January 13, 2025 • 44 mins
Amy King hosts your Monday Wake Up Call. ABC News correspondent Alex Stone joins the show to share the latest regarding the Los Angeles wildfires. ABC News White House correspondent Karen Travers speaks on the remarks made saying, “still in such a dangerous situation.” Amy speaks with Gene Gable, a spokesman for Wings of Rescue, an animal rescue group that helps relocate shelter animals during disasters and what they are doing to help during the Los Angeles wildfires. The show closes with Amy talking about the Dream Center Foundation in downtown LA who are leading a massive fire donation effort and what you can do to help.
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This is It is five oh one. This is your
wake up call for Monday, January. Good morning, I'm Amy King. Wow.
It's been a heck of a week, but we're glad
you're getting this week started with us. It looks like
we could be in for more. We're going to bring
you all up to date on what's going on with
the fires, what's coming up. But I wanted to share
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a couple of positive things because man, this has been
a rough week. Remember mister Rogers, he also said he
always said look for the helpers. People have been turning
out in droves to help. It's been amazing to see
they We've got the Dream Center that's taking in donations
and they've just got piles stacked high, like ten feet
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high of donations to people, which is amazing. And they
have another donation center set up out at Santa Anita,
and I was watching that over the weekend. Amazing. They said,
we've got enough. Can you imagine that we've got enough?
I think as we move through this, they're probably going
to need more. But right now they do Pasadena Humane
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packed to the rafters with food and donations. They've taken
in hundreds of animals and people have turned out. They said,
we don't even need any more volunteers. They've got so
many people who are coming into help. And then a
couple of things that I thought were very cool. On
Saturday night, I turned on the TV. I came in
and worked on Saturday afternoon with Neil Sevedra, and Saturday
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night I turned on the TV. There was normal programming.
I was so excited because it's been all fires for
like the last week, so I went, that's got to
be a good sign, right. And then also I think
it was CBS I was watching and they were showing
the hillside and it was dark, like no glow from
the fires, which was again another really positive sign. And
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then of course there's that big, beautiful white full moon
the other day when I was driving in it was
distinctly yellow because from the smoke, and it's better. Air
quality is still not great, but there's a big, beautiful
full moon up in the sky and it is gorgeous.
Here's what's ahead on wake up call. Another strong Santa
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Ana wind event is expected to blow in later tonight
and last until Wednesday. GUS could reach its highs eighty
miles per hour during the peak of the windstorm. Authority
say anyone living near the fire zones or in the
mountains and foothills needs to be ready to evacuate at
a moment's notice. Containment of the Palisades fire has increased
to thirteen percent. It's burned twenty three thy seven hundred
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thirteen acres. Firefighters have surrounded twenty seven percent of the fire,
and Alta Dina it's burned just over fourteen thousand acres.
ABC's Alex Stone has been on the line of the
fire and we're going to be talking with him in
just about three minutes, so stick around for that. He's
going to have some amazing stories for us. Most LAUSD
schools are going to reopen this morning. Superintendent Alberto Carvalla
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says conditions have improved across the region and the district
is confident it is safe for students and employees to
return to campus. Most schools in Santa Monica are also
reopening today. There are a couple that are still closed,
but schools Malibu were going to stay closed until at
least Wednesday. Let's get started with some of the stories
coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. At
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least twenty four deaths are now blamed on the fires
in Pacific Palisades in Altadena. LAPD Chief Jim McDonald says
beliefs have been overwhelmed by the number of people wanting
to go back into the fire areas, but he says
the focus is now turning to search and recovery.
Speaker 7 (04:22):
We will have cadaverdog deployment and that will result in
crime scene preservation efforts and then the recovery of remains,
working closely with the La County Coroner.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
A nightly curfew from six pm to six am is
still in effect on the mandatory evacuation areas around Pacific
Palisades and Altadena. Only firefighters, utility workers, and law enforcement
are allowed into that area. The La County das set
to announce charges this afternoon. Against people arrested for looting
and arson. Nathan Hakman said last week his office would
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be charging people arrested for arson, breaking curfew and looting.
Speaker 8 (05:00):
Looting is a despicable crime.
Speaker 9 (05:03):
For the people who have already been arrested, Please know
this is not going to end well. You will be
punished to the full extent of the law.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
The DA's office says the looting charges being announced today
are against a group of people in Pacific Palisades, and
the arson charges are against a man in Azusa. The
man allegedly started a fire at Pioneer Park late Friday
night and was arrested as he allegedly watched the fire burn.
Let's say good morning now to ABC's Alex Stone. Alex,
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things are looking better and worse in the wildfires burning
in southern California. And you've been on the lines. Tell
us what you've seen.
Speaker 6 (05:40):
Yeah, you know, I mean all day yesterday it looked
so much better. I've been on the Eton fire now
since Wednesday morning, and yesterday we saw big change that
the fire activity, and it was the same on the
Palisades fire as well. But the fire activity was minimal
to none really no wind and they were able to
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hit it really hard. But the question is going to
be this next round coming in, and that's what firefighters
are getting ready for that. They know that the high
winds are probably going to be in slightly different areas
than they were this last go around, But still, does
it spark up what's already out there, what's already burning?
Does something new start? The fire Chief La County Anthony Moroni,
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I mean, he admits that they're worried about that, telling us.
Speaker 10 (06:28):
These winds, combined with low relative humidities and low fuel
moistures will keep the fire threat in Los Angeles County
very high.
Speaker 6 (06:38):
So, I mean it's really getting through these next two
or three days that it's going to come down the
can we push through without a new wildfire roaring up
or without these kicking back up? But driving through the
communities of Altadena, I mean, it's just everything is gone.
There's not a lot left. Home after home, building after building,
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everything is gone.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Alex tell us, because we've seen a lot of pictures
and so from your not bird's eide view, but from
your vantage from street level, is it you say everything?
Are there a few houses still standing dotted here and there?
Or is it just complete, complete destruction.
Speaker 6 (07:21):
There are some more on the perimeter of the burn
area where there will be a lot of homes that
are burned, and then one that is there and you go, wow,
how did that one? You know, with the Christmas decoration
still up and it will look perfect. But in the
heart of the burning near like fair Oaks and Palm,
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I mean, it's just it. Nothing, nothing made it in
that area.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
But there's and it's got to be here. And I
haven't obviously been into this burn area, but there was
another fire that basically took out the whole the towns
of Talent and Phoenix in southern Oregon, and it was
just eerie to drive around because you'd see like a
chimney standing and the foundation but nothing else, or a
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washing machine here and there, but the rest was just
reduced to ash.
Speaker 6 (08:15):
Yeah, and that's very much what it's like. And everything
is a gray color. You know, it's all kind of
and it's cliche y is the moonscape or the you know,
the accurate Yeah, but it really is that it is
this gray ash everywhere. There's still a lot of power
lines down southern California. Edison was coming in yesterday beginning
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to get up and bring down some of the burned
out towers, the poles of the power poles, Yeah, get
those down, get some of the dangling wires down. But yeah,
the vehicles, many of them melted where parts of them
melted down the road and then solidified. When you look
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at the homes, it really is only the chimney. Most
of them are older homes in Altadena, so they've got
brick chimneys. Those remained. You'll see the outline of what
was a sink or a washing machine. Yesterday there was
a we I was walking along and all of a
sudden there's a whisk from somebody's kitchen sitting there. So
just random items that are all over the place. Found
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a football yesterday that like a child's football, totally untouched,
that was just sitting there. And so that there are
some random things. You go, well, how did that make it?
But these other things didn't. A lot of melted Christmas decorations.
But for the homes, they burned quickly and very hot,
and so there's not a lot left. As the flames
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came through mainly on Wednesday morning in Altadena, and you know,
still they've got to get in many areas they've only
done I think twenty some odd percent of the search
of the buildings. They've got to get cadaver dogs in,
and the numbers have been going up and they're probably
going to keep going up, but people who could not
get out.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Yeah, it's twenty four at this point in both.
Speaker 6 (10:03):
Yeah, the number dead twenty four. I think that they've
searched like twenty seven percent of the grid something like that.
Hopefully they are searching in areas where they knew that
it was likely that that there were people who were killed,
because otherwise, if they've only searched twenty seven percent and
we're at twenty four dead on both of the fires,
then the number is going to keep going out. But
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if they're now and we haven't talked to how they're
doing the grid search, if they're going out from the
hardest hit area, well then the numbers should slow down
as they're going out.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
But that's not clear.
Speaker 6 (10:35):
But we saw the medical examiner driving around yesterday yesterday
that you know that there's just so much that they've
got to do, and people badly want to get in,
and they know that that people want to get back in,
But there's a lot going on inside right now all.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
Right, ABC's Alex Stone, thank you so much for the information.
Be safe out there, you got it.
Speaker 6 (10:53):
Thanks Amy.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
All right, Amazingly, there are other things going on in
the world, so let's continue and check out some of
the other stories going on that are coming out of
the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. A six point nine
magnitude earthquake has hit southwestern Japan. The Japan Meteorological Agency
says a tsunami warning has been issued. That just hit
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less than a half an hour ago, so we're still
waiting to get more information about that. Confirmation. Hearings are
said to get underway on Capitol Hill this week. ABC's
Mary Alice Parks says more than a dozen of President
elect Trump's key nominees will be questioned, including Trump's pick
to lead the Defense Department, Pete Hegseth.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
He's been one of Trump's most controversial nominees, facing accusations
of sexual and financial misconduct, as well as alcohol abuse.
He denies those claims and has never been charged.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Excess hearing is scheduled for tomorrow. Hospitals across the US
are reporting a wave of respiratory illnesses. The CDC says
more than half of the country is seeing high levels
of flu, covid RSV, and even the common cold. I
can attest to that one. ABC's Morgan Norwood says, so
far this season, more than sixty three thousand people have
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had to go to the hospital because of the flu.
Speaker 11 (12:09):
Pediatric units especially overwhelmed, with some hospitals hitting ninety five
percent capacity. Health experts are urging everyone to get their
annual flu and covid vaccines if they haven't already, and
to of course stay home if you are sick.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
She says. At least to twenty seven hundred people have
died from various viruses. The White House says President Biden
and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu have talked about the ongoing
negotiations for a ceasefire hostage deal in Gaza. President elect
Trump's pick for National security advisor, Florida Republican Congressman Mike Walls,
says negotiations are literally happening as we speak.
Speaker 9 (12:45):
Let's have a ceasefire, Let's allow our hostages to be
set free. I want to see them walking across the tarmac,
or at a minimum, some type of agreement.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
During the President's call us official say Biden, stress, the
immediate need for a cease fire in Gaza and the
return of the hostages, as well as an increased flow
in humanitarian aid. A new report says banks around the
world are getting ready to cut up to two hundred
thousand jobs in the next three to five years. A
survey by Bloomberg Intelligence says it's because artificial intelligence is
being used more and more in the financial industry. The
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report says most of the jobs being cut will be
in back and middle offices, as well as operations. House
Republicans from several states, including California, are set to meet
with President elect Trump to talk about increasing the ten
thousand dollars cap on state and local tax deductions. Bloomberg
reports Trump's economic advisors are looking at doubling it to
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twenty thousand dollars. It says if the incoming administration goes
ahead with the change, it will mean big savings for
people around the US, and anyone affected by the wildfires
in southern California has more time to file their taxes.
Governor Newsom has ordered the tax deadline for fire affected
residents to be pushed back from April fifteenth to October
twenty fifth. October fifteenth of this year. So, as you know,
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the Chargers didn't make it. I know producer and while
she's sitting over there crying still, so we'll be cheering
on the La Rams tonight in Wildcard playoff action. LA
is actually in Arizona to take on the Minnesota Vikings.
The game was supposed to be played at SOFI Stadium,
but was moved to Glendale because of the wildfires. It
starts at five o'clock on ABC and ESPN. At least
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thirty five historic locations have been destroyed by the wind
whipped wildfires in southern California. Confirmed losses include Will Rogers
Historic Ranch House and other buildings at Will Rogers State
Historic Park, the Altadina Community Church, the Pasadena Jewish Temple,
and Saint Mark's Episcopal Church. Red flag parking restrictions are
in effect in the city of La starting at eight
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am because of another Santa Ana wind event. LA Fire
says the restrictions will be enforced to make sure firefighters
can get more quickly to the fires that break out,
and also to keep the streets clear for anyone who
may need to get out of the evacuated areas. Air
quality in southern California continues to be unhealthy. Public health
officials say people should stay inside as much as possible
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and wear masks outside. At six oh five, it's handle
on the news. A guy dressed like a firefighter has
been busted in a burn area in Malibu. Right now,
let's say good morning to ABC's Karen Travers. Karen, is
the fires still smolder and even burn in some areas.
The government's lending a helping hand to people who've lost everything,
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and the danger isn't even over yet.
Speaker 12 (15:32):
Yeah, I mean, we heard from the FEMA administrator, Dan
chris Well yesterday. She was out doing Sunday political talk
show interviews, including ABC's This Week, and she said that
the biggest concern she has right now is that it's
still such a dangerous situation. She said, the red flag
warnings have been reissued, the winds are coming back, and
they want to make sure people are in a safe place.
(15:53):
But she did say that FEMA has the funds it
needs right now for this immediate response and to help
with the ongoing recovery efforts. FEMA, of course, got twenty
seven billion dollars in that government funding bill at the
end of last year, so she said, you know, they
have enough funding at this point, and they're trying to
make sure it gets to the people that need it,
so that you know, a couple things like one reimbursing
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state and local officials for the cost of fighting the fires,
which as you know, is very much a still ongoing
effort and will be for some time, and also helping
people who need it right now. The President last week
issued a major Disaster declaration for California and with that,
FEMA was able to activate its Critical Needs Assistance program
and that means that people can apply for that initial
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payment of seven hundred and seventy dollars, and the White
House says twenty four thousand people have registered for FEMA assistance.
But they really want people to take advantage of what
is available to them, you know, don't wait, here's the money.
We can get this out to you right now, because
they want to help people with immediate critical needs and
that's just have lost everything or evacuated.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
And Karen, that's seven hundred seven I need dollars. That's
just a one time flat kind of tie you over
until more assistance gets in. That's not that that's not
all they're going to get.
Speaker 12 (17:09):
That is not all it is. We've talked about this
a lot back in the fall, a lot of misinformation
back then about the hurricanes too, and people saying, well,
that's all they're getting. No, this is just a here
is this, apply for this. Get it because you need
some money right now, because you don't have things, either
because you've evacuated or because you've lost everything. So this
is available to you. Figure out how to get it,
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then get it quickly, okay.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
And then what are some of the things Karen, that
FEMA specifically does to help people, you.
Speaker 12 (17:38):
Know, specifically they're trying to work well. First of all,
you know, the big thing is like reimbursing state and
local officials for the cost. Like they're getting funding out there,
so that's kind of like a big picture thing. Second,
they're setting up things where they can actually get assistance
to neighborhoods and people that need it too. It's working
on housing situations. You know, there's a rental assistance and
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reimbursements if you are staying in a hotel or if
you are staying in some sort of short term rental FAMA.
The administrator, Dan chris Well, said that there is funding
available to you to get reimbursed for that. The other
big thing that they're starting to think about, I mean
that's starting, but they're working on right now. And this
is going to be a big problem is like the
eventual longer term housing crisis. Where do people go? You know,
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if you rebuild in your community, where are you in
the meantime though? And if your kids are still able
to go to their school, how do you stay by
their community? Where is your job? And the White House
has been very clear like they want to help people
stay where they have been, but that's going to be challenging.
They need to get a sense of the available housing inventory,
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figure out what they could do in terms of temporary housing, shelters,
things like that. And that's the federal government working with
state and local officials.
Speaker 5 (18:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
I mean with twelve thousand people at least, well there's
twelve thousand homes and other buildings, but say it's only
only ten thousand or something like that, that's still ten
thousand people and there's already a housing shortage. So it's
going to be really interesting to see where those people
are going to land in the interim until they can rebuild.
Speaker 12 (19:12):
Yeah. Yeah, and that emphasis them like trying to help
people stay where they are. If your school is still functioning,
you want your kids to be able to go to
their school. This is such a tumultuous time already. You
don't want to inject any more uncertainty for your family.
But that's challenging to keep everything as normal as possible.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
Okay. And for people who want to apply, I know
you've got to run just FEMA dot gov.
Speaker 12 (19:35):
Yeah, there's all sorts of you can go to FEMA
and it will direct you to everything you need through there.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
Okay. ABC's Karen Travis, thank you so much for the information.
We'll touch to you soon.
Speaker 12 (19:46):
Got a great day, all right you.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
Two red flag warnings are in effect through Wednesday across
southern California as more strong Santa Ana winds are expected
to blow through. LA County Fire Chief Anthony Moroney says
the fireweather conditions are critical.
Speaker 10 (20:00):
These winds, combined with low relative humidities and low fuelm moistures,
will keep the fire threat in Los Angeles County very high.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
Maroni says firefighters are prepared to keep dealing with severe
conditions for as long as they need to. LA City
Fire Chief Kristin Crowley says her department will have every
firefighter on hand and available for this wind event. Investigators
are looking to see if an electrical fire and eaton
canyon may have started the massive wildfire above Altadena.
Speaker 13 (20:30):
Photos and videos taken by residents last Tuesday night show
Southern California Edison electrical transmission tower and flames amid damaging
and erratic winds which were headed down the canyon and
toward homes.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
Kfi's Daniel Martindale says the California Department of Forestry is
investigating the tower and the surrounding area. The fires burned
more than fourteen thousand acres since last week, destroyed about
seven thousand homes and businesses and other buildings, and killed
at least sixteen people. The incoming Trump administration has been
invited to bring it down allegation to La to see
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firsthand the devastation caused by the wildfires. LA County Supervisor
Catherine Barger says she has personally invited President Electroump to
make the trip.
Speaker 4 (21:11):
To meet with our impacted residents and hear their stories,
to thank our first responders, and most importantly, to see
how the federal government can help our communities heal and rebuild.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
She says the federal government is an essential partner when
it comes to responding to an emergency and to helping
communities recover. Metro is going to continue to offer free
rides on its trains and buses as the fires continue.
The one thirty four and the six oh two lines
which run along PCH are canceled until further notice. In Altadena,
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the six sixty and six sixty two routes are being detoured,
along with the Metro micro which serves Pasadena, Altadena, and
Sierra Mount a Madre. The Southern California rescue group Pause
for Life Canine Rescue, and the Internet Sational pet Air
Transport operation Wings of Rescue has flown about one hundred
dogs and cats to Seattle from Southern California. The shelter
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animals were flown from Hollywood Burbank Airport to Seattle yesterday.
Sending those animals north freeze up space in the shelters
here for animals coming in because of the fires, either
by being dropped off by their owners or those being
found wandering in the burn areas. And evacuation order has
been downgraded to a warning for an area of the
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Eton fire South of New York Drive and east of
North Hill Avenue to Altadena Drive. In Altadena, the Ela
County Sheriff's Departments's residents with homes in that area will
now be permitted to return to the area. Some residents
in the Palas Sades fire burn area will also be
allowed to return to their homes. The orders have been
downgraded to warnings. The La County Sheriff's Departments is The
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affected areas include north of West Sunset Boulevard up to
and including Mount Saint Mary's University, North Bundy Drive to
the four h five and from the northern boundary of
the Encina Reservoir van Alden Avenue east to Strawberry Field Park.
Good news. Two people have been arrested for flying drones
around Altadena, where they eaton fires, burn more than fourteen
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thousand acres and destroyed or damaged seven thousand homes, businesses,
and other buildings. At six oh five, it's handled on
the news. Governor Newsom says, damn the environment. We got
to rebuild. Good thing. Let's say good morning now to
Jean Gable, who is a SPOKESPURN spokesperson with Wings of Rescue.
Earlier in the show, I said, look for the helpers. Well,
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here are some of the helpers. Good morning, Jean.
Speaker 5 (23:41):
How are you doing. Amy, good to talk to you today.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
Doing great. So we know that a lot of pets
have been dropped off at shelters or they were found
wandering like if people couldn't get back to their houses
to rescue their pets, and so those pets are going
into shelters in La which is stressing an all rad
overcrowded shelter system. So that's where Wings of Rescue comes in.
Speaker 5 (24:05):
Absolutely, we've actually been flying out of Los Angeles for
quite some time because the conditions in the La Metro
area are very bad right now. Our shelters are pull
up and a lot of places that in the past
have been able to considerably diminish euthanasias are back up
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to having to put down lots of animals. So we
were already trying to do our best to take pets
out of shelters that were already available for adoption and
move them to shelters around the country where there's an
open kennel space. Well, now that the fires happened, that
just puts an incredible amount of extra pressure on not
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only space at shelters, but on the rescue workers that
are at those shelters who have to take care of
these pets and try to find the owners, and grimly
I've been hearing about a lot of the shelters are
actually picking up remains so that owners will have closure
when they're able to take stock of all of this.
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So it's a very hard job for them. And by
taking out pets that are already in those shelters and
available for adoption, we can free up a lot of
space and resources for them. So we did two flights
this past weekend, one on Saturday and one on Sunday,
both from the Hollywood burd Bank and Sole planeloads of
the pets we took I think about sixty pets on
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Saturday and almost ninety pets on Sunday.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
Okay, So Gene, tell us what these flights are like.
Are these are the animals they're loaded into the cargo
area or are they're in the main cabin? How are
they being transported?
Speaker 5 (25:48):
We use pressurized fully We only fly fully pressurized in
temperature controlled planes. Pets always ride in the main cabin
along with the pilots and crew. In this case, we
are using turboprop planes, which typically would have carried thirty
or forty passengers, so they're fairly large planes. We can
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take oftentimes one hundred hundred and fifty pets depending on
the size. All crates, all dogs and cats have to
be in crates securely fastening crates. All of them carry
medical certificates from a veterinarian with them to wherever they're going,
and they have water and other things that they may
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need on the flight, depending on the leaf of the flight.
So it's a pretty pretty big operation. We depend we
provide the flight part of the component. We depend on
a shelter at the ascending end and at the receiving
end to actually gather the pets and then take the
pets and make sure that they get put up for
adoption and get good homes.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
Okay, Gene, So for the how do you find those shelters?
Do you guys just start calling shelters around the US
and just say, hey, if we're overcrowded, we need to
relieve some of the pressure on the system. Can you
take some in.
Speaker 5 (27:05):
Yes, we do a lot of that. Sometimes the shelters
we work with have allies around the country that they
work with but one way or the other, somebody has
to agree to take these pets before obviously we'll take off,
and with a planeload of pets, we never go anywhere
until all the pets are spoken for. We run a
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fairly complicated system where the receiving shelters often there are
multiple shelters. When we land, they get a choice of
pets that they want, because we don't want pets going
anywhere where they're either not going to be able to
find a good home or they're going to displace pets
that are already at those shelters. So there's a lot
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of flexibility on the part of the receiving shelters. They're
the ones who have to determine whether or not bringing
these pets in is going to be a burden to
their local community. We don't want to create that situation
at all.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
Of course, of course, and we want to stress too
that the animals that you are flying out, like you
said that a group just went to Seattle yesterday, they
are not rescued pets from the fires. These were dogs
and cats that were already in the shelter waiting to
be adopted.
Speaker 5 (28:21):
Absolutely, I think that's a common question. We get this.
We'll see what happens if somebody comes and tries to
claim their pet and it's all a tennesse seattle. That
never happens. We only will transport pets, and this is
not just in disaster situations, but in general. We will
only transport pets that have been in a shelter for
(28:43):
at least thirty days and are considered free and clear
and ready for adoption at those shelters, well, we'll take
them to another shelter.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
Okay, do you have more flights planned for the wildfire
response or is this just part of your ongoing operation.
Speaker 5 (29:00):
We do actually have two flights on next Saturday that
we're doing from Los Angeles to Fort Worth, Texas, and
we'll probably carry a couple hundred pets there, and then
we just have ongoing flights. We do weekly flights from
central California because there's a lot of issues there, and
(29:22):
we've been doing more and more flights from Vanuy's and
the south of Los Angeles, in Indio and places like that.
There's a lot of overpopulation, so we go wherever we can. Unfortunately,
right now, the shelters around the United States are very
full up and it's a tight situation, but we make
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sure we flying home for him. And what it means
now is during the pandemic, we could fly and drop
off one hundred dogs at one shelter and that wouldn't
be a problem. Now we often have to find several
shelters on the receiving end, or we might even have
to make several stops with our plane before we can
find homes for everybody on flight.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
Well, the important part is you're giving dogs and cats
a second chance, and that is wonderful. How can people help?
Speaker 5 (30:15):
We are at wingso Rescue dot org and as they
go there, there's plenty of opportunities to donate. We unfortunately,
because we work all over the country, we don't really
have much of a volunteer network ourselves, but we can
encourage people to volunteer at their local shelters, which is
really where the action is. They're on the ground doing
(30:35):
the hard work.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
All right, Gene Gable with Wings of Rescue, continued safe
flights and thank you for giving those pups a second chance.
They need it and we appreciate it.
Speaker 5 (30:46):
Thank you, Amy. We know you're on the level and
we're very happy to be on the show this morning.
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
Thanks again, Gene, and if you want to donate, it's
a nonprofit Wings of Rescue dot org. They're going to
be making another trip from La to Texas to take
some adoptable dogs and cats to an area that's not
quite so crowded because, as we know, a lot of
animals have come in. We talked to Kevin McManus at
Pasadena Humane last week and they had already taken in
(31:13):
and this was like as last Wednesday or Thursday, they
had already taken in three hundred and fifty animals, both
from people who had dropped them off at the shelter
to temporarily take care of them while they were in
evacuation zones and animals that were found wandering in neighborhoods.
Let's get back to some of the stories coming out
of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
Speaker 4 (31:33):
I'm happy to be alive, and any step, said I
can take towards bettering myself.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
At this point, I will. This woman in Altadina says
she never imagined the fire in her neighborhood would explode
like it did.
Speaker 4 (31:44):
I said, oh my god, but maybe it's not that
bad because we've had fires behind Angela's National Force.
Speaker 3 (31:49):
Before this time, I.
Speaker 6 (31:51):
Said, it'll be okay, it'll be fully curtained.
Speaker 4 (31:53):
I said, but I'm coming back.
Speaker 5 (31:54):
It's going to be contained.
Speaker 12 (31:55):
I'm coming back.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
And of course, people who have lost their homes are
still not being allowed back into mandatory evacuation zones to
see if their homes are still there or what's left
of them until at least Thursday. Because of more strong
winds in the forecast. Law enforcement officials say it's just
not safe to allow people back in yet. About seven
thousand homes and other buildings have been damaged or destroyed
in the fire in the Altadena area. The fire that
(32:19):
started in Pacific Palisades has burned nearly twenty four thousand
acres and is thirteen percent surrounded. That's up from yesterday.
Operations Section Chief Christianltz says more than five thousand firefighters
have been working from the air and on the ground
to stop the fire and that the right half of
the fire from Tapanga is looking good.
Speaker 8 (32:37):
We still have resources going all along the fire's edge,
securing that edge, using mop up techniques to get deeper
and deeper in to secure that at to limit any
probability of any kind of escape that we have all
around the perimeter on the top half of the fire.
Speaker 2 (32:51):
He says, crews have been looking for heat sources and
putting those out. Structure protection groups are also being placed
along the top side of the fire because of the
winds expected this week. Those crews will also be used
for initial attack on any potential new fires. The fire
that burned more than a thousand acres in West Hills
and into Ventura County has been surrounded. CalFire says crews
(33:12):
spent the day yesterday putting out remaining hotspots and improving
containment lines to prevent flare ups before strong winds return
this week. The fire started Thursday afternoon in an area
north of the one to one Freeway near Valley Circle Boulevard.
Evacuations were ordered, but no homes were damaged or destroyed.
LA won't just have to rebuild homes and businesses after
(33:33):
the fires, It'll also have to replant and tree advocates
have vowed to make the city beautiful again.
Speaker 14 (33:38):
Advocates aim to replace non native species like palms with
fire resilient trees such as coast live oaks, which provide
shade without adding wildfire risk. These native trees are adapted
to the region's climate and even rely on fire to reproduce.
Aaron Thomas, director of Urban Forestry at Northeast Trees, saw
this resilience firsthand when five coasts Live oaks in his
(34:00):
family's backyard survived the Eaton fire. Despite challenges, groups like
Tree People remain dedicated to rebuilding urban forests to better
withstand climate extremes. Bragita de Gastino k if I News.
Speaker 2 (34:13):
A lot of us feel a little bit stemied, stifled,
like you don't know what you can do. You're like,
how do I help? How do I help? And it's
I can't even imagine what the people who are out
of their homes and can't get back into their homes
are feeling, and the ones who know their homes are gone,
how they're feeling. We're going to tell you how you
(34:34):
can help in just a second. Here's a few things
we're following from the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. The
number of people killed in the wildfires in southern California
is up to twenty four. Eight are in the Palisades
burn area, sixteen in the Eton fire. Officials say they
expect that number to increase as they search through the
ash and rubble of the fires and Pacific Palisades and Alta,
(34:54):
Dina and Pasadena. We were talking to ABC's Alex Stone.
He said that they'd only covered about twenty seven per
of the ground and they've got the cadaver dogs and
the medical examiner out there, so they're going to keep
on searching. We'll hope that the number doesn't go up much.
Investigators are looking into whether an electrical transmission tower may
have sparked the fire in Altadena that's burned more than
(35:16):
fourteen thousand acre. Photos and videos taken by residents last
Tuesday night show a SoCal Edison tower in flames as
high winds whipped through the area. The California Department of
Forestry and Fire Protections investigating the tower and the surrounding area.
Residents who live in the wildfire burn areas can now
see the damage from the fire that has taken out
more than twelve thousand homes and other buildings. LA County
(35:39):
officials say preliminary maps and damage assessments can be seen
at Recovery dot La County dot gov, slash Eaten dash
Fire and then the site affected for those affected by
the Palisades fire is similar Recovery dot La County dot
gov and then slash Palisades dash Fire. The sites will
(36:00):
be updated daily, so even if you can't get into
those areas, you can go and look, we're just minutes
away from handle. On the news this morning, LA County's
new da is going to be throwing the book at
an alleged arsonist and also some looters. Okay, I mentioned
how can you help? What can you do? And it
was pretty heartwarming to be watching over the weekend as
(36:24):
you saw video at the Dreams Center with iHeartMedia has
teamed up with the Dream Center Los Angeles to take
donations for wildfire victims, and stuff is stacked so high
at the donation center. And then also there was another
one that popped up out in Santa Anita and it
was at the Santa Nita Racetrack, huge amounts of people
(36:48):
just milling around dropping off donations, and then at the
Dream Center yesterday people are starting to pick them up.
So amazing how Angelino's are turning out to help people
who are so affected, who've lost literally everything. I don't
know if you've seen the interviews, but I watched an
interview with one woman who was wearing sweats and she said,
(37:11):
this is all I got. That's it. We got out
and it's just hard to imagine, hard to fathom. But
here's the things that we're looking for at the Dreams Center.
A non perishable food, canned food, snacks, ready to eat meals,
bottled water, and sports drinks. Bottled water, especially because in
(37:31):
the Pasadena area they're not supposed to drink the water
because the water is been damaged by the fires, so
bottled water and sports drinks always a good idea. Hygiene products,
things like toothpaste and soap and shampoo, and feminine products,
clothing and blankets, of course, baby supplies. I saw a
lot of diapers on TV, but diapers, formula, baby wipes,
(37:54):
baby food, air purifier, and masks. Health officials are saying
that air quality is really bad, especially around where the
fires are. It's getting better in some areas as the
winds blow it out, blow the pollution out, but there's
still some pretty bad areas, and officials are saying you
really should be wearing an N ninety five mask if
you need to be outside. So they're taking air pure
(38:14):
fires and masks, flashlights, batteries, portable phone chargers. Didn't even
think about that, like, what if your phone dies and
then how do you charge it? You need a charger, first,
aid kits, medical supplies, and then of course pet food
and supplies for anyone who has animals, and then cleaning supplies, mops, buckets, disinfectant, gloves, gloves,
anything to assist with the recovery. All the items that
(38:37):
are collected at the Dreams Center are then being distributed
to people who need it. Here's where you can donate.
You can drop off items at the Dream Center. It's
at twenty three oh one Bellvue Avenue in La nine
zero zero two six twenty three oh one Bellevue Avenue.
That's where you can donate. And if you don't have
(38:58):
a donation of things, you can always donate money Dreamscenter
dot org slash donate. Can also find information on where
to donate on our website. KFI AM six forty and
we thank you for any donation that you can make.
Let's get back to some of the stories coming out
of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Most schools in
the LA School District are set to reopen following fire
(39:21):
related closures. Masks will be provided to students and workers.
No outdoor or athletic activities will be held. Schools in
the most severely impacted fire areas are going to stay closed.
Most Santa Monica schools are also reopening today. Schools in
Malibu will remain closed until at least Wednesday because of
another round of red flag warnings, which forecasters say could
create particularly dangerous fire conditions. The death toll from the
(39:44):
fires in Pacific Palisades and altadenas gone up to twenty four,
most of them are in the Eton fire area sixteen people.
Officials say they are in a search and recovery mode
and are limiting access to burned out areas. The electrical
fire in Eaton care Onion is being looked at as
the possible cause of the fire above Altadena. Kfis Daniel
(40:06):
Martindale's photos and videos taken by people in the area
last week show a transmission tower on fire during strong winds.
Speaker 13 (40:12):
The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection is now
investigating the tower and the surrounding area. Officials are keeping
the area off limits to everyone but investigators.
Speaker 2 (40:21):
The Eton fires burned more than fourteen thousand acres since
last week, it's destroyed thousands of homes and killed at
least sixteen people. Containment of that fires up to twenty
seven percent. A man dressed as a firefighter has been
arrested for allegedly breaking to a home in Malibu.
Speaker 15 (40:36):
The man was arrested on suspicion of impersonating a firefighter.
LA County Sheriff Robert Lunas says more than thirty people
have been arrested in and near wildfire evacuation zones. Twenty
five of them were arrested in the vicinity of the
Eton fire in Altadena and Pasadena.
Speaker 2 (40:51):
Some were arrested for curfew violations. Again, curfews in the
mandatory evacuation zones are still in effect from six pm
until six a eight. Governor Newsom says he wants too
fast track efforts to rebuild after the deadly wildfires. He
told NBC's Meet the Press he has issued an executive
order to remove some of the obstacles faced by residents
hoping to quickly rebuild.
Speaker 11 (41:12):
We're already organizing Marshall Plan.
Speaker 8 (41:14):
We already have a team and looking and reimagining LA
two point zero, and we.
Speaker 15 (41:18):
Are making sure everyone's included, not just the folks on
the coast.
Speaker 2 (41:22):
His executive order is expected to suspend some laws aimed
at protecting the environment. Newsom is also called for investigations
into the wildfire response, specifically into why Cruise ran out
of water. FEMA is setting up at eight libraries in
La County to help people with submitting applications for disaster relief.
They'll be available from nine am to five pm today
(41:44):
in Alhambra, La Kenyata, Flintridge, La Crescenta at the Live
Oak Library, and in San Fernando, San Gabriel, Temple City,
and West Hollywood. The Chinese owners of TikTok, having said
if they're going to sell the app to an American company,
as is required by a law signed by President Biden, ByteDance,
has until January nineteenth to sell or be banned in
(42:08):
the US for alleged national security concerns. ABC's Alexis Christopher
says that's a day before the inauguration of President elect Trump,
who has asked the courts to delay any decision on
the app.
Speaker 16 (42:20):
The Apple and Google Play stores will not be able
to host the app any longer, so if you never
downloaded it, you won't be able to If you're one
of the one hundred and seventy million people in this
country who have the app half the country, you're no
longer going to get software updates.
Speaker 2 (42:34):
She says. Internet hosting companies and data storage providers that
support the app will not be able to do so anymore,
and if they do, they'll get fined. Leslie Charleson, who
played Monica Quartermain on General Hospital for over forty five years,
has died. The show's executive producer says she died yesterday.
Charleston played Monica since nineteen seventy seven. That makes her
(42:58):
the show's longest serving cast member. Leslie Charleson was seventy nine.
This is KFI and kost HD two Los Angeles, Orange
County Southland weather from KFI another Santa Ana wind events
expected to blow through later today through Wednesday, with red
flag warnings in effect again. Sunny, smokey, windy high's in
the middupper sixties at the beaches Metrola and Inland Orange County,
(43:21):
load to upper sixties in the valleys and Inland Empire
fifties for the Anelote Valley. Clear skies tonight, with lows
in the thirties and forties, sunny tomorrow with highs in
the middubber sixties, couple degrees warmer for Wednesday, and then
cooling back down a couple degrees with highs in the
sixties Thursday and Friday. It's fifty five in Los Alamitos,
fifty in Santa Clarita, fifty four in Seal Beach, and
fifty two in Whittier. We lead local live from the
(43:45):
KFI twenty four hour newsroom. I'm Amy King. This has
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Speaker 2 (00:52):
This is It is five oh one. This is your
wake up call for Monday, January. Good morning, I'm Amy King. Wow.
It's been a heck of a week, but we're glad
you're getting this week started with us. It looks like
we could be in for more. We're going to bring
you all up to date on what's going on with
the fires, what's coming up. But I wanted to share
(01:14):
a couple of positive things because man, this has been
a rough week. Remember mister Rogers, he also said he
always said look for the helpers. People have been turning
out in droves to help. It's been amazing to see
they We've got the Dream Center that's taking in donations
and they've just got piles stacked high, like ten feet
(01:36):
high of donations to people, which is amazing. And they
have another donation center set up out at Santa Anita,
and I was watching that over the weekend. Amazing. They said,
we've got enough. Can you imagine that we've got enough?
I think as we move through this, they're probably going
to need more. But right now they do Pasadena Humane
(01:56):
packed to the rafters with food and donations. They've taken
in hundreds of animals and people have turned out. They said,
we don't even need any more volunteers. They've got so
many people who are coming into help. And then a
couple of things that I thought were very cool. On
Saturday night, I turned on the TV. I came in
and worked on Saturday afternoon with Neil Sevedra, and Saturday
(02:18):
night I turned on the TV. There was normal programming.
I was so excited because it's been all fires for
like the last week, so I went, that's got to
be a good sign, right. And then also I think
it was CBS I was watching and they were showing
the hillside and it was dark, like no glow from
the fires, which was again another really positive sign. And
(02:41):
then of course there's that big, beautiful white full moon
the other day when I was driving in it was
distinctly yellow because from the smoke, and it's better. Air
quality is still not great, but there's a big, beautiful
full moon up in the sky and it is gorgeous.
Here's what's ahead on wake up call. Another strong Santa
(03:01):
Ana wind event is expected to blow in later tonight
and last until Wednesday. GUS could reach its highs eighty
miles per hour during the peak of the windstorm. Authority
say anyone living near the fire zones or in the
mountains and foothills needs to be ready to evacuate at
a moment's notice. Containment of the Palisades fire has increased
to thirteen percent. It's burned twenty three thy seven hundred
(03:23):
thirteen acres. Firefighters have surrounded twenty seven percent of the fire,
and Alta Dina it's burned just over fourteen thousand acres.
ABC's Alex Stone has been on the line of the
fire and we're going to be talking with him in
just about three minutes, so stick around for that. He's
going to have some amazing stories for us. Most LAUSD
schools are going to reopen this morning. Superintendent Alberto Carvalla
(03:46):
says conditions have improved across the region and the district
is confident it is safe for students and employees to
return to campus. Most schools in Santa Monica are also
reopening today. There are a couple that are still closed,
but schools Malibu were going to stay closed until at
least Wednesday. Let's get started with some of the stories
coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. At
(04:07):
least twenty four deaths are now blamed on the fires
in Pacific Palisades in Altadena. LAPD Chief Jim McDonald says
beliefs have been overwhelmed by the number of people wanting
to go back into the fire areas, but he says
the focus is now turning to search and recovery.
Speaker 7 (04:22):
We will have cadaverdog deployment and that will result in
crime scene preservation efforts and then the recovery of remains,
working closely with the La County Coroner.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
A nightly curfew from six pm to six am is
still in effect on the mandatory evacuation areas around Pacific
Palisades and Altadena. Only firefighters, utility workers, and law enforcement
are allowed into that area. The La County das set
to announce charges this afternoon. Against people arrested for looting
and arson. Nathan Hakman said last week his office would
(04:57):
be charging people arrested for arson, breaking curfew and looting.
Speaker 8 (05:00):
Looting is a despicable crime.
Speaker 9 (05:03):
For the people who have already been arrested, Please know
this is not going to end well. You will be
punished to the full extent of the law.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
The DA's office says the looting charges being announced today
are against a group of people in Pacific Palisades, and
the arson charges are against a man in Azusa. The
man allegedly started a fire at Pioneer Park late Friday
night and was arrested as he allegedly watched the fire burn.
Let's say good morning now to ABC's Alex Stone. Alex,
(05:32):
things are looking better and worse in the wildfires burning
in southern California. And you've been on the lines. Tell
us what you've seen.
Speaker 6 (05:40):
Yeah, you know, I mean all day yesterday it looked
so much better. I've been on the Eton fire now
since Wednesday morning, and yesterday we saw big change that
the fire activity, and it was the same on the
Palisades fire as well. But the fire activity was minimal
to none really no wind and they were able to
(06:02):
hit it really hard. But the question is going to
be this next round coming in, and that's what firefighters
are getting ready for that. They know that the high
winds are probably going to be in slightly different areas
than they were this last go around, But still, does
it spark up what's already out there, what's already burning?
Does something new start? The fire Chief La County Anthony Moroni,
(06:25):
I mean, he admits that they're worried about that, telling us.
Speaker 10 (06:28):
These winds, combined with low relative humidities and low fuel
moistures will keep the fire threat in Los Angeles County
very high.
Speaker 6 (06:38):
So, I mean it's really getting through these next two
or three days that it's going to come down the
can we push through without a new wildfire roaring up
or without these kicking back up? But driving through the
communities of Altadena, I mean, it's just everything is gone.
There's not a lot left. Home after home, building after building,
(07:01):
everything is gone.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Alex tell us, because we've seen a lot of pictures
and so from your not bird's eide view, but from
your vantage from street level, is it you say everything?
Are there a few houses still standing dotted here and there?
Or is it just complete, complete destruction.
Speaker 6 (07:21):
There are some more on the perimeter of the burn
area where there will be a lot of homes that
are burned, and then one that is there and you go, wow,
how did that one? You know, with the Christmas decoration
still up and it will look perfect. But in the
heart of the burning near like fair Oaks and Palm,
(07:43):
I mean, it's just it. Nothing, nothing made it in
that area.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
But there's and it's got to be here. And I
haven't obviously been into this burn area, but there was
another fire that basically took out the whole the towns
of Talent and Phoenix in southern Oregon, and it was
just eerie to drive around because you'd see like a
chimney standing and the foundation but nothing else, or a
(08:10):
washing machine here and there, but the rest was just
reduced to ash.
Speaker 6 (08:15):
Yeah, and that's very much what it's like. And everything
is a gray color. You know, it's all kind of
and it's cliche y is the moonscape or the you know,
the accurate Yeah, but it really is that it is
this gray ash everywhere. There's still a lot of power
lines down southern California. Edison was coming in yesterday beginning
(08:36):
to get up and bring down some of the burned
out towers, the poles of the power poles, Yeah, get
those down, get some of the dangling wires down. But yeah,
the vehicles, many of them melted where parts of them
melted down the road and then solidified. When you look
(08:56):
at the homes, it really is only the chimney. Most
of them are older homes in Altadena, so they've got
brick chimneys. Those remained. You'll see the outline of what
was a sink or a washing machine. Yesterday there was
a we I was walking along and all of a
sudden there's a whisk from somebody's kitchen sitting there. So
just random items that are all over the place. Found
(09:19):
a football yesterday that like a child's football, totally untouched,
that was just sitting there. And so that there are
some random things. You go, well, how did that make it?
But these other things didn't. A lot of melted Christmas decorations.
But for the homes, they burned quickly and very hot,
and so there's not a lot left. As the flames
(09:41):
came through mainly on Wednesday morning in Altadena, and you know,
still they've got to get in many areas they've only
done I think twenty some odd percent of the search
of the buildings. They've got to get cadaver dogs in,
and the numbers have been going up and they're probably
going to keep going up, but people who could not
get out.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Yeah, it's twenty four at this point in both.
Speaker 6 (10:03):
Yeah, the number dead twenty four. I think that they've
searched like twenty seven percent of the grid something like that.
Hopefully they are searching in areas where they knew that
it was likely that that there were people who were killed,
because otherwise, if they've only searched twenty seven percent and
we're at twenty four dead on both of the fires,
then the number is going to keep going out. But
(10:24):
if they're now and we haven't talked to how they're
doing the grid search, if they're going out from the
hardest hit area, well then the numbers should slow down
as they're going out.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
But that's not clear.
Speaker 6 (10:35):
But we saw the medical examiner driving around yesterday yesterday
that you know that there's just so much that they've
got to do, and people badly want to get in,
and they know that that people want to get back in,
But there's a lot going on inside right now all.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
Right, ABC's Alex Stone, thank you so much for the information.
Be safe out there, you got it.
Speaker 6 (10:53):
Thanks Amy.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
All right, Amazingly, there are other things going on in
the world, so let's continue and check out some of
the other stories going on that are coming out of
the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. A six point nine
magnitude earthquake has hit southwestern Japan. The Japan Meteorological Agency
says a tsunami warning has been issued. That just hit
(11:17):
less than a half an hour ago, so we're still
waiting to get more information about that. Confirmation. Hearings are
said to get underway on Capitol Hill this week. ABC's
Mary Alice Parks says more than a dozen of President
elect Trump's key nominees will be questioned, including Trump's pick
to lead the Defense Department, Pete Hegseth.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
He's been one of Trump's most controversial nominees, facing accusations
of sexual and financial misconduct, as well as alcohol abuse.
He denies those claims and has never been charged.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Excess hearing is scheduled for tomorrow. Hospitals across the US
are reporting a wave of respiratory illnesses. The CDC says
more than half of the country is seeing high levels
of flu, covid RSV, and even the common cold. I
can attest to that one. ABC's Morgan Norwood says, so
far this season, more than sixty three thousand people have
(12:07):
had to go to the hospital because of the flu.
Speaker 11 (12:09):
Pediatric units especially overwhelmed, with some hospitals hitting ninety five
percent capacity. Health experts are urging everyone to get their
annual flu and covid vaccines if they haven't already, and
to of course stay home if you are sick.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
She says. At least to twenty seven hundred people have
died from various viruses. The White House says President Biden
and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu have talked about the ongoing
negotiations for a ceasefire hostage deal in Gaza. President elect
Trump's pick for National security advisor, Florida Republican Congressman Mike Walls,
says negotiations are literally happening as we speak.
Speaker 9 (12:45):
Let's have a ceasefire, Let's allow our hostages to be
set free. I want to see them walking across the tarmac,
or at a minimum, some type of agreement.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
During the President's call us official say Biden, stress, the
immediate need for a cease fire in Gaza and the
return of the hostages, as well as an increased flow
in humanitarian aid. A new report says banks around the
world are getting ready to cut up to two hundred
thousand jobs in the next three to five years. A
survey by Bloomberg Intelligence says it's because artificial intelligence is
being used more and more in the financial industry. The
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report says most of the jobs being cut will be
in back and middle offices, as well as operations. House
Republicans from several states, including California, are set to meet
with President elect Trump to talk about increasing the ten
thousand dollars cap on state and local tax deductions. Bloomberg
reports Trump's economic advisors are looking at doubling it to
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twenty thousand dollars. It says if the incoming administration goes
ahead with the change, it will mean big savings for
people around the US, and anyone affected by the wildfires
in southern California has more time to file their taxes.
Governor Newsom has ordered the tax deadline for fire affected
residents to be pushed back from April fifteenth to October
twenty fifth. October fifteenth of this year. So, as you know,
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the Chargers didn't make it. I know producer and while
she's sitting over there crying still, so we'll be cheering
on the La Rams tonight in Wildcard playoff action. LA
is actually in Arizona to take on the Minnesota Vikings.
The game was supposed to be played at SOFI Stadium,
but was moved to Glendale because of the wildfires. It
starts at five o'clock on ABC and ESPN. At least
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thirty five historic locations have been destroyed by the wind
whipped wildfires in southern California. Confirmed losses include Will Rogers
Historic Ranch House and other buildings at Will Rogers State
Historic Park, the Altadina Community Church, the Pasadena Jewish Temple,
and Saint Mark's Episcopal Church. Red flag parking restrictions are
in effect in the city of La starting at eight
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am because of another Santa Ana wind event. LA Fire
says the restrictions will be enforced to make sure firefighters
can get more quickly to the fires that break out,
and also to keep the streets clear for anyone who
may need to get out of the evacuated areas. Air
quality in southern California continues to be unhealthy. Public health
officials say people should stay inside as much as possible
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and wear masks outside. At six oh five, it's handle
on the news. A guy dressed like a firefighter has
been busted in a burn area in Malibu. Right now,
let's say good morning to ABC's Karen Travers. Karen, is
the fires still smolder and even burn in some areas.
The government's lending a helping hand to people who've lost everything,
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and the danger isn't even over yet.
Speaker 12 (15:32):
Yeah, I mean, we heard from the FEMA administrator, Dan
chris Well yesterday. She was out doing Sunday political talk
show interviews, including ABC's This Week, and she said that
the biggest concern she has right now is that it's
still such a dangerous situation. She said, the red flag
warnings have been reissued, the winds are coming back, and
they want to make sure people are in a safe place.
(15:53):
But she did say that FEMA has the funds it
needs right now for this immediate response and to help
with the ongoing recovery efforts. FEMA, of course, got twenty
seven billion dollars in that government funding bill at the
end of last year, so she said, you know, they
have enough funding at this point, and they're trying to
make sure it gets to the people that need it,
so that you know, a couple things like one reimbursing
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state and local officials for the cost of fighting the fires,
which as you know, is very much a still ongoing
effort and will be for some time, and also helping
people who need it right now. The President last week
issued a major Disaster declaration for California and with that,
FEMA was able to activate its Critical Needs Assistance program
and that means that people can apply for that initial
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payment of seven hundred and seventy dollars, and the White
House says twenty four thousand people have registered for FEMA assistance.
But they really want people to take advantage of what
is available to them, you know, don't wait, here's the money.
We can get this out to you right now, because
they want to help people with immediate critical needs and
that's just have lost everything or evacuated.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
And Karen, that's seven hundred seven I need dollars. That's
just a one time flat kind of tie you over
until more assistance gets in. That's not that that's not
all they're going to get.
Speaker 12 (17:09):
That is not all it is. We've talked about this
a lot back in the fall, a lot of misinformation
back then about the hurricanes too, and people saying, well,
that's all they're getting. No, this is just a here
is this, apply for this. Get it because you need
some money right now, because you don't have things, either
because you've evacuated or because you've lost everything. So this
is available to you. Figure out how to get it,
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then get it quickly, okay.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
And then what are some of the things Karen, that
FEMA specifically does to help people, you.
Speaker 12 (17:38):
Know, specifically they're trying to work well. First of all,
you know, the big thing is like reimbursing state and
local officials for the cost. Like they're getting funding out there,
so that's kind of like a big picture thing. Second,
they're setting up things where they can actually get assistance
to neighborhoods and people that need it too. It's working
on housing situations. You know, there's a rental assistance and
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reimbursements if you are staying in a hotel or if
you are staying in some sort of short term rental FAMA.
The administrator, Dan chris Well, said that there is funding
available to you to get reimbursed for that. The other
big thing that they're starting to think about, I mean
that's starting, but they're working on right now. And this
is going to be a big problem is like the
eventual longer term housing crisis. Where do people go? You know,
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if you rebuild in your community, where are you in
the meantime though? And if your kids are still able
to go to their school, how do you stay by
their community? Where is your job? And the White House
has been very clear like they want to help people
stay where they have been, but that's going to be challenging.
They need to get a sense of the available housing inventory,
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figure out what they could do in terms of temporary housing, shelters,
things like that. And that's the federal government working with
state and local officials.
Speaker 5 (18:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
I mean with twelve thousand people at least, well there's
twelve thousand homes and other buildings, but say it's only
only ten thousand or something like that, that's still ten
thousand people and there's already a housing shortage. So it's
going to be really interesting to see where those people
are going to land in the interim until they can rebuild.
Speaker 12 (19:12):
Yeah. Yeah, and that emphasis them like trying to help
people stay where they are. If your school is still functioning,
you want your kids to be able to go to
their school. This is such a tumultuous time already. You
don't want to inject any more uncertainty for your family.
But that's challenging to keep everything as normal as possible.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
Okay. And for people who want to apply, I know
you've got to run just FEMA dot gov.
Speaker 12 (19:35):
Yeah, there's all sorts of you can go to FEMA
and it will direct you to everything you need through there.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
Okay. ABC's Karen Travis, thank you so much for the information.
We'll touch to you soon.
Speaker 12 (19:46):
Got a great day, all right you.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
Two red flag warnings are in effect through Wednesday across
southern California as more strong Santa Ana winds are expected
to blow through. LA County Fire Chief Anthony Moroney says
the fireweather conditions are critical.
Speaker 10 (20:00):
These winds, combined with low relative humidities and low fuelm moistures,
will keep the fire threat in Los Angeles County very high.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
Maroni says firefighters are prepared to keep dealing with severe
conditions for as long as they need to. LA City
Fire Chief Kristin Crowley says her department will have every
firefighter on hand and available for this wind event. Investigators
are looking to see if an electrical fire and eaton
canyon may have started the massive wildfire above Altadena.
Speaker 13 (20:30):
Photos and videos taken by residents last Tuesday night show
Southern California Edison electrical transmission tower and flames amid damaging
and erratic winds which were headed down the canyon and
toward homes.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
Kfi's Daniel Martindale says the California Department of Forestry is
investigating the tower and the surrounding area. The fires burned
more than fourteen thousand acres since last week, destroyed about
seven thousand homes and businesses and other buildings, and killed
at least sixteen people. The incoming Trump administration has been
invited to bring it down allegation to La to see
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firsthand the devastation caused by the wildfires. LA County Supervisor
Catherine Barger says she has personally invited President Electroump to
make the trip.
Speaker 4 (21:11):
To meet with our impacted residents and hear their stories,
to thank our first responders, and most importantly, to see
how the federal government can help our communities heal and rebuild.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
She says the federal government is an essential partner when
it comes to responding to an emergency and to helping
communities recover. Metro is going to continue to offer free
rides on its trains and buses as the fires continue.
The one thirty four and the six oh two lines
which run along PCH are canceled until further notice. In Altadena,
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the six sixty and six sixty two routes are being detoured,
along with the Metro micro which serves Pasadena, Altadena, and
Sierra Mount a Madre. The Southern California rescue group Pause
for Life Canine Rescue, and the Internet Sational pet Air
Transport operation Wings of Rescue has flown about one hundred
dogs and cats to Seattle from Southern California. The shelter
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animals were flown from Hollywood Burbank Airport to Seattle yesterday.
Sending those animals north freeze up space in the shelters
here for animals coming in because of the fires, either
by being dropped off by their owners or those being
found wandering in the burn areas. And evacuation order has
been downgraded to a warning for an area of the
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Eton fire South of New York Drive and east of
North Hill Avenue to Altadena Drive. In Altadena, the Ela
County Sheriff's Departments's residents with homes in that area will
now be permitted to return to the area. Some residents
in the Palas Sades fire burn area will also be
allowed to return to their homes. The orders have been
downgraded to warnings. The La County Sheriff's Departments is The
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affected areas include north of West Sunset Boulevard up to
and including Mount Saint Mary's University, North Bundy Drive to
the four h five and from the northern boundary of
the Encina Reservoir van Alden Avenue east to Strawberry Field Park.
Good news. Two people have been arrested for flying drones
around Altadena, where they eaton fires, burn more than fourteen
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thousand acres and destroyed or damaged seven thousand homes, businesses,
and other buildings. At six oh five, it's handled on
the news. Governor Newsom says, damn the environment. We got
to rebuild. Good thing. Let's say good morning now to
Jean Gable, who is a SPOKESPURN spokesperson with Wings of Rescue.
Earlier in the show, I said, look for the helpers. Well,
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here are some of the helpers. Good morning, Jean.
Speaker 5 (23:41):
How are you doing. Amy, good to talk to you today.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
Doing great. So we know that a lot of pets
have been dropped off at shelters or they were found
wandering like if people couldn't get back to their houses
to rescue their pets, and so those pets are going
into shelters in La which is stressing an all rad
overcrowded shelter system. So that's where Wings of Rescue comes in.
Speaker 5 (24:05):
Absolutely, we've actually been flying out of Los Angeles for
quite some time because the conditions in the La Metro
area are very bad right now. Our shelters are pull
up and a lot of places that in the past
have been able to considerably diminish euthanasias are back up
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to having to put down lots of animals. So we
were already trying to do our best to take pets
out of shelters that were already available for adoption and
move them to shelters around the country where there's an
open kennel space. Well, now that the fires happened, that
just puts an incredible amount of extra pressure on not
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only space at shelters, but on the rescue workers that
are at those shelters who have to take care of
these pets and try to find the owners, and grimly
I've been hearing about a lot of the shelters are
actually picking up remains so that owners will have closure
when they're able to take stock of all of this.
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So it's a very hard job for them. And by
taking out pets that are already in those shelters and
available for adoption, we can free up a lot of
space and resources for them. So we did two flights
this past weekend, one on Saturday and one on Sunday,
both from the Hollywood burd Bank and Sole planeloads of
the pets we took I think about sixty pets on
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Saturday and almost ninety pets on Sunday.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
Okay, So Gene, tell us what these flights are like.
Are these are the animals they're loaded into the cargo
area or are they're in the main cabin? How are
they being transported?
Speaker 5 (25:48):
We use pressurized fully We only fly fully pressurized in
temperature controlled planes. Pets always ride in the main cabin
along with the pilots and crew. In this case, we
are using turboprop planes, which typically would have carried thirty
or forty passengers, so they're fairly large planes. We can
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take oftentimes one hundred hundred and fifty pets depending on
the size. All crates, all dogs and cats have to
be in crates securely fastening crates. All of them carry
medical certificates from a veterinarian with them to wherever they're going,
and they have water and other things that they may
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need on the flight, depending on the leaf of the flight.
So it's a pretty pretty big operation. We depend we
provide the flight part of the component. We depend on
a shelter at the ascending end and at the receiving
end to actually gather the pets and then take the
pets and make sure that they get put up for
adoption and get good homes.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
Okay, Gene, So for the how do you find those shelters?
Do you guys just start calling shelters around the US
and just say, hey, if we're overcrowded, we need to
relieve some of the pressure on the system. Can you
take some in.
Speaker 5 (27:05):
Yes, we do a lot of that. Sometimes the shelters
we work with have allies around the country that they
work with but one way or the other, somebody has
to agree to take these pets before obviously we'll take off,
and with a planeload of pets, we never go anywhere
until all the pets are spoken for. We run a
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fairly complicated system where the receiving shelters often there are
multiple shelters. When we land, they get a choice of
pets that they want, because we don't want pets going
anywhere where they're either not going to be able to
find a good home or they're going to displace pets
that are already at those shelters. So there's a lot
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of flexibility on the part of the receiving shelters. They're
the ones who have to determine whether or not bringing
these pets in is going to be a burden to
their local community. We don't want to create that situation
at all.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
Of course, of course, and we want to stress too
that the animals that you are flying out, like you
said that a group just went to Seattle yesterday, they
are not rescued pets from the fires. These were dogs
and cats that were already in the shelter waiting to
be adopted.
Speaker 5 (28:21):
Absolutely, I think that's a common question. We get this.
We'll see what happens if somebody comes and tries to
claim their pet and it's all a tennesse seattle. That
never happens. We only will transport pets, and this is
not just in disaster situations, but in general. We will
only transport pets that have been in a shelter for
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at least thirty days and are considered free and clear
and ready for adoption at those shelters, well, we'll take
them to another shelter.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
Okay, do you have more flights planned for the wildfire
response or is this just part of your ongoing operation.
Speaker 5 (29:00):
We do actually have two flights on next Saturday that
we're doing from Los Angeles to Fort Worth, Texas, and
we'll probably carry a couple hundred pets there, and then
we just have ongoing flights. We do weekly flights from
central California because there's a lot of issues there, and
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we've been doing more and more flights from Vanuy's and
the south of Los Angeles, in Indio and places like that.
There's a lot of overpopulation, so we go wherever we can. Unfortunately,
right now, the shelters around the United States are very
full up and it's a tight situation, but we make
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sure we flying home for him. And what it means
now is during the pandemic, we could fly and drop
off one hundred dogs at one shelter and that wouldn't
be a problem. Now we often have to find several
shelters on the receiving end, or we might even have
to make several stops with our plane before we can
find homes for everybody on flight.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
Well, the important part is you're giving dogs and cats
a second chance, and that is wonderful. How can people help?
Speaker 5 (30:15):
We are at wingso Rescue dot org and as they
go there, there's plenty of opportunities to donate. We unfortunately,
because we work all over the country, we don't really
have much of a volunteer network ourselves, but we can
encourage people to volunteer at their local shelters, which is
really where the action is. They're on the ground doing
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the hard work.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
All right, Gene Gable with Wings of Rescue, continued safe
flights and thank you for giving those pups a second chance.
They need it and we appreciate it.
Speaker 5 (30:46):
Thank you, Amy. We know you're on the level and
we're very happy to be on the show this morning.
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
Thanks again, Gene, and if you want to donate, it's
a nonprofit Wings of Rescue dot org. They're going to
be making another trip from La to Texas to take
some adoptable dogs and cats to an area that's not
quite so crowded because, as we know, a lot of
animals have come in. We talked to Kevin McManus at
Pasadena Humane last week and they had already taken in
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and this was like as last Wednesday or Thursday, they
had already taken in three hundred and fifty animals, both
from people who had dropped them off at the shelter
to temporarily take care of them while they were in
evacuation zones and animals that were found wandering in neighborhoods.
Let's get back to some of the stories coming out
of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
Speaker 4 (31:33):
I'm happy to be alive, and any step, said I
can take towards bettering myself.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
At this point, I will. This woman in Altadina says
she never imagined the fire in her neighborhood would explode
like it did.
Speaker 4 (31:44):
I said, oh my god, but maybe it's not that
bad because we've had fires behind Angela's National Force.
Speaker 3 (31:49):
Before this time, I.
Speaker 6 (31:51):
Said, it'll be okay, it'll be fully curtained.
Speaker 4 (31:53):
I said, but I'm coming back.
Speaker 5 (31:54):
It's going to be contained.
Speaker 12 (31:55):
I'm coming back.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
And of course, people who have lost their homes are
still not being allowed back into mandatory evacuation zones to
see if their homes are still there or what's left
of them until at least Thursday. Because of more strong
winds in the forecast. Law enforcement officials say it's just
not safe to allow people back in yet. About seven
thousand homes and other buildings have been damaged or destroyed
in the fire in the Altadena area. The fire that
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started in Pacific Palisades has burned nearly twenty four thousand
acres and is thirteen percent surrounded. That's up from yesterday.
Operations Section Chief Christianltz says more than five thousand firefighters
have been working from the air and on the ground
to stop the fire and that the right half of
the fire from Tapanga is looking good.
Speaker 8 (32:37):
We still have resources going all along the fire's edge,
securing that edge, using mop up techniques to get deeper
and deeper in to secure that at to limit any
probability of any kind of escape that we have all
around the perimeter on the top half of the fire.
Speaker 2 (32:51):
He says, crews have been looking for heat sources and
putting those out. Structure protection groups are also being placed
along the top side of the fire because of the
winds expected this week. Those crews will also be used
for initial attack on any potential new fires. The fire
that burned more than a thousand acres in West Hills
and into Ventura County has been surrounded. CalFire says crews
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spent the day yesterday putting out remaining hotspots and improving
containment lines to prevent flare ups before strong winds return
this week. The fire started Thursday afternoon in an area
north of the one to one Freeway near Valley Circle Boulevard.
Evacuations were ordered, but no homes were damaged or destroyed.
LA won't just have to rebuild homes and businesses after
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the fires, It'll also have to replant and tree advocates
have vowed to make the city beautiful again.
Speaker 14 (33:38):
Advocates aim to replace non native species like palms with
fire resilient trees such as coast live oaks, which provide
shade without adding wildfire risk. These native trees are adapted
to the region's climate and even rely on fire to reproduce.
Aaron Thomas, director of Urban Forestry at Northeast Trees, saw
this resilience firsthand when five coasts Live oaks in his
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family's backyard survived the Eaton fire. Despite challenges, groups like
Tree People remain dedicated to rebuilding urban forests to better
withstand climate extremes. Bragita de Gastino k if I News.
Speaker 2 (34:13):
A lot of us feel a little bit stemied, stifled,
like you don't know what you can do. You're like,
how do I help? How do I help? And it's
I can't even imagine what the people who are out
of their homes and can't get back into their homes
are feeling, and the ones who know their homes are gone,
how they're feeling. We're going to tell you how you
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can help in just a second. Here's a few things
we're following from the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. The
number of people killed in the wildfires in southern California
is up to twenty four. Eight are in the Palisades
burn area, sixteen in the Eton fire. Officials say they
expect that number to increase as they search through the
ash and rubble of the fires and Pacific Palisades and Alta,
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Dina and Pasadena. We were talking to ABC's Alex Stone.
He said that they'd only covered about twenty seven per
of the ground and they've got the cadaver dogs and
the medical examiner out there, so they're going to keep
on searching. We'll hope that the number doesn't go up much.
Investigators are looking into whether an electrical transmission tower may
have sparked the fire in Altadena that's burned more than
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fourteen thousand acre. Photos and videos taken by residents last
Tuesday night show a SoCal Edison tower in flames as
high winds whipped through the area. The California Department of
Forestry and Fire Protections investigating the tower and the surrounding area.
Residents who live in the wildfire burn areas can now
see the damage from the fire that has taken out
more than twelve thousand homes and other buildings. LA County
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officials say preliminary maps and damage assessments can be seen
at Recovery dot La County dot gov, slash Eaten dash
Fire and then the site affected for those affected by
the Palisades fire is similar Recovery dot La County dot
gov and then slash Palisades dash Fire. The sites will
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be updated daily, so even if you can't get into
those areas, you can go and look, we're just minutes
away from handle. On the news this morning, LA County's
new da is going to be throwing the book at
an alleged arsonist and also some looters. Okay, I mentioned
how can you help? What can you do? And it
was pretty heartwarming to be watching over the weekend as
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you saw video at the Dreams Center with iHeartMedia has
teamed up with the Dream Center Los Angeles to take
donations for wildfire victims, and stuff is stacked so high
at the donation center. And then also there was another
one that popped up out in Santa Anita and it
was at the Santa Nita Racetrack, huge amounts of people
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just milling around dropping off donations, and then at the
Dream Center yesterday people are starting to pick them up.
So amazing how Angelino's are turning out to help people
who are so affected, who've lost literally everything. I don't
know if you've seen the interviews, but I watched an
interview with one woman who was wearing sweats and she said,
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this is all I got. That's it. We got out
and it's just hard to imagine, hard to fathom. But
here's the things that we're looking for at the Dreams Center.
A non perishable food, canned food, snacks, ready to eat meals,
bottled water, and sports drinks. Bottled water, especially because in
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the Pasadena area they're not supposed to drink the water
because the water is been damaged by the fires, so
bottled water and sports drinks always a good idea. Hygiene products,
things like toothpaste and soap and shampoo, and feminine products,
clothing and blankets, of course, baby supplies. I saw a
lot of diapers on TV, but diapers, formula, baby wipes,
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baby food, air purifier, and masks. Health officials are saying
that air quality is really bad, especially around where the
fires are. It's getting better in some areas as the
winds blow it out, blow the pollution out, but there's
still some pretty bad areas, and officials are saying you
really should be wearing an N ninety five mask if
you need to be outside. So they're taking air pure
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fires and masks, flashlights, batteries, portable phone chargers. Didn't even
think about that, like, what if your phone dies and
then how do you charge it? You need a charger, first,
aid kits, medical supplies, and then of course pet food
and supplies for anyone who has animals, and then cleaning supplies, mops, buckets, disinfectant, gloves, gloves,
anything to assist with the recovery. All the items that
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are collected at the Dreams Center are then being distributed
to people who need it. Here's where you can donate.
You can drop off items at the Dream Center. It's
at twenty three oh one Bellvue Avenue in La nine
zero zero two six twenty three oh one Bellevue Avenue.
That's where you can donate. And if you don't have
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a donation of things, you can always donate money Dreamscenter
dot org slash donate. Can also find information on where
to donate on our website. KFI AM six forty and
we thank you for any donation that you can make.
Let's get back to some of the stories coming out
of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Most schools in
the LA School District are set to reopen following fire
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related closures. Masks will be provided to students and workers.
No outdoor or athletic activities will be held. Schools in
the most severely impacted fire areas are going to stay closed.
Most Santa Monica schools are also reopening today. Schools in
Malibu will remain closed until at least Wednesday because of
another round of red flag warnings, which forecasters say could
create particularly dangerous fire conditions. The death toll from the
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fires in Pacific Palisades and altadenas gone up to twenty four,
most of them are in the Eton fire area sixteen people.
Officials say they are in a search and recovery mode
and are limiting access to burned out areas. The electrical
fire in Eaton care Onion is being looked at as
the possible cause of the fire above Altadena. Kfis Daniel
(40:06):
Martindale's photos and videos taken by people in the area
last week show a transmission tower on fire during strong winds.
Speaker 13 (40:12):
The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection is now
investigating the tower and the surrounding area. Officials are keeping
the area off limits to everyone but investigators.
Speaker 2 (40:21):
The Eton fires burned more than fourteen thousand acres since
last week, it's destroyed thousands of homes and killed at
least sixteen people. Containment of that fires up to twenty
seven percent. A man dressed as a firefighter has been
arrested for allegedly breaking to a home in Malibu.
Speaker 15 (40:36):
The man was arrested on suspicion of impersonating a firefighter.
LA County Sheriff Robert Lunas says more than thirty people
have been arrested in and near wildfire evacuation zones. Twenty
five of them were arrested in the vicinity of the
Eton fire in Altadena and Pasadena.
Speaker 2 (40:51):
Some were arrested for curfew violations. Again, curfews in the
mandatory evacuation zones are still in effect from six pm
until six a eight. Governor Newsom says he wants too
fast track efforts to rebuild after the deadly wildfires. He
told NBC's Meet the Press he has issued an executive
order to remove some of the obstacles faced by residents
hoping to quickly rebuild.
Speaker 11 (41:12):
We're already organizing Marshall Plan.
Speaker 8 (41:14):
We already have a team and looking and reimagining LA
two point zero, and we.
Speaker 15 (41:18):
Are making sure everyone's included, not just the folks on
the coast.
Speaker 2 (41:22):
His executive order is expected to suspend some laws aimed
at protecting the environment. Newsom is also called for investigations
into the wildfire response, specifically into why Cruise ran out
of water. FEMA is setting up at eight libraries in
La County to help people with submitting applications for disaster relief.
They'll be available from nine am to five pm today
(41:44):
in Alhambra, La Kenyata, Flintridge, La Crescenta at the Live
Oak Library, and in San Fernando, San Gabriel, Temple City,
and West Hollywood. The Chinese owners of TikTok, having said
if they're going to sell the app to an American company,
as is required by a law signed by President Biden, ByteDance,
has until January nineteenth to sell or be banned in
(42:08):
the US for alleged national security concerns. ABC's Alexis Christopher
says that's a day before the inauguration of President elect Trump,
who has asked the courts to delay any decision on
the app.
Speaker 16 (42:20):
The Apple and Google Play stores will not be able
to host the app any longer, so if you never
downloaded it, you won't be able to If you're one
of the one hundred and seventy million people in this
country who have the app half the country, you're no
longer going to get software updates.
Speaker 2 (42:34):
She says. Internet hosting companies and data storage providers that
support the app will not be able to do so anymore,
and if they do, they'll get fined. Leslie Charleson, who
played Monica Quartermain on General Hospital for over forty five years,
has died. The show's executive producer says she died yesterday.
Charleston played Monica since nineteen seventy seven. That makes her
(42:58):
the show's longest serving cast member. Leslie Charleson was seventy nine.
This is KFI and kost HD two Los Angeles, Orange
County Southland weather from KFI another Santa Ana wind events
expected to blow through later today through Wednesday, with red
flag warnings in effect again. Sunny, smokey, windy high's in
the middupper sixties at the beaches Metrola and Inland Orange County,
(43:21):
load to upper sixties in the valleys and Inland Empire
fifties for the Anelote Valley. Clear skies tonight, with lows
in the thirties and forties, sunny tomorrow with highs in
the middubber sixties, couple degrees warmer for Wednesday, and then
cooling back down a couple degrees with highs in the
sixties Thursday and Friday. It's fifty five in Los Alamitos,
fifty in Santa Clarita, fifty four in Seal Beach, and
fifty two in Whittier. We lead local live from the
(43:45):
KFI twenty four hour newsroom. I'm Amy King. This has
been your wake up call, and if you missed any
of wake Up Call, you missed a lot, but you
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