WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.720 --> 00:00:04.360 You're listenings KPI AM six forty, the Bill Handles Show 2 00:00:04.559 --> 00:00:06.960 on demand on the iHeartRadio f. 3 00:00:13.160 --> 00:00:17.679 And now Handle on the news. Ladies and gentlemen, here's 4 00:00:17.800 --> 00:00:18.480 Bill Handle. 5 00:00:19.559 --> 00:00:23.679 All right, it's a Wednesday, January eighth, and I would 6 00:00:23.719 --> 00:00:29.679 start good morning saying good morning not unfortunately anticipated and 7 00:00:29.719 --> 00:00:33.960 it came out exactly as we did anticipate and expect. 8 00:00:34.439 --> 00:00:37.079 The wildfires and it is. 9 00:00:37.439 --> 00:00:39.880 We're going to be covering out, of course, versually the 10 00:00:40.000 --> 00:00:42.600 entire show, and it's been going on all night. As 11 00:00:42.640 --> 00:00:46.079 a matter of fact, we did not go to syndicated 12 00:00:46.079 --> 00:00:50.520 programming George Norri. It was live through the entire evening 13 00:00:50.759 --> 00:00:55.280 with the KFI hosts and reporters. And so when we 14 00:00:55.320 --> 00:00:58.320 say a hello first everybody, Amy, I know you've been 15 00:00:58.359 --> 00:00:59.159 up for a while. 16 00:01:00.119 --> 00:01:01.200 Good morning, good morning? 17 00:01:01.280 --> 00:01:05.280 Yeah, all right, Neil, who has been here since? What 18 00:01:05.400 --> 00:01:08.400 you were on from three to five am? 19 00:01:08.719 --> 00:01:12.120 Now here at thirty and did a three to five 20 00:01:12.159 --> 00:01:13.480 before wake up call? 21 00:01:13.879 --> 00:01:17.079 Yeah, and I know what was on from seven to midnight? 22 00:01:17.159 --> 00:01:18.879 Oh yeah, he had a long shift and then you 23 00:01:18.959 --> 00:01:21.560 had Conway come back midnight to three am. 24 00:01:21.760 --> 00:01:24.599 He likes these overnight fire shifts. 25 00:01:24.239 --> 00:01:26.719 Well because he's ups up anyway. 26 00:01:26.799 --> 00:01:28.799 Yeah, yet it's not gone to bed, and I swear 27 00:01:28.920 --> 00:01:31.760 he lives so close that if he fell right here 28 00:01:31.799 --> 00:01:33.719 at the station, his head would hit his pillow on 29 00:01:33.719 --> 00:01:34.079 his bed. 30 00:01:34.280 --> 00:01:34.920 Yeah. 31 00:01:34.959 --> 00:01:38.719 So it's been a This is where I love KFI 32 00:01:38.879 --> 00:01:39.920 and I love what it does. 33 00:01:40.640 --> 00:01:42.959 We're at our best and situations like this. 34 00:01:44.239 --> 00:01:47.719 I got a call yesterday Chris Berry, who is our 35 00:01:48.319 --> 00:01:53.159 now management, came into manage for a while and interrupted 36 00:01:53.519 --> 00:01:57.519 watching Wicked, which I got very upset. I actually paid 37 00:01:57.719 --> 00:02:03.000 thirty dollars to buy Wicked. Big, big, big mistake. So 38 00:02:03.079 --> 00:02:06.000 I'm watching it dozens of times to get my money's worth. 39 00:02:06.480 --> 00:02:08.280 All right, We're going to have to hear about that 40 00:02:08.319 --> 00:02:10.319 at a later date when we're not talking about wildfires. 41 00:02:10.560 --> 00:02:12.439 You don't really think so yeah, okay, Yeah. 42 00:02:12.639 --> 00:02:15.599 Also, I you know, all of you folks have been 43 00:02:15.680 --> 00:02:17.840 up and working for a long time. And I was 44 00:02:17.960 --> 00:02:23.159 up all night because my little dogs, they have a 45 00:02:23.199 --> 00:02:27.639 bed in the bedroom and when there are people outside, 46 00:02:27.680 --> 00:02:31.240 the dogs mark because they're simply protective. 47 00:02:31.479 --> 00:02:32.199 They're dogs. 48 00:02:32.479 --> 00:02:35.719 They're dogs, and so you know, people walking outside, the 49 00:02:35.759 --> 00:02:40.520 barking happens. Well, the wind was howling and the furniture 50 00:02:40.560 --> 00:02:44.120 outdoor furniture was moving that. Every time the wind picked 51 00:02:44.199 --> 00:02:46.280 up and you could hear a branch. The dog starts 52 00:02:46.319 --> 00:02:49.840 barking because someone is outside, and. 53 00:02:50.319 --> 00:02:53.599 I got I shut up, shut up, I want some sleep. 54 00:02:54.360 --> 00:02:57.919 I had no idea you could do that much damage 55 00:02:57.960 --> 00:03:00.599 to a dog, a twelve pound dog, by throwing it 56 00:03:00.639 --> 00:03:01.479 against the wall. 57 00:03:02.039 --> 00:03:05.120 Uh. It did work, though, that little dog shut up. 58 00:03:05.199 --> 00:03:07.639 Finally it's limping, you know it's it's out there limping 59 00:03:08.919 --> 00:03:11.319 and won't be barking again at people. God, God help 60 00:03:11.400 --> 00:03:13.120 us if a burglar comes in, because that dog is 61 00:03:13.120 --> 00:03:14.840 never gonna bark anyone ever. 62 00:03:14.879 --> 00:03:18.199 A more tiny little dogs balls or four times the 63 00:03:18.240 --> 00:03:22.120 size of yours. You're not throwing that dog, mister a 64 00:03:22.199 --> 00:03:23.159 tough guy. 65 00:03:23.319 --> 00:03:27.599 Oh and I looked at that dog and I said, honey, honey, 66 00:03:27.680 --> 00:03:29.879 do you want to snack? 67 00:03:30.280 --> 00:03:32.000 And let me tell you what a weird I don't 68 00:03:32.039 --> 00:03:34.159 even know if you know this story, Neil, Let me 69 00:03:34.159 --> 00:03:40.439 tell you what a weirdo. Lindsey is little Tommy, who 70 00:03:40.879 --> 00:03:43.439 of course had to be spade, had to be neutered 71 00:03:43.479 --> 00:03:48.159 because it's a male dog. She kept his balls in 72 00:03:48.199 --> 00:03:52.960 a jar, which is yours. No, well that's different, but 73 00:03:53.439 --> 00:03:57.400 we have his nuts in a jar on the shelf. 74 00:04:00.199 --> 00:04:02.400 Those those are what I'm serious. By the way, I'm 75 00:04:02.400 --> 00:04:05.120 not making that up. It is different, Yes, she's different. 76 00:04:05.120 --> 00:04:09.159 Who would have thought that a forty old marrying this 77 00:04:09.560 --> 00:04:11.560 wind bag over here is weird? 78 00:04:11.840 --> 00:04:13.800 Not quite a little older than that? All right, Cono, 79 00:04:13.919 --> 00:04:16.279 that I say good morning to you, you do not? Okay? 80 00:04:16.319 --> 00:04:20.120 Good morning? Cono. Also drove in. Did you see the 81 00:04:20.120 --> 00:04:21.000 fire on your drive in? 82 00:04:21.319 --> 00:04:23.480 I did see one fire, Okay, I want to say 83 00:04:23.480 --> 00:04:24.399 it's a simmer fire. 84 00:04:24.800 --> 00:04:27.360 Right, we're going to talk about that. Gary Hoffman, I 85 00:04:27.399 --> 00:04:30.439 heard him this morning. Gary is and he came in 86 00:04:30.560 --> 00:04:34.480 very early, obviously, and at his driving from Santa Clarita. 87 00:04:34.759 --> 00:04:36.360 I want to talk to him at seven point thirty, 88 00:04:36.839 --> 00:04:39.959 and it's I have not seen any fires. First of all, 89 00:04:40.000 --> 00:04:43.480 I live in South Orange County, and so I'm in 90 00:04:43.519 --> 00:04:45.360 my home studio this morning because I wasn't going to 91 00:04:45.399 --> 00:04:48.000 deal with all that stuff. So on my ten foot 92 00:04:48.040 --> 00:04:52.240 commute from the bedroom to my studio, I did not 93 00:04:52.360 --> 00:04:54.639 see a fire. I don't have a fireplace on so 94 00:04:55.439 --> 00:04:58.680 I'm okay. Amy, driving in, did you see any fire? 95 00:04:59.360 --> 00:05:01.879 I did not, Okay, not at all. But I did 96 00:05:01.879 --> 00:05:04.800 notice when I walked out of my house this morning, 97 00:05:05.120 --> 00:05:07.399 you could smell the smoke in the air, which was 98 00:05:07.639 --> 00:05:08.399 which was a new thing. 99 00:05:08.720 --> 00:05:12.000 Absolutely, Yeah, all I all I have is the winds 100 00:05:12.040 --> 00:05:15.720 were howling, and just I haven't even gone outside yet 101 00:05:15.759 --> 00:05:16.199 to see what. 102 00:05:16.199 --> 00:05:18.079 A mess are they still blowing where you are? 103 00:05:18.639 --> 00:05:19.399 Uh, let me look. 104 00:05:20.279 --> 00:05:22.639 I don't think you need to look for the winds. 105 00:05:23.480 --> 00:05:25.720 Is he licking his finger and putting it in the air. 106 00:05:25.879 --> 00:05:28.920 That seems stupid because at my house there were no 107 00:05:29.040 --> 00:05:31.920 winds this morning. The winds were howling last night, but 108 00:05:32.000 --> 00:05:34.680 then this morning, dead calm in my neighborhood. 109 00:05:34.959 --> 00:05:38.279 I can't see because it's dark. Yes, so we have 110 00:05:38.600 --> 00:05:41.639 yea the outdoor lighting. The winds are going, They're not howling, 111 00:05:41.720 --> 00:05:42.519 but it looks. 112 00:05:42.240 --> 00:05:46.240 Like a wind. What I'm not trying to be mean? 113 00:05:46.519 --> 00:05:49.639 Do you think that your star on the Walk of 114 00:05:49.720 --> 00:05:53.000 Fame and your Marconi was a like a dare? Like 115 00:05:53.120 --> 00:05:56.240 somebody in those departments thought it'd be funny to give 116 00:05:56.240 --> 00:05:56.920 you those things. 117 00:05:58.079 --> 00:05:59.480 Okay, Woodleigh Fire. 118 00:05:59.560 --> 00:06:02.439 This is a one Woodley Avenue south of Victory Boulevard, 119 00:06:02.439 --> 00:06:05.399 and this Pulvida base and seventy five acres another one 120 00:06:05.439 --> 00:06:06.399 just pop it up there. 121 00:06:06.879 --> 00:06:09.000 So we're obviously going to be reporting on the fires. 122 00:06:09.600 --> 00:06:12.079 We've got Michael Monks out there on the fire scene. 123 00:06:12.079 --> 00:06:15.199 We're going to go to some national correspondence coming up 124 00:06:15.240 --> 00:06:18.800 at seven Alex Stone, ABC News correspondent who's on our 125 00:06:18.879 --> 00:06:22.920 show all the time. He's going to talk about what's 126 00:06:22.959 --> 00:06:26.920 going on, and he's in Altadena at the Altadena fire. 127 00:06:28.639 --> 00:06:30.920 This is being covered. If you watch national news, which 128 00:06:30.959 --> 00:06:34.000 I always do. You know, I'm sort of a news junkie, 129 00:06:34.040 --> 00:06:37.680 so I always watch ABC or CBS in addition to 130 00:06:37.959 --> 00:06:41.040 all the rest of it. It started, the story started 131 00:06:41.279 --> 00:06:46.360 with the fires, and no doubt, of course it's a 132 00:06:46.439 --> 00:06:49.519 huge story, bigger here than across the rest of the country, 133 00:06:49.560 --> 00:06:53.720 but international story. And as Neil and I were talking 134 00:06:53.720 --> 00:06:56.199 about before we take a break and come back, when 135 00:06:56.240 --> 00:07:00.199 you look at the total acreage of this fire, it's 136 00:07:00.279 --> 00:07:03.959 really no big deal. It's what five six thousand acres 137 00:07:04.000 --> 00:07:07.920 in total all the fires combined, which would would barely 138 00:07:07.959 --> 00:07:08.480 be a mention. 139 00:07:08.560 --> 00:07:09.639 It would be a brush fire. 140 00:07:10.120 --> 00:07:14.879 The problem is, of course, it's in Pacific palisades. 141 00:07:15.720 --> 00:07:18.319 Populated areas period, right, It's. 142 00:07:18.319 --> 00:07:21.240 Yeah, or what used to be Pacific Palisades, and we've 143 00:07:21.240 --> 00:07:25.160 got Malibu. All of these these aren't in the hills 144 00:07:25.199 --> 00:07:28.319 way above where firefighters can't get through. 145 00:07:28.600 --> 00:07:30.959 Firefighters can't get through now because. 146 00:07:30.720 --> 00:07:34.319 The winds are blowing so strong, aircraft can't get up 147 00:07:34.319 --> 00:07:34.639 in the air. 148 00:07:34.680 --> 00:07:37.040 I mean, it is a mess. It is a mess, 149 00:07:37.079 --> 00:07:40.240 and something that I have rarely heard. 150 00:07:40.319 --> 00:07:43.040 I've been watching Channel five and Channel eleven as well 151 00:07:43.040 --> 00:07:48.240 as for hours, is the word heartbreaking in referring to 152 00:07:48.279 --> 00:07:51.720 the houses that have been destroyed and the families that 153 00:07:52.079 --> 00:07:55.639 have been affected. And reporters, usually try to be objective, 154 00:07:55.639 --> 00:08:01.839 are deeply moved about seeing going there's some one's home going, not. 155 00:08:01.959 --> 00:08:04.199 Be it's you know, I was looking. 156 00:08:04.480 --> 00:08:07.160 I was just went into the booth, was talking with 157 00:08:07.240 --> 00:08:10.000 kno and and we're looking up at the screens and 158 00:08:10.040 --> 00:08:14.120 you're looking at areas that, you know, there were sidewalks 159 00:08:14.120 --> 00:08:17.120 that people were probably walking their dogs on two days ago, 160 00:08:17.720 --> 00:08:21.000 and the houses on the corner. I mean, everything looks 161 00:08:21.000 --> 00:08:23.800 like a normal neighborhood, except it's completely engulfed. 162 00:08:24.319 --> 00:08:28.240 Yeah, it's it's almost like it's almost like a movie set. 163 00:08:28.600 --> 00:08:29.759 It's almost like they're filming. 164 00:08:29.959 --> 00:08:32.240 It's almost like they're filming, filming. Gone with a wind 165 00:08:32.279 --> 00:08:33.360 with at land to burning. 166 00:08:33.759 --> 00:08:36.240 All right, a back lot somewhere, Let's take a. 167 00:08:36.159 --> 00:08:38.039 Break, we'll come back and then we're gonna go right 168 00:08:38.039 --> 00:08:40.759 into it, the latest, what's going on talking to people 169 00:08:40.759 --> 00:08:43.320 who are on the fire line. Uh, and give you 170 00:08:43.960 --> 00:08:46.279 somewhat of an idea that you're only going to hear here, 171 00:08:46.440 --> 00:08:51.000 You're only going to hear on KFI. You know. Sometimes 172 00:08:51.080 --> 00:08:57.120 I really enjoy doing stories that are breaking and we 173 00:08:57.240 --> 00:08:59.039 have to deal with them all morning. 174 00:08:59.240 --> 00:09:02.480 Sure, it's a different Yeah, this is this is our wheelhouse. 175 00:09:02.799 --> 00:09:05.000 You know, like nine to eleven, I think I broadcast 176 00:09:05.039 --> 00:09:06.480 for seven or eight hours straight. 177 00:09:06.600 --> 00:09:08.559 It was, you know, this is what we do. 178 00:09:09.120 --> 00:09:12.399 But unfortunately, always unfortunately, I mean god, that was the 179 00:09:12.399 --> 00:09:15.600 most unfortunate thing that happened to us in one hundred years. 180 00:09:16.200 --> 00:09:20.559 But being this close and knowing people have been evacuated. 181 00:09:20.559 --> 00:09:24.279 For example, we have friends in Malibu, Uh, and this 182 00:09:24.320 --> 00:09:26.120 will be their fourth. 183 00:09:25.879 --> 00:09:30.200 Go round after having already rebuilt a. 184 00:09:30.240 --> 00:09:32.639 House that went down, and if it goes down again, 185 00:09:32.720 --> 00:09:35.759 it will be their second rebuild. If they're even there, 186 00:09:36.440 --> 00:09:38.320 and if they even stay, because. 187 00:09:38.039 --> 00:09:42.919 Would huh would you stay if it was your even 188 00:09:42.960 --> 00:09:43.360 if it. 189 00:09:43.360 --> 00:09:45.759 Was and if it was a dream house, Yeah, and 190 00:09:45.799 --> 00:09:46.759 it is their dream house. 191 00:09:46.759 --> 00:09:49.080 No, I wouldn't stay. I'd go, you know, what uh, 192 00:09:49.399 --> 00:09:52.399 this is somebody up there telling me. If I I 193 00:09:52.440 --> 00:09:55.159 don't know who it was would be up there would 194 00:09:55.200 --> 00:09:58.559 be telling me, Actually be the pyro Baniaca on the 195 00:09:58.639 --> 00:10:02.080 hill just above me would be saying this is not 196 00:10:02.159 --> 00:10:04.039 a very good place to live anyway. 197 00:10:04.120 --> 00:10:06.279 So what we're going to do is we're going to report. 198 00:10:06.279 --> 00:10:07.279 I'm going to throw it to Amy. 199 00:10:07.559 --> 00:10:11.399 Amy, if you can just give us the highlights the 200 00:10:11.440 --> 00:10:16.559 headlines of the Palisades Eton Hearst fire, and we also 201 00:10:17.120 --> 00:10:20.759 understand there's what fire is now breaking out all over 202 00:10:21.159 --> 00:10:24.279 southern California, small spotfires, which is one of the problems 203 00:10:24.440 --> 00:10:26.960 when you have eighty mile an hour winds and you 204 00:10:27.000 --> 00:10:30.200 have no idea where the next spot fire is going 205 00:10:30.240 --> 00:10:30.759 to erupt. 206 00:10:30.919 --> 00:10:34.720 Well, the laziest one to erupt is in the Subpulvida 207 00:10:34.759 --> 00:10:38.360 Basin in the San Fernando Valley. It started just before 208 00:10:38.440 --> 00:10:41.200 six this morning and has burned at least seventy five acres. 209 00:10:41.600 --> 00:10:44.519 Officials say the fire is being pushed by the winds 210 00:10:44.639 --> 00:10:49.080 moving south and is threatening to jump Burbank Boulevard. There's 211 00:10:49.080 --> 00:10:51.480 no reports of any buildings threatened for that one at 212 00:10:51.480 --> 00:10:51.840 this time. 213 00:10:51.879 --> 00:10:52.039 Now. 214 00:10:52.039 --> 00:10:55.399 The one you mentioned first was Pacific Palisades. We've got 215 00:10:55.759 --> 00:11:00.200 thirty thousand people under evacuation orders. At last count or 216 00:11:00.240 --> 00:11:04.799 at last update, it had burned just about three thousand acres. 217 00:11:04.799 --> 00:11:08.600 We're expecting those numbers to change, possibly dramatically, when we 218 00:11:08.639 --> 00:11:12.360 get an update later this morning from fire officials in 219 00:11:12.440 --> 00:11:17.000 the Altadena area. That fire, we just got new numbers 220 00:11:17.320 --> 00:11:20.240 twenty two hundred and twenty seven acres and there are 221 00:11:20.320 --> 00:11:23.679 evacuation orders. We've seen the houses burning and the buildings 222 00:11:23.720 --> 00:11:27.799 and the businesses burning, and the evacuation orders for that 223 00:11:27.879 --> 00:11:31.440 fire have been expanded to include Laknata and flint Ridge. 224 00:11:31.480 --> 00:11:35.200 Now fifty two thousand people are have been ordered out 225 00:11:35.200 --> 00:11:35.679 of their homes. 226 00:11:35.759 --> 00:11:36.679 Yeah, it's heartbreaking. 227 00:11:36.720 --> 00:11:39.360 And one of the things that we are not reporting 228 00:11:39.759 --> 00:11:43.360 and no one is reporting, is how many homes were. 229 00:11:43.200 --> 00:11:45.120 Destroyed or damage because we don't know. 230 00:11:45.399 --> 00:11:48.840 There's no way to know, because the way is the 231 00:11:48.879 --> 00:11:51.799 only way to know is to send aircraft up and 232 00:11:52.240 --> 00:11:56.879 literally look down and just start counting the neighborhood, look 233 00:11:56.879 --> 00:11:58.919 at the looking at the neighborhoods that have been destroyed 234 00:11:58.960 --> 00:12:01.720 and go, Okay, there's a this street one, two, three, four, five, 235 00:12:01.759 --> 00:12:06.120 eight houses that's straight over there. Twelve houses no idea 236 00:12:06.480 --> 00:12:10.159 or firefighters come into a neighborhood and start counting. One 237 00:12:10.159 --> 00:12:11.960 of the things I want to ask and I want 238 00:12:11.960 --> 00:12:15.120 to look at, is you had Pacific Coast Highway or 239 00:12:15.159 --> 00:12:18.080 a Sunset Boulevard, which is basically the only way into 240 00:12:18.080 --> 00:12:22.559 the Palisades. It's one road in and out. And people 241 00:12:22.600 --> 00:12:25.879 were abandoning their cars because they couldn't get out, just 242 00:12:26.159 --> 00:12:30.559 leaving their cars in the road, blocking the road. And 243 00:12:30.600 --> 00:12:34.279 that pretty well stops evacuations, doesn't it. So they come 244 00:12:34.320 --> 00:12:37.799 out and did you look at the lines lineup of 245 00:12:37.879 --> 00:12:40.559 cars after they've been moved over by the big dozers. 246 00:12:40.759 --> 00:12:45.080 Yeah, and you know what they look like now they're torched. Yeah, 247 00:12:45.159 --> 00:12:49.000 they're all torched. And you can't help but notice because 248 00:12:49.080 --> 00:12:53.960 the affluent nature of the neighborhood that the row of 249 00:12:54.039 --> 00:12:57.759 cars were not your average wasn't a bunch of Toyotas, 250 00:12:57.879 --> 00:12:58.720 is what I'm saying. 251 00:12:58.519 --> 00:13:00.320 Not Honda's No. 252 00:13:00.480 --> 00:13:03.159 Well, those houses and if they're not really mentioning it 253 00:13:03.200 --> 00:13:08.360 because it sounds a little bit, is the word obnoxious elitist? 254 00:13:08.840 --> 00:13:12.919 Pacific Palisades is a wealthy area. Those are multi million 255 00:13:12.960 --> 00:13:15.519 dollar homes. I mean, this is I'll tell you who's 256 00:13:15.519 --> 00:13:18.200 sweating bullets the insurance companies. You've got a couple of 257 00:13:18.240 --> 00:13:21.879 insurance executives looking at this and going ah, crap, oh. 258 00:13:21.679 --> 00:13:25.480 Well, there's also there was also some pulling out or 259 00:13:25.519 --> 00:13:28.559 some changes with insurance companies a week or so ago 260 00:13:29.279 --> 00:13:32.279 that will be affecting these people, and rate change in 261 00:13:32.360 --> 00:13:35.039 all kinds of things we haven't even heard the beginning. 262 00:13:35.279 --> 00:13:36.960 Oh no, it's crazy. That will go on. 263 00:13:37.159 --> 00:13:40.720 And then there are some homes along the coast in 264 00:13:40.799 --> 00:13:46.240 Malibu that have gone up, and those try to get 265 00:13:46.279 --> 00:13:48.960 anything along a coast for under twelve million dollars. 266 00:13:50.639 --> 00:13:54.120 I mean this financially, the hit is going to be enormous. 267 00:13:54.159 --> 00:13:55.960 And it doesn't mean that people who have a lot 268 00:13:56.000 --> 00:14:00.320 of money are more important or have greater value than 269 00:14:00.360 --> 00:14:04.159 everybody else. Well actually they do, but we normally don't 270 00:14:04.200 --> 00:14:09.639 talk about that. The point is that you've got this devastation. 271 00:14:10.679 --> 00:14:14.480 The financial hit is enormous, which I think what this 272 00:14:14.559 --> 00:14:18.799 is going to do is amplify the issue of you 273 00:14:18.840 --> 00:14:22.120 can't get fire insurance. You know, we have three insurance 274 00:14:22.120 --> 00:14:24.559 companies bail out of California. A lot of people are 275 00:14:24.600 --> 00:14:28.000 not insured. They're bare because it's not a question of 276 00:14:28.000 --> 00:14:30.200 being able to afford insurance. They have plenty of money, 277 00:14:30.320 --> 00:14:35.120 they can't get insurance because the insurance companies will not 278 00:14:35.399 --> 00:14:39.879 give them insurance because they're in fire areas. Although I'm 279 00:14:39.879 --> 00:14:43.519 guessing a Malibu on the water, I wouldn't guess that'd 280 00:14:43.519 --> 00:14:45.320 be a fire area. 281 00:14:45.480 --> 00:14:49.039 No, but the hills. So what happens. What's that California 282 00:14:49.039 --> 00:14:50.039 insurance that you get. 283 00:14:51.000 --> 00:14:53.480 Yeah, it's the Fair Plan, the Fair Plan with the 284 00:14:53.519 --> 00:14:57.120 insurance companies put into this fund, and you can buy 285 00:14:57.200 --> 00:14:59.759 into the Fair Plan if you can't get insurance anyplace else. 286 00:15:00.159 --> 00:15:02.639 The problem with the Fair Plan, well, if I mean 287 00:15:02.679 --> 00:15:07.000 it does help, it's only fire insurance. It's not liability, 288 00:15:07.039 --> 00:15:12.879 it's not comprehensive, it's not theft, nothing except for fire itself. 289 00:15:13.480 --> 00:15:14.120 Pipe breaks. 290 00:15:14.159 --> 00:15:17.960 You're done if your house floods out, and it costs 291 00:15:18.000 --> 00:15:24.120 a fortune. The rates are very expensive, and the limitation 292 00:15:24.279 --> 00:15:26.559 I think is around two point two to two point 293 00:15:26.639 --> 00:15:29.600 three million dollars I think is the most they'll pay out, 294 00:15:29.960 --> 00:15:31.919 which is a lot of money for most of us. 295 00:15:31.960 --> 00:15:34.039 I mean, not too many people have homes that are 296 00:15:34.039 --> 00:15:37.320 worth two point two million dollars, but every one of 297 00:15:37.320 --> 00:15:40.879 those homes and palisades are, and certainly in Malibu, and 298 00:15:41.440 --> 00:15:43.559 you're not going to replace an eleven thousand square foot 299 00:15:43.600 --> 00:15:44.720 home for two million dollars. 300 00:15:44.720 --> 00:15:50.440 But is the house itself? Is the value based on 301 00:15:50.519 --> 00:15:53.360 its location? That sure? 302 00:15:54.080 --> 00:15:56.320 No, we're talking about hard costs. Were just talking about 303 00:15:56.440 --> 00:15:57.080 hard costs. 304 00:15:57.279 --> 00:15:59.840 Yeah, to build the house. That's what fire insurance is about, 305 00:16:00.200 --> 00:16:04.279 just rebuilding. That's it, okay, But I want to go 306 00:16:04.320 --> 00:16:09.559 into a deeper conversation as to what is happening. As 307 00:16:09.600 --> 00:16:11.559 I said, and as we all know, this has become 308 00:16:11.720 --> 00:16:16.200 an international story beyond just a national story, and so 309 00:16:16.240 --> 00:16:18.240 we're going to get a couple of different views of it. 310 00:16:18.360 --> 00:16:20.879 Alex Stone, who's an ABC News correspondent, is going to 311 00:16:20.879 --> 00:16:24.840 give you what he's reporting nationally, what that take is, 312 00:16:24.919 --> 00:16:27.960 and he happens to be in Altadena. Michael Munts, our 313 00:16:28.000 --> 00:16:31.279 reporter KFI reporter is in the Palisades area. 314 00:16:31.360 --> 00:16:33.200 He'll be reporting. And then we have a. 315 00:16:33.200 --> 00:16:35.360 Couple of press conferences. What I think there's a press 316 00:16:35.399 --> 00:16:38.480 conference at eight o'clock, yes, the fire officials, which of 317 00:16:38.559 --> 00:16:41.039 course will be covering, and then at a thirty assuming 318 00:16:41.080 --> 00:16:44.480 the press conference doesn't go on forever, Jim Keeney is 319 00:16:44.519 --> 00:16:46.080 going to be with us, and obviously we're going to 320 00:16:46.120 --> 00:16:49.000 talk about the effects of smoke inhalation, what it's about, 321 00:16:49.039 --> 00:16:53.559 long term, short term, medium term of fire injuries, burn injuries, 322 00:16:53.600 --> 00:16:56.759 which we now know there are several and they're probably 323 00:16:56.759 --> 00:16:59.799 getting me much more. And that's the very unique part 324 00:16:59.840 --> 00:17:04.160 of medicine, is dealing with burn injuries. So there was 325 00:17:04.200 --> 00:17:08.119 a lot going on and you were in We talked 326 00:17:08.160 --> 00:17:12.160 about it a voluntary evacuation order or we're waiting for 327 00:17:12.599 --> 00:17:16.400 the evacuation order. Yeah, yes, I had asked you do 328 00:17:16.480 --> 00:17:17.240 you have a go bag? 329 00:17:17.279 --> 00:17:20.079 And you said yes, What exactly were you doing and 330 00:17:20.119 --> 00:17:20.720 what was in it? 331 00:17:20.799 --> 00:17:23.519 And how close were you actually bailing out getting out 332 00:17:23.519 --> 00:17:24.039 of dodge. 333 00:17:24.519 --> 00:17:28.119 Well, I figured, if we're gonna sit there and get 334 00:17:28.160 --> 00:17:30.559 these notices, I might as well be prepared in case, 335 00:17:30.720 --> 00:17:33.359 just in case. You never know, these embers fly far, 336 00:17:33.480 --> 00:17:37.039 and you know, we were in an evacuation potential area. 337 00:17:37.559 --> 00:17:42.279 So I mean, we just put like photo albums, birth certificates, passports, 338 00:17:42.319 --> 00:17:45.960 just those types of things in our car and. 339 00:17:46.000 --> 00:17:48.359 Just we're already in a car and then yeah, we're 340 00:17:48.359 --> 00:17:50.839 ready to My car is loaded right now. Actually, okay, 341 00:17:50.920 --> 00:17:52.000 ready to jump in the car. 342 00:17:52.119 --> 00:17:55.559 I was talking to Pamela, my daughter Pamela, who is 343 00:17:55.599 --> 00:17:59.680 in with Woodland Hills area, and she was very close 344 00:18:00.160 --> 00:18:04.640 into a couple of voluntary evacuation orders and she was 345 00:18:04.680 --> 00:18:08.400 the light was flickering on and off, and she would say, 346 00:18:08.440 --> 00:18:09.640 there's no power in the house. 347 00:18:09.759 --> 00:18:13.039 Dad. She was on a cell phone. Obviously there's no 348 00:18:13.160 --> 00:18:14.000 power in the house. 349 00:18:14.039 --> 00:18:16.440 And then all of a sudden three minutes later or 350 00:18:16.480 --> 00:18:17.599 two minutes later, Ah, the. 351 00:18:17.559 --> 00:18:18.400 Powers back on. 352 00:18:18.519 --> 00:18:18.640 Go. 353 00:18:18.720 --> 00:18:18.880 Yeah. 354 00:18:18.920 --> 00:18:21.960 Those Department Water and Water and Power people are very 355 00:18:21.960 --> 00:18:22.839 good about repairing. 356 00:18:22.880 --> 00:18:26.640 It takes them two minutes. Yeah, flickering all night, Yeah, 357 00:18:26.680 --> 00:18:27.759 those are trained squirrels. 358 00:18:27.799 --> 00:18:31.119 You know that the DWP has that repairs that stuff 359 00:18:31.200 --> 00:18:33.920 very quickly. Do we know, and let me go to 360 00:18:33.960 --> 00:18:37.319 Amy on this one, Amy, do we know how many 361 00:18:37.599 --> 00:18:43.480 voluntary blackouts? That is the power company blocking off electricity cutting, 362 00:18:43.680 --> 00:18:47.440 shutting it down for fear of the power lines igniting 363 00:18:48.079 --> 00:18:50.359 the structures or the brush around the structures. 364 00:18:50.440 --> 00:18:52.880 We know that in southern California about three hundred thousand 365 00:18:52.920 --> 00:18:56.200 people are without power. We do not know which of 366 00:18:56.240 --> 00:18:59.319 those might have been precautionary shutoffs and which might have 367 00:18:59.400 --> 00:19:01.440 been as a direct result of fire activity. 368 00:19:01.720 --> 00:19:04.440 Yeah, and that's fairly new southern California. 369 00:19:04.519 --> 00:19:09.000 Edison did implement preventive power shutoffs, but as Amy said, 370 00:19:09.160 --> 00:19:13.440 they didn't say what areas or how many homes were affected. 371 00:19:13.960 --> 00:19:17.240 Now, usually by this time we hear from the fire 372 00:19:17.279 --> 00:19:24.400 officials that the fire started under where they're investigating the 373 00:19:24.440 --> 00:19:26.839 origin of the fire, which means was at arson, Was 374 00:19:26.839 --> 00:19:30.720 it caused by somebody? Any information of that, because I've 375 00:19:30.759 --> 00:19:33.599 been waiting to hear whether that's even being looked at. 376 00:19:34.599 --> 00:19:36.599 We do not have any kind of information on the 377 00:19:36.640 --> 00:19:37.680 sources of the fires. 378 00:19:37.799 --> 00:19:38.440 I mean, think of this. 379 00:19:38.519 --> 00:19:40.759 I mean, you've you've been covering fires for a whole 380 00:19:40.759 --> 00:19:44.119 lot of years. We don't know how many structures have burnt, 381 00:19:44.599 --> 00:19:48.559 no idea, how many homes, no idea how many people, 382 00:19:48.680 --> 00:19:53.240 for example, have ignored evacuation orders, although at this point 383 00:19:53.279 --> 00:19:55.000 I can't think of anybody in their right mind that 384 00:19:55.000 --> 00:19:57.640 would ignore an evacuation order. I mean, it happens all 385 00:19:57.680 --> 00:20:01.200 the time with hurricanes. Yeah, just let it, you know, 386 00:20:01.279 --> 00:20:02.839 come over me. I knew I was gonna I knew 387 00:20:02.839 --> 00:20:06.880 we were gonna be okay just before there literally swept away. 388 00:20:07.920 --> 00:20:11.279 And it's the evil Witch of the West. 389 00:20:12.160 --> 00:20:15.720 You know, there was one that we had all seen 390 00:20:15.839 --> 00:20:19.279 because somebody was shooting video from their own home on 391 00:20:19.359 --> 00:20:24.160 their phone. There was a couple of guys and I 392 00:20:24.200 --> 00:20:27.559 think a dog in Pacific Palisades and they have these beautiful, 393 00:20:27.720 --> 00:20:32.039 massive windows, and the fire was right outside. I mean 394 00:20:32.039 --> 00:20:34.319 it basically was anove. And I have not heard any 395 00:20:34.400 --> 00:20:38.279 updates about them, but they were unable to get out. 396 00:20:38.279 --> 00:20:41.440 From what I had seen, that would be one that 397 00:20:41.559 --> 00:20:43.240 I would be curious about, for sure. 398 00:20:43.839 --> 00:20:44.160 There was. 399 00:20:44.200 --> 00:20:46.000 I was watching one of the news outlets, and I 400 00:20:46.039 --> 00:20:48.319 don't know whether it was eleven or five or two, 401 00:20:48.359 --> 00:20:50.480