August 5, 2024 • 29 mins
San Bernardino’s Edgehill Fire coverage continued...// Guest: Retired LA Fire Captain Steve Kreeger talks about fires and the negotiations of fire departments when different counties merge to help during fires. // The Edgehill fire continues to burn in the San Bernardino area. // Fire coverage on the Edgehill fire that engulfed five homes in San Bernardino continues.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's KMF I AM sixty and you're listening to the
Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. Let's go
right back out to this fire here. This is a
horrible fire in sam Briandino. They're calling it the edge
Hill Fire. It's right around the thirty three hundred block
of Beverly Drive, right off of the two fifteen Freeway
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and the two ten Freeway. Again, just using this as
a landmark because a lot of people know where Yamava is.
It's about four miles deuce due west of Yamava Casino
do almost exactly west, right before you get to the
two fifteen. They're using the Marshall Elementary as the evacuation center.
Thirty two to eighty eight North G North G as
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in Goat North G Streep in sam Berndino. We have
Steve Krieger with us, who is retired to La County
Fire Captain. And Steve, let me ask you a quick
question here. When do and who decides when a home
is a total loss where they go into defensive posture?
Speaker 2 (01:06):
There is it? The captain are the guys on the
ground who makes that decision.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
It's usually the engine company captain. When they determine that
it's not safe to go into the burying building, you're
going to do it stand round from the outside, surround
and drown. You know, you don't. You don't want to
risk your life for a building. You could risk life
to save somebody in that building, and you risk your
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equipment for saving property. But you you know, when it
gets to the point where it's well involved, it's through
the attic and it's structurally not structurally sound, you got
to get out of there because you don't want that
building collapsing on you. There's no reason to have any
type of injuries or fatalities on these types of fires.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
How lucky are they today where there's not a fifty
mile an hour Santa Ana wind.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Very very lucky, but there's still a little bit of wind.
And if you notice, you saw the spot fires that
were happening up there on the ridge there's that ridgeline drive,
possibly because the winds during the daytime go uphill because
the heating and the convection and the heat goes up,
so you have the spot fires that top of that ridge. Also,
it looks like that's all south facing slopes. South facing
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slopes gets the most sun so they're much drier.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
I even think about that.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Yeah, yeah, you're right, I mean that's that Those are
things you all factor into it on absolutely.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
I was looking at the weather report to the up
near Closure's house in Claremont. There's a weather station next
to the fire station. They're automated, solar powered. At two
o'clock today, the fuel moisture was only four percent, wow,
and the fuel temperature was one hundred and nineteen degrees.
You know, the outside temperature is one hundred and four,
so the fuel is very hot, very dry, and when
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the fuel moisture gets down below four percent, that's almost
totally dry. So that means dead fuels that normally hold
some moisture, and even the live fuels that are like
quarter inch to one inch in diameter, they're still the
old oister most of the time. But set this hot weather,
there's no moisture on. Stuff will burn very easily.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Well, what's the biggest downside to it being one hundred
and four one hundred and five hundred and six degrees
out there? Is it the fire or is it the
guys fight and the guys and gals fighting the fire
that is most affected by that temperature?
Speaker 3 (03:27):
Well, it's both. The fire is going to be more
easily move more easily when it's already preheated from the
outside temperature. But the guys take the beating because after
a while, you can try to keep drinking water a
gatorade and keep yourself hydrated, but at some point you
know you're going to be at a point of exhaustion.
So they have to rehab these guys and check them
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out medically, make sure they're okay, and keep bringing more
crews in to relieve them. So it's kind of a
combination of both. You know.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Steve Grigor's with us retire to La counting fire Captain.
I'm sure there's there's going to be a lot of
time to go over this in the future. And I
hate to kick somebody when they're down, but I got
to tell you, just observing this fire, this edgehell fire,
for the last couple of hours, not a single home
has has a fifty to one hundred feet clearance of shrubs.
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And every single home that burned down there has trees
butting up to the house or bushes running right up
to the house.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
That's absolutely correct. I was noticing myself. I was looking
on TV and also on Google Maps seeing what was
there and doesn't look like there's a lot of rush clearance,
And it's hard to tell when you're just looking at
an aerial too. But again, a lot of those homes
that don't they didn't look like they burnt from the
trees catch them on fire and starting the house on fire.
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They looked like they burnt from the inside. So a
lot of those trees are not in fact burning, So
it's really hard to tell what's going on there from
the ground. But yeah, it looks like they could have
used some more clearance on trees and all that. You
don't want. You don't want anything like right up next
to your house. You don't want wood type mulch like
within six feet of your house. And you don't want
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wood fences real close to your house. You know, in
those areas you're almost bed rock having like a metal
wrought iron fence. So if that's on fire and then
spread to the house, you know, in.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Your experience in the you know, in your many decades
with La County fire, what's the furthest you've seen embers
fly during those sam Burgdino days, the you know, the
Santa Anna winds oh.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
I've seen them up to a mile.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Years ago we were out in the I think it
was the Grand Prix fire. In two thousand and three,
we had a house in Cucamonga, had great clearance, two
story house, had an attic fire. So embers traveled from
the fire and it was very windy then and got
into their attic and started their attic on fire, and
it was about a mile away. Eucalyptus trees, those leaves
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will start on fire and blow through the air, and
they're very aerodynamic and they'll go a long way. Leaf
lift us especially, and there's a lot of dead you
could look us around because of disease. And so you
just got to if you're within a mile of a
brush area, you want to harden your house, do all
the proper protections. Part of that Ready set Go program
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when ready is fixing your house up and make sure
that you're not going to get embers in your attic
and nothing around your house is going to catch on fire.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Steve Craigor's with us retire to La County Fire Captain.
We're talking about the Edgshell fire in Sam Bernardino, I
know you mentioned this last week, and I think I
was working on a news story and I didn't quite
catch the answer. But is it beneficial for homeowners to
hose down their roof before they evacuate or not?
Speaker 3 (06:45):
No, because it's going to dry out. Hosing down the
roof doesn't help a lot. It used to when everybody
had wood shake roofs. But now with the fire resistive
type roofs, composition roofs, tile roofs, it's more important to
keep the embers out of your attic events. That's more important,
and also to close you know, wet and you have
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those ready to take care of any those spot fires.
You know a lot of people will have like mult
around their house and the umberg will drop in that
mulch and start to mulch on fire. See, you're just
saving your water to hit the spot any spots around
your house of yours staying there.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
Now.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
The fods check that they drop from the aircraft, like
the fixed wing tankers. You can buy that for home use.
The fact, I think they even have it. And like
the hose Empire like you have for spraying fertilizer on
your lawn and you can spray down vegetation and your
house with that ahead of time and there are also
insurance companies to have private fire protection. Well, they'll send
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like a like a fire engine to your house and
spray down your house and your property with the pham
or jail to prevent a fire from happening. But when
you have a fast moving fire like this one today,
there's not enough time to get those guys up there.
Big fires that are burning for a couple of days
so they can get time there.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Steve len put you on hold.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Steve Kriegers with us LA County retired Captain. We're we're
looking at this fire here and it is there. Are
they're reporting at least three homes destroyed. I think that
is a wild underestimate and low palling. I think there's
way more than three homes that are burned. I'm looking
at three homes burning right now. Are We're going to
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continue to cover this. It is a fire where you
can see it from anywhere in the sam Berndino Valley.
I know we have a lot of listeners out there
in the ie, so we got you covered here.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
This is horrible fire.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
A lot of people losing their homes, everything they own
is going up in flames, and their retirement, their whole
life and it's extremely, extremely sad.
Speaker 5 (08:50):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from kf
I AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
We're keeping an eye on this fire and bringing you
covering of the Edge Hill fire in San Bernardino. For
people that don't know where that is, it's around the
thirty three hundred block of Beverly Drive. You may not
know where that is either, but it's out where the
two fifteen and the two ten meet. So it's north
of the two ten, east of the two fifteen Freeway,
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and about four miles four and a half miles, as
the crow flies do, almost exactly nor I'm sorry, west
of Yamava Casino. If you're at the casino and you
went directly west one hundred percent west, you'd run right
into this fire. They're saying three homes have burned, but
I think that number is much higher. Steve Kriggers with
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US retired Captain La County Fire Department, Steve, when they
say three houses are burned and I've seen at least
five or six, where does that number come from and
are they just too busy to keep updating it?
Speaker 3 (09:54):
Well, it may come from the helicopters. Give the reports
from what they're seeing overhead, and they're doing an assessment,
so they have to get their numbers together. What make
sure they're all reporting the same inaccurate amounts. What they'll
do is they'll do after the fire's out, they do
an assessment. They go around and make an accurate assessment
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and all the addresses of which homes were damaged, and
then they look at them as how many are damage
and how many destroyed. Some homes may have some slight damage,
maybe the fire probably got and kept the damage from
getting any worse. But one thing I am noticing the
last pictures for ABC seven stop broadcasting was that I
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saw some flames coming up and the guys putting water
on them. They flames for going out. So I'm suspecting
maybe there's some gas lines involved and maybe be able
to shut off the gas to the house.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
Let me ask you a couple of logistical questions. I
know in modern homes, homes built I think since twenty
twenty two, and this may or may not be right.
I think I read this though, that they are going
to demand that people put sprinklers in their homes to
fight these fires. But would you also recommend and do
those Sprinklers inside a home also help if the attic
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is burning or is it just to save lives in
the house.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
It's just to save lives in the house. A few
years ago, throughout the state of California, all new homes,
all new construction, residential construction is required to have fire sprinklers.
Several city did it, you know, several years ago. There's
some very progressive fire chiefs that demanded that, and it
really helps out the fire department because sprinkler at home.
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Nobody's ever died inside a structure that it has fire
sprinklers in.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
It, because that's a great stat plus.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
With smoke detectors get people out quickly. But typically when
you put fire sprinklers in a home, they don't have
them in the attic. They're just a fife safety for
your normal structure fires, but they don't protect your attic.
You know there is but Steve, but.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Do the fire sprinklers do? They produce a hell of
a lot of water damage though in the.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
House as well.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
They do. But typically in like like somewhat percent of
fires where fire sprints are involved, only one sprinkler head
goes off like the see where there's a fire and
all of a sudden, all these sprinklers go off and
they flood the whole building. It's usually one sprinkler head
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goes off, or maybe up to three if it's like
the fire's break between three sprinkler heads. But they do
do water damage, but it's a whole lot better than
having your whole house.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
Yeah, or anybody die.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
You know.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
I noticed this on this fire.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
They're using the evacuation center Marshall Elementary, which I think
is odd because that elementary school is exactly east of
where this fire is burning, which means the smoke is
going to be covering going right over that evacuation center.
Don't they try to use an evacuate center that is
on the windward or the west side of the freeway
of the fires.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
Usually you would do that, but you got to pick
your evacuation center based on the current conditions, and maybe
the wind wasn't blown that way at the time. It's
really hard to tell conditions changed. I was listening to
a fire there day. Everything was going good, and all
of a sudden they had a wind shift and they
had to move resources and change things around. So you
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never know, especially in the late afternoon, things start changing
when the sun starts going down a little bit, conditions change,
so you have to be ready for that. But you
got a lot of good clearance there at that school.
I saw the pictures of it, and looks like there
wasn't a threat to the school as far as any
fire getting over there. But yeah, maybe a little bit
of smoke, but they should be inside of a closed building.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
And what about smoke colors. White smoke is a good sign.
Black smoke is bad.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
Yes, and no. Black smoke is definitely bad. Hot there's
a lot of heavy fuel maybe and hydro carbons, just
like when you watch a car burned, you get a
lot of black smoke from the plastics and the tires.
But white smoke usually indicates that you're getting to handle
on the fire because you're getting a lot of steam involved.
But a lot of times you can have a grass
fire that is mainly white smoked. So it doesn't always
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mean that it's working out, but usually the white smoke
when they're putting water on the fire, that's an indication
that they're hitting the seat of the fire and putting
it out.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
You know, I'm watching this on Channel nine. There is
a beautiful home there that they had about five or
six firefighters on a wrap around balcony. Maybe you saw
the same one and they were squirting And now looks
like a lot of that smoke is coming up right
towards that fire. And man, is that a dangerous place
to sit and stand for these firefighters?
Speaker 2 (14:46):
These are brave guys in galos.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
Man, Yes, it is because they have that up canyon wind. Yeah,
but they're trying to keep the fire, the flames and
the emberors from getting up to that house.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
How dangerous are these barbecue propane tanks for you guys.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
Well, they can be dangerous if they're in a backyard
and there's possible flame impingement from the fire coming up.
But they do vent you know, they have the little
venting device on them, so if they get too hot,
they'll start venting. But you wouldn't want those in that area.
You'd probably want them over on the other side of
the house. You definitely don't want them in your house,
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but you wouldn't want them where they can get flame
impingement if there was a fire near your house.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
And what's the rule of thumb of how long firefighters
stay after the fire is out?
Speaker 2 (15:37):
Is there a textbook amount of hours.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
No, it's till the fire is out and good and out.
You know, they go in, they mop up, They start
hitting the perimeter of the fire area with water and foam,
and then they keep working in further and depending on
the size of the fire, they may mop up only
one hundred feet in if it's a very large fire,
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but it's on the smaller fire they do one hundred
percent mop up. They stay there until every little smoke
coming out of the ground is out.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
God, I mean you guys have to be not only
firefighters but also psychiatrists and psychologists to deal with people
who are coming up to you and they've lost everything.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
Oh absolutely. You know you have to have some compassions.
You know, regardless of the situation, you have some passion
for them. You try to help them out, and usually
you have what you call occupant support, where you support
these people. Get them the knee and there's things taking
care of the get them with the red frost and
get a place to stay for the night, get them
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some food and water. You know, it doesn't end when
the fire goes out. You still have to share these people.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
God bless you and your brothers and sisters. A terrific job.
It looks like they have, you know, a handle on
this now. We'll keep an eye on it. Really appreciate
you coming on, Steve.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
Great, thanks a lot.
Speaker 6 (17:00):
Ah.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
It's Steve Krieger with La County Fire, retired Captain of
Valley County Fire. It looks like they have a hold
of this fire right now, but who knows, you know,
the wind could pick up, there could be another home
on fire.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
We will keep an eye on this all night long.
Speaker 5 (17:16):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
Two hundred firefighters one hundred acres burning out there between
right right here where the two fifteen and the two
to ten freeway meet in San Berndino. Let's Robin mcmillane
was out there for ABC News Live moments ago.
Speaker 7 (17:41):
We've watched a number of fires burn here in the
little Mountain area over the years. We've gone into the
backyard of a home here. Homeowner allowed us back here.
You can see where this person here is using a
garden hose to help kind of water things down because
immediately behind the property up the hill you can see
where there are firefighters up there, and it's tough to
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tell here, because again, there's so much brush in this area.
Clearing all of this brush is difficult from any of
the homeowners in this area. But up the hill there
is one of the.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
Homes that's burning.
Speaker 7 (18:13):
We believe it's on Vista Drive up there. We've been
watching as that home has burned, and obviously for the
property owners here on this street, there is a lot
of concern about what is happening here because the winds,
they're not gusting too badly, but they're very erratic in
this area. And as you guys have been seeing from
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overhead from the helicopter as well as from what we've
seen on the ground, and this has been an issue
anytime we come to a fire in the Little Mountain area.
Just getting in and around the area here is difficult
because not only are the roads tight, but there's lots
of growth, and obviously right now everyone's outside of their homes,
a lot of people watering stuff down like you see
here in the backyard. Why don't you walk with me,
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Let's go back out front and I'll show you what
we were dealing with there again, this fire burning in
the Little Mountain community. You can see a firefighter here
trying to make access. They've been able to drag hose
line up there another firefighter up top. But this gives
you a really good idea of some of the difficulty
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they're having as far as access goes, because if they
can't get there on the if they can't get there
via street, they have to climb through many of these backyards.
You can see you have a seven or eight foot
tall wall there that someone had to go around, climb
up and get the hose line up there. And this
is just trying to get structure protection into place. There's
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another water dropping helicopter to come in and make a drop.
But wat's what this firefighter is doing up here as
he's watering down the side of the hill, and you
can see that home behind him. Look at all that
brush around the home there. That makes it very difficult
for firefighters to get into this area to try to
defend these structures. That's definitely going to be a problem
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as they move forward. Now, as we were driving to
the scene here, there wasn't a whole lot of smoke
being put up. I think part of that was because
as the winds are gusty, some of those smoke bands,
if you will we're laying down. As I talked Dave,
Let's head out to the front yard here and I'll
show our viewers kind of what it.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
Okay, we can also go to Mike O'Brien. Michael Brian
is flying over this fire right now. Mike, what do
you see they got to handle on this thing?
Speaker 6 (20:23):
I got to tell you ten minutes, a lot of
improvement in the last few minutes. Oh yeah, I'm just
seeing some white smoke smoldering promote about two or three
homes in that area. And that's right near Edgemont and
Edgemont and H Street, right on the side of east
side of Big Mountain. Now, so then really all the
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acreags that burned was on the hillside.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
That's just chaparral. But that's already been burned, that's gone.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
Can you give us an idea of how many homes
have burned? They said three, but it looks to me
like more than three.
Speaker 6 (20:58):
I counted three him. But it's a little difficult because.
Speaker 8 (21:03):
Well because a couple are probably still burning there in
the canyon, and you're getting a lot of smoke, so
it's hard for me to see in from the air.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
What is that doing to traffic? Up in the round.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
Those those are very thin streets, very difficult to navigate,
even when there's no fire.
Speaker 6 (21:23):
Well that's the shaker, no closures, and I didn't see
anybody having any trouble getting.
Speaker 8 (21:28):
Through, even just south of the freeway, just below the
freeway or blow to the fire.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
Right.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
And what are the winds like? Are they blowing you
around up there?
Speaker 7 (21:36):
Not bad at all?
Speaker 6 (21:37):
Gus, very cold today, do.
Speaker 3 (21:39):
You have it?
Speaker 2 (21:39):
By the way, do you have air conditioning in that plane?
Speaker 9 (21:41):
No?
Speaker 7 (21:42):
Hell?
Speaker 3 (21:42):
No?
Speaker 2 (21:42):
Oh my god? Oh what's the temperature inside that can?
Speaker 8 (21:47):
Oh it's gotta be.
Speaker 6 (21:50):
What's their temperature?
Speaker 2 (21:53):
Are are you waking the pilot up?
Speaker 6 (21:55):
Yeah, he's asleep. I'm talking about it's pushing ninety.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
I'm sure it's ninety inside the plane.
Speaker 7 (22:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (22:03):
And I will usually have the window open. I had
to scramble to shut it when you called me.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
Oh all right, Well, we're only gonna be on for
another fifteen minutes, so I hope you you know mine.
Speaker 6 (22:14):
I only have a few more and then it's beer.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
You're the best, buddy. I appreciate you coming on and
we'll fly safe.
Speaker 6 (22:21):
All right? Thanks?
Speaker 1 (22:22):
All right, there he goes, he's hot, he's up over
that Edgehill fire right now, if you're in the area,
you see a white winged plane with a little black
on the bottom.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
That is our own Mike O'Brien flying over that that fire.
All right.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
We've been covering this fire all night, all day long.
Looks like they got a pretty good handle on it.
If you're watching k CAL channel line now, they have
live shots here. A few moments ago there they were
showing some footage of these homes that have burnt and man,
oh man, is that that those fires were out of control?
But in the last ten to fifteen minutes, as Mike said,
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they've got an unbelievable hand on these fires.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
It looks like they're all out now.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
So Sam Bernardino Fire, La County Fire, Orange County, Riverside County,
whoever's out there, Man, you guys deserve an adda.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
Boy, you kick the hell out of this fire.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
I thought it was going to go on for hour
after hour, and man, they kicked the hell out of it.
This is great, horrible that these homes are are burned
to the ground. But man, did they get in there
and prevent this from getting to being four or five
hundred homes burning.
Speaker 5 (23:28):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
I think we have Mike. Is it Michael Monks that
went out there are reporting he's just getting ready, yeah,
suiting up, yes, throwing the hose on. Yeah. But that
fire is burning out there in sam Berndino. We've been
covering it all day. I know that KFI is a
huge audience out there. A lot of people live out there.
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They're listening to KFI all the time. And when the
news comes to your backyard, you like to be able
to turn your favorite station on to get information. And
that's how it works out. So the Edgehill fire for
people to live out there and Bellio. You know, we'll
have plenty of time to do this in the future.
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But the La Times called this program the number one
show in the Inland Empire. So that's right, because when
things happen to the Inland Empire, we're on it. You
can tune to KFI and about ninety nine percent of
the time we are on it. We are your station.
When you see smoke, you turn on kfive. This fire
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is it's burned. They said three homes. Now it's up
to five. Let's get an update here on the edge
chill fire burning off the two fifteen that's east of
the two fifteen, north of the two ten Yama Vuck Casino.
If you're standing Yamavat and you went due west one
hundred directly west, you'd run into this fire up in
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the thirty three hundred block of Beverly Drive. They're using
Marshall Elementary as the evacuation center thirty to eighty eight
North g As in Gilbert Street in San Bernardino. That's
just east of where that fire is only by a
couple of blocks. So if your home has been affected,
slide over there and the resources will be there for you.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
I know it's going to be.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
It's if your home was damaged by fire or burned
to the ground. Man, I can't imagine what you're going
to go through, insurance sifting through to try to find
you know, valuables or or you know something that has
some sentimental value, and it's going to be a long roadback.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
But you can make it. You can make it. You
know people have done it before. You're going to.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
If you have insurance and you know, you get your
insurance agent out there, they start working on immediately chances
are they'll probably cut you a check today or tomorrow
for incidentals for hotel, you know, perhaps uh, you know,
if your car was destroyed in the fire, a rent
a car, hotel, food, and they're gonna they're gonna get
you back on your feet. That's what insurance companies do best.
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And they like these types of you know, did dealing
with these people because these are the people that need.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
Them the most, and so they they bond with you.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
I've had a relative whose home was severely damaged by fire,
and he ended up becoming very good friends with the
insurance adjuster because they were in your life, you know,
so many hours and so many days and weeks and months.
They became good friends and still to this day remain
pretty good friends. So they're gonna be out there to
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help you out. It's gonna take a little bit of time,
but you'll get back. You're coming back. Uh and uh
and uh, your your house will be better than it
was before.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
So chin up, let's get an update on this fire.
Speaker 4 (27:05):
The so called Edge Hill fire first started around two
thirty this afternoon on Beverly Drive in the Little Mountain community.
At least at last check, that is San Berdino Police
estimated the fire was at one hundred acres. At least
two hundred firefighters right now are fighting those flames. Evacuations
are underway for dozens of homes, including for people living
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near Ridgeline Drive and Edge Hill Road.
Speaker 9 (27:29):
You can see Air seven panning from one home to
the next to the next that have been lost. Five
in this cluster right here on Vista and Hillhurst. There
was an evacuation order in place. There's an evacuation center
set up at Marshall Elementary for those who are under
that evacuation order. Although when you look at this scene,
it seems like most of the flames have now been
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put out and it's just a cleanup effort. But if
we pan out here, we can see the entire spans
of this fire. It churned up these hillsides, coming dangerously
close to another set of homes at the top. But
luckily there was a bit of a fire break at
those homes and these homes were spared. The same cannot
be said for those down towards the bottom of this ravine.
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Those homes were lost. Families will returning home to nothing
where those houses once stood.
Speaker 4 (28:18):
Yeah, you feel for those families, all right, and you
feel for the firefighters.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
Too, yeah, but mostly for the families again.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
You know, they woke up in these homes, they had breakfast,
they had their dog, they walked their dog, they said
hi to their neighbors, and now it's over. And there's
a tremendous amount of guilt too that people feel whose
homes have been spared. They go through a tremendous amount
of guilt that they were completely unaffected while their neighbor's
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life has been burned to the ground. So lots happening.
We will have an update from Michael Monks. He is
out there getting situated and we will have him on
in the next hour. But what a in Sam Bernardino,
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Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. Let's go
right back out to this fire here. This is a
horrible fire in sam Briandino. They're calling it the edge
Hill Fire. It's right around the thirty three hundred block
of Beverly Drive, right off of the two fifteen Freeway
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and the two ten Freeway. Again, just using this as
a landmark because a lot of people know where Yamava is.
It's about four miles deuce due west of Yamava Casino
do almost exactly west, right before you get to the
two fifteen. They're using the Marshall Elementary as the evacuation center.
Thirty two to eighty eight North G North G as
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in Goat North G Streep in sam Berndino. We have
Steve Krieger with us, who is retired to La County
Fire Captain. And Steve, let me ask you a quick
question here. When do and who decides when a home
is a total loss where they go into defensive posture?
Speaker 2 (01:06):
There is it? The captain are the guys on the
ground who makes that decision.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
It's usually the engine company captain. When they determine that
it's not safe to go into the burying building, you're
going to do it stand round from the outside, surround
and drown. You know, you don't. You don't want to
risk your life for a building. You could risk life
to save somebody in that building, and you risk your
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equipment for saving property. But you you know, when it
gets to the point where it's well involved, it's through
the attic and it's structurally not structurally sound, you got
to get out of there because you don't want that
building collapsing on you. There's no reason to have any
type of injuries or fatalities on these types of fires.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
How lucky are they today where there's not a fifty
mile an hour Santa Ana wind.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Very very lucky, but there's still a little bit of wind.
And if you notice, you saw the spot fires that
were happening up there on the ridge there's that ridgeline drive,
possibly because the winds during the daytime go uphill because
the heating and the convection and the heat goes up,
so you have the spot fires that top of that ridge. Also,
it looks like that's all south facing slopes. South facing
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slopes gets the most sun so they're much drier.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
I even think about that.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Yeah, yeah, you're right, I mean that's that Those are
things you all factor into it on absolutely.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
I was looking at the weather report to the up
near Closure's house in Claremont. There's a weather station next
to the fire station. They're automated, solar powered. At two
o'clock today, the fuel moisture was only four percent, wow,
and the fuel temperature was one hundred and nineteen degrees.
You know, the outside temperature is one hundred and four,
so the fuel is very hot, very dry, and when
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the fuel moisture gets down below four percent, that's almost
totally dry. So that means dead fuels that normally hold
some moisture, and even the live fuels that are like
quarter inch to one inch in diameter, they're still the
old oister most of the time. But set this hot weather,
there's no moisture on. Stuff will burn very easily.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Well, what's the biggest downside to it being one hundred
and four one hundred and five hundred and six degrees
out there? Is it the fire or is it the
guys fight and the guys and gals fighting the fire
that is most affected by that temperature?
Speaker 3 (03:27):
Well, it's both. The fire is going to be more
easily move more easily when it's already preheated from the
outside temperature. But the guys take the beating because after
a while, you can try to keep drinking water a
gatorade and keep yourself hydrated, but at some point you
know you're going to be at a point of exhaustion.
So they have to rehab these guys and check them
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out medically, make sure they're okay, and keep bringing more
crews in to relieve them. So it's kind of a
combination of both. You know.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Steve Grigor's with us retire to La counting fire Captain.
I'm sure there's there's going to be a lot of
time to go over this in the future. And I
hate to kick somebody when they're down, but I got
to tell you, just observing this fire, this edgehell fire,
for the last couple of hours, not a single home
has has a fifty to one hundred feet clearance of shrubs.
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And every single home that burned down there has trees
butting up to the house or bushes running right up
to the house.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
That's absolutely correct. I was noticing myself. I was looking
on TV and also on Google Maps seeing what was
there and doesn't look like there's a lot of rush clearance,
And it's hard to tell when you're just looking at
an aerial too. But again, a lot of those homes
that don't they didn't look like they burnt from the
trees catch them on fire and starting the house on fire.
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They looked like they burnt from the inside. So a
lot of those trees are not in fact burning, So
it's really hard to tell what's going on there from
the ground. But yeah, it looks like they could have
used some more clearance on trees and all that. You
don't want. You don't want anything like right up next
to your house. You don't want wood type mulch like
within six feet of your house. And you don't want
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wood fences real close to your house. You know, in
those areas you're almost bed rock having like a metal
wrought iron fence. So if that's on fire and then
spread to the house, you know, in.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Your experience in the you know, in your many decades
with La County fire, what's the furthest you've seen embers
fly during those sam Burgdino days, the you know, the
Santa Anna winds oh.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
I've seen them up to a mile.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Years ago we were out in the I think it
was the Grand Prix fire. In two thousand and three,
we had a house in Cucamonga, had great clearance, two
story house, had an attic fire. So embers traveled from
the fire and it was very windy then and got
into their attic and started their attic on fire, and
it was about a mile away. Eucalyptus trees, those leaves
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will start on fire and blow through the air, and
they're very aerodynamic and they'll go a long way. Leaf
lift us especially, and there's a lot of dead you
could look us around because of disease. And so you
just got to if you're within a mile of a
brush area, you want to harden your house, do all
the proper protections. Part of that Ready set Go program
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when ready is fixing your house up and make sure
that you're not going to get embers in your attic
and nothing around your house is going to catch on fire.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Steve Craigor's with us retire to La County Fire Captain.
We're talking about the Edgshell fire in Sam Bernardino, I
know you mentioned this last week, and I think I
was working on a news story and I didn't quite
catch the answer. But is it beneficial for homeowners to
hose down their roof before they evacuate or not?
Speaker 3 (06:45):
No, because it's going to dry out. Hosing down the
roof doesn't help a lot. It used to when everybody
had wood shake roofs. But now with the fire resistive
type roofs, composition roofs, tile roofs, it's more important to
keep the embers out of your attic events. That's more important,
and also to close you know, wet and you have
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those ready to take care of any those spot fires.
You know a lot of people will have like mult
around their house and the umberg will drop in that
mulch and start to mulch on fire. See, you're just
saving your water to hit the spot any spots around
your house of yours staying there.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
Now.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
The fods check that they drop from the aircraft, like
the fixed wing tankers. You can buy that for home use.
The fact, I think they even have it. And like
the hose Empire like you have for spraying fertilizer on
your lawn and you can spray down vegetation and your
house with that ahead of time and there are also
insurance companies to have private fire protection. Well, they'll send
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like a like a fire engine to your house and
spray down your house and your property with the pham
or jail to prevent a fire from happening. But when
you have a fast moving fire like this one today,
there's not enough time to get those guys up there.
Big fires that are burning for a couple of days
so they can get time there.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Steve len put you on hold.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Steve Kriegers with us LA County retired Captain. We're we're
looking at this fire here and it is there. Are
they're reporting at least three homes destroyed. I think that
is a wild underestimate and low palling. I think there's
way more than three homes that are burned. I'm looking
at three homes burning right now. Are We're going to
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continue to cover this. It is a fire where you
can see it from anywhere in the sam Berndino Valley.
I know we have a lot of listeners out there
in the ie, so we got you covered here.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
This is horrible fire.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
A lot of people losing their homes, everything they own
is going up in flames, and their retirement, their whole
life and it's extremely, extremely sad.
Speaker 5 (08:50):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from kf
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Speaker 1 (08:56):
We're keeping an eye on this fire and bringing you
covering of the Edge Hill fire in San Bernardino. For
people that don't know where that is, it's around the
thirty three hundred block of Beverly Drive. You may not
know where that is either, but it's out where the
two fifteen and the two ten meet. So it's north
of the two ten, east of the two fifteen Freeway,
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and about four miles four and a half miles, as
the crow flies do, almost exactly nor I'm sorry, west
of Yamava Casino. If you're at the casino and you
went directly west one hundred percent west, you'd run right
into this fire. They're saying three homes have burned, but
I think that number is much higher. Steve Kriggers with
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US retired Captain La County Fire Department, Steve, when they
say three houses are burned and I've seen at least
five or six, where does that number come from and
are they just too busy to keep updating it?
Speaker 3 (09:54):
Well, it may come from the helicopters. Give the reports
from what they're seeing overhead, and they're doing an assessment,
so they have to get their numbers together. What make
sure they're all reporting the same inaccurate amounts. What they'll
do is they'll do after the fire's out, they do
an assessment. They go around and make an accurate assessment
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and all the addresses of which homes were damaged, and
then they look at them as how many are damage
and how many destroyed. Some homes may have some slight damage,
maybe the fire probably got and kept the damage from
getting any worse. But one thing I am noticing the
last pictures for ABC seven stop broadcasting was that I
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saw some flames coming up and the guys putting water
on them. They flames for going out. So I'm suspecting
maybe there's some gas lines involved and maybe be able
to shut off the gas to the house.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
Let me ask you a couple of logistical questions. I
know in modern homes, homes built I think since twenty
twenty two, and this may or may not be right.
I think I read this though, that they are going
to demand that people put sprinklers in their homes to
fight these fires. But would you also recommend and do
those Sprinklers inside a home also help if the attic
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is burning or is it just to save lives in
the house.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
It's just to save lives in the house. A few
years ago, throughout the state of California, all new homes,
all new construction, residential construction is required to have fire sprinklers.
Several city did it, you know, several years ago. There's
some very progressive fire chiefs that demanded that, and it
really helps out the fire department because sprinkler at home.
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Nobody's ever died inside a structure that it has fire
sprinklers in.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
It, because that's a great stat plus.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
With smoke detectors get people out quickly. But typically when
you put fire sprinklers in a home, they don't have
them in the attic. They're just a fife safety for
your normal structure fires, but they don't protect your attic.
You know there is but Steve, but.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Do the fire sprinklers do? They produce a hell of
a lot of water damage though in the.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
House as well.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
They do. But typically in like like somewhat percent of
fires where fire sprints are involved, only one sprinkler head
goes off like the see where there's a fire and
all of a sudden, all these sprinklers go off and
they flood the whole building. It's usually one sprinkler head
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goes off, or maybe up to three if it's like
the fire's break between three sprinkler heads. But they do
do water damage, but it's a whole lot better than
having your whole house.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
Yeah, or anybody die.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
You know.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
I noticed this on this fire.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
They're using the evacuation center Marshall Elementary, which I think
is odd because that elementary school is exactly east of
where this fire is burning, which means the smoke is
going to be covering going right over that evacuation center.
Don't they try to use an evacuate center that is
on the windward or the west side of the freeway
of the fires.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
Usually you would do that, but you got to pick
your evacuation center based on the current conditions, and maybe
the wind wasn't blown that way at the time. It's
really hard to tell conditions changed. I was listening to
a fire there day. Everything was going good, and all
of a sudden they had a wind shift and they
had to move resources and change things around. So you
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never know, especially in the late afternoon, things start changing
when the sun starts going down a little bit, conditions change,
so you have to be ready for that. But you
got a lot of good clearance there at that school.
I saw the pictures of it, and looks like there
wasn't a threat to the school as far as any
fire getting over there. But yeah, maybe a little bit
of smoke, but they should be inside of a closed building.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
And what about smoke colors. White smoke is a good sign.
Black smoke is bad.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
Yes, and no. Black smoke is definitely bad. Hot there's
a lot of heavy fuel maybe and hydro carbons, just
like when you watch a car burned, you get a
lot of black smoke from the plastics and the tires.
But white smoke usually indicates that you're getting to handle
on the fire because you're getting a lot of steam involved.
But a lot of times you can have a grass
fire that is mainly white smoked. So it doesn't always
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mean that it's working out, but usually the white smoke
when they're putting water on the fire, that's an indication
that they're hitting the seat of the fire and putting
it out.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
You know, I'm watching this on Channel nine. There is
a beautiful home there that they had about five or
six firefighters on a wrap around balcony. Maybe you saw
the same one and they were squirting And now looks
like a lot of that smoke is coming up right
towards that fire. And man, is that a dangerous place
to sit and stand for these firefighters?
Speaker 2 (14:46):
These are brave guys in galos.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
Man, Yes, it is because they have that up canyon wind. Yeah,
but they're trying to keep the fire, the flames and
the emberors from getting up to that house.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
How dangerous are these barbecue propane tanks for you guys.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
Well, they can be dangerous if they're in a backyard
and there's possible flame impingement from the fire coming up.
But they do vent you know, they have the little
venting device on them, so if they get too hot,
they'll start venting. But you wouldn't want those in that area.
You'd probably want them over on the other side of
the house. You definitely don't want them in your house,
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but you wouldn't want them where they can get flame
impingement if there was a fire near your house.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
And what's the rule of thumb of how long firefighters
stay after the fire is out?
Speaker 2 (15:37):
Is there a textbook amount of hours.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
No, it's till the fire is out and good and out.
You know, they go in, they mop up, They start
hitting the perimeter of the fire area with water and foam,
and then they keep working in further and depending on
the size of the fire, they may mop up only
one hundred feet in if it's a very large fire,
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but it's on the smaller fire they do one hundred
percent mop up. They stay there until every little smoke
coming out of the ground is out.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
God, I mean you guys have to be not only
firefighters but also psychiatrists and psychologists to deal with people
who are coming up to you and they've lost everything.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
Oh absolutely. You know you have to have some compassions.
You know, regardless of the situation, you have some passion
for them. You try to help them out, and usually
you have what you call occupant support, where you support
these people. Get them the knee and there's things taking
care of the get them with the red frost and
get a place to stay for the night, get them
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some food and water. You know, it doesn't end when
the fire goes out. You still have to share these people.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
God bless you and your brothers and sisters. A terrific job.
It looks like they have, you know, a handle on
this now. We'll keep an eye on it. Really appreciate
you coming on, Steve.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
Great, thanks a lot.
Speaker 6 (17:00):
Ah.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
It's Steve Krieger with La County Fire, retired Captain of
Valley County Fire. It looks like they have a hold
of this fire right now, but who knows, you know,
the wind could pick up, there could be another home
on fire.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
We will keep an eye on this all night long.
Speaker 5 (17:16):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
Two hundred firefighters one hundred acres burning out there between
right right here where the two fifteen and the two
to ten freeway meet in San Berndino. Let's Robin mcmillane
was out there for ABC News Live moments ago.
Speaker 7 (17:41):
We've watched a number of fires burn here in the
little Mountain area over the years. We've gone into the
backyard of a home here. Homeowner allowed us back here.
You can see where this person here is using a
garden hose to help kind of water things down because
immediately behind the property up the hill you can see
where there are firefighters up there, and it's tough to
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tell here, because again, there's so much brush in this area.
Clearing all of this brush is difficult from any of
the homeowners in this area. But up the hill there
is one of the.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
Homes that's burning.
Speaker 7 (18:13):
We believe it's on Vista Drive up there. We've been
watching as that home has burned, and obviously for the
property owners here on this street, there is a lot
of concern about what is happening here because the winds,
they're not gusting too badly, but they're very erratic in
this area. And as you guys have been seeing from
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overhead from the helicopter as well as from what we've
seen on the ground, and this has been an issue
anytime we come to a fire in the Little Mountain area.
Just getting in and around the area here is difficult
because not only are the roads tight, but there's lots
of growth, and obviously right now everyone's outside of their homes,
a lot of people watering stuff down like you see
here in the backyard. Why don't you walk with me,
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Let's go back out front and I'll show you what
we were dealing with there again, this fire burning in
the Little Mountain community. You can see a firefighter here
trying to make access. They've been able to drag hose
line up there another firefighter up top. But this gives
you a really good idea of some of the difficulty
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they're having as far as access goes, because if they
can't get there on the if they can't get there
via street, they have to climb through many of these backyards.
You can see you have a seven or eight foot
tall wall there that someone had to go around, climb
up and get the hose line up there. And this
is just trying to get structure protection into place. There's
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another water dropping helicopter to come in and make a drop.
But wat's what this firefighter is doing up here as
he's watering down the side of the hill, and you
can see that home behind him. Look at all that
brush around the home there. That makes it very difficult
for firefighters to get into this area to try to
defend these structures. That's definitely going to be a problem
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as they move forward. Now, as we were driving to
the scene here, there wasn't a whole lot of smoke
being put up. I think part of that was because
as the winds are gusty, some of those smoke bands,
if you will we're laying down. As I talked Dave,
Let's head out to the front yard here and I'll
show our viewers kind of what it.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
Okay, we can also go to Mike O'Brien. Michael Brian
is flying over this fire right now. Mike, what do
you see they got to handle on this thing?
Speaker 6 (20:23):
I got to tell you ten minutes, a lot of
improvement in the last few minutes. Oh yeah, I'm just
seeing some white smoke smoldering promote about two or three
homes in that area. And that's right near Edgemont and
Edgemont and H Street, right on the side of east
side of Big Mountain. Now, so then really all the
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acreags that burned was on the hillside.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
That's just chaparral. But that's already been burned, that's gone.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
Can you give us an idea of how many homes
have burned? They said three, but it looks to me
like more than three.
Speaker 6 (20:58):
I counted three him. But it's a little difficult because.
Speaker 8 (21:03):
Well because a couple are probably still burning there in
the canyon, and you're getting a lot of smoke, so
it's hard for me to see in from the air.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
What is that doing to traffic? Up in the round.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
Those those are very thin streets, very difficult to navigate,
even when there's no fire.
Speaker 6 (21:23):
Well that's the shaker, no closures, and I didn't see
anybody having any trouble getting.
Speaker 8 (21:28):
Through, even just south of the freeway, just below the
freeway or blow to the fire.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
Right.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
And what are the winds like? Are they blowing you
around up there?
Speaker 7 (21:36):
Not bad at all?
Speaker 6 (21:37):
Gus, very cold today, do.
Speaker 3 (21:39):
You have it?
Speaker 2 (21:39):
By the way, do you have air conditioning in that plane?
Speaker 9 (21:41):
No?
Speaker 7 (21:42):
Hell?
Speaker 3 (21:42):
No?
Speaker 2 (21:42):
Oh my god? Oh what's the temperature inside that can?
Speaker 8 (21:47):
Oh it's gotta be.
Speaker 6 (21:50):
What's their temperature?
Speaker 2 (21:53):
Are are you waking the pilot up?
Speaker 6 (21:55):
Yeah, he's asleep. I'm talking about it's pushing ninety.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
I'm sure it's ninety inside the plane.
Speaker 7 (22:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (22:03):
And I will usually have the window open. I had
to scramble to shut it when you called me.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
Oh all right, Well, we're only gonna be on for
another fifteen minutes, so I hope you you know mine.
Speaker 6 (22:14):
I only have a few more and then it's beer.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
You're the best, buddy. I appreciate you coming on and
we'll fly safe.
Speaker 6 (22:21):
All right? Thanks?
Speaker 1 (22:22):
All right, there he goes, he's hot, he's up over
that Edgehill fire right now, if you're in the area,
you see a white winged plane with a little black
on the bottom.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
That is our own Mike O'Brien flying over that that fire.
All right.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
We've been covering this fire all night, all day long.
Looks like they got a pretty good handle on it.
If you're watching k CAL channel line now, they have
live shots here. A few moments ago there they were
showing some footage of these homes that have burnt and man,
oh man, is that that those fires were out of control?
But in the last ten to fifteen minutes, as Mike said,
(22:56):
they've got an unbelievable hand on these fires.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
It looks like they're all out now.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
So Sam Bernardino Fire, La County Fire, Orange County, Riverside County,
whoever's out there, Man, you guys deserve an adda.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
Boy, you kick the hell out of this fire.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
I thought it was going to go on for hour
after hour, and man, they kicked the hell out of it.
This is great, horrible that these homes are are burned
to the ground. But man, did they get in there
and prevent this from getting to being four or five
hundred homes burning.
Speaker 5 (23:28):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
I think we have Mike. Is it Michael Monks that
went out there are reporting he's just getting ready, yeah,
suiting up, yes, throwing the hose on. Yeah. But that
fire is burning out there in sam Berndino. We've been
covering it all day. I know that KFI is a
huge audience out there. A lot of people live out there.
(23:57):
They're listening to KFI all the time. And when the
news comes to your backyard, you like to be able
to turn your favorite station on to get information. And
that's how it works out. So the Edgehill fire for
people to live out there and Bellio. You know, we'll
have plenty of time to do this in the future.
(24:17):
But the La Times called this program the number one
show in the Inland Empire. So that's right, because when
things happen to the Inland Empire, we're on it. You
can tune to KFI and about ninety nine percent of
the time we are on it. We are your station.
When you see smoke, you turn on kfive. This fire
(24:38):
is it's burned. They said three homes. Now it's up
to five. Let's get an update here on the edge
chill fire burning off the two fifteen that's east of
the two fifteen, north of the two ten Yama Vuck Casino.
If you're standing Yamavat and you went due west one
hundred directly west, you'd run into this fire up in
(25:01):
the thirty three hundred block of Beverly Drive. They're using
Marshall Elementary as the evacuation center thirty to eighty eight
North g As in Gilbert Street in San Bernardino. That's
just east of where that fire is only by a
couple of blocks. So if your home has been affected,
slide over there and the resources will be there for you.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
I know it's going to be.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
It's if your home was damaged by fire or burned
to the ground. Man, I can't imagine what you're going
to go through, insurance sifting through to try to find
you know, valuables or or you know something that has
some sentimental value, and it's going to be a long roadback.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
But you can make it. You can make it. You
know people have done it before. You're going to.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
If you have insurance and you know, you get your
insurance agent out there, they start working on immediately chances
are they'll probably cut you a check today or tomorrow
for incidentals for hotel, you know, perhaps uh, you know,
if your car was destroyed in the fire, a rent
a car, hotel, food, and they're gonna they're gonna get
you back on your feet. That's what insurance companies do best.
(26:17):
And they like these types of you know, did dealing
with these people because these are the people that need.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
Them the most, and so they they bond with you.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
I've had a relative whose home was severely damaged by fire,
and he ended up becoming very good friends with the
insurance adjuster because they were in your life, you know,
so many hours and so many days and weeks and months.
They became good friends and still to this day remain
pretty good friends. So they're gonna be out there to
(26:50):
help you out. It's gonna take a little bit of time,
but you'll get back. You're coming back. Uh and uh
and uh, your your house will be better than it
was before.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
So chin up, let's get an update on this fire.
Speaker 4 (27:05):
The so called Edge Hill fire first started around two
thirty this afternoon on Beverly Drive in the Little Mountain community.
At least at last check, that is San Berdino Police
estimated the fire was at one hundred acres. At least
two hundred firefighters right now are fighting those flames. Evacuations
are underway for dozens of homes, including for people living
(27:26):
near Ridgeline Drive and Edge Hill Road.
Speaker 9 (27:29):
You can see Air seven panning from one home to
the next to the next that have been lost. Five
in this cluster right here on Vista and Hillhurst. There
was an evacuation order in place. There's an evacuation center
set up at Marshall Elementary for those who are under
that evacuation order. Although when you look at this scene,
it seems like most of the flames have now been
(27:50):
put out and it's just a cleanup effort. But if
we pan out here, we can see the entire spans
of this fire. It churned up these hillsides, coming dangerously
close to another set of homes at the top. But
luckily there was a bit of a fire break at
those homes and these homes were spared. The same cannot
be said for those down towards the bottom of this ravine.
(28:11):
Those homes were lost. Families will returning home to nothing
where those houses once stood.
Speaker 4 (28:18):
Yeah, you feel for those families, all right, and you
feel for the firefighters.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
Too, yeah, but mostly for the families again.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
You know, they woke up in these homes, they had breakfast,
they had their dog, they walked their dog, they said
hi to their neighbors, and now it's over. And there's
a tremendous amount of guilt too that people feel whose
homes have been spared. They go through a tremendous amount
of guilt that they were completely unaffected while their neighbor's
(28:48):
life has been burned to the ground. So lots happening.
We will have an update from Michael Monks. He is
out there getting situated and we will have him on
in the next hour. But what a in Sam Bernardino,
We're live on KFI AM six forty Conway show on
demand on the iHeartRadio app. Now you can always hear
(29:09):
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