November 6, 2024 • 31 mins
KFI – Blake Troli: Mountain Fire in Camarillo Area explodes to 10,000+ acres // Mountain Fire explodes to 10,000 acres with homes destroyed // People scramble to evacuate horses in path of Mountain Fire // Dodgers Fan Loses Fingers to Firework and Needs 3rd Surgery, His Dad Says
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's k IF.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
I am six forty and you're listening to the Conway
Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. A lot of
homes burned to the ground, massive amount of damage in
this mountain fire. And Blake Trolley is out there looking
and feeling and reporting packed what he sees out there.
(00:25):
And Blake as well as Blake, how you bub.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
I am not doing too bad? Tim, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
The heavy winds out here in the Camerio area continue
to pound down on the area. These winds were told
have gus up to eighty miles per hour and we've
really felt that intensity out here, and fire crews themselves
have felt the intensity out here. We're told that this
fire started this morning and really just started spreading southwest rapidly,
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just moving with those Santa Ana wins.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Towards the coast, if you will.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
I spoke to Captain Tony McHale earlier today Ventura County
or Ventura Fire Captain Tony McHale, and he had said
this was one intense firefight.
Speaker 4 (01:02):
Well, yeah, obviously with the type of fire weather we're
dealing with, this is extreme fireweather. So this is like
the worst case scenario as far as alignment of forces.
Speaker 5 (01:09):
So, of course this fire is very fast moving and dynamic.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
This fire, when it first started burning, tim was not
only just burning and brush, but there's a lot of
agricultural land here, so the fire hit a lot of
that ag land as well. And then as you mentioned,
this fire moved its way into homes. Now they don't
have account of homes at this time, we're told right now,
really their focus is just getting people out of harm's way.
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That continues to be a big part of the operation here.
We're told that, and I kind of heard you playing
some of this earlier last hour, that they've really had
to come up with a prioritization system out here, just
given how fast this fire is moving, and their very
first priority is moving people outside of their homes. We
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heard a few minutes ago from Captain Trevor Johnson from
the Ventura County Fire Department. He said that he had
guys up in these neighborhoods that were driving around in
fire engines getting people out of their homes and driving
them to safety, then to go back and try to
save those homes.
Speaker 6 (02:10):
The hair on the back of the firefighters neck, I'm
sure with standing up. This is a day where you're
truly prepared to do every part of your job and
risk everything to save everything. These things are valuables, and
all the firefighters out there, they value the people that
they serve, so they took every attempt, made risks, took risks,
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and did everything they can to evacuate and rescue personnel.
So I don't have a quantification on how intense it was,
but it's your life's at risk when you're in these moments, and.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
We saw some of those intense rescues, including deputies going
in and getting a woman out of her house. She
was in a wheelchair, they were trying to get her out.
But really the storyline here seems to be that this
fire came through very fast and really challenged crews to
just first get people out of harm's way, you.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Know, Blake, I saw some of these homes that have
burned up in the hills. A lot of these are
you know, five six thousand square foot homes, and a
lot of them have vineyards there where they're growing grapes,
obviously to make their own wine up there, and I
think that's a big area where people do that a lot.
But these are not homes that were built, you know,
forty fifty sixty years ago with wood, you know, roof
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and woof wood shingles. These homes that have been built
in the last five, six, seven years, they should not
burn down from crap like this.
Speaker 5 (03:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
I think really part of the problem though here, Tim,
is just the intensity of this fire. I mean, I
understand what you're saying. Yeah, and I've seen those shots.
These are definitely not older homes. No, But again, I
really think one of the problems here is you just
have wind carrying embers. They're hitting roofs, and you know,
no matter what you build your home out of, if
it starts getting onto the you know, the roofs of
the wrong spot, you know, your home goes down. And yeah,
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I mean to the point of the agriculture out here,
I mean I passed by a palm tree farm.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
There's plenty of lime and.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
Other types of citrus groves out here that have also
been impacted. I took some video. You can see a
lime grove. I put this on Twitter, and fire just
coming right down to it. I haven't been back through
that area, but I would imagine that the fire had
reached those groves.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
They again, the palm trees, these palm trees are like
sparklers or Roman candles when they catch fire. And every
time you see homes burn here in southern California, you
always see the palm trees. They're always on fire and
they spark for hours.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Well, one of the challenges I just want to add
to this a little bit is just the fact that
this fire it's not only moving fast, but because these
winds are so heavy, it is And when you talk
about palm trees and those types of you know, in
plants that are I guess you could say a fire hazard. Sure,
you know they're saying that this fire is sending embers
two and a half miles away in some cases where
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they're then getting a new spot fire. So when you
take a look at the map of this fire, you
really have two kind of major events. You have one
that's just north of camber Rio and you have another
one that's near the Santa Clara River. But you talk
about the challenges and the dangers of having plants like
a palm tree on your property, You've got ashes flying
through the sky two and a half miles if they
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touch one of those high sitting palm trees. Yeah, that's
definitely a concern.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
And I know you've seen this because you've been up
in that area. I've seen it on TV a couple
of times today. But there are some streets up there
where there are five, six, seven homes that are burned
to the ground, and then there's one home that's been
completely unscathed by this fire. And I know from experience,
especially in the fires that we had in Orange County,
in Orange County in Laguna Beach area, you know a
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couple decades ago that the people whose home has survived,
they go through a tremendous amount of guilt too, that
they have the only surviving home and nothing has really
changed for them, and they see their neighbors just destroyed
and decimated of everything they own.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
Yeah, and you know, we saw a lot of that.
I mean, you know, just recently in the Mount Baldy area.
I went up there and I was actually walking through
the Mount Baldy village right after that fire had gone
through that area with a homeowner who then came up
on another homeowner whose home had had been destroyed. And yeah,
you definitely he's your neighbors. You feel that guilt.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
You get to know these people, you're their neighbors. They
keep an eye on your kids. You keep an eye
on their kids. You know, you dog sit for them,
you bring their trash cans in when they're out of town,
and you become friends with these people, and then to
have everything in their life destroyed and you're unscathed is
a tremendous amount of guilt for the people who I
have survived. I know Mark Thompson went through it up
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in bell Air where he had a house where four
or five homes around him burned to the ground and
his survived, and he went through the same thing a
tremendous amount of guilt. And you know why me, I
think that's what a lot of people going through it
up in Camp Reel right now.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
I think one of the things that adds to the
pain when you think about a lot of homeowners is
just the status of their homeowners' insurance. Right we all
know that a fire insurance has been a real challenge
for a lot of people, and so anytime you hear
of the loss of homes now in the state of California,
you really wonder what rebuilding's going to look like for people.
I remember when I was in Malbaldi, the man I
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spoke with whose home had burned to the ground. I mean,
he didn't even seem like he had any idea of
how he was going to begin to rebuild, or if
he'd even be allowed to rebuild from where he was located.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
I mean, I understand, it's a spectacular area off a
valley vista, and that whole area up there, you know,
be of Romana Road Mission Drive. Those are all spectacular,
beautiful areas, and the people that are in the flats
seem to be pretty uns you know, their house seems
to be untouched. It's the people in the hills who
are surrounded by vegetation, surrounded by palm trees, and it's
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very tough for the fire trucks to get up there
when everyone's evacuating. Those are the homes that always burn.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Well, it's not only just the fact that the roads
that lead up to those homes. I mean, if you
saw some of the shots, you could see that those
homes are really just sitting up on a bluff and
what's below that bluff brush right and fires burn up
hill and they just head right into some of those homes.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
And we saw that today in some of the footage.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Yeah, we'll check back in with you. Thanks for coming on.
All right, Tim, all right, Blake Trolley, everybody. We'll continue
watching this fire. It's wall to wall on all these stations.
I imagine some of these stations will probably stay with
this fire and not do the national news tonight at
six thirty, and we will keep you updated on this
fire and just the amount of homes that have been
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destroyed up there. And if you live in southern California
for more than ten twenty thirty years, you probably have
been in an area that has been affected like this.
You know, we saw it in the Anaheim Hills area.
We saw it in again in Laguna Beach up in
the hills up there. It's you know, if you go
back far enough, when I was a kid back in
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the seventies, early late sixties, early seventies, the Brentwood Fire,
Bell Air fire wiped out a lot of homes up
in that area as well. And then every once in
a while, the big Bear, you know, arrowhead fires that
roll through there. It's it's just devastating, it's absolutely devastating.
And we all find a way to, you know, to
regroup and rebuild and and and save you know, memories
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and lies. But it does affect you for the rest
of your life. For the rest of your life, you
will never sleep again the same way you did before
this fire. It has that kind of effect on you.
It's it's devastating for these people.
Speaker 7 (09:31):
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I AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
All right, let's go to channel it's either k CAL
or Channel two has I think they both have it up.
Speaker 5 (09:43):
This is devastating. This fire, this mountain fire, and.
Speaker 8 (09:45):
A half miles to the west. We're going to turn
back to the west here in.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Just a four or five thousands that burned banking.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
It's way for the coast.
Speaker 8 (09:54):
Now, if you live in Vitura in Oxnard, you're probably
going to start.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
To have some really awful air quality here.
Speaker 8 (10:00):
As you can see, I'm going to pan it over
towards the west and you will see it now basically
getting right towards the ocean, over towards Ventura Harbor right there.
This is just something that happened within the last hour
or so. And you know, we're definitely going to be
monitoring the movement of the fire that was in the
Santa Clara Valley over here. Now as we're we're up
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high enough and you can see this is on the
other side of the mountains, this farmland that is burning.
Look at that right by one twenty six.
Speaker 5 (10:32):
By Highway fish.
Speaker 9 (10:34):
Rock Road, Show Road.
Speaker 8 (10:35):
This is off the Briggs Road exit that is basically
getting to the city of Ventura. So are very very
close to Ventura the far eastern edge. We just heard
the SoundBite of the firefighter talking about Wells Road that's
still farther to the west that's going to be over
in this area, but completely inundated with home. There's a
lot of brush all around the Santa Clara riverbed there
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and it is all in the path of this fire
that is moving to the west.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
And look now.
Speaker 8 (11:03):
Here is some new fire activity that I'm just noticing
here that is getting pretty basically almost at the Ventura
city limits, the Sataquit neighborhood. There is Highway point eighteen
right there where it leads into the backside of Ventura.
And look at how close the flames are. There are
some homes up in these neighborhoods right here Clubhouse Drive.
(11:24):
I'm not sure if I'm seeing anything well, I mean,
there are some little, you know, fires burning here. I
don't seeing homes actively burning, but uh, it's just incredible
how quickly this situation is changing, and such a wide
area that we're talking about. These are intense flames back here,
back in the Santa Clara River.
Speaker 5 (11:44):
So fire's talking about.
Speaker 8 (11:49):
There jumping from more Park towards cam Rio but then
to get to the other side of the mountains and
have been threatening homes. Certainly, people need to be aware
in Santa Paula and Toura's east end right now because
this is just really really alarming.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
Well and sorry, really quick, Pat, I just wanted to
jump in because they did issue it in evacuation warning
for the city parts of the city of Ventura now,
so that is as with the fire continues to move
west and does I don't know, real quick, I just
want to ask you if you can put up satellite
overlay so we can just kind of see the topography
in this area and where those fires were and yeah,
so that's kind of what it looks like. But yeah, Pat,
I just wanted to just let you know really quick.
Speaker 5 (12:26):
Okay, we'll check back.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
With the Channel two, Channel nine. They've been doing a
great job. All the local stations here, the TV stations
have been on top of it. But this fire, with
the fire that they were just showing on Channel two
and Channel nine is probably three or four miles away
from where all these homes are being burned in Cambria.
This is well north of that by about three or
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four miles, and so that means either a new fires
started or embers from the Mountain fire have spread that far.
If that's the case, that's remarkable for those those embers
to fly three four miles and burned, you know right now,
it's just it's it's right off the one twenty six,
a lot of shrubbery, a lot of farmland. But that's
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how this started. That's and more park. That's how this started.
And look what happened to that. If if you're familiar
with that area, the one twenty six is the back
way to Magic Mountain and Valencia, you know, so you
don't have to come down the one on one to
the four or five and back onto the five. It's
the one twenty six that goes along the river bed
there and people know that as the backway to get
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into in and out of Valencia, and that's where the
fire is burned to. So it's gone all the way
from the twenty three and the one to eighteen where
it started, all the way to the one twenty six,
and that's got to be a you know, a ten
to twelve mile span that this fire has has grown.
And these homes that are burning, now that the night
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has fallen and it's yeah, almost completely dark up there,
you can see the hopscotch on how this fire burned
a home down, skipped over to burned, another one, burned,
three more, skipped over a couple, then burned some more.
And these are all, you know, three four five million
dollar homes or most of them up in the hills
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that are burned. These are three four five thousand square
foot homes with pools, a vineyard, and these are really
expensive homes to replace as well, very expensive. And so
now the insurance company, now those questions come into mind again,
you know, will this be another turning point for another
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insurance company or another two insurance companies that say, we
just can't keep rebuilding these homes. And you might see
you're going to see rates grow up, rates go up,
but you also may see a couple of insurance companies
just bail on California. We've already seen that in Florida,
and you're going to see it here in California as well.
If you have animals, big animals, horses, I don't know,
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livestock of any kind. Ventura County Fairgrounds is the place
to take him and they'll watch them there for you.
And fortunately, as of now, the fire is not in
that area, but it has grown very close to the
one twenty six and this shelter where the Ventura Fairgrounds is,
that's south of the one twenty six only by about
a mile or so, I'm sorry, north of the one
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twenty six by a couple of miles, but it's The
address is ten East Harbor Boulevard up there in Ventura.
Speaker 5 (15:32):
People up there, you know where it is.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
It's there's a big I think it's still called the
Crown Plaza, the big hotel. Used to be a holiday
m right right near the pier there on the ocean.
A lot of great restaurants around there. They've really, you know,
kept the area up. It's beautiful, beautiful up there, a
lot of old stores in downtown Ventura.
Speaker 5 (15:51):
It's a beautiful, beautiful place to live.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
My wife and I go up there, you know, three
four times a year just to walk around and get
out of LA. And man, you really like you're out
of LA when you go up there. But ten East
Harbor Boulevard is where they venture fairgrounds are and take
your animals there. They will watch them as long as
you need them to, and we will keep you updated
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on this. But if you turn on you know, maybe
you're in the car right now, you're going to get
home tonight from work, turn on the local news two, four, five, seven,
eleven nine, and you're going to see unbelievable destruction that
this neighborhood has probably never seen before, or at least
hasn't for you know, thirty forty years. But these massive,
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massive homes you would see in Beverly Hills that they've
built up in the hillside here in Camerrio, just completely
leveled and the sparks and the flames continue to burn.
There's not enough firefighters up there, there's not enough fire
trucks up there's not enough helicopters to put all these out,
and so they have to let some of them just
burn to the ground. How heartbreaking is that for people
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everything they've owned, their whole lives ruined in literally twenty minutes.
Takes about twenty minutes to burn one of these homes
to the ground. We're live, We're keep an eye on
this fire. Several people injured, a lot of evacuations ordered,
and this fire does not look like it's going to
slow down. And tomorrow we're gonna have winds as well,
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so be careful out there. Keep it on KFI. We'll
have all the information for you Tonite on this horrible,
devastating fire in Camerio Oxnard, Inventura.
Speaker 7 (17:29):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 5 (17:35):
We will continue talking about this fire.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
It is devastating for our relatives, our neighbors to the
north came Rio Oxnard, Ventura, and the fires are devastating
that area, absolutely devastating. There are dozens and dozens of
homes that have burned to the ground. There are trees
on fire all over the place. A lot of them
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are old, dead trees, and they go up fairly quickly.
Speaker 5 (18:05):
There's sparks flying everywhere.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
If you turn on TV much in channel four right now,
there's sparks everywhere, and these sparks are flying parallel to
the ground. They're not coming, they're not descending, they're flying
parallel to the ground. They start on the trees that around,
you know, thirty forty fifty feet in the air, and
they fly parallel to the ground. That's how that's how
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extreme these winds are. Still and then there's a fire
and Cake Cow is the only one on this. But
there's a fire about four or five miles north of
where all those homes are burning. And I don't know
whether it's it's in the river bed, I can't tell,
but there's two or three areas there that are burning,
and that could be a start of a whole new
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area that burns as well. Oh there's more, there's four,
there's five now, so those have to be members that
have flown from the Mountain fire, which is what they're
calling this. They went and started more park and those
embers must have flown those two or three miles up
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to the riverbed up near you know the thirty three
where you take you know, the thirty three to O Hi.
It's up in that area. It's right off. It's devastating
to these people.
Speaker 5 (19:22):
All right.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
Leo Stalworth was out there talking to people and had
some pretty really good audio here.
Speaker 10 (19:30):
Yeah, one of them lost their home and we talked
to some residents who did not evacuate state behind to
be part of the firefight. And of course, as you
folks have mentioned, firefighters do not advise that we are
at King's Grove Drive and Dunlin Road here in Moore
Park and we're safe and there's nothing happening where we
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are right now. But earlier we were up.
Speaker 9 (19:52):
In that mess.
Speaker 10 (19:53):
You see that smoky Hayes folks homes burned up in
that neck.
Speaker 5 (19:57):
Of the woods.
Speaker 10 (19:57):
We were up there a short while ago. Eyes were
bloodshot red because irritation footfalling. That's where I have on
my shades these glasses right now. And we talked to
a resident who stayed behind with his son, grabbed a
shovel and a garden hose and went toe to toe
with the fire. Got so close to flames that it's
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clothes burned.
Speaker 5 (20:22):
Here's more.
Speaker 11 (20:24):
We saved that house, that house, that house and the
next one because it's an east wind blowing sixty to
eighty with one hundred degrees maximum gust. And if these
houses on the east side of a sketch on fire.
Speaker 10 (20:39):
Dude, look at you, your shirt is singed.
Speaker 11 (20:42):
Guy's house and I guess everybody left because the police
came up and tried to make us leave, and you know,
we want to be ready.
Speaker 9 (20:50):
Our trucks were ready.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
By the way, These are always the guys that everybody
in the neighborhood makes fun of.
Speaker 5 (20:55):
You know.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
They're always buzzing around the neighborhood. They know everybody. You know,
they've they've got their political flags out Andy. They may
not match everybody up there, but yeah, when the s
hits the fan, these are the guys that stay behind
with the shovels and the hoses, their clothes burned, and
they fight to put these fires out. You see this
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every time there's a fire. Every time there's a fire,
these side usually thin, squirrely guys who stay behind and
risk their lives to fight these fires. Every time you
see a fire, you see these guys.
Speaker 7 (21:31):
You would be gone.
Speaker 5 (21:32):
That one would be gone, and so with the next one.
Speaker 11 (21:34):
And they're so all three of these houses would be
gone if we weren't here.
Speaker 10 (21:37):
And what did you guys do to save these on their.
Speaker 9 (21:40):
Little shovels and garden hoses.
Speaker 11 (21:42):
Believe it or not, we had no pressure, oh my goodness,
but it was enough to give us to stop the
fire from well it's it's so windy.
Speaker 5 (21:50):
Yeah, you can't keep your hat on.
Speaker 11 (21:51):
But and there's blowing, the blowing, the fire like crazy.
Speaker 10 (21:56):
Homes have been lost up here.
Speaker 11 (21:57):
There's fifteen on fire, they say, on this side of
the street.
Speaker 5 (22:00):
Don't you look across you can see all the houses.
Speaker 10 (22:02):
So it's just on the other side of the ridge here, just.
Speaker 11 (22:05):
Just I could take you up there and you're gonna
have a big view of destruction.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
On the other side home.
Speaker 9 (22:10):
Yeah, below the ridge.
Speaker 10 (22:12):
Yes, that's where on top of the ridge homes are burning.
Speaker 11 (22:16):
This is so much and this is a green tree
drive and there's another north green tree. I guess a
lot of homes burned up there.
Speaker 12 (22:23):
I went outside and I saw the black smoke coming,
so we did start getting our animals, and within thirty
minutes it was already coming over the hill and.
Speaker 10 (22:30):
It was like probably like an.
Speaker 5 (22:32):
Infernal coming, black smoke coming. Oh yeah, this thing moved quickly.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Years ago, it would have taken you know, eight ten
hours for this fire to reach the vast area up
there that it has, and now there's forty minutes, forty
five minutes and the complete area was devastated.
Speaker 10 (22:52):
Yeah, Courtney, I there are no words, my heart aches
for you. You got everybody out, you got your pets out,
and then you earned your home up in smoke. Yeah.
Speaker 12 (23:03):
Yeah, we got half of our animals out right when
it started, and then we came back and she got
through to get the rest of our animals out. And
my husband works for the Victory County Fire Department, and
they were up there and trying to put out the fire.
Speaker 10 (23:15):
And at this moment, sadly, tragically, Air seven is above
a home that is engulfed in flames. And this is
just one of many homes. And some of the residents
in Camarillo where the home is burning right now, and
even in More Park, residents who lost their homes here
in More Park, they've been in their home for upwards
of thirty forty years.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
Yeah, old school, old money people have been there forever.
Generation after generation. Kids have grown up in that house.
Then they've taken all over from their parents. They're still
in that house and now it's gone, and.
Speaker 10 (23:48):
For it to just go up in smoke like that
is catastrophic. And there are no words, folks, to everyone
out there who has lost a home, they're just darn
no words. My heart aches for you and I'm sure
I speak for every.
Speaker 5 (24:00):
Yeah, and you can hear it in.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
Leo's voice there, Leo Stalworth, he's a great reporter, a
lot of empathy, a lot of sympathy for the people
live up there, and that's what they need. But tomorrow,
when you wake up, you're gonna see if the fire
is not continuing to burn, you'll see home after home
after home completely devastated by this fire. We're gonna keep
an eye on it all night long.
Speaker 7 (24:22):
Here you're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from
KFI Am six forty.
Speaker 5 (24:31):
Let's talk about some other news here.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
Remember the Dodger fan who blew his hand off or
his fingers off. Well, there's an update on what happened
to this young lad. I think his dad is the
one that gave the interview. I'm not sure that the
that the kid is willing to talk about what happened.
The Dodgers win the World Series. This kid goes to
(24:53):
light off of firework and blows off several of his fingers.
Speaker 13 (24:58):
He no good faith, and now viral moments has changed
a young Dodger fans life forever. Cameras were rolling as
a firecracker exploded in twenty five year old Kevin's hands
during post World Series win celebrations in downtown LA.
Speaker 14 (25:14):
So he's basically missing his pointing pointing finger, his middle finger.
Speaker 9 (25:21):
The meat portion between the pointing finger.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
Wow, this guy's down three fingers. Wow, man oh man.
Speaker 9 (25:32):
The meat portion between the pointing finger and I.
Speaker 5 (25:35):
Don't know what that is. Wait? Wait what is the
meat portion.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
Between the oh?
Speaker 5 (25:43):
I say, okay, oh I.
Speaker 14 (25:45):
See the meat portion between the pointing finger and the
th mary, oh.
Speaker 5 (25:49):
I see okay? Alright, man oh man.
Speaker 14 (25:52):
All of this here has has exploded off. He did
have some hidden hearing issues in both of his ears.
He has fragment.
Speaker 5 (26:02):
Wow, this kid really got work. This poor kid man,
you know, he's just having fun. Surprised it wasn't bigger
based on that explosion, Yeah, thatsial was wild. So must
have been an M eighty or N one sixty.
Speaker 14 (26:13):
Was like just like scarring and some scabs and stuff
on his face from the explosion.
Speaker 13 (26:19):
Kevin's dad at Kevin King, says it could have been
much worse.
Speaker 9 (26:23):
The surgeons did see the video.
Speaker 14 (26:24):
Just watching the video alone, they don't understand how he
was able to walk away with the injuries that he
has He protected ninety eight percent of his face from
the explosion.
Speaker 13 (26:36):
The younger Kevin is now at a hospital in Irvine
about to undergo his third surgery. He spoke briefly from
his hospital bed over the weekend.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
Oh, they did give this kid to talk, all right, Hey, guys,
I'm the Dodger fan that blew up his hands.
Speaker 14 (26:49):
He knows, obviously he made a pretty bad mistake of
deciding to light a firework not knowing where it came from.
And then at the same time, it's like he's already like,
what can I do to make this positive?
Speaker 13 (27:02):
Pops his answer, raising awareness about the dangers of fireworks.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
Yeah, this kid will go on a PR tour and
he should. You know, this could happen to a lot
more kids. You know, kids do dumb, dumb things. I've
had a firework blow up in my hand when I
was a kid as well. I think I was like
twelve or thirteen. It wasn't an M one eight, it
wasn't a big firework. It was enough though that numbed
my hand for about three weeks. So this guy had
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a billion times worse fingers blown off his hand.
Speaker 9 (27:32):
Their weapons, it's there, it's dangerous. It's not They're not toys.
I will never light a firework again after watching that.
Speaker 13 (27:39):
Everyone in their family are lifelong Dodgers fans.
Speaker 9 (27:42):
Mentally, he's trying to move forward with this.
Speaker 15 (27:45):
So you can imagine it's going to be a long
road to recovery.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
The family, they should have him throw a first pitch,
opening pitch.
Speaker 15 (27:56):
Sorry, family, So not sure whether or not he's going
to be able to return. Was working the oil drilling
industry after he's fully recovered. There's a go Fundme that's
been set up to help with his mounting medical expenses.
Speaker 5 (28:06):
Oh, it's got to be horrible.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
I mean, if he's still in the hospital and he's
got looking at his third surgery, I mean you maybe
look at one hundred hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Speaker 14 (28:15):
That's a long Yeah, Timmy, if he threw the first pitch,
you think he'd throw a knuckleball?
Speaker 5 (28:21):
Oh, Angel, how dare you?
Speaker 2 (28:23):
This guy's suffering in Irvine and you're just busting Yeah.
Speaker 5 (28:28):
He blew it, okay out? Well, maybe I don't know.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
You know a lot of times you light it with
your dominant hand and you hold it with your secondary hand,
So maybe he blew off the thumb, not his pitching hand.
You know, I always use a lighter in your dominant
hand for you kids out there.
Speaker 16 (28:47):
The fifty dollar goal in the GoFundMe is at ten
thousand dollars right now.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
Ten thousand dollars, okay, all right, that seems like a lot.
A lot of people have chipped in.
Speaker 5 (28:59):
One hundred and twenty people have donated. What's the highest
When it says oh, I can't say that, oh okay,
because somebody always donates. You know, somebody's drunk and donates
like you know, a great someone.
Speaker 16 (29:10):
Two people donated a thousand really yeah, wow?
Speaker 5 (29:13):
All right, this kid's got some friends. Good for him.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
But he's got to go on a road and truck
tour and tell kids, hey, here's what you don't do.
They got to drag him out every fourth of July,
you know, or when they burn that Christmas tree down.
Remember the fire department always takes an old tree and
burns it down right like two weeks before Christmas. You know,
this could be your house. They should drag him around
and have him show people what not to do, what
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not to do, don't blow your hands off with fireworks.
And I gotta say, just as a you know, a
young country bumpkin from the valley flats observing this in
the valley kind of long in the tooth for doing
this at twenty five. Usually by twenty five you sort
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of slowly get it together, you know. I think this
is like a seventeen eighteen year old kid doing this.
Speaker 5 (30:04):
I would get it. But by twenty five, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
I've always heard the number was, I think twenty four
maybe twenty five of when you start to leave trouble alone.
Speaker 16 (30:14):
And I think you I think she might have said
it in the piece there. But he works in the
oil Yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
Right, dahn, So it's uh gonna be difficult man.
Speaker 5 (30:25):
Or need your hands for that, or maybe fits in.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
With the other guys that the oil field drilling. You
know they've all lost fingers. Yeah, that's a very difficult
job to do.
Speaker 5 (30:32):
Is it. Oh yeah, whipping that chain around and drilling
for oil.
Speaker 10 (30:36):
Sure.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
Yeah, I'll bet if you didn't lost the finger in that,
If you if you have all ten fingers and you're
in that game, you're a coward.
Speaker 5 (30:42):
I bet he's.
Speaker 16 (30:43):
Probably got a couple kindred spirits in there.
Speaker 10 (30:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
Yeah, people look down on you if you got all
ten fingers. Yeah, like what you've been in the business
for two hours, got all ten fingers? It's wrong with you,
all right?
Speaker 5 (30:53):
Real life.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
Keep an eye on these fires in Camerrio Ventura. It's horrible.
You'll see some of the video when you go home
and watch it on TV tonight. Just devastating for them.
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Speaker 2 (00:00):
I am six forty and you're listening to the Conway
Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. A lot of
homes burned to the ground, massive amount of damage in
this mountain fire. And Blake Trolley is out there looking
and feeling and reporting packed what he sees out there.
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And Blake as well as Blake, how you bub.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
I am not doing too bad? Tim, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
The heavy winds out here in the Camerio area continue
to pound down on the area. These winds were told
have gus up to eighty miles per hour and we've
really felt that intensity out here, and fire crews themselves
have felt the intensity out here. We're told that this
fire started this morning and really just started spreading southwest rapidly,
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just moving with those Santa Ana wins.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Towards the coast, if you will.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
I spoke to Captain Tony McHale earlier today Ventura County
or Ventura Fire Captain Tony McHale, and he had said
this was one intense firefight.
Speaker 4 (01:02):
Well, yeah, obviously with the type of fire weather we're
dealing with, this is extreme fireweather. So this is like
the worst case scenario as far as alignment of forces.
Speaker 5 (01:09):
So, of course this fire is very fast moving and dynamic.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
This fire, when it first started burning, tim was not
only just burning and brush, but there's a lot of
agricultural land here, so the fire hit a lot of
that ag land as well. And then as you mentioned,
this fire moved its way into homes. Now they don't
have account of homes at this time, we're told right now,
really their focus is just getting people out of harm's way.
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That continues to be a big part of the operation here.
We're told that, and I kind of heard you playing
some of this earlier last hour, that they've really had
to come up with a prioritization system out here, just
given how fast this fire is moving, and their very
first priority is moving people outside of their homes. We
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heard a few minutes ago from Captain Trevor Johnson from
the Ventura County Fire Department. He said that he had
guys up in these neighborhoods that were driving around in
fire engines getting people out of their homes and driving
them to safety, then to go back and try to
save those homes.
Speaker 6 (02:10):
The hair on the back of the firefighters neck, I'm
sure with standing up. This is a day where you're
truly prepared to do every part of your job and
risk everything to save everything. These things are valuables, and
all the firefighters out there, they value the people that
they serve, so they took every attempt, made risks, took risks,
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and did everything they can to evacuate and rescue personnel.
So I don't have a quantification on how intense it was,
but it's your life's at risk when you're in these moments, and.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
We saw some of those intense rescues, including deputies going
in and getting a woman out of her house. She
was in a wheelchair, they were trying to get her out.
But really the storyline here seems to be that this
fire came through very fast and really challenged crews to
just first get people out of harm's way, you.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Know, Blake, I saw some of these homes that have
burned up in the hills. A lot of these are
you know, five six thousand square foot homes, and a
lot of them have vineyards there where they're growing grapes,
obviously to make their own wine up there, and I
think that's a big area where people do that a lot.
But these are not homes that were built, you know,
forty fifty sixty years ago with wood, you know, roof
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and woof wood shingles. These homes that have been built
in the last five, six, seven years, they should not
burn down from crap like this.
Speaker 5 (03:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
I think really part of the problem though here, Tim,
is just the intensity of this fire. I mean, I
understand what you're saying. Yeah, and I've seen those shots.
These are definitely not older homes. No, But again, I
really think one of the problems here is you just
have wind carrying embers. They're hitting roofs, and you know,
no matter what you build your home out of, if
it starts getting onto the you know, the roofs of
the wrong spot, you know, your home goes down. And yeah,
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I mean to the point of the agriculture out here,
I mean I passed by a palm tree farm.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
There's plenty of lime and.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
Other types of citrus groves out here that have also
been impacted. I took some video. You can see a
lime grove. I put this on Twitter, and fire just
coming right down to it. I haven't been back through
that area, but I would imagine that the fire had
reached those groves.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
They again, the palm trees, these palm trees are like
sparklers or Roman candles when they catch fire. And every
time you see homes burn here in southern California, you
always see the palm trees. They're always on fire and
they spark for hours.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Well, one of the challenges I just want to add
to this a little bit is just the fact that
this fire it's not only moving fast, but because these
winds are so heavy, it is And when you talk
about palm trees and those types of you know, in
plants that are I guess you could say a fire hazard. Sure,
you know they're saying that this fire is sending embers
two and a half miles away in some cases where
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they're then getting a new spot fire. So when you
take a look at the map of this fire, you
really have two kind of major events. You have one
that's just north of camber Rio and you have another
one that's near the Santa Clara River. But you talk
about the challenges and the dangers of having plants like
a palm tree on your property, You've got ashes flying
through the sky two and a half miles if they
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touch one of those high sitting palm trees. Yeah, that's
definitely a concern.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
And I know you've seen this because you've been up
in that area. I've seen it on TV a couple
of times today. But there are some streets up there
where there are five, six, seven homes that are burned
to the ground, and then there's one home that's been
completely unscathed by this fire. And I know from experience,
especially in the fires that we had in Orange County,
in Orange County in Laguna Beach area, you know a
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couple decades ago that the people whose home has survived,
they go through a tremendous amount of guilt too, that
they have the only surviving home and nothing has really
changed for them, and they see their neighbors just destroyed
and decimated of everything they own.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
Yeah, and you know, we saw a lot of that.
I mean, you know, just recently in the Mount Baldy area.
I went up there and I was actually walking through
the Mount Baldy village right after that fire had gone
through that area with a homeowner who then came up
on another homeowner whose home had had been destroyed. And yeah,
you definitely he's your neighbors. You feel that guilt.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
You get to know these people, you're their neighbors. They
keep an eye on your kids. You keep an eye
on their kids. You know, you dog sit for them,
you bring their trash cans in when they're out of town,
and you become friends with these people, and then to
have everything in their life destroyed and you're unscathed is
a tremendous amount of guilt for the people who I
have survived. I know Mark Thompson went through it up
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in bell Air where he had a house where four
or five homes around him burned to the ground and
his survived, and he went through the same thing a
tremendous amount of guilt. And you know why me, I
think that's what a lot of people going through it
up in Camp Reel right now.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
I think one of the things that adds to the
pain when you think about a lot of homeowners is
just the status of their homeowners' insurance. Right we all
know that a fire insurance has been a real challenge
for a lot of people, and so anytime you hear
of the loss of homes now in the state of California,
you really wonder what rebuilding's going to look like for people.
I remember when I was in Malbaldi, the man I
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spoke with whose home had burned to the ground. I mean,
he didn't even seem like he had any idea of
how he was going to begin to rebuild, or if
he'd even be allowed to rebuild from where he was located.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
I mean, I understand, it's a spectacular area off a
valley vista, and that whole area up there, you know,
be of Romana Road Mission Drive. Those are all spectacular,
beautiful areas, and the people that are in the flats
seem to be pretty uns you know, their house seems
to be untouched. It's the people in the hills who
are surrounded by vegetation, surrounded by palm trees, and it's
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very tough for the fire trucks to get up there
when everyone's evacuating. Those are the homes that always burn.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Well, it's not only just the fact that the roads
that lead up to those homes. I mean, if you
saw some of the shots, you could see that those
homes are really just sitting up on a bluff and
what's below that bluff brush right and fires burn up
hill and they just head right into some of those homes.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
And we saw that today in some of the footage.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Yeah, we'll check back in with you. Thanks for coming on.
All right, Tim, all right, Blake Trolley, everybody. We'll continue
watching this fire. It's wall to wall on all these stations.
I imagine some of these stations will probably stay with
this fire and not do the national news tonight at
six thirty, and we will keep you updated on this
fire and just the amount of homes that have been
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destroyed up there. And if you live in southern California
for more than ten twenty thirty years, you probably have
been in an area that has been affected like this.
You know, we saw it in the Anaheim Hills area.
We saw it in again in Laguna Beach up in
the hills up there. It's you know, if you go
back far enough, when I was a kid back in
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the seventies, early late sixties, early seventies, the Brentwood Fire,
Bell Air fire wiped out a lot of homes up
in that area as well. And then every once in
a while, the big Bear, you know, arrowhead fires that
roll through there. It's it's just devastating, it's absolutely devastating.
And we all find a way to, you know, to
regroup and rebuild and and and save you know, memories
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and lies. But it does affect you for the rest
of your life. For the rest of your life, you
will never sleep again the same way you did before
this fire. It has that kind of effect on you.
It's it's devastating for these people.
Speaker 7 (09:31):
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Speaker 2 (09:37):
All right, let's go to channel it's either k CAL
or Channel two has I think they both have it up.
Speaker 5 (09:43):
This is devastating. This fire, this mountain fire, and.
Speaker 8 (09:45):
A half miles to the west. We're going to turn
back to the west here in.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Just a four or five thousands that burned banking.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
It's way for the coast.
Speaker 8 (09:54):
Now, if you live in Vitura in Oxnard, you're probably
going to start.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
To have some really awful air quality here.
Speaker 8 (10:00):
As you can see, I'm going to pan it over
towards the west and you will see it now basically
getting right towards the ocean, over towards Ventura Harbor right there.
This is just something that happened within the last hour
or so. And you know, we're definitely going to be
monitoring the movement of the fire that was in the
Santa Clara Valley over here. Now as we're we're up
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high enough and you can see this is on the
other side of the mountains, this farmland that is burning.
Look at that right by one twenty six.
Speaker 5 (10:32):
By Highway fish.
Speaker 9 (10:34):
Rock Road, Show Road.
Speaker 8 (10:35):
This is off the Briggs Road exit that is basically
getting to the city of Ventura. So are very very
close to Ventura the far eastern edge. We just heard
the SoundBite of the firefighter talking about Wells Road that's
still farther to the west that's going to be over
in this area, but completely inundated with home. There's a
lot of brush all around the Santa Clara riverbed there
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and it is all in the path of this fire
that is moving to the west.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
And look now.
Speaker 8 (11:03):
Here is some new fire activity that I'm just noticing
here that is getting pretty basically almost at the Ventura
city limits, the Sataquit neighborhood. There is Highway point eighteen
right there where it leads into the backside of Ventura.
And look at how close the flames are. There are
some homes up in these neighborhoods right here Clubhouse Drive.
(11:24):
I'm not sure if I'm seeing anything well, I mean,
there are some little, you know, fires burning here. I
don't seeing homes actively burning, but uh, it's just incredible
how quickly this situation is changing, and such a wide
area that we're talking about. These are intense flames back here,
back in the Santa Clara River.
Speaker 5 (11:44):
So fire's talking about.
Speaker 8 (11:49):
There jumping from more Park towards cam Rio but then
to get to the other side of the mountains and
have been threatening homes. Certainly, people need to be aware
in Santa Paula and Toura's east end right now because
this is just really really alarming.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
Well and sorry, really quick, Pat, I just wanted to
jump in because they did issue it in evacuation warning
for the city parts of the city of Ventura now,
so that is as with the fire continues to move
west and does I don't know, real quick, I just
want to ask you if you can put up satellite
overlay so we can just kind of see the topography
in this area and where those fires were and yeah,
so that's kind of what it looks like. But yeah, Pat,
I just wanted to just let you know really quick.
Speaker 5 (12:26):
Okay, we'll check back.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
With the Channel two, Channel nine. They've been doing a
great job. All the local stations here, the TV stations
have been on top of it. But this fire, with
the fire that they were just showing on Channel two
and Channel nine is probably three or four miles away
from where all these homes are being burned in Cambria.
This is well north of that by about three or
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four miles, and so that means either a new fires
started or embers from the Mountain fire have spread that far.
If that's the case, that's remarkable for those those embers
to fly three four miles and burned, you know right now,
it's just it's it's right off the one twenty six,
a lot of shrubbery, a lot of farmland. But that's
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how this started. That's and more park. That's how this started.
And look what happened to that. If if you're familiar
with that area, the one twenty six is the back
way to Magic Mountain and Valencia, you know, so you
don't have to come down the one on one to
the four or five and back onto the five. It's
the one twenty six that goes along the river bed
there and people know that as the backway to get
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into in and out of Valencia, and that's where the
fire is burned to. So it's gone all the way
from the twenty three and the one to eighteen where
it started, all the way to the one twenty six,
and that's got to be a you know, a ten
to twelve mile span that this fire has has grown.
And these homes that are burning, now that the night
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has fallen and it's yeah, almost completely dark up there,
you can see the hopscotch on how this fire burned
a home down, skipped over to burned, another one, burned,
three more, skipped over a couple, then burned some more.
And these are all, you know, three four five million
dollar homes or most of them up in the hills
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that are burned. These are three four five thousand square
foot homes with pools, a vineyard, and these are really
expensive homes to replace as well, very expensive. And so
now the insurance company, now those questions come into mind again,
you know, will this be another turning point for another
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insurance company or another two insurance companies that say, we
just can't keep rebuilding these homes. And you might see
you're going to see rates grow up, rates go up,
but you also may see a couple of insurance companies
just bail on California. We've already seen that in Florida,
and you're going to see it here in California as well.
If you have animals, big animals, horses, I don't know,
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livestock of any kind. Ventura County Fairgrounds is the place
to take him and they'll watch them there for you.
And fortunately, as of now, the fire is not in
that area, but it has grown very close to the
one twenty six and this shelter where the Ventura Fairgrounds is,
that's south of the one twenty six only by about
a mile or so, I'm sorry, north of the one
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twenty six by a couple of miles, but it's The
address is ten East Harbor Boulevard up there in Ventura.
Speaker 5 (15:32):
People up there, you know where it is.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
It's there's a big I think it's still called the
Crown Plaza, the big hotel. Used to be a holiday
m right right near the pier there on the ocean.
A lot of great restaurants around there. They've really, you know,
kept the area up. It's beautiful, beautiful up there, a
lot of old stores in downtown Ventura.
Speaker 5 (15:51):
It's a beautiful, beautiful place to live.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
My wife and I go up there, you know, three
four times a year just to walk around and get
out of LA. And man, you really like you're out
of LA when you go up there. But ten East
Harbor Boulevard is where they venture fairgrounds are and take
your animals there. They will watch them as long as
you need them to, and we will keep you updated
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on this. But if you turn on you know, maybe
you're in the car right now, you're going to get
home tonight from work, turn on the local news two, four, five, seven,
eleven nine, and you're going to see unbelievable destruction that
this neighborhood has probably never seen before, or at least
hasn't for you know, thirty forty years. But these massive,
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massive homes you would see in Beverly Hills that they've
built up in the hillside here in Camerrio, just completely
leveled and the sparks and the flames continue to burn.
There's not enough firefighters up there, there's not enough fire
trucks up there's not enough helicopters to put all these out,
and so they have to let some of them just
burn to the ground. How heartbreaking is that for people
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everything they've owned, their whole lives ruined in literally twenty minutes.
Takes about twenty minutes to burn one of these homes
to the ground. We're live, We're keep an eye on
this fire. Several people injured, a lot of evacuations ordered,
and this fire does not look like it's going to
slow down. And tomorrow we're gonna have winds as well,
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so be careful out there. Keep it on KFI. We'll
have all the information for you Tonite on this horrible,
devastating fire in Camerio Oxnard, Inventura.
Speaker 7 (17:29):
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Speaker 5 (17:35):
We will continue talking about this fire.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
It is devastating for our relatives, our neighbors to the
north came Rio Oxnard, Ventura, and the fires are devastating
that area, absolutely devastating. There are dozens and dozens of
homes that have burned to the ground. There are trees
on fire all over the place. A lot of them
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are old, dead trees, and they go up fairly quickly.
Speaker 5 (18:05):
There's sparks flying everywhere.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
If you turn on TV much in channel four right now,
there's sparks everywhere, and these sparks are flying parallel to
the ground. They're not coming, they're not descending, they're flying
parallel to the ground. They start on the trees that around,
you know, thirty forty fifty feet in the air, and
they fly parallel to the ground. That's how that's how
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extreme these winds are. Still and then there's a fire
and Cake Cow is the only one on this. But
there's a fire about four or five miles north of
where all those homes are burning. And I don't know
whether it's it's in the river bed, I can't tell,
but there's two or three areas there that are burning,
and that could be a start of a whole new
(18:51):
area that burns as well. Oh there's more, there's four,
there's five now, so those have to be members that
have flown from the Mountain fire, which is what they're
calling this. They went and started more park and those
embers must have flown those two or three miles up
(19:11):
to the riverbed up near you know the thirty three
where you take you know, the thirty three to O Hi.
It's up in that area. It's right off. It's devastating
to these people.
Speaker 5 (19:22):
All right.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
Leo Stalworth was out there talking to people and had
some pretty really good audio here.
Speaker 10 (19:30):
Yeah, one of them lost their home and we talked
to some residents who did not evacuate state behind to
be part of the firefight. And of course, as you
folks have mentioned, firefighters do not advise that we are
at King's Grove Drive and Dunlin Road here in Moore
Park and we're safe and there's nothing happening where we
(19:50):
are right now. But earlier we were up.
Speaker 9 (19:52):
In that mess.
Speaker 10 (19:53):
You see that smoky Hayes folks homes burned up in
that neck.
Speaker 5 (19:57):
Of the woods.
Speaker 10 (19:57):
We were up there a short while ago. Eyes were
bloodshot red because irritation footfalling. That's where I have on
my shades these glasses right now. And we talked to
a resident who stayed behind with his son, grabbed a
shovel and a garden hose and went toe to toe
with the fire. Got so close to flames that it's
(20:20):
clothes burned.
Speaker 5 (20:22):
Here's more.
Speaker 11 (20:24):
We saved that house, that house, that house and the
next one because it's an east wind blowing sixty to
eighty with one hundred degrees maximum gust. And if these
houses on the east side of a sketch on fire.
Speaker 10 (20:39):
Dude, look at you, your shirt is singed.
Speaker 11 (20:42):
Guy's house and I guess everybody left because the police
came up and tried to make us leave, and you know,
we want to be ready.
Speaker 9 (20:50):
Our trucks were ready.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
By the way, These are always the guys that everybody
in the neighborhood makes fun of.
Speaker 5 (20:55):
You know.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
They're always buzzing around the neighborhood. They know everybody. You know,
they've they've got their political flags out Andy. They may
not match everybody up there, but yeah, when the s
hits the fan, these are the guys that stay behind
with the shovels and the hoses, their clothes burned, and
they fight to put these fires out. You see this
(21:18):
every time there's a fire. Every time there's a fire,
these side usually thin, squirrely guys who stay behind and
risk their lives to fight these fires. Every time you
see a fire, you see these guys.
Speaker 7 (21:31):
You would be gone.
Speaker 5 (21:32):
That one would be gone, and so with the next one.
Speaker 11 (21:34):
And they're so all three of these houses would be
gone if we weren't here.
Speaker 10 (21:37):
And what did you guys do to save these on their.
Speaker 9 (21:40):
Little shovels and garden hoses.
Speaker 11 (21:42):
Believe it or not, we had no pressure, oh my goodness,
but it was enough to give us to stop the
fire from well it's it's so windy.
Speaker 5 (21:50):
Yeah, you can't keep your hat on.
Speaker 11 (21:51):
But and there's blowing, the blowing, the fire like crazy.
Speaker 10 (21:56):
Homes have been lost up here.
Speaker 11 (21:57):
There's fifteen on fire, they say, on this side of
the street.
Speaker 5 (22:00):
Don't you look across you can see all the houses.
Speaker 10 (22:02):
So it's just on the other side of the ridge here, just.
Speaker 11 (22:05):
Just I could take you up there and you're gonna
have a big view of destruction.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
On the other side home.
Speaker 9 (22:10):
Yeah, below the ridge.
Speaker 10 (22:12):
Yes, that's where on top of the ridge homes are burning.
Speaker 11 (22:16):
This is so much and this is a green tree
drive and there's another north green tree. I guess a
lot of homes burned up there.
Speaker 12 (22:23):
I went outside and I saw the black smoke coming,
so we did start getting our animals, and within thirty
minutes it was already coming over the hill and.
Speaker 10 (22:30):
It was like probably like an.
Speaker 5 (22:32):
Infernal coming, black smoke coming. Oh yeah, this thing moved quickly.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Years ago, it would have taken you know, eight ten
hours for this fire to reach the vast area up
there that it has, and now there's forty minutes, forty
five minutes and the complete area was devastated.
Speaker 10 (22:52):
Yeah, Courtney, I there are no words, my heart aches
for you. You got everybody out, you got your pets out,
and then you earned your home up in smoke. Yeah.
Speaker 12 (23:03):
Yeah, we got half of our animals out right when
it started, and then we came back and she got
through to get the rest of our animals out. And
my husband works for the Victory County Fire Department, and
they were up there and trying to put out the fire.
Speaker 10 (23:15):
And at this moment, sadly, tragically, Air seven is above
a home that is engulfed in flames. And this is
just one of many homes. And some of the residents
in Camarillo where the home is burning right now, and
even in More Park, residents who lost their homes here
in More Park, they've been in their home for upwards
of thirty forty years.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
Yeah, old school, old money people have been there forever.
Generation after generation. Kids have grown up in that house.
Then they've taken all over from their parents. They're still
in that house and now it's gone, and.
Speaker 10 (23:48):
For it to just go up in smoke like that
is catastrophic. And there are no words, folks, to everyone
out there who has lost a home, they're just darn
no words. My heart aches for you and I'm sure
I speak for every.
Speaker 5 (24:00):
Yeah, and you can hear it in.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
Leo's voice there, Leo Stalworth, he's a great reporter, a
lot of empathy, a lot of sympathy for the people
live up there, and that's what they need. But tomorrow,
when you wake up, you're gonna see if the fire
is not continuing to burn, you'll see home after home
after home completely devastated by this fire. We're gonna keep
an eye on it all night long.
Speaker 7 (24:22):
Here you're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from
KFI Am six forty.
Speaker 5 (24:31):
Let's talk about some other news here.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
Remember the Dodger fan who blew his hand off or
his fingers off. Well, there's an update on what happened
to this young lad. I think his dad is the
one that gave the interview. I'm not sure that the
that the kid is willing to talk about what happened.
The Dodgers win the World Series. This kid goes to
(24:53):
light off of firework and blows off several of his fingers.
Speaker 13 (24:58):
He no good faith, and now viral moments has changed
a young Dodger fans life forever. Cameras were rolling as
a firecracker exploded in twenty five year old Kevin's hands
during post World Series win celebrations in downtown LA.
Speaker 14 (25:14):
So he's basically missing his pointing pointing finger, his middle finger.
Speaker 9 (25:21):
The meat portion between the pointing finger.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
Wow, this guy's down three fingers. Wow, man oh man.
Speaker 9 (25:32):
The meat portion between the pointing finger and I.
Speaker 5 (25:35):
Don't know what that is. Wait? Wait what is the
meat portion.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
Between the oh?
Speaker 5 (25:43):
I say, okay, oh I.
Speaker 14 (25:45):
See the meat portion between the pointing finger and the
th mary, oh.
Speaker 5 (25:49):
I see okay? Alright, man oh man.
Speaker 14 (25:52):
All of this here has has exploded off. He did
have some hidden hearing issues in both of his ears.
He has fragment.
Speaker 5 (26:02):
Wow, this kid really got work. This poor kid man,
you know, he's just having fun. Surprised it wasn't bigger
based on that explosion, Yeah, thatsial was wild. So must
have been an M eighty or N one sixty.
Speaker 14 (26:13):
Was like just like scarring and some scabs and stuff
on his face from the explosion.
Speaker 13 (26:19):
Kevin's dad at Kevin King, says it could have been
much worse.
Speaker 9 (26:23):
The surgeons did see the video.
Speaker 14 (26:24):
Just watching the video alone, they don't understand how he
was able to walk away with the injuries that he
has He protected ninety eight percent of his face from
the explosion.
Speaker 13 (26:36):
The younger Kevin is now at a hospital in Irvine
about to undergo his third surgery. He spoke briefly from
his hospital bed over the weekend.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
Oh, they did give this kid to talk, all right, Hey, guys,
I'm the Dodger fan that blew up his hands.
Speaker 14 (26:49):
He knows, obviously he made a pretty bad mistake of
deciding to light a firework not knowing where it came from.
And then at the same time, it's like he's already like,
what can I do to make this positive?
Speaker 13 (27:02):
Pops his answer, raising awareness about the dangers of fireworks.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
Yeah, this kid will go on a PR tour and
he should. You know, this could happen to a lot
more kids. You know, kids do dumb, dumb things. I've
had a firework blow up in my hand when I
was a kid as well. I think I was like
twelve or thirteen. It wasn't an M one eight, it
wasn't a big firework. It was enough though that numbed
my hand for about three weeks. So this guy had
(27:28):
a billion times worse fingers blown off his hand.
Speaker 9 (27:32):
Their weapons, it's there, it's dangerous. It's not They're not toys.
I will never light a firework again after watching that.
Speaker 13 (27:39):
Everyone in their family are lifelong Dodgers fans.
Speaker 9 (27:42):
Mentally, he's trying to move forward with this.
Speaker 15 (27:45):
So you can imagine it's going to be a long
road to recovery.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
The family, they should have him throw a first pitch,
opening pitch.
Speaker 15 (27:56):
Sorry, family, So not sure whether or not he's going
to be able to return. Was working the oil drilling
industry after he's fully recovered. There's a go Fundme that's
been set up to help with his mounting medical expenses.
Speaker 5 (28:06):
Oh, it's got to be horrible.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
I mean, if he's still in the hospital and he's
got looking at his third surgery, I mean you maybe
look at one hundred hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Speaker 14 (28:15):
That's a long Yeah, Timmy, if he threw the first pitch,
you think he'd throw a knuckleball?
Speaker 5 (28:21):
Oh, Angel, how dare you?
Speaker 2 (28:23):
This guy's suffering in Irvine and you're just busting Yeah.
Speaker 5 (28:28):
He blew it, okay out? Well, maybe I don't know.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
You know a lot of times you light it with
your dominant hand and you hold it with your secondary hand,
So maybe he blew off the thumb, not his pitching hand.
You know, I always use a lighter in your dominant
hand for you kids out there.
Speaker 16 (28:47):
The fifty dollar goal in the GoFundMe is at ten
thousand dollars right now.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
Ten thousand dollars, okay, all right, that seems like a lot.
A lot of people have chipped in.
Speaker 5 (28:59):
One hundred and twenty people have donated. What's the highest
When it says oh, I can't say that, oh okay,
because somebody always donates. You know, somebody's drunk and donates
like you know, a great someone.
Speaker 16 (29:10):
Two people donated a thousand really yeah, wow?
Speaker 5 (29:13):
All right, this kid's got some friends. Good for him.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
But he's got to go on a road and truck
tour and tell kids, hey, here's what you don't do.
They got to drag him out every fourth of July,
you know, or when they burn that Christmas tree down.
Remember the fire department always takes an old tree and
burns it down right like two weeks before Christmas. You know,
this could be your house. They should drag him around
and have him show people what not to do, what
(29:36):
not to do, don't blow your hands off with fireworks.
And I gotta say, just as a you know, a
young country bumpkin from the valley flats observing this in
the valley kind of long in the tooth for doing
this at twenty five. Usually by twenty five you sort
(29:57):
of slowly get it together, you know. I think this
is like a seventeen eighteen year old kid doing this.
Speaker 5 (30:04):
I would get it. But by twenty five, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
I've always heard the number was, I think twenty four
maybe twenty five of when you start to leave trouble alone.
Speaker 16 (30:14):
And I think you I think she might have said
it in the piece there. But he works in the
oil Yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
Right, dahn, So it's uh gonna be difficult man.
Speaker 5 (30:25):
Or need your hands for that, or maybe fits in.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
With the other guys that the oil field drilling. You
know they've all lost fingers. Yeah, that's a very difficult
job to do.
Speaker 5 (30:32):
Is it. Oh yeah, whipping that chain around and drilling
for oil.
Speaker 10 (30:36):
Sure.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
Yeah, I'll bet if you didn't lost the finger in that,
If you if you have all ten fingers and you're
in that game, you're a coward.
Speaker 5 (30:42):
I bet he's.
Speaker 16 (30:43):
Probably got a couple kindred spirits in there.
Speaker 10 (30:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
Yeah, people look down on you if you got all
ten fingers. Yeah, like what you've been in the business
for two hours, got all ten fingers? It's wrong with you,
all right?
Speaker 5 (30:53):
Real life.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
Keep an eye on these fires in Camerrio Ventura. It's horrible.
You'll see some of the video when you go home
and watch it on TV tonight. Just devastating for them.
We're live on CAFI AM six forty Conway Show on
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