Speaker 1: This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to kf
Speaker 1: I AM six forty the Gary and Shannon Show on
Speaker 1: demand on the iHeartRadio app. You know, I'm in Houston
Speaker 1: here for the wild Card game Chargers Texans, and I
Speaker 1: was walking around, you know how we don't have anybody
Speaker 1: that works in La Yes.
Speaker 2: It's a ghost studios, not just because of fires, not
Speaker 2: just because of COVID.
Speaker 3: It's just been a ghost town here, right.
Speaker 1: It's like this huge building with like six people in
Speaker 1: it anyway, So like when we walk around there, it's
Speaker 1: not a problem for me to have my tourettes. I
Speaker 1: was walking around in the hallways here and it's an
Speaker 1: iHeart studio, so it kind of looks like home, but
Speaker 1: it's not, you know, with the iHeart insignia, same kind
Speaker 1: of glass doors, red red walls.
Speaker 4: Things like that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I was walking in the bathroom and I
Speaker 1: was like, las us Center and then I was like,
Speaker 1: uh oh, and I kind of looked at her.
Speaker 2: I told you the other day, I said, listen, we
Speaker 2: need to cut down this singing just a bit, keep
Speaker 2: you to one song.
Speaker 1: And I tried, I really should be let out of
Speaker 1: our little cage there I tried.
Speaker 2: The National Guard is in town, they are in place.
Speaker 2: They are going to help enforce a curfew that was
Speaker 2: announced just last night went into place all of the
Speaker 2: Palisades and eaten fire areas and all areas that are
Speaker 2: under evacuation orders. There is a curfew in place between
Speaker 2: six pm and six am. Sheriff Luna at the news
Speaker 2: conference this morning said, you are subject to arrest if
Speaker 2: you are in those areas at that time, even if
Speaker 2: you live there. He said, it's not to try to
Speaker 2: punish people, it's try to protect the properties that exist,
Speaker 2: and the easiest way to do that is with a
Speaker 2: pretty blanket curfew from six pm to six am again
Speaker 2: in those areas of the Palisades and eaten Fires, and
Speaker 2: any other areas where there is an evacuation order in place.
Speaker 2: Side not the red flag warnings are expected to expire
Speaker 2: at about six o'clock tonight, but the National Weather Services
Speaker 2: the gusty winds out of the North could come back
Speaker 2: Sunday and the early part of next week.
Speaker 1: I just got an alert from the Watch Duty app,
Speaker 1: which has been incredible throughout these all of these incidents
Speaker 1: and a bunch of evacuation orders and warnings have been
Speaker 1: lifted for Glendale, which is great as well. Every time
Speaker 1: we get an alert that something's been lifted, it's been nice.
Speaker 1: Michael Monks has been spending some time in the Pacific Palisades,
Speaker 1: joins us now with the latest of what he has
Speaker 1: been able to take in from the scene there.
Speaker 5: Good morning, Gary, Good morning Shannon.
Speaker 1: Yes it is.
Speaker 5: You know, you see the images from ten thousand feet
Speaker 5: and it's shocking to come up close to it. It's
Speaker 5: something that won't leave your mind maybe ever, it's just
Speaker 5: so disturbing to see one of the most aspirational places
Speaker 5: of LA basically wiped off the map. I'll let you know.
Speaker 5: If my connection is bad, go ahead and dump me.
Speaker 5: I'll try to call in on the phone. It's been
Speaker 5: really difficult to get proper coverage out here, so I've
Speaker 5: been moving around a lot. I'm at will Rogers State
Speaker 5: Beach right now, and you know, it's one of those
Speaker 5: California days. On one side, when you look out, you
Speaker 5: have the water and the sun shining a little bit,
Speaker 5: but the haze has blocked much of the horizon and
Speaker 5: then Pacific Coast Highway, no civilian traffic really at all.
Speaker 5: It's all emergency vehicles and not just our own. I've
Speaker 5: seen fire trucks from San Francisco. I've seen fire trucks
Speaker 5: from Clark County, Nevada, Las Vegas, so this is quite
Speaker 5: a scene. I haven't seen the National Guard yet, but
Speaker 5: as you noted just now, Gary, they are apparently on
Speaker 5: their way to the various areas hit and that's only
Speaker 5: going to add to the surreality of what we're experiencing
Speaker 5: in these places, because it does look like a war zone,
Speaker 5: and a fresh one. The way the smoke is still
Speaker 5: kind of coming off of the ground and some of
Speaker 5: these burned out places. Oh, I spoke too soon. The
Speaker 5: National Guard has literally just rolled in past this beach.
Speaker 5: They are going past me right now. I'm seeing the
Speaker 5: big humbis the camouflage. Here they come. So the National
Speaker 5: Guard has arrived in Pacific Palisades right this moment.
Speaker 2: Hey tell us about these hikers that you were able
Speaker 2: to talk to, all right, you know, I mentioned I
Speaker 2: was looking for some service and I've had to move
Speaker 2: around a lot, and I found myself next to some
Speaker 2: portolettes on.
Speaker 5: The on Pacific Coast Highway and was able to get
Speaker 5: a signal there, so I set up shop.
Speaker 3: I know, in case I had to pee too.
Speaker 5: It's like, all right, I got a signal and a toilet.
Speaker 4: Hey, when you're a re border, you know the free bathroom.
Speaker 3: Good point.
Speaker 5: Oh absolutely not, no question, because this Stanley cup was
Speaker 5: about to be filled.
Speaker 3: So we all got luck.
Speaker 5: Anyway, these two guys, these two guys were walking and
Speaker 5: you know, I'm from downtown La, so I'm a little
Speaker 5: shady when you know folks are approaching me that I
Speaker 5: don't know, because you gotta stay alert. And they did
Speaker 5: look a little dirty and weird, but they approached and
Speaker 5: they were asking if I had any water, and I did, thankfully.
Speaker 5: I hadn't dumped out the cup to pee in it,
Speaker 5: so I had the water still in there, and so
Speaker 5: I let them drink it. And I asked them, you know,
Speaker 5: where did you guys come from? And they were hiking,
Speaker 5: and so originally I thought, oh my god, what a
Speaker 5: story to think that you went up into the trails
Speaker 5: before all hell broke loose and you're just now getting out. No,
Speaker 5: sixteen hours ago is when they decided it was a
Speaker 5: great idea to go hiking near the Palisades.
Speaker 3: And it didn't go well for them. As you can't imagine.
Speaker 3: They're alive.
Speaker 5: They weren't harmed, but they had no supplies left, they
Speaker 5: were sweaty, they were tired.
Speaker 3: They went.
Speaker 5: I went in a little piece of the interview.
Speaker 4: Oh, and then all of a sudden.
Speaker 3: If you want to hear, it's.
Speaker 6: Crazy, and we're like oh, and we were like, okay,
Speaker 6: well fine, we would turn back around, and we'd love to.
Speaker 6: We saw a whole bunch of orange and we're like,
Speaker 6: maybe just keep going the same direction, kind of think
Speaker 6: we kind of already made the dumb mistake and just
Speaker 6: keep going. And then yeah, we got by like this
Speaker 6: rock corner and we were like, do we keep going
Speaker 6: or not? And we said, screw it, let's just like
Speaker 6: stay here for like ten minutes. And that ten minutes
Speaker 6: became like three four hours, and we literally had like
Speaker 6: like hell fire waves going over us. But we're in
Speaker 6: rock and I've traveled quite a bit, so I was
Speaker 6: kind of aware that, like, as long as you're not
Speaker 6: somewhere super combustible, all you have to worry about is
Speaker 6: asphyxiation suffocation.
Speaker 4: So it gets just get low.
Speaker 1: God, the evolution of Michael Monks should not be overlooked
Speaker 1: this week from going to the evacuation center and not
Speaker 1: wanting to disturb people who were evacuated being sensitive to that,
Speaker 1: to nearly peeing in his cup and talking to hobos
Speaker 1: on drugs coming out of the hiking trails and the flames.
Speaker 1: It has been an evolution and I'm here for it.
Speaker 3: It's a growing experience.
Speaker 5: And I'll also let you know that I relate to
Speaker 5: your turettes because I mean, I'm sitting here in this
Speaker 5: war zone waiting for this life hit to come up.
Speaker 5: But I'm like, I feel incredible. You know, you hear
Speaker 5: these things enough and you start to lose your mind.
Speaker 3: I know, I know, I hear you, and I do
Speaker 3: love I do love that.
Speaker 2: One of the hikers said, I've traveled quite a bit,
Speaker 2: and then that somehow translates into him becoming a fire
Speaker 2: behavior expert.
Speaker 5: Well, he seemed a little silly, but he's from up
Speaker 5: in Bear Springs Valley, he says, and that seems like
Speaker 5: a pretty nice place. So, I mean, they weren't completely crazy,
Speaker 5: but they did something crazy, and you could tell that
Speaker 5: they regretted. In fact, I asked them that, and he
Speaker 5: says that he probably shouldn't have. I asked you know,
Speaker 5: they couldn't use their phones either. There's no service up here,
Speaker 5: so they could not get a hold of anybody to
Speaker 5: even tell them that they were stupid and went into
Speaker 5: these trails, which is probably a good thing, he says,
Speaker 5: because if they had to be airlifted, he would have
Speaker 5: owed about fifty five thousand dollars to the state of California.
Speaker 5: But when he finally met the first responders of the
Speaker 5: police outside the trails, they got a scolding and directed
Speaker 5: on their way. No, he was like, I was sad
Speaker 5: they didn't give us a ride, Like, oh, there's some
Speaker 5: things going on here.
Speaker 1: I mean, talk about a bill that would never be
Speaker 1: So take a hike, you know what. It feels really
Speaker 1: good to laugh. Thank you, Michael.
Speaker 3: It's always my pleasure. Michael Monk's out there in Pacific Palisades. Okay, So.
Speaker 2: Keana producer Keana just got about ten fifteen minutes ago,
Speaker 2: got another alert that she needed to evacuate.
Speaker 4: Is she anywhere near a fire zone?
Speaker 3: No, right, she's in the other room.
Speaker 4: I know that, But I mean is her residence?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 1: Do they go based off of where your phone is
Speaker 1: or where you live?
Speaker 7: Well?
Speaker 2: Mine, the way I have it set up is it
Speaker 2: goes through location services. So this morning, when I drove
Speaker 2: through what was an evacuation warning area, it gave me
Speaker 2: an alert that says you're entering an evacuation warning area.
Speaker 2: That was for about four minutes on the freeway, and
Speaker 2: then I got here again. This is after I was
Speaker 2: woken up by the false alert alert at four am,
Speaker 2: and then the other one from night before four pm.
Speaker 2: The explanation for this is completely unnecessary. What is necessary
Speaker 2: is the county explaining how they're going to prevent it
Speaker 2: from happening again and how they're going to restore trust
Speaker 2: in this app that they are using to try to
Speaker 2: get information out.
Speaker 3: We'll talk about it when we come.
Speaker 4: This is why I don't have any of those alerts
Speaker 4: set up by way.
Speaker 3: I know.
Speaker 2: Well, we're continuing to talk about the fires. Of course,
Speaker 2: we will talk a little bit later into more detail
Speaker 2: about the iHeartMedia Los Angeles teaming up with the Dream
Speaker 2: Center LA committed to providing immediate support and resources to
Speaker 2: anybody in need during these incredible fire siege that we
Speaker 2: have seen. You can donate at the Dreamcenter dot org
Speaker 2: slash donate actively collecting and distributing a bunch of disaster
Speaker 2: relief supplies for communities, and we need things like bottled water,
Speaker 2: sports drinks, non perishable food items, hygiene products obviously, clothing
Speaker 2: and blankets, flash lights, batteries, portable phone chargers for power
Speaker 2: outages that people are still dealing with, pets, food and supplies.
Speaker 2: We'll talk more about it as we get through the
Speaker 2: as we get through the day today, but dreamcenter dot
Speaker 2: org slash donate is one way you can do that.
Speaker 2: You mentioned Shannon's in Houston today for tomorrow's wild Card
Speaker 2: game between the Chargers and the text and.
Speaker 1: So I have time for a brief story. Of course, Okay,
Speaker 1: here's a brief story. May not be that brief. I'm
Speaker 1: a little long winded.
Speaker 4: So yesterday, thank you off Yesterday. I have a clock. Yesterday.
Speaker 1: We get to the facility and everyone's wearing LA Fire
Speaker 1: Department hats, La County Fire Department hats. The whole team,
Speaker 1: the whole staff, we're all wearing them, right, We wear
Speaker 1: them on the plane. We get to Houston, where it's
Speaker 1: wonder raining and cold and you could breathe and it
Speaker 1: was incredible. And we get to the hotel and it's
Speaker 1: a it's an older Marriott and we get We get
Speaker 1: there and it's always a crush to the elevators, right,
Speaker 1: so it's a large influx of people to be getting
Speaker 1: upstairs at one time.
Speaker 4: But anyway, I.
Speaker 1: Get upstairs and we get got it about nine thirty.
Speaker 1: I hadn't really eaten anything, and so I ordered a pizza. Listen,
Speaker 1: I'm rationalizing the pizza. I ordered a pizza. I wanted pizza, Okay,
Speaker 1: I wanted right. So I go downstairs to get my
Speaker 1: pizza to pick it up from the Uber Eats. It's
Speaker 1: about ten o'clock and at ten o'clock local time, and
Speaker 1: the elevator is taking forever.
Speaker 4: I'm on the tenth floor. It's taking forever and ever
Speaker 4: and ever, Like, what the hell's going on? Whatever?
Speaker 1: So I get downstairs or I'm all my way down
Speaker 1: and offensive coordinator comes into the elevators like, can you
Speaker 1: believe that the elevators are stuck again?
Speaker 4: I said what?
Speaker 1: Because it when we were in Dallas, there was a
Speaker 1: group of guys that got stuck in an elevator, justin
Speaker 1: Herbert included Dan Felt's wife was in there for two
Speaker 1: and a half hours, okay.
Speaker 4: And so it was a big story.
Speaker 1: Jim Harbaugh came out, was like, I wish I was
Speaker 1: stuck in that elevator.
Speaker 4: I want to be in the war.
Speaker 7: You know.
Speaker 1: It was like this great team building moment. You know,
Speaker 1: one of the things that Justin he doesn't often post
Speaker 1: to social media, but every time he has, he hashtags
Speaker 1: no elevators. The team even had hats made with a
Speaker 1: picture of an elevator and a red ex going through it.
Speaker 1: It's been a huge deal for the fan base. Everyone's
Speaker 1: kind of bonded together over no elevators this season.
Speaker 4: So I get.
Speaker 1: Downstairs and I see and Greg Grolman's like look, and
Speaker 1: I look at the elevator and it's clearly stuck in
Speaker 1: between the floors. And so there were some coaches on it,
Speaker 1: a couple players. I think John Spanos was on there
Speaker 1: as well. So I get downstairs finally to the lobby
Speaker 1: and the police the fire department's there and he Waston
Speaker 1: Fire Department, and then they're coming in with all their equipment,
Speaker 1: and here's a contention of us in the lobby all
Speaker 1: wearing La Fire Department hats as the Houston Fire Department's
Speaker 1: coming in.
Speaker 4: So it was very funny. They were able to make
Speaker 4: quick work out of it.
Speaker 1: I think they were only stuck in there for about
Speaker 1: twenty minutes, but it was just and then I saw
Speaker 1: the GM this morning.
Speaker 4: I go, maybe this is a good sign.
Speaker 1: He's like absolutely, He's like, we won that game, so.
Speaker 4: Here we go.
Speaker 2: He's about the state of Texas and the elevator and
Speaker 2: the elevators all right. Well, listen, a lot of people
Speaker 2: are being having their heads put on a stake because
Speaker 2: of what's been going on in terms of fire response
Speaker 2: and fire preparedness. I think this guy might be the
Speaker 2: first guy to lose his job.
Speaker 8: I can't express enough how sorry I am for this experience.
Speaker 2: This is the guy in charge of La County's Office
Speaker 2: of Emergency Management, the agency that's responsible for now at
Speaker 2: least two false alerts that went out on everybody list.
Speaker 4: These two missus.
Speaker 1: Patricia says she got three false alerts. She said, the
Speaker 1: first two she loaded the car. The second or the
Speaker 1: third alert, she made a cup of tea.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's the problem. There had been some announcement.
Speaker 2: I didn't know where it come came from. I didn't
Speaker 2: hear it, but somebody said the Chargers game was postpone removed.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Amy's okay, Well, I got a couple texts from
Speaker 1: people that it may have been in one of Amy's newscasts.
Speaker 2: Oh well that wasn't, because I'll hear it. No, no, no, no.
Speaker 2: The Rams game that's scheduled for Monday night has been
Speaker 2: moved out of so far to what is it state Arizona.
Speaker 3: To Glendale, Arizona.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so the game will take place, and in fact,
Speaker 2: tickets are on sale for season ticket holders for the
Speaker 2: Rams right now. If you're here and you want to
Speaker 2: make plans and go to the game Monday in Arizona.
Speaker 2: For the first two hours of ticket sales, it's only
Speaker 2: open to Ram season ticket holders, and then at noon,
Speaker 2: I guess the NFL opens it up to everybody else.
Speaker 1: God bless her Art's trying to pack that with Rams
Speaker 1: fans when you know that the Vikings fans travel with
Speaker 1: a hunger, with a drive, with the give me the
Speaker 1: Lombardi Trophy spirits.
Speaker 3: They give me the trophy spirit.
Speaker 1: Yes, they are hungry that fan base. I love the
Speaker 1: Vikings fan base, by the way. They are good people.
Speaker 1: We wish I could say the same for the Rams.
Speaker 4: I can't.
Speaker 3: Wow. Oh you're gonna make friends.
Speaker 4: I don't care.
Speaker 3: That's that's something about you that's awful.
Speaker 1: They're awful fans. They use those noise makers there. It's
Speaker 1: so far the Rams fans do, which because they.
Speaker 2: Know the World Cup soccer ones, the Vuzelas or whatever
Speaker 2: they are.
Speaker 1: Now they're like they're they're smaller, and it's like it's
Speaker 1: like it's an admonition, like they know that there's not
Speaker 1: enough of them, so they have to amplify the sound
Speaker 1: of each person.
Speaker 4: Wow, it's true, sad.
Speaker 2: La County is in the hot seat, and I mean
Speaker 2: that both ways. La County itself has been sending out
Speaker 2: false alert for people to evacuate, or at least telling
Speaker 2: them that they are in evacuation warning zones. I got
Speaker 2: one yesterday afternoon. I got one this morning at four am.
Speaker 2: Keana got one about nine to forty five. And we're
Speaker 2: not the only ones, hey.
Speaker 9: Garan Chan, I love the show. I also got those
Speaker 9: false notifications. I'm down in Orange County. My wife got
Speaker 9: one this morning. And I actually lived in Honolulu when
Speaker 9: we got the false notification about the nuclear warhead that
Speaker 9: was going to come and decimate the island a handful.
Speaker 3: Of years ago.
Speaker 9: What they found there, and I'm sure what they'll find
Speaker 9: here is it's the human element sitting behind the computer
Speaker 9: pushing the buttons that causes the false notifications. Just my thought.
Speaker 9: Take care.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So Kevin McGowan is the director of the Office of
Speaker 2: Emergency Management and his explanation of what's going wrong.
Speaker 3: Is so stupid, It is so.
Speaker 2: Idiotic that it almost defies credulity to even play it.
Speaker 8: First of all, I want to clear this is not
Speaker 8: human driven. There is no one sitting at a desk
Speaker 8: right now initiating emergency alerts. I want to restate that
Speaker 8: right now, as these alerts are being issued, they are
Speaker 8: not being activated or initiated by a person.
Speaker 2: Okay, does that make you feel better that it's not
Speaker 2: a human being who is sending out false alerts a
Speaker 2: little bit?
Speaker 3: Why?
Speaker 1: Because humans are more likely to error than machines are.
Speaker 1: If they're machines that are calibrated correctly to know exactly
Speaker 1: which areas are affected, which I believe would involve a
Speaker 1: human at some stage.
Speaker 2: Well, okay, that's that's the key. It should involve a
Speaker 2: human at some stage if there's if there's an alert
Speaker 2: that's going to go out to the entire county, why
Speaker 2: isn't there somebody in that chain of command that can
Speaker 2: click a yes or a no button. Yes this needs
Speaker 2: to go out to the entire county, or no, we
Speaker 2: need to rethink this before we send the alert.
Speaker 1: The thing I don't like about it is the complete
Speaker 1: lack of accountability.
Speaker 4: Say we screwed up.
Speaker 1: There's so few times when people will have the balls
Speaker 1: to get up and be.
Speaker 4: Like, I screwed up. We screwed up. This is screwed up,
Speaker 4: you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: It's just like this, like you said, obfuscating all the
Speaker 1: time from all of these people. I did a deep
Speaker 1: dive on this kid, Kevin McGowan, wanting to know what
Speaker 1: his deal.
Speaker 3: Is lot tea dot com? Is that where he looked?
Speaker 1: No, Actually, he's a veteran. He was in the army
Speaker 1: for eight years. He went to Harvard, he did some
Speaker 1: time with FEMA, Naval postgraduate school, went to got his
Speaker 1: bachelor's poll PSI from North Carolina, went to Pepperdine for
Speaker 1: his masters. So there's a little low tea mixed in
Speaker 1: there with FEMA and well some other things. But I mean,
Speaker 1: he is a veteran. He's only been on the job
Speaker 1: since twenty nineteen, so it's kind of been like a
Speaker 1: dead zone. I guess you could say after COVID and
Speaker 1: all of that, but but you got to have accountability
Speaker 1: when you're the director of emergency services and those things
Speaker 1: go wrong. I mean, it's right there in the title, right.
Speaker 1: This is when people need somebody the most. It's an emergency.
Speaker 1: And if you're the head of the department that's going
Speaker 1: to be decimating the information, disseminating the information, then you
Speaker 1: need to be accountable. You need to make sure all
Speaker 1: the t's are crossing, the eyes are dotted, the buck
Speaker 1: stops with you, and if you're not willing to get
Speaker 1: up there and say that, then that's a problem.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I mean he was asked that in an interview very
Speaker 2: early this morning that I heard. Kevin McGowan was asked
Speaker 2: where does the buck stop? Who is responsible for this?
Speaker 2: And he refused to say who it was. I mean,
Speaker 2: I mean it's him. He's the director of the Office
Speaker 2: of Emergency Management. This is his buck to stop, and
Speaker 2: I'm glad he's got his best people on it. He
Speaker 2: talks about the state level, the femal level, they're all
Speaker 2: trying to help out figure out what's the ghost in
Speaker 2: the shell here, what's the bug in the system that's
Speaker 2: causing these things to go out? But in the meantime, listen,
Speaker 2: it's an inconvenience for someone like me. I haven't had
Speaker 2: to evacuate. My house is still standing. I haven't lost
Speaker 2: anybody to these fires. But imagine if you're one of
Speaker 2: the tens of thousands of people who has had to
Speaker 2: evacuate or has lost their home or property or car
Speaker 2: or their loved ones to this fire, and you keep
Speaker 2: getting these false alerts.
Speaker 1: I think the bigger detriment is what happens when you
Speaker 1: get one of these alerts and it's real.
Speaker 2: And you make you make a cup of tea instead
Speaker 2: of getting your stuff in the car and getting.
Speaker 3: Out of there.
Speaker 1: Well, you make an educated guess best based on the
Speaker 1: fact that you got three alerts in air the last time.
Speaker 4: This time, you know it should be talked about too.
Speaker 1: And we're kind of out of time here, but I
Speaker 1: do want to get into the forecast for next week
Speaker 1: because it's not great.
Speaker 4: But you set out.
Speaker 1: These boy that cry wolf of alerts and they just
Speaker 1: get watered down the next time they're absolutely real. And
Speaker 1: also think about people who have pets, you know, multiple
Speaker 1: dogs or cats or what have you. And every time
Speaker 1: they're loading up the car and the crates and the
Speaker 1: food and the pets and the whole bit. And then
Speaker 1: they drive down the block and they realize, oh, wait,
Speaker 1: there's nothing on fire here. Wait was that an error?
Speaker 1: And then and then you don't know where to go
Speaker 1: to find out what is What I.
Speaker 2: Will say this, Kevin McGowan did give information to do
Speaker 2: just that.
Speaker 8: I ask everyone that gets an alert to verify if
Speaker 8: they are in an evacuation warning or order to go
Speaker 8: to alert, La dot org, La County dot gov, slash
Speaker 8: emergency or dial to one one for assistance.
Speaker 3: Now those three areas should have.
Speaker 2: The other one is the Watch Duty app and that
Speaker 2: Genesis Protect app that have very updated information, which is
Speaker 2: where I went this morning to figure out that.
Speaker 4: It was a FALSEIL arm.
Speaker 3: But that's just me.
Speaker 2: We got word of another fire. This one is up
Speaker 2: in the north San Fernando Valley, again near where the
Speaker 2: Hearst fire was in Silmar, but this one is on
Speaker 2: the west side of I five. It's sort of in
Speaker 2: the Granada Hills area, just as I five goes up
Speaker 2: and over the New Hall Pass.
Speaker 3: It would be off to the west side.
Speaker 2: It's only about an acre or two, but it is
Speaker 2: in an area that is burning. It's burning uphill. There's
Speaker 2: very light flashy fuels in that area. Again, that's in
Speaker 2: the north San Fernando Valley in.
Speaker 4: Then is this the one called the Archer Fire?
Speaker 3: That is the Archer Fire? Okay?
Speaker 1: Yeah, they say light flashy fuels, winds at about five
Speaker 1: to ten miles per hour.
Speaker 4: Isn't that nice to hear? No homes threatened there?
Speaker 2: Well, we have teamed up with Dream Center Allay to
Speaker 2: try to bring some amount of relief essential disaster relief
Speaker 2: supplies to some of the communities that communities that have
Speaker 2: been impacted by these fires. Joining us to talk more
Speaker 2: about this whole pro Clint Carlton, Director of Disaster Relief
Speaker 2: for Dream Center, La Clint, thanks for thanks for picking
Speaker 2: up this mantle with us and trying to get things done.
Speaker 3: How's it going, Hey.
Speaker 7: Thank you guys, Gary and Shannon. We appreciate what you
Speaker 7: guys are doing over there with iHeart and and KFI.
Speaker 7: We we couldn't do it without people like you getting
Speaker 7: the word out about what the Dream Center is doing.
Speaker 7: The thing is is right now, I stand in the
Speaker 7: middle parking lot. There's over four hundred volunteers. There's a line.
Speaker 7: We have a line set up here at the Dream Center.
Speaker 7: If you don't know about the Dream Center, we were
Speaker 7: at one on one in Alvarado. We're the Old Queen
Speaker 7: of Angels Hospital. So we have a giant parking lot
Speaker 7: stand in the middle of parking lot right now, and
Speaker 7: we have a drop off location where people can drop
Speaker 7: off items to help people. And then we have a
Speaker 7: pickup location where people that have been affected by the fires,
Speaker 7: the very fires, I mean, we're adding another one on
Speaker 7: as you just said, where people can pick up items
Speaker 7: in Necessity's water, they can pick up palace for the family,
Speaker 7: baby supplies, diapers because a lot of these families they
Speaker 7: just ran out of their house with nothing, just to
Speaker 7: clothes on our back. Our founder and CEO, Matthew Barnet,
Speaker 7: he literally left his house. He had just his clothes
Speaker 7: on his back, and so we're having to float him
Speaker 7: as he's out serving people as well. Today.
Speaker 1: Pretty much every disaster, not just in Los Angeles but
Speaker 1: around the country, the Dream Center has been a haven
Speaker 1: for people in terms of throwing open your doors. I
Speaker 1: think a lot of people in various different disasters at
Speaker 1: least since I've been in La past twenty five years
Speaker 1: or so, that where people have even relocated to La
Speaker 1: from other parts of the country after spending some time
Speaker 1: at the Dream Center and getting on their feet.
Speaker 7: Yeah. Yeah, we during if you've noticed, during Katrina, that
Speaker 7: was one of the first big ones that I started
Speaker 7: working on. I'm the director of disaster relief for the
Speaker 7: Dream Center, and during Katrina, we took in people that
Speaker 7: were their homes were demolished during the hurricane, and we
Speaker 7: they were able. We had a chef, I remember, a chef,
Speaker 7: Eddie Murphy, actually got him a job at his restaurant.
Speaker 7: And so that's the thing about the Dream Centered day
Speaker 7: is there's a lot of these shelters that are temporary shelters,
Speaker 7: but some of these people have lost their homes and
Speaker 7: that are staying here and they're scared and they don't
Speaker 7: know there's so much uncertainty going on right now with insurance,
Speaker 7: and so we want to give them time to rebuild
Speaker 7: their life, and so we tell them where they come in,
Speaker 7: there's no deadline for you to leave right now. If
Speaker 7: your family needs to stay here for six months, nine
Speaker 7: months a year to get yourself back on track. That's
Speaker 7: what you're gonna do. But that's what we do with
Speaker 7: everyone's life. When we deal with the homeless families, when
Speaker 7: we're dealing with the veterans, we say we give them
Speaker 7: the luxury of time. And I think that's what the
Speaker 7: Dream Center's doing today.
Speaker 3: What are the easiest ways for people to give?
Speaker 7: Easiest ways to give, I would say text relief to
Speaker 7: three three one zero zero. Text relief to three three
Speaker 7: one zero zero. Or you can go to kf I
Speaker 7: am sixty dot com backslash donate if you want to
Speaker 7: get finance, so you can go on and check that.
Speaker 7: If you want to volunteer, you can come down here
Speaker 7: and volunteer. But also if you want to drop off items, howels, sheet, bedsheets,
Speaker 7: just your basic necessities. We need those right now. Cases
Speaker 7: of water, so they can come down bring it down
Speaker 7: to the Dream Center. We're going to be here till
Speaker 7: late in the night receiving donations, so drop off your
Speaker 7: donation anytime you want. We're going to be here.
Speaker 3: That is awesome.
Speaker 2: Clint, again, thank you for what it is that you
Speaker 2: guys are doing there at the Dream Center. We're very
Speaker 2: happy to be able to partner with you and try
Speaker 2: to make a difference over the next couple of days
Speaker 2: and weeks.
Speaker 7: Hey, garyan Chin and we appreciate you guys, and thanks
Speaker 7: for getting the word out and we're honored to partner
Speaker 7: with KFI on this again.
Speaker 2: What they need nonperishable food items, bottled water, hygiene products, clothing, blankets,
Speaker 2: baby supplies, air purifiers, things like flashlights, batteries, first aid kits,
Speaker 2: pet food and supplies, cleaning supplies. Again, you can drop
Speaker 2: off the essential items there at the Dream Center, but
Speaker 2: also monetary donations dreamcenter dot org slash donate. You can
Speaker 2: go to KFIAM six forty dot com slash donate or
Speaker 2: text the word relief to three three one zero zero.
Speaker 4: All right, coming up next.
Speaker 1: La County Fire officials say that our area is in
Speaker 1: a much better posture than we were earlier this week thankfully. Today, however,
Speaker 1: CRUs are bracing for another red flag warning expected to
Speaker 1: begin on Monday. We'll get details coming up in the
Speaker 1: next hour right here on Gary and Shannon.
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