Speaker 1: This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI
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Speaker 1: City history. More than one hundred excuse me, one thousand
Speaker 1: structures destroyed, obviously by and large homes. You can bet
Speaker 1: a thousand homes have been destroyed in the Palisades.
Speaker 2: We're going to get lucky if that number stays what
Speaker 2: it is. And that sounds weird, but I mean, you
Speaker 2: compare it to some of the more destructive wildfires that
Speaker 2: we've seen in the state of California, and it is
Speaker 2: the tunnel fire that I mentioned from the Oakland Hills
Speaker 2: back in nineteen ninety one. They're about twenty nine hundred
Speaker 2: structures that burned. The campfire up in Paradise, more than
Speaker 2: eighteen thousand structures burned.
Speaker 3: And this is.
Speaker 2: As this smoke clears, as we do get more firefighting
Speaker 2: air resources up there to map this thing, to go
Speaker 2: through and to you know, once they can get their
Speaker 2: heads above water basically pardon the pun, and get it
Speaker 2: into those neighborhoods and go house by house to see
Speaker 2: the destruction. I mean, I don't know how that number
Speaker 2: doesn't go up.
Speaker 1: You're just seeing the shock and people's faces and people's
Speaker 1: eyes because a lot of people, especially in the Altadena area,
Speaker 1: I mean the Palisades initially, yes, same thing where they
Speaker 1: were not even given time to be told to get out.
Speaker 1: They had to get out before any sort of evacuation
Speaker 1: warning or orner was even given, because that thing took
Speaker 1: off so quickly and just blasted down the mountain there,
Speaker 1: which is why Palisades Drive was overrun, which is why
Speaker 1: cars were abandoned, which is why the fire service had
Speaker 1: to bulldoze them out of the way to get up
Speaker 1: to fight that thing with what they could do at
Speaker 1: a fire burning that angrily Alta Dina as well Alta
Speaker 1: Dina overnight. That fire erupted about six thirty seven o'clock,
Speaker 1: and man, it took off quicker than people knew knew
Speaker 1: about it. We heard from Ernest earlier in the show
Speaker 1: who said, you know, yeah, we knew there was a
Speaker 1: fire nearby, but we went to bed. We woke up,
Speaker 1: the embers were flying at the bedroom window.
Speaker 3: We walk out.
Speaker 1: Everything's on fire, both sides of the alley, all the
Speaker 1: homes on the block. We just grab what we could
Speaker 1: I yelled fire, We got the hell out of there.
Speaker 1: I think a lot of people are in complete shock still.
Speaker 1: And some of those people went back to their neighborhoods
Speaker 1: and their home was completely gone. They're telling people that
Speaker 1: if you don't have to go to work, stay home.
Speaker 1: If you can stay home, get off the roads, let
Speaker 1: the firefighters and the incoming firefighters get to where they
Speaker 1: need to be when you're looking at all, whether it's
Speaker 1: Silmar or the Palisades, Alzadina or anywhere in between those places.
Speaker 1: Door dash services have been suspended in areas including the Palisades,
Speaker 1: Santa Monica, Westwood, Brentwood, Calabasas, Pasadena, San Fernando, Santa Clarita,
Speaker 1: Northridge because they understand the importance of staying off the
Speaker 1: roads and letting the emergency vehicles wherever they need to be.
Speaker 2: Just saw on X that Governor Newsom has deployed the
Speaker 2: California National Guard. They will work alongside cal Fire to
Speaker 2: get through what is going to be very tough several days.
Speaker 2: The California National Guard disaster response in emergency preparedness, they
Speaker 2: train for things like this. They're not just going in
Speaker 2: there willy nilly. They're also not going to be Hopefully
Speaker 2: they don't have to be the frontline defenders when it
Speaker 2: comes to actually fighting the fires, but they do receive
Speaker 2: training to fight brush fires, including fire training courses during emergencies. Obviously,
Speaker 2: National guardsmen can also support operations like security logistics during
Speaker 2: major fires like this. So the National Guard has been
Speaker 2: called in to assist in all of the first responders,
Speaker 2: to assist with all of the other first responders and
Speaker 2: the duties that.
Speaker 3: They have in front of them.
Speaker 1: Malibu is not getting a lot of attention, but certain
Speaker 1: areas of Malibu have been wiped out completely as well.
Speaker 2: And listen, there's something weird that happened yesterday when we
Speaker 2: started talking about the wind event. I mean, when we
Speaker 2: were planning the show, we were talking about wind is
Speaker 2: going to be the thing. We have to come back
Speaker 2: to the wind. We got to make sure that we
Speaker 2: talk about the wind, that this is a serious enough
Speaker 2: situation that combined with the lack of rain that we've had,
Speaker 2: you know, we've had I think it's downtown LA had
Speaker 2: sixteen hundreds of an inch over the course of six
Speaker 2: plus months, when we usually have three and a half
Speaker 2: or four and a half inches of rain. At this time,
Speaker 2: we knew that this was going to be a big deal.
Speaker 2: A few weeks ago, when the Malibu fire started, it
Speaker 2: did not materialize in the same way. It didn't happen
Speaker 2: the same way, even though we were in one of
Speaker 2: those particularly dangerous situations, and thankfully it didn't materialize the
Speaker 2: way this one did. I mean, this one is, to
Speaker 2: your point, devastating. What we thought was a two thousand
Speaker 2: acre fire yesterday, now we know is well over eleven
Speaker 2: thousand acres and growing because of zero zero percent containment
Speaker 2: on that thing today. And it went straight, it went
Speaker 2: straight west towards Malibu, and some of those areas, some
Speaker 2: of those homes that are just west of Duke's Restaurant
Speaker 2: on Pch are gone and there is nothing left but
Speaker 2: a charred foundation in some cases.
Speaker 1: All right, we are taking your calls when one hundred
Speaker 1: and five to zero one KFI. If you have any
Speaker 1: experiences today yesterday, loved ones, you let us know.
Speaker 2: One eight hundred five to one five three four. We'll
Speaker 2: come back with more of those calls. Yeah. I noticed
Speaker 2: this morning as the sun was coming up, both in
Speaker 2: the Pacific Palisades area and also over in Altadena that
Speaker 2: there was an expectation that you would see some amount
Speaker 2: of destruction. I mean, we knew that that was coming,
Speaker 2: just based on the absolute terrorizing images from last night,
Speaker 2: knowing that the darkness was hiding some of the destruction,
Speaker 2: and then when the sudden came up, it was going
Speaker 2: to be even worse than that. And we've seen in
Speaker 2: cases before fires like this that do cause destruction, but
Speaker 2: not this widespread, you know, not up and down a
Speaker 2: road as far as you can see every single home
Speaker 2: or mobile home or a car or whatever. It is
Speaker 2: just completely destroyed. The development that we just found out
Speaker 2: about a short time ago is that Governor Gavin Newsom
Speaker 2: has apparently activated the California National Guard to come in
Speaker 2: and help out with all kinds of things with logistics,
Speaker 2: with law enforcement, with evacuations, with care for people who
Speaker 2: have been evacuated. They do have some wildland fire training
Speaker 2: as well, so I don't know if you're going to
Speaker 2: see a whole lot of them out on the actual
Speaker 2: fire lines themselves. It is a good move simply because
Speaker 2: we've got to get some rest. Some of these crews
Speaker 2: have been out there for twenty six hours, and you
Speaker 2: think about the toll that it takes on somebody who
Speaker 2: stays up all night because they've got to pack up
Speaker 2: their house and get out. Think about the physical activity
Speaker 2: that is required to be out in those hills, or
Speaker 2: to be on a fire truck, or to be in
Speaker 2: someone's backyard and try to save their house.
Speaker 1: And they grab sleep where they can, you know, twenty
Speaker 1: minutes here, twenty minutes there, But they're putting themselves in
Speaker 1: danger the little amount of sleep that they have been
Speaker 1: able to put together. Again, the word the latest is
Speaker 1: the fire out of the Palisades burned now more than
Speaker 1: eleven thousand plus acres that is going to go up.
Speaker 1: That number is no match for this year devastation. And
Speaker 1: we use that word all the time right when we
Speaker 1: talk about natural disasters or fires, wind events things like that. Hurricanes,
Speaker 1: tornadoes would have you devastation. But it really sounds trite
Speaker 1: when you look at what has become of so many
Speaker 1: people's homes. More than a thousand homes lost in the
Speaker 1: Palisades alone, hundreds in the Altadena area.
Speaker 3: I believe the.
Speaker 1: Count is at one hundred, but you see footage and
Speaker 1: it's got to be more. Again, a lot of people
Speaker 1: didn't even know that this was a possibility. They didn't
Speaker 1: know evacuating was going to be a possibility for them
Speaker 1: because the fire moves so quickly in both of these places.
Speaker 1: And so to go from just having a Tuesday night
Speaker 1: at home to suddenly your powers out, you're told to
Speaker 1: get out, you're grabbing things, you leave, You see your house,
Speaker 1: your streets already on fire. You come back this morning
Speaker 1: and everything's gone. I can't believe the kind of shock
Speaker 1: that's going to go on in your life for the
Speaker 1: coming days and weeks. Probably the Palisades Fire now the
Speaker 1: most destructive in La City history.
Speaker 2: To that end, the in the Palisades fire. I was
Speaker 2: watching James Wood's Twitter account, Yes, yeah, and he had
Speaker 2: quite an interesting timeline in that he, over the course
Speaker 2: of a few hours, had basically said, listen to the
Speaker 2: people have reached out, thanks for being concerned, just letting
Speaker 2: you know that we were able to evacuate successfully. Don't
Speaker 2: know at this moment if our home is still standing,
Speaker 2: but sadly the houses on the street are not. That
Speaker 2: was about twenty hours ago, So that would have been
Speaker 2: just about four o'clock in the afternoon yesterday, and from
Speaker 2: that point it was about an hour after that which
Speaker 2: just informed the next door neighbor's houses on fire. Fortunately
Speaker 2: they were evacuated that same hour. We cleared and built
Speaker 2: pathways on our hillside and sprinkler systems that can be
Speaker 2: remotely managed. We also did brush clearance per local fire
Speaker 2: prevention mandates. I'm hoping it's done some good. It's hard
Speaker 2: to beat the windows this, It's hard to beat the
Speaker 2: winds this time of year, though it's sometime careless. And
Speaker 2: then he said at one point that all the smoke
Speaker 2: detectors were going off in his house and transmitting to
Speaker 2: their phones. And this is obviously after they had evacuated.
Speaker 2: He said, I couldn't believe our lovely little home in
Speaker 2: the hills held on this long. It feels like losing
Speaker 2: a loved one. The only reason I point him out is,
Speaker 2: I mean he's a large enough celebrity name that a
Speaker 2: lot of people are going to be able to follow
Speaker 2: him and see see his posts on X. But just
Speaker 2: that timeline of he originally thought this was a fire
Speaker 2: and that it was going to be okay, but the
Speaker 2: videos that he took from out his back porch seeing
Speaker 2: the flames get closer and closer, and then finally making
Speaker 2: that decision to abandon. I mean, you you abandon ship.
Speaker 2: You got to get out and you take what you
Speaker 2: can with you. But to be able to now technologically
Speaker 2: watch this thing go in front of you, I mean
Speaker 2: you can watch it on a ring camera, if you
Speaker 2: are a doorbell camera, if you still have electricity at
Speaker 2: your house. And then, like he said, all these smoke
Speaker 2: detectors in the hall and the house started going off
Speaker 2: and he was being notified of it as it was
Speaker 2: slowly taking overtaking the house that he had lived in.
Speaker 3: Video that makes me cry.
Speaker 1: It's from the I think it's the Altadena fire. And
Speaker 1: this guy's house is fully engulfed, as are many on
Speaker 1: this street, and there are firefighters there and they're on
Speaker 1: top of the roof and it's fully in golf like
Speaker 1: I said, and they're battling this thing on the first story,
Speaker 1: in the second story, and the ladders up to the
Speaker 1: roof on the second story. Firefighter climbs down from the
Speaker 1: ladder and gives the guy his cat that the homeowner,
Speaker 1: and he grabs the cat and he's cradling the cat
Speaker 1: in his arms and the cat is panting. Cat's mouth
Speaker 1: is open, tongue is hanging out and the cat is panting,
Speaker 1: and the guy is in tears and he's cradling the
Speaker 1: cat to the ground, hugging the cat like just so
Speaker 1: thankful that his as his home is burning to the ground,
Speaker 1: lost everything, and the firefighter hands on the cat over
Speaker 1: the fence like.
Speaker 3: It's the sweetest picture.
Speaker 1: It's the sweetest video of like, you know, just stuff
Speaker 1: versus what matters. And I know that just stuff sounds
Speaker 1: so stupid right now, especially if you've lost everything or
Speaker 1: know what that's like, because it's not just stuff. But
Speaker 1: when you think of like pets and your loved ones
Speaker 1: and everything and your neighbors, if everyone's safe, that's something
Speaker 1: We're going to.
Speaker 2: Go live downtown La again. LAPD Chief Jim McDonald holding
Speaker 2: a news conference.
Speaker 4: You know, be ready to go pack what you need up,
Speaker 4: but then please comply with these orders. Then we don't
Speaker 4: give them put them out lightly. When we believe that
Speaker 4: you're in the path of the fire, we're going to
Speaker 4: order that evacuation and we really really need your compliance
Speaker 4: on that because if we have to send people in
Speaker 4: to try and make rescues, those people are putting their
Speaker 4: lives on the line directly for something that could have
Speaker 4: been avoidable. Sheriff Louana mentioned looting. That's something that we
Speaker 4: also have to watch out for. That is incredible that
Speaker 4: we'd even have to talk about that during these tragic times.
Speaker 4: But we are going to take that also extremely seriously
Speaker 4: and we will follow up with that in the strongest
Speaker 4: way possible.
Speaker 2: Again, the LPD Chief Jim McDonald there from a news conference.
Speaker 2: There was a point that was made earlier lamer care
Speaker 2: and Bass is not yet in La although the expectation
Speaker 2: is that she's arriving back soon. When they held a
Speaker 2: news conference earlier today, they did mention that she was
Speaker 2: at the time that they held the news conference, she
Speaker 2: was in Dallas on her way eventually back to La.
Speaker 2: She had been in Africa. She'd been in the nation
Speaker 2: of Ghana, I believe for an inauguration. She was one
Speaker 2: of the guests at the inauguration. So this will continue
Speaker 2: through the day. The Palisades Fire is now up over
Speaker 2: eleven thousand, eight hundred acres, the largest of the fires.
Speaker 2: That is not a surprise. It continues to burn zero
Speaker 2: percent containment. The Eaten Fire in the Altadena Pasadena areas
Speaker 2: up over ten thousand, six hundred acres, according to the
Speaker 2: Angelis National Forest And we do know that there were
Speaker 2: a couple of fatalities in that eaten fire. We don't
Speaker 2: know why, we don't know what the cause was, but
Speaker 2: the fire department did say this morning that there were
Speaker 2: two fatalities also a number of significant injuries in both
Speaker 2: of those incidents. One of the telling comments today was
Speaker 2: from the county chief, Anthony Mark, the county fire chief,
Speaker 2: that said, we were not ready for this. And it
Speaker 2: wasn't that they simply didn't see it coming. It was
Speaker 2: that they didn't see this many fires coming this quickly. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and they're really even if even if all they were
Speaker 2: doing was concentrating all of their resources on the Palisades fire,
Speaker 2: they may not have been able to do much of
Speaker 2: anything differently.
Speaker 3: No, No, because because it took off so fast, it.
Speaker 2: Took off so fast, the conditions were so bad, they
Speaker 2: were so in over their head and there.
Speaker 3: Was no way in and such a small way out.
Speaker 2: Continuing well over twenty four hours of our special fire
Speaker 2: coverage here in southern California, New York Post headline this
Speaker 2: morning with just the most devastating fire images lost Angelus, Wow,
Speaker 2: the Palisades Fire burning out the Pacific Palisades Santa Monica
Speaker 2: Malibu area is up over eleven eight hundred acres. According
Speaker 2: to a firefighter for La City. They said it started
Speaker 2: as a backyard fire, but didn't get into the specifics
Speaker 2: of what that exactly meant, but the county did say
Speaker 2: that more than one thousand structures have been destroyed. At
Speaker 2: this point, they didn't have any fatalities reported in that fire,
Speaker 2: but a high number of what they referred to as
Speaker 2: significant injuries.
Speaker 1: Including to first responders, making it the most devastating fire
Speaker 1: in Los Angeles history.
Speaker 2: The Eton Fire, burning your Altadina and Pasadena is up
Speaker 2: over ten thousand, six hundred acres according to the Angelus
Speaker 2: National Forest. Now that one did have a couple of fatalities,
Speaker 2: but they don't know the cause of the fatalities, number
Speaker 2: of significant injuries, and well over one hundred structures they
Speaker 2: say destroyed. I mean, you could just you could see
Speaker 2: that in some of the early television reports from today.
Speaker 2: Multiple homes in many areas along the foothills there that
Speaker 2: were destroyed in Altadina and Pasadena.
Speaker 1: Not that it matters, but it is Awards season. Critics
Speaker 1: Choice Awards ceremony has been postponed. The AFI Awards has
Speaker 1: been postponed. The King's Game tonight has been postponed as well.
Speaker 1: Everything seems to be shutting down. Everyone says to stay
Speaker 1: home if you can. Like we mentioned, this wind event
Speaker 1: continues into tomorrow, I believe until tomorrow afternoon. Now, the
Speaker 1: most destructive wins, as we have reiterated, have already passed.
Speaker 1: Those were last night between ten pm and five am.
Speaker 1: And if you were in the fire arees, you felt
Speaker 1: and wins like you've never felt before. I compared my
Speaker 1: backyard there in the two ten Foothill area to just
Speaker 1: a freaking popcorn machine with the tables and the chairs
Speaker 1: and the plants and everything else in the backyard, very
Speaker 1: small backyard, but just continuing to bounce around as long
Speaker 1: as I was there till we were evacuated. So it's
Speaker 1: a crazy, crazy time, a lot of shock, a lot
Speaker 1: of fear that's going on right now as people return
Speaker 1: to nothing. Some neighborhoods still without firefighters because the agencies
Speaker 1: are spread too thin, are putting out their own fires
Speaker 1: and trying to stop the flames from reaching the houses
Speaker 1: if they haven't already done so.
Speaker 2: And yeah, you are going to see the red flags
Speaker 2: continue in terms of the fire weather warnings, because while
Speaker 2: we won't see sixty seventy eighty mile an hour gusts anymore,
Speaker 2: doesn't look like we will still see gusts of twenty
Speaker 2: five thirty five miles an hour, which are plenty to
Speaker 2: cause multiple problems. We might not see the embers flying
Speaker 2: two three miles through the air like we saw last night,
Speaker 2: but we still see some very active flames throughout the
Speaker 2: fires and Pacific Palisades and altaden Opasadena.
Speaker 1: Well, like we talked about those embers yesterday, they didn't
Speaker 1: need to be sneaky. They were just going to be
Speaker 1: taken by the wind for whatever attack that they were
Speaker 1: going to be destined for when it comes to the
Speaker 1: next house or even a mile or two miles down
Speaker 1: the way. But now is time for those sneaky embers,
Speaker 1: the ones that may not be as obvious sneaking from
Speaker 1: home to home, from a burning home to a home
Speaker 1: maybe that's just across the street. We've seen these fires
Speaker 1: be very weird in the way that they move from
Speaker 1: home to home on the same street, right And most
Speaker 1: of the time that's because those sneaky embers will just
Speaker 1: kind of drift across the street, nestle in the eaves
Speaker 1: and attack that home from the inside.
Speaker 2: The other big fire that we're keeping an eye on
Speaker 2: is up in the northern end of the San Fernando Valley.
Speaker 2: The Hearst fire burning in Silmar is up about seven
Speaker 2: hundred acres. If there's any silver lining in that arena,
Speaker 2: it's that it is apparently burning in sort of the
Speaker 2: old burn scar of the Saddle Ridge fire which went
Speaker 2: through that area a few years ago. That is the
Speaker 2: one that could potentially cause closure of a couple of fruit.
Speaker 2: We know that the at least the westbound two ten
Speaker 2: was closed for quite a while, and there are exits
Speaker 2: along the five to get to the two ten that
Speaker 2: have been closed as well, as long as you see
Speaker 2: some of those evacuations in those same areas.
Speaker 5: Little Garriash, I mean, this is Danny Martinez again. I
Speaker 5: was just wondering how many more insurance companies are going
Speaker 5: to quit writing policies here in California because of the
Speaker 5: fires and all the policies are going to have to
Speaker 5: pay out not only house policies, but out of policies.
Speaker 2: You know, that is an interesting That's one of those
Speaker 2: that'll be a story for another day, but a story nonetheless.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, there's going to be a lot of stories that
Speaker 1: we get to after the initial shock and awe is over.
Speaker 3: What's far from being over.
Speaker 1: I'd love to say that this is a done deal,
Speaker 1: but these fires remain out of control. We talked with
Speaker 1: Sue Cole from the Pacific Policies Community Council. She brought
Speaker 1: up a good point when we spoke to her earlier
Speaker 1: this morning, and she said that, you know, she talked
Speaker 1: about the homes being gone, her home, she doesn't know
Speaker 1: about her friends have lost homes. But it's the schools
Speaker 1: that are gone. It's the businesses that are gone. You've
Speaker 1: seen churches gone in Pasadena, you see schools gone in Altadena.
Speaker 1: It's just centers of community, not just homes, centers of family,
Speaker 1: but centers of the community that are gone as well.
Speaker 1: And we saw this in Paradise when the whole town
Speaker 1: was wiped out.
Speaker 2: The hardware store, the gas station that you stop by
Speaker 2: every morning to fill up and all of that.
Speaker 3: Stuff is gone.
Speaker 6: Hey, Gary, Hay Shannon, just want to thank you guys
Speaker 6: for giving all the news and eclipse about this terrible fire.
Speaker 6: My folks are eighty five and my dad's got dementia
Speaker 6: and they lost power last night. They're up in Eagle
Speaker 6: Rock next to Pasadena, and my mom was freaking out,
Speaker 6: so I told her to just grab your transistor radio
Speaker 6: put on AM six forty so you can keep in
Speaker 6: touch with what's going on. You guys are always funny,
Speaker 6: but now you guys are given some serious hero work,
Speaker 6: and I want to thank.
Speaker 5: You, not hero.
Speaker 2: A couple of images that we saw that will and
Speaker 2: he brings up. One of them was the image of
Speaker 2: the people being escorted out of that rest home in
Speaker 2: Altadena last night when wheelchairs and being walked out to
Speaker 2: get to a safe area. The other one was the
Speaker 2: burned out line of cars on Palisades Drive from this morning.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's hard enough thinking about you're in the
Speaker 1: golden time of your life and you've got to be
Speaker 1: wheeled out of your of your home already and then
Speaker 1: wheeled out.
Speaker 3: Of your home home. And then you know the.
Speaker 1: Angels that were helping all those people, and I don't
Speaker 1: know where they went. I'm assuming they're places for them
Speaker 1: to go, but just you know, you're so lucky if
Speaker 1: you have somewhere to go.
Speaker 3: So lucky.
Speaker 2: We're going to try to hook up with Alex Stone,
Speaker 2: who is covering the fire in Altadena for ab Snows
Speaker 2: and for us. In a few minutes a.
Speaker 7: I'm da Hawkman is being interviewed, which is ridiculous. He
Speaker 7: did say because you know, there's been two looters that
Speaker 7: have been arrested. Two looters, yes, which is so disgusting.
Speaker 7: But he's basically saying that anybody that's taking advantage of
Speaker 7: people who are leaving their homes, they're pretty much going
Speaker 7: to be locked.
Speaker 3: And that's good.
Speaker 1: But Nathan Hoffman has run to every microphone that exists
Speaker 1: in LA since he was elected.
Speaker 3: This is a little overkill.
Speaker 7: Sorry, it's okay, It's okay, But I just like his message.
Speaker 3: To the criminals.
Speaker 2: It's true that fire, the one burning in the Altad
Speaker 2: Nepacadyen the areas up over ten thy six hundred acres,
Speaker 2: was the latest that we saw. Have been out there
Speaker 2: all morning. ABC's Alex Stone has been covering that fire
Speaker 2: for them and for us and Alex what's going on
Speaker 2: out there?
Speaker 3: Now?
Speaker 8: Hey there guys, I'm on Sacramento Street right now and
Speaker 8: it is just home after home, still burning. We had
Speaker 8: seen some burning earlier today and still there was a
Speaker 8: garage that just a moment ago collapsed. In fact, still
Speaker 8: the power lines. One of the power poles just disconnected,
Speaker 8: burned to the base in tim tumbling in and gave
Speaker 8: us a bit of a scare. But there are a
Speaker 8: number of homes along this street that are now gone.
Speaker 8: I was just talking to one of the home owners.
Speaker 8: He says that he came home and early this morning
Speaker 8: his home was already on fire. He got off of
Speaker 8: work and came home. He's got an American flag that
Speaker 8: is waving in the front of the home. It's got
Speaker 8: burn marks in it right now, but it continues to
Speaker 8: wave in the wind. But there are no firefighters on
Speaker 8: this street that they've driven by. There's not a lot
Speaker 8: they can do. Seems that they are out of engine.
Speaker 8: Some Pasadena firefighters came in a pickup truck. They got
Speaker 8: up out, they looked around at a garage that was
Speaker 8: beginning to go up, and then they left from there
Speaker 8: that there's just not a lot they can do.
Speaker 1: It seems like it's a treaws situation, that this is
Speaker 1: a mass casualty event when it comes to homes burning,
Speaker 1: whether it be the Palisades or all Ta Dina and
Speaker 1: firefighters are determining who's on the grain, the yellow and
Speaker 1: the red you know tarps, essentially of what they can
Speaker 1: save and what has no chance. And I'm as hard
Speaker 1: as as it is to move over that red tarp
Speaker 1: or that yellow tarp to help all the people on
Speaker 1: the green.
Speaker 3: It's got to be really frustrating for them.
Speaker 8: Yes, I think you're exactly right. And then they're deciding
Speaker 8: what they can save and what they can't save. We
Speaker 8: sell them putting a lot of water on a home
Speaker 8: on one of the main streets here, and there were
Speaker 8: a number of engines out of Long Beach that stayed
Speaker 8: there and continue to put water on it, and then
Speaker 8: they left, and now it's going up in flames. They
Speaker 8: just don't have, you know, you stop and you waste
Speaker 8: the ban power of four or five engines to sit
Speaker 8: there and put a lot of water on the homes
Speaker 8: and then they leave and it goes up anyway. So
Speaker 8: I think with a lot of these homes, as you mentioned,
Speaker 8: they're kind of freizing and figuring out what they can
Speaker 8: and can't do. And we know that there is help
Speaker 8: coming in from We've heard from the Phoenix Fire Department.
Speaker 8: We know around Arizona, Nevada, Oregon, Washington, they're all heading
Speaker 8: this way right now, so there is help coming in.
Speaker 8: But in the meantime where it is mainly Pasadena fire
Speaker 8: and Long Beach fire and others who are helping out here,
Speaker 8: they just don't have enough people to deal with this,
Speaker 8: and so you've got neighborhoods like this street where the
Speaker 8: homes are just going up in flames.
Speaker 2: Or there are neighbors that are there that stuck around
Speaker 2: and are trying to save the other homes. We've seen,
Speaker 2: We've seen plenty instances of that and heard from some
Speaker 2: people who were doing just that. You know, they may
Speaker 2: have lost their own home, but they were willing to
Speaker 2: stick around and try to protect the ones of their neighbors.
Speaker 8: You're right, there are a couple of gentlemen who are
Speaker 8: on a rooftop in front of me, and a woman
Speaker 8: who is out front watering her own land. But there
Speaker 8: are a couple of guys up on a rooftop using
Speaker 8: garden hose is doing whatever they can to try to
Speaker 8: stop their home from going up in flames, and it's
Speaker 8: working so far. You know, Typically the advice is don't
Speaker 8: do that because your garden hose is never gonna be
Speaker 8: able to compete again the wildfire flames that it's not
Speaker 8: a firefighter hose and the ability to put that much
Speaker 8: water on. But they're doing whatever they can to try
Speaker 8: to wet their roof, and so far it's working. But
Speaker 8: as I look around in these neighborhoods, it is just
Speaker 8: plume after plume going up right now, that there are
Speaker 8: so many homes that are burning here.
Speaker 1: Right now, Alex, it seemed like with this fire, just
Speaker 1: like in the Palisades, that definitely and I know you
Speaker 1: have to go, but that people just didn't even have
Speaker 1: time to know they were going to be evacuated before
Speaker 1: they had to get the hell out.
Speaker 8: Well, that's the thing. And then the one guy was
Speaker 8: talking to a moment ago and he said, a gun
Speaker 8: out of work and he came home and he knew
Speaker 8: that there was the fire in Pacific Palisades. He didn't
Speaker 8: know about this and came home and his home was burning,
Speaker 8: and it seemed like it came out of nowhere. And
Speaker 8: as I'm talking to, their explosions all around us right
Speaker 8: now as ammunition in the homes as a gas that
Speaker 8: propane tanks are going up vehicles are burning in the
Speaker 8: street right here. That it's just one after another. And
Speaker 8: even though it's not the one hundred mile an hour
Speaker 8: in guys, it was nuts this morning at about three
Speaker 8: thirty or four o'clock in the morning, it really was
Speaker 8: one hundred mile an hour wind. And that has died down.
Speaker 8: That's not going on anymore, but it's still breezy, and
Speaker 8: it's enough with these live members in the air to
Speaker 8: jump from home to home and the heat from one
Speaker 8: home to go to the next home and then to
Speaker 8: start that on fire as well.
Speaker 1: Alex Stone Sellar, job as usual, We appreciate it.
Speaker 3: Stay safe out there, man, you're.
Speaker 2: Going thank Obviously, today is basically just catching up in
Speaker 2: terms of catching up with the information, the size of
Speaker 2: the fires, the directions of the wind, the where people
Speaker 2: go if they do have to evacuate them. Fascinated Convention
Speaker 2: Center has sort of become a main hub for some people,
Speaker 2: and like you mentioned, that's where the news conference is
Speaker 2: going to take place a little bit later. But there
Speaker 2: are other questions that obviously we will get to over
Speaker 2: the course of the next couple of days and weeks,
Speaker 2: I mean, and some of them are the obvious questions
Speaker 2: of can we get another ingress egress route into Pacific Palisades,
Speaker 2: you know, the Summit area, the Highlands area. Was there
Speaker 2: enough water pressure? Is there a way for us to
Speaker 2: guarantee water pressure in a situation like that? The hazmat
Speaker 2: situations that will exist for weeks or months in some
Speaker 2: of these places where if you've got if you've got
Speaker 2: the cars that just just look at the cars that
Speaker 2: burned and the I don't know the process of cleaning
Speaker 2: up after a car has burned, to get that out
Speaker 2: of the area, to make sure that all of the
Speaker 2: hazardous not just hazardous materials, but then all the hazardous conditions.
Speaker 2: You've got the power lines that have gone down, the
Speaker 2: hundreds of power poles that have probably been lost, the
Speaker 2: wires that continue to drape across some of these areas,
Speaker 2: and then how long it's going to take to get
Speaker 2: basic services back up and running in some of those areas,
Speaker 2: whether it's Pacific Palisades, When you're going to get electricity back,
Speaker 2: how long does it take so CAT Energy or Department
Speaker 2: of Water and Power to come and get these lines
Speaker 2: re energized, and then just some of the basics, you know,
Speaker 2: how do you recover, How did how does a neighborhood,
Speaker 2: how does it, How does a town like Pacific Palisades recover?
Speaker 2: How does an individual neighborhood recover? And then how do
Speaker 2: you as a family or as an individual come through
Speaker 2: something like this where you lose as much as you
Speaker 2: do in just the course of a quick couple of
Speaker 2: minutes or maybe a couple of hours.
Speaker 1: In some case, you're seeing the best of humanity too,
Speaker 1: of people helping neighbors, helping family, helping friends, people reaching out.
Speaker 1: It's one of those things that really does restore your
Speaker 1: faith in humanity at the same time ripping your heart
Speaker 1: out for a lot of people.
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