Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM six forty Wake Up Call
Speaker 1: with me Amy King on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2: I'm Amy King. Well we got another day. It's day
Speaker 2: four of the fires and still an incredibly active situation.
Speaker 2: If you've if you've been listening to Neil Savedre, he's
Speaker 2: been keeping up to date. We're gonna get you the
Speaker 2: latest and dig a little deeper into some of the stories. Boy,
Speaker 2: there's a lot going on, and the numbers just keep
Speaker 2: going up, and I think we can expect them to
Speaker 2: continue to go up. I came out to my car
Speaker 2: this morning and there was snow on my car. Okay,
Speaker 2: it wasn't snow, it was ash. But have you noticed that,
Speaker 2: even though I am miles away from the fire's air
Speaker 2: quality is not good and you can feel it when
Speaker 2: you're outside. It smells like smoking. I even when I
Speaker 2: went to take my nap yesterday, I was like, my
Speaker 2: house smells like a fire. It was crazy. Also, I
Speaker 2: had a trailer parked across the street this morning, a
Speaker 2: horse trailer. Not just a regular trailer, but a horse trailer.
Speaker 2: So I'm guessing that there is somebody who's been evacuated
Speaker 2: and is now staying in my neighborhood. So glad that
Speaker 2: they were able to get away. Also driving in this
Speaker 2: morning if you get a chance. The moon was very
Speaker 2: low in the sky when I came in at like
Speaker 2: three point thirty, so I'm not sure where it is
Speaker 2: if it was ascending in the sky or descending in
Speaker 2: the sky, but it was this eerie, beautiful, weird moon.
Speaker 2: It was yellowish and it's still it felt like Halloween,
Speaker 2: you know, like that kind of darkness, still beautiful. And
Speaker 2: that's what's so weird about the fires is like you
Speaker 2: look at the sun and you can look at the
Speaker 2: sun and it's red because of the smoke, and it's
Speaker 2: this very eerie feeling in a weird, beautiful way, you know.
Speaker 2: So anyway you are going to get through it. We
Speaker 2: hope that all of you are safe. And if you
Speaker 2: got an alert that there was a new fire, because
Speaker 2: an alert went out about an hour ago that was
Speaker 2: not correct, and hopefully you've received your correction. I know
Speaker 2: we got one yesterday at just before four o'clock and
Speaker 2: it went out to all of La County. It was
Speaker 2: a mistake. They accidentally did it. It should have only been
Speaker 2: for the fire. That's burning up in near Calabasas. It's
Speaker 2: called the Kenneth Fire. It broke out yesterday afternoon. So anyway,
Speaker 2: some people this morning got a very rude awakening. I'm
Speaker 2: sure because right about four o'clock we had heard Hollywood
Speaker 2: Silver Lake Producer and got the alert for the Tapanga area.
Speaker 2: But that too was a mistake. There are no new
Speaker 2: fires burning at this time, which is good news considering
Speaker 2: everything that's going on. Let's get into it. Here's what's
Speaker 2: ahead on wake up call. The newest fire whipped by
Speaker 2: the winds in southern California has burned one thousand acres.
Speaker 2: That's the one near Calabasas. The Kenneth fire started around
Speaker 2: three yesterday afternoon and burned very close to neighborhoods. Water
Speaker 2: dropping helicopters came to the rescue again in fixed wing planes.
Speaker 2: We're able to keep the flames away from homes in
Speaker 2: the West Hills neighborhood. Forward progress has been stopped. It
Speaker 2: is now thirty five percent surrounded. One person has been
Speaker 2: arrested for suspected arson in connection with that fire in Calabasas.
Speaker 2: The number of homes, restaurants, churches, schools, and other businesses
Speaker 2: that have been burned in the wildfires is up over
Speaker 2: ten thousand now. Fire officials announced fifty three hundred buildings
Speaker 2: have burned in the Palisades fire, and four to five
Speaker 2: thousand have burned in the fire in Altadena. At least
Speaker 2: ten people were killed in the fires that continue to
Speaker 2: burn out of control. We're going to be talking more
Speaker 2: about the fires with ABC's Melissa a don to get
Speaker 2: the latest in just a couple of minutes, probably about
Speaker 2: three or four minutes from now. Let's look in to
Speaker 2: more stories about the fires. Hundreds of members of the
Speaker 2: Californian National Guard have arrived in the LA area to
Speaker 2: help law enforcement in the fire zones. Sheriff Luna said
Speaker 2: yesterday that roughly four hundred members of the Guard would
Speaker 2: be stationed around the region to help with traffic control
Speaker 2: and to restrict entry into burn areas. The sheriff also
Speaker 2: announced that twenty people have been arrested for looting in fire.
Speaker 3: Areas, absolutely unacceptable.
Speaker 2: The DA has promised looters will be prosecuted to the
Speaker 2: fullest extent of the law. All schools in the La
Speaker 2: School District are closed again today because of the fires.
Speaker 2: Officials say fire wind and spoke have created unpredictable, complex
Speaker 2: situations that present potentially unsafe conditions. Superintendent Alberto Carvallo says
Speaker 2: schools will have to be cleaned up and air filters
Speaker 2: replaced before kids can go back. The districts can have
Speaker 2: some sites open today to provide meals and childcare. Schools
Speaker 2: in surrounding areas will also be closed today, including in Glendale, Burbank, Lacayada, Pasadena,
Speaker 2: South Passage, Arcadia, and Monrovia. All schools in the Santa
Speaker 2: Monica Malibu School District are also closed. Some families in
Speaker 2: Altadna have been surprised to find their homes are still standing.
Speaker 4: The city has lost blocks of houses and businesses, but
Speaker 4: the fire in some polas seem to pick houses at random,
Speaker 4: erasing some, leaving others alone. James Coggin says he fled
Speaker 4: when the evacuation order came and didn't think he'd see
Speaker 4: his house again.
Speaker 2: So then when I left to go out to rialto
Speaker 2: with my daughter, I felt like, well, that's that's the
Speaker 2: end of it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it started setting in that that we lost everything.
Speaker 4: So but the house still stands thanks to the effort
Speaker 4: of neighbors who used any liquid at their disposal to
Speaker 4: keep the flames at bay. Michael Monks KFI News.
Speaker 2: It's so nice to hear a good news story in
Speaker 2: the midst of all this devastation. Say good morning to
Speaker 2: ABC's Melissa Adon. Melissa, another fire broke out yesterday afternoon
Speaker 2: about three. What can you tell us about it?
Speaker 5: Yes, Amy, So that was the Kenneth fire that broke
Speaker 5: out yesterday afternoon in the Los Angeles Vntura County border
Speaker 5: of Hidden Hills, that's just north of Calabasas. At this point,
Speaker 5: that one's burned nine hundred and sixty acres. However, it
Speaker 5: is thirty five percent contained and the evacuation warnings there
Speaker 5: have been lifted. However, a possible arson suspect was detained
Speaker 5: by police in connection to the Kenneth fire. Police said
Speaker 5: this was after a witness called in stating a suspect
Speaker 5: was attempting to light a fire in the area of
Speaker 5: the Kenneth fire. Well, that suspect is in custody. Police
Speaker 5: are investigating, but at this point they cannot confirm any
Speaker 5: connection to any fire. So of course this is something
Speaker 5: that we are monitoring.
Speaker 2: Okay, and then what about the other fires we've got
Speaker 2: the Palisades Fire, and the numbers have gone up, skyrocketed dramatically.
Speaker 5: Amy it's astronomical. So, of course, the two major wildfires
Speaker 5: that we're watching closely are the Palisades Fire that's burning
Speaker 5: in Pacific Palisades in Malibu. It's destroyed more than nineteen
Speaker 5: thousand acres. While that's six percent contained, we're looking at
Speaker 5: more than five thousand structures that have burned. We're talking
Speaker 5: about homes, businesses, schools, places of worship. In the Pacific
Speaker 5: pala Safes, communities are unrecognizable. I mean, there was a
Speaker 5: family that was talking about how they lost their home,
Speaker 5: their child's lost their elementary school. That family what lost
Speaker 5: the grocery store they go to, the businesses that they go,
Speaker 5: the church nearby, their community is gone. This has made
Speaker 5: this the third most destructive fire in our state's history. Meantime,
Speaker 5: then of course we're watching the other major fire they
Speaker 5: eat in fire that's still a zero percent contained over
Speaker 5: an Altadena and Pasadena. Well, it's for more than thirteen
Speaker 5: thousand acres and it has destroyed more than four thousand structures.
Speaker 5: So when you look at the expansiveness of this, you
Speaker 5: know nearly ten thousand homes, businesses gone, really all across
Speaker 5: Los Angeles County. It is just remarkable all of this.
Speaker 5: Of course, as now the Los Angeles County Medical Examiners
Speaker 5: reporting at least ten fire related debts. We do know
Speaker 5: that there are cadaver dogs going with crews home by
Speaker 5: home through the rubble trying to see if they find
Speaker 5: any other human remains. And then of course the investigation
Speaker 5: into each of these people's lives that were lost are
Speaker 5: ongoing as they notify their relatives and family and just
Speaker 5: try to understand how they perished in these devastating wildfires.
Speaker 2: Melissa, do we have any idea how many people are missing?
Speaker 5: That's a good question. As far as the missing, that
Speaker 5: was a big issue that we experienced last year when
Speaker 5: I was on the ground in Maui covering the Lina wildfires.
Speaker 5: Of that here, this has not been necessarily a reported
Speaker 5: issue of people missing that we're seeing in grand numbers
Speaker 5: like that, So at that point that's something that we're
Speaker 5: waiting for more details from Los Angeles County officials.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you had mentioned the two biggest fires they
Speaker 2: eat in fire and the Palace Saves Fire, And we've
Speaker 2: been talking over the last few days about how we've
Speaker 2: had fires in southern California before and you kind of
Speaker 2: feel like, well, it's just a fire, it's not affecting everyone.
Speaker 2: This one is so different. I mean, if you look
Speaker 2: at it, if you live in Los Angeles, you've got
Speaker 2: the fire to the west, in Palisades, you've got the
Speaker 2: fire to the east, they eaten fire. And now yesterday
Speaker 2: you've got the fire to the north, the one in Calabasas.
Speaker 2: And then also hitting closer to home just Wednesday night
Speaker 2: was the Hollywood Hills fire. Even if you're miles and
Speaker 2: miles away from the fires, they feel like they're all around.
Speaker 5: Absolutely amy. The air quality is impacted. We see it,
Speaker 5: the smoke, the winds that we all experience, and now
Speaker 5: we're all on edge for right because we're also going
Speaker 5: to experience some of that wind threat. We're still under
Speaker 5: a red flag warning all throughout southern California that goes
Speaker 5: on through tonight, and then we have issues coming next
Speaker 5: week of more sant Anna winds returning. Everyone is on
Speaker 5: edge and everyone's impacted. And you know the thing is
Speaker 5: to us news reporters, we live here, we have family,
Speaker 5: we have friends that are impacted. I have a friend
Speaker 5: of mine. While she doesn't live in Pacific Palisades and
Speaker 5: her home is fine, she's a teacher at a private
Speaker 5: school and Pacific Palisades and their schools burned to the ground. Yes,
Speaker 5: and now she has made no place to work. How
Speaker 5: about the students that she teaches? Where are they going
Speaker 5: to go to school? How are they going to reconvene?
Speaker 5: I mean, these are so many issues and questions that
Speaker 5: we have looking forward.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, the effects are so far reaching, and we
Speaker 2: as you mentioned, we've got lots of questions. Hopefully we'll
Speaker 2: get answers in the coming days, but right now, priority one,
Speaker 2: get those fires out. Melissa and Don, ABC News, thank
Speaker 2: you so much, appreciate the information this morning.
Speaker 5: Absolutely. Thanks Am.
Speaker 2: All right, let's get back to some of the stories
Speaker 2: coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. At
Speaker 2: least two people have been killed in the fire and
Speaker 2: Pacific Palisades. One body was removed yesterday from the rubble
Speaker 2: of a home near Duke's Restaurant on pch La. County.
Speaker 2: Sheriff's officials told reporters that deputies had received a missing
Speaker 2: person report that led them to do a welfare check
Speaker 2: at the burned out home. The fire has burned nearly
Speaker 2: twenty thousand acres since Tuesday. It's just six percent surrounded,
Speaker 2: as we were just telling you, and thousands of people
Speaker 2: remain under evacuation orders. An aerial survey found about fifty
Speaker 2: three hundred homes and other buildings have been destroyed in
Speaker 2: the fire. A woman who lives in the Palisades fire
Speaker 2: areas confronted Governor Newsom over the response to the fire, Governor, I.
Speaker 6: Live here, Governor, that was my daughter's school, Governor.
Speaker 2: The conversation this week outside a burned out school aired
Speaker 2: live on Sky News. Newsom told Rachel Darvish that he
Speaker 2: was talking with President Biden about what could be done
Speaker 2: to rebuild.
Speaker 3: Can I hear your call? Because I don't believe it.
Speaker 7: I'm sorry, Can I There's literally I've tried five times.
Speaker 8: That's why I'm walking around to make.
Speaker 3: Im a president not taking your call because it's not
Speaker 3: going through.
Speaker 2: Newsom has been criticized by some of this by some
Speaker 2: for the state's wildfire response, wh President Biden has told
Speaker 2: officials in California to spare no expense, as he put it,
Speaker 2: when it comes to the fires, and pledged to cover
Speaker 2: one hundred percent of the cost for the next one
Speaker 2: hundred and eighty days. We're actually going to be talking
Speaker 2: with Karen Travers with ABC more about that coming out
Speaker 2: at about five point fifty. Images of the Hollywood Signs
Speaker 2: surrounded by fire have gone viral online, but kaf's Daniel
Speaker 2: Martindale says they're fake.
Speaker 9: The chairman of the Hollywood Sign Trust tells Forbes magazine
Speaker 9: the images and videos are likely AI generated. The Sunset
Speaker 9: fire burned in the Hollywood Hills on Wednesday night, but
Speaker 9: did not threaten the Hollywood Sign.
Speaker 2: The fire did impact the lights that illuminate the sign,
Speaker 2: affecting its visibility. The Rams playoff game against the Minnesota
Speaker 2: Vikings has been moved from SOFI Stadium in Inglewood to
Speaker 2: State Farms Stadium in Glendale, Arizona, because of the fires.
Speaker 2: The NFL says the decision was made in consultation with
Speaker 2: public officials, the participating clubs, and the National Football League's
Speaker 2: player association. The playoff game will air at five pm
Speaker 2: Monday on ESPN, ABC, ESPN Plus and ESPN Deports. Is
Speaker 2: that right? Is there a thing called ESPN Deports or
Speaker 2: maybe that's the Spanish deportees I guess that's probably what is. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm so multicultural, right, Okay. When we were talking with Melissa,
Speaker 2: she was talking about how people are on edge, and
Speaker 2: rightfully so, because it does feel like the fires are
Speaker 2: burning all around us. And it didn't help when we
Speaker 2: got that evacuation warning yesterday afternoon. It was sent out
Speaker 2: to all of La County. It was supposed to just
Speaker 2: go out to Calabasas for the fire that was burning,
Speaker 2: the Kenneth fire that burned about a thousand acres. But
Speaker 2: I got my first evacuation order. I don't know if
Speaker 2: that was your first experience with it. It's like the
Speaker 2: quake alert or an amber alert. Just it's very loud
Speaker 2: and very jarring. You can't turn the noise off on
Speaker 2: your phone. And immediately I went, oh, my gosh, there's
Speaker 2: a fire in my neighborhood now, and guessing that you
Speaker 2: might have done the same thing, and I went and
Speaker 2: I ran outside and started looking around for a plume
Speaker 2: of smoke. Well, as it turns out, it was a mistake.
Speaker 2: County officials put out another notification about twenty minutes later,
Speaker 2: saying that it was needed to be disregarded, that it
Speaker 2: was mistakenly sent out to everyone in La County. You
Speaker 2: know that moment of panic though, when you run outside
Speaker 2: and you look around and think, Okay, that go bag
Speaker 2: that I just put together the day before, I got
Speaker 2: to use it. I got to go grab the pets,
Speaker 2: I got to grab my documents, I got to grab
Speaker 2: my emergency gear and a change of clothes. I guess,
Speaker 2: and get out that and I'm like, in for us,
Speaker 2: for you know, ten million of us. That was just
Speaker 2: a drill, basically, But think about the people who are
Speaker 2: actually in the evacuation zones and how that reality. It's
Speaker 2: a tough one and it's I don't envy anybody who's
Speaker 2: actually living through that. It's scary and it's affecting so many,
Speaker 2: Like we were talking about and you heard Nil Savager
Speaker 2: talking with it to Walla Sharp is evacuated, Shannon Farron
Speaker 2: is evacuated from her home. It's very, very scary. Also
Speaker 2: a side note, because you know, I have pets, and
Speaker 2: one of my cats, Alex, is the total scaredy cat.
Speaker 2: He did not like that. He did not like that notification,
Speaker 2: and his eyes got really big. He looked at me
Speaker 2: and then he ran into the closet. I didn't see
Speaker 2: him for a couple hours, and then there's the other
Speaker 2: cat who was unflappable. Shelby looked up, looked around, and
Speaker 2: then curled up and went right back to sleep. That's
Speaker 2: why Alex has a harness on because if anything happens,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna have to go dig him out of the
Speaker 2: back of the closet, and Shelby, I'm sure would just
Speaker 2: follow me down the street. Okay, when we come back,
Speaker 2: we're gonna talk more about the fires, give you the
Speaker 2: latest numbers. Also, you know what, it's time to help
Speaker 2: and we can help. We got ways to do that,
Speaker 2: and we're going to tell you all about it. That's
Speaker 2: coming up next on wake Up Call.
Speaker 3: Good More.
Speaker 2: I'm Amy King. Thanks for getting your day started with us.
Speaker 2: Here's what we're following in the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
Speaker 2: The fire in Pacific Palisades has burned nearly twenty thousand
Speaker 2: acres and is six percent surrounded. At last count, three
Speaker 2: hundred and sixteen structures have burned, a lot of them
Speaker 2: houses and businesses. Mandatory evacuation orders remain in effect in
Speaker 2: Pacific Palisades, Malibu, Santa Monica, and Topanga Nearly four hundred
Speaker 2: thousand people in southern California are under evacuation orders or
Speaker 2: warnings as the wildfires continue to burn. At least ten
Speaker 2: people have been killed in the Fire's officials say they
Speaker 2: could find more bodies once they get into the burned
Speaker 2: out neighborhoods to sift through the ashes and rubble. Four
Speaker 2: hundred National Guard members have arrived to assist with firefighting efforts.
Speaker 2: It's not just people running away from the flames. A
Speaker 2: mountain lion and two small clubs cubs were spotted overnight
Speaker 2: Wednesday running across Topanga Canyon Boulevard, away from where the
Speaker 2: Palisades fire has destroyed all those homes and businesses. I
Speaker 2: was telling you about my cats and their experience and
Speaker 2: how Alex freaked out when he heard the UH the
Speaker 2: alert yesterday. But Anne producer, An was watching one of
Speaker 2: the channels, the news channels, and UH as the Kenneth
Speaker 2: fire was taking hold yesterday afternoon and has my favorite
Speaker 2: story of the day. So Anne, go ahead and uh
Speaker 2: what what was the story that you were watching?
Speaker 6: Yeah, no, I was watching the news yesterday because I
Speaker 6: lived close to the Kenneth fire.
Speaker 2: So did you get an evacuate, a real evacuation warning.
Speaker 6: Not a warning, Yes, correct, okay'd get a warning, all right. So, uh,
Speaker 6: turn on the news, watching the news, and I I uh,
Speaker 6: they were reporting from Las Virgenes, where everything was shut
Speaker 6: down and there was nobody being allowed to enter that
Speaker 6: area because they were starting to all the firefighters were
Speaker 6: coming in to you know, and.
Speaker 2: Those fire those flames got close.
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, it was so crazy.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 6: So they were interviewing and these people who are just frantic.
Speaker 6: They were they had just you know, left their works
Speaker 6: and went there parked. And this young girl, she was
Speaker 6: probably nineteen or twenty. They interviewed her and she was
Speaker 6: panicked about our cat because my cat is in there.
Speaker 6: I just want to get my cat. They keep telling
Speaker 6: me they'll escort me in, but they haven't yet, and
Speaker 6: I'm you know, she's completely freaked out. She was with
Speaker 6: her nine year old little sister and they just wanted
Speaker 6: to go get their cat. So I don't know, I
Speaker 6: just felt for them. It was like everybody else, you
Speaker 6: just feel awful for these people.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, especially because like we've talked about over the
Speaker 2: last few days, what about I mean, are people leaving
Speaker 2: their pets behind. But like in that instance, they weren't
Speaker 2: at home when the fire started, so they tried to
Speaker 2: get home to get the cat and couldn't get in.
Speaker 3: Like I don't know what I would do. I would panic.
Speaker 6: So so an hour later, So anyway, that was that report.
Speaker 6: An hour later, I went to Ralph's and I'm standing
Speaker 6: in line and this young girl walks by and she's
Speaker 6: holding a cat and I look and it's.
Speaker 3: The same girl with her little sister. And I'm like,
Speaker 3: oh my god, you got your cat. And she turned
Speaker 3: around and she goes, yeah, we got our cat.
Speaker 6: And I'm like, oh my god, I'm awesome. So that
Speaker 6: was really it was so random, but it was very cool.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, we got to look for the bright
Speaker 2: spots because there's so much devastation, and to hear a
Speaker 2: little bit of joy and happiness I think is really important.
Speaker 3: It was interesting because she didn't have a carrier or anything.
Speaker 6: She was just holding onto this cat who was just
Speaker 6: going rare ram ram, you know.
Speaker 2: Just again, this is why my cat is walking around
Speaker 2: the house with a harness on these days. Yeah, he's
Speaker 2: not happy about it, but I got it. He would
Speaker 2: be the one who would be scratching and freaking out
Speaker 2: and then trying to get out of my arms. Yeah.
Speaker 2: So anyway, thank you for sharing that, and I love you. Okay.
Speaker 2: So here's something else to make you feel a little
Speaker 2: bit better. If you're wondering how you can help with
Speaker 2: all of this, well that's where we enter iHeartMedia Los
Speaker 2: Angeles and the Dream Center Los Angeles. We've teamed up
Speaker 2: and are taking donations because, as you know, the devastation
Speaker 2: is unthinkable. More than ten thousand structures, a lot of
Speaker 2: them are homes, have been destroyed, and that leaves people
Speaker 2: with nothing. I was watching on the news last night
Speaker 2: a woman standing in sweats and she says, this is it.
Speaker 2: This is all I got. I mean like she didn't
Speaker 2: grab anything. And another guy who was being interviewed, and
Speaker 2: he said, you know, you think you're going to have
Speaker 2: time when you get an evacuation order, but he said,
Speaker 2: I didn't have time. He said, I grabbed this, I
Speaker 2: grabbed that, and out I went, he said, and everything's
Speaker 2: you know, he doesn't know if everything's gone because he
Speaker 2: hasn't been allowed to go back to get his to
Speaker 2: get a look at what may or may not be
Speaker 2: his home anymore. But here's how you can help. You
Speaker 2: can donate non perishable food items, bottled water, sports drinks,
Speaker 2: hygiene products. I mean, I saw a lady taking diapers
Speaker 2: in and I was like, oh my gosh. I didn't
Speaker 2: even think about all of these things that are just
Speaker 2: basic necessities that people who've lost their homes that just
Speaker 2: completely wiped out. Of course, clothing and blankets for the families,
Speaker 2: baby supplies, air purifiers, masks, got any of your COVID
Speaker 2: nineteen masks left? Dig those out, flashlights, batteries, portable phone chargers.
Speaker 2: Think about if you didn't have power and you didn't
Speaker 2: have you know, you left your chargers behind. And that's
Speaker 2: how you stay in touch with the world. First aid kits,
Speaker 2: medical supplies. Of course, we've talked about the pets several times.
Speaker 2: I'd love the fur babies, pet food and supplies they
Speaker 2: need that. We need cleaning supplies, and here is where
Speaker 2: you can drop them off. You can donate supplies at
Speaker 2: the Dream Center, which is at twenty three to zero
Speaker 2: one Bellevue Avenue, Los Angeles, nine zero zero two six. Again,
Speaker 2: it's two three zero one Bellevue Avenue, Los Angeles, nine
Speaker 2: zero zero two six. It's called the Dreams Center, Los
Speaker 2: Angeles if you want to Google it too, if you
Speaker 2: didn't write that down, and you can also make monetary contributions.
Speaker 2: Of course they'll go and buy all that stuff for you.
Speaker 2: Financial donations help them keep those relief efforts going, and
Speaker 2: you can go to Dreamscenter dot org slash donate to
Speaker 2: give today. We can help do our part and help
Speaker 2: out our fellow Angelina's just say I have my California
Speaker 2: sweatshirt on today because I'm like feeling California strong and
Speaker 2: it's cool to see people coming together. Unfortunately, it takes
Speaker 2: crisis and devastation to do it, but you know, if
Speaker 2: you can help, please do and we'll get through this. Overnight.
Speaker 2: Curfus remain in place until six AM around the two
Speaker 2: largest fires burning in southern California. La County Sheriff Robert
Speaker 2: Luna says at least twenty people have been arrested for
Speaker 2: looting in the burn areas and they will be prosecuted
Speaker 2: to the fullest extent of the law. Officials have announced
Speaker 2: that more than fifty three home the fifty three hundred
Speaker 2: homes and buildings have burned in the Palisades fire, and
Speaker 2: four to five thousand homes were destroyed in the Eaton
Speaker 2: Canyon fire in Altaden. Its homes, businesses, churches, schools, you
Speaker 2: name it. Ten people have died in the fires so far.
Speaker 2: That number could go higher. OSCAR nominations have been pushed
Speaker 2: back because of the wildfires. The Academy of Motion Picture
Speaker 2: Arts and Sciences says it's being done out of a
Speaker 2: consideration for the many voters who are being impacted by
Speaker 2: the wildfires. Nearly two thirds of the academy voters live
Speaker 2: in and around the LA area. If I have fifty,
Speaker 2: President Biden says, California, we got your back. ABC's Karen
Speaker 2: Travers is going to join us to tell us what
Speaker 2: the government is planning to do to help Californians affected
Speaker 2: by the wildfires. Right now, let's say good morning to
Speaker 2: the host of Home on KFI. It's our house, whispered
Speaker 2: Dean Sharp. Dean, good morning, Good morning Amy. So today
Speaker 2: we were going to talk about glue or something, but
Speaker 2: I think we need to talk about these fires. And
Speaker 2: we've talked about wildfire preparation before. It's obviously top of
Speaker 2: mind for anybody as the threat of wildfire coming into
Speaker 2: your neighborhood is incredibly high right now because of the
Speaker 2: weather conditions and the fires that are still burning. So
Speaker 2: let's talk about now what you can do to protect
Speaker 2: your house, and then we'll look into the future a
Speaker 2: little bit about what we can do to be ready
Speaker 2: for the next one.
Speaker 7: Well, right now, right now, move everything away from your house,
Speaker 7: everything that is flammable. People have too many things tucked
Speaker 7: up underneath the eaves of their home. They've got patio
Speaker 7: furniture underneath patio covers. If you, in any way, shape
Speaker 7: or form, feel like your house could potentially be in
Speaker 7: a threat zone, you need to move that stuff as
Speaker 7: far away from the house as possible. It is shocking
Speaker 7: how many houses catch on fire from other house fires
Speaker 7: and other area wildfires simply because cause things sitting out
Speaker 7: in the yard are too close to the house. So
Speaker 7: that's got to be rule number one right now, getting
Speaker 7: things away from the house. The second thing is if
Speaker 7: there's time, and you know, this is a situation where
Speaker 7: it's like I don't know, I don't you know. It
Speaker 7: depends on how fast it comes. We've talked about it before.
Speaker 7: You and I getting yourself a supply of a fire gel,
Speaker 7: which is a barrier of foam that can be placed
Speaker 7: on your home before you have to evacuate. That can
Speaker 7: do a tremendous, tremendous amount of benefit towards keeping your
Speaker 7: home safe while you are gone. Barricade is the brand
Speaker 7: that I've recommended to people over and over again. If
Speaker 7: you go to firegel dot com right now, I think
Speaker 7: you'll find on their landing page that they are actually saying, hey,
Speaker 7: if you are a Southern California resident and you want
Speaker 7: expedited shipping to get Firejaeil for your home, They're directing
Speaker 7: you to a particular supplier, West Coast supplier who is
Speaker 7: ready and able to get that to you. So that's
Speaker 7: the kind of pre evacuation stuff that I recommend for
Speaker 7: everybody and anybody who lives in any wildfire area in
Speaker 7: southern California. And then long term will be you know,
Speaker 7: things we've talked about before, addressing vents into the attic
Speaker 7: right now, don't try to order new vents and try
Speaker 7: and change them out. Literally, if a fire is on
Speaker 7: its way towards you, then the best thing you can
Speaker 7: do is just close up your vents, tape your vents.
Speaker 7: And you're thinking, well, tape is not going to keep
Speaker 7: flames from getting into my attic. That's true, It's absolutely true.
Speaker 7: If the fire line actually approaches the house, that's a
Speaker 7: whole different ballgame. But over eighty percent of the houses
Speaker 7: that catch fire as a result of a wildfire or
Speaker 7: fires happening in the area start they start. The flare
Speaker 7: ups start by absorbing embers into spaces like the attic.
Speaker 2: And this fire had embers galore. The pictures of the
Speaker 2: embers just sailing through the neighborhoods, being swept across streets.
Speaker 2: It looked like a sandstorm that was illuminated.
Speaker 7: That is just the nature of it. And that is
Speaker 7: how you know one neighborhood is burning and all of
Speaker 7: a sudden, four blocks away something has started. People are
Speaker 7: shrugging their shoulder like, how does this happen? It is embers.
Speaker 7: And so if you're in an evacuation zone or you're
Speaker 7: about to be tape up, close up, board up the
Speaker 7: vents going into your attic.
Speaker 2: Okay, I want to ask you about that, Dean, because
Speaker 2: you're saying do this, how long does that take? Do
Speaker 2: people know where these vents are? And if you don't,
Speaker 2: maybe it's a good time to learn where they are.
Speaker 7: Yeah, for a lot of typical single story ranch houses,
Speaker 7: you'll find like if there's a gable end, meaning there's
Speaker 7: a big triangle on the end of your roof on
Speaker 7: either into your house, you should have a big vent
Speaker 7: right there. And then look underneath your eveline for smaller
Speaker 7: holes about two inches in diameter along the block line
Speaker 7: at the top of your wall. And how long does
Speaker 7: it take, Well, you know it's going to take an
Speaker 7: hour or two. You get a big roll of duct
Speaker 7: tape or whatever and get out there.
Speaker 3: Again.
Speaker 7: Our point is this, we're not trying to stop flames
Speaker 7: from getting in. We're just keeping little embers from blowing
Speaker 7: into your attic, and the tape can get that done.
Speaker 2: Okay, how long I say you are in an area
Speaker 2: so like even in the Kenneth fire area in Calabasas,
Speaker 2: where that came up so quickly and evacuation orders went
Speaker 2: out within in half an hour, so it questionable whether
Speaker 2: you could have gotten it done. But maybe you could
Speaker 2: have gotten something done before the evacuation order came along.
Speaker 2: But if you think that, maybe you're in an area
Speaker 2: that's really kind of in danger of that, because like
Speaker 2: that area of calt vasis apparently they've had wildfires go
Speaker 2: through the area before, it's not new for them. How
Speaker 2: long can you leave the tape up there? Like, could
Speaker 2: we have people go and block those vents and leave
Speaker 2: it up for four or five days? Or do you oh?
Speaker 7: Absolutely, absolutely, you know you could leave the tape on
Speaker 7: for for days and days and days. It's not a problem.
Speaker 7: It's not going to damage the inside of your house.
Speaker 2: Okay, don't leave it on permanently, but you can do
Speaker 2: it now through the fire danger exactly.
Speaker 8: It is not.
Speaker 7: It's not something we should keep on because our addicts
Speaker 7: need to be ventilated when it's safe outside. But no,
Speaker 7: put it on and leave it and walk away for
Speaker 7: two weeks. It does not matter. What matters is that
Speaker 7: we block any possibility of your house burning death.
Speaker 2: We love that. Okay, So are you going to be
Speaker 2: talking about fire prevention on your show tomorrow or are
Speaker 2: you going to be talking about other things.
Speaker 7: We're going to be talking. We're going to be covering
Speaker 7: the fires throughout the weekend, and just like we've been
Speaker 7: here on KFI throughout the week and I'll be taking calls,
Speaker 7: giving out advice. We'll be talking about what you do
Speaker 7: if your house has burnt to the ground. That's going
Speaker 7: to be one of the big questions that a lot
Speaker 7: of people have. Where do we start, what's going to
Speaker 7: happen next? We'll be discussing it all all weekend long.
Speaker 2: Okay, great, And that's a Home with Dean Sharp. You
Speaker 2: can hear it this weekend right here on KFI Saturday
Speaker 2: from six to eight am, and then Sunday from nine
Speaker 2: am to noon. You can also follow Dean at Home
Speaker 2: with Dean. Thank you so much. Your information always good,
Speaker 2: particularly invaluable today. Appreciate it.
Speaker 7: Thanks Sam Talks.
Speaker 2: All right, let's get back to some of the stories
Speaker 2: coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Fire
Speaker 2: crews say forward progress of the one thousand acre fire
Speaker 2: burning your homes in Calabasas and West Hills has been stopped.
Speaker 2: Water dropping helicopters were used yesterday to help save hillside
Speaker 2: homes near the one to one Freeway. That fire is
Speaker 2: now thirty five percent surrounded. A guy who may have
Speaker 2: started the fires been detained. He was caught by people
Speaker 2: in Woodland Hills and held for police. Kfi's Deborah Mark,
Speaker 2: who lives in the area, says she got a text
Speaker 2: from a neighbor.
Speaker 8: And said that police arrested a guy who was seen
Speaker 8: in our neighborhood. So we're up in the hills in
Speaker 8: in Woodland Hills with a torch trying to light brush
Speaker 8: around people's houses.
Speaker 2: Images show the guy had what looked like a butane
Speaker 2: type torch. A water dropping plane has been hit by
Speaker 2: a drone over the Palisades Fire.
Speaker 4: The Super Scooper was rendered temporarily inoperable after the drone
Speaker 4: put a hole in its wing Thursday afternoon.
Speaker 2: The plane landed safely and no one was injured. Kfi's
Speaker 2: Mark Mayfield says the FAA is investigating the collision. The
Speaker 2: La County Fire chief says the FBI will be using
Speaker 2: so called aerial armor in the area, which is designed
Speaker 2: to keep drones out of the fire zone. Democrats have
Speaker 2: voted with Republicans to advance the Lake and Riley Act
Speaker 2: that would require federal authorities to detain illegal immigrants who've
Speaker 2: been accused of certain crimes. Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer
Speaker 2: and most other Democrats voted to move forward with the legislation.
Speaker 2: It's already passed in the House. The Supreme Court is
Speaker 2: allowing President elect Trump's sentencing in New York in a
Speaker 2: hush money case to go forward. The Court rejected Trump's
Speaker 2: request yesterday to block the proceeding. Trump criticized the decision, Well.
Speaker 6: They called for an appeal, and as you know, they
Speaker 6: acknowledge what the judge said about no penalty, and there
Speaker 6: is really there's no penalty.
Speaker 3: But we're going to appeal anyway.
Speaker 4: Just psychologically, because frankly, it's a disgrace.
Speaker 2: The Supreme Court vote was five to four. The sentencing
Speaker 2: hearing is scheduled for today. Trump's inauguration is set for
Speaker 2: January twentieth. Forward progress of the Kenneth fire, burning near
Speaker 2: homes in Calabasas and West Hills, has been stopped. The
Speaker 2: fire has burned one thousand acres and is thirty five
Speaker 2: percent surrounded. The fire burning in all Sadena is destroyed
Speaker 2: between four and five thousand homes and businesses. The fires
Speaker 2: burned nearly fourteen thousand acres. It was moving toward Mount
Speaker 2: Wilson yesterday, but officials say the rate of growth has
Speaker 2: slowed significantly. The Chargers Wildcard playoff game against the Minnesota
Speaker 2: Vikings that was supposed to happen tomorrow at SOFI Stadium
Speaker 2: has been moved to State Farm Stadium in Arizona. The
Speaker 2: game will now be played on Monday night because of
Speaker 2: the wildfires. Let's say good morning to ABC's Karen Travers. So, Karen,
Speaker 2: President Biden and his administration have said to California, We've
Speaker 2: got your back.
Speaker 10: Yeah. The President yesterday announced that the federal government is
Speaker 10: going to cover one hundred percent of the cost of
Speaker 10: a disaster response to these fires for one hundred and
Speaker 10: eighty days. He says that that will pay for things
Speaker 10: like debris and hazardous material removal, temporary shelters, first responder salaries,
Speaker 10: and that he put it all necessary measures to protect
Speaker 10: life and property. He said he has told the governor
Speaker 10: and local officials fair, no ex do what you need
Speaker 10: to do to contain the fires, and the administration will
Speaker 10: be there to support them. You know, we saw something
Speaker 10: similar after hurricanes Julleen and Milton, where the federal government
Speaker 10: covered one hundred percent of the cost in the immediate
Speaker 10: impact of that for about four months. So this isn't unprecedented,
Speaker 10: but it's a big boost then for the state and
Speaker 10: local governments to know that these things will be taken
Speaker 10: care of because the cause are going to be astronomical.
Speaker 10: The President was asked yesterday a sense of the cost,
Speaker 10: and he said new And if anybody tells you they
Speaker 10: know a number, they don't know what they're talking about.
Speaker 10: He said, it's going to be big, big.
Speaker 2: Okay, now, Karen, you you said that that the government
Speaker 2: was going to pay for one hundred percent of the
Speaker 2: cost for the disaster response. So and that is just
Speaker 2: for fighting the fire, making sure people are safe, that
Speaker 2: kind of thing. Is it also going to be including rebuilding?
Speaker 10: You know that will have to come next. And like
Speaker 10: I said, this is what this is for right now.
Speaker 10: This is for the immediate response to the disaster. Obviously
Speaker 10: there are insurance issues, they are rebuilding issues, and that
Speaker 10: will come next. Congress is going to have to approve
Speaker 10: more federal funding to cover a lot of this, because
Speaker 10: you know, we saw them do that at the end
Speaker 10: of last year with that big government funding bill to
Speaker 10: avert the shutdown. There was about one hundred billion dollars
Speaker 10: in there for disaster relief, and much of it went
Speaker 10: to the Southeastern states because of Helene and Milton just
Speaker 10: still dealing with the fallout from that. So I think
Speaker 10: you can expect that that will happen again this time.
Speaker 10: Now it'll be different because it'll be the Trump administration
Speaker 10: doing it, so they'll be in power when this comes up.
Speaker 10: The government is funded through March fourteenth, so look for,
Speaker 10: you know, as we get closer to that date, this
Speaker 10: conversation becoming part of that bigger conversation about funding the government.
Speaker 2: And I remember with hurricanes Helene and Milton that there
Speaker 2: was a lot of back and forth about we need
Speaker 2: to approve funding now, approve funding now. And I think
Speaker 2: at that time I remember how Speaker Johnson saying, we
Speaker 2: don't need to approve it now, we need to wait
Speaker 2: and see how much it's going to cost. Is it
Speaker 2: going to be that same sort of a scenario.
Speaker 10: Perhaps, you know, I think it depends on what the
Speaker 10: immediate needs are. FIMA had about twenty nine billion dollars
Speaker 10: put into the Disaster Relief Fund at the end of
Speaker 10: last year for immediate needs for disasters. You can see
Speaker 10: that running out pretty quickly given the scope of this one.
Speaker 10: There was also the Major Disaster Declaration that the President
Speaker 10: authorized the other day, which helps people get immediate funds,
Speaker 10: you know, to help them with what they need right now,
Speaker 10: just the basic supplies that they need. But like this
Speaker 10: is just when you look at what the numbers are
Speaker 10: going to cost, there're certainly going to be needed funding
Speaker 10: to come from Congress.
Speaker 2: Absolutely. Okay, ABC's Karen Travers, thank you so much for
Speaker 2: the update. We're glad that Biden has our back.
Speaker 10: Thank you.
Speaker 2: All right, take care. Let's get back to some of
Speaker 2: the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
Speaker 2: People in La County are being urged to stay indoors
Speaker 2: as much as possible because of the smoke from the fires.
Speaker 9: Official'll say if people must be outside, they should wear
Speaker 9: a P one hundred respirator or properly fitting N ninety
Speaker 9: five mask. Air quality levels remain in the unhealthy to
Speaker 9: hazardous range across the region.
Speaker 2: Kyf i's Daniel Martindale says a wildfire smoke advisory is
Speaker 2: going to be in place through at least tonight. The
Speaker 2: smokes expected to most heavily affect northwest coastal La County
Speaker 2: and an areas close to the fires in Palisades, Altadena,
Speaker 2: and Silmar. Nearly ten million people in the LA area
Speaker 2: have been on edge following an accidental text message calling
Speaker 2: for evacuations.
Speaker 11: That evacuation order was supposed to only go to residents
Speaker 11: living in the West Hills community. However, the Office of
Speaker 11: Emergency Management for La County sent it to basically everyone.
Speaker 11: It appears that happened in the Emergency Operations Center for
Speaker 11: the office.
Speaker 7: Who actually do the function of through a technological system,
Speaker 7: a software system, issuing that there was an error within
Speaker 7: that system.
Speaker 11: OEM director for La County, Kevin McGowan says that his
Speaker 11: office quickly corrected the issue, but they're still investigating how
Speaker 11: or why was sent out to so many. Andrew Caravella KFI.
Speaker 2: News mcgawan did say sending the message county wide was
Speaker 2: not human error. The Biden administration has succeeded in temporarily
Speaker 2: blocking a plea deal for accused nine eleven mastermind Khalid
Speaker 2: Sheik Mohammed that would keep him from getting the death
Speaker 2: penalty for his role in the nine to eleven terrorist attacks.
Speaker 2: The Supreme Court is set to hear arguments over the
Speaker 2: fate of TikTok. A law signed by President Biden would
Speaker 2: force TikTok's sale by its Chinese parent company, a group
Speaker 2: that includes billionaire entrepreneur and former La Dodgers owner Frank
Speaker 2: McCourt and Shark Tank famous investor Kevin O'Leary is looking
Speaker 2: to buy the video app. The group made a formal
Speaker 2: offer yesterday. The Supreme Court case is being heard today.
Speaker 2: TikTok says it plans to shut down its social media
Speaker 2: platform in the US by January nineteenth if the law
Speaker 2: is not struck down. Nominations have been announced for the
Speaker 2: twenty twenty five Screen Actors Guild Awards. Because of the fires,
Speaker 2: there wasn't a live ceremony to find out who's up
Speaker 2: for the Actor awards. Wicked got five nominations, a complete unknown,
Speaker 2: Amelia Perez and Anora We're pretty close behind. Demi Moore,
Speaker 2: Pamela Anderson and Cynthia Arriva are among those nominated for
Speaker 2: Lead Female. Timothy Shalomey and Adrian Brody are among those
Speaker 2: nominated for Best Lead Actor. Showgun, the Bear and The
Speaker 2: Diplomat are leading. On the TV side. The ceremony will
Speaker 2: stream live on Netflix February twenty third. Kristen Bell is
Speaker 2: the host. I don't know about you, but I have
Speaker 2: been absolutely glued to either KFI or also to TV
Speaker 2: stations since these fires started, and I usually don't watch
Speaker 2: network news at night. I'll watch local news, or I'll
Speaker 2: watch CNN and Fox kind of see what's going on
Speaker 2: with them. I usually don't watch the regular network news.
Speaker 2: Don't know why, but I don't. Well, last night I
Speaker 2: was watching and David Mirrors on right, and he's on
Speaker 2: scene in Pacific Palisades and he's interviewing people, and he
Speaker 2: was very soft spoken and being considerate because some of
Speaker 2: the people that he was talking to, you know, had
Speaker 2: lost all of their homes and all of their belongings
Speaker 2: and all of that stuff. And he's showing some of
Speaker 2: the horrific scenes that we've all been looking at for
Speaker 2: the last few days. Well, apparently he needed his fire
Speaker 2: jacket to fit a little bit better. You know, those
Speaker 2: yellow fire jackets that you see the reporters wearing. As
Speaker 2: he's interviewing somebody, he kind of turns around and you
Speaker 2: see there's a clothes pin on his back cinching up
Speaker 2: the fire jacket. Seriously, like, does this fire jacket make
Speaker 2: me look fat? I mean, ten thousand people have lost
Speaker 2: their homes. I don't care if your fire jacket doesn't
Speaker 2: fit perfectly, mister Mirror. I was really disappointed. I really
Speaker 2: liked the story up until then, Clothespins. This is KFI
Speaker 2: and KOST HD two Los Angeles, Orange County, Southland Weather
Speaker 2: from KFI. We still have that red flag warning in
Speaker 2: effect for much of La and Ventura Counties, Orange County
Speaker 2: and the Ie. We're gonna see sunny skies but also
Speaker 2: very smoky and the air pollution levels are very very bad.
Speaker 2: Gusty winds highs around seventy at the beaches Metro La
Speaker 2: and Inland O c Low to mid seventies in the
Speaker 2: valleys and Inland Empire. Fifties in the Antelope Valley. Clear
Speaker 2: and windy and areas tonight with lows in the upper
Speaker 2: thirties to about fifty, cooling down for the weekend. Sunny skies,
Speaker 2: gusty winds at times, highs in the fifties and sixties.
Speaker 2: It's sixty two in Los Alamitos, sixty three in Seal Beach,
Speaker 2: fifty five in Santa Clarita, and fifty three in Torrents.
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