August 5, 2024 • 29 mins
Burglars target another multimillion-dollar Encino home; as many Valley homes are being broken into // San Bernardino’s Edgehill brush fire burns multiple homes as residents ordered to evacuate // San Bernardino Edgehill brush fire continues to burn near-by properties. // Guest: Steve, retired LA Fire Captain discusses brush fires and his expertise.
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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. It is The
Conway Show, dig Dog.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Everybody.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
It is Monday.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
I don't know why that's important, but people like to know,
you know, what's going on out there.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
All right?
Speaker 1 (00:18):
We have more crime in Los Angeles. If you live
in Encino Tarzana Woodland Hills. These are the valley hotspots
in Sino Tarzanah Woodland Hills Studio City, those are the.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Real hot spots. But a little bit.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
I don't even hear a lot of Teluka Lake getting hit.
It's mostly up in the hills. And then on the
other side of the hill you're three one oh areas.
You're brent Woods, Pacific Palisades, that whole area. Because those
people's money and the people who have no money are
tired of having no cash. They're exhausted and they're pissed,
(01:00):
and they can find it very easy. Instead of getting
a job, going to college, working their ass off and
may may or may not have any kind of career,
they can go into your house and steal all your
stuff that you built up and they can have it
and enjoy it Tomorrow and there's really no punishment. You know,
when they get caught, a lot of these guys are
(01:22):
I don't know, they're hooked up and go to jail
for a couple of weeks, a couple months. A lot
of times they don't get caught. It happening in Sino.
Let's find out what's going on and Incino, California, ding
dong with them out there.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
Spoken with several neighbors today who tell me that they
are fed up and now they're communicating with one another
trying to come up with ways to make the neighborhood
safer and how they can fight back against burglars. This
after hearing about yet another home break in in their neighborhood.
Speaker 5 (01:50):
Another home was targeted.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
Take a look at this video from overnight of this
latest incident. A helicopter scene over the area near Ventura
Boulevard and Firma Mint Avenue and Encino. Please say residents
her glass breaking. Something may have spooked the burglar or
burglars because they took off. No suspect description is available
and it's not clear what, if anything, was taken.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
It's amazing with everyone has cameras, ring, cameras, alarm cameras,
security cameras, and none of these guys really have been caught.
I guess they're good at disguising themselves. They get in,
they get out, then they're gone.
Speaker 6 (02:26):
You know.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Back in the speaking of it, by the way, back
in the old days, this wouldn't have happened like before
Ways and before Google Maps, because if you went into Encino,
you got lost or got into a cul de sect
pretty quickly because there's not there's a lot of col
de sects, a lot of dn ed and streets, a
lot of areas that it's hard to navigate around. But
now with with with Ways and Google Maps, these guys
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can come into that neighborhood and it's like they live there.
They get the Google and Way ways and Google Maps
tell them exactly how to get in and get out.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
Now, this most recent incident was reported as a hot
prow burglary. Neighbors say that's frightening that occupants were home
at the time. They've been hearing about similar incidents too
many times lately and say it's unsettling.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Yeah, it is unsettling, but I bet you anything, a
lot of people are keeping their eyes open at night.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
You know, did you hear anything, Did you hear anything?
An need? Do you hear anything?
Speaker 1 (03:20):
A lot of that going on and in Cino Tarzana,
Woodland Hills, Studio, City Palisades.
Speaker 7 (03:26):
Everywhere we see you and I take pictures of their cars,
and it's been a big problem here. And hopefully city
council Woman Ninthia Rahman will help provide.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Yeah, I'm sure they'll be right on it. They'll be
right on it.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
More security on the streets.
Speaker 8 (03:41):
It takes a whole village to get this under control.
We need our politicians to step up. We need police
to step up, We need the DA to step up.
People need to be held accountable. This isn't a free ride,
you know.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Okay, all right, I get that this guy's onto something.
Let's listen again. Here we go.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
It takes a whole village to get this under control.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Well, okay, all right, what do we need in the village.
Speaker 8 (04:01):
We need our politicians to step up? Okay, one, we
need police to step up.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Okay, police are stepping up. Step up, DA to step up.
That's a politician.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
People need to be held accountable.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
This is okay, all right? You know who else needs
to be accountable?
Speaker 1 (04:17):
People who vote they need to be held accountable. You
vote for this crap, then people come into your home
and take all your stuff, and then you blame everybody
else but yourself. You voted the wrong way in the
last couple of elections. Maybe you got the message to
why you know, to reverse corps and maybe not that's
possible as well, who knows.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
But you're also responsible. You guys have to vote the
right way.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
When a guy says I'm gonna be the da I'm
gonna let everybody else I'm gonna let I'm not gonna,
you know, prosecute a certain type of crime that opens
the floodgates.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
And it wasn't a mystery.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
You know when Jackie Lacey was in office and she said,
if if this guy ask and gets in, it's gonna
be the wild wild West. I think those were exact words,
and she was right.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
It's a free ride. You know, you can't just walk
into someone's home and still.
Speaker 9 (05:11):
Maybe they'll be talking about trying to hire patrol for
uh fuss streets.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
And the first neighbor you heard she said that she
has been taking photos of suspicious cars in the neighborhood
just in case.
Speaker 5 (05:22):
Now there's been several break.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Yeah, that's tough to do. I don't know if I
would do that, though.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
You know, you start taking pictures of cars that can
get your ass kicked too. You can get your ass
kick doing that because maybe this guy there with his
secretary doesn't want his wife to know, and then all
of a sudden, you're sniffing around taking photos.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
I don't know she has been taking photos of suspicious
cars in the neighborhood, just in case. Now, there's been
several break ins reported in the San Fernando Valley in
recent days and weeks, including in Sherman Oaks and Sino
and Tarzana. Neighbors tell us they're being vigilant. They're putting
in cameras to alarm systems, communicating with other neighbors, and
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staying aware of suspicious activity or cars driving by that
they don't recognize. Basically all the things that police advise
residents to do to stay safe. But despite that, it
has happened again and again. Now take a look at
this map of some recent break ins in the San
Fernando Valley.
Speaker 5 (06:19):
Lapd said.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
In Encino alone, break in south of the one on
one freeway went up forty percent in July.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Do you hear that forty percent in July?
Speaker 5 (06:28):
Forty percent in July?
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Wow, forty percent. That's huge.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
And citywide residential burglaries were up nearly four percent year
to date.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Wait, but I heard I heard Pepe boota judge over
the weekend said crime is down. So I don't know
somebody's lying, either the stats or Pepe Boota judge, but
somebody's not telling the truth because he said over the
weekend on one of those morning shows that it's a
you know, nobody gets at the information out there, but
crime is actually down.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Does anybody listening to right now believe that?
Speaker 7 (07:03):
No?
Speaker 4 (07:04):
And citywide residential burglaries were up nearly four percent year
to date from the same period last year, according to LAPD.
Back here live, some residents say that they have been
communicating with one another and they're talking about adding private
security in the neighborhood, which will they'll be paying for
out of pocket. But they're also calling on their city
council to take more action.
Speaker 5 (07:26):
We've reached out to the county.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Let's go real quickly to channel I think it's Channel
nine here. This fire out in Sambordino is getting a huge.
Speaker 10 (07:33):
Traditional plan, which would open them up to being able
to get twenty five additional engines into this. The incident
commander said, yes, so we'll see if they want all
twenty five, but at least gives them the option to
bring in twenty five additional engines. I've also heard radio
chatter here about bringing in help from La County.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Those come, Yeah, so what Sordidina.
Speaker 10 (07:52):
They've already got their ask for a lot more Health
County Serverside is already there. They've got mutual aid from
within Sanmbordino County, so they've got CalFire Sambordino CA. I've
heard Ontario Fire involved in this as well, and now
it sounds like they are also requesting from La County Fire.
And yeah, now now I'm listening to the dispatch.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
I heard just now.
Speaker 10 (08:13):
Probably at least ten additional engines dispatch to the fire.
So they're really trying to bring in whatever they can.
And you know, there are certain different engines do different things, right.
There are brush trucks, there are fire engines, there are
ladder trucks.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Fires rat want the brush rigs that come out here.
We got to take a break.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
We'll come back with this fire, give you more information
where the San Berndino fire is happening. They've asked for
a lot more help, a lot, which means they do
not have enough resources and they are desperately seeking more
engines and more help. So if you're on the freeways
and you see a big, you know, caravan of fire
trucks heading east from Los Angeles, chances are they going
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to this same Berndino fire.
Speaker 11 (08:51):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
Forty is Conwy Shower go right to these fires here,
k col is over it. Channel eleven is over it,
Channel seven is over it. What's going on with k
COW Channel nine. I believe they're high over the these
poor homes, these poor people in these homes.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Let's turn the volume. I turn right over there. Okay,
So on that home.
Speaker 9 (09:17):
Wow, that that was burning that we've been watching burn
now for a very long time, or at least maybe
right around the perimeter of it. Kind of a surgical operation,
because they don't want to eject all of that burning
material into the air and have it, you know, fanned
by the flames to go burn. Maybe they can kind
of do it around the periphery of the home and
you know, stop it from spreading to its to its
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neighbor right here and really quick.
Speaker 10 (09:39):
I don't know if in the control, if we can
come to my computer here, I want to show you.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
These are massive homes of up the hill map.
Speaker 10 (09:46):
So this is the home that we just were watching burn. Uh,
this is the home right here, This is where that
our v was burning. This is the other home that
we saw burn. And then this is the home right
here that is on fire and is burning very close
this home that's the one where Desmond was talking about
how the garage kind of butts right up against it.
So and then down here this is that white home
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where we've watched them kind of do the the on
the patio where they've been putting water in on the
patio there. So I just wanted to show people kind
of what this area looks like from a satellite perspective.
And even on the satellite view you can see how
tight these homes are right here and all the shrubs
and brushes that are between them. Look at even on
this map there's that RV that burned.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
Wow.
Speaker 10 (10:26):
So yeah, so this has been here for a while.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Yeah, this is radical out here.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
All right, let's steph if you could slip over to
Channel four real quick.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
I don't know if it is four on right now.
I'm watching it.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
On their website and they have an unbelievable shot of it. No,
they're doing the Olympics, okay, Channel yeah, Channel five or
seven eighty C. Channel seven is they've got I think
it's Brandy Carlos out there, a photo journalist on Channel seven.
Speaker 12 (10:57):
Fire department and then you know, media and photos and
videos was just my passions.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
It's a bad scene out there San Bernardino, our.
Speaker 12 (11:05):
Department life and now I you know, I'm in I
work for R and G News also as well, so
I do a lot of news coverage and I cover
all over California. You know, fire season, and like we
all know, fire season can be every single month. I've
I've had years where I've gone to fires, you know,
from January to up until Christmas Day. It's probably going
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to be a bad year. I know every year they
say it's going to be a bad year. But you know,
we've had a lot of rain, we had relatively mild
fire seasons the last two years, so I think this
is just kind of the warm up to you know,
what we could experience later in the next couple of months,
because we don't even have Santa Ana's right now.
Speaker 13 (11:46):
That's what I was going to talk to you about, Brandy.
You know, anyone who covers fires, you are going to
be very well versed in it when you go out
to cover these fires. You know, for somebody like us,
we're watching and a lot of the viewers are watching this,
but fires they create their own own weather within these firestorms,
and it's really can you describe what it's like sometimes
when you go in and you're driving there and it's
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probably kind of calm around you, and then you get
into sort of the eye of the storm because you're
so close, you have such access, and obviously the firefighters
certainly trust you. But tell us about what you experienced
when you get out the winds and what have you.
Speaker 12 (12:24):
Like you said when you first you never know when
I leave the house, I never know what I'm kind
of getting into. When I first got here to the
Edge Hill fire, you could you could see it burning down,
you know, coming down the hill into the neighborhoods kind
of really didn't look like a whole lot. It looked like, Okay, mass.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Great for people, thanks Stefano.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
But for people that don't know where this edge hell
fire is, I'll try to nail it for you here.
It's essentially where Yamava is. If you go to Yamava
and you had maybe a mile and a half or
two miles west, that's where this edge hill is. And
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it's right off the well. There's there's a freewhere the
two ten, which you know, cuts across a lot of
you know, Fontana and the and the San Bernardino Valley,
and then if you cross the fifteen, you cross the
two fifteen. That's where this fire is burning. So Highland
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is close by. It is north of the ten, just
north of the two ten as well, I think, or
just basically on the two ten and and that's that's
where this edgehill fire is burning. But let's get some
more information here. This is an incredible sight to watch this.
These poor people who woke up this morning inside that house,
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had breakfast inside that house, and now they're on TV
watching the entire thing burned down. I can't imagine how
crippling that is to your your psyche. I can't imagine
these people who had a beautiful, multimillion dollar home, maybe retired.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
They worked their ass.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Off to get up into the hills and have this
beautiful Spanish style roof, palm trees around, beautiful big windows
and doors, three four car garage, and then to watch
it all the centigrade live on TV has to be heartbreaking,
just heartbreaking.
Speaker 11 (14:25):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
Fire burning and Sam Bernardino, And I'll tell you where
this is. It's a little bit further than a mile
from Yamava. If you were to drive it's five miles,
but as the crow fly is probably closer to three
three and a half miles three and a half four
miles west of yama Va Casino, almost exactly parallel. If
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you were to go to Yamava and just go due west,
that's where this fire is up in the hills. It's
around the thirty three hundred block of Beverly Drive in
San Bernardino, up in these small mountains that are right
off the two fifteen freeway, just east of the two
fifteen freeway. And man of these houses huge, and they
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are going up. It looks like one after another after another.
Let's flip on Channel seven here. They're showing a live.
Speaker 14 (15:23):
Shot here, Timmy, can I just add about a little
bit of traffic in the area. I would imagine a
lot of people are trying to self evacuate right now.
And a couple of the main roads, H Street and
also West thirty fourth Street, they're very busy right now,
especially that H Street that heads down towards the two
ten Freeway and thirty fourth Street looks pretty stacked between
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North East Street and H Street.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
Excellent, all right, thank you Angel Martinez.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
Let's flip on channel seven here, and this is a
magnificent home here, two story, probably five four or five
thousand square feet.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
We first completely in gulfed in flats are dropping.
Speaker 13 (15:59):
Helicopters had not arrived so to see them. We know
the sort of resource they are to get to some
of these fires. Because Chris was saying, we've been watching it.
It's just so difficult to see for the firefighters to
get really close and look at that that fire is
so hot and producing so much smoke and really toxic
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smoke as well. But again, we haven't been able to
count how many fires, how many homes have gone up,
or structures or outhouses, but we know that it is
going to be devastating when the smoke clears. But Danny Ramiro,
he's also been watching this and tracking the weather conditions.
We know earlier we heard from Sanberndandino County Fire. Danny
that all on the ground and this fire, it's one
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hundred and nine degrees and that's not including their fire gear.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
Yeah, I mean right on top of that.
Speaker 6 (16:50):
So we're going to get that really intense heat, especially right.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
Around the fire area. Along with that that.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
Humidity is very very low, So man, that.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
Really makes it miserable there.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
We do see that the temperatures right in that one
five twelve range pretty much most of the peak heat
here in the afternoon, there's an evacuation center set up
at Marshall Elementary School at on Marshall Elementary School, which
is very very close to this where the fire is
down further closer to the two fifteen. They're using one
of these parks here and they're filling up basically what
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looks like above ground pools of water and as the
helicopters come by the they dip into these above ground
pools and take that water up to try to fight
this fire. But these are multi million dollar old school,
old money San Barentino homes that are on fire and
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burning one after another, and this is devastating for this community.
I imagine a lot of these homes were built back
in the twenties, thirties or forties, and this is a
devastating for a lot of people out there. Chris Christy
was flying over the scene. We'll pick up what Chris
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Christie says here and see what's going on.
Speaker 15 (18:05):
This is just a devastating site here right along Ridgeline Drive,
This entire neighborhood south of Ridgeline Drive now order to
evacuate again. They are using Marshall Elementary School as the
evacuation center. At this point, you can see there are
several fire crews in this neighborhood and at least one
CalFire helicopter overhead making water drops over this residential neighborhood.
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This fire is surrounding at least a dozen separate residents
and you can see about a half a dozen of
those have already been lost. Some very thick black smoke
coming from Circle Drive. There you could see one home
fully engulfed, a separate home across the way there also
fully englfed, and then a.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
Third, you really have to see this on TV.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
They're using Marshall Elementary School, which is just the east
of where this fire is happening and north of the
two ten freeway off of H Street. As Angel is saying,
but the traffic on H Street, You're right, Angel, is
unbelievable and a lot of those people probably are scared
to death because there's nothing worse than being stuck in
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gridlocked traffic when a fire is nearby, you just start
to panic.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
So this is a huge, huge story out there.
Speaker 15 (19:20):
And then a third home now with active flames coming
through the roof of that house. So we have three
active fires. At the very least. There's also an RV
that has caught on fire down there. And always remember
behind that black smoke is more property that is on fire.
We're coming around the south side now, and I want
to give you a little bit of a little help
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if you're familiar with this area. In terms of the
area affected, we're talking about the neighborhood south of Ridgeline Drive,
north of Beverly Drive, and the group of homes that
you see are on fire here are encompassing El Camino Road,
Fista Drive, Circle Road, and Hillheart strive. These are the
dozen or so homes that are an imminent threat right now.
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You can see more homes in the way of this
fire if this continues the way it is again, there
are limited resources in this neighborhood right now.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
Yeah, and they've been calling for more.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
They want ten to fifteen, maybe twenty more engines. And
they are actually even calling La County Fire and asking
for help from them as well. So they're stretched as
thin as they could be. And they're calling for Orange County,
La County, San Berndino County Riverside to give them a
hand with this because they these fires, these homes are
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going up again, one after another.
Speaker 15 (20:39):
After another, plenty more on the way. It's going to
take some time to really get effective structure protection in place.
Speaker 12 (20:46):
Here.
Speaker 15 (20:47):
There are some crews already on the scene, but you
can see here just a little too late for some
of the homes here in the Shanda Hills section of
Sam Bernardino. This is Shandon Hills on the east side
of a giant hill that basically has a tendency to
create its own wind and weather, if you will, as
Brandy was mentioning, even though it's not a very windy day,
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the breeze can behave very differently when it bounces up
against that terrain there, and you can see that entire
hillside has gone up in flames. It's all charred up there,
as those flames raced towards Canyon Terrace Drive at the
top of that plateau, and hopefully those will be man
made fire breaks that halt the progress at least going
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westward of this fire. But right now all eyes are
on those homes further east here, as we've counted at
least three or four homes now up in flames, and
again a couple of others that have already burnt to
the ground.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
Guys, Yeah, and they're trying to get this fire.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
There's a fire line at North Boyna Vista Road, which
is at the top of that hill, and they're trying
to get it to stop there because on the other
side of that hill you have track homes that are
much closer to one another on North Canyon Terrace there
and and Canyon Terrace Drive and Ridgeline as well, And
if those harms start burning, they're so close together that
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it'll be a repeat of what we saw in the valley,
where it's one after another after another. Thank god. Look
it's hot outside, which is horrible to try to fight
this fire. But thank god we don't have forty fifty
sixty mile an hour winds, because that does happen in
this part of San Bernardino.
Speaker 13 (22:24):
See a guy on channel on k calhounds rent to
us car with the flames behind them.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
That's unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
And this if we did have sant Ana winds, those
winds come right out of the desert right down through
the past there the fifteen and blow fifty sixty seventy
miles an hour. This could be a huge disaster if
that was happening. So they're in luck there. The humidity
is very low, the temperature is very high, and they're
asking for help from surrounding counties because they do not
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have a hold of this fire yet. All right, we're
going to keep covering this. The brush fire burning out there.
They're calling the edge Chill fire. It's where they're two
fifteen and the two ten meet, and I'm just watching
on channel seven. Here another fire engine pulling up that
looks like it's from La County. So it looks like
there's the reserves have already come in to try to
help them.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
Help them out and to save some of these structures.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
All right, we're live major major story here in southern California,
and we are covering it.
Speaker 11 (23:23):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
It's Conway Show. We continue talking about this Edge Hill fire.
It is burning right off the two ten and the
two fifteen freeway about four miles due west of Yamava Casino,
and there are a lot of homes that have been
completely destroyed. They've called on help from La County. I
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believe Orange County, Riverside County. They need more engines, they
need more manpower to get this thing under control. And
Steve Krieger is with US, retired captain for La County Fire,
Steve welkome to the program.
Speaker 6 (24:08):
How are you, sir, Hey Tim, I'm doing good.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
Ding dong ah, ding dong with you, buddy. This is
horrible what we're watching on TV right now. When they
put out the bat signal to try to get help
from other counties, I imagine they respond pretty quickly.
Speaker 6 (24:22):
Now, yes they do. They you know, they send out
the request to the region coordinator, which you know, LA
County coordinates for many of the surrounding counties, and they'll
send the resources that are available to go out and
help and help out wherever they can.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
Are these fire engines that are normally just sitting in
the fire station or do they bring guys in to
man these?
Speaker 6 (24:49):
No, these are from the local fire stations, so they
if they need more engines from the nearest counties, they'll
send immediately send engines, and then then additional fire engines.
Then we'll backfill those empty fire stations.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
I see.
Speaker 6 (25:04):
So it's the whole digit six things of getting engines
to the fire and then also backfilling those empty fire
stations so that there's not a lack of resources in
the areas they came from.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
And did they work out?
Speaker 1 (25:18):
I mean, I hate to say this, but everybody you
know talks about it all the time, the financials of it,
I mean, or is it just like we owe you
u allas or we just they probably just getting the
fire engine work that crap out later.
Speaker 6 (25:30):
Yeah, they worked that out later. There's automatic aid, there's
mutual aid. Automatic aid is where they just automatically go
into other jurisdictions like the county has with the Forest Service.
And then there's mutual aid where they do recover some
of the costs. Depending on the duration of the incident,
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they cover some of the costs.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
We're watching on Channel nine right now in k Cal,
and these are beautiful, you know, three four thousand square
foot home that probably have been there for quite some
time and they're just burning up, you know, one after another,
and you know it's got to be devastating for the
families who again woke up in that house. All the
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things that they have collected in their entire lives are
in that house and it's gone in an instant.
Speaker 6 (26:21):
Yep, it's absolutely correct. But as they're older homes, they
probably don't have the hardening that you would need that
the newer homes have. As far as the bigger they
probably had the bigger screens on their vents to keep
birds and rats out of their attic, but embers can
get right through there. So you notice some of these
homes look like they're burning it from the inside, not fside,
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because that attic becomes like a wind tunnel and it
just sucks those embers in there. So they need to
do things to keep the embers from going into those
attic vents, to prevent the attic from catch them on fire.
Once the attic gets going on fire, and they have
limited resources, there's not a whole lot stop that house
from burning down.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
Steve Krieger is with US, former or retired to La
County Fire Captain.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
Steve.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
You know, I was born and raised in the San
Fernando Valley, and in the last twenty five years, we've
been on you know, at kalis X, then here at KFI,
and we've been saying this for you know, twenty five years,
and I still haven't seen any change. But I still
can't believe in southern California, up in the hills, up
in the mountains, they still allow people to grow palm
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trees that become a human or become a you know,
a roaming candle with all the embers flying around. I
still can't believe they allow that type of tree up
in the hills.
Speaker 6 (27:42):
It's very difficult to deal with those because those dead
palm fronds burn like crazy and they dropped embers all
around the area. Before we had we had completely enclosed
camp fire engines. The ambers from those used to burn
up our seats in our jump seats well them and
they're very hard to put out because some of them
are so tall. The hooset screens can't reach the tops
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of those palm trees. You almost have to have a
ladder truck come out to get the tops of those
palm trees because they're just very difficult to put out,
and those little flying embers from those will go quite
a ways. And it looks like they have a little
bit of win there in San Berardino right now.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
Yeah, it's horrible, all right, see, but John hold here,
hopefully you can stay with us. Steve Kraeger, retired La
County fire Captain. We're watching these homes burn in the
Edge Hill fire right off the two ten and the
two fifteen freeway for people trying to get their bearings
of where this is. It's about four miles due west
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of Yamava Casino, right off the two fifty nine, the
two fifteen and the two ten freeway. We are going
to cover this until they've got a hold of this fire.
And it looks like they're doing a much better job.
We see less homes burning and more white smoke, which
is good.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
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Speaker 1 (28:57):
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Speaker 2 (00:10):
Everybody.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
It is Monday.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
I don't know why that's important, but people like to know,
you know, what's going on out there.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
All right?
Speaker 1 (00:18):
We have more crime in Los Angeles. If you live
in Encino Tarzana Woodland Hills. These are the valley hotspots
in Sino Tarzanah Woodland Hills Studio City, those are the.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Real hot spots. But a little bit.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
I don't even hear a lot of Teluka Lake getting hit.
It's mostly up in the hills. And then on the
other side of the hill you're three one oh areas.
You're brent Woods, Pacific Palisades, that whole area. Because those
people's money and the people who have no money are
tired of having no cash. They're exhausted and they're pissed,
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and they can find it very easy. Instead of getting
a job, going to college, working their ass off and
may may or may not have any kind of career,
they can go into your house and steal all your
stuff that you built up and they can have it
and enjoy it Tomorrow and there's really no punishment. You know,
when they get caught, a lot of these guys are
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I don't know, they're hooked up and go to jail
for a couple of weeks, a couple months. A lot
of times they don't get caught. It happening in Sino.
Let's find out what's going on and Incino, California, ding
dong with them out there.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
Spoken with several neighbors today who tell me that they
are fed up and now they're communicating with one another
trying to come up with ways to make the neighborhood
safer and how they can fight back against burglars. This
after hearing about yet another home break in in their neighborhood.
Speaker 5 (01:50):
Another home was targeted.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
Take a look at this video from overnight of this
latest incident. A helicopter scene over the area near Ventura
Boulevard and Firma Mint Avenue and Encino. Please say residents
her glass breaking. Something may have spooked the burglar or
burglars because they took off. No suspect description is available
and it's not clear what, if anything, was taken.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
It's amazing with everyone has cameras, ring, cameras, alarm cameras,
security cameras, and none of these guys really have been caught.
I guess they're good at disguising themselves. They get in,
they get out, then they're gone.
Speaker 6 (02:26):
You know.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Back in the speaking of it, by the way, back
in the old days, this wouldn't have happened like before
Ways and before Google Maps, because if you went into Encino,
you got lost or got into a cul de sect
pretty quickly because there's not there's a lot of col
de sects, a lot of dn ed and streets, a
lot of areas that it's hard to navigate around. But
now with with with Ways and Google Maps, these guys
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can come into that neighborhood and it's like they live there.
They get the Google and Way ways and Google Maps
tell them exactly how to get in and get out.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
Now, this most recent incident was reported as a hot
prow burglary. Neighbors say that's frightening that occupants were home
at the time. They've been hearing about similar incidents too
many times lately and say it's unsettling.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Yeah, it is unsettling, but I bet you anything, a
lot of people are keeping their eyes open at night.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
You know, did you hear anything, Did you hear anything?
An need? Do you hear anything?
Speaker 1 (03:20):
A lot of that going on and in Cino Tarzana,
Woodland Hills, Studio, City Palisades.
Speaker 7 (03:26):
Everywhere we see you and I take pictures of their cars,
and it's been a big problem here. And hopefully city
council Woman Ninthia Rahman will help provide.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Yeah, I'm sure they'll be right on it. They'll be
right on it.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
More security on the streets.
Speaker 8 (03:41):
It takes a whole village to get this under control.
We need our politicians to step up. We need police
to step up, We need the DA to step up.
People need to be held accountable. This isn't a free ride,
you know.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Okay, all right, I get that this guy's onto something.
Let's listen again. Here we go.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
It takes a whole village to get this under control.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Well, okay, all right, what do we need in the village.
Speaker 8 (04:01):
We need our politicians to step up? Okay, one, we
need police to step up.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Okay, police are stepping up. Step up, DA to step up.
That's a politician.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
People need to be held accountable.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
This is okay, all right? You know who else needs
to be accountable?
Speaker 1 (04:17):
People who vote they need to be held accountable. You
vote for this crap, then people come into your home
and take all your stuff, and then you blame everybody
else but yourself. You voted the wrong way in the
last couple of elections. Maybe you got the message to
why you know, to reverse corps and maybe not that's
possible as well, who knows.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
But you're also responsible. You guys have to vote the
right way.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
When a guy says I'm gonna be the da I'm
gonna let everybody else I'm gonna let I'm not gonna,
you know, prosecute a certain type of crime that opens
the floodgates.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
And it wasn't a mystery.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
You know when Jackie Lacey was in office and she said,
if if this guy ask and gets in, it's gonna
be the wild wild West. I think those were exact words,
and she was right.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
It's a free ride. You know, you can't just walk
into someone's home and still.
Speaker 9 (05:11):
Maybe they'll be talking about trying to hire patrol for
uh fuss streets.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
And the first neighbor you heard she said that she
has been taking photos of suspicious cars in the neighborhood
just in case.
Speaker 5 (05:22):
Now there's been several break.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Yeah, that's tough to do. I don't know if I
would do that, though.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
You know, you start taking pictures of cars that can
get your ass kicked too. You can get your ass
kick doing that because maybe this guy there with his
secretary doesn't want his wife to know, and then all
of a sudden, you're sniffing around taking photos.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
I don't know she has been taking photos of suspicious
cars in the neighborhood, just in case. Now, there's been
several break ins reported in the San Fernando Valley in
recent days and weeks, including in Sherman Oaks and Sino
and Tarzana. Neighbors tell us they're being vigilant. They're putting
in cameras to alarm systems, communicating with other neighbors, and
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staying aware of suspicious activity or cars driving by that
they don't recognize. Basically all the things that police advise
residents to do to stay safe. But despite that, it
has happened again and again. Now take a look at
this map of some recent break ins in the San
Fernando Valley.
Speaker 5 (06:19):
Lapd said.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
In Encino alone, break in south of the one on
one freeway went up forty percent in July.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Do you hear that forty percent in July?
Speaker 5 (06:28):
Forty percent in July?
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Wow, forty percent. That's huge.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
And citywide residential burglaries were up nearly four percent year
to date.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Wait, but I heard I heard Pepe boota judge over
the weekend said crime is down. So I don't know
somebody's lying, either the stats or Pepe Boota judge, but
somebody's not telling the truth because he said over the
weekend on one of those morning shows that it's a
you know, nobody gets at the information out there, but
crime is actually down.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Does anybody listening to right now believe that?
Speaker 7 (07:03):
No?
Speaker 4 (07:04):
And citywide residential burglaries were up nearly four percent year
to date from the same period last year, according to LAPD.
Back here live, some residents say that they have been
communicating with one another and they're talking about adding private
security in the neighborhood, which will they'll be paying for
out of pocket. But they're also calling on their city
council to take more action.
Speaker 5 (07:26):
We've reached out to the county.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Let's go real quickly to channel I think it's Channel
nine here. This fire out in Sambordino is getting a huge.
Speaker 10 (07:33):
Traditional plan, which would open them up to being able
to get twenty five additional engines into this. The incident
commander said, yes, so we'll see if they want all
twenty five, but at least gives them the option to
bring in twenty five additional engines. I've also heard radio
chatter here about bringing in help from La County.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Those come, Yeah, so what Sordidina.
Speaker 10 (07:52):
They've already got their ask for a lot more Health
County Serverside is already there. They've got mutual aid from
within Sanmbordino County, so they've got CalFire Sambordino CA. I've
heard Ontario Fire involved in this as well, and now
it sounds like they are also requesting from La County Fire.
And yeah, now now I'm listening to the dispatch.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
I heard just now.
Speaker 10 (08:13):
Probably at least ten additional engines dispatch to the fire.
So they're really trying to bring in whatever they can.
And you know, there are certain different engines do different things, right.
There are brush trucks, there are fire engines, there are
ladder trucks.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Fires rat want the brush rigs that come out here.
We got to take a break.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
We'll come back with this fire, give you more information
where the San Berndino fire is happening. They've asked for
a lot more help, a lot, which means they do
not have enough resources and they are desperately seeking more
engines and more help. So if you're on the freeways
and you see a big, you know, caravan of fire
trucks heading east from Los Angeles, chances are they going
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to this same Berndino fire.
Speaker 11 (08:51):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
Forty is Conwy Shower go right to these fires here,
k col is over it. Channel eleven is over it,
Channel seven is over it. What's going on with k
COW Channel nine. I believe they're high over the these
poor homes, these poor people in these homes.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Let's turn the volume. I turn right over there. Okay,
So on that home.
Speaker 9 (09:17):
Wow, that that was burning that we've been watching burn
now for a very long time, or at least maybe
right around the perimeter of it. Kind of a surgical operation,
because they don't want to eject all of that burning
material into the air and have it, you know, fanned
by the flames to go burn. Maybe they can kind
of do it around the periphery of the home and
you know, stop it from spreading to its to its
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neighbor right here and really quick.
Speaker 10 (09:39):
I don't know if in the control, if we can
come to my computer here, I want to show you.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
These are massive homes of up the hill map.
Speaker 10 (09:46):
So this is the home that we just were watching burn. Uh,
this is the home right here, This is where that
our v was burning. This is the other home that
we saw burn. And then this is the home right
here that is on fire and is burning very close
this home that's the one where Desmond was talking about
how the garage kind of butts right up against it.
So and then down here this is that white home
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where we've watched them kind of do the the on
the patio where they've been putting water in on the
patio there. So I just wanted to show people kind
of what this area looks like from a satellite perspective.
And even on the satellite view you can see how
tight these homes are right here and all the shrubs
and brushes that are between them. Look at even on
this map there's that RV that burned.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
Wow.
Speaker 10 (10:26):
So yeah, so this has been here for a while.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Yeah, this is radical out here.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
All right, let's steph if you could slip over to
Channel four real quick.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
I don't know if it is four on right now.
I'm watching it.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
On their website and they have an unbelievable shot of it. No,
they're doing the Olympics, okay, Channel yeah, Channel five or
seven eighty C. Channel seven is they've got I think
it's Brandy Carlos out there, a photo journalist on Channel seven.
Speaker 12 (10:57):
Fire department and then you know, media and photos and
videos was just my passions.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
It's a bad scene out there San Bernardino, our.
Speaker 12 (11:05):
Department life and now I you know, I'm in I
work for R and G News also as well, so
I do a lot of news coverage and I cover
all over California. You know, fire season, and like we
all know, fire season can be every single month. I've
I've had years where I've gone to fires, you know,
from January to up until Christmas Day. It's probably going
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to be a bad year. I know every year they
say it's going to be a bad year. But you know,
we've had a lot of rain, we had relatively mild
fire seasons the last two years, so I think this
is just kind of the warm up to you know,
what we could experience later in the next couple of months,
because we don't even have Santa Ana's right now.
Speaker 13 (11:46):
That's what I was going to talk to you about, Brandy.
You know, anyone who covers fires, you are going to
be very well versed in it when you go out
to cover these fires. You know, for somebody like us,
we're watching and a lot of the viewers are watching this,
but fires they create their own own weather within these firestorms,
and it's really can you describe what it's like sometimes
when you go in and you're driving there and it's
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probably kind of calm around you, and then you get
into sort of the eye of the storm because you're
so close, you have such access, and obviously the firefighters
certainly trust you. But tell us about what you experienced
when you get out the winds and what have you.
Speaker 12 (12:24):
Like you said when you first you never know when
I leave the house, I never know what I'm kind
of getting into. When I first got here to the
Edge Hill fire, you could you could see it burning down,
you know, coming down the hill into the neighborhoods kind
of really didn't look like a whole lot. It looked like, Okay, mass.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Great for people, thanks Stefano.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
But for people that don't know where this edge hell
fire is, I'll try to nail it for you here.
It's essentially where Yamava is. If you go to Yamava
and you had maybe a mile and a half or
two miles west, that's where this edge hill is. And
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it's right off the well. There's there's a freewhere the
two ten, which you know, cuts across a lot of
you know, Fontana and the and the San Bernardino Valley,
and then if you cross the fifteen, you cross the
two fifteen. That's where this fire is burning. So Highland
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is close by. It is north of the ten, just
north of the two ten as well, I think, or
just basically on the two ten and and that's that's
where this edgehill fire is burning. But let's get some
more information here. This is an incredible sight to watch this.
These poor people who woke up this morning inside that house,
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had breakfast inside that house, and now they're on TV
watching the entire thing burned down. I can't imagine how
crippling that is to your your psyche. I can't imagine
these people who had a beautiful, multimillion dollar home, maybe retired.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
They worked their ass.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Off to get up into the hills and have this
beautiful Spanish style roof, palm trees around, beautiful big windows
and doors, three four car garage, and then to watch
it all the centigrade live on TV has to be heartbreaking,
just heartbreaking.
Speaker 11 (14:25):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
Fire burning and Sam Bernardino, And I'll tell you where
this is. It's a little bit further than a mile
from Yamava. If you were to drive it's five miles,
but as the crow fly is probably closer to three
three and a half miles three and a half four
miles west of yama Va Casino, almost exactly parallel. If
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you were to go to Yamava and just go due west,
that's where this fire is up in the hills. It's
around the thirty three hundred block of Beverly Drive in
San Bernardino, up in these small mountains that are right
off the two fifteen freeway, just east of the two
fifteen freeway. And man of these houses huge, and they
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are going up. It looks like one after another after another.
Let's flip on Channel seven here. They're showing a live.
Speaker 14 (15:23):
Shot here, Timmy, can I just add about a little
bit of traffic in the area. I would imagine a
lot of people are trying to self evacuate right now.
And a couple of the main roads, H Street and
also West thirty fourth Street, they're very busy right now,
especially that H Street that heads down towards the two
ten Freeway and thirty fourth Street looks pretty stacked between
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North East Street and H Street.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
Excellent, all right, thank you Angel Martinez.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
Let's flip on channel seven here, and this is a
magnificent home here, two story, probably five four or five
thousand square feet.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
We first completely in gulfed in flats are dropping.
Speaker 13 (15:59):
Helicopters had not arrived so to see them. We know
the sort of resource they are to get to some
of these fires. Because Chris was saying, we've been watching it.
It's just so difficult to see for the firefighters to
get really close and look at that that fire is
so hot and producing so much smoke and really toxic
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smoke as well. But again, we haven't been able to
count how many fires, how many homes have gone up,
or structures or outhouses, but we know that it is
going to be devastating when the smoke clears. But Danny Ramiro,
he's also been watching this and tracking the weather conditions.
We know earlier we heard from Sanberndandino County Fire. Danny
that all on the ground and this fire, it's one
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hundred and nine degrees and that's not including their fire gear.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
Yeah, I mean right on top of that.
Speaker 6 (16:50):
So we're going to get that really intense heat, especially right.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
Around the fire area. Along with that that.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
Humidity is very very low, So man, that.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
Really makes it miserable there.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
We do see that the temperatures right in that one
five twelve range pretty much most of the peak heat
here in the afternoon, there's an evacuation center set up
at Marshall Elementary School at on Marshall Elementary School, which
is very very close to this where the fire is
down further closer to the two fifteen. They're using one
of these parks here and they're filling up basically what
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looks like above ground pools of water and as the
helicopters come by the they dip into these above ground
pools and take that water up to try to fight
this fire. But these are multi million dollar old school,
old money San Barentino homes that are on fire and
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burning one after another, and this is devastating for this community.
I imagine a lot of these homes were built back
in the twenties, thirties or forties, and this is a
devastating for a lot of people out there. Chris Christy
was flying over the scene. We'll pick up what Chris
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Christie says here and see what's going on.
Speaker 15 (18:05):
This is just a devastating site here right along Ridgeline Drive,
This entire neighborhood south of Ridgeline Drive now order to
evacuate again. They are using Marshall Elementary School as the
evacuation center. At this point, you can see there are
several fire crews in this neighborhood and at least one
CalFire helicopter overhead making water drops over this residential neighborhood.
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This fire is surrounding at least a dozen separate residents
and you can see about a half a dozen of
those have already been lost. Some very thick black smoke
coming from Circle Drive. There you could see one home
fully engulfed, a separate home across the way there also
fully englfed, and then a.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
Third, you really have to see this on TV.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
They're using Marshall Elementary School, which is just the east
of where this fire is happening and north of the
two ten freeway off of H Street. As Angel is saying,
but the traffic on H Street, You're right, Angel, is
unbelievable and a lot of those people probably are scared
to death because there's nothing worse than being stuck in
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gridlocked traffic when a fire is nearby, you just start
to panic.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
So this is a huge, huge story out there.
Speaker 15 (19:20):
And then a third home now with active flames coming
through the roof of that house. So we have three
active fires. At the very least. There's also an RV
that has caught on fire down there. And always remember
behind that black smoke is more property that is on fire.
We're coming around the south side now, and I want
to give you a little bit of a little help
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if you're familiar with this area. In terms of the
area affected, we're talking about the neighborhood south of Ridgeline Drive,
north of Beverly Drive, and the group of homes that
you see are on fire here are encompassing El Camino Road,
Fista Drive, Circle Road, and Hillheart strive. These are the
dozen or so homes that are an imminent threat right now.
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You can see more homes in the way of this
fire if this continues the way it is again, there
are limited resources in this neighborhood right now.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
Yeah, and they've been calling for more.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
They want ten to fifteen, maybe twenty more engines. And
they are actually even calling La County Fire and asking
for help from them as well. So they're stretched as
thin as they could be. And they're calling for Orange County,
La County, San Berndino County Riverside to give them a
hand with this because they these fires, these homes are
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going up again, one after another.
Speaker 15 (20:39):
After another, plenty more on the way. It's going to
take some time to really get effective structure protection in place.
Speaker 12 (20:46):
Here.
Speaker 15 (20:47):
There are some crews already on the scene, but you
can see here just a little too late for some
of the homes here in the Shanda Hills section of
Sam Bernardino. This is Shandon Hills on the east side
of a giant hill that basically has a tendency to
create its own wind and weather, if you will, as
Brandy was mentioning, even though it's not a very windy day,
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the breeze can behave very differently when it bounces up
against that terrain there, and you can see that entire
hillside has gone up in flames. It's all charred up there,
as those flames raced towards Canyon Terrace Drive at the
top of that plateau, and hopefully those will be man
made fire breaks that halt the progress at least going
(21:30):
westward of this fire. But right now all eyes are
on those homes further east here, as we've counted at
least three or four homes now up in flames, and
again a couple of others that have already burnt to
the ground.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
Guys, Yeah, and they're trying to get this fire.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
There's a fire line at North Boyna Vista Road, which
is at the top of that hill, and they're trying
to get it to stop there because on the other
side of that hill you have track homes that are
much closer to one another on North Canyon Terrace there
and and Canyon Terrace Drive and Ridgeline as well, And
if those harms start burning, they're so close together that
(22:07):
it'll be a repeat of what we saw in the valley,
where it's one after another after another. Thank god. Look
it's hot outside, which is horrible to try to fight
this fire. But thank god we don't have forty fifty
sixty mile an hour winds, because that does happen in
this part of San Bernardino.
Speaker 13 (22:24):
See a guy on channel on k calhounds rent to
us car with the flames behind them.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
That's unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
And this if we did have sant Ana winds, those
winds come right out of the desert right down through
the past there the fifteen and blow fifty sixty seventy
miles an hour. This could be a huge disaster if
that was happening. So they're in luck there. The humidity
is very low, the temperature is very high, and they're
asking for help from surrounding counties because they do not
(22:54):
have a hold of this fire yet. All right, we're
going to keep covering this. The brush fire burning out there.
They're calling the edge Chill fire. It's where they're two
fifteen and the two ten meet, and I'm just watching
on channel seven. Here another fire engine pulling up that
looks like it's from La County. So it looks like
there's the reserves have already come in to try to
help them.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
Help them out and to save some of these structures.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
All right, we're live major major story here in southern California,
and we are covering it.
Speaker 11 (23:23):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
It's Conway Show. We continue talking about this Edge Hill fire.
It is burning right off the two ten and the
two fifteen freeway about four miles due west of Yamava Casino,
and there are a lot of homes that have been
completely destroyed. They've called on help from La County. I
(23:55):
believe Orange County, Riverside County. They need more engines, they
need more manpower to get this thing under control. And
Steve Krieger is with US, retired captain for La County Fire,
Steve welkome to the program.
Speaker 6 (24:08):
How are you, sir, Hey Tim, I'm doing good.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
Ding dong ah, ding dong with you, buddy. This is
horrible what we're watching on TV right now. When they
put out the bat signal to try to get help
from other counties, I imagine they respond pretty quickly.
Speaker 6 (24:22):
Now, yes they do. They you know, they send out
the request to the region coordinator, which you know, LA
County coordinates for many of the surrounding counties, and they'll
send the resources that are available to go out and
help and help out wherever they can.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
Are these fire engines that are normally just sitting in
the fire station or do they bring guys in to
man these?
Speaker 6 (24:49):
No, these are from the local fire stations, so they
if they need more engines from the nearest counties, they'll
send immediately send engines, and then then additional fire engines.
Then we'll backfill those empty fire stations.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
I see.
Speaker 6 (25:04):
So it's the whole digit six things of getting engines
to the fire and then also backfilling those empty fire
stations so that there's not a lack of resources in
the areas they came from.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
And did they work out?
Speaker 1 (25:18):
I mean, I hate to say this, but everybody you
know talks about it all the time, the financials of it,
I mean, or is it just like we owe you
u allas or we just they probably just getting the
fire engine work that crap out later.
Speaker 6 (25:30):
Yeah, they worked that out later. There's automatic aid, there's
mutual aid. Automatic aid is where they just automatically go
into other jurisdictions like the county has with the Forest Service.
And then there's mutual aid where they do recover some
of the costs. Depending on the duration of the incident,
(25:51):
they cover some of the costs.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
We're watching on Channel nine right now in k Cal,
and these are beautiful, you know, three four thousand square
foot home that probably have been there for quite some
time and they're just burning up, you know, one after another,
and you know it's got to be devastating for the
families who again woke up in that house. All the
(26:14):
things that they have collected in their entire lives are
in that house and it's gone in an instant.
Speaker 6 (26:21):
Yep, it's absolutely correct. But as they're older homes, they
probably don't have the hardening that you would need that
the newer homes have. As far as the bigger they
probably had the bigger screens on their vents to keep
birds and rats out of their attic, but embers can
get right through there. So you notice some of these
homes look like they're burning it from the inside, not fside,
(26:42):
because that attic becomes like a wind tunnel and it
just sucks those embers in there. So they need to
do things to keep the embers from going into those
attic vents, to prevent the attic from catch them on fire.
Once the attic gets going on fire, and they have
limited resources, there's not a whole lot stop that house
from burning down.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
Steve Krieger is with US, former or retired to La
County Fire Captain.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
Steve.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
You know, I was born and raised in the San
Fernando Valley, and in the last twenty five years, we've
been on you know, at kalis X, then here at KFI,
and we've been saying this for you know, twenty five years,
and I still haven't seen any change. But I still
can't believe in southern California, up in the hills, up
in the mountains, they still allow people to grow palm
(27:30):
trees that become a human or become a you know,
a roaming candle with all the embers flying around. I
still can't believe they allow that type of tree up
in the hills.
Speaker 6 (27:42):
It's very difficult to deal with those because those dead
palm fronds burn like crazy and they dropped embers all
around the area. Before we had we had completely enclosed
camp fire engines. The ambers from those used to burn
up our seats in our jump seats well them and
they're very hard to put out because some of them
are so tall. The hooset screens can't reach the tops
(28:04):
of those palm trees. You almost have to have a
ladder truck come out to get the tops of those
palm trees because they're just very difficult to put out,
and those little flying embers from those will go quite
a ways. And it looks like they have a little
bit of win there in San Berardino right now.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
Yeah, it's horrible, all right, see, but John hold here,
hopefully you can stay with us. Steve Kraeger, retired La
County fire Captain. We're watching these homes burn in the
Edge Hill fire right off the two ten and the
two fifteen freeway for people trying to get their bearings
of where this is. It's about four miles due west
(28:40):
of Yamava Casino, right off the two fifty nine, the
two fifteen and the two ten freeway. We are going
to cover this until they've got a hold of this fire.
And it looks like they're doing a much better job.
We see less homes burning and more white smoke, which
is good.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
Signed. We're live I AM six.
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