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Speaker 2: time for your morning wake up call.
Speaker 3: Here's Amy King.
Speaker 4: It is five o'clock.
Speaker 5: This is your wake up call for Thursday, January ninth.
Speaker 5: I'm Amy King. Good morning to you. You know, it's
Speaker 5: it's hard because you you come into work and you
Speaker 5: want to be excited and have fun and all of that,
Speaker 5: and you've got wildfires burning and homes being destroyed, and
Speaker 5: it's such a surreal reality.
Speaker 4: Is that a thing? Surreal reality? But it's just odd and.
Speaker 5: Like we've talked about so many times, we've had fires
Speaker 5: all over southern California and you think, oh, it doesn't
Speaker 5: really affect me. These ones are affecting almost everybody. Got
Speaker 5: more than one hundred thousand people have been evacuated from
Speaker 5: their homes.
Speaker 4: Issue.
Speaker 5: If you were listening before five am, you may have
Speaker 5: heard Neil Savadra say he's going to be back on
Speaker 5: with us in just a couple of minutes. I mean,
Speaker 5: but the stories that we're hearing coming out of the
Speaker 5: fire areas and people outside the fire areas. Like I mentioned,
Speaker 5: I'm not in a fire area. I am very thankful
Speaker 5: for that. But last night I put together a go
Speaker 5: bag because the fire broke out in the Hollywood Hills
Speaker 5: in Runyon Canyon and evacuation orders went out, and I went,
Speaker 5: that's not that far from my house. And with the
Speaker 5: way that this fire has been acting and how erradic
Speaker 5: it is, and how those embers can go for miles,
Speaker 5: I thought I'd better at least get ready to go.
Speaker 5: So I got my little emergency bag. I got the
Speaker 5: cat carriers out. Thankfully didn't have to use them, and
Speaker 5: they seem to have got a handle on that fire
Speaker 5: pretty quickly, which is lovely and wonderful. But I mentioned
Speaker 5: the embers when I got home from work yesterday, and
Speaker 5: maybe you experienced this too. On my front porch, I
Speaker 5: was like, what is that? There's something black on my
Speaker 5: front porch. It was like a piece of you know,
Speaker 5: like it looked like a little piece of a burnt campfire,
Speaker 5: like a chunk of wood that had been charred. And
Speaker 5: there were several of them, like right there up against
Speaker 5: my front door. And I am nowhere near where those
Speaker 5: fires are burning. So those embers are traveling great distances
Speaker 5: and it's very, very scary. Here's what's ahead on wake
Speaker 5: up call. Just a quick recap of some of the
Speaker 5: fires that were following. In Pacific Palisades, the fire has
Speaker 5: torn through more than seventeen thousand acres, zero percent surrounded.
Speaker 5: Daylights given us images of total devastation with the wind
Speaker 5: whipped flames and embers jumping from home to home to
Speaker 5: businesses and schools throughout the Palisades area and parts of Malibu.
Speaker 5: In Malibu, dozens of homes along pch were completely destroyed.
Speaker 5: At least a thousand buildings have been lost. The Eton
Speaker 5: fire and Alta Loma in Pasadena grown to more than
Speaker 5: ten six hundred acres with about one thousand homes and
Speaker 5: other buildings destroyed. The hillside overnight was dotted with spot
Speaker 5: fires and fires that continue to burn through neighborhoods. The
Speaker 5: Hurst fires burned more than eight hundred and fifty acres
Speaker 5: with evacuation still in effect. Luckily in that area, while
Speaker 5: homes and communities are threatened, we do not have reports
Speaker 5: of any that have been lost. And then last night,
Speaker 5: as I mentioned, the fire broke out and running canyon,
Speaker 5: prompting immediate evacuation orders in Hollywood. The fire was attacked
Speaker 5: from the air by several water dropping helicopters. Firefighters were
Speaker 5: able to keep it from devastating neighborhoods like what happened
Speaker 5: in Altadena and the Palisades. Let's get started with some
Speaker 5: of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four
Speaker 5: hour newsroom that are all related to these fires. The
Speaker 5: fire in the Hollywood Hills burned about fifty acres. It
Speaker 5: started at five point thirty yesterday in an area near
Speaker 5: solar and astral drives. Fire crews, so the fire was
Speaker 5: moving quickly uphill and rapidly threatening Holmes. This man says
Speaker 5: he was worried his condo would burn.
Speaker 3: This is my whole life right here.
Speaker 6: You know. I spent my whole life savings to get
Speaker 6: by condo here, and so I.
Speaker 7: Lost my family during COVID, and so I don't.
Speaker 3: Really have anybody to call or anything. So it feels
Speaker 3: a little bit scary.
Speaker 5: Yeah, mandatory evacuation orders were issued, but most have been lifted,
Speaker 5: with the exception of the area north of Franklin Avenue
Speaker 5: from Camino Palmaro Street to Sierra Bonita Avenue. Firefighter has
Speaker 5: been watching for flare ups. The fire burning around Pacific
Speaker 5: Palisades in Malibu, as I mentioned, grown to more than
Speaker 5: seventeen thousand acres and zero percent can surrounded.
Speaker 6: The fire, which has been burning since Tuesday morning, has
Speaker 6: destroyed an estimated one thousand structures, making it the most
Speaker 6: destructive fire in the history of the city of Los Angeles.
Speaker 6: These structures damaged or destroyed include homes, businesses, schools, and
Speaker 6: historical landmarks in Pacific Palisades and Malibu.
Speaker 5: Ky if I's Mark Mayfield says tens of thousands of
Speaker 5: people are still under mandatory evacuation orders. Santa Monica has
Speaker 5: put a curfew in place because of the fire. It's
Speaker 5: in effect from sunset to sunrise. In areas where a
Speaker 5: mandatory evacuation order is in effect. There may be a
Speaker 5: tax break available for properties damaged by this week's wildfires.
Speaker 8: The La County Assessor says if there was more than
Speaker 8: ten thousand dollars in damage by the fire or the winds,
Speaker 8: owners should look into the Misfortune and Calamity Property tax
Speaker 8: Relief program. It offers temporary tax relief only assessing the
Speaker 8: property at its damaged value until it's fixed or rebuilt.
Speaker 8: The Assessor's office is closed this week, but there are
Speaker 8: local assistance centers set up around the county, and the
Speaker 8: application can also be found on the assessor's website. Michael
Speaker 8: Monks KFI News.
Speaker 4: Let's get a first look at your morning commute.
Speaker 5: We've got Devon in for WIS today because I passed
Speaker 5: the cred onto will so will. I apologize for sharing
Speaker 5: my cold with you last week, but let's check in
Speaker 5: with Devin.
Speaker 4: We've got a crash cleared.
Speaker 5: In Covina and so we're going to go to Corona instead,
Speaker 5: where there's a road closure on the ninety one.
Speaker 9: Yes, hopefully it's not an on airborne transmitted virus or
Speaker 9: a horrible joke to start.
Speaker 3: Off the day.
Speaker 4: I think, I think we're okay, we're in different rooms.
Speaker 9: Yes, thankfully that crash in Cavena has cleared out of
Speaker 9: the way, so don't worry about that. But we do
Speaker 9: have a number of closure in splace due to the fires.
Speaker 9: I should say people are being displaced due to those
Speaker 9: closures in place. The Palisades fire obviously, PHS closed north
Speaker 9: and southbound up and down from the McClure Tunnel all
Speaker 9: the way to Malibu Canyon and the ten westbound is
Speaker 9: closed there as you approach the mccor tunnel. As well,
Speaker 9: there is a closure that is non fire related out
Speaker 9: in Corona. It should be wrapping up any minute, if
Speaker 9: it hasn't already. The ninety one westbound right now from
Speaker 9: seventy one to Green River. Also, you got the fifty
Speaker 9: connectors to the ninety one westbound that were closed. They're
Speaker 9: supposed to end at five, so hopefully it's not too bad.
Speaker 9: Right now, we're not seeing any build ups. They were
Speaker 9: diverting drivers off at the seventy one and there has
Speaker 9: not been a backup just yet, but we'll keep an
Speaker 9: eye on it. Also, Lydia Fire, the Solidad Canyon Road
Speaker 9: is closed from Augua Dulce Canyon up to Crown Valley
Speaker 9: and Eaten Fire the main road that's closed. A lot
Speaker 9: of surface roads and connectors are closed, but the Angel's
Speaker 9: Crest Highway stretch heading up into the hills is closed,
Speaker 9: So just keep an eye out for that and we
Speaker 9: will do that as well. We Southern California's most accurate
Speaker 9: traffic reports. I'm Devin Hennessee.
Speaker 4: It's five oh seven on your wake up call.
Speaker 5: We're going to keep you up to date, and we're
Speaker 5: going to be checking in with the National Weather Service
Speaker 5: during wake up call, see what's up with the weather.
Speaker 5: We're also going to be talking, I believe, with somebody
Speaker 5: from La Fire get the latest on the big fires
Speaker 5: burning with ABC's Melissa A. Don And you know, the
Speaker 5: animals are a key part of this. You know, people
Speaker 5: know what to do to get out, the animals do
Speaker 5: not have a go and a lot of animals have
Speaker 5: been caught up in this. And we're going to be
Speaker 5: talking with our friends at Pasadena Hume and Kevin McManus's
Speaker 5: coming on with us. They're one of the emergency shelters
Speaker 5: being set up and we've got some heartbreaking stories to
Speaker 5: share with you, but the animals need our help, and
Speaker 5: so we'll be talking with Kevin before the top of
Speaker 5: the hour, so we hope you'll stick around. We have
Speaker 5: Neil Savader who's been on the air this morning with
Speaker 5: us sharing information about the fires, and I just wanted
Speaker 5: to kind of touch base because we were talking about
Speaker 5: how this fire is affected everybody and they keep popping
Speaker 5: up like.
Speaker 4: The one last night.
Speaker 5: Well and while the devastation continues in Palisades, and active
Speaker 5: fires are burning and the winds are still blowing, and
Speaker 5: the eaten fire in Altalloma that is just continuing to
Speaker 5: tear through neighborhoods. Then all of a sudden last night,
Speaker 5: a fire pops up and run In canyon.
Speaker 10: Yeah, and if you remember, there was talk of that
Speaker 10: yesterday and I think you meant out there.
Speaker 4: What did I say, altamah yep? I meant alta Dina.
Speaker 10: The crazy thing is that as we're looking at all
Speaker 10: these structures being burned, there is a lot of I
Speaker 10: don't want to say misinformation because that sounds, I don't know, ominous.
Speaker 10: But there's a lot of talk between citizen apps and
Speaker 10: the like of people connecting with each other, whether it's
Speaker 10: through the ring app or these types of things. And
Speaker 10: I've been watching a lot of that, and I would
Speaker 10: hear stuff, Oh, I heard Runyon Canyon is on fire,
Speaker 10: and that was the other day, and it there was nothing,
Speaker 10: and so I thought, well, is this remnants of that?
Speaker 10: And then it started popping up and I started hearing
Speaker 10: more and more about it.
Speaker 3: So it it.
Speaker 10: It's so everywhere, and if you zoom out, it is
Speaker 10: almost a full circle when you look around at some
Speaker 10: of the spot the smaller fires and the like, and
Speaker 10: it seems it's kind of encroaching on the entirety of
Speaker 10: Los Angeles. But that one seemed to be in control
Speaker 10: at this.
Speaker 5: Point, right, So it is still an active fire, yeah,
Speaker 5: but the evacuation orders have mostly been lifted. There are
Speaker 5: a few that are still in place. But it was
Speaker 5: it was pretty scary last night when it broke out
Speaker 5: and you could see that hillside and they said that
Speaker 5: they were evacuating down to Hollywood Boulevard. It was Hollywood
Speaker 5: Boulevard on the south, so the one on one on
Speaker 5: the west to the to Maul Holland Drive on the north,
Speaker 5: and I believe Laurel Canyon on the on the on
Speaker 5: the west. And you're like, that is that is Hollywood?
Speaker 5: I mean like, oh yeah, Grammins is right there, Hollywood
Speaker 5: and Highland is right there. The Hollywood Bowl is right
Speaker 5: in that area.
Speaker 3: I mean, like the.
Speaker 10: Magic Castle, the magic all of these buildings and these
Speaker 10: historical places. It couldn't It is really kind of bizarre.
Speaker 10: And we don't know what the day brings. Uh, we
Speaker 10: will see what the weather and the wind and any
Speaker 10: cooperation there, but there's still so.
Speaker 3: Much more to come. We are not out of danger.
Speaker 10: And that crazy thing that I was hearing at the
Speaker 10: press conference yesterday, of course there'll be another one during
Speaker 10: the Bill Handle Show today at eight am.
Speaker 3: You'll hear another one.
Speaker 10: But the thing that hit me was there saying, hey,
Speaker 10: there is no safe place. There's no there's no place
Speaker 10: in La that could not you know, be dealing with
Speaker 10: this very satan thing at their doorstep. As you were
Speaker 10: talking about Amy with the embers that had had burned out, thankfully,
Speaker 10: but we're on your your doorstep. Same on my truck,
Speaker 10: you know, which is a darker gray, and I could
Speaker 10: see them and of course when I drove off, you
Speaker 10: could see them lift the lighter ones lift up and
Speaker 10: off your car.
Speaker 3: It's pretty crazy.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and we are miles and miles away from the fire,
Speaker 5: oh yeah, miles. So that's why when the fire in
Speaker 5: the Hollywood Hills, you were like, think of the population
Speaker 5: center that if that thing starts ripping into neighborhoods, and
Speaker 5: not only do you have single family homes like in
Speaker 5: Pacific Palisades, which is devastating, but in there you've got
Speaker 5: basically high rises full of people, and so when they
Speaker 5: ordered those evacuations, it was gridlock. You could see they're
Speaker 5: just watching just the red lights. But they were able
Speaker 5: to keep it away from people and did an amazing job.
Speaker 5: And again they had the water dropping helicopters on it,
Speaker 5: and that really made the difference because think if they
Speaker 5: if they hadn't had those, like they weren't able to
Speaker 5: have them for the Eaten fire and weren't able to
Speaker 5: have them for the Palisades fire. Think of how much
Speaker 5: different things could be this morning for the people who
Speaker 5: live in and around Running Canyon.
Speaker 3: Well, I will tell you. I know you our cat lover.
Speaker 10: Well, I follow Georgia Heart's Heartstark from my favorite murder
Speaker 10: and she is in the Hollywood area and she has
Speaker 10: lots of cats.
Speaker 3: And she said I got out.
Speaker 10: Early and went to a hotel because I got babies
Speaker 10: and evacuation. You know I will not go well if
Speaker 10: you don't do it early.
Speaker 5: Yeah, okay, So Neil, you mentioned we're still not out
Speaker 5: of danger, but we we need to get an update
Speaker 5: on what the weather conditions are like, what we need
Speaker 5: to watch out for and if things are improving. So
Speaker 5: we're going to check in now with Mike Wafford from
Speaker 5: the National Weather Service. Good morning, Mike, Good morning, Thanks
Speaker 5: for coming on wake up call again with us this morning.
Speaker 5: Things hopefully a little different from when we talked yesterday.
Speaker 5: Can you give us the latest on what we can
Speaker 5: expect weather wise?
Speaker 11: Yeah, Well, as you said, we're not out of the
Speaker 11: woods yet. We've we've got a little bit of a
Speaker 11: little bit of a rest bit today, but not really
Speaker 11: that much we've got. You know, we've still got some
Speaker 11: gusty went out there, gusting to you know, forty fifty
Speaker 11: miles per hour and some isolated spots. We are expecting
Speaker 11: a little bit of a pick up this morning, you know,
Speaker 11: picking up in a little bit more uh areas like
Speaker 11: the palastage fire. We'll see some increase this morning, but
Speaker 11: you know, not as not anything like what we saw yesterday,
Speaker 11: but you know enough to you know, keep people vigilant,
Speaker 11: and you know we're expecting another increase later tonight tomorrow
Speaker 11: with the offsher winds. We're kind of in this dry
Speaker 11: offshore wind pattern still for the next week or so,
Speaker 11: so you know, there's gonna be periods where it's gonna
Speaker 11: drop off a little bit, and then periods where it's
Speaker 11: going to pick up again. So we're gonna just have
Speaker 11: to deal with that for the next several days, okay.
Speaker 5: And so we have the red flag warnings in a
Speaker 5: place until at least tomorrow night. Could those be extended
Speaker 5: or does it look like those will run out?
Speaker 12: No?
Speaker 11: I think that's it's very possible that some of those are,
Speaker 11: if not all them, we're going to have to be
Speaker 11: extended beyond that time. As I said, we've got a
Speaker 11: couple two or three more episodes of some offshore winds
Speaker 11: that are coming through the early next week. And it's
Speaker 11: still very dry, humidities are very low, and things are
Speaker 11: really prime and obviously not doing You're not getting any
Speaker 11: rain anytime soon. So that's you know, that's something we
Speaker 11: have to be to be dealing with.
Speaker 5: Okay, all right, so watch out for those guests, you wins,
Speaker 5: but hopefully not so gusty that we can't keep those
Speaker 5: water dropping helicopters and planes up in the air to
Speaker 5: fight fires.
Speaker 11: Yeah, I mean, it's you know, there will be some
Speaker 11: areas of some guests, you know, sixty miles per hour
Speaker 11: in areas, so you know obviously that they'll have to
Speaker 11: be mindful of that. But not as widespread as what
Speaker 11: we sell yesterday, and certainly out in the San Gabriel
Speaker 11: Valley where we saw the really strong winds, you know,
Speaker 11: eighty one hundred miles of an hour and summary, you know,
Speaker 11: we won't be seeing that magnitude, but still, you know,
Speaker 11: very strong. You know, fifty to sixty was nothing to
Speaker 11: sneeze at. So people need to be careful and mindful
Speaker 11: of what's going on out there.
Speaker 4: Okay, well, appreciate the update. Thank you.
Speaker 5: Mike Wafford with the National Weather Service. Appreciated a lot.
Speaker 11: Okay, you're welcome, all right, take.
Speaker 5: Care when we come back. Let's see, who are we
Speaker 5: going to be talking to. Are we talking with somebody
Speaker 5: from LA Fire? We're going to be talking with somebody
Speaker 5: about that. We've got so much more to share with you.
Speaker 5: A lot happened overnight. The fires are still burning and
Speaker 5: we want to make sure that you are safe, so
Speaker 5: stay right here with us at KFI. Also want to
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Speaker 5: eleven thirty. Kickoff is at one twenty five and guess what.
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Speaker 5: AM six forty are on our sister station, AM five seventy.
Speaker 5: LA Sports Bolt Up cal Fire says fifty to seventy
Speaker 5: five percent one of Pacific Palisades has been destroyed by
Speaker 5: the wildfire that continues to burn out of control. The
Speaker 5: fire has burned more than seventeen thousand acres and destroyed
Speaker 5: at least one thousand homes, schools, businesses, and other buildings.
Speaker 5: Firefighters have been able to stop a fire in the
Speaker 5: Hollywood Hills from burning into the heart of Hollywood. The
Speaker 5: fire started last out last night around five point thirty
Speaker 5: and quickly spread through Runyon Canyon, burning toward the heart
Speaker 5: of Hollywood. Water dropping helicopters made the difference keeping the
Speaker 5: flames from getting into neighborhoods. Most evacuation orders have been lifted,
Speaker 5: some are still in place. All LAUSD schools are closed
Speaker 5: today because of the ongoing fires.
Speaker 4: A boil water order is.
Speaker 5: In place in the Palisades, but just for the nine
Speaker 5: to two seven to two zip code. It's either boil
Speaker 5: water or use bottled water, but don't just drink it
Speaker 5: out of the tap and then for the Pasadena Water
Speaker 5: District tied to the fire that's burning, and Altadena officials
Speaker 5: say do not drink the tap water, use bottled water only.
Speaker 5: A fire and Studio city has destroyed four hillside homes.
Speaker 5: The fire started in one home at about nine last night.
Speaker 5: It quickly spread to other homes in nearby brush. A
Speaker 5: knockdown was declared by about ten fifteen pm that home
Speaker 5: of total loss. It was a four story home on
Speaker 5: the hillside that collapsed. Five deaths have been blamed on
Speaker 5: the wildfire that started in Eaton Canyon above Altadena. Family
Speaker 5: members of one man tel Ktla. Sixty six year old
Speaker 5: Victor Shaw died with a garden hose in his hands.
Speaker 2: Swee excuse did see him laying on the side of
Speaker 2: the road with the holes. It looks like he was
Speaker 2: trying to save the home that his parents had had
Speaker 2: for almost fifty five years.
Speaker 5: Shaw's sister says she tried to get him to leave,
Speaker 5: but she herself had to get out when the house
Speaker 5: started to burn. The fire has burned nearly eleven thousand
Speaker 5: acres since Tuesday and continues to burn out of control.
Speaker 5: Ella County Supervisor Catherine Barger said yesterday that between two
Speaker 5: hundred and five hundred homes and other buildings have been destroyed.
Speaker 5: Another thirteen thousand are at risk. Tens of thousands of
Speaker 5: people remain under evacuation orders. Those numbers expected to go up.
Speaker 5: We're seeing numbers of almost a thousand from some sources,
Speaker 5: and again these numbers are fluid because they have to
Speaker 5: get in to assess how bad the damage is. There
Speaker 5: will be a press conference this morning at eight o'clock
Speaker 5: with fire officials and law enforcement officials to give us
Speaker 5: an update on all the buyers burning across southern California.
Speaker 5: Of course, we'll bring that to you here on KFI.
Speaker 5: Colorado has sent resources to California to help with the wildfires.
Speaker 5: The Colorado Division of Fire Prevention and Control has sent
Speaker 5: a multi mission aircraft outfitted with special infrared and color
Speaker 5: sensors that tell firefighters on the ground how a fire
Speaker 5: is behaving. Unit Chief Jeff Rasminsen says there's also a
Speaker 5: growing list of fire departments that could be called the
Speaker 5: help if California needs more help.
Speaker 13: It could be a simple medical with in the crews
Speaker 13: that are working all the way up to you, of course,
Speaker 13: the firefighting effort of protecting homes.
Speaker 5: The Colorado crews started making their way to California yesterday.
Speaker 5: They say they're ready to stay as long as they're needed.
Speaker 5: Colorado not the only ones sending crews in. We've got
Speaker 5: firefighters from Oregon and Washington, and Nevada and Arizona all helping.
Speaker 5: Seventy five hundred firefighters in all helping to fight these fires.
Speaker 5: Emergency medical supplies and respiratory protection equipment, including N ninety
Speaker 5: five masks, have been handed out to first responders and
Speaker 5: others in southern California because of all the smoke. Experts
Speaker 5: say wildfire smoke contains harmful pollutants, including fine particulate matter,
Speaker 5: that pose serious risks to respiratory and cardiovascular health. So
Speaker 5: I'm recovering from a cold, so if you hear moments
Speaker 5: of silence, it might be me turning off the microphone
Speaker 5: and coughing. And I'm just thinking that with the cold
Speaker 5: and the cough from the cold, and then the stuff
Speaker 5: in the air, probably not a good mixture. Neil was
Speaker 5: saying that he went out yesterday and he and I
Speaker 5: are both in the Silver Lake area. He went out
Speaker 5: to run some errands, and again, neither one of us
Speaker 5: are very close to the fires that are burning. And
Speaker 5: his eyes were burning and the smoke was thick, So
Speaker 5: just be careful. I was going to throw away all
Speaker 5: of my COVID masks. I think that I'm going to
Speaker 5: dig him out for the next few days at least.
Speaker 5: President elect Trump has blamed Governor Newsom for the wildfires
Speaker 5: in southern California. In a post on his truth social account,
Speaker 5: Trump accuses Newsom of choosing an endangered fish, the Smelt,
Speaker 5: over protecting badly needed water resources. Trump claims Newsom refused
Speaker 5: to sign a bill that would have allowed water from
Speaker 5: northern California to flow into the areas devastated by wildfires
Speaker 5: this week. Trump said when he takes office, he will
Speaker 5: demand Newsom allow water to flow in California. Developer and
Speaker 5: former candidate for mayor of La Rick Carusoe has criticized
Speaker 5: city government for how it's handling wildfires. Details kfi's John Cobalt.
Speaker 5: A lot of tough questions need to be asked, like
Speaker 5: why fire hydrants ran out of water early in the
Speaker 5: firefight in the Palisades area.
Speaker 12: The firefighters had been complaining to our people about water
Speaker 12: pressure and then no water, and it's an incredible thing
Speaker 12: to think about. This is the second largest city in
Speaker 12: the United States and we don't have hydrants at work.
Speaker 12: We had a warning of this.
Speaker 5: Curs it, says it's a failure of leadership. He says
Speaker 5: the winds are terrible and officials could have never prevented
Speaker 5: all the damage, but he says it could have been mitigated.
Speaker 5: He says there's also been no brush management program. The hills,
Speaker 5: he says, controlled by the city, county, and state, have
Speaker 5: seen no controlled burns for decades.
Speaker 4: About three hundred and.
Speaker 5: Forty thousand so Cal Edison customers across southern California are
Speaker 5: still without power because of the winds.
Speaker 7: One hundred and sixty nine thousand of those customers are
Speaker 7: public safety power shut off.
Speaker 14: And the others are due to win damage.
Speaker 5: Kathleen Dunleavy with Edison says the public safety power shutoffs
Speaker 5: are intended to keep new fires from starting. It's not
Speaker 5: clear how long the lines will be de energized. Okay,
Speaker 5: a couple other thoughts with the fire. I was watching
Speaker 5: news coverage last night, as I mentioned, watching the Hollywood
Speaker 5: Hills fire, the one that was burning in Runyon Canyon
Speaker 5: and really got close to hitting some neighborhoods, but thank
Speaker 5: goodness for the water dropping helicopters. But I was watching
Speaker 5: ABC and so they had their wall to wall coverage,
Speaker 5: and it was at about seven thirty ish that I
Speaker 5: was watching, and oh gosh, I can't remember which anchor
Speaker 5: it was, so anyway, I was watching, and they made
Speaker 5: the announcement. They said, and for those of you tuning
Speaker 5: into Jeopardy, Jeopardy will air at two AM. And I thought, priorities, people, priorities.
Speaker 5: But I do remember in other past disasters that when
Speaker 5: soap operas were still a huge thing, there would be
Speaker 5: some sort of breaking news and people would just be
Speaker 5: calling into the TV stations because their soap operas got
Speaker 5: preempted or something like that. But priorities, people, And speaking
Speaker 5: of priorities, because of all the fire danger, I was
Speaker 5: sitting in my house and I thought, you know, I
Speaker 5: really should get my Christmas tree down because it's now
Speaker 5: turned into a Christmas stick and is kind of a
Speaker 5: fire danger. I was trying to see how long I
Speaker 5: could leave it up. This year, I got my Christmas
Speaker 5: tree down. I'm sure that that's a very important update
Speaker 5: for everybody, but it was a big thing for me,
Speaker 5: so a little levity with all the seriousness and tragedy
Speaker 5: really just an unreal and surreal situation. Thank you so
Speaker 5: much for being here and listening right here on Kfire.
Speaker 5: We're going to keep you up to date on everything
Speaker 5: that's happening. Red flag warnings of critical fire danger will
Speaker 5: be lingering across much of the Southland through at least
Speaker 5: tomorrow night. We talked to Mike Wafford with the National
Speaker 5: Weather Service a few minutes ago, and he said the
Speaker 5: red flag warnings could be extended.
Speaker 4: We've got more winds on the way.
Speaker 5: Winds have died down quite a bit, but humidity levels
Speaker 5: are low and that's keeping fire danger high. The most
Speaker 5: recent fire broke out in the Hollywood Hills last night.
Speaker 5: Started up in Runyon Canyon around five point thirty and
Speaker 5: quickly moved toward Hollywood neighborhoods. Evacuation orders were issued for
Speaker 5: thousands of residents. They were told to get out now.
Speaker 5: Water dropping helicopters were able to stop that fire from
Speaker 5: advancing toward Franklin Boulevard. Most of the evacuation orders have
Speaker 5: now been lifted. There are still a few in place,
Speaker 5: and there is an evacuation center for those evacuated residents
Speaker 5: open at the Pan Pacific Recreation Center. The Eaton fire
Speaker 5: has grown to at least ten thousand, six hundred acres
Speaker 5: in Altadena. With that at least nine hundred and seventy
Speaker 5: two homes and other buildings destroyed. Five people have died
Speaker 5: in that fire that continues to burn and is zero
Speaker 5: percent surrounded.
Speaker 4: You're expecting to get updated.
Speaker 5: Numbers on both the acreage burn and the number of
Speaker 5: homes and businesses and other structures that have earned that's
Speaker 5: coming up at eight o'clock and we'll bring that to
Speaker 5: you right here live on KFI. At five point fifty
Speaker 5: animals have been impacted by these fires. A lot of
Speaker 5: animals have been taken to shelters, including to our friends
Speaker 5: at Pasadena Humane and they need your help. But we're
Speaker 5: going to give you the latest, tell you how you
Speaker 5: can help and why you're going to want to help
Speaker 5: when you hear some of these stories. But right now,
Speaker 5: let's say good morning to ABC's Melissa a. Don Good morning, Melissa.
Speaker 14: Good morning.
Speaker 7: Nice to join you all and be with you. And
Speaker 7: as we're experiencing these horrible horrible fires.
Speaker 5: The worst most damaging fire ever in LA history is
Speaker 5: the one in Pacific Palisades.
Speaker 4: What can you tell us about that one?
Speaker 7: So so far, what we've seen in Pacific Palisades essentially
Speaker 7: has burned more than fifteen thousand acres in Pacific Palisades
Speaker 7: and Malibu. It has destroyed more than a thousand homes,
Speaker 7: including you know, we've seen mansions and homes of celebrities
Speaker 7: like John Goodman, Paris Hilton, Billy, Chris So all losing
Speaker 7: their homes for this fire. We've also seen schools that
Speaker 7: have burned to the grounds in Pacific Palacedes and then
Speaker 7: all of these communities over through Malibu all still threatened
Speaker 7: as this fire still zero percent contained. You know, there's
Speaker 7: a row of multi million dollar homes along Pacific Coast
Speaker 7: Highway and the ocean in Malibu and those are gone.
Speaker 7: It is just astonishing to see this burn to the ground.
Speaker 7: And it's very concerning because of course, are we're still
Speaker 7: not out of the woods yet with our threat with
Speaker 7: the San Ana wins.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and you mentioned the homes along PCH that burned
Speaker 5: in Malibu, and if you think about it, we've talked
Speaker 5: about you know, you mentioned celebrities. We talk about iconic
Speaker 5: views of the southern California coastline and all those homes
Speaker 5: along Malibu that you've seen in probably hundreds of movies,
Speaker 5: those are just, yeah, reduced to nothing.
Speaker 7: Absolutely. It is something that's been really threatening. You know,
Speaker 7: we've been watching the Getty to make sure that the
Speaker 7: Getty is okay, and so far we have reports that
Speaker 7: it has been spared, but fire is very very close,
Speaker 7: and some parts of the villa has been threatened and
Speaker 7: it is super super concerning. I mean you're looking at
Speaker 7: local businesses, restaurants, establishments, I mean, so many memories for
Speaker 7: so many people that have been destroyed.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and the evacuation orders them for Pacific Palisades have
Speaker 5: now reached down into Santa Monica.
Speaker 7: Yes, that is something that was just astonishing. Right to
Speaker 7: think that in urban areas that we could see these evacuations.
Speaker 7: That is something that I think sparked a nerve in
Speaker 7: me last night when the sunset fire broke out in
Speaker 7: the Hollywood Hills, the fact that people in Santa Monica
Speaker 7: could have to evacuate. Will check this out. In the
Speaker 7: Hollywood Hills, it's in a you know, the ten acre fireway.
Speaker 7: It broke out in the canyon there and instead of
Speaker 7: spreading south down the hill towards West Hollywood. That then
Speaker 7: all of a sudden, evacuation orders are out in a
Speaker 7: super urban area of Hollywood, including the Dolby Theater where
Speaker 7: the oscars are held. It was so hard to write
Speaker 7: or mind around this, and then seeing a mass gridlock
Speaker 7: of traffic of people trying to get out, it was
Speaker 7: just really eerie situation.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but luckily it looks like they really were able
Speaker 5: to get on that one because of the air assets.
Speaker 5: They had those water dropping helicopters and they were able
Speaker 5: to stay ahead of the fire and keep it from
Speaker 5: getting into the neighborhoods which we were watching it here.
Speaker 5: I'm guessing that you were watching at Melissa. I mean,
Speaker 5: it was within i don't know, a couple hundred feet
Speaker 5: of just rows and rows of houses, and so close
Speaker 5: to neighborhoods just north of Franklin Boulevard, which is another
Speaker 5: major thoroughfare.
Speaker 7: Absolutely, and that was the big issue. Right when I've
Speaker 7: been explaining how these fires broke out, that we realized
Speaker 7: how critical air support is. But in the first days
Speaker 7: when this, you know, you know, particularly rare Santa Ana
Speaker 7: and high wind event broke out these thoughts. You know,
Speaker 7: the fire crews could not use their aircraft because it
Speaker 7: was too dangerous. You know, over fifty miles per hours.
Speaker 7: You know, at a certain point hurricane forced guss wins.
Speaker 7: You cannot fly an air it's too dangerous. So firefighters
Speaker 7: only had to rely on the ground assault, and we
Speaker 7: saw that it was devastating. That's why so many homes burned,
Speaker 7: especially in the Pacific Palisades. I mean, that's such a
Speaker 7: hilly terrain of complicated roads, it is not favorable for firefighters.
Speaker 7: So in the Hollywood Hills, it was absolutely key that
Speaker 7: we saw that air support. And it's key that now
Speaker 7: all of a sudden, Pacific Palisades and over of course
Speaker 7: in Altadena, they're getting that air support.
Speaker 5: That's what I was just going to ask you, because
Speaker 5: it was not part of the initial firefight. But now
Speaker 5: that the winds have died down somewhat, although they are
Speaker 5: still gusting and expected to continue to blow, hopefully we'll
Speaker 5: be able to get both helicopters and the fixed wing
Speaker 5: aircraft fighting the fires today.
Speaker 7: Yes, that is the main goal, and hope absolutely, But
Speaker 7: of course, like you know where the red flag warnings
Speaker 7: have been extended through tomorrow night, so we are all
Speaker 7: on edge.
Speaker 5: Still, okay, and hoping that we don't get any more
Speaker 5: new fires breaking out. Is we talk about zero percent
Speaker 5: containment and what what is the difference between containment Because
Speaker 5: even when we see big fires, we start to hear, oh,
Speaker 5: it's fifty percent surrounded, but that doesn't mean the fire's
Speaker 5: out exactly.
Speaker 7: That is such key wording there, and so having I've
Speaker 7: reported now, you know, for the last seven years in
Speaker 7: southern California and San Diego and here in LA and
Speaker 7: Orange County, and when you talk about fires being surrounded,
Speaker 7: that means that firefighters essentially have a good grasp as
Speaker 7: to the perimeter right of a fire. However, it is
Speaker 7: not the containment levels take weeks. We've seen this, and
Speaker 7: so when we see you know, zero percent containment, that
Speaker 7: means that there's not even a perimeter surrounding it. Because
Speaker 7: that means these fires can still spread, you know, to
Speaker 7: the west to the east, especially with these wayward gusts
Speaker 7: that we're going to be seen with these red flag warnings,
Speaker 7: it is still a huge threat. And that's what makes
Speaker 7: everything so unnerving right now. Moving forward, because yes, well
Speaker 7: we're not expected in the forecast to have these record
Speaker 7: one hundred and ninety mile per hour wind guts. Any
Speaker 7: sort of winds can still really fuel these flyers, okay.
Speaker 5: And then as far as today, as we mentioned that
Speaker 5: the fires in both Alta Dina and in the Palisades,
Speaker 5: there are still homes burning, and it's got to be
Speaker 5: just unnerving for the people who are one evacuated from
Speaker 5: the area and can't see if their house is still
Speaker 5: standing or not. But also in some areas, you know
Speaker 5: how they there's a house that burns, and then there's
Speaker 5: a house next door that isn't touched.
Speaker 4: But then those winds are whipped up.
Speaker 5: So initially maybe you saw it and said, oh, my
Speaker 5: house made it, like you catch a glimpse of it
Speaker 5: on TV, and then the wind shifts and those houses
Speaker 5: could be lost too.
Speaker 4: We just don't know yet.
Speaker 7: Absolutely. I think that's what's been so frightening. And a
Speaker 7: lot of people now are also that reason, seeing those
Speaker 7: images of a home catch flame and then it's okay,
Speaker 7: and then you know hours later the other one is
Speaker 7: now on fire or your neighbors is is why so
Speaker 7: many other folks if you're seeing those videos, how frightening
Speaker 7: they are. We're seeing, like the ring camera and the
Speaker 7: surveillance videos. If you're even under an evacuation, not just
Speaker 7: an order, but a warning or a volunteer warning. People
Speaker 7: are heeding them because it is absolutely frightening. And they're
Speaker 7: not going to have set numbers for how much. I mean,
Speaker 7: right now, it's just estimates in Pasadena area and Altadena.
Speaker 7: I mean, we're talking about hundreds of homes and businesses
Speaker 7: that have been destroyed, but unfortunately it still could be more.
Speaker 7: And I mean Cruz going out to assass is really
Speaker 7: the last thing right now. They're just making sure that
Speaker 7: people are alive because that's where five people were killed
Speaker 7: in that area because of that fire, and that was
Speaker 7: something that I found so frightening. Also with the eat
Speaker 7: and fire, it was such a scary situation because it
Speaker 7: broke out overnight Tuesday into Wednesday while the most dangerous
Speaker 7: winds were seen, and I really think it took a
Speaker 7: lot of people off guard, and especially having to evacuate
Speaker 7: in the middle of the night with you know, howling winds,
Speaker 7: things that we've never really seen before here. It was
Speaker 7: just incredibly frightening and it has just really I don't
Speaker 7: know if any Angelino that is not directly impacted by
Speaker 7: all of this. I mean, we all look outside, we
Speaker 7: all see the gusty winds, we smell the smoke, we
Speaker 7: see the ominous haze in the sky, and we know
Speaker 7: somebody who's been directly impacted.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and you mentioned that it was unsettling, and I
Speaker 5: just like, I just started thinking about it. I'm like, so,
Speaker 5: not only are you being told to get out, but
Speaker 5: it's not a calm okay you guys, it's time to leave.
Speaker 5: It's like, hey, the winds are blowing one hundred miles
Speaker 5: an hour, there's fire coming towards your house, and you
Speaker 5: need to get out now.
Speaker 4: I mean, so you put.
Speaker 5: People in an adrenalin rushed panic mode. Rightfully, so.
Speaker 7: Absolutely, and look at what happened in Pacific Palisades, because
Speaker 7: that was the same scenario. They just were able to
Speaker 7: evacuate in the daytime. But then folks started to abandon
Speaker 7: their cars, leading their cars on the road, and then
Speaker 7: that's super problematic, especially in that hilly community for the
Speaker 7: roads for access. And then we saw LA Fire having
Speaker 7: to get bulldozers to bulldoze cars out of the street.
Speaker 7: So the fire engines could pass. I mean, this is just, yeah,
Speaker 7: something out of a movie. It's hard to comprehend. But
Speaker 7: what is the alternative If people cannot you know, physically
Speaker 7: move and get out safely, and you don't know how
Speaker 7: fast the fire and the flames are coming, what are
Speaker 7: you to do? So it's really unnerving. And with the
Speaker 7: weather forecast, we don't feel comfortable. We're even hearing about
Speaker 7: forecasting for Santa Ana wins next week, and it's just
Speaker 7: not okay when you have these two major flame fires
Speaker 7: burning that more flames could arise. And then of course
Speaker 7: the strain on resources is really really a top concern,
Speaker 7: and even as much aid that's coming from other states
Speaker 7: and whatnot, it's just a huge strain on firefighters, on
Speaker 7: you know, materials, on goods, on the water system.
Speaker 5: I mean, so much of it, absolutely, And so I
Speaker 5: think the lesson that we've learned is even if we're
Speaker 5: not in a fire impacted area, we are impacted, and
Speaker 5: we need to be ready because we're not out of
Speaker 5: the woods and we've got more fire weather coming and
Speaker 5: we still have active fires burning. ABC's Melissa don thank
Speaker 5: you so much. Thank you be well, you take care
Speaker 5: here's the latest on the fires. The one in Pacific
Speaker 5: Palisades has become the most destructive fire in LA's history.
Speaker 5: It has burned through more than seventeen thousand acres and
Speaker 5: destroyed at least one thousand homes and other buildings, including
Speaker 5: businesses and schools. The fire in Altadena has destroyed almost
Speaker 5: a thousand homes and other buildings. We're going to be
Speaker 5: getting an update on this this morning. Fire and law
Speaker 5: enforce beneficials are doing a press conference at eight o'clock,
Speaker 5: and as that starts, we will bring it to you
Speaker 5: right here on KFI Live. A fire in Studio City
Speaker 5: last night burned some homes and spread to a hillside.
Speaker 5: Water dropping helicopters were able to keep that from spreading.
Speaker 5: A four story home on a hillside was completely consumed
Speaker 5: and collapsed. At fire is now listed as inactive. Right now,
Speaker 5: let's say good morning to Kevin McManus with Pasadena Humane.
Speaker 5: Good morning, Kevin, thanks for getting up early to talk
Speaker 5: to us today.
Speaker 14: Good morning, thanks for having me.
Speaker 5: We wanted to talk to you because Pasadena Humane is
Speaker 5: one of the locations taking in animals from the evacuation area.
Speaker 5: Can you tell us how many you've taken.
Speaker 14: In Yeah, excuse me. As of last night, we've taken
Speaker 14: in nearly three hundred and fifty displaced pots.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 14: Yeah, okay, Yeah, it's truly devastating.
Speaker 5: Okay, So tell us about out the animals that are
Speaker 5: coming into the shelter.
Speaker 4: Are people bringing them in? Are they being found?
Speaker 14: Well, overwhelmingly it's people who've been bringing their pets in
Speaker 14: for emergency boarding. We have kind of yesterday afternoon started
Speaker 14: to get a lot of stray animals in, including many
Speaker 14: who have sustained injuries, some burns, smoke inhalation. So thankfully
Speaker 14: we have an ICU where we're able to treat a
Speaker 14: lot of the animals as they come in.
Speaker 5: Okay, So I want to talk about this strays a
Speaker 5: little bit because we know that as people get out,
Speaker 5: they get their animals and they go. But if you're
Speaker 5: saying now that in the burn areas, just people are
Speaker 5: finding the animals wandering around.
Speaker 14: That's right.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 14: I mean we've gotten some calls from from horse responders,
Speaker 14: from fire and police, and you've been able to assist
Speaker 14: where you know, obviously like the people if they weren't
Speaker 14: home during the evacuation or couldn't get back to their pets.
Speaker 14: And also compounded by the fact with the huge the
Speaker 14: winds that were probably you know, knocking people's senses over
Speaker 14: and you know, blowing doors open. So yeah, now we're
Speaker 14: just trying to get as much information as possible, Like
Speaker 14: some of the pets are microchip thankfully, so we're trying
Speaker 14: to get in touch with owners. But yeah, it's pretty crazy.
Speaker 5: Well, and as we were talking about, when when we
Speaker 5: get an evacuation order, we can hear it and we
Speaker 5: can plan for it. Animals don't know what the evacuation
Speaker 5: orders are. They don't know what to do. And with
Speaker 5: those winds howling, I know my pets were a little.
Speaker 4: Spooped by the winds just absolutely they.
Speaker 5: Were blowing so strong and they weren't even blowing that
Speaker 5: strong at my house, so I can't imagine the hurricane
Speaker 5: force winds that possibly animals would just take off or
Speaker 5: they would go into hiding.
Speaker 14: Yeah, definitely, And I think that's you know, if you
Speaker 14: have a cat who's a little bit afraid of everything,
Speaker 14: and you know you're panicked running around trying to grab
Speaker 14: your possessions and you can't find your cat, you know,
Speaker 14: what do you do? And you know, I think also
Speaker 14: just you know, not having like a proper leash or
Speaker 14: collar for your dog or a carrier for your cat
Speaker 14: or your bunny. You know, it did, despite all the
Speaker 14: potential warnings, caught everybody by surprise.
Speaker 5: Well yeah, and it makes you think about stuff because,
Speaker 5: like you just mentioned the carriers, I have two cats
Speaker 5: and I have one carrier, so I was, you know,
Speaker 5: I'm like, well, if if we got to go, we
Speaker 5: got to go, and you guys are going to have to,
Speaker 5: you know, share some pretty cramped quarters because I think
Speaker 5: I could shove them both in there, but probably not
Speaker 5: the best situation for them.
Speaker 4: So something to think about for sure.
Speaker 14: Yeah, I as kind of a precaution. I have not
Speaker 14: had to evacuate myself, but my two cat carriers are
Speaker 14: in my dining room and I'm you know, with betting
Speaker 14: with something that my cats are familiar with.
Speaker 11: I have a little bag of.
Speaker 14: Go food should I need to. So, yeah, they're such
Speaker 14: an important part of any evacuation plan is to plan for,
Speaker 14: you know, what to do with your pets.
Speaker 4: Okay, and here's another thing.
Speaker 5: I don't know if this helps, Kevin, but with you
Speaker 5: mentioned the scaredy cats, which I just happen to have
Speaker 5: one of those, So he is now sporting a very
Speaker 5: stylish harness. He didn't like it much, but he's been
Speaker 5: wearing a harness for the last couple of days just
Speaker 5: because I know that if he goes into hiding and
Speaker 5: I need to grab him, that would be and it
Speaker 5: make it a lot easier.
Speaker 14: Yeah, And I think, you know, obviously, like animals do
Speaker 14: feel our stress. So in a panic, if you're trying
Speaker 14: to grab a cat who doesn't want to be grabbed,
Speaker 14: you know, you don't want to injure yourself. What you
Speaker 14: want to make sure that you get your cats to safety.
Speaker 14: So harness was a great idea. If you have a
Speaker 14: crate already, uh, you know, leave the door open so
Speaker 14: they could you know, throw some treats in there so
Speaker 14: they have, you know, a positive association. So should you
Speaker 14: need to, you can you know, coax them into the crate.
Speaker 5: Okay, are you guys still receiving animals at Pasadena Humane, Kevin,
Speaker 5: or are you pretty much filled to the rafters?
Speaker 14: Well we're we of course are still receiving animals from
Speaker 14: anywhere in our service area, which is basically the entire
Speaker 14: area of the eating fire. And then some, but yeah,
Speaker 14: we're still getting getting animals in. We're we're very lucky.
Speaker 14: Yesterday and a couple of local, uh not too local,
Speaker 14: but local shelters reached out and took in some of
Speaker 14: the animals that we already had in our care, just
Speaker 14: to kind of ease our pressure and give us a
Speaker 14: little bit more room to help those who are coming in.
Speaker 5: Okay, and how long will you be keeping the animals
Speaker 5: that you've taken in?
Speaker 14: As long as necessary? You know, we are hopeful that
Speaker 14: once you know, people can start going back to their homes,
Speaker 14: they can come collect their animals. But I mean, as
Speaker 14: we know, with thousands of homes destroyed, we probably we'll
Speaker 14: have to hold on to people's pets for, you know,
Speaker 14: for much longer. So we're going to kind of think
Speaker 14: about how to do that and how that works today,
Speaker 14: whether it be you know, boarding them at the shelter
Speaker 14: or making use of some of our volunteer foster families
Speaker 14: to take in owned pets just well their true owners
Speaker 14: get back on their feet.
Speaker 4: Okay.
Speaker 5: And I would imagine that taking in three hundred and
Speaker 5: fifty animals in counting puts a financial strain on your
Speaker 5: organization which you rely on donations to keep the doors
Speaker 5: open and keep taking care of the animals until they
Speaker 5: can get into permanent homes.
Speaker 4: So how's that going.
Speaker 14: Well, We are, of course fundraising to help with that effort.
Speaker 14: You know, we have gotten some We've gotten a ton
Speaker 14: of in kind donations, which is super helpful. But if
Speaker 14: folks want to help us, the easiest way to do
Speaker 14: it is to donate through our website. You know, every
Speaker 14: every dollar donated, it helps the animals in our care
Speaker 14: and helps us to respond to these these types of emergencies.
Speaker 5: Okay, and you mentioned emergencies and taking some of the
Speaker 5: animals in that had been brought in. What kind of
Speaker 5: what kind of injuries are we getting? Are we getting
Speaker 5: like burned? Pause and that kind of.
Speaker 14: Thing exactly, Yeah, burns definitely, like smoke inhalation. We have
Speaker 14: a couple of cats in oxygen tanks right now, and yeah,
Speaker 14: we've treated a lot of burns and that's kind of
Speaker 14: unfortunately what we're preparing for for the next couple of days.
Speaker 14: As you know, the animals who maybe weren't immediately removed
Speaker 14: from the situation start trickling in.
Speaker 5: Okay, and again, Passing Humane could use your help and
Speaker 5: where can they make a donation Kevin at.
Speaker 14: Pasadena Humane dot org. And they're a little pop up
Speaker 14: about you know, our wild player kind of status update.
Speaker 14: We'll pop up and there's a link link there to donate.
Speaker 5: Okay, and I can vouch for them because well, we
Speaker 5: do the Wiggle Waggle walk with you every year, which
Speaker 5: we're doing again this year. And that's where my scaredy
Speaker 5: cat alex Alexander the Great came from, was Pasadena Humans.
Speaker 14: Yes, so happy alumni.
Speaker 4: Absolutely, Kevin mcmannus, thank you so much for your time.
Speaker 5: I hope you raised lots of money, and thank you
Speaker 5: so much for taking care of our fur babies.
Speaker 4: I just it breaks my heart when you.
Speaker 14: See your honor.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but that's why we have good people like you
Speaker 5: and the people at Pasadena Humane to take care of
Speaker 5: them until we can take care.
Speaker 4: Of them again.
Speaker 8: Thank you so much.
Speaker 14: Ammy.
Speaker 4: All right, thank you so much, Kevin. Have a great day.
Speaker 5: Okay, real quick, we've got to handle on the news.
Speaker 5: Coming up, we're going to be talking more about fires.
Speaker 5: We have a few active fires and they are they're
Speaker 5: big and nasty. I mean, nothing else to say except
Speaker 5: they're awful. The Palisades Fire of course, the first one
Speaker 5: that started more than seventeen thousand acres. That one is
Speaker 5: still burning out of control, still burning houses, and a
Speaker 5: thousand homes and businesses destroyed, including some iconic restaurants and
Speaker 5: other businesses. There is a boil water notice or drink
Speaker 5: bottled water for the area nineh two seven to two
Speaker 5: for that zip code, specifically in Pacific Palisades because of
Speaker 5: contaminated water from all the fires. Also, the Eaten Fire
Speaker 5: in Altadena started Tuesday night at six point thirty. It's
Speaker 5: grown to ten thy six hundred acres. At least five
Speaker 5: people have lost their lives in that fire, about a
Speaker 5: thousand homes and businesses destroyed, And for the Pasadena Water District,
Speaker 5: we are getting a bottled water only order, so don't
Speaker 5: don't drink the tap water there, don't boil it, and
Speaker 5: drink it bottled water only. In Silmar, the fire has
Speaker 5: grown to eight hundred and fifty five acres. There are
Speaker 5: some evacuations in areas north of the two ten freeway,
Speaker 5: but no injuries, and we're not getting any reports that
Speaker 5: homes and businesses have been damaged in that fire. And then,
Speaker 5: of course last night, the fire that broke out in
Speaker 5: the Hollywood Hills. That was a scary one too, because
Speaker 5: it burned dangerously close to neighborhoods just north of Hollywood Boulevard.
Speaker 5: Most of the evacuation orders have now been lifted, there
Speaker 5: are still some in place, but water dropping helicopters really
Speaker 5: made the difference on that one, and we're able to
Speaker 5: stop the fire's advance and we're very thankful for that. Okay,
Speaker 5: handle on the news coming up next. Oh and one
Speaker 5: other reminder, because we still have to play football. NFL
Speaker 5: playoffs start this Saturday. Might be a nice respite from
Speaker 5: all the fires. The Chargers are taking on the Texans
Speaker 5: in Houston. It's Wild Card pregame coverage time. It begins
Speaker 5: Saturday morning at eleven thirty. Kickoff to the game is
Speaker 5: at one twenty five. You can catch the game on
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Speaker 5: Gusty winds expected in the valley's foothills and mountain areas,
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Speaker 5: seventies for the valleys in Inland Empire, fifties to low
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