January 10, 2025 • 37 mins
Los Angeles Fire Department chief Kristin Crowley has turned on the LA local leadership. And KTLA’s Courtney Friel joins the show to discuss the latest on and the process of covering the fires in SoCal. They also discuss the toll of lost homes and people revisiting the sites of where their homes were. // Everybody in SoCal has been impacted by this fire, and everyone in LA is on their last nerve. Meanwhile, the Palisades fire is posing a risk to Encino and Tarzana at the moment. Tim discusses how the residents of SoCal have had enough of being on edge and how much a semblance of normalcy would help us. // Breaking news regarding the Palisades fire. // We're continuing to follow breaking news as it pertains to the Palisades fire. There is an updated presser with the latest fire information; the Eaton fire and the Palisades fires are causing current and present danger.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's KFI AM six forty and you're listening to the
Conway Show on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
On the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
Here is the LA Fire Department Chief Kristin Crowley. Finally,
somebody in local government is telling us the truth about
the resources and about how the city has failed the
citizens of Los Angeles. This is very important to listen to.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Does the City of Los Angeles fail you and your
department and our city.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
It's my job to stand up as a chief and
exactly say, justifiably what the fire department needs to operate
to meet the demands of the community.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Did they fail you?
Speaker 3 (00:42):
That is our job, and I tell you that's why
I'm here. So let's get us what we need so
firefighters can do their jobs.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Did they fail you?
Speaker 4 (00:50):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (00:51):
Regarding the Times article that came out that the Santaanez
Reservoir was closed to repairs and it was empty, one
hundred and seventeen million gallons of water could have been
used in this fight.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Sure.
Speaker 6 (01:02):
So.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
My stance on this is when a firefighter comes up
to a hydrant, we expect there's going to be water.
We don't control the water supply. Our firefighters are there
to protect lives and property and to make sure that
we're properly trained and equipped.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
That's my position on this.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
So if there's no water, I don't know how the
water gets to the hydrants. Please defer that to DWP
or whomever controls that part. But I can tell you
the resiliency of our firefighters. If there's no water, they're
going to go find water. They're going to figure out
a way to do the best they can with what
they've got in a very dynamic situation.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
And she was appointed by Mayor Bass. I believe so
La Fire Department chief is meeting right now with Mayor Bass.
Wouldn't you love to be a fly on the wall
in that meeting, throw in the city under the firetruck
or bus and saying we needed more water, We needed
more help. One hundred and seventeen million gallons have really
(02:00):
helped in Pacific helisades. All right, Courtney frielis whether it's
from KTLA anchor and reporter, Courtney, welcome to KFI.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
How are you hey?
Speaker 7 (02:08):
Tim makes you talk with you again?
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Last?
Speaker 2 (02:12):
That's right, that's right, you know.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
So I'm so proud of Look, I'm a big fan
of of all of local news, you know, two, four, five, seven,
nine eleven. That's all I do is watch news I
recorded all night. I'm like a lunatic. But man, this
has to be an unbelievable week for field reporters. Not
only is it dangerous for you and and your you know,
co reporters or co workers, but just to see all
(02:36):
that despair and then try to hold it together when
the camera is on must be an unbelievable difficult, unbelievably
difficult thing to do.
Speaker 7 (02:44):
It is so crazy. But wait, I have to tell you.
I was just on my roof. I live in mar Vista,
and I'm looking towards the Palisades fire and unfortunately the
wind has shifted. There is a huge smoke column going
over and I headed towards the Mandeville Canyon area. And
so people that had just been evacuated and returned home
in the Brentwood area are now getting the warning to
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leave again. So anyone listening, I'm just making them aware.
But yes, I went into the Palisades yesterday and to
Malibu today and I was doing like overnight coverage. So
we're just kind of zombies and taking on obviously a
lot of like energy from people losing their homes, and
I mean it's just crazy. Like I'm very connected to
(03:27):
the Palisades community. I know at least more than a
dozen people who have lost their homes. My kids dad
lived there, so that's their house is spared thankfully, so
phylly with me for a while. And because you know,
they can't even go back. There's no power, reception, water, gas.
So the twenty percent of the homes, I would guess
(03:48):
some estimate that there's twenty percent remaining. So you've a
one in five chance if you think that your house
burned down, there's a one and five chance that did it,
depending on what area there are still some standing. But yeah,
if you're not going to be able to live there,
you're gonna have to clean it all out and you're
gonna have to live like a pioneer. So now everyone's
(04:09):
trying to find these short term rentals and furnished places,
and that's creating all this chaos too, because families are
fighting over it and everyone's jacking up the prices. I mean,
it's a disaster, and we're also dealing with the people
and eat and fire, and there were even more structures
lost there, seven thousand versus the five thousand in Palisades.
(04:30):
But I mean, how many people are going to have
the experience of going back to find nothing, which is
what I literally just did with a friend and he
was sobbing and it was very must and there was
there was nothing. I mean, he he found a Pella
Greno bottle from his trash can. That's the only thing
that was left, and he took it and he's going to.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Make artwork out of it, you know, I again, Courtey
Friels with us.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
We on the first night this happened.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
You know, Monday was just a normal show here and
for you guys over a case Tla as well. I
know we all warned everybody about the winds, but we
never expected this kind of wind. But so Monday was normal.
Everything turned upside down on Tuesday. And yeah, and when
you talk to people on the ground, people have lost everything.
(05:16):
I know there's a very strong sense of sadness, but
it seems to me, at least here in the valley,
you know, looking from Afar, the people are are are.
The sadness is now subsiding, and there's a tremendous amount
of anger out there.
Speaker 7 (05:30):
Now, Yes, I do, I think there will be huge
lawsuits there will be. However, I mean to to kind
of look at the other angle of this to be fair.
I think you know, there is some blame on mother nature.
I mean, that's like telling the people in Florida, like, oh,
you're authority didn't stop that a hurricane, or oh your
police people in Kansas didn't put up you know, a
(05:52):
defense system against the tornado. I mean we the reason
everything got through out of control was because the winds
were so crazy that they can't drop the frost check
if it's not going to do anything. So there was
not any water drops or frost check for the first
twenty four hours, and the winds were so crazy. That's
why I got out of control. Yes, the water she
was a thing. That's just because in those in the
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palaces and stuff, the people there don't want all these big,
ugly water tanks there. I mean they could have had
they could make those, but that's been an issue, right.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
But it was one hundred and seventeen million gallons on
that reservoir that was completely empty.
Speaker 7 (06:29):
Yeah, I mean, I guess I'm just going off what
the authorities are saying with how when the lower the lower,
when all the water being used at the lower level.
They couldn't fill the tanks fast enough. But I think
that's just how the system works.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
But you know, Corney, I.
Speaker 7 (06:42):
Don't know if you made it. I mean, we didn't
have the air but not having the aerial support was
was the main problem. That they couldn't stop it. That
was a huge thing. And we also because President Biden
was town, I wish he honestly would have left earlier
because we were not able to fly the chopper for
the first twenty four hours and couldn't even we couldn't
(07:03):
see I mean, if we been broadcasting the images like
this is so so bad now or whatever, then I
don't think people understood the magnitude of it because they
didn't have that perspective, right.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
But look, if it was but if it was just
one thing, if it was one thing, that'd be fine.
But it's two, it's three. It's the fake alerts that
go out, it's the you know, it's the you know,
the evacuation people told to evacuate yesterday and if you
got the alert, people in Lancaster, people in San Bernardino
got that alert, and then they're asking everybody to stay
you know, to stay in contact and stay vigil and
(07:36):
do what we say, and then they send out you know,
there's false alarm to everybody, to to you know, ten
million people, and it's just one mistake after another after another.
Speaker 7 (07:48):
Yeah. Yeah, I think that all of that stuff is
going to play out, of course. I think that for
the people who I will tell you the person I
was just with right now, like for the people who
lost their homes, they are their next step is calling
their insurance agency and finding a place to live. I mean,
then there will be the anger. I think. I think
(08:09):
a lot of people are you know, adding opinions that
like aren't really involved in the situation, and it's disrespectful
to the firefighters who are like busting their asses out there.
They really really are and they have.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Been around, but I don't but the anger is not
directed at the firefighters at all. It's directed at management
of this city. And I think they've got a point.
You know, you elect these people and you hope that
they that they do their jobs, and it seems like,
you know, just I live in the San Fernando Valley,
We've been you know, very minimally affected. But I see
(08:44):
people even in Burbank that are streaming and shouting about
about how this was handled.
Speaker 7 (08:52):
Yeah, I mean, I agree, we're gonna I think it's
just I just think it's a little bit of both
because I know that that was the situation from this
is why every single on air person who has covered
virus for thirty years that no one has seen anything
like this, and we just haven't had Hurricane fourth wins
with these with these fires. I mean when the Sunset
fire the other night was executed flawlessly because there was
(09:15):
water drop after water drop with a fast chech. I mean,
that is a huge asset in fighting virus, and we
did not have that for this, and that same with Woolsey.
That's why if it is that windy, it is just
like you, it's mother nature, like it's just hard. It's
just harder to fight it really really is, right.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
But I also think that that it's justifiable on this
level where the city of Los Angeles spends annually one
point five billion dollars on homeless and the budget for
the fire department is eight hundred million, that's what pisses
people off.
Speaker 7 (09:48):
Oh no, oh, yeah, no, I get it. I mean, yeah,
there's we can all find things wrong in all levels
of politics. I just know for what I'm doing, Like
that's not my angle at all, Like I'm I'm focusing
on what is what has actually survived and people and
their stories. Like I mean, we don't even we don't
even go there like on the news, like even the
(10:09):
suspected like arts and stuff like that, we're just not
there yet. Like if police confirm that, will report it.
But we're not going to speculate, like we're not going
to talk about potential lawsuits, like we just talk about
like what is happening right now. And like honestly, like
I I didn't even know we were going to get
into politics.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Like Okay, I'm looking at I'm.
Speaker 7 (10:27):
Looking I'm looking out the window and seeing this, Like
I'm I'm concerned about the people right now because I'm
like on the roof looking at this massive, massive fire
right now, and hopefully but I do see water drops
and stuff, so hopefully they'll because they have those resources,
it'll it'll help this time, and it'll save a lot
of home.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Right And but where are people going? There are zero
hotel rooms and zero in Los Angeles.
Speaker 7 (10:52):
No, it's a huge I my two best friends are realtors,
and I talked to both of them today and people
are price scouging the apartments, parents getting flights. There are
thirty applications on every property, and they're saying, no, you know,
I deserve to have this place because it is you know,
because I have more children than you, and they're throwing
money at it. It's crazy. It's it's like so many emotions,
(11:15):
it's so many levels. I mean, it's going to take
years and years rebuild. Think about all those people, Like
it's going to be hard for some people to even rebuild.
Like I talked to a developer when I was out
there yesterday, and the homes that are on the cliffs
and the homes that are on the beach, like they
were built with stronger foundations back in the day. But
that's all e roading, and so the codes aren't up
to date for right now. And then and then if
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the people, you know, once the Coastal I mean hopefully
the Coastal Commission will ease up on the rules and
then yeah, they'll have to build these big, strong concrete
houses on huge beams, and you know that that's going
to cost way more than what the California Fair Plan
wants to reimburse. People with so mean a lot of
time's like, there's like a zillion tangents you could go on,
(12:00):
that's right. I just know, I just know for I mean, yeah,
I think, I know there's a lot of anger, but
I'm today, you know, I was just I just got
back from being with a friend for like two hours
where there was nothing left. And that's that's the story.
That's the next story I'll be telling.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
I really appreciate coming on. I know it's been a
long week.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
You've been on, you know, working twenty hours a day
and hopefully you can get some rest.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
But I really appreciate you coming on with us.
Speaker 7 (12:27):
Thank you, it's nice to talk to you. Yeah, come
back and have better times well, and let me be
more prepared for a political thing.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
It's just funny.
Speaker 7 (12:35):
They were like, will you go on and talk about
what has what has survived?
Speaker 1 (12:38):
And I'm just telling you that the vibe on the
street is and I wanted to find out what it
was in Palisades because I know people in Altadena are
also pissed. But anyway, please come back with us in
better times, but even.
Speaker 7 (12:50):
Next week, okay, okay, yeah, keeping such all.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Right, Courtney, thank you from KTLA anchor and reported there
with k Taylor.
Speaker 8 (12:59):
Listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI AM six.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
Forty talking about these fires. I guess this.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
Palisades fly fire is flaring up again. Watching it on
channel seven. Stephush, Let's flip on channels seven here and
get an update.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
This doesn't look good. It's not burning.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
It doesn't look like it's burning to towards any homes.
But in La it's always burning towards homes.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
Let's turn this up.
Speaker 6 (13:26):
Fire retard line. Right along that fire road and over
on the left are Tarzana and Encino. Right now, everything
appears to be going as planning reporting live maars.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
Okay, So this fire is burning up as soon as
it crosses over the mountain there. If if they don't
stop this at the top of that mountain, it can
not saying it would, but it can burn down to
Tarzana and Encino. Those are the two cities that are
directly north of this fire. So the people in Encino
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and the people in Tarzana, you've got to be aware
of it. I'm not trying to scare the hell out
of you. It probably won't reach you. You're probably okay,
But this whole week. We've had a lot of you're
probably okays, turn into your home is lost, and so
we all have to be aware of what's going on.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Mom.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
Everybody has to have a bag of valuables, you know, pictures,
grandma's jewelry. You've got to have that together. If you
don't have it together now, I don't know what you're thinking.
I don't know what you're thinking. Nobody's immune to this.
As the people in Altadena, they had no idea that
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this fire was going to come down the hill and
wipe out their community. None the people in Pallisade, same thing,
people in Silmar. This affects very wealthy people, very poor people,
everybody in between. Everybody got hit. Everybody got hit this week,
and everybody's on edge. Everybody's on their last nerve. And
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I hope that everybody, you know, if you're staying with
friends or family, if you've got if you can't go
back to your home, or maybe your home doesn't exist,
I hope you can find some kind of comfortable, quiet
place tonight or this weekend to just sit there and
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think about what you're going to do next, but just
some quiet time, because if you're out on the roads
right now, everybody is with the horn. I hear people
honking now all day long from from where I live.
We live fairly close to an intersection. I used to
hear one horn a day. Maybe now it's every couple
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of minutes last. And it's not the you know, excuse
me horn. It it's the big one, and people have
had it. We all think we're next. We're all afraid,
we're all concerned. If you have kids, that's your big concern.
(16:11):
A lot of schools were closed today. Next week. Not
sure what they're going to do with schools. I imagine
they're going to open them up so parents, so everyone
can get back to somewhat normal lives. Kids going back
to school, they need that, the parents need to go
back to work, and we need a sense of normalcy
(16:32):
around here in southern California. And hopefully we get it.
Hopefully we get it very very soon. All Right, we
got to take a man another break.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
Huh.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Okay, we're going to take a break here. We'll come
back and talk to Clint Carlton. He's the director of
disaster relief for the Dream Center. And if and if
you want to help out, we'll come back and tell
you exactly how you can do that. I know there's
a lot. KFI has the most generous audience in the world.
(17:02):
I believe that every time time we do Katerina's Club,
you show up and you guys all collectively donate hundreds
of thousands of pounds of pasta and sauce and about
a million and a half dollars in cash. This is
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We're going to talk to Clint Carlton, the director of
the disaster relief for the Dream Center, and we partner
(17:22):
it up iHeartMedia and the Dream Center to try to
help these people out.
Speaker 8 (17:26):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Let's go right to ABC seven. This fire is coming
towards Encino and Tarzana. They're going to try to keep
it on the on the south side of that mountain
at that fire wall there, and Chris Christie is above
this fire right now, and.
Speaker 8 (17:47):
Yeah, it's just caught and ignited and you're shed there,
just blew up this fire facility.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
The you're saying it's a HELLI spot.
Speaker 8 (17:56):
Can you explain to our viewers what a Hella Spot
is Chris So.
Speaker 6 (18:00):
The Hellaspot is a little mini camp where they stationed
these large pools for the helicopters to dip into. And
by the way, it does look like there is a
fire fighting vehicle down there, looks like a truck that
is now catching on fire there. This is one of
the trailers that they are losing. They had to leave
some things behind as they really they ran at it
here in a hurry. We literally saw them speeding through
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the flames.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
And this is the fire that's just south of Tarzana
and encinove these.
Speaker 6 (18:26):
Flames because as the fire was creeping north, some of
these straight flames just kind of whipped up the mountain
side and just enveloped this entire fire road. And it
did a little bit unexpectedly, obviously because they were really
running in a rush. There's one of those pools right
there near the top of your screen, very top of
the screen right there, if you can make out that
(18:46):
square that right there, and there's another pool right there.
I think they have two pools set up there where
they were dipping in for water.
Speaker 4 (18:53):
And they still but they still have access to the
reservoir that you showed us just a minute to the reservoir.
Speaker 6 (18:59):
Yeah, that's actually the one on the bottom is a pool.
There's another pool set up there nearby. But yet now
they're going to be relying on the Encino Reservoir to
provide water to those helicopters. There's again a couple of
containers that are going to go up, and it does
look like this fire is going to jump the fire road,
but that is not the fire road of concern. There
is no fire retardant there. The fire retardant is just
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to the north of where this fire is burned.
Speaker 4 (19:24):
And tell us again, but did you see did I
hear you say that there were firefighters you saw fleeing
that area that were maybe on the ground.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
Yeah, while we.
Speaker 6 (19:34):
Were in a commercial there, just before we brought you
these live pictures, this group of firefighters right here had
to move their fire trucks and their vehicles in a
hurry because this fire quickly and unexpectedly crept up on
that hell spot. And now you can see everything they
left behind is now going up in flames. So it
does appear that it caught them a little bit off guard.
(19:56):
We saw a couple of firefighters on foot running away
from these flames, but by all accounts from what we observed,
they were able to get everybody out. We don't believe
that any firefighters have been injured during this little episode.
Speaker 4 (20:09):
All right, right, Chris Christy, thank you again. Palisades Fire
at twenty one, three hundred and seventeen acres, eight percent contained,
but the firefight continues.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
We're going, Okay, this is what a lot of people
in the valley are concerned about.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
This fire.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
This is coming over the canyon here, and it's coming
towards Tarzana and Encino, and as the sun goes down,
it's going to look very frightening. But you've got to
believe that the La Fire Department has enough fause check
up there to keep this fire out of that part
of the valley, out of Tarzana and Encina. They're gonna
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be drawing water out of the Encina Reservoir up there,
which is just south of Entur Boulevard off White Oak Avenue.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
I believe.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
And this is let's go to Channel four here in
Eleanna Moreno, she's in the valley, and this is what
people in the valley are seeing right now. If you're
in Sino or in Tarzana, time to get your bag
of valuables and ready to get out Ally's side.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
And so that's what we're showing you.
Speaker 9 (21:06):
Now you can see that the flames have in fact
made it to the very top of the mountains here
and again we're on the San Fernando Va v Alley's
side of it all. So we're north of the one
oh one freeway and not far from RECEIPTA boulevard would
be our nearest major street. But we're looking towards the
Santa Monica mountains. And again this is the Palisades fire
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and it's just at the very top of the ridge.
Now this is putting up a huge plume of smoke
that can be visible literally from anywhere in the San
Fernando Valley. Just a few minutes ago, it was actually
shooting straight up, which tells me the winds were relatively
calm all things considered, to have it be shooting up
the way it was.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
They've got to stop this fire on the top of
this ridge.
Speaker 9 (21:49):
There's a chinooka. They're coming through my shot right now,
so we know that they do have firefighting assets on this. Still,
from the air, it's not going to be any planes
because it is a little too dark for that now,
but we do still see multiple water dropping helicopters making
drops on the fire, and eventually we will make our
way to the south side of the fire the best
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we can. Where we are hearing that structures are yet
again threatened.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
Oh my god, it never ends.
Speaker 7 (22:15):
There are the structures on the on the valley side?
Speaker 4 (22:18):
Then?
Speaker 7 (22:18):
Is that where we're to understand?
Speaker 10 (22:19):
Are they still.
Speaker 8 (22:21):
On the other side?
Speaker 9 (22:22):
So yeah, so the structures that are burning are on
the south side of the fire, so they are on
the palisades side of it, all the on the south
side of the Santa Monica Mountains. But we're showing you
this perspective from the valley side just because it was
closer to us as we were taking off from Whiteman Airport,
so that the residents of Tarzana could see what this
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looks like.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
I know, it's very nerve.
Speaker 9 (22:44):
Wrecking because the homes that you see on the bottom
of the screen, that's all in Tarzana, so on the
San Fernando Valley side. But when you're in your home,
when you're looking up into the mountains, you're seeing this
giant storm a fire directly behind you. So I can
understand it's extremely nerve wrecking, nerve wrecking for anyone who
lives in this area and is looking at that monster
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wall of flame behind them. But at this point it
is still at the very top of the ridge, not
making its way north of that ridge. So hopefully the
winds won't shift and start to make that push towards
the valley. But again, at this point, it's right at
the cusp of it, right at the very top of
the ridge. And just beyond that, on the south side
of the Santa Monica Mountains is where we're hearing that
(23:28):
structures are in fact, yet again, yet again threatened.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
Okay, so Alan, we want to keep your picture live
shot here from newsph before and bring in meteorologists. Melissamgas
okay I was I was actually born and raised in
the San Fernando Valley and my mom and dad had
a house right there in Tarzana. And and then when
when when I was a kid, that receip I used
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to end make a dead end at Bramar country Club
there and there were no houses south of Bramar that
where it ended, and it ended up you know, the
golf course and the and the pool and the country
club there Bremer used to be called Douville and they
changed to bray Mar, so that's where this But after
we moved out, they opened up those mountains to new homes,
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and every one of those homes up there, the new
homes up there are multi million dollar mansions, all of
those homes in Encino and Tarzana. I went to Birmingham
High School, Portola Junior High and so very familiar with
this area. All of those homes up there south of
Braemar and the ones that they built off of Reseda
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towards the golf course there, they're all multi million dollar,
huge mansions. And this fire is now completely visible from
those houses, and people are scared to death, and now
they're going to start to evacuate out down receipt A Boulevard.
So if you haven't gotten out, you may want to
think about putting the kids in the car and getting
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the hell out of the.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
As Adam Schiff said.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
You can clearly see now from the San Fernando Valley
off of Resita Davenport Passadero Drive. That's when my mom
and dad used to have a house up there in
Pasadero Drive, and all of those homes up there in
the Tarzana Hills. You can clearly see that fire now
and you're just hoping and praying to God that doesn't
come over the ridge, and so far it hasn't. So
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far it hasn't. But we don't know. You know, this
has been unprecedented times. You know, twenty years ago you
would look at that and go, Okay, the fire department
put that out, you know, but they're so stretched, the
resources are so thin that this fire could creep over
and over Maulholland.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
And I think Mahollan is a dirt road by then.
I think it ends in Encino.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
But this is this could come over, you know, to
Davenport and Winford Drive up there, Passadero Drive, all those
streets up there, south of Ventura Boulevard, south of Wells Drive.
That's another through way that people take a lot up
in the hills there Wells Drive. But if you're in
that area and you're up you know, near Bramar Country Club,
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and if if you want to get out of there,
going south, receipt of Boulevard may soon become very congested,
like we saw the street coming out of the Highlands
at Pacific Palisades. So if you're in the valley. Now
you can see this huge glow from Tarzana all the
way to Encino off Mulholland. And this is the big
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fight right now in on the on the Palisades fire.
They're trying to keep this fire out of the South
San Fernando Valley, keep it off of receipt of Boulevard,
out of the you know, the country club area, and
then those beautiful, huge mansions that are south of Bramart
country Club. And every time we look at this now
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you can see more and more flows. And if you're
familiar with with that terrain, it hasn't burned in a
long long time. There's plenty of fuel there, especially because
we've had so much rain over the last two years.
And if that crosses Mulholland and comes down into the valley,
that might happen. And if the wind changes, that's going
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to be a major, major disaster for the valley. So
we've got to all hope and pray that the LA
Fire Department, La County Fire Department, they obviously know what
they're doing, and they used to have control burns. They
don't have that anymore. I don't know why, but that's
for another day. For another show, and they were just
hoping and praying that this fire does not come over
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that ridge. But if you're in Tarzana or and Sina
right now and you look south, you can very clearly
see the fire at the top of that ridge. You
can see the glow now that it's dark, and you
can see flames, which is very worrisome. All Right, we're
gonna take a break when we come back, keep an
eye on this. Channel seven has it, Channel four has it.
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And if you live in the San Fernando Valley, if
you're in Tarzana, you're you're in Encino. You know, we
talked two days ago about the sunset fire going towards
Hollywood Boulevard and you said, oh, that doesn't affect me.
This affects you now if you're in Tarzana or Encino,
this is now a place to keep your eye on.
Keep your eye on this, keep it on KFI, and
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keep your eye on this fire. This is now a
very important thing to keep your eye on, very important.
We're live on KFI AM six forty watching this fire
come up towards Maulholland towards Tarzana, towards Encino on the
south side of those two cities. We're live on KFI.
We also have a press conference that we're waiting for
and we'll dip into that as well.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
Lots going on here.
Speaker 8 (28:48):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
Let's go to Robert Covasis on Channel four. Let me
punch this up here. He's following the fire Department and
the Mayor's battle.
Speaker 10 (29:03):
Infrastructure to meet the increased population, a population that has
almost doubled inside since the nineteen sixties. They're understaffed, they
don't have enough, they need sixty two more fire stations.
She said that they have the same model, the same model,
the same deployment, the same everything in place inside of
the LAFD since they had in the nineteen sixties, in
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the nineteen sixties. In this report, and I'm going to
quote here, the LAFD is committed to being the premier
all hazards, public safety and emergency service provider that exceeds
the expectations of the diverse communities we serve. The commitment
is unattainable without the requisite resources, staffing, and infrastructure to
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meet the increased population.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
Do you think the mayor fired the gabled.
Speaker 10 (29:49):
Inside since the nineteen sixties. Here in the fire we
wait to get more information and I'm going to let
you guys listen to this. This is part of our
interview when Chief Kristin Crawley turned to NBC four media outlet,
she was willing to speak to today.
Speaker 3 (30:04):
Those are our communities and our people will do everything
in their power to protect them. It is my job
as a chief to make sure that my firefighters are
funded appropriately, are equipped appropriately.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
And are trained appropriately.
Speaker 3 (30:22):
That's why I'm here, That's why I'm in the seat.
I will not stop until I get that for them.
Speaker 8 (30:28):
You've spoken with the Fire Commission.
Speaker 10 (30:30):
You have made it very clear that this department is underfunded.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
Correct, That is absolutely correct.
Speaker 10 (30:37):
This department was asked to take a seventeen million.
Speaker 8 (30:40):
Dollar budget company.
Speaker 10 (30:41):
That is correct.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
How does that affect your department?
Speaker 3 (30:44):
It impacts our our ability to provide service?
Speaker 2 (30:47):
Absolutely?
Speaker 10 (30:48):
How did that affect the firefight and the power staves
and view?
Speaker 3 (30:52):
So, first and foremost, what I just said before is
making sure our firefighters have the ability to provide service.
So million dollar cut did not allow us to do
what we needed to do, and where that impacted us
specifically for Palisades, was our ability to move into reserve apparatus.
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The seventeen million dollar cut cut into our ability to
utilize resources that should be at our disposal that we
were unable to fix because the funding was not there
because of cuts to our mechanics.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
What type of the apparatus are we talking about?
Speaker 3 (31:28):
Specifically mainly fire engines and ambulances.
Speaker 10 (31:33):
NBC four wanted to see if that was actually true.
News Chapter four flying over LAAFD fire stations, and we
did find those ambulances, fire engines and other and we're.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
Going to go to those press conference that's about the
fires going on.
Speaker 11 (31:47):
Or violation a California Government Code Section eighty six sixty five.
A violation of the curfew order is a misdemeanor published
Chief Jimmy, punishable by a fine not to exceed one
thousand dollars, well by in prison meant not to exceed
six months, or both. This county wide curfew order is
enforceable in the City of Los Angeles by LAPD officers.
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Enforcing a curfew is an important tool that will help
keep the burn areas and the evacuated properties secure, keeping
looters out. This effort also helps protect public safety personnel
who are operating in darkness in very difficult conditions. Our
community is facing significant challenges and ensuring the safety and
well being of our residents is our top priority. The
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LAPD and our law enforcement partners are actively maintaining law
and order in areas impacted by the fires. Officers are
patrolling these areas help to deter criminal activity and to
help ensure public safety. To boaster these efforts, the City
of Los Angeles Palisades Fire Incident Command is currently developing
a vetting process to support private fire prevention and security
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entities safely entering the fire area. This is being done
as a force multiplier for law enforcement efforts. The process
for allowing private support entities will entail the agency or
company requesting access to provide Palisades Fire Incident law and
Fire Incident law enforcement liaison and what the process will
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look like. Their contact information for credentials will be verified.
The exact resources requested to be allowed access to the
Dayton Times access was requested the approval from the Incident
Operations and Safety. The law liaison will advise law enforcement
agencies via emails about the following items once they have
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been verified. Law enforcement will distribute to deputies and officers
in the field a list of those authorized for each
operational period, so each day you come out, it'll be
a new pass for those that'll have access. An access
pass will be also issued to the support entity authorized
for access. I want to stress that this is not
an invitation for residents to populate areas that are evacuated.
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Remaining properties have no access to walk to power, water,
or gas, and major hazarded hazards such as debris and
wires still remain in the roadways. Also, please be aware
that many household items that have burned are now toxic
and can be and can present significant health risks. We
recognize that residents want to protect their property and we
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believe this effort helps strengthen our ability to help keep
the area safe and get information out to property owners. Lastly,
you may see the National Guard present in impacted communities.
Their support is invaluable during the emergency, enabling law enforcement
to help focus on crime suppression. The National Guard is
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assisting us in the following areas traffic control. They're managing
roadways and ensuring access to affected areas is restricted only
to authorized personnel. Critical in infrastructure security, maintaining the security
over things that we all need, power poles, power sources,
other things like along those lines. To ensure that security checkpoints,
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they'll be verifying credentials and restricting unauthorized entry into protected zones.
While the fires and Pacific palisades remain an ongoing challenge,
the LAPD remains on citywide tactical alert, which means that
all personnel and resources are available to be redirected and
redeployed to this incident. I want to ensure the community
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that we're working tirelessly to protect lives, property and maintain
public safety during this critical time. I want to thank
everybody who has worked with us, who has cooperated with
the requests that we have made, the orders that have
been given as far as evacuation and maintaining as best
we can assemblance of order during this very, very difficult time.
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We still have fire resources coming in from all of
the country to be able to help deal with this
major disaster, and so we want to be able to
keep it as safe as we possibly can. The measures
we've put forward here is with an eye to doing that,
and so again, thank you and thank you to all
of you for help getting our message out to the
public that we serve. I'll take any any questions, but
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limited to our role here from l A p D,
the law enforcement function.
Speaker 2 (36:25):
This is k if I and k O s t
HD two Los Angeles and Orange County.
Speaker 11 (36:29):
No questions, uh the I can't speak for the sheriff.
We have had uh no arresting. Yeah, we've had We've
had some uh some rest but not for looting within
the fire areas in the city of Los Angeles. The
sheriff reported last night that there were I think probably
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almost two dozen arrests.
Speaker 2 (36:56):
All right, questions, thank you. That is a wrap.
Speaker 1 (37:00):
We're gonna take a quick break here and we'll come back.
We're watching the fire come up behind in Sino and Tarzana.
If you're watching that, if you're in the San Fernando Valley,
that looks horrible, But the LA Fire Department has a
line of fause check on the top of that mountain
that that fire is going to be very very hard
to get through that line. So while it does look ominous,
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it the fire Department is prepared for exactly this.
Speaker 2 (37:25):
So we're going to keep an eye on this.
Speaker 1 (37:26):
The San Fernando Valley south of Tarzana, south of Encino,
up near Braemar is where you see all these flames.
We're live on KFI AM six forty Conway Show on
demand on the iHeartRadio app. Now you can always hear
us live on KFI AM six forty four to seven
pm Monday through Friday, and anytime on demand on the
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iHeart Radio app
It's KFI AM six forty and you're listening to the
Conway Show on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
On the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
Here is the LA Fire Department Chief Kristin Crowley. Finally,
somebody in local government is telling us the truth about
the resources and about how the city has failed the
citizens of Los Angeles. This is very important to listen to.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Does the City of Los Angeles fail you and your
department and our city.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
It's my job to stand up as a chief and
exactly say, justifiably what the fire department needs to operate
to meet the demands of the community.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Did they fail you?
Speaker 3 (00:42):
That is our job, and I tell you that's why
I'm here. So let's get us what we need so
firefighters can do their jobs.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Did they fail you?
Speaker 4 (00:50):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (00:51):
Regarding the Times article that came out that the Santaanez
Reservoir was closed to repairs and it was empty, one
hundred and seventeen million gallons of water could have been
used in this fight.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Sure.
Speaker 6 (01:02):
So.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
My stance on this is when a firefighter comes up
to a hydrant, we expect there's going to be water.
We don't control the water supply. Our firefighters are there
to protect lives and property and to make sure that
we're properly trained and equipped.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
That's my position on this.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
So if there's no water, I don't know how the
water gets to the hydrants. Please defer that to DWP
or whomever controls that part. But I can tell you
the resiliency of our firefighters. If there's no water, they're
going to go find water. They're going to figure out
a way to do the best they can with what
they've got in a very dynamic situation.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
And she was appointed by Mayor Bass. I believe so
La Fire Department chief is meeting right now with Mayor Bass.
Wouldn't you love to be a fly on the wall
in that meeting, throw in the city under the firetruck
or bus and saying we needed more water, We needed
more help. One hundred and seventeen million gallons have really
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helped in Pacific helisades. All right, Courtney frielis whether it's
from KTLA anchor and reporter, Courtney, welcome to KFI.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
How are you hey?
Speaker 7 (02:08):
Tim makes you talk with you again?
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Last?
Speaker 2 (02:12):
That's right, that's right, you know.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
So I'm so proud of Look, I'm a big fan
of of all of local news, you know, two, four, five, seven,
nine eleven. That's all I do is watch news I
recorded all night. I'm like a lunatic. But man, this
has to be an unbelievable week for field reporters. Not
only is it dangerous for you and and your you know,
co reporters or co workers, but just to see all
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that despair and then try to hold it together when
the camera is on must be an unbelievable difficult, unbelievably
difficult thing to do.
Speaker 7 (02:44):
It is so crazy. But wait, I have to tell you.
I was just on my roof. I live in mar Vista,
and I'm looking towards the Palisades fire and unfortunately the
wind has shifted. There is a huge smoke column going
over and I headed towards the Mandeville Canyon area. And
so people that had just been evacuated and returned home
in the Brentwood area are now getting the warning to
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leave again. So anyone listening, I'm just making them aware.
But yes, I went into the Palisades yesterday and to
Malibu today and I was doing like overnight coverage. So
we're just kind of zombies and taking on obviously a
lot of like energy from people losing their homes, and
I mean it's just crazy. Like I'm very connected to
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the Palisades community. I know at least more than a
dozen people who have lost their homes. My kids dad
lived there, so that's their house is spared thankfully, so
phylly with me for a while. And because you know,
they can't even go back. There's no power, reception, water, gas.
So the twenty percent of the homes, I would guess
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some estimate that there's twenty percent remaining. So you've a
one in five chance if you think that your house
burned down, there's a one and five chance that did it,
depending on what area there are still some standing. But yeah,
if you're not going to be able to live there,
you're gonna have to clean it all out and you're
gonna have to live like a pioneer. So now everyone's
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trying to find these short term rentals and furnished places,
and that's creating all this chaos too, because families are
fighting over it and everyone's jacking up the prices. I mean,
it's a disaster, and we're also dealing with the people
and eat and fire, and there were even more structures
lost there, seven thousand versus the five thousand in Palisades.
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But I mean, how many people are going to have
the experience of going back to find nothing, which is
what I literally just did with a friend and he
was sobbing and it was very must and there was
there was nothing. I mean, he he found a Pella
Greno bottle from his trash can. That's the only thing
that was left, and he took it and he's going to.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Make artwork out of it, you know, I again, Courtey
Friels with us.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
We on the first night this happened.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
You know, Monday was just a normal show here and
for you guys over a case Tla as well. I
know we all warned everybody about the winds, but we
never expected this kind of wind. But so Monday was normal.
Everything turned upside down on Tuesday. And yeah, and when
you talk to people on the ground, people have lost everything.
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I know there's a very strong sense of sadness, but
it seems to me, at least here in the valley,
you know, looking from Afar, the people are are are.
The sadness is now subsiding, and there's a tremendous amount
of anger out there.
Speaker 7 (05:30):
Now, Yes, I do, I think there will be huge
lawsuits there will be. However, I mean to to kind
of look at the other angle of this to be fair.
I think you know, there is some blame on mother nature.
I mean, that's like telling the people in Florida, like, oh,
you're authority didn't stop that a hurricane, or oh your
police people in Kansas didn't put up you know, a
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defense system against the tornado. I mean we the reason
everything got through out of control was because the winds
were so crazy that they can't drop the frost check
if it's not going to do anything. So there was
not any water drops or frost check for the first
twenty four hours, and the winds were so crazy. That's
why I got out of control. Yes, the water she
was a thing. That's just because in those in the
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palaces and stuff, the people there don't want all these big,
ugly water tanks there. I mean they could have had
they could make those, but that's been an issue, right.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
But it was one hundred and seventeen million gallons on
that reservoir that was completely empty.
Speaker 7 (06:29):
Yeah, I mean, I guess I'm just going off what
the authorities are saying with how when the lower the lower,
when all the water being used at the lower level.
They couldn't fill the tanks fast enough. But I think
that's just how the system works.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
But you know, Corney, I.
Speaker 7 (06:42):
Don't know if you made it. I mean, we didn't
have the air but not having the aerial support was
was the main problem. That they couldn't stop it. That
was a huge thing. And we also because President Biden
was town, I wish he honestly would have left earlier
because we were not able to fly the chopper for
the first twenty four hours and couldn't even we couldn't
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see I mean, if we been broadcasting the images like
this is so so bad now or whatever, then I
don't think people understood the magnitude of it because they
didn't have that perspective, right.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
But look, if it was but if it was just
one thing, if it was one thing, that'd be fine.
But it's two, it's three. It's the fake alerts that
go out, it's the you know, it's the you know,
the evacuation people told to evacuate yesterday and if you
got the alert, people in Lancaster, people in San Bernardino
got that alert, and then they're asking everybody to stay
you know, to stay in contact and stay vigil and
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do what we say, and then they send out you know,
there's false alarm to everybody, to to you know, ten
million people, and it's just one mistake after another after another.
Speaker 7 (07:48):
Yeah. Yeah, I think that all of that stuff is
going to play out, of course. I think that for
the people who I will tell you the person I
was just with right now, like for the people who
lost their homes, they are their next step is calling
their insurance agency and finding a place to live. I mean,
then there will be the anger. I think. I think
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a lot of people are you know, adding opinions that
like aren't really involved in the situation, and it's disrespectful
to the firefighters who are like busting their asses out there.
They really really are and they have.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Been around, but I don't but the anger is not
directed at the firefighters at all. It's directed at management
of this city. And I think they've got a point.
You know, you elect these people and you hope that
they that they do their jobs, and it seems like,
you know, just I live in the San Fernando Valley,
We've been you know, very minimally affected. But I see
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people even in Burbank that are streaming and shouting about
about how this was handled.
Speaker 7 (08:52):
Yeah, I mean, I agree, we're gonna I think it's
just I just think it's a little bit of both
because I know that that was the situation from this
is why every single on air person who has covered
virus for thirty years that no one has seen anything
like this, and we just haven't had Hurricane fourth wins
with these with these fires. I mean when the Sunset
fire the other night was executed flawlessly because there was
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water drop after water drop with a fast chech. I mean,
that is a huge asset in fighting virus, and we
did not have that for this, and that same with Woolsey.
That's why if it is that windy, it is just
like you, it's mother nature, like it's just hard. It's
just harder to fight it really really is, right.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
But I also think that that it's justifiable on this
level where the city of Los Angeles spends annually one
point five billion dollars on homeless and the budget for
the fire department is eight hundred million, that's what pisses
people off.
Speaker 7 (09:48):
Oh no, oh, yeah, no, I get it. I mean, yeah,
there's we can all find things wrong in all levels
of politics. I just know for what I'm doing, Like
that's not my angle at all, Like I'm I'm focusing
on what is what has actually survived and people and
their stories. Like I mean, we don't even we don't
even go there like on the news, like even the
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suspected like arts and stuff like that, we're just not
there yet. Like if police confirm that, will report it.
But we're not going to speculate, like we're not going
to talk about potential lawsuits, like we just talk about
like what is happening right now. And like honestly, like
I I didn't even know we were going to get
into politics.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Like Okay, I'm looking at I'm.
Speaker 7 (10:27):
Looking I'm looking out the window and seeing this, Like
I'm I'm concerned about the people right now because I'm
like on the roof looking at this massive, massive fire
right now, and hopefully but I do see water drops
and stuff, so hopefully they'll because they have those resources,
it'll it'll help this time, and it'll save a lot
of home.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Right And but where are people going? There are zero
hotel rooms and zero in Los Angeles.
Speaker 7 (10:52):
No, it's a huge I my two best friends are realtors,
and I talked to both of them today and people
are price scouging the apartments, parents getting flights. There are
thirty applications on every property, and they're saying, no, you know,
I deserve to have this place because it is you know,
because I have more children than you, and they're throwing
money at it. It's crazy. It's it's like so many emotions,
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it's so many levels. I mean, it's going to take
years and years rebuild. Think about all those people, Like
it's going to be hard for some people to even rebuild.
Like I talked to a developer when I was out
there yesterday, and the homes that are on the cliffs
and the homes that are on the beach, like they
were built with stronger foundations back in the day. But
that's all e roading, and so the codes aren't up
to date for right now. And then and then if
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the people, you know, once the Coastal I mean hopefully
the Coastal Commission will ease up on the rules and
then yeah, they'll have to build these big, strong concrete
houses on huge beams, and you know that that's going
to cost way more than what the California Fair Plan
wants to reimburse. People with so mean a lot of
time's like, there's like a zillion tangents you could go on,
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that's right. I just know, I just know for I mean, yeah,
I think, I know there's a lot of anger, but
I'm today, you know, I was just I just got
back from being with a friend for like two hours
where there was nothing left. And that's that's the story.
That's the next story I'll be telling.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
I really appreciate coming on. I know it's been a
long week.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
You've been on, you know, working twenty hours a day
and hopefully you can get some rest.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
But I really appreciate you coming on with us.
Speaker 7 (12:27):
Thank you, it's nice to talk to you. Yeah, come
back and have better times well, and let me be
more prepared for a political thing.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
It's just funny.
Speaker 7 (12:35):
They were like, will you go on and talk about
what has what has survived?
Speaker 1 (12:38):
And I'm just telling you that the vibe on the
street is and I wanted to find out what it
was in Palisades because I know people in Altadena are
also pissed. But anyway, please come back with us in
better times, but even.
Speaker 7 (12:50):
Next week, okay, okay, yeah, keeping such all.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Right, Courtney, thank you from KTLA anchor and reported there
with k Taylor.
Speaker 8 (12:59):
Listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI AM six.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
Forty talking about these fires. I guess this.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
Palisades fly fire is flaring up again. Watching it on
channel seven. Stephush, Let's flip on channels seven here and
get an update.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
This doesn't look good. It's not burning.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
It doesn't look like it's burning to towards any homes.
But in La it's always burning towards homes.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
Let's turn this up.
Speaker 6 (13:26):
Fire retard line. Right along that fire road and over
on the left are Tarzana and Encino. Right now, everything
appears to be going as planning reporting live maars.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
Okay, So this fire is burning up as soon as
it crosses over the mountain there. If if they don't
stop this at the top of that mountain, it can
not saying it would, but it can burn down to
Tarzana and Encino. Those are the two cities that are
directly north of this fire. So the people in Encino
(13:59):
and the people in Tarzana, you've got to be aware
of it. I'm not trying to scare the hell out
of you. It probably won't reach you. You're probably okay,
But this whole week. We've had a lot of you're
probably okays, turn into your home is lost, and so
we all have to be aware of what's going on.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Mom.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
Everybody has to have a bag of valuables, you know, pictures,
grandma's jewelry. You've got to have that together. If you
don't have it together now, I don't know what you're thinking.
I don't know what you're thinking. Nobody's immune to this.
As the people in Altadena, they had no idea that
(14:41):
this fire was going to come down the hill and
wipe out their community. None the people in Pallisade, same thing,
people in Silmar. This affects very wealthy people, very poor people,
everybody in between. Everybody got hit. Everybody got hit this week,
and everybody's on edge. Everybody's on their last nerve. And
(15:05):
I hope that everybody, you know, if you're staying with
friends or family, if you've got if you can't go
back to your home, or maybe your home doesn't exist,
I hope you can find some kind of comfortable, quiet
place tonight or this weekend to just sit there and
(15:26):
think about what you're going to do next, but just
some quiet time, because if you're out on the roads
right now, everybody is with the horn. I hear people
honking now all day long from from where I live.
We live fairly close to an intersection. I used to
hear one horn a day. Maybe now it's every couple
(15:48):
of minutes last. And it's not the you know, excuse
me horn. It it's the big one, and people have
had it. We all think we're next. We're all afraid,
we're all concerned. If you have kids, that's your big concern.
(16:11):
A lot of schools were closed today. Next week. Not
sure what they're going to do with schools. I imagine
they're going to open them up so parents, so everyone
can get back to somewhat normal lives. Kids going back
to school, they need that, the parents need to go
back to work, and we need a sense of normalcy
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around here in southern California. And hopefully we get it.
Hopefully we get it very very soon. All Right, we
got to take a man another break.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
Huh.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Okay, we're going to take a break here. We'll come
back and talk to Clint Carlton. He's the director of
disaster relief for the Dream Center. And if and if
you want to help out, we'll come back and tell
you exactly how you can do that. I know there's
a lot. KFI has the most generous audience in the world.
(17:02):
I believe that every time time we do Katerina's Club,
you show up and you guys all collectively donate hundreds
of thousands of pounds of pasta and sauce and about
a million and a half dollars in cash. This is
the most generous audience in the world. We come back,
We're going to talk to Clint Carlton, the director of
the disaster relief for the Dream Center, and we partner
(17:22):
it up iHeartMedia and the Dream Center to try to
help these people out.
Speaker 8 (17:26):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Let's go right to ABC seven. This fire is coming
towards Encino and Tarzana. They're going to try to keep
it on the on the south side of that mountain
at that fire wall there, and Chris Christie is above
this fire right now, and.
Speaker 8 (17:47):
Yeah, it's just caught and ignited and you're shed there,
just blew up this fire facility.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
The you're saying it's a HELLI spot.
Speaker 8 (17:56):
Can you explain to our viewers what a Hella Spot
is Chris So.
Speaker 6 (18:00):
The Hellaspot is a little mini camp where they stationed
these large pools for the helicopters to dip into. And
by the way, it does look like there is a
fire fighting vehicle down there, looks like a truck that
is now catching on fire there. This is one of
the trailers that they are losing. They had to leave
some things behind as they really they ran at it
here in a hurry. We literally saw them speeding through
(18:22):
the flames.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
And this is the fire that's just south of Tarzana
and encinove these.
Speaker 6 (18:26):
Flames because as the fire was creeping north, some of
these straight flames just kind of whipped up the mountain
side and just enveloped this entire fire road. And it
did a little bit unexpectedly, obviously because they were really
running in a rush. There's one of those pools right
there near the top of your screen, very top of
the screen right there, if you can make out that
(18:46):
square that right there, and there's another pool right there.
I think they have two pools set up there where
they were dipping in for water.
Speaker 4 (18:53):
And they still but they still have access to the
reservoir that you showed us just a minute to the reservoir.
Speaker 6 (18:59):
Yeah, that's actually the one on the bottom is a pool.
There's another pool set up there nearby. But yet now
they're going to be relying on the Encino Reservoir to
provide water to those helicopters. There's again a couple of
containers that are going to go up, and it does
look like this fire is going to jump the fire road,
but that is not the fire road of concern. There
is no fire retardant there. The fire retardant is just
(19:21):
to the north of where this fire is burned.
Speaker 4 (19:24):
And tell us again, but did you see did I
hear you say that there were firefighters you saw fleeing
that area that were maybe on the ground.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
Yeah, while we.
Speaker 6 (19:34):
Were in a commercial there, just before we brought you
these live pictures, this group of firefighters right here had
to move their fire trucks and their vehicles in a
hurry because this fire quickly and unexpectedly crept up on
that hell spot. And now you can see everything they
left behind is now going up in flames. So it
does appear that it caught them a little bit off guard.
(19:56):
We saw a couple of firefighters on foot running away
from these flames, but by all accounts from what we observed,
they were able to get everybody out. We don't believe
that any firefighters have been injured during this little episode.
Speaker 4 (20:09):
All right, right, Chris Christy, thank you again. Palisades Fire
at twenty one, three hundred and seventeen acres, eight percent contained,
but the firefight continues.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
We're going, Okay, this is what a lot of people
in the valley are concerned about.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
This fire.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
This is coming over the canyon here, and it's coming
towards Tarzana and Encino, and as the sun goes down,
it's going to look very frightening. But you've got to
believe that the La Fire Department has enough fause check
up there to keep this fire out of that part
of the valley, out of Tarzana and Encina. They're gonna
(20:43):
be drawing water out of the Encina Reservoir up there,
which is just south of Entur Boulevard off White Oak Avenue.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
I believe.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
And this is let's go to Channel four here in
Eleanna Moreno, she's in the valley, and this is what
people in the valley are seeing right now. If you're
in Sino or in Tarzana, time to get your bag
of valuables and ready to get out Ally's side.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
And so that's what we're showing you.
Speaker 9 (21:06):
Now you can see that the flames have in fact
made it to the very top of the mountains here
and again we're on the San Fernando Va v Alley's
side of it all. So we're north of the one
oh one freeway and not far from RECEIPTA boulevard would
be our nearest major street. But we're looking towards the
Santa Monica mountains. And again this is the Palisades fire
(21:26):
and it's just at the very top of the ridge.
Now this is putting up a huge plume of smoke
that can be visible literally from anywhere in the San
Fernando Valley. Just a few minutes ago, it was actually
shooting straight up, which tells me the winds were relatively
calm all things considered, to have it be shooting up
the way it was.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
They've got to stop this fire on the top of
this ridge.
Speaker 9 (21:49):
There's a chinooka. They're coming through my shot right now,
so we know that they do have firefighting assets on this. Still,
from the air, it's not going to be any planes
because it is a little too dark for that now,
but we do still see multiple water dropping helicopters making
drops on the fire, and eventually we will make our
way to the south side of the fire the best
(22:10):
we can. Where we are hearing that structures are yet
again threatened.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
Oh my god, it never ends.
Speaker 7 (22:15):
There are the structures on the on the valley side?
Speaker 4 (22:18):
Then?
Speaker 7 (22:18):
Is that where we're to understand?
Speaker 10 (22:19):
Are they still.
Speaker 8 (22:21):
On the other side?
Speaker 9 (22:22):
So yeah, so the structures that are burning are on
the south side of the fire, so they are on
the palisades side of it, all the on the south
side of the Santa Monica Mountains. But we're showing you
this perspective from the valley side just because it was
closer to us as we were taking off from Whiteman Airport,
so that the residents of Tarzana could see what this
(22:42):
looks like.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
I know, it's very nerve.
Speaker 9 (22:44):
Wrecking because the homes that you see on the bottom
of the screen, that's all in Tarzana, so on the
San Fernando Valley side. But when you're in your home,
when you're looking up into the mountains, you're seeing this
giant storm a fire directly behind you. So I can
understand it's extremely nerve wrecking, nerve wrecking for anyone who
lives in this area and is looking at that monster
(23:06):
wall of flame behind them. But at this point it
is still at the very top of the ridge, not
making its way north of that ridge. So hopefully the
winds won't shift and start to make that push towards
the valley. But again, at this point, it's right at
the cusp of it, right at the very top of
the ridge. And just beyond that, on the south side
of the Santa Monica Mountains is where we're hearing that
(23:28):
structures are in fact, yet again, yet again threatened.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
Okay, so Alan, we want to keep your picture live
shot here from newsph before and bring in meteorologists. Melissamgas
okay I was I was actually born and raised in
the San Fernando Valley and my mom and dad had
a house right there in Tarzana. And and then when
when when I was a kid, that receip I used
(23:52):
to end make a dead end at Bramar country Club
there and there were no houses south of Bramar that
where it ended, and it ended up you know, the
golf course and the and the pool and the country
club there Bremer used to be called Douville and they
changed to bray Mar, so that's where this But after
we moved out, they opened up those mountains to new homes,
(24:15):
and every one of those homes up there, the new
homes up there are multi million dollar mansions, all of
those homes in Encino and Tarzana. I went to Birmingham
High School, Portola Junior High and so very familiar with
this area. All of those homes up there south of
Braemar and the ones that they built off of Reseda
(24:36):
towards the golf course there, they're all multi million dollar,
huge mansions. And this fire is now completely visible from
those houses, and people are scared to death, and now
they're going to start to evacuate out down receipt A Boulevard.
So if you haven't gotten out, you may want to
think about putting the kids in the car and getting
(24:59):
the hell out of the.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
As Adam Schiff said.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
You can clearly see now from the San Fernando Valley
off of Resita Davenport Passadero Drive. That's when my mom
and dad used to have a house up there in
Pasadero Drive, and all of those homes up there in
the Tarzana Hills. You can clearly see that fire now
and you're just hoping and praying to God that doesn't
come over the ridge, and so far it hasn't. So
(25:25):
far it hasn't. But we don't know. You know, this
has been unprecedented times. You know, twenty years ago you
would look at that and go, Okay, the fire department
put that out, you know, but they're so stretched, the
resources are so thin that this fire could creep over
and over Maulholland.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
And I think Mahollan is a dirt road by then.
I think it ends in Encino.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
But this is this could come over, you know, to
Davenport and Winford Drive up there, Passadero Drive, all those
streets up there, south of Ventura Boulevard, south of Wells Drive.
That's another through way that people take a lot up
in the hills there Wells Drive. But if you're in
that area and you're up you know, near Bramar Country Club,
(26:15):
and if if you want to get out of there,
going south, receipt of Boulevard may soon become very congested,
like we saw the street coming out of the Highlands
at Pacific Palisades. So if you're in the valley. Now
you can see this huge glow from Tarzana all the
way to Encino off Mulholland. And this is the big
(26:35):
fight right now in on the on the Palisades fire.
They're trying to keep this fire out of the South
San Fernando Valley, keep it off of receipt of Boulevard,
out of the you know, the country club area, and
then those beautiful, huge mansions that are south of Bramart
country Club. And every time we look at this now
(26:58):
you can see more and more flows. And if you're
familiar with with that terrain, it hasn't burned in a
long long time. There's plenty of fuel there, especially because
we've had so much rain over the last two years.
And if that crosses Mulholland and comes down into the valley,
that might happen. And if the wind changes, that's going
(27:20):
to be a major, major disaster for the valley. So
we've got to all hope and pray that the LA
Fire Department, La County Fire Department, they obviously know what
they're doing, and they used to have control burns. They
don't have that anymore. I don't know why, but that's
for another day. For another show, and they were just
hoping and praying that this fire does not come over
(27:42):
that ridge. But if you're in Tarzana or and Sina
right now and you look south, you can very clearly
see the fire at the top of that ridge. You
can see the glow now that it's dark, and you
can see flames, which is very worrisome. All Right, we're
gonna take a break when we come back, keep an
eye on this. Channel seven has it, Channel four has it.
(28:02):
And if you live in the San Fernando Valley, if
you're in Tarzana, you're you're in Encino. You know, we
talked two days ago about the sunset fire going towards
Hollywood Boulevard and you said, oh, that doesn't affect me.
This affects you now if you're in Tarzana or Encino,
this is now a place to keep your eye on.
Keep your eye on this, keep it on KFI, and
(28:25):
keep your eye on this fire. This is now a
very important thing to keep your eye on, very important.
We're live on KFI AM six forty watching this fire
come up towards Maulholland towards Tarzana, towards Encino on the
south side of those two cities. We're live on KFI.
We also have a press conference that we're waiting for
and we'll dip into that as well.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
Lots going on here.
Speaker 8 (28:48):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
Let's go to Robert Covasis on Channel four. Let me
punch this up here. He's following the fire Department and
the Mayor's battle.
Speaker 10 (29:03):
Infrastructure to meet the increased population, a population that has
almost doubled inside since the nineteen sixties. They're understaffed, they
don't have enough, they need sixty two more fire stations.
She said that they have the same model, the same model,
the same deployment, the same everything in place inside of
the LAFD since they had in the nineteen sixties, in
(29:25):
the nineteen sixties. In this report, and I'm going to
quote here, the LAFD is committed to being the premier
all hazards, public safety and emergency service provider that exceeds
the expectations of the diverse communities we serve. The commitment
is unattainable without the requisite resources, staffing, and infrastructure to
(29:45):
meet the increased population.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
Do you think the mayor fired the gabled.
Speaker 10 (29:49):
Inside since the nineteen sixties. Here in the fire we
wait to get more information and I'm going to let
you guys listen to this. This is part of our
interview when Chief Kristin Crawley turned to NBC four media outlet,
she was willing to speak to today.
Speaker 3 (30:04):
Those are our communities and our people will do everything
in their power to protect them. It is my job
as a chief to make sure that my firefighters are
funded appropriately, are equipped appropriately.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
And are trained appropriately.
Speaker 3 (30:22):
That's why I'm here, That's why I'm in the seat.
I will not stop until I get that for them.
Speaker 8 (30:28):
You've spoken with the Fire Commission.
Speaker 10 (30:30):
You have made it very clear that this department is underfunded.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
Correct, That is absolutely correct.
Speaker 10 (30:37):
This department was asked to take a seventeen million.
Speaker 8 (30:40):
Dollar budget company.
Speaker 10 (30:41):
That is correct.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
How does that affect your department?
Speaker 3 (30:44):
It impacts our our ability to provide service?
Speaker 2 (30:47):
Absolutely?
Speaker 10 (30:48):
How did that affect the firefight and the power staves
and view?
Speaker 3 (30:52):
So, first and foremost, what I just said before is
making sure our firefighters have the ability to provide service.
So million dollar cut did not allow us to do
what we needed to do, and where that impacted us
specifically for Palisades, was our ability to move into reserve apparatus.
(31:13):
The seventeen million dollar cut cut into our ability to
utilize resources that should be at our disposal that we
were unable to fix because the funding was not there
because of cuts to our mechanics.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
What type of the apparatus are we talking about?
Speaker 3 (31:28):
Specifically mainly fire engines and ambulances.
Speaker 10 (31:33):
NBC four wanted to see if that was actually true.
News Chapter four flying over LAAFD fire stations, and we
did find those ambulances, fire engines and other and we're.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
Going to go to those press conference that's about the
fires going on.
Speaker 11 (31:47):
Or violation a California Government Code Section eighty six sixty five.
A violation of the curfew order is a misdemeanor published
Chief Jimmy, punishable by a fine not to exceed one
thousand dollars, well by in prison meant not to exceed
six months, or both. This county wide curfew order is
enforceable in the City of Los Angeles by LAPD officers.
(32:08):
Enforcing a curfew is an important tool that will help
keep the burn areas and the evacuated properties secure, keeping
looters out. This effort also helps protect public safety personnel
who are operating in darkness in very difficult conditions. Our
community is facing significant challenges and ensuring the safety and
well being of our residents is our top priority. The
(32:33):
LAPD and our law enforcement partners are actively maintaining law
and order in areas impacted by the fires. Officers are
patrolling these areas help to deter criminal activity and to
help ensure public safety. To boaster these efforts, the City
of Los Angeles Palisades Fire Incident Command is currently developing
a vetting process to support private fire prevention and security
(32:56):
entities safely entering the fire area. This is being done
as a force multiplier for law enforcement efforts. The process
for allowing private support entities will entail the agency or
company requesting access to provide Palisades Fire Incident law and
Fire Incident law enforcement liaison and what the process will
(33:18):
look like. Their contact information for credentials will be verified.
The exact resources requested to be allowed access to the
Dayton Times access was requested the approval from the Incident
Operations and Safety. The law liaison will advise law enforcement
agencies via emails about the following items once they have
(33:39):
been verified. Law enforcement will distribute to deputies and officers
in the field a list of those authorized for each
operational period, so each day you come out, it'll be
a new pass for those that'll have access. An access
pass will be also issued to the support entity authorized
for access. I want to stress that this is not
an invitation for residents to populate areas that are evacuated.
(34:03):
Remaining properties have no access to walk to power, water,
or gas, and major hazarded hazards such as debris and
wires still remain in the roadways. Also, please be aware
that many household items that have burned are now toxic
and can be and can present significant health risks. We
recognize that residents want to protect their property and we
(34:27):
believe this effort helps strengthen our ability to help keep
the area safe and get information out to property owners. Lastly,
you may see the National Guard present in impacted communities.
Their support is invaluable during the emergency, enabling law enforcement
to help focus on crime suppression. The National Guard is
(34:47):
assisting us in the following areas traffic control. They're managing
roadways and ensuring access to affected areas is restricted only
to authorized personnel. Critical in infrastructure security, maintaining the security
over things that we all need, power poles, power sources,
other things like along those lines. To ensure that security checkpoints,
(35:12):
they'll be verifying credentials and restricting unauthorized entry into protected zones.
While the fires and Pacific palisades remain an ongoing challenge,
the LAPD remains on citywide tactical alert, which means that
all personnel and resources are available to be redirected and
redeployed to this incident. I want to ensure the community
(35:34):
that we're working tirelessly to protect lives, property and maintain
public safety during this critical time. I want to thank
everybody who has worked with us, who has cooperated with
the requests that we have made, the orders that have
been given as far as evacuation and maintaining as best
we can assemblance of order during this very, very difficult time.
(35:57):
We still have fire resources coming in from all of
the country to be able to help deal with this
major disaster, and so we want to be able to
keep it as safe as we possibly can. The measures
we've put forward here is with an eye to doing that,
and so again, thank you and thank you to all
of you for help getting our message out to the
public that we serve. I'll take any any questions, but
(36:20):
limited to our role here from l A p D,
the law enforcement function.
Speaker 2 (36:25):
This is k if I and k O s t
HD two Los Angeles and Orange County.
Speaker 11 (36:29):
No questions, uh the I can't speak for the sheriff.
We have had uh no arresting. Yeah, we've had We've
had some uh some rest but not for looting within
the fire areas in the city of Los Angeles. The
sheriff reported last night that there were I think probably
(36:50):
almost two dozen arrests.
Speaker 2 (36:56):
All right, questions, thank you. That is a wrap.
Speaker 1 (37:00):
We're gonna take a quick break here and we'll come back.
We're watching the fire come up behind in Sino and Tarzana.
If you're watching that, if you're in the San Fernando Valley,
that looks horrible, But the LA Fire Department has a
line of fause check on the top of that mountain
that that fire is going to be very very hard
to get through that line. So while it does look ominous,
(37:21):
it the fire Department is prepared for exactly this.
Speaker 2 (37:25):
So we're going to keep an eye on this.
Speaker 1 (37:26):
The San Fernando Valley south of Tarzana, south of Encino,
up near Braemar is where you see all these flames.
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