Kamala Harris Arrives & Current Fires

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's KFI AM six forty and you're listening to The
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six forty.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
It is The Conway Show.

Speaker 1 (00:11):
We are live here on Martin Luther King Junior's birthday,
So happy birthday. Also, Donald Trump got inaugurated today. We'll
go over some of the executive orders that he signed today.
We've got the Rams who've been eliminated, and Notre Dame,
the Fighting Irish going up against the Ohio State University

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for the national championship.

Speaker 2 (00:35):
But the big story is the wind.

Speaker 1 (00:38):
I heard it outside today again, cranking up and looking
outside in Burbank. There's an American flag supposed to be
flying at half staff because of Carter passing away. But
Donald Trump signed an executive order today saying when never
there's a inauguration, that thing is supposed to be flown
at full staff at so top of the poll. So
everybody raised their flag today. I don't know if it's

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going back down tomorrow.

Speaker 2 (01:00):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:01):
I don't know, but I'm telling you that flag in Burbank,
it's right near Wiener Schnitzel. For all you fast food
fans like myself and it's waving a lot, a lot,
and so that means we've got sant Ana Wins. It's
coming right towards me. We've got sant Ana Wins. It's
on Alameda and Olive. Maybe you're out there driving around
right now, and you can see that American flag right

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where it says sound stages coming soon the Burbank Studios.
That flag is waving. All right, let's go to la
f D Captain Eric Scott. He is with us, Captain
her you sir, oh he's not here. He is here, Hey, bellio,
will you.

Speaker 2 (01:38):
Be the captain?

Speaker 3 (01:40):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:41):
Sure. You know a little bit about fire, right, that
is super dangerous. It's horrible. Has to be very precautionous.
That's right.

Speaker 1 (01:49):
Yeah, that's right, be prepared, take precautions. Anyway, we're gonna
have LAFD Captain Eric Scott on with us. But man,
the big story is the wind. These Santa Ana winds. Man,
they don't stop, they don't stop. I've been born and
raised here in the San Fernando Valley better part of

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five decades or four decades or six decades, whatever resume
you're reading, and man, they just don't stop.

Speaker 4 (02:18):
All seen, just how quickly a fire can spread and
break out when I'm rinder a red flag warning.

Speaker 1 (02:23):
Red flag warning again until Wednesday, about.

Speaker 4 (02:26):
Two weeks ago, it happened here in Altadina. We were
under that red flag warning when the Eaton fire erupted,
and we see just how devastating it's been to this
community here, and now we are bracing for another round
of dangerous fire conditions. The red flag warning goes into
a fact at eight o'clock this morning for much of
southern California, but beginning at I.

Speaker 1 (02:46):
Felt it in Burbank. Lot of trees moving again, lots
of movement.

Speaker 4 (02:49):
But beginning at noon, a large portion of Los Angeles
and Ventura Counties will be under yet another rare particularly
dangerous situation warning.

Speaker 2 (02:57):
There you go, it's particularly dangerous.

Speaker 4 (03:00):
Rare, particularly dangerous situation warning.

Speaker 1 (03:02):
Yes, listen to this woman. She's right, she's great. I
don't know who this is, but she's great. Rare and
she's right.

Speaker 4 (03:08):
Rare particularly dangerous situation warning. That's the highest threat level
for a wind event and includes the Santa Clarita Valley.

Speaker 1 (03:15):
Okay, don't half ass this information. Don't half ass this information.
Listen to this again.

Speaker 4 (03:21):
That's the highest threat level for a wind event and
includes the Santa Clarita Valley.

Speaker 1 (03:25):
Okay, Santa Clarita Valley, where else San Fernando Valley, Malibu Coast,
the San Gabriel Valley, and north of the two ten
Freeway including Altadina and Glendora. Okay, all right, that's the warning,
so please please please look out and if you see
a smoke or if he say something and see something,
say something, I think is the move there? All right,
LAFD Captain Eric Scott is with us. How are you, sir?

Speaker 5 (03:49):
We're doing well, Thank you, buddy.

Speaker 1 (03:51):
I saw a picture today of all the firefighters at
the Rose Bowl and it warmed my heart. How many
out of state and out of city and out of
cay trucks are there.

Speaker 5 (04:02):
Isn't that incredible?

Speaker 6 (04:03):
Right?

Speaker 5 (04:03):
We have over five thousand firefighters go well beyond the
state now British, Columbia and even Mexico.

Speaker 1 (04:09):
Wow, that's great, man, And I imagine, you know, look
when I saw the truck from New Mexico, I saw
one from Sacramento, I saw one from Fresno, and I
saw two from Oregon. I tell you it, really it
makes me feel like this country that we live in
is really great and everybody helps each other out. I
don't know, kind of like get a warm feeling about that.

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I thought it was awesome.

Speaker 5 (04:33):
I couldn't agree more. I mean, it's it's neighbor helping
neighbor at the end or even you know, introduce each other,
where are you from, exchange patches, thank them for coming
all the way down, and we return the favor when
they needed to.

Speaker 1 (04:45):
That's great, all right, So we're all set for this
wind event, this particularly dangerous wind event.

Speaker 5 (04:51):
Yeah, so another PDS that we've been seeing too many
of these lately. We're expecting forty to sixty mile per
hour GUS, which is significant, but you know, if you
compare that to the insimpient of the Palisades fire on
the July or January seventh, that was eighty to one
hundred miles per hour, so it's not that bad as

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the original. However, this is so significant that we are
pre deploying a lot of additional firefighters, putting them in
key areas prone to wildfire sit hit it hard and fast.
The total of thirty five extra fire engines plus urban
search and rescue. We have hazardous materials, bulldozers, water tenders
nine one dispatchers because the call volume goes up an

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extra pilot. And the reason I mentioned that is we
are leaning forward because this is a sigignificant wind event
and the public should.

Speaker 1 (05:43):
Be prepared to Now, Captain Scott, I know that Malibu
is La County fire, but has there been any progress
and maybe this is a question for the DWP in
with the fire hydrants in the Palisades? Do you heard
any word on the street?

Speaker 5 (06:01):
Yeah? So uniquely enough, Palisades is in the city. However,
it's all around it is the county, so the majority
of Malibu is in La County. But this the dirt
where the fire started is in the city of Los Angeles.
And yes, I mean it's it's gotten better just due
to the decrease of usage from from it. You know,

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we're not putting out as many fires, so they're able
to refill the tanks much quicker.

Speaker 2 (06:27):
And can I can't explain this.

Speaker 1 (06:29):
Nobody else can either, But maybe you can't because you're
not you know, you have a professional, you know, eye
for this, and you've got like a tutored opinion that
I don't have. I don't see any rhyme or reason
why six homes burned down, then they missed two, then
the nine burned down, then they missed one. Is there
any explanation in your business for then?

Speaker 5 (06:49):
Yeah, it's simple embercast and how hard and is your home.
It's not the flame front that takes them all out.
And I totally agree with what you're saying. I remember
when the Woolsey fire came through. I was deployed to
that for fourteen days. I was driving through North Ranch
area and exactly what you described is what took place.
You had a few homes here it looks brand new,

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like fresh paint, and then you had some that were
burnt to the ground. So it's not the flame front
that takes them all out. But you have to think
when you have winds, those imbers will go far in front,
and if they land on your property, will it ignite anything,
whether that's your nice patio furniture that's up against your house,
or unboxed ease or a wood shake roof, or predominantly

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at events, and we see them burn from the top down.

Speaker 1 (07:33):
All right, And so that I mean, we had we
had a Dean Sharp and he said, you know, if
people had fireproof vents on their home, he said, it's
like you had a ninety eight nine chance of your
house surviving and they're very inexpensive. That's got to be
something that either the insurance companies in the future or
you want to put in your own home.

Speaker 2 (07:52):
I mean that if that can save your home, that'd be.

Speaker 5 (07:54):
Great, you know, And I think you saying that is
spot on. I mean, help people out. We got a
hard in our homes. These wildfires are just devastating driving
through the palisades every few days here when I have
to get up there, it's apocalyptic. So whatever you could
do to harden your home is a much better chance

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for survival. And don't forget the good old brush clearance.
Having that defensible space is huge too.

Speaker 1 (08:20):
LA Fire Department Captain Eric Scott is with us. I
want to ask you this, I asked, Captain. I'm sorry,
Chief Fantasy with Orange County Fire Authority, but I want
to ask you this as well, because I really think
there's an underlying issue that's going on with firefighters that
nobody's really talking about, and it's the massive depression of

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watching all these homes burn when you're a professional firefighter,
Are you seeing any of that in your cruise.

Speaker 5 (08:52):
Mental health is a serious aspect. We are addressing it
much better now than we have in your past. We
tend to lean forward. You're still, you know, predominantly a
very tough natured profession of people who often will suppress
those down. So it is tough, but you might find

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it interesting. We actually have peer support here at the
command post, so that's trained firefighters who will be that
listening ear. They've been there, they get it. We have
let's see canine therapy, so just having two eyes and
a long nose look back at you and pat and
that thing has reduced some blood pressures of a lot
of our members. There's actual psychologists here if need, clergy

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members if needed. So we really try to prepare for
our members' mental health because this is very taxing and
any problems you may be having at home now it's
exasperating because you're not there and you're seeing this devastation
and we're working arduous and around the clock, and it's
often at our own expense.

Speaker 1 (09:55):
You know, I've been My dad always told me that
if you use that term, you know, having two eyes
and a long nose looking back at you, you almost
have to exclusively use it with.

Speaker 5 (10:05):
Dogs yeah, it'd be weird looking cat.

Speaker 2 (10:10):
Yeah, you know, or people, you know what I mean.
I really appreciate coming on.

Speaker 1 (10:16):
I see that there's a fire off the four or
five in Granada Hills that has just cranked up. So, man,
you guys have got to be on your toes again
for the next three or four days with these winds.

Speaker 5 (10:27):
Absolutely. I mean, we had nice relative humidity this morning
through Malibu by the Palace, that's seventy percent, but it
is rapidly decreasing. We expect that seventy percent go down
to ten percent tomorrow morning. So man, the brush and
the fuels are very dry and very susceptible to a spark.
Plus the winds will stir up this twenty three thousand

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acre smoldering debris pile that we have here, and if
it can carry them across the fire line or just
a brand new start because it's very, very, very dry
right now.

Speaker 2 (10:58):
I got one quick question.

Speaker 1 (10:59):
I know we're running a little here, but I know
when there's an earthquake, a lot of the fire engines
of the fire trucks are moved out of the station
in case they collapse they can still use them. Is
there are there precautions you take with Santa Ana wins
that are similar, we just pre deploy resources.

Speaker 5 (11:14):
I mean, we keep them in the station. We as
we mentioned to begin with, we get a lot of
extra boots on the ground because we have a mantra
that when the wind comes, we have to hit them
hard and fast. As a matter of fact, when the
Palace ead started, I was on the incident management team
that was up to be ready to be deployed, and
the incident commander says, listen, with these wins that are coming,

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if we don't stop the fire within twenty minutes, it
could go to thousands of acres. So that's why we predeploy.

Speaker 1 (11:40):
All right, I wish you luck. I really appreciate you coming.
I know you're busy, and hats off to all the
brave young men and women who are out there fighting
these things.

Speaker 5 (11:49):
They're doing an outstanding job.

Speaker 7 (11:50):
They will pass that along.

Speaker 2 (11:52):
Thank you, excellent, Thank you sir.

Speaker 1 (11:53):
All Right, there he goes LA Fire Department Captain Eric Scott.
If you're a big I don't know, political fan, Kamala
Harris has just arrived at Burbank Airport. I'm watching it
on Channel four Live on Channel four Kamala Harris has arrived.
She is now going to be a citizen here in

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Los Angeles like all of us. An ex vice president,
so she's going to have secret service. But I'm looking
at that big, huge, beautiful Air Force jet. I guess
it's I don't know what the call sign is. It's
not air Force one or two. I imagine it's just
the tail number they use now that she's out of office.
But what a big, long day for her. You know,

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it's already seven eighteen in Washington, d C. It was
four degrees when she left. It's sixty five. She's going to,
I think, enjoy it and take a couple of deep breaths.

Speaker 2 (12:45):
What a year for her.

Speaker 8 (12:47):
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Speaker 1 (12:54):
Right here at Burbank Airport, literally about I don't know,
maybe four or five mile from where we're sitting. The
Vice President of the United States, Kamala Harris, ex Vice president,
I should say, is sitting there on an air Force jet.
She's about to get off. Conan Nolan is there talking live.
Let's flip on channel four here and see what's going.

Speaker 2 (13:17):
On in San Francisco. And now lives down here.

Speaker 3 (13:20):
So she's got the width and breadth of the state
behind her when it comes to at least in her
zip codes. And she has a resume the likes of
which a lot of people in politics would love to have.
In terms of the experience.

Speaker 2 (13:34):
There's a guy named Kay and I misspoke.

Speaker 1 (13:36):
I don't think she does get secret servers, or at
least Conan Nolan says she doesn't.

Speaker 3 (13:39):
For Ronald Reagan, a Republican who wrote a column in
the Wall Street Journal about Kamala Harris's future, and he said,
remember one of the problems if you were the vice
president and then you run for governor the way Dick
Nixon did in nineteen seventy launch everybody thinks that you
really want to go back to Washington. You're just it's
a placeholder position until you run again. And that's one

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of the concerns that she will have if she does run.
If everybody and it's a tough thing.

Speaker 2 (14:05):
This is live at Burbank Airport.

Speaker 3 (14:06):
Globally, they're thinking about international relations. As a governor, it's
about the state. It's a much different job, all.

Speaker 7 (14:14):
Right, Conan Nola, And we appreciate it as we wait
for former Vice President of Kamala Harris here too deep plane.

Speaker 2 (14:19):
But in the meantime, we're.

Speaker 1 (14:20):
Going to take a quick break, all right, she's going
to get off the plane here at any moment. The
plane arrived about fifteen minutes ago from Washington.

Speaker 2 (14:28):
A long day, very long day.

Speaker 1 (14:31):
She lost to Donald Trump, and she has to sit
there while he went on and on about renaming the
Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America, taking the Panama
Canal back, shutting down the border, and she had to
like sort of just sit there through it. And that
must have been tough for her to do. But she's
coming back as a private citizen. She's going to have

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to drive herself or Dougie, we'll have to drive for
her because she has not driven a car in the
last four years. As a vice president and a president,
you are not allowed to drive a vehicle.

Speaker 2 (15:05):
You just can't do that. Secret serve something like you
do that. My understanding is she's allowed secret service for
six months. Oh is that right? That's it? And that's
a rap, that's a wrap wow. Six months.

Speaker 1 (15:14):
Well, the rumor is she's going to probably run for governor,
but she may want to also run for president of
the United States as well. So she's going to be
in and around the community. You'll see her probably quite often.
You know, there's still you know, both of them are young.
I think they're both in their fifties. Kamala Harris and

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Doug m Hoff. They got kids. They live, I believe
on the West side. I don't know if it's Brentwood
Bell Are is it Rightwood?

Speaker 2 (15:42):
Okay?

Speaker 1 (15:43):
And so I you know, when I imagine that, I think
the fire, one of the fires came right up to
her house.

Speaker 2 (15:50):
There was a looting thing going on in her area.

Speaker 1 (15:53):
So welcome back to La you know, the craziness that
is Los Angeles. We're gonna keep an eye the winds
as well. The winds is gonna wind is gonna be
a big factor here in Los Angeles, big, big factor.

Speaker 2 (16:06):
There's a brush fire. Let's go to Channel five real quick.

Speaker 1 (16:08):
There's a brush fire on the northbound side of the
Foural five and it looks like the freeway is closed
northbound four or five while they fight this fire.

Speaker 2 (16:16):
Five, I'll send it back here in the studio.

Speaker 1 (16:18):
Oh, perfect timing, they call me that perfect timing t boat. Yeah,
he said, great timing. Uh so the fire angel what's
going on out there with the foural five northbound closed?

Speaker 2 (16:30):
Is that right?

Speaker 4 (16:31):
Yeah, they're taking everybody off at Ronaldi and they'll prob
we push that back to the one eighteen.

Speaker 1 (16:36):
Oh bobo, So you're gonna have the workaround is just
don't go on the foural five.

Speaker 2 (16:42):
Yeah, just don't go on the four five. You know,
you can take the one seventy. It's a lovely drive.
Take the five instead.

Speaker 4 (16:49):
Go through Burbank, maybe wave to the motorcycle that's right,
heave the Burbank airport.

Speaker 1 (16:53):
And this fire is, this fire is is not threatening
any homes, but it's exactly where wind comes out of
Santa Clarita, you know, Valencia, and then even up towards
the Antelope Valley. These these sant Anta Wins, they're gonna do.
These Santanna Wins come down the right wherever the fourteen

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and the five meet. That's where all the both of
these winds combined and then they come down. It's like
a bowling alley right into the valley, and that's where
this fire is.

Speaker 2 (17:26):
Let's go to ABC seven, all righte ABC, Chris Christie's
up there.

Speaker 1 (17:30):
What's going on Chris Channel four, Channel four. Let's go
to four and see if they can go to a
commercial real quick. All right, but this fire is burning
right next to the FOURAL five. They closed the FOURAL five.

Speaker 6 (17:43):
Complete stop, but there's really no way to get these
drivers off the roadway. So all the people that you
see here are simply stuck. If you normally do take
that northbound four l five Freeway, your best alternation to
take the eastbound one A teen into the five north
and then you can reconnect northbound five from there. That's
really the best alternate around this, because again, at this
point it's unknown how long these lanes are going to

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be shut down, but you can see that the doors
are hard at work to put this one out. The
southbound side of the four or five freeway, though, remains open.
That's latest here from Granada Hills and New Shop report.
I'm right now.

Speaker 2 (18:18):
And they can't drop. They can't.

Speaker 1 (18:21):
Let's go back to see if the colony's talking to
Eliot here can't get it out of their heads what
happened in the past couple of weeks.

Speaker 2 (18:26):
Here How close are the nearest homes.

Speaker 6 (18:29):
The nearest are actually not that close by, which is
good to get there on the opposite side of.

Speaker 2 (18:35):
The graveside up there apartment complex raveyard.

Speaker 4 (18:38):
We're good in terms of that.

Speaker 6 (18:39):
The side of the freeway that the.

Speaker 4 (18:41):
Fire is at is that isn't it, Oh my gosh.

Speaker 6 (18:45):
But you could see there are some large trees there,
so that's a concern as well. We do see police
officers staging there in the area. And just beyond that,
we do have a Holy Cross Medical Hospital. To give
you a better idea where we're at.

Speaker 2 (18:57):
Lots of they're gonna have this fire out in the
next ten minutes.

Speaker 1 (19:00):
The shrubbery, it's overgrowth on the hill right off the
four five. And you know what, I guarantee you if
you're on the four h five right now, and we
know we gotta take a break. If you're on the
four five, you're going northbound, you're going back to Valencia.
You're going back to Santa Clarita, New Hall, maybe Lancaster
or you know the Anlo Valley. You probably thought to yourself,

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it's Martin Luther King Junior's birthday. There's gonna be no traffic.
The city workers, the county and the state workers are
all home. People are watching the you know, gonna be
home watching the NCAA Men's Final. People are gonna be
home watching Trump's inauguration, and you're gonna fly home.

Speaker 2 (19:38):
It's not happening.

Speaker 1 (19:40):
They closed the four O five northbound before the five freeway.
Looks like just before the five freeway there, Yeah, right
before the five freeway. All right, Well, keep an eye
on at the wind is a factor as well, and
they can't do a helicopter drop on this because the
fire is right under high tension wires. These big electrical

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wires are right above that fire. So we got it.
We got it. Here on KFI, we're gonna talk about
all the wind, all the fire, and we're gonna also
get into sports a little bit. We got a lot
going on.

Speaker 8 (20:12):
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AM six forty.

Speaker 1 (20:18):
And we're keeping an eye on the fire that has
the four H five closed. As soon as that opens up,
Angel Martinez will butt in and give us the all clear.
And until that happens, we have a brush fire burning
near Mount Wilson. That's not good. Channel four is live
on that. We had another one at Griffith Park. They

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think that's arson. Another one in San Clemente. So Michael
Monks is with us. How are you, Bob.

Speaker 7 (20:47):
I'm doing well, Tim Man. That's a new one there
near Dat Wilson.

Speaker 2 (20:50):
That's not good. That's not a good one.

Speaker 7 (20:52):
This is what we've been watching all day, are these
little fires popping up. And obviously we're all very anxious
after what we've gone through in this region over the
past couple of weeks. And you may recall on that Tuesday,
just a couple of weeks ago, that Palisades fire did
start as something that looked just like this, and the
wind conditions were right to make that explode into a
complete devastating tragedy. So we're watching these very closely with

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great anxiety and interest.

Speaker 1 (21:16):
And the one in but most of that area has
already burned. Where that where that Mount Wilson fire is
right now, I'm sure that's a flare up.

Speaker 7 (21:22):
Hopefully there's not as much fuel available to a fire
like that near Mount Wilson, because it did take a
brunt of that fire just last week. So I know
in Griffith Park was the first one to pop up
right this morning, and so we were watching that. It's
not far from here either, and we were keeping an
eye on it. It wasn't very big, but again, you
don't know with these winds how great these things can grow.

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The firefighters were able to get that out really really quickly,
thank goodness. It only spread to about a quarter of
an acre, they said. But the key to this story
is that the LAPD has taken a guy into custody
on suspicion of arson. Now we have a lot of
details on what that means, you know, what type of
evidence they have or how he may have allegedly done this.
But that also plays into a lot of people's concerns

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over the past couple of weeks about how the big
fire started and what they've seen and what social media
is claiming.

Speaker 1 (22:11):
It's it's getting wild out there. You know this this
watch app is great. I don't if you have it, absolutely,
but man, as soon as the fires pop up, watch
app has it. I guess it's being run by former
fire fighters. But this Ronaldi fire, they're calling it the
Ronaldi fire. That's four or five Ronaldi in Granada Hills
and it's already burned three acres. The status is active

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updated twelve minutes ago. And so if you don't have
this app, I would recommend getting it. It's free and
this could save your life. It's called Watch Duty w
A T H watch and then Duty d U T Y.

Speaker 2 (22:47):
It's free.

Speaker 1 (22:48):
It was very easy to download and alerts come in instantly.

Speaker 2 (22:52):
It's great. I don't know how they're gonna make your
money on it.

Speaker 1 (22:54):
I don't know if they are or not, but man,
it that that's something you'd saved your life.

Speaker 7 (22:57):
I think there's been a lot of downloads and yeah, yeah,
millius for sure, absolutely millions. That Grenada Hills file started
about an hour ago, and we are keeping an eye
on that as well. Our Angel Martinez is also keeping
a close watch on the traffic in that area. And
I think her last report says the four or five
northbound has been diverted off at Rinaldi closed.

Speaker 1 (23:15):
They closed that sucker. Yeah, unbelievable. All right, so what
do we Let's go to Orange County San Clemente.

Speaker 7 (23:20):
Now, there was another one in San Clemente, and this
one was also small. They've stopped forward progress on this one.
This was reported in the afternoon as well in San Clemente.
The Orange County Fire Authority said that it happened right
after three o'clock in your Pico and Evanita la Pata
in San Clemente. But they were able to respond aggressively
and they stopped that one. We didn't get a report

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yet on the size of that one, but no evacuations,
no injuries or anything. But again, we're watching all of
these that pop up with great interest because who knows
what could happen.

Speaker 1 (23:49):
That's right, Okay, we're gonna take a break here. Kamala
Harris and Doug Amhoff have just gotten off the plane.
They're back in Los Angeles while they're in Burbank. They
flew into Burbank to avoid the traffic. I guess at
l and so they're home. Long day for both of them.
I imagine we have wind. We have a fire off Ronaldi.
They're calling it the Renaldi fire. The Foural five northbound

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is closed. Michael Monk's gonna stay with us. We'll also
talk about city Hall. If you're a city employee and
you got burned out by these fires, they're going to
do something potentially for you. That's a big deal. You
want to hear it. I welcome back here on KFI.

Speaker 8 (24:26):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on Demyan from KFI
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Speaker 1 (24:33):
We've got the Ronaldi fire on the four five that
continues to burn. I think they got a pretty good
handle on it. Something's pop popped up on Mount Wilson.
That's unnerving. We had the San Clemente fire and then
the fire of Griffith Park and monks is covering all
of them, ma'am. What it's I've never.

Speaker 2 (24:52):
Seen like this.

Speaker 7 (24:53):
It's just nuts going to have a series of these
wind events just week after week on top of these
fires burning. It's just been a lot. It's been a
lot to handle. I think people's anxiety is probably through
the roof at this point. We're ready to get on
to the next part of all this, like let's start rebuilding,
but we can't yet.

Speaker 1 (25:08):
And it seem from what I understand, we're going to
have wind for the next.

Speaker 7 (25:13):
Two or three days. Yeah, that's what it looks like.
And the warnings are certainly in effect until tomorrow, so
we're keeping an eye on that for the next several hours. Like,
can we just get through this day and we might
finally be on the other side of it. All right,
let's talk about the city Hall aspect of this. They're
going to do something for employees city employees that have

(25:33):
been burned out of their home. They got potentially, yeah, exactly.
They got a lot of things planned. I mean, last week,
council Member Tracy Park, who represents the Palisades, gave a
very emotional address to City Council and also said, by
the way, I've got about two dozen motions I'd like
to introduce, and most of those made it through to
either be enacted or sent to committees for further review.

(25:55):
And one of them was this proposal that if any
city employee has lost their home in a wild fire recently,
that they could receive at least ten thousand dollars from
the city. Now, they don't know how many city employees,
if any, have been impacted, but that's just one of
many steps that the city has taken.

Speaker 2 (26:11):
This week.

Speaker 7 (26:12):
City Council comes back on Tuesday, the Board of Supervisors
comes back on Tuesday, and City Council also meets on
Wednesday and Friday. And all these days they've got stuff
to vote on related to the beginning of the recovery process,
like what and the rebuilding starting tomorrow. The City council is,
you know, they've got one tiny thing that's similar to

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the city employees and ten thousand dollars. You know, we've
talked about this that not everybody in the Palisades impacted
by that fire is wealthy. A lot of them might
be domestic workers, gardeners, that sort of thing. One of
the council members has proposed taking twenty five thousand bucks
and setting that aside and offering some income supplement for

(26:53):
those folks who may have had their income lost because
they've lost their jobs the city. That's just the for
the not so rich people exact palace, and it's only
twenty five thousand dollars total. It sounds like so I
don't know how many people they expect to benefit from that.
But one key thing that people might want to even
tune in for, as boring as some of these committee
meetings can be at the Energy Committee at three point

(27:13):
thirty in the afternoon. This will be after the regular
city Council meeting. LEDWP is expected to give a verbal
report on the infrastructure and their response during the fire.
You know, this is a utility that has been sued. Right,
some people lost their home in the Palisades, so we
might see where they stand on their response in a

(27:33):
clearer way. Under questioning from members of the city council.

Speaker 1 (27:37):
I heard that they wanted to replace the liner of
that reservoir out near Pacific Palisades because it was leaking
and they didn't want to happen. What's happening in the
Pacific Peninsula in Palace Verda is to happen in Palisades.

Speaker 7 (27:51):
And so now they may be able to either talk
about that, but the direct questions that they're going to
receive is what was the status of these things leading
up to the fire? Why was at the status? And
what are we doing moving forward now? Why was it
dry for a year? I don't get that at all.

Speaker 1 (28:06):
Yeah, but the people that I know, I don't know
if you know anybody that has either been displaced or
burned out. But the reports that I'm personally getting from
FEMA are off the charts that they are helpful. You
can get a hold of them right away. They're giving money,
they're giving vouchers, and they're really knocking it out.

Speaker 7 (28:24):
Yeah, and that's not always what you hear about the
local government. Never hear right about permitting if you need
to build a deck on the back of your house,
how difficult it is repairing a roof, especially if you
have to do some design changes, it's a hassle. And
so you're hearing a lot from local elected's Mayor bass
On down that they want to make this easier. We're
going to put permit offices closer to the palisades while

(28:45):
we rebuild, and little things like that to make this
move faster. But these are all just tiny steps in
what is going to be a very very long road
to recovery in the city. Clearly knows that. The other
thing that the city Council is going to do this week,
they're creating a special committe to oversee all of this stuff.
What do we need to do to make this smooth?
What do we need to investigate? How will the rebuilding go.

(29:06):
They're going to investigate rent gouging this week. Get a
report on how that's supposed to work. And the big
question that I've had for La City Hall. We've talked
about it before. This city is broke. Before this happened,
they were already out of money, walking around, you know,
looking for anything in the couch cushions in city Hall
to pay their bills. They're about to borrow money to

(29:28):
pay their legal bills. Because they get sued so frequently,
all before these fires blew in, and now they are
expecting to ask for a report this week on what
has this done.

Speaker 2 (29:39):
They need more money, you are budgeting. They need a
lot of money. They need federal money.

Speaker 7 (29:42):
Yeah, they got some big parties coming to town, World Cup,
super Bowl, Olympics, and they're broke as a joke.

Speaker 1 (29:49):
Is there any rumor or any murmur on the street
saying that the Olympics may be moved.

Speaker 7 (29:55):
No, not yet. And Tracy Park, who is the council
member who rep since the Palisades, is also the chair
of the city Council's ad hoc committee on the Olympics.
And I did reach out to her her pr representative
last week. I was hoping to talk to her specifically
about that. She's busy with other things I think right now,
but I do hope to connect with her very very soon,
just have a very honest conversation, because she's pretty raw

(30:17):
and pretty sure she's right about this stuff. I got
three years left, yeah, until the I'd like to know
what the status is now. Former councilman Paul Krekorian, who
retired at the end of last year term, liamented out
He's like Mayor Bass's liaison of the Olympics situation right now.
He's somebody else that we might be able to talk
too soon about what the status is and what concerns
they might have because the city doesn't have any money

(30:38):
and this only makes it worse.

Speaker 1 (30:40):
Michael Monks is with us from CAMFI News. Here's the
fight that I've been hearing is going to be the
biggest of all. I think the people who live in
Pacific Palisade, Santa Monica, Malibu, they while they feel sorry
for people have lost their homes, what I'm hearing they
really like now being able to see the ocean as

(31:03):
they drive a pch and they're going to start banging
on the California Coastal Commission to not allow them to
rebuild those homes. And the California Coastal Commission is going
to use that as an excuse to say, see, the
people don't want it. There's going to be a massive
fight to build those homes on the ocean.

Speaker 7 (31:20):
And I think that that agency, the Coastal Commission, is
going to be in the crosshairs of several politically motivated
individuals in Sacramento here locally, so whether they have a
fight on their hands about preserving that land as it
is now without the homes on it. They're going to
have other going, other battles because there are folks who
are like, let's get these guys out of here, because
they don't have our best interests.

Speaker 1 (31:39):
The California Commission Coastal Commissions, strongest commission in America, and
their jurisdiction is from the water line sometimes five miles
in which is all of Palisades, if that's one of
the five mile areas. All right, thank you for coming on.
Really appreciate it. We you SiGe on these winds and
great show over the weekend.

Speaker 2 (31:58):
Hey, I appreciate that. Let's say that. Cool deal.

Speaker 1 (32:01):
All right, we're live when we come back. J Leno
is gonna be on with this. J Leno called in
and we had to bump them because of monks. Is
that the first time Jay Leno has been bumped because
of you?

Speaker 2 (32:12):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (32:12):
Okay, tell it to his mom, and his mom as
gonna not care at all. All Right, we're live on KFI.
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