January 22, 2025 • 31 mins
Tim gives a traffic update as the 5 Freeway starts to reopen and Tim talks about his superior geographic knowledge of LA. // KFI's Dean Sharp aka The House Whisperer joins the show to provide listeners with tips on fire safety as well as steps you can take to help your home during these high winds and wildfires. // The District Attorney of Orange County, Todd Spitzer joins Tim to discuss the organized crime rings from Chile that are continuing to exploit a dangerous loophole in the U.S. ESTA Visa Waiver program as seen in the recent arrests for the burglary of Bangles QB Joe Burrow’s house. // Tim gives the latest updates on the Hughes fire and the corresponding road closures.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's KFI AM six forty and you're listening to The
Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
It is the Conway Show. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
We got a lot going on here, lots going on
here with this fire. And it seems like for last
two weeks we've been doing fire talk wall to wall,
occasionally slipping something in for everybody else. But that's the
big story, you know, every I'm looking at. We got
seven TVs in here, Channel two, four, five, seven, nine, eleven,
and thirteen. They're all on. It is a major story.
(00:36):
And a lot of people rely on AM radio when
they're fire, when the fire is in their backyard. And
so people driving around Valencia, you know, driving around Casteake,
Santa Clarita, New Hall area, you're driving out to the fourteen,
you're wondering why it's so crowded. You want information, and look,
we'll get back to all the other stuff that we do,
you know, once these fires calm down. I think we'll
(00:58):
don't we do on Thursdays? What they'll Jesse Jackson saying
if we still do that or not, I don't know.
But we have a lot of other things going on,
and we did that what you welding Wednesdays.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
I think we did that for a while.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
I love that.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Yeah, I know that was always your favorite man.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
All right, all right, Angel, what's going on with this five?
I'm getting conflicting reports. Fellio's coming in here and she
said it's it's open, but it's not. And then you
said it's open but it's not. And I don't blame you, guys.
I would just love to be able to tell people
what's going on.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
Yeah, So here's what's happening. The order to open the
five is there. That is true. So CHP has said
that the five is open now. Caltrans runs the closures
on the five. We're just waiting for Caltrans to lift
the closure so the traffic can roll through.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
That's right, open or up, but it probably takes some time. Look,
they close sixty miles of it. You know, you can't
open it in a heart beats.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Yeah. And hey Trucker Tony, thanks for the call. He
just confirmed. He's like, yeah, I'm just sitting here waiting
for the five to reopen.
Speaker 5 (02:01):
Good.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
All right, let's keep an eye on it, all right,
thank you, Angel Martinez. Let's go to Channel.
Speaker 6 (02:06):
Four here on Tuesday at the height of it going
on with this fire, very different conditions here, being able
to see the fire crews staging around here watching the
fire strategically planning on how to attack this because they
have the time, because we are not dealing with those
eighties ninety mile per hour wins.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Ninety four acres have burned, zero structures, how about this
crew out there? Zero homes have been burned or demolished.
Speaker 6 (02:37):
As the night goes on, winds may pick up. So
this is what fire crews are going to be watching
and waiting and making sure that that fire doesn't continue
to burn or continue to move.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Too closely too All right, that's NBC Channel four.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Let me flip over here and see what maybe Chris
Christie's up over the fire.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Here on Channel Evan. Let's see what this dude's doing.
Speaker 5 (03:02):
All right?
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Stand by, clearly we're having signal issues with Leo, but
you got you got the jest of that conversation.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Leo Stalwart.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
I love that guy, which, as we've been saying, more
black smoke.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
I hope he's still talking. You know, we're hoping that
they control you know what I mean. It is pretty dismal, Bro,
that doesn't concern. Yes, it's pretty bad. That's great.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
Leo Stalwart off camera, going, that's pretty dismal. Bro there,
that's great. That's Leo Small. Stalwart didn't know he was
on the air. He's like, yeah, that's a pretty disappointing
pointing bro. How's your fire? How's your fire?
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Bro? How's your fire? What's going on with you? I
don't know? All right, let's seef. We go back there
to Channel sevens here.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
We thought you both bailed out on us, but obviously
you're still here. I'm gonna send it back to.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
You right now.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Ah, Leo, we want more of that, you know that
raw talk of Leo Stalwart.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Great, Jimmy tummy. Check out Channel four.
Speaker 7 (04:03):
Channel four also hoping to get cars are getting through
on that northbound side, kind of see on the left side,
coming from behind the mountain to where we're at. Earlier,
you were able to see it much clearer. Now in
the time that we've been here, at least in the
last hour, it does appear that things, you know, are
starting to get a little bit better. You know, it's
(04:24):
not as windy as what we were feeling earlier in
the afternoon. It is smoky, and we are seeing ashes,
you know, raining from the sky. But at least from
my vantage point, it does appear that the situation is
getting a little bit better.
Speaker 5 (04:39):
Now.
Speaker 7 (04:39):
I do want to speak with some of the people
here at this shopping center, you know.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Who are I'll tell you a quick story here I have.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
I have about nine friends on a on a text chain,
and I've known most of these guys since third grade,
Matt McDaniel, Mike Tennessee and then a lot of them
Todd Crowd from third grade. And then my newer friends
are from seventh grade, you know, Scott Bloom, Jeff Lowie,
(05:07):
Robbie Fox, Scott I'm who am I missing?
Speaker 2 (05:12):
I think that's all of him.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
And one of my friends asked another guy, hey, are
you okay in these fires? And somebody wrote back, these
fires are in La Lake Casteak. The guy you were
asking about lives out in Thousand Oaks. It's about thirty
miles away. And the guy says, oh, I thought Lake
cast Steak was in Thousand Oaks, and I'm like, no,
(05:36):
it's not, that's not even close.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
I'm like, I grew up with this guy.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
I know, I've known this guy since seventh grade and
he thought Lake Casteak was in the one thousand Oaks.
So the guy that corrected him in the text alert
said no, no, no, dude, Lake cast Steak is on
the way to Mammoth. And then I had to correct
him and said, no, no, Lake Castak's on the way to
San Francisco. If you're gonna go to Mammoth, you take
the fourteen. These guys grew up in the San Fernando
(06:02):
Valley and I don't think they ever got out of
like Tarzana or Encino. I said, no, to get the Mammoth,
you take the fourteen out to Majave and keep going north.
I don't know what's three ninety five whatever that highway
is out there. I'm like, oh man, these guys spent
way too much time in the valley, way too much time.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
They know what's going on.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
But I think I have the advantage because I drove
a limousine for three years here in Los Angeles, and
before that, I got my license at sixteen, and I
just loved driving. So i'd get my car on a
Saturday and just drive. I would drive down to you know,
down to Laguna Beach, you know, just to see along
(06:45):
the Coast, just because I had a car and I
had a license and I could drive, and I just
got the hell out of the house. And I love
driving around. And so I remember coming home after I
went to one of these drives and I said, hey, Dad,
I said, you're not gonna believe this, but if you
pass Lax, there's a whole community down there. I think
it's called Manhattan Beach and Hermosa Beach and i Redondo Beach.
(07:12):
There's these communities that are right on the ocean. And
he probably thought, you know, he's talking to his a
kid who has like brain damage. He's like, yeah, yeah,
those communities have been around a long time. Like, how
come we never visited them? How come you never taken
us to these communities. I never saw Manhattan Beach until
I was sixteen or seventeen, was able to drive there myself.
My dad never even mentioned that those communities were there.
(07:33):
I had no idea. I thought the world stopped after Lax.
I'm like, Dad, there's beach houses down there. It's called
Manhattan Beach or Mosa Beach, Redondo Beach, and then it
goes up and there's whole peninsula down there, and you
can go up around this big peninsula and you get
into Redonda and get into San Peter and then log Beach.
He's like, yeah, calm down, I know. I'm like, well,
why didn't you ever take us there? It looks beautiful.
(07:55):
It's like I'd never even thought about it. Just get
you know, get in your car, go keep driving around.
But anyway, I think a lot of us are like
that in Los Angeles, where we know our community and
then you're yucherd once.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
You get outside.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Like if I told if I ask most of you people,
how do you get to Colton, you'd be like, I
don't know what's Colton is one of those places where
you hear like a waterbed store going out of business
or a footong store going out of business.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
You know, Colton is one of those places.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
But you guys, you gotta get around more. You gotta
get around more. Not just my buddies, everybody in LA
You gotta drive around more. You gotta investigate with the
most beautiful, you know, country, most beautiful part of California
in the world. Get out and see it. Maybe not
now because it's on fire, but get around and look
at it.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
It's great. It really is great.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
I we're live on KFI AM six forty. This fire
does not stop. It's at ninety four hundred acres. No
structures have been burned, and it looks now worse than
it has been all day, and I don't like it.
Speaker 8 (08:53):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on Demyano from KFI
AM sixty.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
Or keep an eye on this fire. It looks like
there's a bit of flare up.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
The five is open, which is great news, and we
will keep an eye on it all night long. But first,
every we only like to talk to Dean sharp Man.
This guy's got so many great it's so much great
information when it comes to protecting your home. Dean, Welcome
to KFI. How you bubb oh man? What a wait?
Speaker 9 (09:20):
You think right when you think you're in the clear?
Speaker 2 (09:23):
Right? It's crazy? Right?
Speaker 9 (09:25):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (09:25):
We thought.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
I mean, look, when this fire started today, I thought, Okay,
these guys are going to have it out in a
half hour, maybe forty five minutes.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
And it looks now worse than it was earlier.
Speaker 9 (09:35):
You know, I'm like you, I'm kind of I just
sort of stand in awe of all of this. I
heard you say earlier. You know you were born and
raised in the valley me too, right, northern La County area.
It's never been like that.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Never never.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
I mean we had, you know, one year there was
a huge fire in the West Valley that smoke covered
the entire valley. I remember was in Portolo Junior High.
But that last for a couple of days, and then
there was another fire for like six months. Now there's
three or four a day.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Yeah, yeah, it's that right.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
All right, let's talk about the fire events. I'm getting
a lot of people texting me and emailing me talking
about ways to keep fire out of an addict. I
think an addict. I think that's everybody's goal. But is
there a particularly better is there a better company than
the others, or is there a better vent than others?
I mean, what's top shelf, top shelf? Brand Guard Vents,
(10:30):
period brand. All right, I'm gonna write this down Brand Guard,
brand Guardvents dot com.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Uh and uh.
Speaker 9 (10:37):
We've had such a successful partnership that they're actually coming
on board with my show right now. And but the
reason is I have begged them to. That's it's really
important that everybody know that. But Brand Guard Vents, they're local,
they are here in southern California. They are cranking them out.
And here's why I love what they got. Number One,
you got to be careful when you're looking. You know,
(10:58):
like everything, I wish it wasn't the case, but you
got to be careful when you're looking at ember resistant events, Right,
you want to find a vent that and there's a
lot of them out there now, but you want to
find one that's on the cow Fire approved list, all right,
that the California Fire Marshal has approved. And in order
to get on that list, you got to go through
some serious stringent testing and the events have to be raided.
(11:22):
They're actually rated tim You can get a horizontal rating,
you can get a vertical rating. And what that means
is that event, you know, with the way that the
direction the bars and the fins go. If it's only
rated horizontal, you can only afford to install that thing horizontal.
Oh that's interesting, Okay, it's only rated vertically, you can
only you know, install it vertically. Brand guard events, every
(11:43):
single one of them. Both doesn't matter.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
Does it still allow because I'm not you know, a
construction guy, just a question that the lay person might have.
Does it still allow air to get into the attic.
Oh yeah, that's the whole point. That's the whole pot.
Speaker 9 (11:58):
And this is what's critical, because you can't just go
replacing your attic vents with something that's like, hey, we're
going to keep the fire out, all right, Well that's fine,
but you also have to do it by code. In
other words, you can't restrict the airflow coming into the attic.
You can't cut that in half, right, because there's a
code as to how much air has to get into
(12:19):
the attic. And that's why I'm saying you choose your
vents very carefully. The brand guard vent, it's CalFire rated.
It will not screw up your airflow into your attic,
but it will shut down the possibility of embers getting
in there. And you know what, I'm gonna tout them
right now, they've got There are some houses in the
Palisades standing with nothing else around them right now because
(12:42):
they had their vents installed.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
Now, now, this might be a dumb question, and you
can certainly say, you know, you can sort of like sigh,
if it is, can do you recommend installing yourself?
Speaker 9 (12:56):
It's not a bad question at all. Here's the thing.
There is again different companies make different kind of events.
A lot of companies out there only make what we
would call new construction vents, right, which means you're tearing
out your stucco, you're tearing into the wall, you're messing
up your sighting in order to get those in. Brand
Guard makes new construction vents if you're building a house
(13:16):
or going a major remodel for the first time. But
they also make panels that can be retro fit to
the front or the back of your existing vents. And
if you're a competent DII wire measure up your vents.
Go on their website, order the panels, put them on yourself.
If you're not, you can ask them for a referral
for a qualified installer in your area. Either way, you're
(13:39):
going to be good to go. But yeah, you can
totally do that. I mean, if you're handy with a
screw gun and you know what you're doing, then you
can totally put these on. It's not rocket science, it
really is.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
I was using a cheaper company I gotta now call
Brand Guard. I was using wet towelsanthumbtags dot com.
Speaker 9 (13:57):
You know what I'm gonna I'm gonna suggest that you
know no longer.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
You know.
Speaker 9 (14:04):
Yeah, I don't think that's the right way to go. However,
however it works. Okay, just to kind of jump on
that train for a second. If you are in an
evacuation area and you haven't changed out your vents, just
tape them shut and leave. Oh that's interesting, Okay, get
some get out, some duct tape, yeah, some dry wall, whatever.
(14:24):
I don't care what you've got hanging around. Just block
those vents off and get out of there.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
That's great, buddy. I'll be listening on Saturday and Sunday.
I'm glad you came on early. We need you and
I will talk you next week as well.
Speaker 10 (14:35):
Thank you, bro.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
Thanks man.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
All right, there he goes Dean Sharp every Saturday and
Sunday right here on KFI. Lots of great information on
how to save your home in the future when it
comes to these fires.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
I have never seen fire like this.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
Every day wall to wall coverage and yet another fire,
the Huge Fire, ninety four hundred acres, zero percent containment.
It looks now worse than it did this morning, if
that's even believable.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
But it does.
Speaker 8 (15:02):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
am six forty.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
We're keeping an eye on this fire here, the huge
fire over ninety four hundred acres. It looks like it's
flaring up, but the fire department swears they've got a
good handle on it, so we'll continue to look at it.
And again, my rule of thumb is when firefighters are
standing around, not doing anything, sort of just staring at
the fire, that's a good sign. When they're running around,
(15:30):
that's time to get your stuff and split. So they're
standing around looking at this fire, I think they have
under control. I think they're looking at a lot of
They're trying to burn a lot of fuel up there
so they don't have to come back next week or
the week after. All Right, there's a lot of robbery
going on in southern California. There's these Chileans from Chile
(15:52):
who are coming in this country on these crazy esta
visa waivers and ripping off a lot of homes. But
not so much in Orange County. Todd Spitzer's all over it, Denny,
and we welcome him.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
Todd. How you, Bob?
Speaker 5 (16:05):
I am great. And let me just tell you, you know
your theory about these firefighters. When they're standing around, that
means everything's okay. Yeah, they're counting their overtime and their
bank deposits. Okay, Tim, I'm just telling you listen, no, listen.
I'm so grateful for our firefighters and our first two
spiders are doing a hell of a job. I was
a police officer in LAPD I'm just so grateful to
(16:29):
be part of that family. Okay, So listen. For twenty
one dollars and an online application, the Chileans can come
in here for ninety days at a time, two years,
you know, the extent of their waiver. I'm doing you answers.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
And is that your wife motherhood?
Speaker 5 (16:50):
Now that's my daughter asking me if the dog's been fed. Okay,
I am sitting here with no power. You know when
you go into the Pirates of the Caribbean and the
lights are flickering and they have those like fake fireflies.
I literally feel like I'm on that right now because
my lights are flickering from my generator that I never
(17:12):
pull out. Knocked brain and so my lights are flickering.
I'm talking to you. I'm trying to talk about a
serious issue.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
Hey, Tody, anyway, wait, wait before we get back to
the issue you're we're about the same age.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
Are you in your fifties?
Speaker 5 (17:27):
I am so much older than you, and I didn't
even have a famous father. Okay, all right, well you
know if my friends so, I'm a.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
Little younger than you. So you'll remember this for sure.
You'll remember that what I'm about to tell you'll remember
for sure. Do you remember when you were younger and
Dad was on the phone, You never ever bothered him?
Speaker 5 (17:49):
No, my dear daughter, who I loved a piece, you
remember that. Instead, we're sitting in a house with no lights,
no power. Our refrigerators into a generator and the lights
are flickering, and she has no idea. I'm gon air
with you, but.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
I will ask you again. You do remember that though?
Speaker 5 (18:11):
Right? Hey, listen, if I ever disturbed my dad, my
backside had a belt on it. Okay, that's his bellure.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
Old school, old school, that's right, right, So listen.
Speaker 5 (18:25):
Joe Burrows is the quarterback for the Cincinnati Bengals, right,
and he got burglarized, but they didn't know by who
last year. December of last year, Well, they hooked up
four guys and they're all Chilean nationals, and they've connected
him to them to doing the burglary of Joe Burrow's house.
(18:46):
So of course I'm on NBC National News last night
because I've been like leading the charge across the country saying, hey,
former Secretary my orchist then Secretary, would you get your
act together and just cut off the Chileans from coming
into our country and just burglarizing us blind. But of course,
(19:09):
now as you watch, when you watch the president sworn in,
he said unequivocally clear right, he's going to deport all
these criminals. I'm like saying, hey, mister President, can we
just stop them before they come into the country right
and steal us blind? Like, why don't we just keep
them out in the first place?
Speaker 1 (19:29):
Wait, by the way, Todd, how is that possible with
just Chile? Is there are there other countries you can
get in that easily and that quickly? And why do
we have that deal with Chile?
Speaker 11 (19:38):
Because well, Kim, only Chuck is the only left left
South American country that still is in the program, because
every one of the other South American countries have been
kicked out because their criminals.
Speaker 5 (19:55):
Were coming here and stealing from us. But myriorcis and Lincoln,
who was a former Secretary of State, They wouldn't cut
off Joe, despite the fact that the Department of Justice
and the FBI were telling them, Hey, we know this
is the Chileans. Why are you still letting them come in?
(20:15):
So now that all these athletes, this is tim If
it was just schmos like you and me, no one
would care. Okay, But it's Joe Burrows. It's all these
athletes who are having their mansions broken into. So suddenly
this is a national security issue.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
Wow, man, so are they Obviously it's not just in Cincinnati,
it's all over the country.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
You are you finding him in Orange County as well?
Speaker 5 (20:43):
Oh my god. I'm prosecuting over one hundred of these
people right now from multiple burglaries. We've been on this forever.
We actually Kevin McCarthy, who is my colleague in the
state Legislature, former right Speaker of the House, he came
out here. He called hearings. Congress has had hearings on this.
Everybody knows about it. But we need the Trump administration
(21:06):
and Christy nom I don't know if she got to
confirmed today, but when she becomes, you know, a head
of Homeland Security, we need to immediately cut off Chili. Now.
It doesn't mean that Chileans can't come to our country.
They just have to go through a more intensive background
check process. That's the key. I don't think I said this.
(21:27):
Every other country who's in the program does a background
check right for these individuals come in. Cholley hasn't been
complying with that. Guess how many Chileans come into our
country every year? Guess so many.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
I would say a thousand, three.
Speaker 5 (21:42):
Hundred and fifty thousand. Chim Wow.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
All right, I take a little bit. I get it now, Yeah,
I get it right, I get it.
Speaker 5 (21:51):
Okay, So we got to knock this off. And you
know what, we not only should deport criminals, but how
about if we just don't let been in the first place?
Speaker 2 (22:01):
Good idea?
Speaker 1 (22:01):
All right, buddy, I appreciate it. Like I hope next
week we have more time. I'd like to continue this.
We've got to check back with this fire. But I
really appreciate you coming on, Todd Spitzer, District attorney there
in Orange County, keeping you people safe in Orange County.
When we come back, we'll do an update on these fires.
On this fire, I should say, it's now the huge fire.
It's now burned over ninety four hundred acres nine thousand,
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four hundred acres.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
What's going on with this fire? We've got to stop
with these fires.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
I don't know what the answer is, but there's somebody
smarter than me has got to figure out how to
stop this crap. We cannot live this way. Nine thousand,
four hundred and fifty seven acres burned, five percent containment.
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Speaker 8 (23:09):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
Am six forty.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
We continue looking at this fire. The five Freeway has
reopened in the huge fire out at Lake Casteak ninety
four one hundred and fifty seven acres nine four five seven.
That will certainly grow. That was about an hour ago.
Let's see if I think Channel two is flying over
this thing too.
Speaker 6 (23:33):
Some evacuubees as they were actually walking down from their
home to an evacuation shelter.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
They were certain if anybody's live on this Channel four
is not Channel seven. Let's see if they're live on
this thing here, they're not either. Okay, let's give you
an update here on the Charlie Canyon Road. That's the
road that they wanted to keep the fire and use
Charlie Canyon Road as a fire or break.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
Let's see how that was.
Speaker 12 (24:01):
You're trying to prevent it from moving even further south.
This obviously has been a very huge response when it comes.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
To back it up here one second here, well, you see.
Speaker 12 (24:09):
Actually flames coming up over the ridge behind me. We
actually saw that glow for the last forty five minute
as this portion of the fire kind of moved closer.
We do know it jumped Charlie Canyon Road a little
bit deeper into it.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
That's good.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
That's not good that it jumped Charlie Canyon Road. That
was a stand that they wanted to take and keep
it on the north side of Charlie Cannon.
Speaker 12 (24:29):
Charlie Canyon Road a little bit deeper into the canyon.
But there are plenty of crews on the ground here
trying to prevent it from moving even further south. This
obviously has been a very huge response when it comes
to number of firefighters out here. Everyone obviously on standby
after those last couple of fires prior to this wind
event that started on Monday morning. I want to bring
in from current County Fire Department, Jonathan Drucker. You were
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obviously paying attention to this fire. How important has it
been to have this pre positioning of firefighters around the
area before this big wind event this week?
Speaker 2 (25:00):
It's huge.
Speaker 4 (25:00):
Having prepositioned firefighters allows us to catch a fire when
it's in an early stage and prevents it from getting established.
And so that's huge because a fire that's established, it's
a lot more unpredictable and it can run on you
and it takes many more resources to contain.
Speaker 12 (25:14):
We are now after sundown, so obviously the conditions change
a little bit when it comes to visibility when it
comes to the air attack. Can you talk a little
bit about the difference of fighting a fire at night
than you would during the day.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
Like we had today.
Speaker 4 (25:24):
Well, one of the firefighter watch out situations is fighting
fire and country that you haven't seen in daylight, and
there's a very real reason for that. Everything looks different night.
The train here is ugly, it's dangerous. A lot of
firefighters can get hurt tumbling down a hill and things
like that, so it is dangerous. However, it's not going
to stop us. We're going to go in and we're
just going to make sure that we do it safely.
And you know, it's a challenge, but a lot of
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what we do is a challenge.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
Okay, let's go to a Channel nine here. There's a
reporter out at the Combat Paintball Park for you paintballers
out there, you know exactly where this is. Let's find
out what's going on here the Combat Paintball.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
Park out there.
Speaker 10 (26:00):
That the fire may have a small percentage of containment.
Still nothing that we're able to tell you just yet,
because we're going to getting a whole Evangelist National Forest.
As you can understand, when these fires break out, there's
multi multiple jurisdictions that get involved in this, and you
know some people want to, you know, wait till this
person and have you what have you? But regardless, this
is a fire's footprint as we know it. And again,
the bulk of the fire is down here, and you know,
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I was just looking at Desi's shot and Des, your
shot is up in a box. Can you go back
over to the lagoon because it looked like there was
a small little patch of fire that had kicked up
over there, because I noticed it right when they were
water dropping, and that on the left side of the
screen if you're looking at the map, that kind of
is indicative of the burn area here right as it
burned right up to the lagoon there, and the lagoon,
for anybody that doesn't know, is just south of the
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actual LA.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (26:43):
Thanks that. So it's a small little pocket of flames.
There's some shrubs and bushes down there that I assume
is what got it kicked up. The hopefully a drop
or two from a fire helicopter will certainly take the
care of that. I was just thinking at the map.
There's about six night dropping helicopters that are on this
right now, which is certainly good news, and they are
filling up out of the little rain, so I would
imagine that they'll probably, you know, do a quick drop
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on that one and get that taken care of. But
while we're talking about perimeter, I want to kind of
reiterate to everybody what perimeter means when we're talking about
a fire, right, So perimeter does not have anything to
do with the active flame on it. And I think
a lot of people, you know, don't always understand if
they're looking at a fire, well, I don't see any
active flame, or I see very little active flame. How
are we at zero percent containment or how are we
at five percent containment? Well, it has to do with
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the actual fire lines that they're able to build around
the perimeter of the fire. So when you're looking at
my computer here, you see all of the orange that
is the actual perimeter of the fire. So when we
look at a map, you'll see CalFire will use and
I'll even switch to the black CalFire on their map.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
Okay, for people that are familiar with Lake Casteak, maybe
have gone out there, there's some rules on that lake.
I think it's either clockwise or counterclockwise. If you're water
skiing or dragging a tube, you have to go with
the flow of traffic.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
There's a lot of boats out there.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
Well, on the north side of that lake where the
finger goes all the way up to the north side
where you launch your boat. On the north launch, all
of the lake is burned. All of the shore of
that lake is all burnt to a crisp. The only
thing that so far has survived is the south part,
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the southeast part of that lake where the dam is,
and then the dam going west southwest to the other
dam out there. There's two dams out there, so the
north dam to the south dam on the south side
of that lake is still has vegetation, still has trees,
but everything else around it is burned and gone, absolutely gone.
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So when you go to take your boat out there
this spring or this summer, and all you're going to
see is burned trees and burned bushes on about three
quarters of that lake.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
All of it is gone.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
It's all gone, and it's going to take years to
come back, you know, years and years to come back.
Hopefully we get rain this weekend to knock a little
of this out. It looks like cold weather and rain
is coming to southern California. I mean extremely cold for
this time of year. I guess, well not for this
time of year. This will be the only time of
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the year it gets cold. But in the San Fernando
Valley the high for tomorrow is seventy six. Today was
seventy eight, Tomorrow seventy six, Friday seventy two. But the
high on Saturday fifty nine degrees, the high on Sunday
fifty in some parts of the valley, forty nine degrees
is the high. Forty nine will be the high in
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the San Fernando Valley in the surrounding areas with a
sixty five percent chance of rain. Sixty five percent chance
of rain. That is sensational if you live out in
the Antelope Valley, Palmdale, Lancaster area, over to the Apple
Valley that holds Upper Desert, the high desert below. This weekend,
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Saturday thirty eight, Sunday thirty six, Monday thirty three, and
then Tuesday and Wednesday thirty two degrees will be the high.
And we have a lot of people listening out in
Lancaster and Palmtail. It's getting down to freezing, freezing this weekend.
If you're up in Big Bear, you're gonna you know,
if you love cold weather, it's gonna be the twenties.
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The low is gonna be the twenties all week long, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday,
Thursday twenty to twenty eight degrees.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
That entire run all right, Moe Kelly is coming up next.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
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today at Advancedhair dot com. What a day, Another day
of fire all over the place, and glad you were
able to join us. Hopefully we gave you enough great
information to help you and your family, and we'll do
it again tomorrow four o'clock. Mo Kelly up next right
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here on KFI AM six forty Conway Show on demand
on the iHeartRadio app. Now you can always hear us
live on KFI AM six forty four to seven Monday
through Friday, and anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
It's KFI AM six forty and you're listening to The
Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
It is the Conway Show. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
We got a lot going on here, lots going on
here with this fire. And it seems like for last
two weeks we've been doing fire talk wall to wall,
occasionally slipping something in for everybody else. But that's the
big story, you know, every I'm looking at. We got
seven TVs in here, Channel two, four, five, seven, nine, eleven,
and thirteen. They're all on. It is a major story.
(00:36):
And a lot of people rely on AM radio when
they're fire, when the fire is in their backyard. And
so people driving around Valencia, you know, driving around Casteake,
Santa Clarita, New Hall area, you're driving out to the fourteen,
you're wondering why it's so crowded. You want information, and look,
we'll get back to all the other stuff that we do,
you know, once these fires calm down. I think we'll
(00:58):
don't we do on Thursdays? What they'll Jesse Jackson saying
if we still do that or not, I don't know.
But we have a lot of other things going on,
and we did that what you welding Wednesdays.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
I think we did that for a while.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
I love that.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Yeah, I know that was always your favorite man.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
All right, all right, Angel, what's going on with this five?
I'm getting conflicting reports. Fellio's coming in here and she
said it's it's open, but it's not. And then you
said it's open but it's not. And I don't blame you, guys.
I would just love to be able to tell people
what's going on.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
Yeah, So here's what's happening. The order to open the
five is there. That is true. So CHP has said
that the five is open now. Caltrans runs the closures
on the five. We're just waiting for Caltrans to lift
the closure so the traffic can roll through.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
That's right, open or up, but it probably takes some time. Look,
they close sixty miles of it. You know, you can't
open it in a heart beats.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Yeah. And hey Trucker Tony, thanks for the call. He
just confirmed. He's like, yeah, I'm just sitting here waiting
for the five to reopen.
Speaker 5 (02:01):
Good.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
All right, let's keep an eye on it, all right,
thank you, Angel Martinez. Let's go to Channel.
Speaker 6 (02:06):
Four here on Tuesday at the height of it going
on with this fire, very different conditions here, being able
to see the fire crews staging around here watching the
fire strategically planning on how to attack this because they
have the time, because we are not dealing with those
eighties ninety mile per hour wins.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Ninety four acres have burned, zero structures, how about this
crew out there? Zero homes have been burned or demolished.
Speaker 6 (02:37):
As the night goes on, winds may pick up. So
this is what fire crews are going to be watching
and waiting and making sure that that fire doesn't continue
to burn or continue to move.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Too closely too All right, that's NBC Channel four.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Let me flip over here and see what maybe Chris
Christie's up over the fire.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Here on Channel Evan. Let's see what this dude's doing.
Speaker 5 (03:02):
All right?
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Stand by, clearly we're having signal issues with Leo, but
you got you got the jest of that conversation.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Leo Stalwart.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
I love that guy, which, as we've been saying, more
black smoke.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
I hope he's still talking. You know, we're hoping that
they control you know what I mean. It is pretty dismal, Bro,
that doesn't concern. Yes, it's pretty bad. That's great.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
Leo Stalwart off camera, going, that's pretty dismal. Bro there,
that's great. That's Leo Small. Stalwart didn't know he was
on the air. He's like, yeah, that's a pretty disappointing
pointing bro. How's your fire? How's your fire?
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Bro? How's your fire? What's going on with you? I
don't know? All right, let's seef. We go back there
to Channel sevens here.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
We thought you both bailed out on us, but obviously
you're still here. I'm gonna send it back to.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
You right now.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Ah, Leo, we want more of that, you know that
raw talk of Leo Stalwart.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Great, Jimmy tummy. Check out Channel four.
Speaker 7 (04:03):
Channel four also hoping to get cars are getting through
on that northbound side, kind of see on the left side,
coming from behind the mountain to where we're at. Earlier,
you were able to see it much clearer. Now in
the time that we've been here, at least in the
last hour, it does appear that things, you know, are
starting to get a little bit better. You know, it's
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not as windy as what we were feeling earlier in
the afternoon. It is smoky, and we are seeing ashes,
you know, raining from the sky. But at least from
my vantage point, it does appear that the situation is
getting a little bit better.
Speaker 5 (04:39):
Now.
Speaker 7 (04:39):
I do want to speak with some of the people
here at this shopping center, you know.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Who are I'll tell you a quick story here I have.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
I have about nine friends on a on a text chain,
and I've known most of these guys since third grade,
Matt McDaniel, Mike Tennessee and then a lot of them
Todd Crowd from third grade. And then my newer friends
are from seventh grade, you know, Scott Bloom, Jeff Lowie,
(05:07):
Robbie Fox, Scott I'm who am I missing?
Speaker 2 (05:12):
I think that's all of him.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
And one of my friends asked another guy, hey, are
you okay in these fires? And somebody wrote back, these
fires are in La Lake Casteak. The guy you were
asking about lives out in Thousand Oaks. It's about thirty
miles away. And the guy says, oh, I thought Lake
cast Steak was in Thousand Oaks, and I'm like, no,
(05:36):
it's not, that's not even close.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
I'm like, I grew up with this guy.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
I know, I've known this guy since seventh grade and
he thought Lake Casteak was in the one thousand Oaks.
So the guy that corrected him in the text alert
said no, no, no, dude, Lake cast Steak is on
the way to Mammoth. And then I had to correct
him and said, no, no, Lake Castak's on the way to
San Francisco. If you're gonna go to Mammoth, you take
the fourteen. These guys grew up in the San Fernando
(06:02):
Valley and I don't think they ever got out of
like Tarzana or Encino. I said, no, to get the Mammoth,
you take the fourteen out to Majave and keep going north.
I don't know what's three ninety five whatever that highway
is out there. I'm like, oh man, these guys spent
way too much time in the valley, way too much time.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
They know what's going on.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
But I think I have the advantage because I drove
a limousine for three years here in Los Angeles, and
before that, I got my license at sixteen, and I
just loved driving. So i'd get my car on a
Saturday and just drive. I would drive down to you know,
down to Laguna Beach, you know, just to see along
(06:45):
the Coast, just because I had a car and I
had a license and I could drive, and I just
got the hell out of the house. And I love
driving around. And so I remember coming home after I
went to one of these drives and I said, hey, Dad,
I said, you're not gonna believe this, but if you
pass Lax, there's a whole community down there. I think
it's called Manhattan Beach and Hermosa Beach and i Redondo Beach.
(07:12):
There's these communities that are right on the ocean. And
he probably thought, you know, he's talking to his a
kid who has like brain damage. He's like, yeah, yeah,
those communities have been around a long time. Like, how
come we never visited them? How come you never taken
us to these communities. I never saw Manhattan Beach until
I was sixteen or seventeen, was able to drive there myself.
My dad never even mentioned that those communities were there.
(07:33):
I had no idea. I thought the world stopped after Lax.
I'm like, Dad, there's beach houses down there. It's called
Manhattan Beach or Mosa Beach, Redondo Beach, and then it
goes up and there's whole peninsula down there, and you
can go up around this big peninsula and you get
into Redonda and get into San Peter and then log Beach.
He's like, yeah, calm down, I know. I'm like, well,
why didn't you ever take us there? It looks beautiful.
(07:55):
It's like I'd never even thought about it. Just get
you know, get in your car, go keep driving around.
But anyway, I think a lot of us are like
that in Los Angeles, where we know our community and
then you're yucherd once.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
You get outside.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Like if I told if I ask most of you people,
how do you get to Colton, you'd be like, I
don't know what's Colton is one of those places where
you hear like a waterbed store going out of business
or a footong store going out of business.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
You know, Colton is one of those places.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
But you guys, you gotta get around more. You gotta
get around more. Not just my buddies, everybody in LA
You gotta drive around more. You gotta investigate with the
most beautiful, you know, country, most beautiful part of California
in the world. Get out and see it. Maybe not
now because it's on fire, but get around and look
at it.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
It's great. It really is great.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
I we're live on KFI AM six forty. This fire
does not stop. It's at ninety four hundred acres. No
structures have been burned, and it looks now worse than
it has been all day, and I don't like it.
Speaker 8 (08:53):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on Demyano from KFI
AM sixty.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
Or keep an eye on this fire. It looks like
there's a bit of flare up.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
The five is open, which is great news, and we
will keep an eye on it all night long. But first,
every we only like to talk to Dean sharp Man.
This guy's got so many great it's so much great
information when it comes to protecting your home. Dean, Welcome
to KFI. How you bubb oh man? What a wait?
Speaker 9 (09:20):
You think right when you think you're in the clear?
Speaker 2 (09:23):
Right? It's crazy? Right?
Speaker 9 (09:25):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (09:25):
We thought.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
I mean, look, when this fire started today, I thought, Okay,
these guys are going to have it out in a
half hour, maybe forty five minutes.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
And it looks now worse than it was earlier.
Speaker 9 (09:35):
You know, I'm like you, I'm kind of I just
sort of stand in awe of all of this. I
heard you say earlier. You know you were born and
raised in the valley me too, right, northern La County area.
It's never been like that.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Never never.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
I mean we had, you know, one year there was
a huge fire in the West Valley that smoke covered
the entire valley. I remember was in Portolo Junior High.
But that last for a couple of days, and then
there was another fire for like six months. Now there's
three or four a day.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Yeah, yeah, it's that right.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
All right, let's talk about the fire events. I'm getting
a lot of people texting me and emailing me talking
about ways to keep fire out of an addict. I
think an addict. I think that's everybody's goal. But is
there a particularly better is there a better company than
the others, or is there a better vent than others?
I mean, what's top shelf, top shelf? Brand Guard Vents,
(10:30):
period brand. All right, I'm gonna write this down Brand Guard,
brand Guardvents dot com.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Uh and uh.
Speaker 9 (10:37):
We've had such a successful partnership that they're actually coming
on board with my show right now. And but the
reason is I have begged them to. That's it's really
important that everybody know that. But Brand Guard Vents, they're local,
they are here in southern California. They are cranking them out.
And here's why I love what they got. Number One,
you got to be careful when you're looking. You know,
(10:58):
like everything, I wish it wasn't the case, but you
got to be careful when you're looking at ember resistant events, Right,
you want to find a vent that and there's a
lot of them out there now, but you want to
find one that's on the cow Fire approved list, all right,
that the California Fire Marshal has approved. And in order
to get on that list, you got to go through
some serious stringent testing and the events have to be raided.
(11:22):
They're actually rated tim You can get a horizontal rating,
you can get a vertical rating. And what that means
is that event, you know, with the way that the
direction the bars and the fins go. If it's only
rated horizontal, you can only afford to install that thing horizontal.
Oh that's interesting, Okay, it's only rated vertically, you can
only you know, install it vertically. Brand guard events, every
(11:43):
single one of them. Both doesn't matter.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
Does it still allow because I'm not you know, a
construction guy, just a question that the lay person might have.
Does it still allow air to get into the attic.
Oh yeah, that's the whole point. That's the whole pot.
Speaker 9 (11:58):
And this is what's critical, because you can't just go
replacing your attic vents with something that's like, hey, we're
going to keep the fire out, all right, Well that's fine,
but you also have to do it by code. In
other words, you can't restrict the airflow coming into the attic.
You can't cut that in half, right, because there's a
code as to how much air has to get into
(12:19):
the attic. And that's why I'm saying you choose your
vents very carefully. The brand guard vent, it's CalFire rated.
It will not screw up your airflow into your attic,
but it will shut down the possibility of embers getting
in there. And you know what, I'm gonna tout them
right now, they've got There are some houses in the
Palisades standing with nothing else around them right now because
(12:42):
they had their vents installed.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
Now, now, this might be a dumb question, and you
can certainly say, you know, you can sort of like sigh,
if it is, can do you recommend installing yourself?
Speaker 9 (12:56):
It's not a bad question at all. Here's the thing.
There is again different companies make different kind of events.
A lot of companies out there only make what we
would call new construction vents, right, which means you're tearing
out your stucco, you're tearing into the wall, you're messing
up your sighting in order to get those in. Brand
Guard makes new construction vents if you're building a house
(13:16):
or going a major remodel for the first time. But
they also make panels that can be retro fit to
the front or the back of your existing vents. And
if you're a competent DII wire measure up your vents.
Go on their website, order the panels, put them on yourself.
If you're not, you can ask them for a referral
for a qualified installer in your area. Either way, you're
(13:39):
going to be good to go. But yeah, you can
totally do that. I mean, if you're handy with a
screw gun and you know what you're doing, then you
can totally put these on. It's not rocket science, it
really is.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
I was using a cheaper company I gotta now call
Brand Guard. I was using wet towelsanthumbtags dot com.
Speaker 9 (13:57):
You know what I'm gonna I'm gonna suggest that you
know no longer.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
You know.
Speaker 9 (14:04):
Yeah, I don't think that's the right way to go. However,
however it works. Okay, just to kind of jump on
that train for a second. If you are in an
evacuation area and you haven't changed out your vents, just
tape them shut and leave. Oh that's interesting, Okay, get
some get out, some duct tape, yeah, some dry wall, whatever.
(14:24):
I don't care what you've got hanging around. Just block
those vents off and get out of there.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
That's great, buddy. I'll be listening on Saturday and Sunday.
I'm glad you came on early. We need you and
I will talk you next week as well.
Speaker 10 (14:35):
Thank you, bro.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
Thanks man.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
All right, there he goes Dean Sharp every Saturday and
Sunday right here on KFI. Lots of great information on
how to save your home in the future when it
comes to these fires.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
I have never seen fire like this.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
Every day wall to wall coverage and yet another fire,
the Huge Fire, ninety four hundred acres, zero percent containment.
It looks now worse than it did this morning, if
that's even believable.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
But it does.
Speaker 8 (15:02):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
am six forty.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
We're keeping an eye on this fire here, the huge
fire over ninety four hundred acres. It looks like it's
flaring up, but the fire department swears they've got a
good handle on it, so we'll continue to look at it.
And again, my rule of thumb is when firefighters are
standing around, not doing anything, sort of just staring at
the fire, that's a good sign. When they're running around,
(15:30):
that's time to get your stuff and split. So they're
standing around looking at this fire, I think they have
under control. I think they're looking at a lot of
They're trying to burn a lot of fuel up there
so they don't have to come back next week or
the week after. All Right, there's a lot of robbery
going on in southern California. There's these Chileans from Chile
(15:52):
who are coming in this country on these crazy esta
visa waivers and ripping off a lot of homes. But
not so much in Orange County. Todd Spitzer's all over it, Denny,
and we welcome him.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
Todd. How you, Bob?
Speaker 5 (16:05):
I am great. And let me just tell you, you know
your theory about these firefighters. When they're standing around, that
means everything's okay. Yeah, they're counting their overtime and their
bank deposits. Okay, Tim, I'm just telling you listen, no, listen.
I'm so grateful for our firefighters and our first two
spiders are doing a hell of a job. I was
a police officer in LAPD I'm just so grateful to
(16:29):
be part of that family. Okay, So listen. For twenty
one dollars and an online application, the Chileans can come
in here for ninety days at a time, two years,
you know, the extent of their waiver. I'm doing you answers.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
And is that your wife motherhood?
Speaker 5 (16:50):
Now that's my daughter asking me if the dog's been fed. Okay,
I am sitting here with no power. You know when
you go into the Pirates of the Caribbean and the
lights are flickering and they have those like fake fireflies.
I literally feel like I'm on that right now because
my lights are flickering from my generator that I never
(17:12):
pull out. Knocked brain and so my lights are flickering.
I'm talking to you. I'm trying to talk about a
serious issue.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
Hey, Tody, anyway, wait, wait before we get back to
the issue you're we're about the same age.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
Are you in your fifties?
Speaker 5 (17:27):
I am so much older than you, and I didn't
even have a famous father. Okay, all right, well you
know if my friends so, I'm a.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
Little younger than you. So you'll remember this for sure.
You'll remember that what I'm about to tell you'll remember
for sure. Do you remember when you were younger and
Dad was on the phone, You never ever bothered him?
Speaker 5 (17:49):
No, my dear daughter, who I loved a piece, you
remember that. Instead, we're sitting in a house with no lights,
no power. Our refrigerators into a generator and the lights
are flickering, and she has no idea. I'm gon air
with you, but.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
I will ask you again. You do remember that though?
Speaker 5 (18:11):
Right? Hey, listen, if I ever disturbed my dad, my
backside had a belt on it. Okay, that's his bellure.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
Old school, old school, that's right, right, So listen.
Speaker 5 (18:25):
Joe Burrows is the quarterback for the Cincinnati Bengals, right,
and he got burglarized, but they didn't know by who
last year. December of last year, Well, they hooked up
four guys and they're all Chilean nationals, and they've connected
him to them to doing the burglary of Joe Burrow's house.
(18:46):
So of course I'm on NBC National News last night
because I've been like leading the charge across the country saying, hey,
former Secretary my orchist then Secretary, would you get your
act together and just cut off the Chileans from coming
into our country and just burglarizing us blind. But of course,
(19:09):
now as you watch, when you watch the president sworn in,
he said unequivocally clear right, he's going to deport all
these criminals. I'm like saying, hey, mister President, can we
just stop them before they come into the country right
and steal us blind? Like, why don't we just keep
them out in the first place?
Speaker 1 (19:29):
Wait, by the way, Todd, how is that possible with
just Chile? Is there are there other countries you can
get in that easily and that quickly? And why do
we have that deal with Chile?
Speaker 11 (19:38):
Because well, Kim, only Chuck is the only left left
South American country that still is in the program, because
every one of the other South American countries have been
kicked out because their criminals.
Speaker 5 (19:55):
Were coming here and stealing from us. But myriorcis and Lincoln,
who was a former Secretary of State, They wouldn't cut
off Joe, despite the fact that the Department of Justice
and the FBI were telling them, Hey, we know this
is the Chileans. Why are you still letting them come in?
(20:15):
So now that all these athletes, this is tim If
it was just schmos like you and me, no one
would care. Okay, But it's Joe Burrows. It's all these
athletes who are having their mansions broken into. So suddenly
this is a national security issue.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
Wow, man, so are they Obviously it's not just in Cincinnati,
it's all over the country.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
You are you finding him in Orange County as well?
Speaker 5 (20:43):
Oh my god. I'm prosecuting over one hundred of these
people right now from multiple burglaries. We've been on this forever.
We actually Kevin McCarthy, who is my colleague in the
state Legislature, former right Speaker of the House, he came
out here. He called hearings. Congress has had hearings on this.
Everybody knows about it. But we need the Trump administration
(21:06):
and Christy nom I don't know if she got to
confirmed today, but when she becomes, you know, a head
of Homeland Security, we need to immediately cut off Chili. Now.
It doesn't mean that Chileans can't come to our country.
They just have to go through a more intensive background
check process. That's the key. I don't think I said this.
(21:27):
Every other country who's in the program does a background
check right for these individuals come in. Cholley hasn't been
complying with that. Guess how many Chileans come into our
country every year? Guess so many.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
I would say a thousand, three.
Speaker 5 (21:42):
Hundred and fifty thousand. Chim Wow.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
All right, I take a little bit. I get it now, Yeah,
I get it right, I get it.
Speaker 5 (21:51):
Okay, So we got to knock this off. And you
know what, we not only should deport criminals, but how
about if we just don't let been in the first place?
Speaker 2 (22:01):
Good idea?
Speaker 1 (22:01):
All right, buddy, I appreciate it. Like I hope next
week we have more time. I'd like to continue this.
We've got to check back with this fire. But I
really appreciate you coming on, Todd Spitzer, District attorney there
in Orange County, keeping you people safe in Orange County.
When we come back, we'll do an update on these fires.
On this fire, I should say, it's now the huge fire.
It's now burned over ninety four hundred acres nine thousand,
(22:25):
four hundred acres.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
What's going on with this fire? We've got to stop
with these fires.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
I don't know what the answer is, but there's somebody
smarter than me has got to figure out how to
stop this crap. We cannot live this way. Nine thousand,
four hundred and fifty seven acres burned, five percent containment.
According to watch Duty, that great app watch Duty. Get
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(22:53):
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Speaker 8 (23:09):
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Speaker 1 (23:15):
We continue looking at this fire. The five Freeway has
reopened in the huge fire out at Lake Casteak ninety
four one hundred and fifty seven acres nine four five seven.
That will certainly grow. That was about an hour ago.
Let's see if I think Channel two is flying over
this thing too.
Speaker 6 (23:33):
Some evacuubees as they were actually walking down from their
home to an evacuation shelter.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
They were certain if anybody's live on this Channel four
is not Channel seven. Let's see if they're live on
this thing here, they're not either. Okay, let's give you
an update here on the Charlie Canyon Road. That's the
road that they wanted to keep the fire and use
Charlie Canyon Road as a fire or break.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
Let's see how that was.
Speaker 12 (24:01):
You're trying to prevent it from moving even further south.
This obviously has been a very huge response when it comes.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
To back it up here one second here, well, you see.
Speaker 12 (24:09):
Actually flames coming up over the ridge behind me. We
actually saw that glow for the last forty five minute
as this portion of the fire kind of moved closer.
We do know it jumped Charlie Canyon Road a little
bit deeper into it.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
That's good.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
That's not good that it jumped Charlie Canyon Road. That
was a stand that they wanted to take and keep
it on the north side of Charlie Cannon.
Speaker 12 (24:29):
Charlie Canyon Road a little bit deeper into the canyon.
But there are plenty of crews on the ground here
trying to prevent it from moving even further south. This
obviously has been a very huge response when it comes
to number of firefighters out here. Everyone obviously on standby
after those last couple of fires prior to this wind
event that started on Monday morning. I want to bring
in from current County Fire Department, Jonathan Drucker. You were
(24:51):
obviously paying attention to this fire. How important has it
been to have this pre positioning of firefighters around the
area before this big wind event this week?
Speaker 2 (25:00):
It's huge.
Speaker 4 (25:00):
Having prepositioned firefighters allows us to catch a fire when
it's in an early stage and prevents it from getting established.
And so that's huge because a fire that's established, it's
a lot more unpredictable and it can run on you
and it takes many more resources to contain.
Speaker 12 (25:14):
We are now after sundown, so obviously the conditions change
a little bit when it comes to visibility when it
comes to the air attack. Can you talk a little
bit about the difference of fighting a fire at night
than you would during the day.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
Like we had today.
Speaker 4 (25:24):
Well, one of the firefighter watch out situations is fighting
fire and country that you haven't seen in daylight, and
there's a very real reason for that. Everything looks different night.
The train here is ugly, it's dangerous. A lot of
firefighters can get hurt tumbling down a hill and things
like that, so it is dangerous. However, it's not going
to stop us. We're going to go in and we're
just going to make sure that we do it safely.
And you know, it's a challenge, but a lot of
(25:46):
what we do is a challenge.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
Okay, let's go to a Channel nine here. There's a
reporter out at the Combat Paintball Park for you paintballers
out there, you know exactly where this is. Let's find
out what's going on here the Combat Paintball.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
Park out there.
Speaker 10 (26:00):
That the fire may have a small percentage of containment.
Still nothing that we're able to tell you just yet,
because we're going to getting a whole Evangelist National Forest.
As you can understand, when these fires break out, there's
multi multiple jurisdictions that get involved in this, and you
know some people want to, you know, wait till this
person and have you what have you? But regardless, this
is a fire's footprint as we know it. And again,
the bulk of the fire is down here, and you know,
(26:21):
I was just looking at Desi's shot and Des, your
shot is up in a box. Can you go back
over to the lagoon because it looked like there was
a small little patch of fire that had kicked up
over there, because I noticed it right when they were
water dropping, and that on the left side of the
screen if you're looking at the map, that kind of
is indicative of the burn area here right as it
burned right up to the lagoon there, and the lagoon,
for anybody that doesn't know, is just south of the
(26:42):
actual LA.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (26:43):
Thanks that. So it's a small little pocket of flames.
There's some shrubs and bushes down there that I assume
is what got it kicked up. The hopefully a drop
or two from a fire helicopter will certainly take the
care of that. I was just thinking at the map.
There's about six night dropping helicopters that are on this
right now, which is certainly good news, and they are
filling up out of the little rain, so I would
imagine that they'll probably, you know, do a quick drop
(27:04):
on that one and get that taken care of. But
while we're talking about perimeter, I want to kind of
reiterate to everybody what perimeter means when we're talking about
a fire, right, So perimeter does not have anything to
do with the active flame on it. And I think
a lot of people, you know, don't always understand if
they're looking at a fire, well, I don't see any
active flame, or I see very little active flame. How
are we at zero percent containment or how are we
at five percent containment? Well, it has to do with
(27:25):
the actual fire lines that they're able to build around
the perimeter of the fire. So when you're looking at
my computer here, you see all of the orange that
is the actual perimeter of the fire. So when we
look at a map, you'll see CalFire will use and
I'll even switch to the black CalFire on their map.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
Okay, for people that are familiar with Lake Casteak, maybe
have gone out there, there's some rules on that lake.
I think it's either clockwise or counterclockwise. If you're water
skiing or dragging a tube, you have to go with
the flow of traffic.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
There's a lot of boats out there.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
Well, on the north side of that lake where the
finger goes all the way up to the north side
where you launch your boat. On the north launch, all
of the lake is burned. All of the shore of
that lake is all burnt to a crisp. The only
thing that so far has survived is the south part,
(28:16):
the southeast part of that lake where the dam is,
and then the dam going west southwest to the other
dam out there. There's two dams out there, so the
north dam to the south dam on the south side
of that lake is still has vegetation, still has trees,
but everything else around it is burned and gone, absolutely gone.
(28:40):
So when you go to take your boat out there
this spring or this summer, and all you're going to
see is burned trees and burned bushes on about three
quarters of that lake.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
All of it is gone.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
It's all gone, and it's going to take years to
come back, you know, years and years to come back.
Hopefully we get rain this weekend to knock a little
of this out. It looks like cold weather and rain
is coming to southern California. I mean extremely cold for
this time of year. I guess, well not for this
time of year. This will be the only time of
(29:13):
the year it gets cold. But in the San Fernando
Valley the high for tomorrow is seventy six. Today was
seventy eight, Tomorrow seventy six, Friday seventy two. But the
high on Saturday fifty nine degrees, the high on Sunday
fifty in some parts of the valley, forty nine degrees
is the high. Forty nine will be the high in
(29:36):
the San Fernando Valley in the surrounding areas with a
sixty five percent chance of rain. Sixty five percent chance
of rain. That is sensational if you live out in
the Antelope Valley, Palmdale, Lancaster area, over to the Apple
Valley that holds Upper Desert, the high desert below. This weekend,
(29:57):
Saturday thirty eight, Sunday thirty six, Monday thirty three, and
then Tuesday and Wednesday thirty two degrees will be the high.
And we have a lot of people listening out in
Lancaster and Palmtail. It's getting down to freezing, freezing this weekend.
If you're up in Big Bear, you're gonna you know,
if you love cold weather, it's gonna be the twenties.
(30:18):
The low is gonna be the twenties all week long, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday,
Thursday twenty to twenty eight degrees.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
That entire run all right, Moe Kelly is coming up next.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
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able to join us. Hopefully we gave you enough great
information to help you and your family, and we'll do
it again tomorrow four o'clock. Mo Kelly up next right
(30:49):
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