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Speaker 2: We have another fast moving fire that is expanding pretty quickly.
Speaker 2: This is up in the Castaic Lake area, right off
Speaker 2: of Lake Hughes Road. There have already been a couple
Speaker 2: of evacuation warnings that have been sent out.
Speaker 3: If funer.
Speaker 2: Castake Lake is right alongside I five as it heads
Speaker 2: north up towards the Grapevine. The fire itself is said
Speaker 2: to be on both sides of Lake Hughes Road, and
Speaker 2: as of right now, the evacuation warning areas are basically
Speaker 2: the entire perimeter of Castaic Lake over towards I five
Speaker 2: down into the four Bay area. So there's a bunch
Speaker 2: of homes, some of the businesses right there in Castaic
Speaker 2: on the right side the east side of the freeway
Speaker 2: that are under evacuation warnings as of now. They said
Speaker 2: that there is considered to be a pretty rapid rate
Speaker 2: of spread. It's simply fifty to one hundred acres as
Speaker 2: of a few minutes ago, and they are requesting at
Speaker 2: least four air tankers. Again, the Hughes fire burning on
Speaker 2: both sides of Lake Hughes Road, just to the northeast
Speaker 2: of Castaic Lake. If you're on I five, you're headed
Speaker 2: north or you're coming into La headed south, you're going
Speaker 2: to see this smoke.
Speaker 3: It is pretty significant and will cover I five.
Speaker 2: The smoke will cover I five over the course of
Speaker 2: the next couple of hours.
Speaker 1: Probably, would you like your Jeopardy question before we dive
Speaker 1: into the flurry of activity going on in Washington? Winners
Speaker 1: for one thousand dollars. In nineteen ninety three, she became
Speaker 1: the first African American woman to win the Nobel Prize
Speaker 1: for literature.
Speaker 3: Uh what year?
Speaker 1: Ninety three?
Speaker 3: Maya Angelou?
Speaker 1: Yeah, Tony Morrison.
Speaker 2: There were three may Angelou, Alice Walker, Tony Moore, and
Speaker 2: we're going to be the three that I was gonna choose.
Speaker 1: Well, okay, next time you can just we can do
Speaker 1: multiple choice.
Speaker 3: If you'd like. Okay, that would be great. Again.
Speaker 2: We will keep an eye on the hues fire burning
Speaker 2: up northern La County right alongside a Casteak Lake. Looks
Speaker 2: like they've updated one of those evacuation warnings into an
Speaker 2: evacuation order. This will be a BA on the northern
Speaker 2: sections of Casteak Lake. There's not a lot out there,
Speaker 2: so there's not a lot of people to evacuate. But
Speaker 2: if you're in that Casteak Lake State Recreation Area north
Speaker 2: of the lake, they are. They have upgraded that to
Speaker 2: an evacuation order, which means you.
Speaker 3: Got to get out, all right.
Speaker 1: Well, the president's decision to pardon just f and part
Speaker 1: on them all is still getting a lot of reaction,
Speaker 1: shall we say, on Capitol Hill in the lake is
Speaker 1: where we kick off swamp.
Speaker 3: Watch politician, which means I'm a cheat and a liar.
Speaker 3: And when I'm not kissing babies, I'm still in their lollipops.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we got The real problem is that our leaders
Speaker 4: are done.
Speaker 1: The other side never quits what.
Speaker 4: I'm not going anywhere.
Speaker 5: So that is how you train the swat.
Speaker 3: I can imagine what can be and be unburdened by
Speaker 3: what has been. You know, Americans have always been gone
Speaker 3: at present.
Speaker 4: They're not stupid.
Speaker 2: A political flunder is when a politician actually tells the truth.
Speaker 3: Whether people voted for you werena swap watch, They're all
Speaker 3: counted on.
Speaker 1: I said this earlier and I stand by it. I
Speaker 1: do believe that there was too much too many details
Speaker 1: going on to take all of these January sixth rioters
Speaker 1: or protesters, whatever you want to call them, on a
Speaker 1: case by case basis. I think that everyone kind of
Speaker 1: comes down on the idea that if you attacked police
Speaker 1: officers that day, you should not be pardoned, especially violent attacks.
Speaker 1: But that was not the case. There was just too
Speaker 1: much to go through. I think for a president who
Speaker 1: has no tension span to take things case by case,
Speaker 1: it's onerous. It takes a long time. But anyway, you
Speaker 1: meant at the time when we were talking about this
Speaker 1: earlier that now all the people who have been pardoned,
Speaker 1: especially the people who carried out violence on police officers,
Speaker 1: kind of have a giant arrow pointing to their head
Speaker 1: as they move forward in their lives by media outlets
Speaker 1: or what have you. Let's not forget law enforcement. In fact,
Speaker 1: the first person has already been a victim of this,
Speaker 1: shall we say, I don't like to call them victims,
Speaker 1: but has fallen to this way of thinking. This was
Speaker 1: a defendant from January sixth, whose felony assault charges were
Speaker 1: dismissed yesterday. He has now been arrested on federal gun
Speaker 1: charges today. They have been pending for nearly two years
Speaker 1: in Florida. His name is Danielle or Daniel Ball, excuse me,
Speaker 1: one of the hundreds charged with violence aimed at police,
Speaker 1: and he was pardoned. His charges were dismissed because of
Speaker 1: President Trump. More than a thousand people were pardoned well.
Speaker 1: He was being held in preach trial detention in DC
Speaker 1: because of what a magistrate judge described as some of
Speaker 1: the most violent and serious offenses of any of the
Speaker 1: charges being brought against people there. January sixth, He's charged
Speaker 1: with hurling an explosive device into the Lower West Terrace,
Speaker 1: which was packed in that tunnel of the capital. The explosion,
Speaker 1: the magistrate judge says, allegedly disoriented officers caused hearing loss.
Speaker 1: Some of the officers had this hearing loss for months.
Speaker 1: He threw a large piece of wood into the line
Speaker 1: of officers protecting the capital. He was a felon in
Speaker 1: possession of a firearm.
Speaker 2: And by the way, this is whether the President decided
Speaker 2: to do this at last minute or not. He's going
Speaker 2: to get heat from his own party. He doesn't care.
Speaker 2: Clearly he doesn't care. But there are Republican lawmakers who
Speaker 2: have come out. Jerry Moran Republican senator out of Kansas.
Speaker 2: It's wrong to pardon individuals convicted of violent crime, especially
Speaker 2: if many of the victims were law enforcement officers. Bill Cassidy,
Speaker 2: Republican Louisiana. It's not right people who assault police officers.
Speaker 2: If they do the crime, they should do the time.
Speaker 2: Lisa Murkowski, SU's in Collins. More moderate members of the
Speaker 2: Republican Party said that they do not support pardons for
Speaker 2: people convicted of violent crimes. Tom Tillis out of North Carolina.
Speaker 2: These are some of the more conservative though. He had
Speaker 2: concerns with any pardon for people who do harm to
Speaker 2: a police officer full stop, and said the pardon of
Speaker 2: anybody committed who committed violence against an officer is a
Speaker 2: bad idea. Mitch McConnell, no one should excuse violence, and
Speaker 2: particularly violence against police officers.
Speaker 3: He's going to have to answer.
Speaker 2: I think the President is going to be asked about
Speaker 2: some of these specific offenders and the violence that they
Speaker 2: are accused of and in many places, many times convicted
Speaker 2: of perpetrating against police officers, the specifics, and I don't
Speaker 2: know how he gets away from these.
Speaker 3: Listen.
Speaker 2: I know the January sixth Committee did away with the evidence.
Speaker 2: And but we're talking about people who are convicted in
Speaker 2: courts of law, not in Congress. Some of them may
Speaker 2: have been brought up and testified before Congress, but we're
Speaker 2: talking about people who who were convicted in courts of law,
Speaker 2: and in many cases simply admitted to their behavior, admitted
Speaker 2: to what they did, and they were still pardoned. This
Speaker 2: Hue fire, by the way, burning near Castaic is now
Speaker 2: up over five hundred acres. That was quick and it's
Speaker 2: not going to be out anytime soon. This Hughes fire
Speaker 2: is burning at Lake Hughes Road and Dry Gulch Road.
Speaker 3: It is sort of just north east of Castaic Lake.
Speaker 2: The smoke plume from this thing is making its way
Speaker 2: all the way out to the coast. It is over
Speaker 2: I five as you head north up towards the Grapevine.
Speaker 2: It's going to be visible very very for a very
Speaker 2: large distance. We know that they have already asked for
Speaker 2: at least four Now they're saying an additional eight helicopters
Speaker 2: have been asked for fires about five hundred acres with
Speaker 2: a continued rapid rate of spread, burning to the west
Speaker 2: with strong winds. Incident Command says that there is one
Speaker 2: evacuation order area and that is right around Casteak Lake,
Speaker 2: basically the borders of Casteak Lake. If you're in that area,
Speaker 2: you know what's going on. This is Lake Hughes area.
Speaker 2: That is that it's encroaching upon cast Diak. It's Lake
Speaker 2: Hughes Road, right.
Speaker 1: Because Lake Hughes is right underneath or Casteak Lake is
Speaker 1: right underneath Lake Hughes, right, correct.
Speaker 3: But Hughes is up.
Speaker 1: Isn't it farther up into the mountains, right? But isn't
Speaker 1: it it's coming towards Castile. Oh, it's coming towards Castagk
Speaker 1: I got it.
Speaker 2: Okay, Yeah, And that is I mean, like I said,
Speaker 2: there's not a lot of homes on the north and
Speaker 2: east side of Casteak Lake, but there are a bunch
Speaker 2: along the west side between the lake and I five,
Speaker 2: and those those areas between the lake and I five
Speaker 2: for the most part, that's evacuation warned.
Speaker 1: Tailor place Martens.
Speaker 2: Yeah, some of those, some of those homes that are
Speaker 2: in that area, you might want to be paying a
Speaker 2: time to what's going on. Maybe get ready, But the
Speaker 2: evacuation order is only for the northern side for the
Speaker 2: most part. Those two arms, the northern arms of Castaic Lake.
Speaker 2: But it's getting bigger and there are a handful of
Speaker 2: things that could burn pretty significantly. So anyway, Hughes fire
Speaker 2: five hundred plus acres north of Casteak Reservoir Casteak Lake
Speaker 2: and moving to the west, is.
Speaker 3: What they're saying right now. So we'll keep an eye
Speaker 3: on this.
Speaker 1: It has taken off. Evacuation warnings have been issued Bitter Canyon,
Speaker 1: Charlie Canyon, Castaic Lake as well.
Speaker 2: Just about every area immediately bordering Castaic Lake is now
Speaker 2: under an evacuation order, and that includes the area between
Speaker 2: the lake and I five, so the Martins Naylor Place area,
Speaker 2: and as you get closer down towards the dam and
Speaker 2: the Castake Lagoon. There is at least one elementary school
Speaker 2: that is in that area, the North Lake Hills Elementary School,
Speaker 2: and there's a series of neighborhoods that are down there
Speaker 2: also that are likely going to be under evacuation orders.
Speaker 2: This smoke is clearly visible. If you're in the Santa
Speaker 2: Clarita Valley, you can see it. We've also gotten some
Speaker 2: calls from people who said they can see it as
Speaker 2: far away as the four or five one eighteen intersection
Speaker 2: on the of San Fernando Valley side of the hills.
Speaker 1: Rapid rate of spread. There are what's being described as
Speaker 1: heavy spotting. You know what that means, a number of
Speaker 1: spot fires aside from the major ignition point there. This
Speaker 1: thing has taken off. I mean it was fifty acres
Speaker 1: and then it was five hundred.
Speaker 2: Yeah, very very quick. We first got word of it
Speaker 2: just a short time ago. It was fifty to one hundred.
Speaker 2: It's gone up to five hundred plus. That number is
Speaker 2: going to likely it will likely expand pretty significantly. They
Speaker 2: said that the fire has reportedly spotted a cross castagg
Speaker 2: light to the west side of the l which is
Speaker 2: right near the Old Ridge Route road, will likely impact
Speaker 2: I five at some point. The smoke is clearly impacting
Speaker 2: I five, and you could see from some of the
Speaker 2: from the firewatch cameras it that it has covered. It's
Speaker 2: not down to the level of the freeway. So traffic
Speaker 2: is still running right now on I five, but again,
Speaker 2: evacuation orders and warnings issued right around Castaic Lake. Everywhere
Speaker 2: immediately bordering the lake is currently under an evacuation order
Speaker 2: as of right now, and then several areas nearby are
Speaker 2: also under evacuation warnings. If you've gotten the alert, we've
Speaker 2: done this role. We've done this before, even people in
Speaker 2: that area have done this before. Where if you are
Speaker 2: under the evacuation warning, the expectation is that you're going
Speaker 2: to be packed and ready to go. You do not
Speaker 2: have to wait for that order. Now you feel like
Speaker 2: you need to get out, you can absolutely get out.
Speaker 5: Man.
Speaker 1: If I learned anything from these fires, it's just don't
Speaker 1: even wait.
Speaker 2: They had requested originally four helicopters. That request was bumped
Speaker 2: by eight more, so they're expecting a lot of air
Speaker 2: fight on this I guess. One of the positives is
Speaker 2: that it's pretty close to Lancaster, which is where they
Speaker 2: do run a lot of the larger air tankers out of.
Speaker 3: It's a quick turnaround for them to get there and back.
Speaker 1: Incident Command one minute ago requested evacuation orders from Lake
Speaker 1: Hughes Road to Templan Highway as well, so.
Speaker 3: That's up farther to the north r SB cast Dick.
Speaker 2: But again, this thing is pretty huge and is getting
Speaker 2: quicker as rapidly expanding. You mentioned Incident command and the
Speaker 2: evacuation zones. There are a couple of different ways that
Speaker 2: you can follow along, and we've talked about them before.
Speaker 2: At the beginning of the fires, we talked about the
Speaker 2: watch Duty app, which has been an invaluable resource not
Speaker 2: just for people who have been impacted by the fires,
Speaker 2: but people looking for information about the fires. The other
Speaker 2: one is the Genesis app with an A, G, E,
Speaker 2: N A s YS Genesis that will help you figure
Speaker 2: out which evacuation zone you are in.
Speaker 3: I mean they're names.
Speaker 2: There's letters in the cas Bitter Canyon and Lace zero
Speaker 2: one six. I mean, it doesn't mean anything if I
Speaker 2: tell you that zone because very few people know what
Speaker 2: they're in. But you can find out very quickly which
Speaker 2: zone you're in. That will then alert you immediately if
Speaker 2: you're in a zone that needs to get out as
Speaker 2: quickly as possible. The Hughes Fire burning on Lake Hughes
Speaker 2: Road near Castaic Lake and is burning towards the west
Speaker 2: towards the lake again some reports that there may be
Speaker 2: some spotting on the west side of the lake.
Speaker 3: Already.
Speaker 2: There's some neighborhoods along the west side of Castaic Lake
Speaker 2: before it gets to I five and those places are
Speaker 2: all under evacuation orders as of right now we.
Speaker 1: Will stay on top of this fast moving fire. There.
Speaker 1: They're calling at the hues fire evacuations ordered, and this
Speaker 1: thing does not show any signs of slowing down anytime soon.
Speaker 1: We'll stay on top of it right here.
Speaker 2: There were some other stories that were going on today,
Speaker 2: specifically one out of Nashville. A couple students were killed
Speaker 2: another student injured after a shooting inside a high school.
Speaker 2: There in one of the suburbs of Nashville, a couple
Speaker 2: students shot by another in the cafeteria.
Speaker 1: It was a seventeen year old shooter that killed himself
Speaker 1: after shooting and killing a female student. Two others were
Speaker 1: injured there at Antioch High School. They're being treated at
Speaker 1: Vanderbilt University Medical Center. They say there were two school
Speaker 1: resource officers in the building when the shooting happened, but
Speaker 1: they were not in the immediate vicinity of the cafeteria
Speaker 1: where this all went down. By the time they got there,
Speaker 1: all the shooting had been stopped.
Speaker 2: I'm counting about a dozen fixed wing and as many
Speaker 2: as seven helicopters over This fire that is burning near
Speaker 2: Castaic Lake is a pretty large fire, somewhere between five
Speaker 2: hundred and one thousand acres have burned in what they're
Speaker 2: calling the Hughes Fire. Fire itself started near Lake Hughes Road,
Speaker 2: which is just sorry, yeah, north and east of Castaic Lake.
Speaker 2: The evacuation order area is the entire lake itself, the
Speaker 2: areas that immediately border the shoreline of the lake, and
Speaker 2: then an area just north of it as well that
Speaker 2: have been ordered evacuated. It goes basically from one side
Speaker 2: of Castaic Lake all the way to the west towards
Speaker 2: I five under evacuation orders right now, those.
Speaker 1: Warnings are in place for like you were saying, a
Speaker 1: circular area. Basically every place in the media vicinity of
Speaker 1: Castaic Lake under mandatory evacuation orders, so Sloane Canyon, Charlie Canyon,
Speaker 1: Bitter Canyon, stretching nearly to Samberg if you know, the
Speaker 1: area on the north and as far east as far
Speaker 1: east of Green Valley.
Speaker 2: So if you go up five and you get past
Speaker 2: sort of where the Hungry Valley off road area is.
Speaker 2: One thirty eight is the road that splits off to
Speaker 2: the east and goes out towards Lancaster, et cetera. The
Speaker 2: evacuation orders don't go all the way that far, but
Speaker 2: the warnings do go up to the one thirty eight,
Speaker 2: So this whole thing, the expectation is that it's going
Speaker 2: to get much larger before they have a chance to
Speaker 2: put this thing under control. The fire, the smoke itself.
Speaker 2: We've been getting calls from people who have seen it
Speaker 2: way out the one twenty six. There's a couple shots
Speaker 2: on social media on Twitter already of buildings in downtown
Speaker 2: LA that they can see the smoke plume from this fire.
Speaker 2: It's that large, which on the one hand, is an
Speaker 2: indicator of how big the fire is, but on the
Speaker 2: other it means perhaps that the wind is not as
Speaker 2: dangerous as it could be.
Speaker 3: Still blowing.
Speaker 2: We're still under our red flag warning obviously, but compare
Speaker 2: that to what we saw in the Palisades fire when
Speaker 2: it started. That fire didn't rise very high because the
Speaker 2: wind was blowing its so quickly. Once it would get
Speaker 2: into the into the sky.
Speaker 1: This thing went from fifty acres to five hundred like that.
Speaker 1: It's got quite the rum way, a lot of area
Speaker 1: to chow through there for this fire.
Speaker 3: But yeah, like you.
Speaker 1: Said, the winds are not what we saw. Just a
Speaker 1: lot of fuel up there as well.
Speaker 3: To give you an idea. Again.
Speaker 2: The evacuation orders are all around Castac Lake if you
Speaker 2: are anywhere close to the lake itself. Those neighborhoods that
Speaker 2: are kind of wedged between I five and the Castak
Speaker 2: Lagoon just below the dam, those are all under evacuation
Speaker 2: orders as of right now. Several businesses that are right
Speaker 2: there Alongstak Castak Road, the Old Ridge Route as it
Speaker 2: winds its way through Castak before going up the hill,
Speaker 2: all of those areas under evacuation order right now.
Speaker 1: You see some DC tens up there, which is nice
Speaker 1: to see. You've also got a lot of lower flying
Speaker 1: aircraft dropping water on this as well that you're not
Speaker 1: going to see from the overhead pictures.
Speaker 2: The winds in the area right now, they said current
Speaker 2: wind gusts right around thirty miles an hour in Castak Junction,
Speaker 2: but also in the Santa Clarita, the Greater Santa Clarita area.
Speaker 2: So they have not yet said that they are going
Speaker 2: to be closing I five, but it is going to
Speaker 2: be impacted clearly by the smoke from this fire. They
Speaker 2: just also expanded the evacuation warning areas to the west side.
Speaker 3: Of I five.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I see Gorman Well five Golden State. Gorman area
Speaker 1: has been issued a warning there. They're now saying that
Speaker 1: this thing is estimated about one thousand acres. So this
Speaker 1: is how quick it's moving.
Speaker 3: Hughes Fire.
Speaker 2: It's burning in Castaic Lake area along Lake Hughes Road,
Speaker 2: which goes from Castak up over the hill towards Lancaster.
Speaker 2: About halfway up that road is where this fire is
Speaker 2: believed to have started more than an hour ago. The
Speaker 2: evacuation orders exist around the entire lake of Castaic Lake
Speaker 2: and then an outer perimeter there of evacuation warning. So
Speaker 2: basically from where this fire started on the east side
Speaker 2: of Castaic Lake all the way over to I five,
Speaker 2: even if you're on the west side of I five,
Speaker 2: you're currently under an evacuation warning.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it would make sense since they were worried about
Speaker 1: that Sandberg area right there in the Lake Hughes templan
Speaker 1: Highway portion right there north of Castaic Lake, it would
Speaker 1: make sense that Gorman would be under a warning. I
Speaker 1: mean that's pretty close to the I five right there,
Speaker 1: Samberg area, it's close.
Speaker 2: Enough, and there's one thirty eight nothing there to slow
Speaker 2: it down, right, So from Castaic Lake all the way
Speaker 2: to Pyramid Lake, our evacuation orders or warnings. Lake Hughes
Speaker 2: Road itself is closed in both directions. Hey, if you're
Speaker 2: up there, give us a shout.
Speaker 3: Yeah, let us know.
Speaker 2: In fact, if you can see this, why not give
Speaker 2: us a call at eight hundred five two zero one
Speaker 2: five three four eight hundred five to two oh one KFI.
Speaker 2: Keeping an eye on the Hughes fire burning near Casteak Lake,
Speaker 2: north of the Casteak Reservoir. That's their evacuation orders and
Speaker 2: warnings have been issued again. We have advised many times
Speaker 2: to download that watch Duty app let let you know
Speaker 2: if you are in one of those evacuation warning or
Speaker 2: order areas, or even the Genesis app g e NA SYS,
Speaker 2: because those are two great apps that will keep you updated.
Speaker 2: We are keeping an eye on the Hughes fire. This
Speaker 2: is burning up in the Casteak Lake area. And as
Speaker 2: we mentioned, the evacuation orders have expanded once again. And
Speaker 2: this is significant because the new evacuation orders are for
Speaker 2: the west side of I five along the Parker Road
Speaker 2: area Sloane Canyon Road. That's going to include a couple
Speaker 2: of schools, including Casteak High School. Also along the Hillcrest Parkway.
Speaker 2: If you know all those neighborhoods that are there just
Speaker 2: off of I five and the Old Road, the Cambridge area,
Speaker 2: in the Hasley Canyon Road area. That's a few thousand
Speaker 2: people probably that that effects. So again, the evacuation orders
Speaker 2: because of this fire near Castagg Lake have expanded to
Speaker 2: the west side of I five. We've seen a bunch
Speaker 2: of people say that they can see the fire itself.
Speaker 3: In fact, Matt is in Santa Clarita. He joins us. Now, Matt,
Speaker 3: what do you see?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I see the mainly the planning front burning towards
Speaker 5: probably like northeast. I would say, you can see four
Speaker 5: six wing aircraft making Pauschek drops. Now, winds blowing mainly
Speaker 5: to the west southwest.
Speaker 2: Do you get the idea that that's the direction the
Speaker 2: fire itself is going is to the west.
Speaker 5: No, I think it's burning more towards the northeast. The
Speaker 5: winds are blowing the smoke.
Speaker 6: To the south.
Speaker 5: US They've shifted a little bit, you know, over the
Speaker 5: past ten or fifteen minutes, but predominantly they're going southwest.
Speaker 3: Yeah, all right, yeah, go ahead.
Speaker 5: No, I'm saying that the flames, just the flaming front
Speaker 5: seems to be moving more towards the northeast, and I
Speaker 5: count for fixed wing aircraft they can flash check drops
Speaker 5: right now on the flaming front. I can see flames
Speaker 5: from where I am, but the firefighters seem to be
Speaker 5: getting a pretty good hold hold on it. I mean,
Speaker 5: I'm not a firefighter, but I can I can see
Speaker 5: progress being made.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they were quick to jump on that air attack
Speaker 1: there with several different of the smaller firefighting aircraft of
Speaker 1: flying lower to the ground there. The spot fires, while problematic,
Speaker 1: are not as problematic as when we saw the spot
Speaker 1: at least at this point when we saw the spot
Speaker 1: fires and the palisades, because every spot fire you saw
Speaker 1: when you're not in wild land is I don't know,
Speaker 1: a neighborhood, and so this is definitely steep and rocky
Speaker 1: terrain they're dealing with. But for right now they've been
Speaker 1: able to contain this thing to that wild land area
Speaker 1: as they fight this thing from the sky. But yeah,
Speaker 1: five hundred acres presently they say, some estimates are up
Speaker 1: to one thousand. No containment obviously whatsoever. And they do
Speaker 1: have the big DC tens out there spreading that retardant
Speaker 1: trying to stop the spread of what seems to be
Speaker 1: a fire that just took off with a vengeance.
Speaker 2: Eight hundred five to zero one five three four. Eric
Speaker 2: is in Santa Clarita as well. Eric, What do you
Speaker 2: have going on?
Speaker 4: Yeah, we just pushed out from work where up by
Speaker 4: the one twenty six and Commerce Center Drive or what
Speaker 4: twenty sixth and Commerce Center Drive we left. The smoke
Speaker 4: was starting to head towards our building. So it's coming
Speaker 4: towards coming towards the one twenty sixth a little bit.
Speaker 4: The smoke was really bad. I saw the smoke started
Speaker 4: the change directing a little bit and exactly what map
Speaker 4: that I see the DC tents pulling off right now.
Speaker 4: I'm headed into I'm headed into San Franciscito right now.
Speaker 4: It looks like it's still open. Some lust for that, Yeah,
Speaker 4: but there is a lot of white smoke to the
Speaker 4: other side, and so the that's right, they're attacking it
Speaker 4: really really well, a lot of white.
Speaker 3: Smoke on that side that San Franciscito the other direction, yeap, Eric.
Speaker 2: That San Franciscito that you're talking about it but does
Speaker 2: border one of the evacuation warning areas. As you get
Speaker 2: deeper up into the Bitter Canyon area out towards the
Speaker 2: old Saint Francis Dam, so just be aware of that. Again,
Speaker 2: the evacuation orders have expanded to the west side of
Speaker 2: I five, So if you are if you're along that's
Speaker 2: Sloan Canyon Road or the Hillcrest Drive. Chance this is
Speaker 2: our Hillcrest Parkway. I should say you are likely in
Speaker 2: an evacuation order area. There's an elementary school and a
Speaker 2: middle school, Castak Elementary, Castaic Middle School, Castaic High School
Speaker 2: are all under those evacuation order areas. So those kids,
Speaker 2: I mean, listen, teachers, administrators, they know what they're doing
Speaker 2: because they have They've lived in fire country for a while.
Speaker 2: I do believe this is the first evacuation that Castaic
Speaker 2: High School has headed, because it's a newer multiple.
Speaker 1: Schools right now as we speak, being evacuated. As you
Speaker 1: mentioned with those latest orders.
Speaker 2: Candy is calling from Valencia. Candy, what do you see?
Speaker 5: Well, I was at the pharmacy. Valencia is also on
Speaker 5: fire and nobody I can't find any reports. I'm in
Speaker 5: my car driving to work, but.
Speaker 4: It's all black. To sack is not black.
Speaker 5: It's white smoke. But it's supposed to be by Valencia
Speaker 5: High School.
Speaker 3: Are you saying there is a fire near Valencia High School?
Speaker 5: Yeah, and it's all black.
Speaker 2: I think you may be seeing what we're talking about,
Speaker 2: this Hues fire.
Speaker 1: There is no fire near Valencia right now. There's definitely
Speaker 1: a black sky near Valencia Industrial Center there, but yeah, no,
Speaker 1: this is the active fire that we're dealing with. The
Speaker 1: Hues fire there north and moving towards the east. It
Speaker 1: seems like of Castaic Lake. There several different communities along
Speaker 1: Eye five under warnings or mandatory evacuation orders as well.
Speaker 1: They've got strike teams in these rural neighborhoods there. They
Speaker 1: were quick to order at least ten strike teams, ten
Speaker 1: task force units, a dozen of those water tenders that
Speaker 1: you're probably not going to see if you're watching aerial
Speaker 1: coverage because the smoke is so thick and so high
Speaker 1: up in the air and these fly relatively low to
Speaker 1: the ground. The water tenders, they are there, they are
Speaker 1: on the scene. They were ordered more than an hour ago.
Speaker 1: You will see the DC tens, however, that keep a
Speaker 1: higher elevation as they try to blanket the unburned areas
Speaker 1: with retardant to kind of force this thing back onto itself.
Speaker 2: Antonio is calling from Santa Clarita. Antonio, what do you see?
Speaker 6: Uh? Yeah, I was coming into work and I gotta
Speaker 6: get off of McBean, like two exits before Magic Mountain
Speaker 6: and there's the hills like maybe half an hour a
Speaker 6: mile if that. They're starting to small puckets of fires
Speaker 6: or white smoke that I don't know if it's part
Speaker 6: of the bigger I could see the bigger fire beyond
Speaker 6: the ridge, but there's a it's definitely coming this way.
Speaker 6: The wind is blowing up McBean towards the I five,
Speaker 6: so it's bringing the smoke kind of this way towards
Speaker 6: Santa Clarita area. So I don't know if the fire
Speaker 6: is traveling this way or that. It's like I would
Speaker 6: say half a mile if that from the Henry Mell Hospital.
Speaker 3: Awesome, all right, Antonio, thanks for your report.
Speaker 1: Awesome.
Speaker 2: Well, I mean, well, I don't know how you even
Speaker 2: they have He mentioned one of the guys mentioned that
Speaker 2: he was at that industrial center that is along the
Speaker 2: one twenty six and I five and that is now
Speaker 2: under an evacuation warning, as is that whole Live Oak
Speaker 2: area of Valverde that's deeper into the Canyon there on
Speaker 2: the west side. All of those areas now under evacuation
Speaker 2: warnings or orders.
Speaker 1: There is from the National Weather Service a high wind
Speaker 1: warning for the Santa Clarita Valley in effect from two
Speaker 1: this afternoon to ten pm this evening. They say a
Speaker 1: high wind warning in effect from ten this evening to
Speaker 1: two pm tomorrow. They say northeast winds and that's what
Speaker 1: we're seeing right fifteen to thirty miles per hour with
Speaker 1: GUS of forty five this evening GUS to fifty five
Speaker 1: for the high wind warning. After ten northeast winds thirty
Speaker 1: five to fifty miles per hour GUS to sixty five. Again,
Speaker 1: this is for the Santa Clarida Valley and western Santa
Speaker 1: Monica Mountains wreck area.
Speaker 2: As of right now, it still appears that I five,
Speaker 2: both directions through Castaic and points north, are open, but
Speaker 2: that could change because on both sides of the freeway
Speaker 2: right there in Castaic, especially right at the Parker Road exit,
Speaker 2: both sides of I five are under evacuation orders at Castaic,
Speaker 2: Parker Road, Lake Hughes Road. And again, I don't know
Speaker 2: how long I five is going to be open, but
Speaker 2: as of right now, it is open, so we will
Speaker 2: keep an eye on this again. The Hughes fire burning
Speaker 2: up in the Castake Lake area. Several areas and several
Speaker 2: hundred homes and a few schools under evacuation orders.
Speaker 1: Bridge Route Road now looks like it has spread to
Speaker 1: the west side of Ridge Route Road. This is definitely
Speaker 1: a fire to be concerned about, and we will stay
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