WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.640 --> 00:00:02.960 This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI 2 00:00:03.080 --> 00:00:05.879 AM six forty the Gary and Shannon Show on demand 3 00:00:05.960 --> 00:00:09.119 on the iHeartRadio app. Now, the most destructive in LA 4 00:00:09.240 --> 00:00:12.960 City history. More than one hundred excuse me, one thousand 5 00:00:13.000 --> 00:00:18.079 structures destroyed, obviously by and large homes. You can bet 6 00:00:18.120 --> 00:00:20.679 a thousand homes have been destroyed in the Palisades. 7 00:00:20.760 --> 00:00:23.359 We're going to get lucky if that number stays what 8 00:00:23.399 --> 00:00:25.359 it is. And that sounds weird, but I mean, you 9 00:00:25.399 --> 00:00:27.760 compare it to some of the more destructive wildfires that 10 00:00:27.800 --> 00:00:31.559 we've seen in the state of California, and it is 11 00:00:32.759 --> 00:00:35.799 the tunnel fire that I mentioned from the Oakland Hills 12 00:00:35.840 --> 00:00:38.200 back in nineteen ninety one. They're about twenty nine hundred 13 00:00:38.200 --> 00:00:42.840 structures that burned. The campfire up in Paradise, more than 14 00:00:42.920 --> 00:00:45.159 eighteen thousand structures burned. 15 00:00:45.280 --> 00:00:46.119 And this is. 16 00:00:46.560 --> 00:00:50.320 As this smoke clears, as we do get more firefighting 17 00:00:50.880 --> 00:00:55.039 air resources up there to map this thing, to go 18 00:00:55.119 --> 00:00:58.640 through and to you know, once they can get their 19 00:00:58.679 --> 00:01:01.679 heads above water basically pardon the pun, and get it 20 00:01:01.880 --> 00:01:04.799 into those neighborhoods and go house by house to see 21 00:01:05.159 --> 00:01:07.480 the destruction. I mean, I don't know how that number 22 00:01:07.519 --> 00:01:08.319 doesn't go up. 23 00:01:08.400 --> 00:01:11.640 You're just seeing the shock and people's faces and people's 24 00:01:11.680 --> 00:01:16.359 eyes because a lot of people, especially in the Altadena area, 25 00:01:16.359 --> 00:01:20.480 I mean the Palisades initially, yes, same thing where they 26 00:01:20.560 --> 00:01:23.359 were not even given time to be told to get out. 27 00:01:23.719 --> 00:01:25.799 They had to get out before any sort of evacuation 28 00:01:25.920 --> 00:01:29.239 warning or orner was even given, because that thing took 29 00:01:29.280 --> 00:01:33.599 off so quickly and just blasted down the mountain there, 30 00:01:34.239 --> 00:01:37.280 which is why Palisades Drive was overrun, which is why 31 00:01:37.359 --> 00:01:40.040 cars were abandoned, which is why the fire service had 32 00:01:40.040 --> 00:01:41.879 to bulldoze them out of the way to get up 33 00:01:41.920 --> 00:01:45.159 to fight that thing with what they could do at 34 00:01:45.159 --> 00:01:49.879 a fire burning that angrily Alta Dina as well Alta 35 00:01:49.959 --> 00:01:55.760 Dina overnight. That fire erupted about six thirty seven o'clock, 36 00:01:55.840 --> 00:02:00.000 and man, it took off quicker than people knew knew 37 00:02:00.120 --> 00:02:03.719 about it. We heard from Ernest earlier in the show 38 00:02:03.760 --> 00:02:06.079 who said, you know, yeah, we knew there was a 39 00:02:06.120 --> 00:02:08.719 fire nearby, but we went to bed. We woke up, 40 00:02:08.759 --> 00:02:11.759 the embers were flying at the bedroom window. 41 00:02:11.840 --> 00:02:12.479 We walk out. 42 00:02:12.520 --> 00:02:14.879 Everything's on fire, both sides of the alley, all the 43 00:02:14.919 --> 00:02:16.879 homes on the block. We just grab what we could 44 00:02:16.879 --> 00:02:18.759 I yelled fire, We got the hell out of there. 45 00:02:19.039 --> 00:02:21.840 I think a lot of people are in complete shock still. 46 00:02:22.120 --> 00:02:24.680 And some of those people went back to their neighborhoods 47 00:02:24.719 --> 00:02:27.960 and their home was completely gone. They're telling people that 48 00:02:28.000 --> 00:02:30.319 if you don't have to go to work, stay home. 49 00:02:30.479 --> 00:02:33.479 If you can stay home, get off the roads, let 50 00:02:33.479 --> 00:02:36.479 the firefighters and the incoming firefighters get to where they 51 00:02:36.560 --> 00:02:39.159 need to be when you're looking at all, whether it's 52 00:02:39.199 --> 00:02:43.960 Silmar or the Palisades, Alzadina or anywhere in between those places. 53 00:02:44.560 --> 00:02:48.520 Door dash services have been suspended in areas including the Palisades, 54 00:02:48.520 --> 00:02:52.840 Santa Monica, Westwood, Brentwood, Calabasas, Pasadena, San Fernando, Santa Clarita, 55 00:02:52.960 --> 00:02:56.280 Northridge because they understand the importance of staying off the 56 00:02:56.360 --> 00:02:59.639 roads and letting the emergency vehicles wherever they need to be. 57 00:03:00.400 --> 00:03:04.159 Just saw on X that Governor Newsom has deployed the 58 00:03:04.199 --> 00:03:08.599 California National Guard. They will work alongside cal Fire to 59 00:03:08.680 --> 00:03:12.360 get through what is going to be very tough several days. 60 00:03:12.800 --> 00:03:18.520 The California National Guard disaster response in emergency preparedness, they 61 00:03:18.560 --> 00:03:20.800 train for things like this. They're not just going in 62 00:03:20.840 --> 00:03:24.960 there willy nilly. They're also not going to be Hopefully 63 00:03:25.000 --> 00:03:27.759 they don't have to be the frontline defenders when it 64 00:03:27.759 --> 00:03:30.360 comes to actually fighting the fires, but they do receive 65 00:03:30.439 --> 00:03:36.000 training to fight brush fires, including fire training courses during emergencies. Obviously, 66 00:03:36.360 --> 00:03:40.520 National guardsmen can also support operations like security logistics during 67 00:03:40.560 --> 00:03:43.840 major fires like this. So the National Guard has been 68 00:03:43.919 --> 00:03:49.159 called in to assist in all of the first responders, 69 00:03:49.439 --> 00:03:51.520 to assist with all of the other first responders and 70 00:03:51.560 --> 00:03:52.120 the duties that. 71 00:03:52.120 --> 00:03:53.039 They have in front of them. 72 00:03:53.080 --> 00:03:55.360 Malibu is not getting a lot of attention, but certain 73 00:03:55.360 --> 00:03:58.280 areas of Malibu have been wiped out completely as well. 74 00:03:58.400 --> 00:04:03.039 And listen, there's something weird that happened yesterday when we 75 00:04:03.159 --> 00:04:06.520 started talking about the wind event. I mean, when we 76 00:04:06.520 --> 00:04:09.360 were planning the show, we were talking about wind is 77 00:04:09.400 --> 00:04:10.800 going to be the thing. We have to come back 78 00:04:10.800 --> 00:04:12.080 to the wind. We got to make sure that we 79 00:04:12.120 --> 00:04:14.360 talk about the wind, that this is a serious enough 80 00:04:14.400 --> 00:04:18.879 situation that combined with the lack of rain that we've had, 81 00:04:18.959 --> 00:04:21.680 you know, we've had I think it's downtown LA had 82 00:04:21.720 --> 00:04:24.480 sixteen hundreds of an inch over the course of six 83 00:04:24.560 --> 00:04:27.000 plus months, when we usually have three and a half 84 00:04:27.040 --> 00:04:28.959 or four and a half inches of rain. At this time, 85 00:04:29.759 --> 00:04:31.600 we knew that this was going to be a big deal. 86 00:04:32.000 --> 00:04:35.040 A few weeks ago, when the Malibu fire started, it 87 00:04:35.120 --> 00:04:38.279 did not materialize in the same way. It didn't happen 88 00:04:38.360 --> 00:04:40.639 the same way, even though we were in one of 89 00:04:40.680 --> 00:04:46.959 those particularly dangerous situations, and thankfully it didn't materialize the 90 00:04:47.000 --> 00:04:49.600 way this one did. I mean, this one is, to 91 00:04:49.680 --> 00:04:52.639 your point, devastating. What we thought was a two thousand 92 00:04:52.680 --> 00:04:56.920 acre fire yesterday, now we know is well over eleven 93 00:04:57.040 --> 00:05:02.519 thousand acres and growing because of zero zero percent containment 94 00:05:02.639 --> 00:05:06.360 on that thing today. And it went straight, it went 95 00:05:06.439 --> 00:05:11.240 straight west towards Malibu, and some of those areas, some 96 00:05:11.279 --> 00:05:14.920 of those homes that are just west of Duke's Restaurant 97 00:05:14.959 --> 00:05:19.560 on Pch are gone and there is nothing left but 98 00:05:20.079 --> 00:05:22.800 a charred foundation in some cases. 99 00:05:24.360 --> 00:05:26.600 All right, we are taking your calls when one hundred 100 00:05:26.639 --> 00:05:29.160 and five to zero one KFI. If you have any 101 00:05:29.240 --> 00:05:33.120 experiences today yesterday, loved ones, you let us know. 102 00:05:34.759 --> 00:05:38.240 One eight hundred five to one five three four. We'll 103 00:05:38.240 --> 00:05:42.279 come back with more of those calls. Yeah. I noticed 104 00:05:42.399 --> 00:05:45.800 this morning as the sun was coming up, both in 105 00:05:45.839 --> 00:05:49.680 the Pacific Palisades area and also over in Altadena that 106 00:05:50.040 --> 00:05:52.879 there was an expectation that you would see some amount 107 00:05:52.920 --> 00:05:54.800 of destruction. I mean, we knew that that was coming, 108 00:05:54.879 --> 00:05:59.040 just based on the absolute terrorizing images from last night, 109 00:06:00.439 --> 00:06:04.360 knowing that the darkness was hiding some of the destruction, 110 00:06:04.439 --> 00:06:06.240 and then when the sudden came up, it was going 111 00:06:06.319 --> 00:06:09.680 to be even worse than that. And we've seen in 112 00:06:09.879 --> 00:06:14.040 cases before fires like this that do cause destruction, but 113 00:06:14.240 --> 00:06:18.920 not this widespread, you know, not up and down a 114 00:06:19.079 --> 00:06:22.040 road as far as you can see every single home 115 00:06:22.639 --> 00:06:25.079 or mobile home or a car or whatever. It is 116 00:06:25.800 --> 00:06:30.360 just completely destroyed. The development that we just found out 117 00:06:30.360 --> 00:06:33.800 about a short time ago is that Governor Gavin Newsom 118 00:06:34.319 --> 00:06:38.199 has apparently activated the California National Guard to come in 119 00:06:38.319 --> 00:06:41.839 and help out with all kinds of things with logistics, 120 00:06:41.839 --> 00:06:45.680 with law enforcement, with evacuations, with care for people who 121 00:06:45.720 --> 00:06:50.519 have been evacuated. They do have some wildland fire training 122 00:06:50.560 --> 00:06:52.439 as well, so I don't know if you're going to 123 00:06:52.439 --> 00:06:54.120 see a whole lot of them out on the actual 124 00:06:54.160 --> 00:06:59.959 fire lines themselves. It is a good move simply because 125 00:07:00.160 --> 00:07:02.600 we've got to get some rest. Some of these crews 126 00:07:02.600 --> 00:07:05.279 have been out there for twenty six hours, and you 127 00:07:05.319 --> 00:07:08.959 think about the toll that it takes on somebody who 128 00:07:09.240 --> 00:07:11.360 stays up all night because they've got to pack up 129 00:07:11.399 --> 00:07:14.720 their house and get out. Think about the physical activity 130 00:07:14.759 --> 00:07:17.360 that is required to be out in those hills, or 131 00:07:17.399 --> 00:07:19.959 to be on a fire truck, or to be in 132 00:07:20.000 --> 00:07:22.199 someone's backyard and try to save their house. 133 00:07:22.279 --> 00:07:24.519 And they grab sleep where they can, you know, twenty 134 00:07:24.560 --> 00:07:27.079 minutes here, twenty minutes there, But they're putting themselves in 135 00:07:27.199 --> 00:07:30.040 danger the little amount of sleep that they have been 136 00:07:30.079 --> 00:07:34.279 able to put together. Again, the word the latest is 137 00:07:34.360 --> 00:07:36.959 the fire out of the Palisades burned now more than 138 00:07:37.040 --> 00:07:40.120 eleven thousand plus acres that is going to go up. 139 00:07:40.439 --> 00:07:44.040 That number is no match for this year devastation. And 140 00:07:44.079 --> 00:07:46.519 we use that word all the time right when we 141 00:07:46.560 --> 00:07:51.279 talk about natural disasters or fires, wind events things like that. Hurricanes, 142 00:07:51.319 --> 00:07:55.079 tornadoes would have you devastation. But it really sounds trite 143 00:07:55.199 --> 00:07:58.079 when you look at what has become of so many 144 00:07:58.079 --> 00:08:01.000 people's homes. More than a thousand homes lost in the 145 00:08:01.040 --> 00:08:04.199 Palisades alone, hundreds in the Altadena area. 146 00:08:04.319 --> 00:08:05.160 I believe the. 147 00:08:05.199 --> 00:08:07.439 Count is at one hundred, but you see footage and 148 00:08:07.480 --> 00:08:10.040 it's got to be more. Again, a lot of people 149 00:08:10.079 --> 00:08:12.759 didn't even know that this was a possibility. They didn't 150 00:08:12.759 --> 00:08:15.839 know evacuating was going to be a possibility for them 151 00:08:16.000 --> 00:08:19.079 because the fire moves so quickly in both of these places. 152 00:08:19.680 --> 00:08:23.399 And so to go from just having a Tuesday night 153 00:08:23.639 --> 00:08:27.199 at home to suddenly your powers out, you're told to 154 00:08:27.279 --> 00:08:30.519 get out, you're grabbing things, you leave, You see your house, 155 00:08:30.639 --> 00:08:33.240 your streets already on fire. You come back this morning 156 00:08:33.279 --> 00:08:37.000 and everything's gone. I can't believe the kind of shock 157 00:08:37.080 --> 00:08:39.639 that's going to go on in your life for the 158 00:08:39.679 --> 00:08:43.480 coming days and weeks. Probably the Palisades Fire now the 159 00:08:43.519 --> 00:08:45.919 most destructive in La City history. 160 00:08:46.960 --> 00:08:51.799 To that end, the in the Palisades fire. I was 161 00:08:51.879 --> 00:08:56.200 watching James Wood's Twitter account, Yes, yeah, and he had 162 00:08:56.279 --> 00:09:01.000 quite an interesting timeline in that he, over the course 163 00:09:01.039 --> 00:09:06.519 of a few hours, had basically said, listen to the 164 00:09:06.559 --> 00:09:09.080 people have reached out, thanks for being concerned, just letting 165 00:09:09.120 --> 00:09:11.440 you know that we were able to evacuate successfully. Don't 166 00:09:11.440 --> 00:09:13.519 know at this moment if our home is still standing, 167 00:09:13.600 --> 00:09:16.320 but sadly the houses on the street are not. That 168 00:09:16.399 --> 00:09:18.519 was about twenty hours ago, So that would have been 169 00:09:19.360 --> 00:09:22.440 just about four o'clock in the afternoon yesterday, and from 170 00:09:22.480 --> 00:09:27.039 that point it was about an hour after that which 171 00:09:27.120 --> 00:09:29.960 just informed the next door neighbor's houses on fire. Fortunately 172 00:09:29.960 --> 00:09:33.279 they were evacuated that same hour. We cleared and built 173 00:09:33.320 --> 00:09:35.799 pathways on our hillside and sprinkler systems that can be 174 00:09:35.840 --> 00:09:38.759 remotely managed. We also did brush clearance per local fire 175 00:09:38.799 --> 00:09:41.840 prevention mandates. I'm hoping it's done some good. It's hard 176 00:09:41.840 --> 00:09:44.279 to beat the windows this, It's hard to beat the 177 00:09:44.320 --> 00:09:47.879 winds this time of year, though it's sometime careless. And 178 00:09:47.919 --> 00:09:52.559 then he said at one point that all the smoke 179 00:09:52.600 --> 00:09:55.919 detectors were going off in his house and transmitting to 180 00:09:55.960 --> 00:09:58.159 their phones. And this is obviously after they had evacuated. 181 00:09:58.200 --> 00:10:00.240 He said, I couldn't believe our lovely little home in 182 00:10:00.279 --> 00:10:03.120 the hills held on this long. It feels like losing 183 00:10:03.120 --> 00:10:05.440 a loved one. The only reason I point him out is, 184 00:10:05.519 --> 00:10:08.679 I mean he's a large enough celebrity name that a 185 00:10:08.720 --> 00:10:10.320 lot of people are going to be able to follow 186 00:10:10.360 --> 00:10:14.480 him and see see his posts on X. But just 187 00:10:14.519 --> 00:10:19.000 that timeline of he originally thought this was a fire 188 00:10:19.320 --> 00:10:22.519 and that it was going to be okay, but the 189 00:10:22.600 --> 00:10:24.960 videos that he took from out his back porch seeing 190 00:10:25.000 --> 00:10:27.799 the flames get closer and closer, and then finally making 191 00:10:27.840 --> 00:10:32.759 that decision to abandon. I mean, you you abandon ship. 192 00:10:32.799 --> 00:10:34.879 You got to get out and you take what you 193 00:10:34.960 --> 00:10:39.480 can with you. But to be able to now technologically 194 00:10:40.480 --> 00:10:43.360 watch this thing go in front of you, I mean 195 00:10:43.840 --> 00:10:45.960 you can watch it on a ring camera, if you 196 00:10:46.039 --> 00:10:48.320 are a doorbell camera, if you still have electricity at 197 00:10:48.320 --> 00:10:50.600 your house. And then, like he said, all these smoke 198 00:10:50.639 --> 00:10:53.039 detectors in the hall and the house started going off 199 00:10:53.519 --> 00:10:55.759 and he was being notified of it as it was 200 00:10:55.799 --> 00:10:59.360 slowly taking overtaking the house that he had lived in. 201 00:11:00.120 --> 00:11:01.320 Video that makes me cry. 202 00:11:01.440 --> 00:11:04.679 It's from the I think it's the Altadena fire. And 203 00:11:04.720 --> 00:11:07.799 this guy's house is fully engulfed, as are many on 204 00:11:07.879 --> 00:11:10.759 this street, and there are firefighters there and they're on 205 00:11:10.799 --> 00:11:12.600 top of the roof and it's fully in golf like 206 00:11:12.639 --> 00:11:14.639 I said, and they're battling this thing on the first story, 207 00:11:14.639 --> 00:11:16.399 in the second story, and the ladders up to the 208 00:11:16.720 --> 00:11:20.159 roof on the second story. Firefighter climbs down from the 209 00:11:20.240 --> 00:11:23.759 ladder and gives the guy his cat that the homeowner, 210 00:11:24.279 --> 00:11:26.639 and he grabs the cat and he's cradling the cat 211 00:11:26.639 --> 00:11:29.960 in his arms and the cat is panting. Cat's mouth 212 00:11:30.039 --> 00:11:32.759 is open, tongue is hanging out and the cat is panting, 213 00:11:32.759 --> 00:11:35.440 and the guy is in tears and he's cradling the 214 00:11:35.480 --> 00:11:38.320 cat to the ground, hugging the cat like just so 215 00:11:38.639 --> 00:11:41.240 thankful that his as his home is burning to the ground, 216 00:11:41.279 --> 00:11:44.279 lost everything, and the firefighter hands on the cat over 217 00:11:44.320 --> 00:11:45.120 the fence like. 218 00:11:45.279 --> 00:11:46.799 It's the sweetest picture. 219 00:11:46.879 --> 00:11:50.080 It's the sweetest video of like, you know, just stuff 220 00:11:50.240 --> 00:11:54.000 versus what matters. And I know that just stuff sounds 221 00:11:54.000 --> 00:11:58.279 so stupid right now, especially if you've lost everything or 222 00:11:58.360 --> 00:12:01.000 know what that's like, because it's not just stuff. But 223 00:12:01.159 --> 00:12:03.320 when you think of like pets and your loved ones 224 00:12:03.360 --> 00:12:06.919 and everything and your neighbors, if everyone's safe, that's something 225 00:12:07.879 --> 00:12:08.279 We're going to. 226 00:12:08.279 --> 00:12:12.320 Go live downtown La again. LAPD Chief Jim McDonald holding 227 00:12:12.320 --> 00:12:13.039 a news conference. 228 00:12:13.240 --> 00:12:15.440 You know, be ready to go pack what you need up, 229 00:12:15.720 --> 00:12:18.240 but then please comply with these orders. Then we don't 230 00:12:18.279 --> 00:12:21.399 give them put them out lightly. When we believe that 231 00:12:21.440 --> 00:12:23.679 you're in the path of the fire, we're going to 232 00:12:23.799 --> 00:12:27.440 order that evacuation and we really really need your compliance 233 00:12:27.480 --> 00:12:29.960 on that because if we have to send people in 234 00:12:30.039 --> 00:12:33.320 to try and make rescues, those people are putting their 235 00:12:33.360 --> 00:12:35.799 lives on the line directly for something that could have 236 00:12:35.799 --> 00:12:40.000 been avoidable. Sheriff Louana mentioned looting. That's something that we 237 00:12:40.080 --> 00:12:42.440 also have to watch out for. That is incredible that 238 00:12:42.480 --> 00:12:45.559 we'd even have to talk about that during these tragic times. 239 00:12:45.799 --> 00:12:48.639 But we are going to take that also extremely seriously 240 00:12:48.919 --> 00:12:52.440 and we will follow up with that in the strongest 241 00:12:52.440 --> 00:12:53.159 way possible. 242 00:12:53.240 --> 00:12:56.879 Again, the LPD Chief Jim McDonald there from a news conference. 243 00:12:57.200 --> 00:12:59.960 There was a point that was made earlier lamer care 244 00:13:00.080 --> 00:13:03.000 and Bass is not yet in La although the expectation 245 00:13:03.159 --> 00:13:07.480 is that she's arriving back soon. When they held a 246 00:13:07.519 --> 00:13:09.960 news conference earlier today, they did mention that she was 247 00:13:10.919 --> 00:13:12.720 at the time that they held the news conference, she 248 00:13:12.759 --> 00:13:16.240 was in Dallas on her way eventually back to La. 249 00:13:16.600 --> 00:13:19.440 She had been in Africa. She'd been in the nation 250 00:13:19.519 --> 00:13:23.279 of Ghana, I believe for an inauguration. She was one 251 00:13:23.279 --> 00:13:27.840 of the guests at the inauguration. So this will continue 252 00:13:28.480 --> 00:13:31.440 through the day. The Palisades Fire is now up over 253 00:13:31.480 --> 00:13:35.080 eleven thousand, eight hundred acres, the largest of the fires. 254 00:13:35.120 --> 00:13:38.240 That is not a surprise. It continues to burn zero 255 00:13:38.279 --> 00:13:43.039 percent containment. The Eaten Fire in the Altadena Pasadena areas 256 00:13:43.159 --> 00:13:45.679 up over ten thousand, six hundred acres, according to the 257 00:13:45.720 --> 00:13:48.759 Angelis National Forest And we do know that there were 258 00:13:48.799 --> 00:13:52.000 a couple of fatalities in that eaten fire. We don't 259 00:13:52.039 --> 00:13:54.759 know why, we don't know what the cause was, but 260 00:13:55.360 --> 00:13:58.120 the fire department did say this morning that there were 261 00:13:58.159 --> 00:14:02.000 two fatalities also a number of significant injuries in both 262 00:14:02.120 --> 00:14:05.639 of those incidents. One of the telling comments today was 263 00:14:05.639 --> 00:14:10.080 from the county chief, Anthony Mark, the county fire chief, 264 00:14:10.399 --> 00:14:14.440 that said, we were not ready for this. And it 265 00:14:14.519 --> 00:14:17.799 wasn't that they simply didn't see it coming. It was 266 00:14:17.840 --> 00:14:22.519 that they didn't see this many fires coming this quickly. Yeah, 267 00:14:22.519 --> 00:14:25.320 and they're really even if even if all they were 268 00:14:25.360 --> 00:14:29.720 doing was concentrating all of their resources on the Palisades fire, 269 00:14:30.639 --> 00:14:32.279 they may not have been able to do much of 270 00:14:32.320 --> 00:14:33.360 anything differently. 271 00:14:33.480 --> 00:14:36.360 No, No, because because it took off so fast, it. 272 00:14:36.320 --> 00:14:39.639 Took off so fast, the conditions were so bad, they 273 00:14:39.679 --> 00:14:41.600 were so in over their head and there. 274 00:14:41.519 --> 00:14:44.279 Was no way in and such a small way out. 275 00:14:44.639 --> 00:14:48.639 Continuing well over twenty four hours of our special fire 276 00:14:48.720 --> 00:14:52.240 coverage here in southern California, New York Post headline this 277 00:14:52.320 --> 00:14:58.519 morning with just the most devastating fire images lost Angelus, Wow, 278 00:15:00.360 --> 00:15:03.879 the Palisades Fire burning out the Pacific Palisades Santa Monica 279 00:15:03.919 --> 00:15:08.159 Malibu area is up over eleven eight hundred acres. According 280 00:15:08.159 --> 00:15:11.559 to a firefighter for La City. They said it started 281 00:15:11.679 --> 00:15:14.960 as a backyard fire, but didn't get into the specifics 282 00:15:14.960 --> 00:15:18.080 of what that exactly meant, but the county did say 283 00:15:18.120 --> 00:15:22.120 that more than one thousand structures have been destroyed. At 284 00:15:22.200 --> 00:15:25.360 this point, they didn't have any fatalities reported in that fire, 285 00:15:25.759 --> 00:15:27.720 but a high number of what they referred to as 286 00:15:27.720 --> 00:15:29.240 significant injuries. 287 00:15:28.960 --> 00:15:32.840 Including to first responders, making it the most devastating fire 288 00:15:32.960 --> 00:15:34.600 in Los Angeles history. 289 00:15:35.360 --> 00:15:38.320 The Eton Fire, burning your Altadina and Pasadena is up 290 00:15:38.360 --> 00:15:41.159 over ten thousand, six hundred acres according to the Angelus 291 00:15:41.279 --> 00:15:44.639 National Forest. Now that one did have a couple of fatalities, 292 00:15:44.639 --> 00:15:48.440 but they don't know the cause of the fatalities, number 293 00:15:48.480 --> 00:15:52.039 of significant injuries, and well over one hundred structures they 294 00:15:52.039 --> 00:15:54.799 say destroyed. I mean, you could just you could see 295 00:15:54.799 --> 00:15:57.720 that in some of the early television reports from today. 296 00:15:57.840 --> 00:16:02.360 Multiple homes in many areas along the foothills there that 297 00:16:02.440 --> 00:16:04.879 were destroyed in Altadina and Pasadena. 298 00:16:05.000 --> 00:16:07.399 Not that it matters, but it is Awards season. Critics 299 00:16:07.519 --> 00:16:11.480 Choice Awards ceremony has been postponed. The AFI Awards has 300 00:16:11.519 --> 00:16:15.840 been postponed. The King's Game tonight has been postponed as well. 301 00:16:16.200 --> 00:16:18.799 Everything seems to be shutting down. Everyone says to stay 302 00:16:18.799 --> 00:16:22.440 home if you can. Like we mentioned, this wind event 303 00:16:22.519 --> 00:16:28.440 continues into tomorrow, I believe until tomorrow afternoon. Now, the 304 00:16:28.480 --> 00:16:32.559 most destructive wins, as we have reiterated, have already passed. 305 00:16:32.600 --> 00:16:36.320 Those were last night between ten pm and five am. 306 00:16:36.360 --> 00:16:38.279 And if you were in the fire arees, you felt 307 00:16:38.320 --> 00:16:42.919 and wins like you've never felt before. I compared my 308 00:16:43.080 --> 00:16:46.000 backyard there in the two ten Foothill area to just 309 00:16:46.039 --> 00:16:49.039 a freaking popcorn machine with the tables and the chairs 310 00:16:49.120 --> 00:16:51.519 and the plants and everything else in the backyard, very 311 00:16:51.559 --> 00:16:55.720 small backyard, but just continuing to bounce around as long 312 00:16:55.759 --> 00:16:59.840 as I was there till we were evacuated. So it's 313 00:16:59.879 --> 00:17:03.039 a crazy, crazy time, a lot of shock, a lot 314 00:17:03.039 --> 00:17:06.400 of fear that's going on right now as people return 315 00:17:06.480 --> 00:17:11.160 to nothing. Some neighborhoods still without firefighters because the agencies 316 00:17:11.160 --> 00:17:14.480 are spread too thin, are putting out their own fires 317 00:17:14.680 --> 00:17:17.400 and trying to stop the flames from reaching the houses 318 00:17:17.400 --> 00:17:18.519 if they haven't already done so. 319 00:17:18.799 --> 00:17:22.519 And yeah, you are going to see the red flags 320 00:17:22.640 --> 00:17:27.160 continue in terms of the fire weather warnings, because while 321 00:17:27.160 --> 00:17:30.240 we won't see sixty seventy eighty mile an hour gusts anymore, 322 00:17:30.319 --> 00:17:33.279 doesn't look like we will still see gusts of twenty 323 00:17:33.319 --> 00:17:35.880 five thirty five miles an hour, which are plenty to 324 00:17:36.000 --> 00:17:41.440 cause multiple problems. We might not see the embers flying 325 00:17:41.640 --> 00:17:44.480 two three miles through the air like we saw last night, 326 00:17:45.160 --> 00:17:48.240 but we still see some very active flames throughout the 327 00:17:48.279 --> 00:17:50.920 fires and Pacific Palisades and altaden Opasadena. 328 00:17:51.039 --> 00:17:53.880 Well, like we talked about those embers yesterday, they didn't 329 00:17:53.920 --> 00:17:56.319 need to be sneaky. They were just going to be 330 00:17:56.400 --> 00:17:59.559 taken by the wind for whatever attack that they were 331 00:17:59.559 --> 00:18:01.680 going to be destined for when it comes to the 332 00:18:01.720 --> 00:18:04.519 next house or even a mile or two miles down 333 00:18:04.599 --> 00:18:07.559 the way. But now is time for those sneaky embers, 334 00:18:07.599 --> 00:18:11.480 the ones that may not be as obvious sneaking from 335 00:18:11.519 --> 00:18:14.039 home to home, from a burning home to a home 336 00:18:14.079 --> 00:18:16.440 maybe that's just across the street. We've seen these fires 337 00:18:16.519 --> 00:18:19.519 be very weird in the way that they move from 338 00:18:19.559 --> 00:18:23.000 home to home on the same street, right And most 339 00:18:23.039 --> 00:18:25.680 of the time that's because those sneaky embers will just 340 00:18:25.720 --> 00:18:28.880 kind of drift across the street, nestle in the eaves 341 00:18:29.119 --> 00:18:31.680 and attack that home from the inside. 342 00:18:32.400 --> 00:18:34.599 The other big fire that we're keeping an eye on 343 00:18:34.759 --> 00:18:37.160 is up in the northern end of the San Fernando Valley. 344 00:18:37.160 --> 00:18:39.960 The Hearst fire burning in Silmar is up about seven 345 00:18:40.039 --> 00:18:45.519 hundred acres. If there's any silver lining in that arena, 346 00:18:45.680 --> 00:18:47.759 it's that it is apparently burning in sort of the 347 00:18:47.799 --> 00:18:51.960 old burn scar of the Saddle Ridge fire which went 348 00:18:52.000 --> 00:18:56.079 through that area a few years ago. That is the 349 00:18:56.119 --> 00:18:59.960 one that could potentially cause closure of a couple of fruit. 350 00:19:00.279 --> 00:19:02.400 We know that the at least the westbound two ten 351 00:19:02.920 --> 00:19:05.480 was closed for quite a while, and there are exits 352 00:19:05.519 --> 00:19:07.880 along the five to get to the two ten that 353 00:19:07.920 --> 00:19:11.119 have been closed as well, as long as you see 354 00:19:11.119 --> 00:19:15.599 some of those evacuations in those same areas. 355 00:19:15.400 --> 00:19:18.839 Little Garriash, I mean, this is Danny Martinez again. I 356 00:19:18.880 --> 00:19:22.119 was just wondering how many more insurance companies are going 357 00:19:22.200 --> 00:19:26.079 to quit writing policies here in California because of the 358 00:19:26.119 --> 00:19:29.200 fires and all the policies are going to have to 359 00:19:29.240 --> 00:19:32.880 pay out not only house policies, but out of policies. 360 00:19:33.279 --> 00:19:35.359 You know, that is an interesting That's one of those 361 00:19:35.519 --> 00:19:38.559 that'll be a story for another day, but a story nonetheless. 362 00:19:38.599 --> 00:19:41.039 Absolutely, there's going to be a lot of stories that 363 00:19:41.119 --> 00:19:45.599 we get to after the initial shock and awe is over. 364 00:19:45.720 --> 00:19:46.920 What's far from being over. 365 00:19:47.319 --> 00:19:49.880 I'd love to say that this is a done deal, 366 00:19:49.920 --> 00:19:53.079 but these fires remain out of control. We talked with 367 00:19:53.519 --> 00:19:56.599 Sue Cole from the Pacific Policies Community Council. She brought 368 00:19:56.680 --> 00:19:58.319 up a good point when we spoke to her earlier 369 00:19:58.519 --> 00:20:02.319 this morning, and she said that, you know, she talked 370 00:20:02.319 --> 00:20:04.839 about the homes being gone, her home, she doesn't know 371 00:20:04.920 --> 00:20:07.640 about her friends have lost homes. But it's the schools 372 00:20:07.640 --> 00:20:11.240 that are gone. It's the businesses that are gone. You've 373 00:20:11.240 --> 00:20:16.319 seen churches gone in Pasadena, you see schools gone in Altadena. 374 00:20:16.759 --> 00:20:20.599 It's just centers of community, not just homes, centers of family, 375 00:20:20.640 --> 00:20:22.599 but centers of the community that are gone as well. 376 00:20:22.640 --> 00:20:24.640 And we saw this in Paradise when the whole town 377 00:20:24.720 --> 00:20:25.359 was wiped out. 378 00:20:25.400 --> 00:20:28.880 The hardware store, the gas station that you stop by 379 00:20:28.480 --> 00:20:30.960 every morning to fill up and all of that. 380 00:20:30.880 --> 00:20:31.680 Stuff is gone. 381 00:20:31.759 --> 00:20:34.440 Hey, Gary, Hay Shannon, just want to thank you guys 382 00:20:34.480 --> 00:20:37.359 for giving all the news and eclipse about this terrible fire. 383 00:20:38.000 --> 00:20:41.119 My folks are eighty five and my dad's got dementia 384 00:20:41.200 --> 00:20:43.799 and they lost power last night. They're up in Eagle 385 00:20:43.880 --> 00:20:47.680 Rock next to Pasadena, and my mom was freaking out, 386 00:20:47.720 --> 00:20:50.240 so I told her to just grab your transistor radio 387 00:20:50.319 --> 00:20:52.799 put on AM six forty so you can keep in 388 00:20:52.839 --> 00:20:55.640 touch with what's going on. You guys are always funny, 389 00:20:55.640 --> 00:20:58.359 but now you guys are given some serious hero work, 390 00:20:58.359 --> 00:20:59.319 and I want to thank. 391 00:20:59.160 --> 00:20:59.759 You, not hero. 392 00:21:01.039 --> 00:21:04.599 A couple of images that we saw that will and 393 00:21:04.640 --> 00:21:07.559 he brings up. One of them was the image of 394 00:21:07.559 --> 00:21:12.200 the people being escorted out of that rest home in 395 00:21:12.279 --> 00:21:16.720 Altadena last night when wheelchairs and being walked out to 396 00:21:17.160 --> 00:21:19.279 get to a safe area. The other one was the 397 00:21:19.319 --> 00:21:24.240 burned out line of cars on Palisades Drive from this morning. 398 00:21:24.400 --> 00:21:26.680 I mean, it's hard enough thinking about you're in the 399 00:21:26.920 --> 00:21:28.920 golden time of your life and you've got to be 400 00:21:29.000 --> 00:21:32.400 wheeled out of your of your home already and then 401 00:21:32.400 --> 00:21:33.079