Speaker 1: This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI
Speaker 1: AM six forty the Gary and Shannon Show on demand
Speaker 1: on the iHeartRadio app. What a week we have had
Speaker 1: in Los Angeles. And next week, as we mentioned, another
Speaker 1: wind event will be happening on Monday. Looks like we've
Speaker 1: got three separate wind events and so we'll get a
Speaker 1: forecast on those from the National Weather Service coming up next.
Speaker 2: So keep it right here.
Speaker 3: We have been keeping our eyes on what we know
Speaker 3: now as the Archer Fire. This is burning up in
Speaker 3: the Granada Hills area. So if you're headed up I five,
Speaker 3: for example, and you're going to go towards the Santa
Speaker 3: Clarita Valley, this is just before you get to the
Speaker 3: New Hall Pass and it's kind of off to your
Speaker 3: left there. There's not any homes immediately in the area
Speaker 3: where it is burning, but there's also nothing to slow
Speaker 3: it down. It's just a bunch of dry grass and
Speaker 3: a little bit of brush up in that area. So
Speaker 3: the winds are pretty light in that area, but the
Speaker 3: smoke is coming through the north end of the San
Speaker 3: Fernando Valley and it is going to be pretty visible
Speaker 3: for a lot of places. There are at least a
Speaker 3: couple of helicopters that are already there. We've seen some
Speaker 3: fire crews driving up into that neighborhood, so they're making
Speaker 3: quick work of this, they hope. But it has expanded
Speaker 3: so it's well above the two or three acres that
Speaker 3: we saw before. Again, this is a fire burning in
Speaker 3: the Granada Hills area up in the north end of
Speaker 3: the San Fernando Valley.
Speaker 1: I don't think if I don't know if you have
Speaker 1: noticed it, but I feel like I have on social
Speaker 1: media Twitter, for example, more so this fire than in
Speaker 1: fires past. And we've kind of seen this when it
Speaker 1: comes to true crime stories that are just developing, where
Speaker 1: you see all these amateur sleuths doing all their own
Speaker 1: research online right into the various players of different news
Speaker 1: stories that are going on, and digging into people's backgrounds.
Speaker 1: I felt like I saw more footage from people who
Speaker 1: are not reporters in fire zones, just trying to get
Speaker 1: maybe the hits or the exposure or what have you,
Speaker 1: and they look like they're not in the best areas.
Speaker 1: From what I remember being a reporter out there and
Speaker 1: being told where to stay away from, what to look
Speaker 1: forward to know which areas to stay away from when
Speaker 1: covering a fire.
Speaker 2: It just seems like, and again it might be a
Speaker 2: story for next week.
Speaker 1: If the authorities have encountered more people that have no
Speaker 1: business being out there when the flames are eating up
Speaker 1: these homes.
Speaker 3: They absolutely have just if I am to trust some
Speaker 3: of the TV reporters, especially in I would say like
Speaker 3: Wednesday night, after most of the flames had burned through
Speaker 3: the Palisades, for example, some of those reporters were standing
Speaker 3: in that parking lot at will Rogers State Beach because
Speaker 3: it was I mean, it was an open place for
Speaker 3: them to stand, but that they were referring to, you know,
Speaker 3: and they're all alone. They're not standing with the fire
Speaker 3: department or anything like that. They're all there by themselves.
Speaker 3: And they do have the ability. Members of the media
Speaker 3: do have the ability to go into across fire lines
Speaker 3: or police lines in these cases, to get into those areas,
Speaker 3: taking their lives into their own hands and with knowledge.
Speaker 3: And the fire department would usually say to you, hey,
Speaker 3: don't go in that area, like you're saying. But the
Speaker 3: TV reporters were saying that sometimes they were getting the
Speaker 3: pushback from either CHP or Sheriff's Department whoever might be
Speaker 3: running security on the line because they don't have a
Speaker 3: way to verify that your media credential is a real
Speaker 3: media credential. And there's so many people out there who,
Speaker 3: like you said, are these new I don't want to
Speaker 3: say generation, a new type of journalist, perhaps that they're
Speaker 3: trying to take advantage of this situation to get those
Speaker 3: clicks for themselves, to get that notoriety, and they are
Speaker 3: not following the same kinds of rules even they're not
Speaker 3: following the same kind of common sense other reporters would.
Speaker 1: It used to be you had to have a CHP
Speaker 1: issued press badge or an LA County Sheriff's Department press badge,
Speaker 1: usually both of those, at least when I start, you
Speaker 1: had to have both of those to be able to
Speaker 1: gain access to specific areas. And now it seems like
Speaker 1: that line is blurred on what kind of credential will
Speaker 1: get you where, And unfortunately, I think it's putting people
Speaker 1: in harm's way more often than not, especially when you
Speaker 1: look at events like this.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and it's I don't think I mean, we're seeing
Speaker 3: a good example of this now, but the nature of fire,
Speaker 3: especially fires like this wind driven wild land fires or
Speaker 3: wind driven fires that go in these neighborhoods. It's hard
Speaker 3: to underestimate. I'm sorry, Yeah, it's hard to am I
Speaker 3: saying that right, It's hard to underestimate the power and
Speaker 3: the behavior of these things. You and I both covered fires,
Speaker 3: and I know that I have had some pretty close
Speaker 3: calls in areas that I thought were going to be safe,
Speaker 3: and wind picks up, shifts directions, something else catches fire.
Speaker 3: It takes one little thing. You've got fire on both
Speaker 3: sides of the road that you thought was a an
Speaker 3: escape route and it's not. And that just comes from
Speaker 3: kind of the experience of being in there and doing
Speaker 3: those fire kind of stories. Some of these people don't
Speaker 3: have that experience. I'm not saying I'm experted at it
Speaker 3: at all. I'm saying that when I've done it, it's
Speaker 3: scared the living tar out of me.
Speaker 2: All right, Well, we've.
Speaker 1: Got a handful of other stories that are going on
Speaker 1: that we have kind of put on pause the last
Speaker 1: couple of days.
Speaker 4: So what else is going on that's next hour? Oh?
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, Oh you're fine.
Speaker 4: You're in a different time zone.
Speaker 2: I am in a different time zone.
Speaker 1: I just got a text from Kana saying that we're
Speaker 1: going to do what's happening, and that means next hour,
Speaker 1: that doesn't mean right now.
Speaker 4: No, it's fine.
Speaker 1: I was feeling bad because I went on and on
Speaker 1: during during what we were.
Speaker 4: Supposed to do with this.
Speaker 1: I did want to spend a couple of minutes talking
Speaker 1: about the idiot with the drone, the drone that glided
Speaker 1: with the Super Scooper over the Palisades fire. I'm actually
Speaker 1: prize this didn't happen sooner, not with a Super Scooper
Speaker 1: that was kind of like the big splash right that
Speaker 1: it was one of our biggest air craft that we've got,
Speaker 1: and one of the first ones and only ones that
Speaker 1: was able to take to this fire with those wins.
Speaker 2: But I'm surprised that we haven't.
Speaker 1: Heard of other drone interference, maybe not collisions, but so
Speaker 1: far with this fire.
Speaker 2: But still, nonetheless, it's very.
Speaker 1: Depressing and annoying that a drone collided with a Super
Speaker 1: Scooper and made that aircraft have to land.
Speaker 3: This was Chief Moroni, County Fire Chief Maroni this morning
Speaker 3: explaining what happened.
Speaker 5: We did have a drone incursion yesterday at the Palisades fire.
Speaker 5: Unknown exactly what time this small drone hit the wing
Speaker 5: of our COL four fifteen Super Scooper aircraft that we
Speaker 5: currently have on contract from the Province of Quebec. The
Speaker 5: pilots were unaware that they hit the drone. It wasn't
Speaker 5: until they landed at Vanui's airport that they the maintenance
Speaker 5: staff noticed that there was a fist sized hole in
Speaker 5: the leading edge of the round inboard of the landing light.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I saw it last night. I mean, I would
Speaker 3: describe it much larger than a fist. It looks like
Speaker 3: about the size of a couple of baseball gloves or something.
Speaker 3: But the chief did say it can be repaired, they believe,
Speaker 3: and that they do expect to have the availability of
Speaker 3: that one back in the year by Monday.
Speaker 2: It is a federal crime.
Speaker 1: You could get a year in prison to interfere with firefighting.
Speaker 1: There's a civil penalty of up to seventy five grand
Speaker 1: against any drone pilot who interferes.
Speaker 2: And I say, you.
Speaker 3: Throw the book at whoever this is. Well, do you
Speaker 3: know who agrees with you is Nathan Hawkman. He was
Speaker 3: also at that news conference.
Speaker 6: If you're thinking that it's fine, to send a drone
Speaker 6: up in the area for your own amusement, or you
Speaker 6: want to get information that nobody else can get, and
Speaker 6: you do it in one of these areas that for
Speaker 6: which drones are not permitted.
Speaker 4: I'll repeat one more time.
Speaker 6: You will be as you will be prosecuted, and you
Speaker 6: will be punished to the full extent of the law.
Speaker 1: There's time I'm kind of annoyed. Not annoyed, that's not
Speaker 1: the right turn.
Speaker 4: I you're surprised.
Speaker 1: I know I have heard that you will be arrested,
Speaker 1: you will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.
Speaker 2: So many times that it's so watered down.
Speaker 1: I would love somebody to get up there and just
Speaker 1: be like, we are going to ruin your life if
Speaker 1: you try to take down our firefighting aircraft, or you
Speaker 1: get even close to it, or you just are a
Speaker 1: dumb ass, we are going to ruin your life.
Speaker 2: That's what I want to hear.
Speaker 1: Did you see the imprint of the drone on the
Speaker 1: Super Scooper By the way, it's like one of the
Speaker 1: It's like one of those cartoons where the cartoon runs
Speaker 1: through the wall and it's like.
Speaker 4: The the exact outline.
Speaker 2: The exact outline.
Speaker 1: It's the exact outline on the Super Scooper. It's like
Speaker 1: there's the hole and then there's the two little wings
Speaker 1: that kind of shoot out that have dented the sides
Speaker 1: of the hole that it made.
Speaker 4: I didn't see that.
Speaker 3: The one active place that we're looking at right now
Speaker 3: is a new fire that has popped up in the
Speaker 3: Granada Hills area. For the most part, it looks like
Speaker 3: this is not going to get too out of hand.
Speaker 3: There are I've counted three helicopters, several ground crews, hand
Speaker 3: crews that are out there in the area right above
Speaker 3: Sesnon Boulevard if you know where Balboa goes under the
Speaker 3: freeware over the freeway sorry on I five as you
Speaker 3: just head up towards the New Hall Pass. They have
Speaker 3: issued a couple of evacuation places areas with the following boundaries,
Speaker 3: the east boundary of Balboa and I five, the west
Speaker 3: boundary of Tampa, the south Sesnon and the North Sunshine
Speaker 3: Canyon Road right there next to the landfill. Those areas
Speaker 3: are to be are that area, I should say is
Speaker 3: to be evacuated. There is some structured defense going on
Speaker 3: that I said that they do have several units, several
Speaker 3: fire units in the neighborhoods.
Speaker 4: They're protecting homes.
Speaker 3: The fire itself has been burning to the north, so
Speaker 3: away from the neighborhoods, but the smoke it looks like,
Speaker 3: is blowing sort of to the south and to the southwest.
Speaker 4: So they are doing what they can.
Speaker 3: A bunch of bulldozers out there as well, trying to
Speaker 3: cut some fire. They said it is. It's still only
Speaker 3: maybe an acre or two. It looked much larger than
Speaker 3: that earlier. So and a couple of helicopters, like I said,
Speaker 3: doing fire drops on this water drops on this fire
Speaker 3: again towards Granada Hills. If you're headed north in the
Speaker 3: San Fernando Valley on I five, it's just off to
Speaker 3: the west of the freeway.
Speaker 4: There.
Speaker 3: Following a story of a brand new fire, this one
Speaker 3: is burning up on the Granada Hills area known as
Speaker 3: the Archer Fire, and it's burning just off of Sesnon
Speaker 3: into the into the hills up there. A lot of
Speaker 3: the Mike Antonovitch open Space is up there. You've got
Speaker 3: old Melviny Park that's nearby. The fire itself is only
Speaker 3: a couple of acres, but there is an evacuation order
Speaker 3: that has been posted. So if you're in this area
Speaker 3: in Granada Hills, the east border is going to be
Speaker 3: where Balboa meets I five. The west border is Tampa,
Speaker 3: the south border Cessnon and then the north border is
Speaker 3: Sunshine Canyon Road. If you're up in any of those
Speaker 3: areas there, they're asking you to get out right now.
Speaker 1: They say the fires pushing hard towards the Tuscan Drive area,
Speaker 1: that structures are threatened there, so they've called an additional
Speaker 1: resources for structure protection.
Speaker 2: Just moments ago.
Speaker 4: This, by the way, this is a reaction. Is that
Speaker 4: the right word.
Speaker 3: The quick reaction of dozens of fire crews onto this
Speaker 3: thing shows just how aggressively they are fighting every single
Speaker 3: one of these new spot fires that has come up.
Speaker 3: I mean, we obviously have the two big fires that
Speaker 3: we've been paying attention to, the Palisades Fire on Palisades
Speaker 3: and then the Eton fire and the Altadena area, but
Speaker 3: any one of these little ones that has continued to
Speaker 3: pop up, they get on immediately.
Speaker 7: Well.
Speaker 1: Also, it's helpful in that regard that the Hurst fire
Speaker 1: is right next door, you know, as opposed to the
Speaker 1: distance between the Palisades and Alta Dina, you kind of
Speaker 1: saw the same thing with the Hollywood Hills fire, and
Speaker 1: then when that house went up in Studio.
Speaker 2: City, they were able to get there quick because they
Speaker 2: were right there.
Speaker 4: So we'll keep an eye on that.
Speaker 3: We want to talk about what's going on weather wise,
Speaker 3: because it seems like the last couple of days it
Speaker 3: has gradually been improving in terms of the conditions. But
Speaker 3: we're not necessarily going to end this thing yet because
Speaker 3: the red flag warning is expected to expire tonight, but
Speaker 3: that doesn't mean it's the last time we see a
Speaker 3: red flag warning.
Speaker 1: Mike Wafford is with the National Weather Service, joins US
Speaker 1: now to get a look at next week and these
Speaker 1: Santa Ana events that are on our doorstep. Mike, thanks
Speaker 1: for your time today. Absolutely So what are we looking
Speaker 1: at coming on Monday?
Speaker 8: Yeah, well, you're absolutely right. We are ending some red
Speaker 8: plag warnings this afternoon and evening, but we are expecting
Speaker 8: another event to come back at us Saturday night into Sunday,
Speaker 8: so we're going to be doing some additional red flag warnings,
Speaker 8: particularly for the mountain areas. And we've got another event,
Speaker 8: another high wind event expected perhaps even stronger as we
Speaker 8: get into Monday and especially Tuesday, so we're definitely not
Speaker 8: out of the woods yet.
Speaker 4: We haven't.
Speaker 3: Is the expectation that's going to be anywhere close to
Speaker 3: as aggressive as the winds were earlier this week.
Speaker 8: No, it really is not. But you know, we're still
Speaker 8: looking at winds in the forty to sixty mile per
Speaker 8: hour range, which is very significant and especially with these
Speaker 8: existing fires, that could really exacerbate things.
Speaker 1: So when we're talking about sustained winds and gus, do
Speaker 1: we have any idea yet or we're just too far out?
Speaker 8: Yeah, well, you know, we're thinking somewhere around the forty
Speaker 8: mile prior range. We could see some locally stronger guests
Speaker 8: in our typical really high wind areas up there in
Speaker 8: the mountains. So you know, that's our initial guests at
Speaker 8: this point, but we'll see as we get a little closer.
Speaker 7: You know.
Speaker 3: One of the weird things about this event, I guess
Speaker 3: you want to call it early this week was that
Speaker 3: there was some rain and snow up in the mountains
Speaker 3: that was sort of on the front end of all
Speaker 3: of this. Any expectation that we see some precipitation in
Speaker 3: the next week.
Speaker 8: Well not with this particular event. There are a few
Speaker 8: signals that we're seeing as we get into later next
Speaker 8: week Thursday, Friday. Potentially a little upper low that's kind
Speaker 8: of hanging around that could move into the area and
Speaker 8: drop a little bitter rain. I don't know that it
Speaker 8: would be enough to really have that much of a significance,
Speaker 8: but we'll keep an eye on that and see how
Speaker 8: it develops as we get closer.
Speaker 1: Has that been a conversation amongst y'all who watched this,
Speaker 1: the fact that we haven't had rain in eight months?
Speaker 1: Or is that just kind of usually we get a
Speaker 1: little October, November, December and just just nothing this time around.
Speaker 8: Absolutely, we were talking about this long before that, actually,
Speaker 8: and you know, we were putting information out that you know,
Speaker 8: this has been the start that one of the driest
Speaker 8: winters ever, at least the start that we have on records.
Speaker 8: So yeah, and that's obviously playing a big role because
Speaker 8: everything's so dry and just really crisp and ready to go.
Speaker 3: Mike Wafford, National Weather Service, Thanks for your time today.
Speaker 8: Oh yeah, very welcome.
Speaker 4: Absolutely.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's gonna be a I'm hoping that fire crews
Speaker 3: get enough of a break over the course of this
Speaker 3: weekend that they're ready for whatever's coming. I don't know
Speaker 3: if you follow Mike Row, Dirty jobs guy, Mike Row,
Speaker 3: he ran into a crew. He's been stationed at a
Speaker 3: hotel basically down on the West Side because he's been
Speaker 3: out of his house, and he ran into a fire
Speaker 3: crew that came down from Mount Shasta last night.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 3: And they're all the way down from Shasta and they
Speaker 3: were they were getting basically a good night's sleep before
Speaker 3: they were going doing their rotation to go through and
Speaker 3: relieve some of the local fire crews that have been
Speaker 3: going i mean pretty much non stop since Tuesday night
Speaker 3: to get them in there. And there's just I mean,
Speaker 3: there's it's a it's an incredible system. We've talked before
Speaker 3: about that mutual aid system and the partnerships between not
Speaker 3: just the local agencies, but statewide and and interstate relationships
Speaker 3: between these fire agencies that they can step in and
Speaker 3: take over because listen, a hillside's a hillside, whether it's
Speaker 3: when it's burning, so they can do what they can
Speaker 3: to protect homes and businesses and people's lives there. There
Speaker 3: is a new evacuation warning that has been issued. This
Speaker 3: is for the Archer fire up in the Granada Hills
Speaker 3: area north San Fernando Valley. If you are in that area,
Speaker 3: I mean, if you if you know that is above
Speaker 3: Sesnon Boulevards or Omelvenny Park, that's where the fire is.
Speaker 3: And if you can smell the smoke and see the
Speaker 3: flames in everything, they're expecting you to get out of
Speaker 3: there or be ready to go. They do have some
Speaker 3: boundaries that they have listed for the absolute evacuation order,
Speaker 3: which is balbo At I five on the east. On
Speaker 3: the west side Tampa Avenue. South border is Cesnon and
Speaker 3: then the north border is Sunshine Canyon Road. There's not
Speaker 3: a lot of homes that are affected by the actual
Speaker 3: evacuation order, but the others just below Cesnon should be
Speaker 3: paying attention because they are in an evacuation warning area
Speaker 3: as of right now.
Speaker 4: So just to keep an eye on that.
Speaker 1: If you've never heard Chris Rock do his bit on insurance,
Speaker 1: you've got to hear it. I mean, it's probably twenty
Speaker 1: plus years old, but it's a great bit. I mean
Speaker 1: he nails it, you know, talking about how it shouldn't
Speaker 1: be called insurance, it should be called in case S.
Speaker 2: In case S happens.
Speaker 1: The experts now looking at what's going on in the
Speaker 1: pure scope of the devastation and the number of insurance
Speaker 1: payouts that are going to have to materialize, they say,
Speaker 1: it's incredibly difficult to gauge a timeline of when the
Speaker 1: victims will receive those payouts. They say, anywhere from a
Speaker 1: few weeks to several years.
Speaker 4: Yeah, this is not a process.
Speaker 3: Listen, in the best circumstances where you were, say, the
Speaker 3: only person who lost a home in your neighborhood and
Speaker 3: you want to rebuild, that process alone takes months and
Speaker 3: years because if you think of the bureaucratic morass that
Speaker 3: you have to go through to pull permits, to get
Speaker 3: plans approved, to make change or I mean, all of
Speaker 3: these things take a lot of time. And now the
Speaker 3: system to do that is going to be overwhelmed by
Speaker 3: four or five thousand other homeowners who want to do
Speaker 3: this same thing that you want to do.
Speaker 1: Brian Brasswell, as a senior vice president at an independent
Speaker 1: insurance broker it's called the Daniel and Henry Company, says
Speaker 1: the timing depends on the insurance company, the coverage in place,
Speaker 1: and the policy terms as well as volume. He says
Speaker 1: companies are inundated with claims. Imagine you have something like
Speaker 1: one hundred claims a month, all of a sudden you
Speaker 1: have one million.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's unbelievable. The price tag, and I don't want
Speaker 3: to diminish the emotional impact of what this is, but
Speaker 3: the price tag itself, they're talking about as high as
Speaker 3: one hundred and fifty billion dollars, which would put it
Speaker 3: on par with some of the worst disasters that we've
Speaker 3: seen in this country.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 3: The Insurance Commission, Ricardo Laura did come out today. He
Speaker 3: was part of that news conference that took place in
Speaker 3: downtown LA to talk about things that he says he's
Speaker 3: going to be able to do to help people recover
Speaker 3: from all of this. He has moratory empowers. He says
Speaker 3: he's going to prevent insurance co companies from canceling or
Speaker 3: non renewing policies in these wildfire impacted areas so that
Speaker 3: people don't have to worry about the added stress of
Speaker 3: trying to find new insurance on all of this. He
Speaker 3: also said that he's going to issue a notice calling
Speaker 3: on insurance companies to stop any of the pending non
Speaker 3: renewals or cancelations for any properties that are located near
Speaker 3: the wildfires, if they're not already protected by the mandatory moratorium.
Speaker 3: He also is demanding that these insurance companies come to
Speaker 3: him with an emergency plan. How are you going to
Speaker 3: serve the people that are your customers. I've heard of
Speaker 3: a couple of insurance companies that have already purchased office
Speaker 3: space in la I mean more local to the fire
Speaker 3: scenes themselves, whether it's Pasadena or somewhere in Santa Monica,
Speaker 3: for example, to be close to the Palisades, so that
Speaker 3: they have offices and actual footprints where people can come
Speaker 3: and begin this process or continue this process of figuring
Speaker 3: out their claims, what's going to be covered, what's not
Speaker 3: going to be covered, and what the next steps are
Speaker 3: going to be.
Speaker 2: I mean, listen to this, they say.
Speaker 1: In some cases, these companies may just flat out deny
Speaker 1: the claim, hoping nothing will ever come of it. They
Speaker 1: deny the claim knowing they'll end up getting sued, but
Speaker 1: at least the denial and waiting for the lawsuit to
Speaker 1: get filed will buy them more time. Because insurance companies
Speaker 1: are constantly analyzing their data, computing how much money they
Speaker 1: need to have in reserves at a given time for
Speaker 1: paying claims, so they only have X amount of dollars.
Speaker 1: So somebody with the same amount of damage as you
Speaker 1: might get paid first, just because the numbers are crunching
Speaker 1: for them when they call or they get the paperwork
Speaker 1: across the desk that it works. But by the time
Speaker 1: you do, suddenly they're going to say, no, we got
Speaker 1: to just deny that and just punt it down the road.
Speaker 2: I mean, how frustrating is that.
Speaker 3: Well, and it's one of those things that when you
Speaker 3: have insurance on your house, the expectation probably is that
Speaker 3: you you never want to use it. Obviously you never
Speaker 3: want to have to use it, but that if you did,
Speaker 3: it would be something like the oven was left on,
Speaker 3: or it's an individual thing where it's just your house.
Speaker 3: And now, like you said, you've got thousands and thousands
Speaker 3: of people filing claims all at the same time.
Speaker 4: It's just gonna be a nightmare.
Speaker 3: The Commissioner again, the insurance Commissioner, Ricardo Laura, says that
Speaker 3: there's gonna be an insurance support workshop coming up next
Speaker 3: weekend eighteenth and nineteenth to help people figure out their
Speaker 3: insurance policies and this claims process, also providing information about
Speaker 3: available resources for rebuilding and recovery.
Speaker 2: And I have a question.
Speaker 4: I don't know if I have an answer.
Speaker 1: You know, how people that have money can just like
Speaker 1: pay their way out of things that are annoying?
Speaker 4: Sure is there?
Speaker 2: Oh my computer just shut off. That's unfortunate.
Speaker 4: You didn't plug it in.
Speaker 2: I didn't bring the battery. You know, I didn't bring
Speaker 2: the charger. I never bring the charger.
Speaker 4: You don't know how things work.
Speaker 1: I'm consistent, I'm consistent. Appreciate that, consistently irresponsible when it
Speaker 1: comes to chargers. But I'm wondering if there's some sort
Speaker 1: of like it's kind of like, I have a friend
Speaker 1: who works in concierge medicine, where if you're a rich person,
Speaker 1: you hire her. She hooks you up with a concierge
Speaker 1: doctor and handles all the paperwork, all the appointments, scheduling,
Speaker 1: all of the if you need transportation, things like that.
Speaker 1: She kind of just takes control of your life in
Speaker 1: that regard and gets in and does all that, makes
Speaker 1: all the calls, fills out all the paper work, does
Speaker 1: all the scheduling. All of that is there that can
Speaker 1: you pay your way out of? If you're like one
Speaker 1: of the people that has tons of money of dealing
Speaker 1: with insurance companies, like in terms of like you can
Speaker 1: call somebody and just be like, hey, my house burned down.
Speaker 1: Can you handle the disaster that is the insurance industry.
Speaker 4: I'm sure there is. I'm sure.
Speaker 3: I'm sure that people, especially not to overgeneralize, but especially
Speaker 3: some of those customers in the palisades, are going to
Speaker 3: have people to do that for them.
Speaker 2: Right, I'm assuming they do.
Speaker 1: That's just like one of those things the other half
Speaker 1: or the other one percent lives where you're just like,
Speaker 1: I'm sure they have.
Speaker 2: People for that.
Speaker 4: They don't have to wait on the phone to get
Speaker 4: an agent. Right Yeah.
Speaker 1: It's always the richest people that have the least inconvenience,
Speaker 1: right Yeah, I mean I get it makes sense.
Speaker 3: But well, listen, one of the things that frustrates people
Speaker 3: in situations like this is for those of us who
Speaker 3: have not been directly impacted by these fires, a sense
Speaker 3: of helplessness. To a lot of people, a sense of
Speaker 3: maybe not being able to do anything to help out.
Speaker 3: But you can. In fact, iHeartMedia LA and the Dream
Speaker 3: Center LA are stepping up. We are going to try
Speaker 3: to do what we can in to provide some hope
Speaker 3: and some relief and some resources to the community. Whether
Speaker 3: you need support, maybe this is this is hitting a
Speaker 3: little too close to home, or you have lost your
Speaker 3: home and you need some help, or you're looking for
Speaker 3: a way to get off your button do something about it.
Speaker 3: The Dream Center and iHeartMedia are standing with La County.
Speaker 3: We're navigating this time. You can go to Dreamcenter dot
Speaker 3: org slash donate because that's where you can give financial donations,
Speaker 3: the monetary contributions, but also the huge list of things
Speaker 3: that they need, nonperishable food items, baby supplies, first aid, kits,
Speaker 3: pet food stuff like that where you can donate that.
Speaker 3: You can also go to KFI AM six forty dot com.
Speaker 3: It's right there on the front page. Just click on
Speaker 3: your way through and get some more information or text
Speaker 3: the word relief to three three one zero zero. Text
Speaker 3: the word relief to three three one zero zero to
Speaker 3: help us out. Along with the Dream Center LA and iHeartMedia,
Speaker 3: LA mentioned the fire that is burning up with the
Speaker 3: Granada Hills area. For the most part, looks like forward
Speaker 3: progress on that fire has slowed or completely stopped, so
Speaker 3: that's good. That was the Archer fire it's at about
Speaker 3: thirty one thirty two acres something like that. So the crews,
Speaker 3: I mean, this swift action that they took once that
Speaker 3: thing popped up was pretty amazing. So that thing is
Speaker 3: out for the most part. Hand crews are down there
Speaker 3: and they are up there, I should say, and are
Speaker 3: mopping it up. It has again they have said that
Speaker 3: the forward progress stopped at thirty one and a half acres.
Speaker 3: The evacuation order that was in that area has been
Speaker 3: simply downgraded to a warning. But again, if you know
Speaker 3: where that is, up the north end of the San
Speaker 3: Fernando Valley, right where I five goes starts to go
Speaker 3: up over the New Hall Pass is where that fire was.
Speaker 1: We will absolutely stay on top of all the developments
Speaker 1: as they come up here when it comes to the fires,
Speaker 1: covering the fires, where we're at with containment, any new
Speaker 1: fires and things like that. It's something It hit me
Speaker 1: when we were talking to Michael Monks and he was
Speaker 1: talking about peeing into a Stanley cup and it made
Speaker 1: me laugh so hard and I thought.
Speaker 2: Gosh, it feels good to laugh.
Speaker 1: So we will be bringing you what you learned this
Speaker 1: week on Gary and Shannon as well as the nine
Speaker 1: nuggets you need to know. Because yes, we can stay informed,
Speaker 1: we also need to have a little bit of comic relief.
Speaker 2: I do believe a.
Speaker 4: Little bit of levity.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So, if there's something that you learned this week on
Speaker 3: The Gary and Shannon Show, you can leave us a
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Speaker 4: Didn't want to play for you a couple of quick talkbacks.
Speaker 9: Gary and Shannon, longtime listener, California born and raised, living
Speaker 9: here in shah Halis, Washington. Now pass seventy five hundred
Speaker 9: and our local fire department here in town is sending
Speaker 9: a truck down with fire people on it. And I
Speaker 9: think the state of Washington I saw in the news
Speaker 9: last night, is sending five trucks, but even our little
Speaker 9: town of seventy five hundred people is sending a truck
Speaker 9: down to health there.
Speaker 3: We got a message also from somebody yesterday who lives
Speaker 3: in northern Oregon, and they said that they're sending a
Speaker 3: bunch of trucks down.
Speaker 1: I love Shahlis, I love Centralia, I love them all,
Speaker 1: Love them all.
Speaker 7: Hi Gearing, Shannon. Hey, I work with rock stars, and
Speaker 7: believe me, any rock stars or celebrities up there that
Speaker 7: have any kind of success, they're not making any of
Speaker 7: those calls. They've already got assistance that handle groceries and
Speaker 7: stuff like that, so something like this, absolutely they're not
Speaker 7: going to be handling it themselves, which it's part of
Speaker 7: being rich. I guess, yes, yeah, that's a good point.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 1: Hey, if something happens with my stuff, do you think
Speaker 1: you seem like you could handle this kind.
Speaker 4: Of stuff, handle insurance stuff.
Speaker 2: I'll pay you in compliments.
Speaker 1: No, And I won't sing for as long as you
Speaker 1: don't want me to sing for No, I won't come
Speaker 1: to work for as long as you don't want me
Speaker 1: to even.
Speaker 4: With a good insurance company.
Speaker 3: And I have a good insurance company, And I guess
Speaker 3: my definition of what is a good insurance company is
Speaker 3: any time I've had to deal with them, they've been
Speaker 3: incredibly appeasing.
Speaker 4: They're easy, easy to work with. That's nice, it's really great.
Speaker 3: It's USAA, and I don't they are not paying me
Speaker 3: to say that or anything. Although listen, if they're listening,
Speaker 3: they have been fantastic for me, for my family, and
Speaker 3: it's been great. That makes I still that makes no
Speaker 3: difference because I still do not want to have to
Speaker 3: deal with usually because it's a problem, right. I mean,
Speaker 3: when you have to call an insurance company, it's usually
Speaker 3: because something has gone wrong. You don't call them to
Speaker 3: celebrate unless you're adding somebody. You know, you're adding a
Speaker 3: new kid to the policy or something like that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And it's one thing.
Speaker 1: I mean, they've been great for you when you've needed
Speaker 1: them for whatever. But now, I mean, how many insurance
Speaker 1: companies are going to be great for everybody when there's
Speaker 1: this kind of volume.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that I mean can't be well.
Speaker 3: And that's that's I think the Insurance Commission was trying
Speaker 3: to address that today when he was saying this is
Speaker 3: going to be an all hands on deck, not just
Speaker 3: for the for his agency, but he's trying to impart
Speaker 3: that upon the the insurance companies. We're going to need
Speaker 3: you to do your absolute best for as many people
Speaker 3: as you possibly can. We are getting we've got it.
Speaker 3: Just a report a short time ago. Law enforcement has
Speaker 3: been requested to go to Topanga Canyon Road area to
Speaker 3: help get people out of there. Some people are impeding
Speaker 3: firefighting operations.
Speaker 2: Oh boy, I hope these aren't the hippie hiker people.
Speaker 3: Well, there are areas that up there, there's some structures
Speaker 3: that are immediately threatened by this increased fire activity on
Speaker 3: that edge of the Palisades fire, along with the super
Speaker 3: Scooper that's been in the air. They just showed a
Speaker 3: short time ago one of the big, huge tankers that
Speaker 3: had come through and dropped a huge line of fozchek
Speaker 3: on one of the ridge lines there to try to
Speaker 3: protect some of the infrastructure up there. But law enforcement
Speaker 3: has been requested up there to residents that may have
Speaker 3: stayed behind. And you know that if the firefighters have
Speaker 3: to rescue you, that means they can't do the thing
Speaker 3: that they are actually named for, which is fight the fire.
Speaker 4: So you're in the way if you didn't already get out,
Speaker 4: all right.
Speaker 2: Have you heard about that Delta flight at Atlanta this morning? No,
Speaker 2: we'll talk about it.
Speaker 1: They had to go down the slides we'll talk about
Speaker 1: what's happening when we come back to Gary.
Speaker 2: I am shamp.
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