January 14, 2025 • 36 mins
@ConwayShow Hour 2
Guest: Jesse Rubin, President of ‘Rubin Adjusting’ who has over 50 years of expertise, Rubin Adjusting is a trusted public adjusting firm in the Los Angeles area. They can maximize your insurance claim.
Breaking News: Fire near Hansen Dam breaks out in the San Fernando Valley but quickly got control on the fire.
Family uses pool pump to fight fires in the Palisades neighborhood and it helped them save their home.
Apps are important to have during natural disasters for the latest on active incidents.
Guest: Jesse Rubin, President of ‘Rubin Adjusting’ who has over 50 years of expertise, Rubin Adjusting is a trusted public adjusting firm in the Los Angeles area. They can maximize your insurance claim.
Breaking News: Fire near Hansen Dam breaks out in the San Fernando Valley but quickly got control on the fire.
Family uses pool pump to fight fires in the Palisades neighborhood and it helped them save their home.
Apps are important to have during natural disasters for the latest on active incidents.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's KFI Am sixty and you're listening to The Conway
Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. There's a lot
of information out there. There's a lot of misinformation out there.
FEMA has a page that is dispelling some of the
rumors out there, and you can find that at FEMA
dot gov. There are a lot of rumors out there.
(00:21):
There are a lot of stories out there, and people
don't know what to believe. You know what the Internet,
everything's taken with a grain of salt. You read something
on Wikipedia or on Facebook or x and you don't
know what to believe or not to believe. You know,
everybody believes everything instantly, you know, when you're told somebody
go oh wow, I've never heard of that before, it's amazing.
(00:42):
And then as the days go by, it's been it's
been debunked or dispelled and you're like, Okay, that was
fake and obviously you know that was not true and
I shouldn't believed it at the beginning, And then it
sort of it tears at you because then every time
somebody calls you a crazy information. There was a rumor
going around that the Oregon the six fire trucks and
(01:04):
six fire crews that the state of Oregon sent to California.
There was a rumor going around that the Highway Patrol
stopped them and wouldn't let them come into the state
because they didn't have the right cataletic converters. I thought, Okay,
that's odd, that's odd, And then as you do more research,
you find well, that wasn't true at all. They were
stopping these trucks when they got to the fire to
make sure that their equipment was the right equipment to
(01:26):
fight these fires. We learned this last night when we
were talking to Orange County. I'm sorry, retired La County
fire Captain God named Steve Krieger, And this has got
to change in this country though. But did you know
that it changes region by region, like the West, the
Mountain Time, Midwest, and the East Coast that they all
(01:46):
have different hookups for fire hydrants. So if you bring
a fire truck out from the East Coast to fight
fires on the West Coast, it may not have the
proper hookup for our fire hydrants.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
How is that not universe?
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Yes, So if I brought my fire hose, I mean
I've brought my garden hose, I should say to my
grandmother's house in Cleveland. It would be the same hookup
in her house. It wasn't my house with if a
three quarter inch hose or one inch or a half inch,
whatever it is, But the connector to the spigot is
always the same. Why aren't the fire hoses the same?
(02:22):
Why aren't the hydrants the same? That's got to change.
That has got to change, all right. We're promised, we
promised to give you more information every single day about
how we can make your life easier, how people out
there who are offering services can make your life easier.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
And today is no exception.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
We have Jesse Rubin, the president of Reuben Adjusting, fifty
years of experience and expertise in adjusting. And I'm not
sure what that is Public Adjusting. I don't know what
they do. I think they know they help you out
with your insurance claim. They do all the work for
you so you don't have to sit there on the
phone all day. But let's talk to Jesse Rubin here. Jesse,
(03:00):
you're on KFI. How are you, sir?
Speaker 3 (03:02):
I'm great, Tim. How are you doing today?
Speaker 2 (03:04):
I'm doing good.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
But man, there are a lot of people out there
with a lot of questions, and I understand that you
can make some of these lives easier and that's worth
its weight in gold.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Yes it is. And this is such a nightmare situation.
Anything we can do to help, we need to.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
And how does this work?
Speaker 1 (03:21):
I'm not sure what public adjusters are or what you
guys do. I just know that I went on your
website and read your reviews and you have almost ninety
nine percent five star reviews and I don't know how
you did that because nobody has that.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Well, thank you, And to answer your question, a public
insurance adjuster represents homeowners or property owners in their claims
with insurance companies. We ensure that insurance companies pay people
fairly and that they get what they're owed as quickly
as possible.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
And how and when people contact you? Who should contact you?
Somebody's had damaged, somebody's lost their higher home, or all
the above.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Yeah, anyone who's had damage should contact us. But I
would tell you that it's very important to be in
contact with your insurance company and make sure you have
up to date information from them. There's nothing that's more
important right now.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Okay, So somebody contacts you and they call you and
you guys, you know, find a place to represent them.
You think it's a good case and a good cause.
Do you then take on all the work and you
call the insurance company for the for your client.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Yes, so we are the ones that are calling the
insurance company, writing letters, putting together estimates, preparing personal property inventories.
We're doing everything that's needed to put your claim together
so that you can focus on putting your life back together.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Okay, I wished I had known this before. About four
years ago, we had a major leak in my wife
and I have this small, little, you know, townhouse up
in Oregon where she's from. We bought it years and
you years ago for next to nothing, but we got
water damage. There was the roof was leaking, there was
a pipe leaking, and there was probably I don't know.
(05:09):
At the end, there was probably about thirty to thirty
five thousand dollars worth of damage. And because I did
it myself and I hired a guy to do it,
and I didn't know about adjusters and I didn't know
how to deal with insurance companies, they ended up paying
me fifty two hundred dollars for the entire thing. Oh
my god, it's horrible and everything else came out of pocket,
you know, But I wished I had known about somebody
(05:31):
like this because I don't have the expertise or the
time to sit on the phone with people with insurance companies.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
And you guys know who to call.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
It's true, and we have experienced handling thousands of fire claims,
so we know the right questions to ask to get
the process moving.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Okay, And so it's called Ruben adjusting, Jesse Rubin is
this How long have you guys been around?
Speaker 3 (05:55):
So it's my father is the founder of our firm.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
He's been a public insurance adjusters since nineteen seventy two.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Oh, that's great. Okay.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
I like when families take over the business because they
trust each other. You work, you know, if you find
it interesting, we're working with mom or dad. I think
that's a special person in life. And I think, you know,
carrying on your dad's legacy. You have a you know,
when you take on people, you think, how would my
dad do this? How would my dad treat these people?
(06:25):
How would my dad do this, this and this? And
I think that's important in business.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
It's true, it's my biggest guiding principle.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Yeah, it's got to be. And that's why I like it.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
You know when I go into cleaners and I think
it's like third generation, like the touchdown.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
You know, these guys care about what they do. All right.
How do people get a hold of you?
Speaker 1 (06:41):
And again, they should call you immediately. Should they call
their insurance company first or you first?
Speaker 3 (06:48):
That's a very good question. I would say to contact
your insurance company so you ensure that you have a
valid claim. If you haven't filed your claim already, it's
of the odd most importance. And then call me. We
can go through your policy. We can discuss what it
is that we can do and what we expect the
insurance company to do, so we can strategize on how
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to succeed and get to the end of the finish line.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Okay, And how do people get to hold you? Websitees
the best.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
The website is fantastic. Or you can call our office line.
It's eight one eight seven two eight zero nine zero
zero and we will answer and take care of you
as as you need.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
All right, say it again, because I'm a you know,
there's there's two people in life, Jesse. There's slow learners
and non learners. I consider myself a slow learner. So
it's eight one.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
Eight seven two eight right zero zero nine zero zero.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Okay, eight one eight seven to eight zero nine zero zero.
And they can call you right now and you can
get to work immediately.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Correct.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Appreciate you coming on, and we'd love to have you
back after you know, you've had some calls in some
business and find out you know what the status is of.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
Of course, and thank you so much for having us on.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Thanks for coming on, all right, Jesse Rubin Ruben adjusting
a family run organization that can help you out when
you need it the most.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
And I like that.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
I like when families take over businesses, and you know,
especially mom and pop businesses. You go into a place
that's a you know, a store you see that's third
generation or liquor store or whatever. I think that's that's cool.
And I think it's the family that keeps people honest.
You know, if you have three or four generations of
people who own a business, I think they think about,
(08:38):
you know, who built this business and what would they
do and you don't screw up because you want to
screw up your entire you know, family legacy.
Speaker 4 (08:46):
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demand from kf I AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
There's a fire going on out at Hanson.
Speaker 5 (08:55):
Damn.
Speaker 6 (08:56):
Go sure to look at that. It's right on the
car ports and so will likely see some of those
roofs of the carports catch fire. And then this look
at that, there's a I don't know if that's a light.
Let's see. Okay, that's oh no, I see the embers
coming across the roof line there. That's a big concern.
So we'll see if they firefighters can knock that down.
(09:16):
We're trying to hear if they're going to respond to
a airship. It should be it should be coming soon.
And I hear them talking about it now.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
All right for people who know where they hands the
damage units in here and.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
It's in the San Fernando Valleys.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
The fire burden out there right now, San Fernando Valley
off the two ten east of San Fernando, west of sunline.
Speaker 7 (09:41):
Is that it's right up getting close.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Terrace area and that's for Hanson damage some of them.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
And I'm surprised we can't see it.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
It's literally out the window here, Oh there is you
can see.
Speaker 7 (09:52):
That explosions, there's even more damage and make this fire even.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Burning in Handsome Dam and there's condos there that are
right in the line of fire.
Speaker 7 (10:06):
And in that car port and going forward it's.
Speaker 5 (10:11):
Monty Vista apartments and Handsome Village apartments.
Speaker 7 (10:14):
Okay, excellent, have your go bag ready. This isn't even
a ready set. This is the go This is the
go part, you know. And so you know, if you're
watching this, and uh, you know, everybody in this in
all of Los Angeles Riverside, I mean, you know, San
Bernardino County, everybody has to be ready.
Speaker 8 (10:35):
Uh, Ventura County.
Speaker 7 (10:36):
You just have to be ready and to get your
medicines and your passports and your dog leashes, and you're
you know, it's amazing.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
With all the firefighters and all the equipment we have
out here, that this fire is getting so close to
these apartments.
Speaker 8 (10:48):
You know, it's it's just so dangerous.
Speaker 9 (10:51):
Yeah, the winds and all that dry brush out there,
and Gil looking at this as we see the car
park being englfed, it's just amazing to me how quickly
this has moved just in the line last minute or so.
Speaker 10 (11:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (11:03):
Absolutely, they're saying about a half acres burned so far.
You see some brush there right against the car ports.
So it would have been nice if that was would
have been cleared out. That would have helped protect that.
But unfortunately that the fire got in there, and they're
saying now that might be the fire might have originated
in a homeless encampment right behind the department complex. You
see a vehicle try shopping the car riveway there between
(11:26):
the car ports and the apartments. That person trying to
get out, but it looks like they're parking in one
of the carports. There several vehicles there goes enough these
homeless guys, vehicles trying to get out of the fires.
An exit on the side.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
Of the hams is no stranger to hope the homeless.
Speaker 6 (11:45):
Count Yeah right, it's burning right up against the back
of those car ports and we'll see if any of
those carports go up.
Speaker 7 (11:55):
Let's bring meteorologist a Vera Jimenez and Vira here near
the Hansen DA.
Speaker 8 (12:00):
What kind of winds are we looking at?
Speaker 11 (12:02):
Yea, as I firefight up winds there are in the
teens and in the twenties, so that is definitely something.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
All right, Hanson, Dam, there's a fire out there.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
It's off the two ten freeway relative and for people
familiar with that, there's the Lakeview Terrace area. See it
is west I'm sorry, east of San Fernando, west of
Sunland Fire which a lot of people out there, a
lot of big property, a lot of acreage out there,
a lot of horses out there, handsome wild wild West
(12:36):
out there, Hanson Dams and it's on fire and there
are a couple of apartment buildings that are being threatened.
It's on all these news stations now on TV for example,
this it's a foot.
Speaker 6 (12:45):
Hill foot Hill and Osbourne pretty much between Terrabella and Gladstone.
Speaker 11 (12:51):
Avenue says we've got wind speeds of fourteen miles per
hour with gus to twenty eight. And again these are
observations that I'm getting from Nashall Weather Service. As I
take a look at one just slightly to the north,
Gold Creek eight miles per.
Speaker 8 (13:07):
Hour, the gust to twenty However, let's see this one.
Speaker 11 (13:11):
This is Cagle Canyon, northeasterly twelve to twenty two relative
humidity values of seventeen percent. And again we're getting to
that period in the day where the winds are going
to start to get a little bit stronger.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
There's a car there too that's involved with this fire,
but it looks like a car that's been abandoned. But
these people living in these apartment buildings that are right
next to this fire, they, like all of us, thought, Okay,
the fires are over, We're going to be safe now.
La County has a helicopter over and they're probably going
to have a couple of water drops here. La County
(13:47):
the yellow and white helicopters. LA Fire Department is the
red and white ones. So I just saw a yellow,
black and white one, and I'm sure they're going to
do a water drop here and wipe this thing out.
Speaker 8 (14:00):
Has actually been extended, But.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
God, is this going to go on forever?
Speaker 3 (14:03):
Now?
Speaker 1 (14:03):
Every time we have wind, we're going to have fires,
and people are going to panic, and people are going
to think their whole world is coming to an end.
The people in that apartment building have got to be
beside themselves.
Speaker 12 (14:14):
This is also where you know, you would think the
cold temperatures would help, but it's actually the exact opposite.
If this just came out, a been coming out saying
the problem is is that homeless people like you say
are lighting fires.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
Just to keep to keep warm.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Yeah, crows, Yeah, that's a good idea. I'm a good
good point.
Speaker 8 (14:32):
Into Santa Barbara close.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
But right, here's the helicopter.
Speaker 8 (14:35):
It's back. That's what the situation is now.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
The La County helicopter is back.
Speaker 11 (14:40):
That drop that water coming in stronger like sustain winds
of thirty one miles per hour just to the east
of where the fire is with gus to forty five.
Speaker 8 (14:50):
And then I have another one.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
All right, let's go back to the helicopter reporter here.
Let's see if we can bring up Channel eleven. I
think they have their helicopter reporter are over. I love
the weather reports, but I think let's get some more
news on fighting this fire on channel eleven. It's on
channel two, it's on five, it's on four. Actually four
(15:13):
is doing a Lakers update, but it's on channel five,
channel eleven, and I think even Fox was covering it here.
But let's pop up channel eleven here, Bella and see
if what they're talking about Channel eleven.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
Here we go.
Speaker 9 (15:30):
You can do water drop if they're able to, if
that's necessary, but in the meantime, it's hard to tell
if it made it to the car port. It doesn't
seem like that's the case.
Speaker 13 (15:40):
Yeah, it's kind of hard to tell because the lights
look like they're just turning on at this point. As
we get a farther out, you get a better sense
of how close we are to the freeway right there.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
I just think they've got this thing pretty handle.
Speaker 13 (15:51):
Of the crews that yeah, right to try to get
this thing out before it turns into something more.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
So watch the app and look at all the debris there.
It looks like a homeless shelter lately. And there, yeah,
there was.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
A car in there.
Speaker 9 (16:07):
I'm not sure if that's official in terms of la
f D, but Watch Duty has been a really good
resource for us. So it looks like, oh, and you
see in the carport there the firefighter there, which is good.
Speaker 13 (16:21):
Their first effort is to protect life, their second effort
is to protect property. It looks like so far they
may have done both. It looks like maybe that carport's
a little charred, but I don't see any cars themselves
that are burned.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
And if that's all this is, that would.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
Be all right.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
We're watching Channel eleven right now with Alex Michaelson.
Speaker 13 (16:41):
Here on the ground to try to get this thing
out before it turns into something more.
Speaker 9 (16:46):
So Watch Duty, the Watch Duty app is something that
I think a lot of us have looked at lately,
and they're calling this the Stone Fire. I'm not sure
if that's official in terms of la f D, but
Watch Duty has been a really good resource for us.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
So these guys, these firefighters out there, they protected these
these apartments, the car ports, all the cars there. But
it's you know, if you ask these firefighters off the record,
if they're not on TV, if they're not on the radio,
they're not on the phone, they're not being recorded, they
will tell you that almost every fire they respond to
(17:23):
there is a homeless angle to it, And there's a
homeless angle to almost every fire. They're not going to
say it on the air because they don't want to
get fired, they don't want to be considered politically incorrect
or you know, beating up on these on this crew.
But if you pull them aside and you privately ask
them what are what's what's the homeless issue with these fires,
they'll say almost one hundred percent of these fires they
(17:43):
go out to like this are caused by homeless guys.
Speaker 9 (17:46):
To assist La County fire here. So they're going to
have all hands on deck, well not you know what
I mean, not all, but more hands on deck.
Speaker 13 (17:55):
And a reminder of why this is so important is
that we have, you know, certain areas in our region
this particularly dangerous situation forecast, this idea of certain places
are going to have real high wind gusts and there's
tents all over the place to firefighters, those first few minutes, there's.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
Tents all over the place. So there's debris all over
the place there and it's half hour, it's almost it's
a holmeless encampment. And the I'm not saying they're doing
it on purpose. They're lighting fires as grocers said, to
stay warm because it's cold outside. And then the fire
gets away from you, you know, when you're trying to
stay warm, it gets away from you.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
A bush burns.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
They're not the equipment to put it out, and we're
off to the races again, right, and they think.
Speaker 9 (18:35):
Oh my gosh, we can't, we can't take anymore.
Speaker 13 (18:39):
But the right is as we talked about, and they
don't always even get covered on the news, is that
very very often LA firefighters deal with brush fires near
the freeways, homeless started near homeless encampments, and it is
something that we for whatever reason, have just accepted along
with having fish two thousand people on the streets that
(19:01):
we've just as a society accepted that's got to come
to an end. Is not really acceptable in that it
puts everybody in danger, most of all the homeless people.
Speaker 9 (19:11):
Yeah, and that's what we saw last night with the
auto fire that broke out in Ventura County. That was
thank goodness along the the SA.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
There's a dump from La County. Fire was quickly, so
this is out.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
This isn't going to do anything. This is this is
a going to be considered a complete knockdown soon. It
was only so they've they've saved all those apartments, all
the trees, all the cars. If you notice there, if
you're on the close up shot, they were able to
back all the cars out of that car port where
that fire was so because that you know, once one
car catches on fire, especially if it's an electric car,
(19:45):
and that could burn for days, then that's a huge
problem as well. All right, So the Hanson damn fire,
that was the latest. It seems like every day when
we come on there's a new fire and a new area,
and you know, a new threat to everybody, and everybody
panics that they're going to be next. And you're right,
it does feel like that. It does feel like that,
especially for those people living in that apartment building near
(20:08):
Hanson Dam. All right, we got to take a break.
We'll come back. It looks like the firefighters have a
really good hand on this Hanson Dam fire burning just
in the in the like the east Northeast Valley, east
of San Fernando, west of Sunland Lakeview Terrace area, Hanson Dam.
(20:29):
I'm calling it a you know, from here in Burbank,
not being on the fire crew, I'm calling it a lockdown.
So we guys have saved the day again. Thank god,
those guys are out there.
Speaker 4 (20:39):
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Speaker 1 (20:44):
Hanson Dam was on fire. There's a fire near Hanson Dam.
That's over. La City, La County went out there and
kicked that fire's ass. That fire is nothing. That fire
was a chump and La City in La County said
we're not taking any more of this crap.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
It down. It's over, So congratulations.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
There were two helicopters on that fire immediately, one from
La City, one from La County and they just whipped it.
So great work out there, fantastic, fantastic, great job, great,
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a lot of people are listening now. A lot of
people are wanting to buy pumps with generators and use
the fifty thousand or forty thousand gallons in your pool
(22:24):
to fight that fire when it comes your way, because
the fire really only shows up and hangs for you know,
thirty forty seconds, maybe a minute or two as it
blows over. Unless your house catches on fire, then it
could be a couple hours or a couple days. But
if you could protect your house in that three or
four minute span from the time the fire shows up
until it raises over your house and continues past your house,
(22:46):
you could save your house. But there's two problems. One,
it could kill you, right, We've seen stories like that.
You could die doing it. And the second one is
everyone's told to evacuate, so you have to defy those orders,
those official orders from the cops and stay there. And
(23:06):
so you have to be willing to do that as well,
and that's dangerous. But is it worth it to save
your house.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
I don't know. I think if you save your house,
it certainly might be.
Speaker 14 (23:16):
One Pacific Palisay's family got creative making their own firefighting
equipment out of their pools. Generator to fend off some
of the flames and they saved their home.
Speaker 15 (23:24):
Those residents. Patrick and Evan Gawling join us now. Great
to see you. So explain to us how this all
came about. How did you all Was it just sort
of a last minute, immediate thing or was this something
you had thought about before?
Speaker 1 (23:38):
Hi there, good morning, Thank you for having us.
Speaker 3 (23:40):
Good morning.
Speaker 16 (23:41):
Well, I have to say that we have to give
all the credit to our father, who about three four
months ago was so adamated about having one of these
for fire season. You know, it seems like every summer
or every fall during the Santa Ana wins, we always
have a high fire risk here and we know that
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going into the season that's right, And this season he
just had a feeling, he said, we have to be
a little better prepared. And there's no doubt in my
mind that the setup that we had was what saved our.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
House, saved their house by pumping forty thousand gallons of
water on it when the fire came over.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
I believe that.
Speaker 14 (24:20):
I believe it's Patrick talking to us now, So I'll
turn to Evan. If I've got you guys situated and
organized correctly in my mind here, so Evan, can you
give me some context though, like how did the homes
around you burn? How close did the fire get to
the home that you guys saved the pool water?
Speaker 10 (24:37):
Yeah, so, actually our backyard caught on fire as well
as By the.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
Way, this kid is only seventeen years old. He's seventeen
years old. He stayed back with his dad to fight
this fire and save their home. That's that's a great kid.
Speaker 10 (24:52):
Yeah. So, actually our backyard caught on fire as well
as a bunch of our neighbors. And right across the
street the house completely burned down, And so I was
actually having to rush back from school the same day,
and so when I got there, I had FaceTime my
brother and they set the generator up.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
How about having this is a kid.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
You know, you have a teenager, and you can't help
do anything the dishes, break leaves, take the trash out,
feed the dog. They don't do anything. Teens don't do anything.
This kid outside saving the house.
Speaker 10 (25:24):
Now with this kid, but right across the street where
the house burnt down, our neighbor's house was super close
to the fire. So we had to wheel the generator
all the way across the street and set it up
and that's actually his backyard, and we like basically saved
a bunch of houses with this one equipment.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
He's not just saving his own, he's saving the neighborhood.
He's seventeen years old. He was born after nine to eleven.
He was born after it. He doesn't remember nine eleven
because he wasn't born. He was born in what in
two thousand and ten? Two thousand and nine inscrible. There's
definitely life saving.
Speaker 8 (26:02):
Yeah, I'm amazed.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
Patrick explained to me, how did your dad.
Speaker 8 (26:07):
Know about this idea?
Speaker 7 (26:08):
I'm still kind of trying to wrap my head around it.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
This pump, you know, that's a good question. I'm not sure.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
He asked me one day too.
Speaker 16 (26:15):
He said he wants to get a pump that goes
out of his pool.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
Yeah, well, I wonder where he heard that.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
Maybe maybe I want to take any credit here because
I don't know this guy, but he does live in
southern California. Maybe he's listening to KFI because I've been
saying this for years. Gotta have a generator, you gotta
get a pump. You gotta have both to help protect
your home. And some people listen, and some people, you know,
I weren't listening to KFI, didn't get the word, didn't
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get the message, and a lot of people don't have
the I guess, the strength to do it, the willpower
to do it, to stay back in the fire. A
lot of people rather just get out and let insurance
deal with it and not risk their lives. I totally
understand that. I understand that one hundred But for people
that are cowboys and people that liked that kind of
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thrill and they get the energy and the adrenaline flow,
and when there's an emergency, this kid has this seventeen
year old kid, he's got it.
Speaker 16 (27:12):
And so we found somebody online, a nice gentleman who
came over to the house and gave a demonstration and
showed us exactly what he recommends for our particular setup.
So we actually have a generator that powers a pool pump,
and you have a splitter, so you have one big
sprinkler that you set up in place and you let
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it run, You kind of angle the direction that you
want and it goes back and forth. And then also
fire hose and individual hose you can manually go around.
So I think that was just the best setup for
what we had and there were clearly there weren't clearly.
The guy who came over and set it up for us,
I mean, he was very spot on with what he
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gave us.
Speaker 15 (27:57):
So how much are your pool water did you end
up using?
Speaker 16 (28:00):
We ended up using all of our pool, and then
the following day when we came back, we actually brought
it to the neighbor's house just upwind a little bit,
and we drained pretty much their entire pool. So what
we ended up doing is we ended up gusting our
big palm tree and the shrubbery next to the house
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and their backyard, and then we would drive around the neighborhood,
go check on the neighbors. We'd come back in about
an hour, turn the generator off, go in, fill it
with gas again, do the same thing, check on the neighborhood,
check on family friends' houses. And we did this about
four times, so in total, our generator and pump ran
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for about five hours and dowsted everything that we could.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
The very next day, Well.
Speaker 14 (28:54):
I hope they buy the one of the things, and
I hope they buy you a drink, just your own home,
not Evan, not well maybe Evan, how old are you?
Speaker 15 (29:03):
Evan?
Speaker 1 (29:04):
I'm seventeen.
Speaker 8 (29:05):
Okay, no drinks for Evans.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
I'm gonna start using that line. I think people ask
me how old I am. I'm gonna use that soundpipe.
I'm going to start. I'm going to be the new guy.
I'm seventeen. That's gonna be my nude when people ask, Hey, Tim,
how old are you?
Speaker 3 (29:20):
I'm seventeen.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
Yeah, I'm seventeen.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
I'm seventeen.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
I like the cadence of that. Tim, I'm seventeen. Okay,
no drinks for evs ring cookies.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
That kid drinks.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
There's no way that kid doesn't have a put shot everyone.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
So that guy's a cowboy. That guy's a hero.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
That dude's great man. Aaron or Evan and Patrick Galing
I believe their names are all right. We're live on KFI.
The fire out in Hanson Dam is knockdown. Everyone's safe.
I imagine you can get back to your home right now.
We're cool, Hanson Dam. That was a great firefighter.
Speaker 4 (29:53):
You're listening to Tim conwaytun You're on de Mayo from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
Here at seven o'clock, Oh Kelly, seven to midnight. Shortly
after that, Neil savedra I believe.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
Is it Neil Savandro coming in tonight?
Speaker 1 (30:05):
I think I heard that right, Neil save drum and
then Petros is gonna jump on with Neil Savadra at
four am, So set your clocks for that. Get up
at four am and listen to Neil Savedra and Petros
Papadakis from the Petros and Money Show. They do sports
over there, and that's a great program. I watched the
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Rams game last time when I got home. That was
a great distraction. Watched the La Rams beat the Minnesota
Vikings to move on in the playoffs, and it's gonna
be a nice distraction for a lot of people, especially
if you're.
Speaker 4 (30:42):
Young like me.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
I'm seventeen.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
I'm seventeen.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
I'm seventeen. That's right, I'm seventeen.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
That's correct, all right.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
The apps, you gotta get apps to keep you informed
with these fires. The days of that being you know,
just a sort of an afterthought are over. That has
got to be front and set on your homepage now
because we're living in a new world. So you've got
to get the apps. You gotta get least one or
two or ten of them, I don't know, but get
these apps. They're going to inform you on wildfires. It's
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now a necessity on your phone. It's an absolute bust.
Here is more information on which ones to get.
Speaker 5 (31:15):
Here are some other helpful apps and tools to keep
you informed. Pulse Point is a nine to one one
connected app that can give you information on active incidents
in your area.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
Do you hear that? Pulse pulse Point is pulse Point
pulse Point.
Speaker 5 (31:31):
Think Citizen, but more directly connected to first responders. It
also has a feature where if you know CPR, you
can respond to a nearby call for help.
Speaker 6 (31:40):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (31:40):
Frontline Wildfire Defense is an app that has customized wildfire
alerts for your home address.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
There you go. What was the name of that one?
Speaker 5 (31:47):
Frontline Wildfire Defense front Frontline Wildfire Defense. Frontline Wildfire Defense
is a mouthful frontline wildfire Defense all right. It can
say and red flag warnings, fireweather watch warnings, evacuation notices
and more. It also has step by step instructions on
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what to do if you need to evacuate, and you
can create a group to check in or meet up
with loved ones.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
Is there an app to reduce the base in the
volume of this man's voice?
Speaker 5 (32:19):
I also like the dashboard. It shows with all the
latest infos because it's not his voice, it's the guys
that recorded this.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
And now on to watch Duty.
Speaker 5 (32:27):
You probably already have the.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
This is the one my wife has, This is one
all our friends have. Watch Duty, Watch Duty. That's what
it's called.
Speaker 2 (32:36):
Watch Duty. And now on to watch Duty.
Speaker 5 (32:39):
You probably already have the app installed on your phone.
It's shot to popularity over the past couple of weeks.
Watch Duty is a free emergency alert app. It operates
in twenty two states, including California, and provides real time
updates on new fires when they spread, and continues to
monitor them until they are no longer a threat. Watch
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Judy relies on a team of active and retired firefighters, dispatchers,
first responders, and radio enthusiasts to update the information.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
It's being updated by professionals who were either retired or
not in the business anymore.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
Watch Duty, Watch Duty.
Speaker 5 (33:18):
In the past week, the app had two million new
downloads and sent over two hundred and twenty million push
notifications to users in southern California.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
I trust these private apps more than I trust the
city apps, and I used to trust the city apps
until last week. I was sitting here with John Colevelt
doing the cross between his show and our show, and
then I got an alert, and everybody got an alert
because of the fire in North Hills or West Hills,
I should say, out near Calabasas, out near Hidden Hills,
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and people from Ocean Side to Lancaster got a notification
to evacuate immediately. If you're an ocean sign, you're more
than one hundred miles or maybe I don't know, ninety
miles from that fire. And yet you were given a
notification to evacuate immediately ninety miles away from the fire.
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So and then shortly after that, the notification went out
another one that said ignore the first one, and so
I had it. I was done with the city notifications.
That's a wrap because they can't control them. They didn't
even know how they're going out. They had a whole
explanation of how they went out accidentally, and my eyes
(34:35):
just sort of crossed and I moved on.
Speaker 2 (34:37):
So I like watch Duty. I like the private apps.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
I think they have they have more information, they have
more to gain and more to lose if you if
they screw up. If they screw up, then people stop downloading,
they stop make money and they go away. But I
feel stop using the city apps or the county apps
and they screw up. There's no repercussions. Nobody gets fired,
nobody gets suspended. Nobody gets fired or suspended from anywhere
(35:02):
in the state, local, city, county government, national government. Nobody
ever gets fired for anything. But in the private industry,
you gotta make money or you're done. There's thirty billion
dollars that was stolen from the Unemployment department in California.
Thirty billion dollars during COVID. Did anyone get fired, No,
anyone gets suspended. No, did anyone get lectured.
Speaker 3 (35:24):
No, not that I know of.
Speaker 2 (35:25):
Nobody.
Speaker 1 (35:25):
Thirty billion dollars gone, no problem. But with watch app,
if they have thirty billion dollars gone, they're out of business.
So watch app is the move watch app, watch app,
Watch out, Go get it and make sure you got it.
Over the watch duty, watch Dudy, I mean, Watch Duty
is the app Watch Duty.
Speaker 2 (35:41):
We're live on KFI. We'll come back. We're going to talk.
We have a couple of great guests coming back.
Speaker 1 (35:45):
We're going to talk to Brunos Serado at six oh
five and then We're going to talk about pets at
six thirty five because pets are a big deal. There
are a lot of pets out there roaming around who
have lost their owners, and we're going to talk to
somebody who knows how to help you with that, Patrise mock.
So lot's going on in the next hour right here
(36:06):
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 pm Monday
through Friday, and anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
It's KFI Am sixty and you're listening to The Conway
Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. There's a lot
of information out there. There's a lot of misinformation out there.
FEMA has a page that is dispelling some of the
rumors out there, and you can find that at FEMA
dot gov. There are a lot of rumors out there.
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There are a lot of stories out there, and people
don't know what to believe. You know what the Internet,
everything's taken with a grain of salt. You read something
on Wikipedia or on Facebook or x and you don't
know what to believe or not to believe. You know,
everybody believes everything instantly, you know, when you're told somebody
go oh wow, I've never heard of that before, it's amazing.
(00:42):
And then as the days go by, it's been it's
been debunked or dispelled and you're like, Okay, that was
fake and obviously you know that was not true and
I shouldn't believed it at the beginning, And then it
sort of it tears at you because then every time
somebody calls you a crazy information. There was a rumor
going around that the Oregon the six fire trucks and
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six fire crews that the state of Oregon sent to California.
There was a rumor going around that the Highway Patrol
stopped them and wouldn't let them come into the state
because they didn't have the right cataletic converters. I thought, Okay,
that's odd, that's odd, And then as you do more research,
you find well, that wasn't true at all. They were
stopping these trucks when they got to the fire to
make sure that their equipment was the right equipment to
(01:26):
fight these fires. We learned this last night when we
were talking to Orange County. I'm sorry, retired La County
fire Captain God named Steve Krieger, And this has got
to change in this country though. But did you know
that it changes region by region, like the West, the
Mountain Time, Midwest, and the East Coast that they all
(01:46):
have different hookups for fire hydrants. So if you bring
a fire truck out from the East Coast to fight
fires on the West Coast, it may not have the
proper hookup for our fire hydrants.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
How is that not universe?
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Yes, So if I brought my fire hose, I mean
I've brought my garden hose, I should say to my
grandmother's house in Cleveland. It would be the same hookup
in her house. It wasn't my house with if a
three quarter inch hose or one inch or a half inch,
whatever it is, But the connector to the spigot is
always the same. Why aren't the fire hoses the same?
(02:22):
Why aren't the hydrants the same? That's got to change.
That has got to change, all right. We're promised, we
promised to give you more information every single day about
how we can make your life easier, how people out
there who are offering services can make your life easier.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
And today is no exception.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
We have Jesse Rubin, the president of Reuben Adjusting, fifty
years of experience and expertise in adjusting. And I'm not
sure what that is Public Adjusting. I don't know what
they do. I think they know they help you out
with your insurance claim. They do all the work for
you so you don't have to sit there on the
phone all day. But let's talk to Jesse Rubin here. Jesse,
(03:00):
you're on KFI. How are you, sir?
Speaker 3 (03:02):
I'm great, Tim. How are you doing today?
Speaker 2 (03:04):
I'm doing good.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
But man, there are a lot of people out there
with a lot of questions, and I understand that you
can make some of these lives easier and that's worth
its weight in gold.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Yes it is. And this is such a nightmare situation.
Anything we can do to help, we need to.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
And how does this work?
Speaker 1 (03:21):
I'm not sure what public adjusters are or what you
guys do. I just know that I went on your
website and read your reviews and you have almost ninety
nine percent five star reviews and I don't know how
you did that because nobody has that.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Well, thank you, And to answer your question, a public
insurance adjuster represents homeowners or property owners in their claims
with insurance companies. We ensure that insurance companies pay people
fairly and that they get what they're owed as quickly
as possible.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
And how and when people contact you? Who should contact you?
Somebody's had damaged, somebody's lost their higher home, or all
the above.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Yeah, anyone who's had damage should contact us. But I
would tell you that it's very important to be in
contact with your insurance company and make sure you have
up to date information from them. There's nothing that's more
important right now.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Okay, So somebody contacts you and they call you and
you guys, you know, find a place to represent them.
You think it's a good case and a good cause.
Do you then take on all the work and you
call the insurance company for the for your client.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Yes, so we are the ones that are calling the
insurance company, writing letters, putting together estimates, preparing personal property inventories.
We're doing everything that's needed to put your claim together
so that you can focus on putting your life back together.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Okay, I wished I had known this before. About four
years ago, we had a major leak in my wife
and I have this small, little, you know, townhouse up
in Oregon where she's from. We bought it years and
you years ago for next to nothing, but we got
water damage. There was the roof was leaking, there was
a pipe leaking, and there was probably I don't know.
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At the end, there was probably about thirty to thirty
five thousand dollars worth of damage. And because I did
it myself and I hired a guy to do it,
and I didn't know about adjusters and I didn't know
how to deal with insurance companies, they ended up paying
me fifty two hundred dollars for the entire thing. Oh
my god, it's horrible and everything else came out of pocket,
you know, But I wished I had known about somebody
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like this because I don't have the expertise or the
time to sit on the phone with people with insurance companies.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
And you guys know who to call.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
It's true, and we have experienced handling thousands of fire claims,
so we know the right questions to ask to get
the process moving.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Okay, And so it's called Ruben adjusting, Jesse Rubin is
this How long have you guys been around?
Speaker 3 (05:55):
So it's my father is the founder of our firm.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
He's been a public insurance adjusters since nineteen seventy two.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Oh, that's great. Okay.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
I like when families take over the business because they
trust each other. You work, you know, if you find
it interesting, we're working with mom or dad. I think
that's a special person in life. And I think, you know,
carrying on your dad's legacy. You have a you know,
when you take on people, you think, how would my
dad do this? How would my dad treat these people?
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How would my dad do this, this and this? And
I think that's important in business.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
It's true, it's my biggest guiding principle.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Yeah, it's got to be. And that's why I like it.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
You know when I go into cleaners and I think
it's like third generation, like the touchdown.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
You know, these guys care about what they do. All right.
How do people get a hold of you?
Speaker 1 (06:41):
And again, they should call you immediately. Should they call
their insurance company first or you first?
Speaker 3 (06:48):
That's a very good question. I would say to contact
your insurance company so you ensure that you have a
valid claim. If you haven't filed your claim already, it's
of the odd most importance. And then call me. We
can go through your policy. We can discuss what it
is that we can do and what we expect the
insurance company to do, so we can strategize on how
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to succeed and get to the end of the finish line.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Okay, And how do people get to hold you? Websitees
the best.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
The website is fantastic. Or you can call our office line.
It's eight one eight seven two eight zero nine zero
zero and we will answer and take care of you
as as you need.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
All right, say it again, because I'm a you know,
there's there's two people in life, Jesse. There's slow learners
and non learners. I consider myself a slow learner. So
it's eight one.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
Eight seven two eight right zero zero nine zero zero.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Okay, eight one eight seven to eight zero nine zero zero.
And they can call you right now and you can
get to work immediately.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Correct.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Appreciate you coming on, and we'd love to have you
back after you know, you've had some calls in some
business and find out you know what the status is of.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
Of course, and thank you so much for having us on.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Thanks for coming on, all right, Jesse Rubin Ruben adjusting
a family run organization that can help you out when
you need it the most.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
And I like that.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
I like when families take over businesses, and you know,
especially mom and pop businesses. You go into a place
that's a you know, a store you see that's third
generation or liquor store or whatever. I think that's that's cool.
And I think it's the family that keeps people honest.
You know, if you have three or four generations of
people who own a business, I think they think about,
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you know, who built this business and what would they
do and you don't screw up because you want to
screw up your entire you know, family legacy.
Speaker 4 (08:46):
I like that you're listening to Tim Conway Junior on
demand from kf I AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
There's a fire going on out at Hanson.
Speaker 5 (08:55):
Damn.
Speaker 6 (08:56):
Go sure to look at that. It's right on the
car ports and so will likely see some of those
roofs of the carports catch fire. And then this look
at that, there's a I don't know if that's a light.
Let's see. Okay, that's oh no, I see the embers
coming across the roof line there. That's a big concern.
So we'll see if they firefighters can knock that down.
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We're trying to hear if they're going to respond to
a airship. It should be it should be coming soon.
And I hear them talking about it now.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
All right for people who know where they hands the
damage units in here and.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
It's in the San Fernando Valleys.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
The fire burden out there right now, San Fernando Valley
off the two ten east of San Fernando, west of sunline.
Speaker 7 (09:41):
Is that it's right up getting close.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Terrace area and that's for Hanson damage some of them.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
And I'm surprised we can't see it.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
It's literally out the window here, Oh there is you
can see.
Speaker 7 (09:52):
That explosions, there's even more damage and make this fire even.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Burning in Handsome Dam and there's condos there that are
right in the line of fire.
Speaker 7 (10:06):
And in that car port and going forward it's.
Speaker 5 (10:11):
Monty Vista apartments and Handsome Village apartments.
Speaker 7 (10:14):
Okay, excellent, have your go bag ready. This isn't even
a ready set. This is the go This is the
go part, you know. And so you know, if you're
watching this, and uh, you know, everybody in this in
all of Los Angeles Riverside, I mean, you know, San
Bernardino County, everybody has to be ready.
Speaker 8 (10:35):
Uh, Ventura County.
Speaker 7 (10:36):
You just have to be ready and to get your
medicines and your passports and your dog leashes, and you're
you know, it's amazing.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
With all the firefighters and all the equipment we have
out here, that this fire is getting so close to
these apartments.
Speaker 8 (10:48):
You know, it's it's just so dangerous.
Speaker 9 (10:51):
Yeah, the winds and all that dry brush out there,
and Gil looking at this as we see the car
park being englfed, it's just amazing to me how quickly
this has moved just in the line last minute or so.
Speaker 10 (11:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (11:03):
Absolutely, they're saying about a half acres burned so far.
You see some brush there right against the car ports.
So it would have been nice if that was would
have been cleared out. That would have helped protect that.
But unfortunately that the fire got in there, and they're
saying now that might be the fire might have originated
in a homeless encampment right behind the department complex. You
see a vehicle try shopping the car riveway there between
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the car ports and the apartments. That person trying to
get out, but it looks like they're parking in one
of the carports. There several vehicles there goes enough these
homeless guys, vehicles trying to get out of the fires.
An exit on the side.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
Of the hams is no stranger to hope the homeless.
Speaker 6 (11:45):
Count Yeah right, it's burning right up against the back
of those car ports and we'll see if any of
those carports go up.
Speaker 7 (11:55):
Let's bring meteorologist a Vera Jimenez and Vira here near
the Hansen DA.
Speaker 8 (12:00):
What kind of winds are we looking at?
Speaker 11 (12:02):
Yea, as I firefight up winds there are in the
teens and in the twenties, so that is definitely something.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
All right, Hanson, Dam, there's a fire out there.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
It's off the two ten freeway relative and for people
familiar with that, there's the Lakeview Terrace area. See it
is west I'm sorry, east of San Fernando, west of
Sunland Fire which a lot of people out there, a
lot of big property, a lot of acreage out there,
a lot of horses out there, handsome wild wild West
(12:36):
out there, Hanson Dams and it's on fire and there
are a couple of apartment buildings that are being threatened.
It's on all these news stations now on TV for example,
this it's a foot.
Speaker 6 (12:45):
Hill foot Hill and Osbourne pretty much between Terrabella and Gladstone.
Speaker 11 (12:51):
Avenue says we've got wind speeds of fourteen miles per
hour with gus to twenty eight. And again these are
observations that I'm getting from Nashall Weather Service. As I
take a look at one just slightly to the north,
Gold Creek eight miles per.
Speaker 8 (13:07):
Hour, the gust to twenty However, let's see this one.
Speaker 11 (13:11):
This is Cagle Canyon, northeasterly twelve to twenty two relative
humidity values of seventeen percent. And again we're getting to
that period in the day where the winds are going
to start to get a little bit stronger.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
There's a car there too that's involved with this fire,
but it looks like a car that's been abandoned. But
these people living in these apartment buildings that are right
next to this fire, they, like all of us, thought, Okay,
the fires are over, We're going to be safe now.
La County has a helicopter over and they're probably going
to have a couple of water drops here. La County
(13:47):
the yellow and white helicopters. LA Fire Department is the
red and white ones. So I just saw a yellow,
black and white one, and I'm sure they're going to
do a water drop here and wipe this thing out.
Speaker 8 (14:00):
Has actually been extended, But.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
God, is this going to go on forever?
Speaker 3 (14:03):
Now?
Speaker 1 (14:03):
Every time we have wind, we're going to have fires,
and people are going to panic, and people are going
to think their whole world is coming to an end.
The people in that apartment building have got to be
beside themselves.
Speaker 12 (14:14):
This is also where you know, you would think the
cold temperatures would help, but it's actually the exact opposite.
If this just came out, a been coming out saying
the problem is is that homeless people like you say
are lighting fires.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
Just to keep to keep warm.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Yeah, crows, Yeah, that's a good idea. I'm a good
good point.
Speaker 8 (14:32):
Into Santa Barbara close.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
But right, here's the helicopter.
Speaker 8 (14:35):
It's back. That's what the situation is now.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
The La County helicopter is back.
Speaker 11 (14:40):
That drop that water coming in stronger like sustain winds
of thirty one miles per hour just to the east
of where the fire is with gus to forty five.
Speaker 8 (14:50):
And then I have another one.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
All right, let's go back to the helicopter reporter here.
Let's see if we can bring up Channel eleven. I
think they have their helicopter reporter are over. I love
the weather reports, but I think let's get some more
news on fighting this fire on channel eleven. It's on
channel two, it's on five, it's on four. Actually four
(15:13):
is doing a Lakers update, but it's on channel five,
channel eleven, and I think even Fox was covering it here.
But let's pop up channel eleven here, Bella and see
if what they're talking about Channel eleven.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
Here we go.
Speaker 9 (15:30):
You can do water drop if they're able to, if
that's necessary, but in the meantime, it's hard to tell
if it made it to the car port. It doesn't
seem like that's the case.
Speaker 13 (15:40):
Yeah, it's kind of hard to tell because the lights
look like they're just turning on at this point. As
we get a farther out, you get a better sense
of how close we are to the freeway right there.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
I just think they've got this thing pretty handle.
Speaker 13 (15:51):
Of the crews that yeah, right to try to get
this thing out before it turns into something more.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
So watch the app and look at all the debris there.
It looks like a homeless shelter lately. And there, yeah,
there was.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
A car in there.
Speaker 9 (16:07):
I'm not sure if that's official in terms of la
f D, but Watch Duty has been a really good
resource for us. So it looks like, oh, and you
see in the carport there the firefighter there, which is good.
Speaker 13 (16:21):
Their first effort is to protect life, their second effort
is to protect property. It looks like so far they
may have done both. It looks like maybe that carport's
a little charred, but I don't see any cars themselves
that are burned.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
And if that's all this is, that would.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
Be all right.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
We're watching Channel eleven right now with Alex Michaelson.
Speaker 13 (16:41):
Here on the ground to try to get this thing
out before it turns into something more.
Speaker 9 (16:46):
So Watch Duty, the Watch Duty app is something that
I think a lot of us have looked at lately,
and they're calling this the Stone Fire. I'm not sure
if that's official in terms of la f D, but
Watch Duty has been a really good resource for us.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
So these guys, these firefighters out there, they protected these
these apartments, the car ports, all the cars there. But
it's you know, if you ask these firefighters off the record,
if they're not on TV, if they're not on the radio,
they're not on the phone, they're not being recorded, they
will tell you that almost every fire they respond to
(17:23):
there is a homeless angle to it, And there's a
homeless angle to almost every fire. They're not going to
say it on the air because they don't want to
get fired, they don't want to be considered politically incorrect
or you know, beating up on these on this crew.
But if you pull them aside and you privately ask
them what are what's what's the homeless issue with these fires,
they'll say almost one hundred percent of these fires they
(17:43):
go out to like this are caused by homeless guys.
Speaker 9 (17:46):
To assist La County fire here. So they're going to
have all hands on deck, well not you know what
I mean, not all, but more hands on deck.
Speaker 13 (17:55):
And a reminder of why this is so important is
that we have, you know, certain areas in our region
this particularly dangerous situation forecast, this idea of certain places
are going to have real high wind gusts and there's
tents all over the place to firefighters, those first few minutes, there's.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
Tents all over the place. So there's debris all over
the place there and it's half hour, it's almost it's
a holmeless encampment. And the I'm not saying they're doing
it on purpose. They're lighting fires as grocers said, to
stay warm because it's cold outside. And then the fire
gets away from you, you know, when you're trying to
stay warm, it gets away from you.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
A bush burns.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
They're not the equipment to put it out, and we're
off to the races again, right, and they think.
Speaker 9 (18:35):
Oh my gosh, we can't, we can't take anymore.
Speaker 13 (18:39):
But the right is as we talked about, and they
don't always even get covered on the news, is that
very very often LA firefighters deal with brush fires near
the freeways, homeless started near homeless encampments, and it is
something that we for whatever reason, have just accepted along
with having fish two thousand people on the streets that
(19:01):
we've just as a society accepted that's got to come
to an end. Is not really acceptable in that it
puts everybody in danger, most of all the homeless people.
Speaker 9 (19:11):
Yeah, and that's what we saw last night with the
auto fire that broke out in Ventura County. That was
thank goodness along the the SA.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
There's a dump from La County. Fire was quickly, so
this is out.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
This isn't going to do anything. This is this is
a going to be considered a complete knockdown soon. It
was only so they've they've saved all those apartments, all
the trees, all the cars. If you notice there, if
you're on the close up shot, they were able to
back all the cars out of that car port where
that fire was so because that you know, once one
car catches on fire, especially if it's an electric car,
(19:45):
and that could burn for days, then that's a huge
problem as well. All right, So the Hanson damn fire,
that was the latest. It seems like every day when
we come on there's a new fire and a new area,
and you know, a new threat to everybody, and everybody
panics that they're going to be next. And you're right,
it does feel like that. It does feel like that,
especially for those people living in that apartment building near
(20:08):
Hanson Dam. All right, we got to take a break.
We'll come back. It looks like the firefighters have a
really good hand on this Hanson Dam fire burning just
in the in the like the east Northeast Valley, east
of San Fernando, west of Sunland Lakeview Terrace area, Hanson Dam.
(20:29):
I'm calling it a you know, from here in Burbank,
not being on the fire crew, I'm calling it a lockdown.
So we guys have saved the day again. Thank god,
those guys are out there.
Speaker 4 (20:39):
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Speaker 1 (20:44):
Hanson Dam was on fire. There's a fire near Hanson Dam.
That's over. La City, La County went out there and
kicked that fire's ass. That fire is nothing. That fire
was a chump and La City in La County said
we're not taking any more of this crap.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
It down. It's over, So congratulations.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
There were two helicopters on that fire immediately, one from
La City, one from La County and they just whipped it.
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You could win one thousand dollars. Here's a Palisades family
where they use their pool to fight the fire and
a lot of people are listening now. A lot of
people are wanting to buy pumps with generators and use
the fifty thousand or forty thousand gallons in your pool
(22:24):
to fight that fire when it comes your way, because
the fire really only shows up and hangs for you know,
thirty forty seconds, maybe a minute or two as it
blows over. Unless your house catches on fire, then it
could be a couple hours or a couple days. But
if you could protect your house in that three or
four minute span from the time the fire shows up
until it raises over your house and continues past your house,
(22:46):
you could save your house. But there's two problems. One,
it could kill you, right, We've seen stories like that.
You could die doing it. And the second one is
everyone's told to evacuate, so you have to defy those orders,
those official orders from the cops and stay there. And
(23:06):
so you have to be willing to do that as well,
and that's dangerous. But is it worth it to save
your house.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
I don't know. I think if you save your house,
it certainly might be.
Speaker 14 (23:16):
One Pacific Palisay's family got creative making their own firefighting
equipment out of their pools. Generator to fend off some
of the flames and they saved their home.
Speaker 15 (23:24):
Those residents. Patrick and Evan Gawling join us now. Great
to see you. So explain to us how this all
came about. How did you all Was it just sort
of a last minute, immediate thing or was this something
you had thought about before?
Speaker 1 (23:38):
Hi there, good morning, Thank you for having us.
Speaker 3 (23:40):
Good morning.
Speaker 16 (23:41):
Well, I have to say that we have to give
all the credit to our father, who about three four
months ago was so adamated about having one of these
for fire season. You know, it seems like every summer
or every fall during the Santa Ana wins, we always
have a high fire risk here and we know that
(24:02):
going into the season that's right, And this season he
just had a feeling, he said, we have to be
a little better prepared. And there's no doubt in my
mind that the setup that we had was what saved our.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
House, saved their house by pumping forty thousand gallons of
water on it when the fire came over.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
I believe that.
Speaker 14 (24:20):
I believe it's Patrick talking to us now, So I'll
turn to Evan. If I've got you guys situated and
organized correctly in my mind here, so Evan, can you
give me some context though, like how did the homes
around you burn? How close did the fire get to
the home that you guys saved the pool water?
Speaker 10 (24:37):
Yeah, so, actually our backyard caught on fire as well
as By the.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
Way, this kid is only seventeen years old. He's seventeen
years old. He stayed back with his dad to fight
this fire and save their home. That's that's a great kid.
Speaker 10 (24:52):
Yeah. So, actually our backyard caught on fire as well
as a bunch of our neighbors. And right across the
street the house completely burned down, And so I was
actually having to rush back from school the same day,
and so when I got there, I had FaceTime my
brother and they set the generator up.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
How about having this is a kid.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
You know, you have a teenager, and you can't help
do anything the dishes, break leaves, take the trash out,
feed the dog. They don't do anything. Teens don't do anything.
This kid outside saving the house.
Speaker 10 (25:24):
Now with this kid, but right across the street where
the house burnt down, our neighbor's house was super close
to the fire. So we had to wheel the generator
all the way across the street and set it up
and that's actually his backyard, and we like basically saved
a bunch of houses with this one equipment.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
He's not just saving his own, he's saving the neighborhood.
He's seventeen years old. He was born after nine to eleven.
He was born after it. He doesn't remember nine eleven
because he wasn't born. He was born in what in
two thousand and ten? Two thousand and nine inscrible. There's
definitely life saving.
Speaker 8 (26:02):
Yeah, I'm amazed.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
Patrick explained to me, how did your dad.
Speaker 8 (26:07):
Know about this idea?
Speaker 7 (26:08):
I'm still kind of trying to wrap my head around it.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
This pump, you know, that's a good question. I'm not sure.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
He asked me one day too.
Speaker 16 (26:15):
He said he wants to get a pump that goes
out of his pool.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
Yeah, well, I wonder where he heard that.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
Maybe maybe I want to take any credit here because
I don't know this guy, but he does live in
southern California. Maybe he's listening to KFI because I've been
saying this for years. Gotta have a generator, you gotta
get a pump. You gotta have both to help protect
your home. And some people listen, and some people, you know,
I weren't listening to KFI, didn't get the word, didn't
(26:42):
get the message, and a lot of people don't have
the I guess, the strength to do it, the willpower
to do it, to stay back in the fire. A
lot of people rather just get out and let insurance
deal with it and not risk their lives. I totally
understand that. I understand that one hundred But for people
that are cowboys and people that liked that kind of
(27:04):
thrill and they get the energy and the adrenaline flow,
and when there's an emergency, this kid has this seventeen
year old kid, he's got it.
Speaker 16 (27:12):
And so we found somebody online, a nice gentleman who
came over to the house and gave a demonstration and
showed us exactly what he recommends for our particular setup.
So we actually have a generator that powers a pool pump,
and you have a splitter, so you have one big
sprinkler that you set up in place and you let
(27:33):
it run, You kind of angle the direction that you
want and it goes back and forth. And then also
fire hose and individual hose you can manually go around.
So I think that was just the best setup for
what we had and there were clearly there weren't clearly.
The guy who came over and set it up for us,
I mean, he was very spot on with what he
(27:56):
gave us.
Speaker 15 (27:57):
So how much are your pool water did you end
up using?
Speaker 16 (28:00):
We ended up using all of our pool, and then
the following day when we came back, we actually brought
it to the neighbor's house just upwind a little bit,
and we drained pretty much their entire pool. So what
we ended up doing is we ended up gusting our
big palm tree and the shrubbery next to the house
(28:23):
and their backyard, and then we would drive around the neighborhood,
go check on the neighbors. We'd come back in about
an hour, turn the generator off, go in, fill it
with gas again, do the same thing, check on the neighborhood,
check on family friends' houses. And we did this about
four times, so in total, our generator and pump ran
(28:45):
for about five hours and dowsted everything that we could.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
The very next day, Well.
Speaker 14 (28:54):
I hope they buy the one of the things, and
I hope they buy you a drink, just your own home,
not Evan, not well maybe Evan, how old are you?
Speaker 15 (29:03):
Evan?
Speaker 1 (29:04):
I'm seventeen.
Speaker 8 (29:05):
Okay, no drinks for Evans.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
I'm gonna start using that line. I think people ask
me how old I am. I'm gonna use that soundpipe.
I'm going to start. I'm going to be the new guy.
I'm seventeen. That's gonna be my nude when people ask, Hey, Tim,
how old are you?
Speaker 3 (29:20):
I'm seventeen.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
Yeah, I'm seventeen.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
I'm seventeen.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
I like the cadence of that. Tim, I'm seventeen. Okay,
no drinks for evs ring cookies.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
That kid drinks.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
There's no way that kid doesn't have a put shot everyone.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
So that guy's a cowboy. That guy's a hero.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
That dude's great man. Aaron or Evan and Patrick Galing
I believe their names are all right. We're live on KFI.
The fire out in Hanson Dam is knockdown. Everyone's safe.
I imagine you can get back to your home right now.
We're cool, Hanson Dam. That was a great firefighter.
Speaker 4 (29:53):
You're listening to Tim conwaytun You're on de Mayo from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
Here at seven o'clock, Oh Kelly, seven to midnight. Shortly
after that, Neil savedra I believe.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
Is it Neil Savandro coming in tonight?
Speaker 1 (30:05):
I think I heard that right, Neil save drum and
then Petros is gonna jump on with Neil Savadra at
four am, So set your clocks for that. Get up
at four am and listen to Neil Savedra and Petros
Papadakis from the Petros and Money Show. They do sports
over there, and that's a great program. I watched the
(30:29):
Rams game last time when I got home. That was
a great distraction. Watched the La Rams beat the Minnesota
Vikings to move on in the playoffs, and it's gonna
be a nice distraction for a lot of people, especially
if you're.
Speaker 4 (30:42):
Young like me.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
I'm seventeen.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
I'm seventeen.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
I'm seventeen. That's right, I'm seventeen.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
That's correct, all right.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
The apps, you gotta get apps to keep you informed
with these fires. The days of that being you know,
just a sort of an afterthought are over. That has
got to be front and set on your homepage now
because we're living in a new world. So you've got
to get the apps. You gotta get least one or
two or ten of them, I don't know, but get
these apps. They're going to inform you on wildfires. It's
(31:09):
now a necessity on your phone. It's an absolute bust.
Here is more information on which ones to get.
Speaker 5 (31:15):
Here are some other helpful apps and tools to keep
you informed. Pulse Point is a nine to one one
connected app that can give you information on active incidents
in your area.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
Do you hear that? Pulse pulse Point is pulse Point
pulse Point.
Speaker 5 (31:31):
Think Citizen, but more directly connected to first responders. It
also has a feature where if you know CPR, you
can respond to a nearby call for help.
Speaker 6 (31:40):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (31:40):
Frontline Wildfire Defense is an app that has customized wildfire
alerts for your home address.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
There you go. What was the name of that one?
Speaker 5 (31:47):
Frontline Wildfire Defense front Frontline Wildfire Defense. Frontline Wildfire Defense
is a mouthful frontline wildfire Defense all right. It can
say and red flag warnings, fireweather watch warnings, evacuation notices
and more. It also has step by step instructions on
(32:08):
what to do if you need to evacuate, and you
can create a group to check in or meet up
with loved ones.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
Is there an app to reduce the base in the
volume of this man's voice?
Speaker 5 (32:19):
I also like the dashboard. It shows with all the
latest infos because it's not his voice, it's the guys
that recorded this.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
And now on to watch Duty.
Speaker 5 (32:27):
You probably already have the.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
This is the one my wife has, This is one
all our friends have. Watch Duty, Watch Duty. That's what
it's called.
Speaker 2 (32:36):
Watch Duty. And now on to watch Duty.
Speaker 5 (32:39):
You probably already have the app installed on your phone.
It's shot to popularity over the past couple of weeks.
Watch Duty is a free emergency alert app. It operates
in twenty two states, including California, and provides real time
updates on new fires when they spread, and continues to
monitor them until they are no longer a threat. Watch
(33:00):
Judy relies on a team of active and retired firefighters, dispatchers,
first responders, and radio enthusiasts to update the information.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
It's being updated by professionals who were either retired or
not in the business anymore.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
Watch Duty, Watch Duty.
Speaker 5 (33:18):
In the past week, the app had two million new
downloads and sent over two hundred and twenty million push
notifications to users in southern California.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
I trust these private apps more than I trust the
city apps, and I used to trust the city apps
until last week. I was sitting here with John Colevelt
doing the cross between his show and our show, and
then I got an alert, and everybody got an alert
because of the fire in North Hills or West Hills,
I should say, out near Calabasas, out near Hidden Hills,
(33:50):
and people from Ocean Side to Lancaster got a notification
to evacuate immediately. If you're an ocean sign, you're more
than one hundred miles or maybe I don't know, ninety
miles from that fire. And yet you were given a
notification to evacuate immediately ninety miles away from the fire.
(34:14):
So and then shortly after that, the notification went out
another one that said ignore the first one, and so
I had it. I was done with the city notifications.
That's a wrap because they can't control them. They didn't
even know how they're going out. They had a whole
explanation of how they went out accidentally, and my eyes
(34:35):
just sort of crossed and I moved on.
Speaker 2 (34:37):
So I like watch Duty. I like the private apps.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
I think they have they have more information, they have
more to gain and more to lose if you if
they screw up. If they screw up, then people stop downloading,
they stop make money and they go away. But I
feel stop using the city apps or the county apps
and they screw up. There's no repercussions. Nobody gets fired,
nobody gets suspended. Nobody gets fired or suspended from anywhere
(35:02):
in the state, local, city, county government, national government. Nobody
ever gets fired for anything. But in the private industry,
you gotta make money or you're done. There's thirty billion
dollars that was stolen from the Unemployment department in California.
Thirty billion dollars during COVID. Did anyone get fired, No,
anyone gets suspended. No, did anyone get lectured.
Speaker 3 (35:24):
No, not that I know of.
Speaker 2 (35:25):
Nobody.
Speaker 1 (35:25):
Thirty billion dollars gone, no problem. But with watch app,
if they have thirty billion dollars gone, they're out of business.
So watch app is the move watch app, watch app,
Watch out, Go get it and make sure you got it.
Over the watch duty, watch Dudy, I mean, Watch Duty
is the app Watch Duty.
Speaker 2 (35:41):
We're live on KFI. We'll come back. We're going to talk.
We have a couple of great guests coming back.
Speaker 1 (35:45):
We're going to talk to Brunos Serado at six oh
five and then We're going to talk about pets at
six thirty five because pets are a big deal. There
are a lot of pets out there roaming around who
have lost their owners, and we're going to talk to
somebody who knows how to help you with that, Patrise mock.
So lot's going on in the next hour right here
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