WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.600 --> 00:00:02.919 This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI 2 00:00:03.080 --> 00:00:05.839 AM six forty the Gary and Shannon Show on demand 3 00:00:05.919 --> 00:00:08.839 on the iHeartRadio app. What a week we have had 4 00:00:08.919 --> 00:00:12.439 in Los Angeles. And next week, as we mentioned, another 5 00:00:13.640 --> 00:00:17.239 wind event will be happening on Monday. Looks like we've 6 00:00:17.239 --> 00:00:20.039 got three separate wind events and so we'll get a 7 00:00:20.079 --> 00:00:23.199 forecast on those from the National Weather Service coming up next. 8 00:00:23.199 --> 00:00:24.160 So keep it right here. 9 00:00:24.879 --> 00:00:26.839 We have been keeping our eyes on what we know 10 00:00:27.120 --> 00:00:29.559 now as the Archer Fire. This is burning up in 11 00:00:29.600 --> 00:00:32.039 the Granada Hills area. So if you're headed up I five, 12 00:00:32.119 --> 00:00:34.159 for example, and you're going to go towards the Santa 13 00:00:34.159 --> 00:00:36.840 Clarita Valley, this is just before you get to the 14 00:00:36.880 --> 00:00:38.560 New Hall Pass and it's kind of off to your 15 00:00:38.640 --> 00:00:42.759 left there. There's not any homes immediately in the area 16 00:00:42.840 --> 00:00:45.600 where it is burning, but there's also nothing to slow 17 00:00:45.640 --> 00:00:48.359 it down. It's just a bunch of dry grass and 18 00:00:48.439 --> 00:00:50.439 a little bit of brush up in that area. So 19 00:00:50.920 --> 00:00:53.320 the winds are pretty light in that area, but the 20 00:00:53.359 --> 00:00:56.200 smoke is coming through the north end of the San 21 00:00:56.240 --> 00:00:58.840 Fernando Valley and it is going to be pretty visible 22 00:00:58.840 --> 00:01:00.960 for a lot of places. There are at least a 23 00:01:01.039 --> 00:01:03.439 couple of helicopters that are already there. We've seen some 24 00:01:03.520 --> 00:01:08.079 fire crews driving up into that neighborhood, so they're making 25 00:01:08.159 --> 00:01:10.519 quick work of this, they hope. But it has expanded 26 00:01:10.560 --> 00:01:12.879 so it's well above the two or three acres that 27 00:01:12.920 --> 00:01:16.480 we saw before. Again, this is a fire burning in 28 00:01:16.560 --> 00:01:19.760 the Granada Hills area up in the north end of 29 00:01:19.840 --> 00:01:21.079 the San Fernando Valley. 30 00:01:21.159 --> 00:01:22.519 I don't think if I don't know if you have 31 00:01:22.680 --> 00:01:25.120 noticed it, but I feel like I have on social 32 00:01:25.200 --> 00:01:30.640 media Twitter, for example, more so this fire than in 33 00:01:30.760 --> 00:01:34.239 fires past. And we've kind of seen this when it 34 00:01:34.239 --> 00:01:38.200 comes to true crime stories that are just developing, where 35 00:01:38.439 --> 00:01:41.640 you see all these amateur sleuths doing all their own 36 00:01:41.719 --> 00:01:45.400 research online right into the various players of different news 37 00:01:45.400 --> 00:01:48.560 stories that are going on, and digging into people's backgrounds. 38 00:01:48.840 --> 00:01:51.079 I felt like I saw more footage from people who 39 00:01:51.079 --> 00:01:55.040 are not reporters in fire zones, just trying to get 40 00:01:55.120 --> 00:01:57.840 maybe the hits or the exposure or what have you, 41 00:01:58.319 --> 00:02:01.359 and they look like they're not in the best areas. 42 00:02:01.480 --> 00:02:03.920 From what I remember being a reporter out there and 43 00:02:03.959 --> 00:02:05.920 being told where to stay away from, what to look 44 00:02:05.959 --> 00:02:08.319 forward to know which areas to stay away from when 45 00:02:08.360 --> 00:02:09.120 covering a fire. 46 00:02:09.639 --> 00:02:11.840 It just seems like, and again it might be a 47 00:02:11.879 --> 00:02:12.960 story for next week. 48 00:02:13.080 --> 00:02:15.840 If the authorities have encountered more people that have no 49 00:02:15.919 --> 00:02:18.840 business being out there when the flames are eating up 50 00:02:18.879 --> 00:02:19.680 these homes. 51 00:02:19.400 --> 00:02:23.039 They absolutely have just if I am to trust some 52 00:02:23.080 --> 00:02:27.039 of the TV reporters, especially in I would say like 53 00:02:27.080 --> 00:02:31.400 Wednesday night, after most of the flames had burned through 54 00:02:31.520 --> 00:02:34.759 the Palisades, for example, some of those reporters were standing 55 00:02:34.840 --> 00:02:37.120 in that parking lot at will Rogers State Beach because 56 00:02:37.120 --> 00:02:39.080 it was I mean, it was an open place for 57 00:02:39.120 --> 00:02:43.560 them to stand, but that they were referring to, you know, 58 00:02:43.599 --> 00:02:45.639 and they're all alone. They're not standing with the fire 59 00:02:45.680 --> 00:02:48.120 department or anything like that. They're all there by themselves. 60 00:02:48.840 --> 00:02:51.080 And they do have the ability. Members of the media 61 00:02:51.479 --> 00:02:55.599 do have the ability to go into across fire lines 62 00:02:55.680 --> 00:02:59.080 or police lines in these cases, to get into those areas, 63 00:02:59.520 --> 00:03:02.639 taking their lives into their own hands and with knowledge. 64 00:03:03.120 --> 00:03:06.759 And the fire department would usually say to you, hey, 65 00:03:07.639 --> 00:03:09.800 don't go in that area, like you're saying. But the 66 00:03:09.879 --> 00:03:13.360 TV reporters were saying that sometimes they were getting the 67 00:03:14.560 --> 00:03:17.800 pushback from either CHP or Sheriff's Department whoever might be 68 00:03:17.879 --> 00:03:21.879 running security on the line because they don't have a 69 00:03:21.919 --> 00:03:25.159 way to verify that your media credential is a real 70 00:03:25.199 --> 00:03:27.520 media credential. And there's so many people out there who, 71 00:03:27.599 --> 00:03:31.719 like you said, are these new I don't want to 72 00:03:31.719 --> 00:03:35.879 say generation, a new type of journalist, perhaps that they're 73 00:03:35.879 --> 00:03:39.199 trying to take advantage of this situation to get those 74 00:03:39.199 --> 00:03:42.879 clicks for themselves, to get that notoriety, and they are 75 00:03:43.240 --> 00:03:46.919 not following the same kinds of rules even they're not 76 00:03:47.039 --> 00:03:51.039 following the same kind of common sense other reporters would. 77 00:03:51.120 --> 00:03:52.840 It used to be you had to have a CHP 78 00:03:53.120 --> 00:03:57.919 issued press badge or an LA County Sheriff's Department press badge, 79 00:03:58.000 --> 00:04:00.479 usually both of those, at least when I start, you 80 00:04:00.520 --> 00:04:02.039 had to have both of those to be able to 81 00:04:02.080 --> 00:04:06.599 gain access to specific areas. And now it seems like 82 00:04:06.639 --> 00:04:09.240 that line is blurred on what kind of credential will 83 00:04:09.240 --> 00:04:12.000 get you where, And unfortunately, I think it's putting people 84 00:04:12.039 --> 00:04:14.120 in harm's way more often than not, especially when you 85 00:04:14.120 --> 00:04:15.000 look at events like this. 86 00:04:15.240 --> 00:04:20.319 Yeah, and it's I don't think I mean, we're seeing 87 00:04:20.360 --> 00:04:24.519 a good example of this now, but the nature of fire, 88 00:04:24.839 --> 00:04:29.279 especially fires like this wind driven wild land fires or 89 00:04:29.639 --> 00:04:33.000 wind driven fires that go in these neighborhoods. It's hard 90 00:04:33.040 --> 00:04:37.240 to underestimate. I'm sorry, Yeah, it's hard to am I 91 00:04:37.279 --> 00:04:40.399 saying that right, It's hard to underestimate the power and 92 00:04:40.759 --> 00:04:44.399 the behavior of these things. You and I both covered fires, 93 00:04:44.519 --> 00:04:47.000 and I know that I have had some pretty close 94 00:04:47.040 --> 00:04:51.040 calls in areas that I thought were going to be safe, 95 00:04:51.519 --> 00:04:55.360 and wind picks up, shifts directions, something else catches fire. 96 00:04:55.360 --> 00:04:58.040 It takes one little thing. You've got fire on both 97 00:04:58.040 --> 00:05:00.240 sides of the road that you thought was a an 98 00:05:00.360 --> 00:05:04.439 escape route and it's not. And that just comes from 99 00:05:05.240 --> 00:05:08.680 kind of the experience of being in there and doing 100 00:05:08.720 --> 00:05:11.959 those fire kind of stories. Some of these people don't 101 00:05:12.000 --> 00:05:15.959 have that experience. I'm not saying I'm experted at it 102 00:05:16.000 --> 00:05:18.399 at all. I'm saying that when I've done it, it's 103 00:05:18.519 --> 00:05:19.920 scared the living tar out of me. 104 00:05:21.000 --> 00:05:22.040 All right, Well, we've. 105 00:05:21.839 --> 00:05:24.600 Got a handful of other stories that are going on 106 00:05:24.720 --> 00:05:26.439 that we have kind of put on pause the last 107 00:05:26.480 --> 00:05:27.279 couple of days. 108 00:05:27.319 --> 00:05:32.000 So what else is going on that's next hour? Oh? 109 00:05:32.199 --> 00:05:33.600 I'm sorry, Oh you're fine. 110 00:05:33.600 --> 00:05:34.759 You're in a different time zone. 111 00:05:34.759 --> 00:05:37.040 I am in a different time zone. 112 00:05:37.839 --> 00:05:40.399 I just got a text from Kana saying that we're 113 00:05:40.439 --> 00:05:43.000 going to do what's happening, and that means next hour, 114 00:05:43.120 --> 00:05:44.160 that doesn't mean right now. 115 00:05:44.240 --> 00:05:44.959 No, it's fine. 116 00:05:45.160 --> 00:05:47.120 I was feeling bad because I went on and on 117 00:05:47.319 --> 00:05:48.639 during during what we were. 118 00:05:48.600 --> 00:05:50.079 Supposed to do with this. 119 00:05:51.079 --> 00:05:52.720 I did want to spend a couple of minutes talking 120 00:05:52.759 --> 00:05:56.000 about the idiot with the drone, the drone that glided 121 00:05:56.240 --> 00:05:59.839 with the Super Scooper over the Palisades fire. I'm actually 122 00:06:00.199 --> 00:06:03.639 prize this didn't happen sooner, not with a Super Scooper 123 00:06:03.680 --> 00:06:05.519 that was kind of like the big splash right that 124 00:06:05.560 --> 00:06:08.639 it was one of our biggest air craft that we've got, 125 00:06:08.839 --> 00:06:10.680 and one of the first ones and only ones that 126 00:06:10.759 --> 00:06:13.800 was able to take to this fire with those wins. 127 00:06:14.399 --> 00:06:16.079 But I'm surprised that we haven't. 128 00:06:15.800 --> 00:06:18.959 Heard of other drone interference, maybe not collisions, but so 129 00:06:19.079 --> 00:06:20.000 far with this fire. 130 00:06:20.319 --> 00:06:22.240 But still, nonetheless, it's very. 131 00:06:22.240 --> 00:06:26.000 Depressing and annoying that a drone collided with a Super 132 00:06:26.000 --> 00:06:29.720 Scooper and made that aircraft have to land. 133 00:06:30.000 --> 00:06:33.680 This was Chief Moroni, County Fire Chief Maroni this morning 134 00:06:33.720 --> 00:06:34.639 explaining what happened. 135 00:06:34.680 --> 00:06:39.680 We did have a drone incursion yesterday at the Palisades fire. 136 00:06:40.160 --> 00:06:45.639 Unknown exactly what time this small drone hit the wing 137 00:06:45.839 --> 00:06:49.279 of our COL four fifteen Super Scooper aircraft that we 138 00:06:49.360 --> 00:06:52.519 currently have on contract from the Province of Quebec. The 139 00:06:52.600 --> 00:06:56.040 pilots were unaware that they hit the drone. It wasn't 140 00:06:56.120 --> 00:07:00.720 until they landed at Vanui's airport that they the maintenance 141 00:07:00.720 --> 00:07:04.199 staff noticed that there was a fist sized hole in 142 00:07:04.240 --> 00:07:07.639 the leading edge of the round inboard of the landing light. 143 00:07:07.720 --> 00:07:09.680 Yeah, I saw it last night. I mean, I would 144 00:07:09.680 --> 00:07:12.120 describe it much larger than a fist. It looks like 145 00:07:12.160 --> 00:07:16.160 about the size of a couple of baseball gloves or something. 146 00:07:17.160 --> 00:07:20.199 But the chief did say it can be repaired, they believe, 147 00:07:20.600 --> 00:07:23.360 and that they do expect to have the availability of 148 00:07:23.399 --> 00:07:25.360 that one back in the year by Monday. 149 00:07:25.519 --> 00:07:26.720 It is a federal crime. 150 00:07:27.040 --> 00:07:30.240 You could get a year in prison to interfere with firefighting. 151 00:07:30.839 --> 00:07:33.480 There's a civil penalty of up to seventy five grand 152 00:07:33.519 --> 00:07:35.480 against any drone pilot who interferes. 153 00:07:35.519 --> 00:07:36.199 And I say, you. 154 00:07:36.720 --> 00:07:38.959 Throw the book at whoever this is. Well, do you 155 00:07:38.959 --> 00:07:42.360 know who agrees with you is Nathan Hawkman. He was 156 00:07:42.560 --> 00:07:43.720 also at that news conference. 157 00:07:43.720 --> 00:07:46.040 If you're thinking that it's fine, to send a drone 158 00:07:46.120 --> 00:07:48.759 up in the area for your own amusement, or you 159 00:07:48.800 --> 00:07:51.639 want to get information that nobody else can get, and 160 00:07:51.720 --> 00:07:53.920 you do it in one of these areas that for 161 00:07:53.959 --> 00:07:55.560 which drones are not permitted. 162 00:07:56.079 --> 00:07:57.720 I'll repeat one more time. 163 00:07:58.160 --> 00:08:01.360 You will be as you will be prosecuted, and you 164 00:08:01.360 --> 00:08:03.959 will be punished to the full extent of the law. 165 00:08:05.000 --> 00:08:08.160 There's time I'm kind of annoyed. Not annoyed, that's not 166 00:08:08.199 --> 00:08:08.720 the right turn. 167 00:08:09.279 --> 00:08:10.360 I you're surprised. 168 00:08:10.519 --> 00:08:13.959 I know I have heard that you will be arrested, 169 00:08:14.000 --> 00:08:16.279 you will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. 170 00:08:16.560 --> 00:08:18.360 So many times that it's so watered down. 171 00:08:18.480 --> 00:08:20.279 I would love somebody to get up there and just 172 00:08:20.319 --> 00:08:23.839 be like, we are going to ruin your life if 173 00:08:23.879 --> 00:08:27.519 you try to take down our firefighting aircraft, or you 174 00:08:27.560 --> 00:08:29.639 get even close to it, or you just are a 175 00:08:29.759 --> 00:08:32.840 dumb ass, we are going to ruin your life. 176 00:08:32.960 --> 00:08:33.840 That's what I want to hear. 177 00:08:36.200 --> 00:08:38.879 Did you see the imprint of the drone on the 178 00:08:38.879 --> 00:08:40.960 Super Scooper By the way, it's like one of the 179 00:08:41.440 --> 00:08:44.480 It's like one of those cartoons where the cartoon runs 180 00:08:44.519 --> 00:08:45.720 through the wall and it's like. 181 00:08:45.679 --> 00:08:48.200 The the exact outline. 182 00:08:47.840 --> 00:08:48.840 The exact outline. 183 00:08:48.960 --> 00:08:52.639 It's the exact outline on the Super Scooper. It's like 184 00:08:52.679 --> 00:08:55.480 there's the hole and then there's the two little wings 185 00:08:55.519 --> 00:08:57.879 that kind of shoot out that have dented the sides 186 00:08:58.039 --> 00:08:59.200 of the hole that it made. 187 00:09:00.080 --> 00:09:00.759 I didn't see that. 188 00:09:05.000 --> 00:09:07.519 The one active place that we're looking at right now 189 00:09:07.720 --> 00:09:09.679 is a new fire that has popped up in the 190 00:09:09.679 --> 00:09:13.120 Granada Hills area. For the most part, it looks like 191 00:09:13.240 --> 00:09:15.879 this is not going to get too out of hand. 192 00:09:15.960 --> 00:09:20.519 There are I've counted three helicopters, several ground crews, hand 193 00:09:20.559 --> 00:09:23.120 crews that are out there in the area right above 194 00:09:23.799 --> 00:09:27.360 Sesnon Boulevard if you know where Balboa goes under the 195 00:09:27.399 --> 00:09:29.960 freeware over the freeway sorry on I five as you 196 00:09:30.039 --> 00:09:32.279 just head up towards the New Hall Pass. They have 197 00:09:32.440 --> 00:09:37.720 issued a couple of evacuation places areas with the following boundaries, 198 00:09:38.519 --> 00:09:42.080 the east boundary of Balboa and I five, the west 199 00:09:42.120 --> 00:09:47.720 boundary of Tampa, the south Sesnon and the North Sunshine 200 00:09:47.720 --> 00:09:53.600 Canyon Road right there next to the landfill. Those areas 201 00:09:53.600 --> 00:09:55.720 are to be are that area, I should say is 202 00:09:55.759 --> 00:09:59.639 to be evacuated. There is some structured defense going on 203 00:09:59.720 --> 00:10:02.759 that I said that they do have several units, several 204 00:10:02.799 --> 00:10:05.120 fire units in the neighborhoods. 205 00:10:05.159 --> 00:10:06.840 They're protecting homes. 206 00:10:07.240 --> 00:10:10.440 The fire itself has been burning to the north, so 207 00:10:10.639 --> 00:10:13.639 away from the neighborhoods, but the smoke it looks like, 208 00:10:13.759 --> 00:10:16.159 is blowing sort of to the south and to the southwest. 209 00:10:16.240 --> 00:10:18.360 So they are doing what they can. 210 00:10:18.600 --> 00:10:20.559 A bunch of bulldozers out there as well, trying to 211 00:10:20.559 --> 00:10:24.759 cut some fire. They said it is. It's still only 212 00:10:25.279 --> 00:10:28.200 maybe an acre or two. It looked much larger than 213 00:10:28.200 --> 00:10:31.440 that earlier. So and a couple of helicopters, like I said, 214 00:10:31.480 --> 00:10:33.919 doing fire drops on this water drops on this fire 215 00:10:34.279 --> 00:10:37.840 again towards Granada Hills. If you're headed north in the 216 00:10:37.879 --> 00:10:40.240 San Fernando Valley on I five, it's just off to 217 00:10:40.279 --> 00:10:41.159 the west of the freeway. 218 00:10:41.200 --> 00:10:41.399 There. 219 00:10:41.559 --> 00:10:44.200 Following a story of a brand new fire, this one 220 00:10:44.240 --> 00:10:46.279 is burning up on the Granada Hills area known as 221 00:10:46.320 --> 00:10:50.000 the Archer Fire, and it's burning just off of Sesnon 222 00:10:50.240 --> 00:10:53.879 into the into the hills up there. A lot of 223 00:10:54.360 --> 00:10:57.000 the Mike Antonovitch open Space is up there. You've got 224 00:10:57.000 --> 00:11:00.840 old Melviny Park that's nearby. The fire itself is only 225 00:11:00.840 --> 00:11:03.840 a couple of acres, but there is an evacuation order 226 00:11:03.919 --> 00:11:06.159 that has been posted. So if you're in this area 227 00:11:06.320 --> 00:11:11.159 in Granada Hills, the east border is going to be 228 00:11:11.200 --> 00:11:15.120 where Balboa meets I five. The west border is Tampa, 229 00:11:15.600 --> 00:11:18.639 the south border Cessnon and then the north border is 230 00:11:18.679 --> 00:11:21.000 Sunshine Canyon Road. If you're up in any of those 231 00:11:21.039 --> 00:11:23.360 areas there, they're asking you to get out right now. 232 00:11:23.679 --> 00:11:28.000 They say the fires pushing hard towards the Tuscan Drive area, 233 00:11:28.039 --> 00:11:31.919 that structures are threatened there, so they've called an additional 234 00:11:32.000 --> 00:11:34.639 resources for structure protection. 235 00:11:34.879 --> 00:11:35.679 Just moments ago. 236 00:11:35.919 --> 00:11:39.480 This, by the way, this is a reaction. Is that 237 00:11:39.519 --> 00:11:40.159 the right word. 238 00:11:40.279 --> 00:11:45.240 The quick reaction of dozens of fire crews onto this 239 00:11:45.320 --> 00:11:50.840 thing shows just how aggressively they are fighting every single 240 00:11:50.840 --> 00:11:52.639 one of these new spot fires that has come up. 241 00:11:52.679 --> 00:11:54.559 I mean, we obviously have the two big fires that 242 00:11:54.559 --> 00:11:57.440 we've been paying attention to, the Palisades Fire on Palisades 243 00:11:57.440 --> 00:11:59.679 and then the Eton fire and the Altadena area, but 244 00:11:59.759 --> 00:12:02.120 any one of these little ones that has continued to 245 00:12:02.120 --> 00:12:04.440 pop up, they get on immediately. 246 00:12:04.639 --> 00:12:04.960 Well. 247 00:12:05.120 --> 00:12:07.919 Also, it's helpful in that regard that the Hurst fire 248 00:12:08.039 --> 00:12:10.600 is right next door, you know, as opposed to the 249 00:12:10.639 --> 00:12:13.320 distance between the Palisades and Alta Dina, you kind of 250 00:12:13.320 --> 00:12:15.440 saw the same thing with the Hollywood Hills fire, and 251 00:12:15.480 --> 00:12:17.960 then when that house went up in Studio. 252 00:12:17.679 --> 00:12:19.120 City, they were able to get there quick because they 253 00:12:19.120 --> 00:12:19.720 were right there. 254 00:12:20.559 --> 00:12:22.000 So we'll keep an eye on that. 255 00:12:22.120 --> 00:12:24.679 We want to talk about what's going on weather wise, 256 00:12:24.720 --> 00:12:26.840 because it seems like the last couple of days it 257 00:12:26.919 --> 00:12:31.799 has gradually been improving in terms of the conditions. But 258 00:12:32.000 --> 00:12:35.039 we're not necessarily going to end this thing yet because 259 00:12:35.360 --> 00:12:37.840 the red flag warning is expected to expire tonight, but 260 00:12:37.879 --> 00:12:39.720 that doesn't mean it's the last time we see a 261 00:12:39.720 --> 00:12:40.480 red flag warning. 262 00:12:40.720 --> 00:12:43.960 Mike Wafford is with the National Weather Service, joins US 263 00:12:44.159 --> 00:12:46.399 now to get a look at next week and these 264 00:12:46.440 --> 00:12:49.799 Santa Ana events that are on our doorstep. Mike, thanks 265 00:12:49.799 --> 00:12:53.679 for your time today. Absolutely So what are we looking 266 00:12:53.720 --> 00:12:55.120 at coming on Monday? 267 00:12:56.240 --> 00:13:01.399 Yeah, well, you're absolutely right. We are ending some red 268 00:13:01.440 --> 00:13:04.879 plag warnings this afternoon and evening, but we are expecting 269 00:13:04.879 --> 00:13:10.600 another event to come back at us Saturday night into Sunday, 270 00:13:10.919 --> 00:13:14.320 so we're going to be doing some additional red flag warnings, 271 00:13:14.480 --> 00:13:18.799 particularly for the mountain areas. And we've got another event, 272 00:13:19.240 --> 00:13:22.559 another high wind event expected perhaps even stronger as we 273 00:13:22.600 --> 00:13:26.919 get into Monday and especially Tuesday, so we're definitely not 274 00:13:27.000 --> 00:13:27.960 out of the woods yet. 275 00:13:28.519 --> 00:13:29.240 We haven't. 276 00:13:30.039 --> 00:13:32.240 Is the expectation that's going to be anywhere close to 277 00:13:32.960 --> 00:13:36.519 as aggressive as the winds were earlier this week. 278 00:13:37.159 --> 00:13:40.039 No, it really is not. But you know, we're still 279 00:13:40.080 --> 00:13:42.840 looking at winds in the forty to sixty mile per 280 00:13:42.879 --> 00:13:45.960 hour range, which is very significant and especially with these 281 00:13:46.000 --> 00:13:48.960 existing fires, that could really exacerbate things. 282 00:13:50.039 --> 00:13:52.720 So when we're talking about sustained winds and gus, do 283 00:13:52.759 --> 00:13:54.759 we have any idea yet or we're just too far out? 284 00:13:56.480 --> 00:14:00.000 Yeah, well, you know, we're thinking somewhere around the forty 285 00:14:00.240 --> 00:14:03.200 mile prior range. We could see some locally stronger guests 286 00:14:03.240 --> 00:14:06.639 in our typical really high wind areas up there in 287 00:14:06.679 --> 00:14:10.399 the mountains. So you know, that's our initial guests at 288 00:14:10.399 --> 00:14:12.480 this point, but we'll see as we get a little closer. 289 00:14:12.559 --> 00:14:12.720 You know. 290 00:14:12.759 --> 00:14:15.600 One of the weird things about this event, I guess 291 00:14:15.639 --> 00:14:17.759 you want to call it early this week was that 292 00:14:17.799 --> 00:14:20.519 there was some rain and snow up in the mountains 293 00:14:20.519 --> 00:14:22.639 that was sort of on the front end of all 294 00:14:22.679 --> 00:14:25.320 of this. Any expectation that we see some precipitation in 295 00:14:25.360 --> 00:14:26.240 the next week. 296 00:14:27.159 --> 00:14:30.720 Well not with this particular event. There are a few 297 00:14:30.799 --> 00:14:34.399 signals that we're seeing as we get into later next 298 00:14:34.440 --> 00:14:40.240 week Thursday, Friday. Potentially a little upper low that's kind 299 00:14:40.240 --> 00:14:42.799 of hanging around that could move into the area and 300 00:14:42.879 --> 00:14:45.000 drop a little bitter rain. I don't know that it 301 00:14:45.039 --> 00:14:48.720 would be enough to really have that much of a significance, 302 00:14:48.799 --> 00:14:51.200 but we'll keep an eye on that and see how 303 00:14:51.279 --> 00:14:52.960 it develops as we get closer. 304 00:14:53.519 --> 00:14:57.919 Has that been a conversation amongst y'all who watched this, 305 00:14:58.120 --> 00:15:01.159 the fact that we haven't had rain in eight months? 306 00:15:01.279 --> 00:15:03.279 Or is that just kind of usually we get a 307 00:15:03.320 --> 00:15:06.799 little October, November, December and just just nothing this time around. 308 00:15:07.559 --> 00:15:10.480 Absolutely, we were talking about this long before that, actually, 309 00:15:10.519 --> 00:15:13.200 and you know, we were putting information out that you know, 310 00:15:13.279 --> 00:15:15.720 this has been the start that one of the driest 311 00:15:17.000 --> 00:15:21.240 winters ever, at least the start that we have on records. 312 00:15:21.320 --> 00:15:25.000 So yeah, and that's obviously playing a big role because 313 00:15:25.000 --> 00:15:29.080 everything's so dry and just really crisp and ready to go. 314 00:15:30.080 --> 00:15:32.799 Mike Wafford, National Weather Service, Thanks for your time today. 315 00:15:33.519 --> 00:15:34.879 Oh yeah, very welcome. 316 00:15:34.919 --> 00:15:35.399 Absolutely. 317 00:15:35.519 --> 00:15:38.799 Yeah, it's gonna be a I'm hoping that fire crews 318 00:15:38.799 --> 00:15:40.600 get enough of a break over the course of this 319 00:15:40.679 --> 00:15:44.120 weekend that they're ready for whatever's coming. I don't know 320 00:15:44.120 --> 00:15:49.360 if you follow Mike Row, Dirty jobs guy, Mike Row, 321 00:15:50.120 --> 00:15:53.039 he ran into a crew. He's been stationed at a 322 00:15:53.080 --> 00:15:56.519 hotel basically down on the West Side because he's been 323 00:15:56.559 --> 00:16:00.240 out of his house, and he ran into a fire 324 00:16:00.240 --> 00:16:03.600 crew that came down from Mount Shasta last night. 325 00:16:03.840 --> 00:16:04.159 Wow. 326 00:16:04.279 --> 00:16:06.559 And they're all the way down from Shasta and they 327 00:16:06.559 --> 00:16:09.240 were they were getting basically a good night's sleep before 328 00:16:09.279 --> 00:16:11.960 they were going doing their rotation to go through and 329 00:16:12.000 --> 00:16:14.240 relieve some of the local fire crews that have been 330 00:16:14.279 --> 00:16:17.679 going i mean pretty much non stop since Tuesday night 331 00:16:18.600 --> 00:16:20.679 to get them in there. And there's just I mean, 332 00:16:20.720 --> 00:16:24.240 there's it's a it's an incredible system. We've talked before 333 00:16:24.279 --> 00:16:28.639 about that mutual aid system and the partnerships between not 334 00:16:28.759 --> 00:16:33.759 just the local agencies, but statewide and and interstate relationships 335 00:16:33.799 --> 00:16:37.440 between these fire agencies that they can step in and 336 00:16:37.559 --> 00:16:41.600 take over because listen, a hillside's a hillside, whether it's 337 00:16:41.600 --> 00:16:43.759 when it's burning, so they can do what they can 338 00:16:43.879 --> 00:16:48.759 to protect homes and businesses and people's lives there. There 339 00:16:49.000 --> 00:16:51.799 is a new evacuation warning that has been issued. This 340 00:16:51.879 --> 00:16:54.279 is for the Archer fire up in the Granada Hills 341 00:16:54.320 --> 00:16:58.879 area north San Fernando Valley. If you are in that area, 342 00:16:59.000 --> 00:17:00.879 I mean, if you if you know that is above 343 00:17:01.120 --> 00:17:06.119 Sesnon Boulevards or Omelvenny Park, that's where the fire is. 344 00:17:06.160 --> 00:17:08.319 And if you can smell the smoke and see the 345 00:17:08.319 --> 00:17:11.400 flames in everything, they're expecting you to get out of 346 00:17:11.440 --> 00:17:13.759 there or be ready to go. They do have some 347 00:17:13.880 --> 00:17:17.839 boundaries that they have listed for the absolute evacuation order, 348 00:17:18.160 --> 00:17:21.240 which is balbo At I five on the east. On 349 00:17:21.279 --> 00:17:26.079 the west side Tampa Avenue. South border is Cesnon and 350 00:17:26.119 --> 00:17:28.599 then the north border is Sunshine Canyon Road. There's not 351 00:17:28.640 --> 00:17:31.440 a lot of homes that are affected by the actual 352 00:17:31.440 --> 00:17:36.519 evacuation order, but the others just below Cesnon should be 353 00:17:36.559 --> 00:17:40.240 paying attention because they are in an evacuation warning area 354 00:17:40.319 --> 00:17:41.160 as of right now. 355 00:17:41.240 --> 00:17:42.799 So just to keep an eye on that. 356 00:17:43.160 --> 00:17:46.720 If you've never heard Chris Rock do his bit on insurance, 357 00:17:47.160 --> 00:17:49.920 you've got to hear it. I mean, it's probably twenty 358 00:17:49.920 --> 00:17:53.079 plus years old, but it's a great bit. I mean 359 00:17:53.119 --> 00:17:55.759 he nails it, you know, talking about how it shouldn't 360 00:17:55.759 --> 00:17:58.240 be called insurance, it should be called in case S. 361 00:17:58.400 --> 00:17:59.559 In case S happens. 362 00:18:00.559 --> 00:18:03.519 The experts now looking at what's going on in the 363 00:18:03.559 --> 00:18:07.960 pure scope of the devastation and the number of insurance 364 00:18:07.960 --> 00:18:12.200 payouts that are going to have to materialize, they say, 365 00:18:12.240 --> 00:18:16.119 it's incredibly difficult to gauge a timeline of when the 366 00:18:16.200 --> 00:18:19.440 victims will receive those payouts. They say, anywhere from a 367 00:18:19.480 --> 00:18:21.400 few weeks to several years. 368 00:18:22.440 --> 00:18:25.119 Yeah, this is not a process. 369 00:18:25.319 --> 00:18:31.240 Listen, in the best circumstances where you were, say, the 370 00:18:31.279 --> 00:18:33.880 only person who lost a home in your neighborhood and 371 00:18:33.920 --> 00:18:37.680 you want to rebuild, that process alone takes months and 372 00:18:37.759 --> 00:18:42.359 years because if you think of the bureaucratic morass that 373 00:18:42.440 --> 00:18:44.960 you have to go through to pull permits, to get 374 00:18:45.000 --> 00:18:49.000 plans approved, to make change or I mean, all of 375 00:18:49.039 --> 00:18:52.079 these things take a lot of time. And now the 376 00:18:52.240 --> 00:18:55.599 system to do that is going to be overwhelmed by 377 00:18:55.640 --> 00:18:59.799 four or five thousand other homeowners who want to do 378 00:18:59.839 --> 00:19:01.160 this same thing that you want to do. 379 00:19:01.440 --> 00:19:04.720 Brian Brasswell, as a senior vice president at an independent 380 00:19:04.759 --> 00:19:07.759 insurance broker it's called the Daniel and Henry Company, says 381 00:19:07.759 --> 00:19:11.720 the timing depends on the insurance company, the coverage in place, 382 00:19:11.799 --> 00:19:14.880 and the policy terms as well as volume. He says 383 00:19:14.880 --> 00:19:18.000 companies are inundated with claims. Imagine you have something like 384 00:19:18.000 --> 00:19:20.480 one hundred claims a month, all of a sudden you 385 00:19:20.519 --> 00:19:21.400 have one million. 386 00:19:21.599 --> 00:19:21.839 Yeah. 387 00:19:22.400 --> 00:19:27.480 Yeah, it's unbelievable. The price tag, and I don't want 388 00:19:27.519 --> 00:19:30.759 to diminish the emotional impact of what this is, but 389 00:19:30.839 --> 00:19:34.440 the price tag itself, they're talking about as high as 390 00:19:34.440 --> 00:19:37.599 one hundred and fifty billion dollars, which would put it 391 00:19:37.640 --> 00:19:41.079 on par with some of the worst disasters that we've 392 00:19:41.119 --> 00:19:42.200 seen in this country. 393 00:19:42.279 --> 00:19:42.519 Now. 394 00:19:42.960 --> 00:19:46.079 The Insurance Commission, Ricardo Laura did come out today. He 395 00:19:46.160 --> 00:19:48.000 was part of that news conference that took place in 396 00:19:48.039 --> 00:19:51.240 downtown LA to talk about things that he says he's 397 00:19:51.240 --> 00:19:55.319 going to be able to do to help people recover 398 00:19:55.440 --> 00:19:58.880 from all of this. He has moratory empowers. He says 399 00:19:58.880 --> 00:20:01.319 he's going to prevent insurance co companies from canceling or 400 00:20:01.359 --> 00:20:05.359 non renewing policies in these wildfire impacted areas so that 401 00:20:05.400 --> 00:20:07.279