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Speaker 2: The Hughes Fire. This is a fire that is burning
Speaker 2: near Castiak Lake. The last indicator was that it's at
Speaker 2: five hundred acres, but it's well above that by now,
Speaker 2: if you can just tell by some of the images
Speaker 2: that we have seen coming in from helicopters and other
Speaker 2: static cameras throughout the area. The fire started along Lake
Speaker 2: Hughes Road just northeast of Castaic Lake well over an
Speaker 2: hour ago and is up over five hundred It's probably
Speaker 2: closer to one thousand plus acres. Several areas around Castaic
Speaker 2: Lake are now under evacuation orders. That includes the Bitter Canyon,
Speaker 2: the Charlie Canyon area, and then on the west side
Speaker 2: of I five anywhere along Hillcrest Parkway or Sloan Canyon
Speaker 2: Road going west towards Casteak High School. All of those
Speaker 2: areas are currently under evacuation orders.
Speaker 1: The winds are about thirty three to thirty five miles
Speaker 1: per hour those are sustained. The fire, according to Cruz,
Speaker 1: is shifting towards the lake, but they're worried about the embers,
Speaker 1: the spot fires for surrounding communities. The winds are picking up.
Speaker 1: There are going to be higher winds as we move
Speaker 1: into the afternoon. A high wind warning in the area
Speaker 1: starting at two pm into ten and then ten tonight
Speaker 1: again some more winds, some stronger gusts. They have a
Speaker 1: lot of fixed wing aircraft battling this thing from the sky.
Speaker 1: They were quick to get there the evacuation warning. It's
Speaker 1: got to stay on top of these again, don't wait.
Speaker 1: They are expanding by the moment now. New Hall CHPIE
Speaker 1: says they are considering a full closure of the five
Speaker 1: freeway in the Castaic area. It is open at this moment,
Speaker 1: but they say, is that smoke builds up? The smoke alone,
Speaker 1: says the CHP says. Closures are like just for your
Speaker 1: planning purposes. If you are headed up I five, maybe
Speaker 1: you're not our own.
Speaker 2: Jenny Harmon says that the five southbound is shut down
Speaker 2: at the one thirty eight. If you're listening to us
Speaker 2: as you're coming into the LA area from the Grapevine,
Speaker 2: you are going to be stopped.
Speaker 3: It looks like the five at the one thirty eight.
Speaker 2: If you're headed southbound, but as of right now, it
Speaker 2: looks like northbound is still open, although it's going to
Speaker 2: be jammed because people don't like driving through fire.
Speaker 3: Give you an idea of how we are.
Speaker 2: One of the resources that we've been using to make
Speaker 2: sure that we stay on top of this and that
Speaker 2: if you're in that area you're definitely going to want
Speaker 2: to utilize is the watch Duty app. You can download
Speaker 2: her on your phone. You could also use it on
Speaker 2: your desktop. The web address is app app dot watch
Speaker 2: duty dot org. It will help you figure out which
Speaker 2: of the county designated zones you are in and then
Speaker 2: help you figure out if you are in a zone
Speaker 2: that is under an evacuation warning or an evacuation order area. Again,
Speaker 2: all of the areas right around Castaic Lake, a few
Speaker 2: places to the west of I five are under evacuation orders.
Speaker 3: We've seen some of the images.
Speaker 2: There are a handful of elementary schools, I shouldn't say
Speaker 2: a handful, but at least two elementary schools, middle school
Speaker 2: and a high school that are under these evacuation order areas.
Speaker 2: As this fire continues to burn, we've asked for your
Speaker 2: view of what's going on and Susan is in Santa Clarita.
Speaker 2: You you were kicked out of your office, right, Yes,
Speaker 2: I worked off of the.
Speaker 4: L twenty six and the five in the industrial area
Speaker 4: and the fire started as a little, tiny, tiny thingler
Speaker 4: within twenty minutes has exploded and the winds are hard
Speaker 4: out there is flowing.
Speaker 5: Very very hard.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we saw gusts in that area as much as
Speaker 2: thirty thirty five miles an hour and some So.
Speaker 1: That's where they're at right now, about the five miles
Speaker 1: per hower sustained. Whins Ventura County Star says, this thing
Speaker 1: started at a ten thirty.
Speaker 6: I think we got wind of it at about eleven thirty.
Speaker 1: By the time I mean it Win say something else,
Speaker 1: we aware, we're made aware of it. It had gotten
Speaker 1: and when we first saw the pictures, I said, how
Speaker 1: come we're just learning about this now?
Speaker 6: I mean, it really took off within that first half hour.
Speaker 2: Mark is calling from Santa Clarita as well. Mark, what's
Speaker 2: going on.
Speaker 7: I'm on the Sorrow the Valley road in Santa Karita
Speaker 7: looking at the hillside and it's flowing it seems area
Speaker 7: more towards the Steake Lake area.
Speaker 2: The smoke itself any can you tell if the fire
Speaker 2: is moving to the east, to the to the north,
Speaker 2: and to the east at all.
Speaker 1: We've got strike teams deployed by the way from a
Speaker 1: lot of other areas, just to show you how serious.
Speaker 6: They're treating this.
Speaker 1: Hulver City Fire Department, for example, has been pre positioned
Speaker 1: in Santa Monica for this wind event today. Remember we
Speaker 1: mentioned the Santa Monica Mountains and Santa Clarita area from
Speaker 1: two pm tonight starting until really two pm tomorrow. From
Speaker 1: two to ten pm this afternoon, there's a wind event
Speaker 1: and then stronger gusts come in at ten in overnight.
Speaker 1: So firefighters have been prepositioned in other areas for this
Speaker 1: in the Santa Monica area. Now they're headed to Castaic
Speaker 1: with engines from Santa Monica Beverly Hills, LA Fire Department.
Speaker 1: So they want to get on top of this thing
Speaker 1: right quick, despite the fact that they're prepositioned in areas
Speaker 1: where winds will also be kicking up in less than
Speaker 1: two hours.
Speaker 2: If you have images or video that you want to
Speaker 2: send us from where you are about the Hues fire,
Speaker 2: you can always send them to us via Instagram at
Speaker 2: Gary and Shannon. You can also email them to us
Speaker 2: gas Bag Kfi at gmail dot com. Gas Bag Kfi
Speaker 2: at gmail dot com.
Speaker 3: We'd love to see the.
Speaker 2: Videos and the images that you have from where you are.
Speaker 2: You can also, like I said, send them to us
Speaker 2: via Instagram at Gary and Shannon. The evacuation orders have
Speaker 2: remained static for the last few minutes, which is a
Speaker 2: nice change, but they do continue all around Castac Lake
Speaker 2: and a few places in those neighborhoods along Sloan Canyon
Speaker 2: and Hillcrest Parkway on the west side of I five
Speaker 2: currently under evacuation orders.
Speaker 6: I just got this out of CHP New Hall.
Speaker 1: Ifive northbound at Parker Road off ramp and I five
Speaker 1: northbound at Lake Hughes Road off ramp will be shut down.
Speaker 3: Last time they did that was for a winter storm.
Speaker 2: So they do have a turnaround there that's going to
Speaker 2: be available for people to go back another way.
Speaker 1: But they have requested two very large air tankers at
Speaker 1: this point as well. They had those water tenders out there,
Speaker 1: some DC ten, some fixed wing. Now they're asking for
Speaker 1: the heavy duty ones. They say there has not spotted
Speaker 1: over Castaic Lake at this time according to radio traffic.
Speaker 1: But again I five closure I five northbound at Parker
Speaker 1: Road off ramp and I five northbound at Lake Hughes
Speaker 1: Road off ramp will be shut down.
Speaker 2: One more called Jim is headed on the one on
Speaker 2: one south of Ventura. What's going on, Jim?
Speaker 5: Well, I'm actually in Santa Paula now on the one
Speaker 5: twenty sixth, and the smoke is that it's headed southwest west,
Speaker 5: so it's got Camillo covered parts one thousand oaks covered,
Speaker 5: and the wind is blowing like crazy out here. It's
Speaker 5: pumping me around in the box truck.
Speaker 3: Pretty good, Yeah, all right.
Speaker 2: Well, drive safe, Jim, driving there on the one twenty
Speaker 2: six one eight hundred five two zero one five three
Speaker 2: four eight hundred five to oh one KFI. Let us
Speaker 2: know if you have been affected by this fire burning
Speaker 2: near Castaic Lake, five hundred plus acres well over that
Speaker 2: by now it's being called the Hughes Fire, and there
Speaker 2: are a few thousand people who are under these evacuation
Speaker 2: orders because of this fire there.
Speaker 1: With mandatory evacuations all over Castaic Lake area. The latest
Speaker 1: now is this fire is now thirty four hundred acres.
Speaker 1: Substantial in that this began at ten thirty and developed
Speaker 1: from fifty acres to five hundred within oh, I don't know,
Speaker 1: half an hour something of that nature now at thirty
Speaker 1: four hundred acres. Speaking to the fuel, the way the
Speaker 1: winds are carrying this thing as well, and the massive
Speaker 1: response from firefighters in the air and on the ground,
Speaker 1: Strike Team's task force from all over the area flocking
Speaker 1: to this thing to get a handle on it.
Speaker 2: The evacuation orders, as you mentioned on both sides of
Speaker 2: the lake, both sides of I five now as well
Speaker 2: Sloane Canyon and the Hillcrest Parkway area, that it does
Speaker 2: involve a handful of schools that have been evacuated or
Speaker 2: will be evacuated because they're in the evacuation order area.
Speaker 2: And then the evacuation warnings go as far south as
Speaker 2: the one twenty six, making their way sort of into
Speaker 2: the Santa Clarita Valley along what is Bouquet Canyon Road,
Speaker 2: Copper Hill Drive and things like that. As you get
Speaker 2: closer into those are the warning areas. So people in
Speaker 2: those areas are being told to just kind of be
Speaker 2: ready and set to go in the event that this
Speaker 2: thing changes. Hard to get a grasp exactly as to
Speaker 2: which direction it is spreading, because while the smoke itself
Speaker 2: is blowing to the south and to the west, and
Speaker 2: we've seen a bunch of people.
Speaker 6: That's the way.
Speaker 1: That that that's the winds are coming from the north
Speaker 1: and the east, so it's.
Speaker 3: Going to blow the smoke that way.
Speaker 2: But it looks like the fire itself may be moving
Speaker 2: up the hills, which would put it against the direction
Speaker 2: of the winds.
Speaker 6: If you're coming up or down I five.
Speaker 1: Know that there are closures, probably going to be more,
Speaker 1: just an estimation right now. According to CHP new hal
Speaker 1: the I five northbound at par Road off ramp, it's
Speaker 1: shut down there, and at I five northbound at Lake
Speaker 1: Hughes Road that off ramps shut down as well.
Speaker 3: Cody's on I five, what's going on?
Speaker 5: Hey guys, I just got off the freeway here in Valencia.
Speaker 7: The fire looks like it's flowing to the west, like
Speaker 7: you're saying.
Speaker 8: I live in Green Valley, which.
Speaker 5: Is up Copper Hill.
Speaker 8: Hopefully it doesn't.
Speaker 7: Climb the hill here in fight the wind.
Speaker 5: But five is still open.
Speaker 7: Not much traffic yet, but I'm sure it'll get worse.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it definitely will.
Speaker 2: It is closed farther up the freeway. As Shannon was
Speaker 2: mentioning if you were to go all the way to
Speaker 2: park a road a castag that is actually the beginning
Speaker 2: of the evacuation order zones.
Speaker 3: So that's why they have that thing. They have that thing.
Speaker 1: Close down just so you know east of Green Valley
Speaker 1: is there are evacuation warnings in place for east of
Speaker 1: Green Valley to the east there nearly to Samberg on
Speaker 1: the north as well.
Speaker 2: You mentioned thirty four hundred acres already pretty quick expansion
Speaker 2: of this fire. And as I mentioned earlier, the original
Speaker 2: call was for four helicopters. They have asked for at
Speaker 2: least eight more and there's two, four, six, eight, twelve.
Speaker 2: It looks like they have all twelve of the helicopters
Speaker 2: on scene. There are others in the air in that area.
Speaker 2: If you look at flight Radar twenty four, which is
Speaker 2: sort of the live air traffic look over the top
Speaker 2: of it, a bunch of large air tankers and as
Speaker 2: you mentioned, the very large air tankers have been requested.
Speaker 2: So they are hitting this with just about everything they
Speaker 2: have from the air that's available to them. And the
Speaker 2: original call was for fifty fire engines to take this on,
Speaker 2: a dozen hand crews, etc.
Speaker 3: But you know that that number has expanded.
Speaker 2: Also, again, it looks like northbound I five closed at
Speaker 2: Parker Road southbound at the one thirty eight way up
Speaker 2: near the Gorman area. So the ifive is closed northbound
Speaker 2: at Parker Road south found at the one thirty eight,
Speaker 2: it's gonna potentially stay that way for some time until
Speaker 2: this either the smoke clears or they can get a
Speaker 2: handle on some of the containment on this fire.
Speaker 1: All right, If you've got images, you've got footage you
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Speaker 2: Jim is calling headed up the one twenty six. Jim,
Speaker 2: what do you see?
Speaker 5: Wow?
Speaker 7: Let me let me tell you guys.
Speaker 5: I started off in Valencia there McBean by cal Arts.
Speaker 5: You can see the big.
Speaker 4: Old Plomer's boat.
Speaker 5: Of course, Capgate. It looks like it's going towards Camplin Highway.
Speaker 8: I'm out here now.
Speaker 5: One twenty six came out your fill more down, Paul,
Speaker 5: I mean Calreal, and it's raining ashes out here right now.
Speaker 1: Ah, we lost you, Jim, Yeah, that's going to be
Speaker 1: spotty there. But yeah, that was one of the original
Speaker 1: zones that were worried about. There was Lake Hughes Road
Speaker 1: at Templan Highway, and that is why it's According to him,
Speaker 1: it has reached that area as well.
Speaker 2: Yeah, those areas west of the fire itself where the
Speaker 2: smoke is going. We got a message from somebody who's
Speaker 2: working out at Silverstrand movie ranch out there where they
Speaker 2: have a bunch of different movie sets and said it
Speaker 2: was raining ash on them too, so they were getting
Speaker 2: out of the way as quickly as possible.
Speaker 1: All right, we will stay on top of this. Let
Speaker 1: us know what you're seeing. Eight hundred five two zero
Speaker 1: one KFI is how you get us. Remember to send
Speaker 1: your footage to our email at Gasbag KFI at gmail
Speaker 1: dot com. More than thirty four hundred acres this thing
Speaker 1: has blown up to there the Hues fire and the
Speaker 1: Castaic area. Mandatory evacuations for communities in and around Lake
Speaker 1: Castaic Lake excuse me as well.
Speaker 6: This thing began about ten and just took off.
Speaker 1: We will get some rain this weekend, but it was
Speaker 1: quick to be all hands on deck for this one.
Speaker 1: Strike teams and prepositioned fire units that were in the
Speaker 1: Santa Monica Mountain areas also do to have high winds
Speaker 1: just like this area. Santa Clarita area as well tonight
Speaker 1: have made their way up to the Castaic area to
Speaker 1: help fight this thing. They have a whole regime of
Speaker 1: air fight, of firefighting, air attack vehicles right now that
Speaker 1: are going on. I mean, you've got the fixed wing,
Speaker 1: You've got the water tenders, you've got the DC tens,
Speaker 1: You've got everything thrown at this thing.
Speaker 2: The evacuations themselves. All of Casteak is under an evacuation
Speaker 2: order right now, both sides of I five, whether you're
Speaker 2: close to Castak Lagoon along the ridge route there Parker Road,
Speaker 2: or you're farther up if you happen to be on
Speaker 2: the west side and you're in the area of Sloane
Speaker 2: Canyon Road, those neighborhoods or Hillcrest Parkway gools along Hillcrest
Speaker 2: Parkway are under evacuation orders, as is Castaic High School,
Speaker 2: the Hasley Canyon area, and then from from those areas
Speaker 2: down to the one twenty six you're seeing evacuation warnings.
Speaker 2: We've seen a lot of smoke in those areas making
Speaker 2: its way out the one twenty six towards Ventura, Oxnard,
Speaker 2: et cetera. And many of those places have been seeing
Speaker 2: ash falling down, so you're going to be impacted by.
Speaker 3: A lot of that.
Speaker 2: The entire area around Castaic Lake also technically under evacuation
Speaker 2: warnings Bitter Canyon, Charlie Canyon up until you get to
Speaker 2: well basically up until the mountains, as you get evacuation
Speaker 2: warnings in the Gorman area out to the one thirty
Speaker 2: eight as it makes its way towards Lancaster. So a
Speaker 2: lot of evacuations, and specifically those areas west of I
Speaker 2: five I mentioned Sloan Canyon and Hillcrest Parkway, home to
Speaker 2: hundreds of homes there and potentially thousands of people that
Speaker 2: are under these evacuation orders.
Speaker 1: When you talk about the schools, you must mention Castaic
Speaker 1: High School as well as Castake Middle School, Casteak Elementary,
Speaker 1: North Lake Hills Elementary has been evacuated to the local
Speaker 1: aquatic center there also I five. We're going to have closures.
Speaker 1: We are going to have closures. Well, we already have
Speaker 1: closures at the Parker Road off ramp I five North,
Speaker 1: as well as Lake Hughes Road off ramp but expect
Speaker 1: more as well. Thirty four thirty four hundred and seven acres.
Speaker 1: That is the latest intel here. This, of course, just
Speaker 1: means the general burn area. This does not mean the
Speaker 1: areas where they have saturated neighborhoods with strike teams to
Speaker 1: protect structures and homes.
Speaker 2: Carrie Anne is calling us eight hundred five to zero
Speaker 2: one five three four. By the way, carry in works
Speaker 2: there in Santa Clarita just nearby.
Speaker 3: What do you see?
Speaker 9: Lots of black smoke, now a lot of white smoke,
Speaker 9: but lots of black smoke, and a lot of traffic
Speaker 9: on Bouquet and New Hall Ranch roads because they've closed
Speaker 9: the off ramps, so now everyone is taking the back
Speaker 9: way to get to wherever they need to go.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think a lot of it can't take away.
Speaker 3: As Shannon mentioned, thank you, carry in. By the way.
Speaker 2: As Shannon mentioned, I five closed there at Parker Road,
Speaker 2: so you're not going to get up. That's just about
Speaker 2: as north as you can go. It almost takes you
Speaker 2: even with where the fire is burning, So northbound I
Speaker 2: five at Parker Road, the usual place they would cut
Speaker 2: off traffic for a winter storm, over the top of
Speaker 2: the grapevine.
Speaker 6: This thing has the trifecta.
Speaker 1: It's got a lot of fuel out there, it's got
Speaker 1: the winds with the weather, and it's got the challenging topography.
Speaker 1: This is the triangle of hell when it comes to wildfires.
Speaker 2: For those of you who are in the area, if
Speaker 2: you have not yet done so, close all your windows
Speaker 2: and doors. I mean, it's not a warm enough day
Speaker 2: that people would have their windows and doors open necessarily,
Speaker 2: but it will keep the ashes out. If you could
Speaker 2: do that, we'll try to keep some of the smoke out,
Speaker 2: potentially keep some of the smoke smell. Marlena is also
Speaker 2: calling from the Santa Clarita area. Marlena, what do you see.
Speaker 5: Now?
Speaker 10: You're asking me why I see you. On my way
Speaker 10: to the gym, I saw the clouds and they had
Speaker 10: said it's going to range. I thought, oh my god,
Speaker 10: this clothes are pretty thick, and then when I came out,
Speaker 10: there were black and they're very sick. Are you kidding?
Speaker 10: How far are they from Santa Clarita? So that's where
Speaker 10: I live.
Speaker 2: Well, where exactly in Santa Clarita are you? Because it's
Speaker 2: going to depend. I mean, if you lives at thirty
Speaker 2: four to twelve, Now, if you're over at Sierra Highway
Speaker 2: and Solidad Canyon. Well, it's still a couple of miles
Speaker 2: away from you, and hopefully it's not even burning that direction.
Speaker 2: But you know, just be aware of it. You're obviously
Speaker 2: aware of it. You know what's going on, So keep
Speaker 2: an eye on this thing here.
Speaker 10: I thought it was a rain clause until I came
Speaker 10: out of the gym. I thought, oh my god, they're black.
Speaker 3: Not a range quicker.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the kind of rain we get around here, we
Speaker 1: don't get clouds that big, not anymore.
Speaker 10: All right, Okay, well, good luck you guys.
Speaker 6: How was your workout? How was your workout?
Speaker 5: Okay?
Speaker 10: Thanks? Good good?
Speaker 6: Was it a cardio day or weights or what?
Speaker 7: No?
Speaker 10: I have to do both. It turns out I have osteoporosis.
Speaker 10: I didn't know. I'm a dancer. Then I do a
Speaker 10: ballet workout and I do kelenetics and I do just
Speaker 10: you know, but I never did the weight But now
Speaker 10: I have to do weight lifting because I had osteoporosis.
Speaker 1: So I'm trying a new ballet class this evening. I
Speaker 1: love I love the ballet. I love the stretching. Feels good,
Speaker 1: feels good.
Speaker 10: Where are you taking ballet.
Speaker 1: I take a zoom class with Miss Patricia, who actually
Speaker 1: lives in the Lake Hughes area, once a week, and
Speaker 1: then I'm taking.
Speaker 6: A couple of classes.
Speaker 1: I'm taking what Opacady and one in Long Beach as well.
Speaker 10: Wow, a lot of driving around.
Speaker 6: I will drive for ballet, you know, I will do that.
Speaker 7: Well.
Speaker 6: Good, good, good, Anya.
Speaker 1: I'm glad you got a good workout in fight that osteoporosa.
Speaker 3: Thank you appreciated, Thanks, thank you.
Speaker 2: The evacuation center has been set up at Valencia High School,
Speaker 2: which is on Dixon Drive there in Valencia, Valencia High
Speaker 2: School is up as an evacuation center. If you have animals,
Speaker 2: you can take them farther north, although I I'm not
Speaker 2: quite sure how you're going to get there just yet,
Speaker 2: unless you go down I five and back up and around.
Speaker 2: But in Lancaster and in Palmdale they have opened up
Speaker 2: animal evacuation centers animal shelters for you as well. We
Speaker 2: have been following the story out of the northern part
Speaker 2: of La County, the Hues fire burning your Castaic Lake.
Speaker 2: I five is actually shut down at Casteak at Parker
Speaker 2: Road I five northbound and then I five southbound, shut
Speaker 2: down at the one thirty eight as they try to
Speaker 2: control people through that area. The smoke is what is
Speaker 2: the most problematic in that area. The fire itself has
Speaker 2: encroached upon. If you think of Castaic Lake as a
Speaker 2: v it is around the right side, the east side
Speaker 2: of Castaic Lake, burning right up to the water in
Speaker 2: some of those areas. According to the new map that
Speaker 2: was just published, thirty four hundred acres thirty four hundred
Speaker 2: and seven specifically is what they're looking at right now.
Speaker 2: The evacuation center has been opened up at Valencia High School.
Speaker 2: There are several schools in the evacuation order area, including
Speaker 2: a Castaic High School. A couple of these schools that
Speaker 2: are between I five and the lake itself. So there
Speaker 2: are other areas North Lake Hills Elementary School, Castaic Elementary,
Speaker 2: Castaic Middle. All of those schools have been evacuated because
Speaker 2: of this fire.
Speaker 6: Grab your pets, grab what.
Speaker 1: They need, Grab your documents, your pharmacy stuff, your meds,
Speaker 1: cell phone chargers, if you've got one of those COVID
Speaker 1: masks around, those are coming in.
Speaker 6: Just don't wait. If we've learned anything the past few weeks,
Speaker 6: just don't even freaking wait.
Speaker 1: For that. The wind is just going to unfortunately get
Speaker 1: worse in that area coming up in the next hour.
Speaker 1: There is a high wind warning from two pm to
Speaker 1: ten pm for the Santa Monica Mountains and the Santa
Speaker 1: Clarita area.
Speaker 6: This is a wind driven I don't have to tell
Speaker 6: you that. If you've seen the pictures.
Speaker 1: The topography is very hard to get to for a
Speaker 1: ground cruise, which is why the air attack is so
Speaker 1: robust on this as well. The five does have some
Speaker 1: closures there, and I'm assuming that it's just going to
Speaker 1: get worse.
Speaker 6: I mean, it is just a solid red line there.
Speaker 1: If you're looking at SIG alert through the Castaic area there,
Speaker 1: you're not going to go anywhere anytime soon, and there
Speaker 1: will be more closures.
Speaker 2: That Pitches Detention Center exists in an evacuation warning area
Speaker 2: right now, but the understanding is that it is in
Speaker 2: the process of being evacuated. Also, just to give you
Speaker 2: an idea of how serious this is and how significant
Speaker 2: it is, we counted I kind of twelve helicopters above
Speaker 2: this fire, several air tankers that have come in. Again,
Speaker 2: one of the positives is that it is relatively close
Speaker 2: to Lancaster, so those fixed wing aircraft that need to
Speaker 2: go and resupply with water or fire retardant. They can
Speaker 2: do so over in Lancaster pretty quickly and then get
Speaker 2: back over the mountain the hills there and get over
Speaker 2: this fire. Eight hundred and five to two zero one
Speaker 2: five three four. Antonio is calling us from Oxnard. What's
Speaker 2: going on?
Speaker 3: Antonio?
Speaker 4: Hi, folks.
Speaker 8: Yes, I'm here at the off ramp of Venture Road
Speaker 8: in one oh one in Oxnard. We got ash snowing
Speaker 8: down on us and an ominous looking gray orange cloud.
Speaker 8: I told my son, he was asking, Hey, where's this
Speaker 8: coming from? And I told him it's the Huges fire.
Speaker 8: He couldn't believe that was coming from so far away.
Speaker 8: But yeah, snowing ashdown on us. I hope the best
Speaker 8: for those people over there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, awesome, Thank you for calling Antonio. Appreciate it. That's
Speaker 3: I mean, it's not awesome, but.
Speaker 1: That's like the sentiment you say awesome, the way I
Speaker 1: say interesting, interesting, that's awesome.
Speaker 3: It's awesome.
Speaker 6: We need to get back into Thesauruses that would be
Speaker 6: in the new year.
Speaker 3: Again.
Speaker 2: This Hughes fire mapped at just over thirty four hundred acres.
Speaker 2: Fire perimeter is mostly right along the I guess the
Speaker 2: eastern arm of Castaic Lake as it exists. It started
Speaker 2: right along Hughes Road Lake Hughes Road, and for the
Speaker 2: most part appears to have burned just to the south
Speaker 2: and to the west. There are a few places sort
Speaker 2: of the Red Mountain area Warm Springs Mountain, that are
Speaker 2: still threatened by this fire. And as much black smoke
Speaker 2: as we have seen black smoke being the active burning,
Speaker 2: we are seeing a lot of white smoke at least
Speaker 2: from the aerial shots where the fire that itself was
Speaker 2: subject to water drops by other helicopters.
Speaker 3: Or some of these fixed wing aircraft. So that is
Speaker 3: good news.
Speaker 6: Good news again too with the reservoir in the area.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, kidd in Casteak Lake is right there. You've
Speaker 2: got Pyramid Lake not too far away. The opportunity for helicopters,
Speaker 2: even those superscoopers. I don't know if there's enough runway
Speaker 2: there at Casteak for them to use, but at least
Speaker 2: the helicopters have an opportunity if it's not obscured by
Speaker 2: smoke too much to use water that happens to be
Speaker 2: right there for them to pick up and take care
Speaker 2: of this thing. There were other reports of other fires,
Speaker 2: in fact they're much farther south, but fires in the
Speaker 2: San Diego area that had cropped up over the last
Speaker 2: short period of time. So if those turn out to
Speaker 2: be anything, we will keep an eye on those. The
Speaker 2: red flag warning that we had seen that was supposed
Speaker 2: to expire last night has been expanded until tomorrow night,
Speaker 2: or extended, i should say. And as you mentioned, the
Speaker 2: expectation is we're going to see some more gusts wind
Speaker 2: wise this afternoon, they.
Speaker 1: Said, from two to ten in the Santa Monica Mountains
Speaker 1: as well as the Santa Clarita area, you're going to
Speaker 1: have wins about forty miles per hour GUS to fifty
Speaker 1: five from two pm to ten pm, and then after
Speaker 1: ten pm the GUS becomes stronger up to sixty miles
Speaker 1: an hour. So that is why they are trying to
Speaker 1: contend with this thing on their own time right now
Speaker 1: before those winds pick up even more again. It is
Speaker 1: going to be a mess on the five all afternoon
Speaker 1: into the evening, really more so than usual. When you
Speaker 1: say mess on the five, it's like, yeah, thanks, obviously,
Speaker 1: but even more so as you can imagine today.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I five closed at Parker Road headed northbound again,
Speaker 2: that's usually where they would close it in the event
Speaker 2: of a severe winter storm where there's going to be
Speaker 2: snow at the top the grape vine.
Speaker 3: So there is a turnaround.
Speaker 2: There's a traffic turnaround that's available to them there if
Speaker 2: they've opened that up. That's northbound and then southbound. If
Speaker 2: you're coming back to LA from parts North, you're going
Speaker 2: to be stopped at the one thirty eight and they'll
Speaker 2: make you either wait or turn around.
Speaker 3: It looks like that's going to be in effect for
Speaker 3: several hours.
Speaker 1: Like you said, that Lake Hughes Road exit right there
Speaker 1: looks awful. I mean, it is, just it's one of
Speaker 1: those things where you're trapped. You're like trapped on that
Speaker 1: off ramp there and there's nowhere really to go.
Speaker 2: And everything to the right of that, I mean everything
Speaker 2: to the east of that exit, that's all under an
Speaker 2: evacuation order anyway. So it's not like you can go
Speaker 2: hang out at a restaurant and kill kill some time there.
Speaker 2: So all right, John will continue coverage, as will the
Speaker 2: KFI newsroom continue coverage of the Hughes fire up in
Speaker 2: the the Castaic Lake area. And again all you can
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