in the clear as of yet, and we must not
let our guard down as we have right now extreme
fire behavior, and we need to make sure that the
community is staying updated with the most information updated information
as well, follow all evacuation warnings and orders without delay,
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and please please stay safe.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
Let me just interject something here.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Some people may not know how, especially if you're not
from a LA area, you may not know how the
municipality works. Crowley is the fire chief for the LA
Fire Department as in city that's not county, and a
lot of these fires are happening in portions of LA County.
Which are not subject to the jurisdiction of La City
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Fire Department. It falls under the county. Like, for example,
we were talking at length about Altadena. That's an unincorporated
area of La County, which is not subject to the
jurisdiction of La City Fire Department. I live within an
address which is LA but I live in an unincorporated
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portion of LA which means that if I call for
a first responder, it will be La County Fire Department.
It'll be La County Sheriff who will respond, even though
my address says Los Angeles. So we have to be
mindful of this when we want to assess and parse
blab about who's responsible for this and who's responsible for that,
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Just know that there are a number of overlapping agencies
involved in this endeavor. And to that end, we also
heard from La County Fire Chief Maroni.
Speaker 6 (22:07):
The Eton fire is now estimated to be fourteen thousand, and.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
If you noticed, he's adjusting specifically the Eton fire, which
is we were talking about Altadina that is La County,
not La City.
Speaker 6 (22:22):
The Eton fire is now estimated to be fourteen thousand,
one hundred and seventeen acres with thirty three percent containment.
We gained no acreage yesterday, which is a very good thing.
We know that over seven thousand structures are damaged or destroyed,
and we have three thousand, four hundred and eight firefighting
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personnel assigned to the incident. Twenty six percent of our
damaged Inspections for dwellings have been completed. Impacted residents may
visit recovery dot LA County dot gov to view preliminary
maps showing damage assessments. Please note that the preliminary maps
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have been posted and are being updated daily. If there
is not a color icon on your address, it means
the building has not yet been inspected. Severe fire weather
conditions will continue through Wednesday. Please be assured that all
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fire departments and all law enforcement agencies in the area
will be prepared. The anticipated winds, combined with low humidities
and low fuel moistures, will keep the fire threat in
all of Los Angeles County critical. I ask all Los
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Angeles County residents in wildfire prone areas to understand that
the necessary public safety power shows are important for our
collective safety in preventing the next wildfire natural disaster. I
did wanted to spell one rumor the La County Fire
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Department has never turned down any offers for mutual aid,
assistance and resources. Repopulation will not occur until all areas
are safe. Additionally, our Col four point fifteen super Scooper
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that was damaged because of a drone incursion is reportedly
going to be flying tomorrow morning. It has been repaired
and we're waiting for the FAA to give us approval
to fly again. Thank you to Board Chair Supervisor Catherine
Barger and Supervisor Lindsey Horvath for your unwavering leadership and
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conte and you'd support throughout this unprecedented disaster. And finally,
to all the Los Angeles County residents affected by this catastrophe,
please be assured your firefighters continue to work towards full
containment of these wildfires from the air and on the ground.
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We stand alongside each of you as you begin the
repopulation of evacuated areas when safe, and the rebuilding of
your homes, your communities, and your lives. Thank you for me.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
The takeaway outside of the information is he's reiterating that
there's a distinction to be made between his area of responsibility,
which has to do with La County and those residents
versus people who are residents of the municipality the City
of Los Angeles with Chief Crowley, which is different. Now,
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they may overlap at times when you have these fires,
which obviously do not respect boundaries. But let's be sure
that we are looking to the right person to figure
out who is responsible for our particular area or particular fire.
As we go forward, I'm mo Kelly CAFI AM six
forty will have more of this important information what was
being said and shared over the course of the day.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
In just a moment, you're listening to Later with Moe
Kelly on demand from KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
Last second, I was playing some audio from the County
LA Fire Department Chief Maroney, and I was explaining how
sometimes we forget. We included that a lot of these
agencies do overlap as far as how they're trying to
help everyone in a crisis like this. And even though
we hear more about Mayor Karen Bass and we hear
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more about LA Fire Department Chief as in City Kristen Crowley,
that is only a part of the story. Is it's
much more impactful to La County. And in the last second,
we were playing audio from a fire department, Ellie County
Fire Department Chief Maroney talking about his area of responsibility
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and how he was targeting the Eaton Canyon fire. I'm paraphrasing,
but at the end of his remarks he made mention
he was appreciative of the help of La County Supervisors
Catherine Barger and also Lindsey Horvath. And if you know
what the La County Board of Supervisors will do, they're
responsible for managing resources and events just like this one.
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In fact, LA County Supervisor Lindsay Horvath will again join
us tomorrow night to give us an update on her
particular supervisor district and the areas which are impacted and
give us an update there about its residents who have
been evacuated in this place, where they will be going
next or what services are available to them. But this
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is what Supervisor had to say this morning the.
Speaker 9 (28:02):
Latest Palisades fire updates. As you've heard, more than twenty
three thousand acres have been impacted by this fire and
it is fourteen percent contained. We have over fifty one
hundred personnel, including forty four helicopters and five hundred forty engines.
The fire continues to hold along Mandeville Canyon, and we
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are grateful for our first responders and all those on
the front lines fighting in this area. We know it
is critical and you are doing a great job. We've
also made significant progress into Panga Oaks, Sylvia Park to
Mescal Ridge to Mholland. All of these areas have been
under threat and we are continuing to hold. Santa Monica
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has lifted their evacuation orders and downgraded to warnings in
North San Vicenti, moving from order to warning. At eight
am today, all of the warning areas have been lifted.
A particularly dangerous situation has been issued strongest wins from
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Tuesday morning until Wednesday. We strongly encourage caution and vigilance.
This is the weather prediction that the National Weather Service
had going into last week's event, so these conditions are significant,
they are serious, and we need you to follow all orders.
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All Santa Monica Malibu United School District schools will remain
closed today. All Santa Monica campuses except for Roosevelt Elementary,
will be open. All LAUSD schools will be open today
except Canyon Charter Elementary, Kenter, Canyon Charter Elementary, Palisades Charter Elementary,
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Marquees Charter Elementary, Topanga Charter Elementary, Lenai Road Elementary, and
Paul Revere Middle School.
Speaker 8 (29:58):
Our Department of Ments Health has.
Speaker 9 (30:01):
Resources for how to speak with our young people about
wildfires at DMH dot La County dot gov. We need
to support our children in this time and make sure
they're able to talk about this tragedy. Our DMH helpline
is eight hundred eight five four seven seven seven to one.
Metro fares continue to be suspended for as long as
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conditions remain the same. We thank our Chair of the
Metro Board, Janis Hahn, and our CEO, Stephanie Wiggins, for
their assistance. Palisades Post Office has been relocated to Rancho
Park Post Office. Residents can pick up their mail at
one one two seven zero, Exposition Boulevard on the first floor.
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Recovery dot La County dot gov has launched. You can
find initial damage assessments as well as maps to indicate
your property location and status. Comprehensive list of county resources
by department, federal, state, local and nonprofit emergency assistants. Once again,
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that website is Recovery dot Lacounty dot gov.
Speaker 8 (31:11):
Our Department of economic opportunities.
Speaker 9 (31:13):
East La Entrepreneur Center and America's Job Centers of California
open today as well to support impacted workers as well
as small businesses. As far as public health updates, the
air quality smoke advisory continues through next week. Please wear
N ninety five masks outdoors. Find particulates are airborne even
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in areas not impacted by the fires. Especially children and
older adults, especially those with serious health complications, are particularly
at risk. LA County Department of Public Health is providing
N ninety five masks at all evacuation shelters and to
community based organizations. When you are at home home, please
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close your windows and doors, run the air conditioning or
air purifiers if you have them, and check your filters regularly.
In your car, close the windows and vents, turn your
air conditioning on to recirculate. Do not in any way
use leaf blowers or other actions that will push ash
into the air. Follow all drinking water advisories, and due
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to ocean contamination, avoid the following beaches Malibu Point at
Surfrider Beach, Solstice Creek at Dan Blocker County Beach, and
Innercabrio Beach in San Pedro To stay informed about the
latest emergency orders, you can go to emergency dot LA
County dot gov. And I want to once again thank
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all of those who are on the front lines keeping
us safe through this very difficult time, all of our
volunteers who have kicked into action to ensure that our
community members are supported.
Speaker 8 (32:57):
And I also want to thank our.
Speaker 9 (32:59):
Governor for an additional executive order in addition to the
one that he issued yesterday to expedite debris removal and
to reduce the risk of mudslides. As we know, rain
is predicted starting next week and these complicated conditions may
only worsen.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
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Speaker 3 (00:12):
Jackie Ray.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
It's been one hell of a week and a half,
I would say, just going on in southern California. You
know the basics that at this point the Rams played
earlier tonight against the Minnesota Vikings. They didn't play at
SOFI Stadium, they played out in Arizona. And you had
the Lakers playing at home tonight in downtown Los Angeles,
and you had the Clippers playing down the street from
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SOFI tonight.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
The game's still going on right now.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
I know they're different leagues, but why the different expectations
as far as appropriate, not appropriate, timely, untimely to move
these games. We know the NBA they postponed the previous
Laker and Clipper games, but now they're playing tonight. The
wins are gusting right now. Can hear it outside the studio?
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The games are going going on in LA except for
the Rams there in Arizona.
Speaker 4 (01:02):
I you know, I.
Speaker 5 (01:03):
Can't explain this one because in my mind, the NFL
especially should have at least played in La versus moving
to the State Farm Arena. Considering all the homes that
now don't have fire insurance.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
The optics of that just looks bad to me.
Speaker 5 (01:18):
You would have been better playing off in so far
so when we have teams like you said, the Clippers
are playing, I don't understand the logic. I do get
because I was one of the first people that said,
it's just weird going about I went to karaoke last night.
It still felt very, very weird to be there having
a good time when earlier in the day I had
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just been out to Alta Dina donating and seeing how
it's this weird dichotomy of feeling sad and then doing
something that feels great. So I'm not upset that they
moved forward, because at the end of the day, we
have to move forward, but it just seems like the
timing is a little bit.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
Off to me.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
In previous shows, I talked about the historical implications of
canceling or postponing games, how the nation by and large
has hued more closely to playing the games as a
way of ensuring emotional continuity. I talked about how the
World Series was not canceled. During World War Two. I
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talked about how rare it was to cancel games except
for like the eighty nine earthquake in San Francisco or
nine to eleven. Had to be very very extreme reasons
to cancel or postponed games. Not that this is not
along those levels. But going back to what I said before,
it seems like there's an inconsistency and the approach where
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inside the same city, on the same street, you have
a game which is going on, and if you don't know,
into a dome, it's literally one block away on the
same street as Sofi Stadium. And having these games on
where you put off in any way that there are
games going on. Going back to your point of kind,
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I'm moving on with life and celebrating and having fun
and you know, goat Lakers. Oh, by the way, the
city's burning down right.
Speaker 5 (03:07):
It's a tough one because if you're here, if you're
listening from abroad, it's not something that you feel like
it impacts the I live in Long Beach, and now
in Long Beach, the air quality was bad. Long Beach
is thirty miles away from where the fire is, so
it's not like it's just exclusive to the Palisades or
Pasadena or Allta Dina. It's literally affecting a large range
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of people and places. People with asthma in Long Beach
are having a hard time, so it really doesn't matter
that you're so far away. On the contrast, what we've
seen is and I think this is why people are
having a hard time with the games just resuming as normal.
So cow has had an amazing outreach of people. People
have been boots on the ground, immediately taking off work
to go and help people, try to help people find
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pets or maybe even albums that have priceless memorabili in them.
So people have really stepped up to help their fellow neighbor.
So it again, I'm not upset that it's moving forward,
but I understand when you're talking about people who have
lost everything and don't have the means to replace it.
Sometimes I think internally we would want those who have
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more to step up more. So maybe that's what we're
seeing where people are saying it's just a game. You
guys can take this off and even donate time and
money and resources to help people who have lost everything.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
So I understand both sides of it.
Speaker 5 (04:26):
I don't know if there's an answer, but there is
an inconsistency, and I would love the teams to just
sit down and say going forward, because as long as
humans exist, there's going to be tragedies that impact us.
Going forward, this is how we are going to move
when it comes to canceling games or not canceling games,
because if there's a policy set, then there's nothing.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
To argue about.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Let's drill down on that one because I know, watching
the Lakers, or watching the Clippers, or watching the NFL
football playoff games this weekend, yes, there's the obligatory thoughts
and prayers.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
Our hearts are with the people who are so in
Los Angeles.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Please go to NFL dot com, forward slash donat or something.
They will do the minimum. But what should be the
expectation as far as the involvement of these leagues. That's
part one, and also of the players. It's one thing
to say, you know, we shouldn't play the game. It's
another thing to say, Hey, the Lakers, you as an
organization need to be doing more.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
You Clippers need to be doing more.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
You Chargers and Rams need to be doing more as
an organization. And also my word pressure on players to
get involved as well.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
What would you say to that?
Speaker 4 (05:36):
Well, I always say players are people.
Speaker 5 (05:38):
JJ Reddick lost his home, the head coach of the
LA Lakers, he lost his home in the Palisades fire,
and now he has to go out and coach a game.
And I don't know if you've ever had that kind
of loss, It is difficult to just go back out there.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
Athletes do it all the time.
Speaker 5 (05:52):
We saw Isaiah Thomas do it when he lost I
believe was a sister or whatnot.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
So we've seen players do this over and over again.
Speaker 5 (05:59):
But it's difficult, and so I think instead of saying yes,
there needs to be a policy in play as far
as what we're going to do as an organization, but
when you're talking about people, I do think backing away
and letting people is in players in this case. But
people who are impacted by this have the space to
be impacted by this for more than just a day
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or two. Kawhi Leonard had to take a step away
from the Clippers because his family had to evacuate. So
we're not talking about people who aren't impacted and just
these superstars that are making this kind of money, they
are also impacted. They want to help and they need
the space to do it. So maybe it's a case
by case situation. I do understand the knee jerk reaction
of thinking that people that have more should do more.
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There's that, but I also think that people who are
impacted should have the space to be impacted.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
I wonder, and it's not for me to try to
get in the head of JJ Reddick you mentioned right
and coach the Los Angeles Lakers. Lakers are finishing up
their game right now against the San Antonio Spurs at
Crypto dot Com Arena, but I know that JJ Reddick's
head cannot be fully invested in the Lakers or that game.
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It just can't be because we are to your point humans.
I wonder, and I'm not blaming Genie Buss, but I
would ask her the question. Was there any conversation where
you said, JJ, I appreciate you wanting to coach, but
right now I need you to take care of your
business so you are even better coach on the other
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side of this tragedy, because I remember when Kareem Abdul
Jabbar's house burned down, he wasn't thinking about basketball.
Speaker 5 (07:38):
Nope, it's difficult, like when you think, sometimes people say, oh,
I just want to get back to work, no matter
what it is, I want to get back to work
to keep my mind off of it. When I lost
my dad, that was what I did. I mourned for
three months and I was like, I want to get
back to work. I thought three months was enough time.
And then I got back to work and every fifteen
minutes I have to run to the bathroom because I'm crying.
You know, so you don't really know how you're going
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to mentally move. But losing everything and just seeing him
talk about it in a practice and talking about what
it was, you could see that kind of in play.
He was solid for a minute and then he wasn't.
And that's what human emotions do. So again, I think
humans need space to be humans and just deal with
these types of things.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
We'll have more on this in just a moment.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
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Speaker 2 (08:29):
KFI Mo Kelly and Jackie Ray. We're continuing to go
Beyond the box Score and we're live everywhere on the
iHeartRadio app, and we're also continuing our conversation about athletes, sports,
and also tragedy. There are these expectations that we have
of athletes as people, athletes as performers, and athletes as
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representatives of communities. Invariably, there will come a point in time.
And this is not some grand prediction. It's just that
I've lived on this earth long enough to have seen
and I know it's coming. There will be some grand
pronouncement by an athlete about these fires, about the response
to the fires. And I'm not trying to predicate it's
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going to be this or that. I just know it's coming.
Someone's going to have a microphone in front of their face.
They're gonna be asked a question, and they're gonna be
asked and they're going to answer as honestly as possible.
How much grace do you give athletes for something like this?
And I know this is hypothetical, but you know they're
going to say something which is gonna piss half the
people off.
Speaker 5 (09:32):
That's a great question, because as a journalist who's been
in that situation, I would give a tremendous amount of
grace in this specific instance because of the tragedy, and
I would probably ask if, especially if it if it
was a response that I knew was inflammatory, I would
definitely give a follow up question that would give them
a chance to maybe clarify that.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Say that again, that is so key because a lot
of times you only hear the question, which could lead
the athlete to it in flatt platy air quotes response,
but there's no follow up to give the athlete room
to further elaborate, right.
Speaker 5 (10:07):
And I think that's important as a journalist to do
that because again, not just a journalist, I'm also a
human and I've been in situations. I'm pretty calculated with
my words, so I'm not saying it's never happened to me.
But when your emotions are at the forefront of your mind,
I don't care how calculated you are, You're going to
speak from an emotional place. So that journalistic integrity says,
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ask that follow up question.
Speaker 6 (10:31):
Now.
Speaker 5 (10:31):
If they double down on that, now you can run
with it. But I do think we should allow people
enough grace to speak in their emotion and then clarify
their emotion, especially when they're dealing with tragedy.
Speaker 4 (10:42):
But that's not the society we live in.
Speaker 5 (10:44):
The society even if they do, even if someone does
follow up with a great question, and they clarify they're
gonna lead with the inflammatory comment because that's going to
get more clicks and more views. So but I think
that that's what in my journalism, that's what I lead
with the humanity of the player, the humanity of everyone.
So I think that's what we need to lean into,
especially in times of tragedy.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
All right, let's keep going down this road. We talk
about the responsibility of players. We talked about the responsibility
of organizations and employees of an organization, So let's talk
more about the responsibility of journalists, specifically sports journalists. What
other recommendations might you have other than asking that follow
up question? Don't just ask JJ Reddick about what he
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feels about again, hypothetically what he feels about the response
to the fires. If you don't have an adequate follow up,
But what are the recommendations would you have?
Speaker 5 (11:34):
I would recommend you go to an area that has
been damaged by the fire. If you're following me on
Instagram at Jackie Ray TV. I went out and I
saw that, and I'm telling you, the devastation that you
see in real life is nothing like the devastation you
see on television, it just hits different.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
The smell and the air is different.
Speaker 5 (11:54):
As you're stepping on the ground and you're stepping over
glass that has exploded from a car, or you'll see
a baby crib that you can just make it out
because of the little bars, but it's burned to the ground.
You can literally see humanity or someone's life burned to
the ground. So it gives you a frame of reference
that will allow you to have grace because now you
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can picture yourself in that situation.
Speaker 4 (12:16):
When you're just talking about what you see on TV, it.
Speaker 5 (12:19):
Does look like a lot of armor againon movies that
I see, so we can easily just say that's happened
over there. But when you put yourself in that situation
as a journalist, it gives you a frame of reference
to tap into to help you not only understand where
that athlete is coming from, but to feel their emotion
and then thereby give them more grace, which I think
we should do that across the board sometimes, I think,
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especially Americans, we have these opinions about people and we've
never been in their shoes. So if you put yourself
in somebody's shoes, it enables you to have a little
bit more grace.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Boy, you are preaching tonight to bring up grace and
then to say imagine yourself in that person's shoes.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
It seems a very simple formulation.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
But I guess it's kind of complex because people, for
the most part, are not willing to do that. We
all have these opinions and recommendations from literally thousands of
miles away, but aren't emotionally impacted, aren't physically impacted, aren't
in any way connected to what actually is going on here.
I've heard all sorts of opinions about California and what
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the HeLa fire departments supposed to do from like Australia.
Are Australia, Yeah, I know, you know something about fires,
but you don't know anything about la what's going on.
You don't know anything about Santa Ana wins. And then
also the people who want to politicize this for their
own purposes, their own personal political purposes and Grant stunding.
There will be the investigation, you know, there will be
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a post mortem, as I said, and we'll find out
who was wrong and why to what degree, what facilities
and structures and parameters whatever failed, and the people who
didn't meet the bark, but right now, it should be
about the.
Speaker 5 (13:56):
People, because the people are who's suffering. And if you
can't see it in your heart to I saw a
woman who lives in the Palisades, and that's the thing.
The Palisades has been the point of contention for a
lot of people. If you guys don't live in California,
let me just put it out here right now. Everybody
in California is not rich. Everybody in California does not
have the means to build a new house. I don't
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care if they live in Beverly Hills or the Pacific Palisades.
Speaker 4 (14:21):
Whatever you have.
Speaker 5 (14:22):
In your head about the money out here, just throw
it in the trash because it's not real.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
Life, and it sure doesn't cover everything like that. That's
a whole different conversation.
Speaker 5 (14:31):
Right So, I saw a woman who lived in the
Pacific Palisades, which is an affluent area, but she lives
completely off the land. And again the insurance, the fire
insurance specifically for that area was canceled, and this woman's
heart was overjoyed.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
She was crying because she knew her house was burned down.
Speaker 5 (14:51):
She didn't have the means to replace it because again
her whole life is. She lives off the land. But
then her sheep ran up to her and she found
out her her sheep were alive. And the joy that
that woman had, you would have thought that someone had
given her a million dollars. So again, you don't know
what people are going through. But in that moment, it
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wasn't about the materialistic things. It was about an animal,
a group of animals that brought her joy and she
knew she hadn't lost everything. Just open your hearts and
your minds a little bit to just that it's not
about the house. It's about what the house represents, the
life that people built, how they chose to raise their family,
their animals, things. This is a whole person's culture, if
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you will, in one space and it's gone now, So
have a little empathy.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
Your word is the last word and the best word.
I'm o Kelly.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
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Speaker 1 (15:49):
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Speaker 2 (15:54):
From We've been giving you a lot of information on
the course of the evening. Be sure if there's something
that you missed or there's something that you just want
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as it happens. But Twala does a wonderful job at
putting this podcast together so you can have all the
relevant information, especially in a time like now. Earlier in
the show, we were talking about the fires from a
law enforcement perspective. We listen back to the remarks of
La County DA Nathan Hawkman, who basically was letting everyone
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know he's following through on his promises to prosecute crimes
in a way that we haven't seen for a few
years since George Cascone was in that seat. We also
heard from Sheriff Robert Luna talking about respecting the curfew
and how you'll be arrested if you're in the wrong
place at the wrong time, stay out of the evacuated
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zone owns, and also we heard from LAPD Assistant Chief
Dominic Troy, who was detailing people are not being arrested
for just crimes related to the fire. Talked about how
an individual was arrested regarding the use of illegal use
of a drone. Also people who were doing things completely
not connected to the events, but just happened to be
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in an area committee of crime and they were subsequently arrested. Now,
I want to talk about it from the fire first
responders perspective, from what we heard earlier today. First up
is LAPD Chief Crowley from this morning.
Speaker 7 (17:38):
But to start off with just a moment to share
with everybody out there that's been impacted by these wildland fires,
that the entire LAFD family sworn civilian, our city family,
mayor Bass City leadership, everybody, Our thoughts and hearts and
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prayers go out to you as we continue to push
forward and mitigate this emergency. We understand the impacts and
we're working and will continue to work very, very very
hard for everyone. Another point I want to make is
that also we are so very grateful for the firefighters
and the first responders that have already arrived and continue
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to arrive in the southern California region. We absolutely know
that we cannot do this on our own, and we
are tremendously appreciative of all of your continued support as
the increasing wind event is upon us as we speak.
The Los Angeles City Fire Department has maximized our resource
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capabilities and response capabilities. All available LAFD resources.
Speaker 4 (18:48):
Have been staffed.
Speaker 7 (18:50):
I have strategically preposition engine strike teams and task forces
which are dedicated to rapid response for any new fire
that breaks out in the city. In addition, I've directed
the Fire Prevention Bureau to augment wildfire patrols in high
hazard areas the Palisades fire. Your LFD remains committed to
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this fire and we have significant number of engines that
have been dedicated to this fire. The crews that are involved,
we have crews from up and down the state outside
of the state, have made excellent, excellent work overnight mopping
up flare ups and hotspots. Their primary focus last night
was on the Maneville Canyon area, and this fire is
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now at twenty three thousand, seven hundred and thirteen acres
with fourteen percent containment. With five thousand, one hundred and
twenty three personnel assigned to the Palisades incident, firefighters will
continue to work diligently throughout the day to increase containment
and prevent further fire spread. Again, I want to focus
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our my comments on the amount of resources that are
here in the Palisades, from the first responders all the
way up to our incident command teams. Again, we're going
to keep working really, really hard for you. Just a
brief comment on the Hearst fire. It's been held to
seven and ninety nine acres with ninety five percent containment. Again,
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thank you to the community members that are out there
for remaining vigilant.
Speaker 8 (20:22):
We are not in the clear.
Speaker 7 (20:24):
I want to make sure of that we are not
in the clear as of yet, and we must not
let our guard down as we have right now extreme
fire behavior, and we need to make sure that the
community is staying updated with the most information updated information
as well, follow all evacuation warnings and orders without delay,
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and please please stay safe.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
Let me just interject something here.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Some people may not know how, especially if you're not
from a LA area, you may not know how the
municipality works. Crowley is the fire chief for the LA
Fire Department as in city that's not county, and a
lot of these fires are happening in portions of LA County.
Which are not subject to the jurisdiction of La City
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Fire Department. It falls under the county. Like, for example,
we were talking at length about Altadena. That's an unincorporated
area of La County, which is not subject to the
jurisdiction of La City Fire Department. I live within an
address which is LA but I live in an unincorporated
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portion of LA which means that if I call for
a first responder, it will be La County Fire Department.
It'll be La County Sheriff who will respond, even though
my address says Los Angeles. So we have to be
mindful of this when we want to assess and parse
blab about who's responsible for this and who's responsible for that,
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Just know that there are a number of overlapping agencies
involved in this endeavor. And to that end, we also
heard from La County Fire Chief Maroni.
Speaker 6 (22:07):
The Eton fire is now estimated to be fourteen thousand, and.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
If you noticed, he's adjusting specifically the Eton fire, which
is we were talking about Altadina that is La County,
not La City.
Speaker 6 (22:22):
The Eton fire is now estimated to be fourteen thousand,
one hundred and seventeen acres with thirty three percent containment.
We gained no acreage yesterday, which is a very good thing.
We know that over seven thousand structures are damaged or destroyed,
and we have three thousand, four hundred and eight firefighting
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personnel assigned to the incident. Twenty six percent of our
damaged Inspections for dwellings have been completed. Impacted residents may
visit recovery dot LA County dot gov to view preliminary
maps showing damage assessments. Please note that the preliminary maps
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have been posted and are being updated daily. If there
is not a color icon on your address, it means
the building has not yet been inspected. Severe fire weather
conditions will continue through Wednesday. Please be assured that all
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fire departments and all law enforcement agencies in the area
will be prepared. The anticipated winds, combined with low humidities
and low fuel moistures, will keep the fire threat in
all of Los Angeles County critical. I ask all Los
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Angeles County residents in wildfire prone areas to understand that
the necessary public safety power shows are important for our
collective safety in preventing the next wildfire natural disaster. I
did wanted to spell one rumor the La County Fire
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Department has never turned down any offers for mutual aid,
assistance and resources. Repopulation will not occur until all areas
are safe. Additionally, our Col four point fifteen super Scooper
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that was damaged because of a drone incursion is reportedly
going to be flying tomorrow morning. It has been repaired
and we're waiting for the FAA to give us approval
to fly again. Thank you to Board Chair Supervisor Catherine
Barger and Supervisor Lindsey Horvath for your unwavering leadership and
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conte and you'd support throughout this unprecedented disaster. And finally,
to all the Los Angeles County residents affected by this catastrophe,
please be assured your firefighters continue to work towards full
containment of these wildfires from the air and on the ground.
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We stand alongside each of you as you begin the
repopulation of evacuated areas when safe, and the rebuilding of
your homes, your communities, and your lives. Thank you for me.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
The takeaway outside of the information is he's reiterating that
there's a distinction to be made between his area of responsibility,
which has to do with La County and those residents
versus people who are residents of the municipality the City
of Los Angeles with Chief Crowley, which is different. Now,
(25:59):
they may overlap at times when you have these fires,
which obviously do not respect boundaries. But let's be sure
that we are looking to the right person to figure
out who is responsible for our particular area or particular fire.
As we go forward, I'm mo Kelly CAFI AM six
forty will have more of this important information what was
being said and shared over the course of the day.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
In just a moment, you're listening to Later with Moe
Kelly on demand from KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
Last second, I was playing some audio from the County
LA Fire Department Chief Maroney, and I was explaining how
sometimes we forget. We included that a lot of these
agencies do overlap as far as how they're trying to
help everyone in a crisis like this. And even though
we hear more about Mayor Karen Bass and we hear
(26:52):
more about LA Fire Department Chief as in City Kristen Crowley,
that is only a part of the story. Is it's
much more impactful to La County. And in the last second,
we were playing audio from a fire department, Ellie County
Fire Department Chief Maroney talking about his area of responsibility
(27:12):
and how he was targeting the Eaton Canyon fire. I'm paraphrasing,
but at the end of his remarks he made mention
he was appreciative of the help of La County Supervisors
Catherine Barger and also Lindsey Horvath. And if you know
what the La County Board of Supervisors will do, they're
responsible for managing resources and events just like this one.
(27:36):
In fact, LA County Supervisor Lindsay Horvath will again join
us tomorrow night to give us an update on her
particular supervisor district and the areas which are impacted and
give us an update there about its residents who have
been evacuated in this place, where they will be going
next or what services are available to them. But this
(27:58):
is what Supervisor had to say this morning the.
Speaker 9 (28:02):
Latest Palisades fire updates. As you've heard, more than twenty
three thousand acres have been impacted by this fire and
it is fourteen percent contained. We have over fifty one
hundred personnel, including forty four helicopters and five hundred forty engines.
The fire continues to hold along Mandeville Canyon, and we
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are grateful for our first responders and all those on
the front lines fighting in this area. We know it
is critical and you are doing a great job. We've
also made significant progress into Panga Oaks, Sylvia Park to
Mescal Ridge to Mholland. All of these areas have been
under threat and we are continuing to hold. Santa Monica
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has lifted their evacuation orders and downgraded to warnings in
North San Vicenti, moving from order to warning. At eight
am today, all of the warning areas have been lifted.
A particularly dangerous situation has been issued strongest wins from
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Tuesday morning until Wednesday. We strongly encourage caution and vigilance.
This is the weather prediction that the National Weather Service
had going into last week's event, so these conditions are significant,
they are serious, and we need you to follow all orders.
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All Santa Monica Malibu United School District schools will remain
closed today. All Santa Monica campuses except for Roosevelt Elementary,
will be open. All LAUSD schools will be open today
except Canyon Charter Elementary, Kenter, Canyon Charter Elementary, Palisades Charter Elementary,
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Marquees Charter Elementary, Topanga Charter Elementary, Lenai Road Elementary, and
Paul Revere Middle School.
Speaker 8 (29:58):
Our Department of Ments Health has.
Speaker 9 (30:01):
Resources for how to speak with our young people about
wildfires at DMH dot La County dot gov. We need
to support our children in this time and make sure
they're able to talk about this tragedy. Our DMH helpline
is eight hundred eight five four seven seven seven to one.
Metro fares continue to be suspended for as long as
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conditions remain the same. We thank our Chair of the
Metro Board, Janis Hahn, and our CEO, Stephanie Wiggins, for
their assistance. Palisades Post Office has been relocated to Rancho
Park Post Office. Residents can pick up their mail at
one one two seven zero, Exposition Boulevard on the first floor.
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Recovery dot La County dot gov has launched. You can
find initial damage assessments as well as maps to indicate
your property location and status. Comprehensive list of county resources
by department, federal, state, local and nonprofit emergency assistants. Once again,
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that website is Recovery dot Lacounty dot gov.
Speaker 8 (31:11):
Our Department of economic opportunities.
Speaker 9 (31:13):
East La Entrepreneur Center and America's Job Centers of California
open today as well to support impacted workers as well
as small businesses. As far as public health updates, the
air quality smoke advisory continues through next week. Please wear
N ninety five masks outdoors. Find particulates are airborne even
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in areas not impacted by the fires. Especially children and
older adults, especially those with serious health complications, are particularly
at risk. LA County Department of Public Health is providing
N ninety five masks at all evacuation shelters and to
community based organizations. When you are at home home, please
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close your windows and doors, run the air conditioning or
air purifiers if you have them, and check your filters regularly.
In your car, close the windows and vents, turn your
air conditioning on to recirculate. Do not in any way
use leaf blowers or other actions that will push ash
into the air. Follow all drinking water advisories, and due
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to ocean contamination, avoid the following beaches Malibu Point at
Surfrider Beach, Solstice Creek at Dan Blocker County Beach, and
Innercabrio Beach in San Pedro To stay informed about the
latest emergency orders, you can go to emergency dot LA
County dot gov. And I want to once again thank
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all of those who are on the front lines keeping
us safe through this very difficult time, all of our
volunteers who have kicked into action to ensure that our
community members are supported.
Speaker 8 (32:57):
And I also want to thank our.
Speaker 9 (32:59):
Governor for an additional executive order in addition to the
one that he issued yesterday to expedite debris removal and
to reduce the risk of mudslides. As we know, rain
is predicted starting next week and these complicated conditions may
only worsen.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
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