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Speaker 5: It's time for your morning wake up call.
Speaker 4: Here's Amy Kig.
Speaker 6: Good morning. It's five oh one.
Speaker 7: This is your wake up call for Tuesday, January fourteenth.
Speaker 6: I'm Amy King.
Speaker 7: Thanks to Valentine for stepping up and hosting overnight to
Speaker 7: keep you up to date on the fires. Another crazy
Speaker 7: day on the way. We are glad that you are here.
Speaker 7: We're going to keep you up to date. We're going
Speaker 7: to get you great information, including we'll be talking with
Speaker 7: the National Weather Service in a couple of minutes about
Speaker 7: the key ds, the particularly dangerous situation as the next
Speaker 7: round of Santa Ana winds begins to blow. We'll also
Speaker 7: be talking about how pets are being helped in the
Speaker 7: Altadena fire area. Pasadena Humane is stepping up sending strike
Speaker 7: teams into the burn area. We're going to get the
Speaker 7: latest on that, and of course, the fires affect your money.
Speaker 7: We've got Joel Larsgard, host of How to Money on
Speaker 7: KFI on how to protect your money during these wildfires.
Speaker 6: Here's what's ahead on wake up call.
Speaker 7: Strong Santa Ana winds triggered the highest level red flag
Speaker 7: warning called a PDS or a particularly dangerous situation for
Speaker 7: southern California, with winds expected to gust fifty five to
Speaker 7: seventy miles per hour between now and noon tomorrow. Firefighters
Speaker 7: are working to shore up containment lines around fires as
Speaker 7: the next wind event moves in. The Palisades fire is
Speaker 7: fourteen percent surrounded. The fire in Altadena and Pasadena thirty
Speaker 7: three percent surrounded. We're expected to get updates on those
Speaker 7: numbers a little bit later this morning. Effect they're going
Speaker 7: to be doing another press conference at eight o'clock as
Speaker 7: they've been doing each day, to give us an update
Speaker 7: from law enforcement and fire officials. So keep it right
Speaker 7: here because we will be airing that live for you
Speaker 7: right here on KFI. LA District Attorney Nathan Hawkman says
Speaker 7: ten people have been charged with looting in fire evacuation zones.
Speaker 7: Two were charged with stealing two hundred thousand dollars worth
Speaker 7: of property in the zones. Hawkins says anyone caught looting
Speaker 7: will be charged to the fullest extent of the law.
Speaker 7: Let's get started with some of the stories coming out
Speaker 7: of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. The Santa Anas
Speaker 7: are expected to kick up through tomorrow in most of
Speaker 7: southern California, which is already dealing with deadly wildfires. LA
Speaker 7: City Fire Assistant Chief Joe Everett says those wins can
Speaker 7: potentially fan fires that haven't been doused yet.
Speaker 5: Within the city of Los Angeles. I we're still actively
Speaker 5: working in there.
Speaker 8: We do have some active, active structure fires left over
Speaker 8: from the original impact.
Speaker 7: The National Weather Service has issued Red flag warnings as
Speaker 7: well as that rare particularly dangerous situation warning. It says
Speaker 7: when gus could be as high as seventy miles an
Speaker 7: hour in some areas. A fire in Ventura that broke
Speaker 7: out last night has been stopped at about fifty five acres.
Speaker 7: Crews have been working through the night to put out
Speaker 7: hot spots and surround it. It was confined to the
Speaker 7: river bottom off North Ventura Boulevard. No homes are threatened.
Speaker 7: That the cause of that fire's under investigation. A brush
Speaker 7: fire in Harupa Valley and Riverside County has been stopped
Speaker 7: at two acres. It started yesterday afternoon in the Santa
Speaker 7: Ana River bottom. A neighborhood was briefly placed under an
Speaker 7: evacuation warning, but fire crews were able to keep it
Speaker 7: from getting into that area.
Speaker 6: More than forty.
Speaker 7: People have been arrested in Santa Monica on suspicion of
Speaker 7: illegally entering the Palisades Fire evacuation zone.
Speaker 9: The evacuation zone is under a sunset to sunrise curfew.
Speaker 9: Please say the people who were cut there at night
Speaker 9: without a valid reason violated local emergency orders in city
Speaker 9: and county curfew orders, adding that none of them are
Speaker 9: Santa Monica residents.
Speaker 7: Kfi's Daniel Martindale says some of those arrested had burglary tools,
Speaker 7: two had guns on them. He says even some had
Speaker 7: the watch duty fire app open to see which areas
Speaker 7: had been evacuated.
Speaker 6: That's just infuriating, isn't it.
Speaker 7: President Biden says people impacted by the wildfires in LA
Speaker 7: are going to get a one time payment of seven
Speaker 7: hundred and seventy dollars so they can quickly buy things
Speaker 7: like water, baby formula and prescriptions. The announcement yesterday was
Speaker 7: criticized on social media especially since the cost of living
Speaker 7: in California is higher than in much of the country.
Speaker 7: Private forecaster Acuweather has estimated damages and economic loss caused
Speaker 7: by the fires to be between two hundred and fifty
Speaker 7: and two hundred seventy five billion dollars. Let's now say
Speaker 7: good morning to Todd Hall with the National Weather Service.
Speaker 6: Morning Todd, good morning. Okay, So Todd, we've.
Speaker 7: Mentioned this already, but we have a PDS A pertin
Speaker 7: particularly dangerous situation tell us about that particular warning.
Speaker 10: So it's it's an extension of our red flag warnings
Speaker 10: that highlights just the very extreme critical fireweather conditions that
Speaker 10: we want to highlight. And it's really for firefighter safety.
Speaker 10: That's what it's designed for the public, of course, can
Speaker 10: it's all public information. You can see this stuff. So
Speaker 10: it's it highlights the really dangerous conditions that firefighters will
Speaker 10: be facing. When you have wind gusts to seventy miles
Speaker 10: per hour, embers will be thrown two three miles away
Speaker 10: from from any starts, and certainly anything that's that's already burning,
Speaker 10: there's those potential that those glowing embers can still be
Speaker 10: tossed as well. Several miles away, so we have to
Speaker 10: we have we want to bring that heighthend alert to
Speaker 10: firefighters for their safety.
Speaker 7: Okay, and Todd, is this round of Santa Ana wins
Speaker 7: worse than last week?
Speaker 10: No, it's expected to be weaker than the last week.
Speaker 10: Last week we had we had a very broad area
Speaker 10: of gusts between sixty and eighty and some isolated gusts
Speaker 10: up to one hundred. We're expecting generally a larger you know,
Speaker 10: I guess the most prone areas will gust fifty five
Speaker 10: to seventy and we might have a few isolated gusts
Speaker 10: to eighty eighty five, But for the most part, it's
Speaker 10: it's supposed to schedule to be much weaker than last
Speaker 10: week's event.
Speaker 6: Okay, that's good news. And how long are the winds
Speaker 6: going to last?
Speaker 10: We're going to continue to see winds peaking after sunrise today,
Speaker 10: We're going to see that bump up in the wind.
Speaker 10: They will there will be some weakening through this afternoon
Speaker 10: this evening, and then we'll start to see them increase
Speaker 10: again into Wednesday morning. So hopefully by Wednesday evening we'll
Speaker 10: start to see some improvement in the fireweather conditions. The
Speaker 10: red flag warning, the PDS red flag warning, I should say,
Speaker 10: the particularly dangerous situation type with red flag warning goes
Speaker 10: through noon Wednesday, and then we have the red flag
Speaker 10: warning in effect until six pm Wednesday. There's a chance
Speaker 10: that some for some portions of La in Ventura Counties
Speaker 10: that could be extended in the Thursday, depending upon, uh,
Speaker 10: how dry the air masses, how windy it's it still remains,
Speaker 10: there's there's still that that that unknown there that we
Speaker 10: could be still seeing some of these conditions still existing
Speaker 10: in pockets of the south Land.
Speaker 7: Okay and Toad you mentioned, like the embers and flare
Speaker 7: ups and that kind of thing. Is the is the
Speaker 7: threat even greater in the burn areas or is it
Speaker 7: actually lower in the burn areas because everything's already burned.
Speaker 10: As far as the winds, the strongest winds, we're not
Speaker 10: we're not forecasting the strongest winds to hit those burn areas. Now,
Speaker 10: the north end of the Eton would be a concern
Speaker 10: and the west end of the Palisades would be a
Speaker 10: concern because those are the strongest wind corridors expected across
Speaker 10: western Ventura County or western Los Angeles County and eastern
Speaker 10: Ventura County so that would be the most area is
Speaker 10: concerned if there's still any hot spots in those areas.
Speaker 10: But certainly with any of these conditions, I mean, we
Speaker 10: still have critical fire weather conditions in place. Any wind
Speaker 10: guests could still cause some issues to develop on any
Speaker 10: of these fires, given the how dry the conditions are,
Speaker 10: the lack of rain we've had, and we now had
Speaker 10: four Santa Ana event wind events, well three when events,
Speaker 10: and this is the fourth one on top of these
Speaker 10: these areas already, so any new starts can be can
Speaker 10: spread very rapidly, as as we know from our fire partners.
Speaker 10: They tend to tell us, working with La County Fire
Speaker 10: and Ventura County Fire behavior analysts quite a bit. They
Speaker 10: tend to tell us that the fire conditions worsened with
Speaker 10: with the Santa Ana wind event we have, and if
Speaker 10: you put them in succession, it starts to become a
Speaker 10: early dangerous situation.
Speaker 7: Okay, well, we know that the Santa Ana winds blow
Speaker 7: in the winter time, but why are we getting these
Speaker 7: extreme weather conditions back to back to back.
Speaker 10: So it's it's really, I mean, most of our firewether
Speaker 10: season runs typically between May and October. By October we
Speaker 10: start to see some rain. We'll see some some rain
Speaker 10: through November, October, Noveber, December, and that will that will
Speaker 10: end up and usually bring some moistening of the of
Speaker 10: the vegetation and we'll get enough rain. We haven't had
Speaker 10: any rain. We've had a quarter inch of rain at downtown,
Speaker 10: less than a quarter to rain at downtown since since
Speaker 10: uh May. So from through we've had some very dry
Speaker 10: We've had some very dry months. We have eight months
Speaker 10: of almost no rain whatsoever. And so that's so typically January,
Speaker 10: December and January bring our most damaging sant Ana wins.
Speaker 10: So that's that's the that's the ones that bring the
Speaker 10: seventy the sixty seventy eighty miles pur Santa and wins
Speaker 10: that are that that typically do happen this tin of year.
Speaker 10: So that's that's more of our damaging wind events. Well,
Speaker 10: now our fireweather season ran a little longer because we
Speaker 10: had no rain. So now we're in this window where
Speaker 10: we have these more damaging stand in the wind events
Speaker 10: and then you're throwing the dry vegetation into that next.
Speaker 6: All right, well, let's hope that this is the last
Speaker 6: of them.
Speaker 7: Toddhall with the National Weather Service appreciate your time and
Speaker 7: information this morning.
Speaker 11: Thank you.
Speaker 6: All right, take care.
Speaker 7: Let's get back to some of the other stories coming
Speaker 7: out of the KFI twenty four our newsroom. Police in
Speaker 7: Torrents say they're urging residents to be vigilant as thieves
Speaker 7: have been stealing catalytic converters. Police say people stealing them
Speaker 7: are sometimes armed. They suggest parking in well lit areas,
Speaker 7: closer to an entrance to stores when shopping, and getting
Speaker 7: your converted converter welded to your car's frames so it's
Speaker 7: not so easy to remove. Special Counsel David Weiss has
Speaker 7: released his final report on the investigation into Hunter Biden
Speaker 7: and the President's decision to pardon his son. ABC's per
Speaker 7: Thomas says the report was released ye yesterday.
Speaker 2: In its final report, Special Counsel David Weiss saying other
Speaker 2: presidents have pardon family members, but in doing so, none
Speaker 2: have taken the occasion as an opportunity to align the
Speaker 2: public service at the Department of Justice based solely on
Speaker 2: false accusations.
Speaker 7: Why says his prosecutions were based on thorough, impartial investigations,
Speaker 7: not partisan politics. Some of President elect Trump's nominees will
Speaker 7: have their confirmation hearings this week. ABC's Olivia Rubin says
Speaker 7: they're set to start today.
Speaker 8: Include Department of Defense pick Pete haig Seth.
Speaker 6: Attorney General nominee Pam Bondi, and Marco Rubio tap for
Speaker 6: Secretary of State.
Speaker 7: She says some Republicans have been involved in practice hearings
Speaker 7: complete with microphones and name tags.
Speaker 6: Country music fans, well.
Speaker 7: Pretty much everybody who is a fan of any kind
Speaker 7: of music may be extra excited to hear who will
Speaker 7: be in DC next week when President Elect Trump takes
Speaker 7: the oath of office. ABC's Rachel Scott says Carrie Underwood
Speaker 7: will perform.
Speaker 12: In a statement, she says, I love our country and
Speaker 12: I'm honored to have been asked to sing at the
Speaker 12: inauguration be part of this historic event.
Speaker 7: The inauguration is scheduled for Monday, January twentieth. As we've
Speaker 7: been telling you, the helicopters and the planes have made
Speaker 7: a huge difference in the firefight. But with the winds
Speaker 7: kicking up again, the concern is are they going to
Speaker 7: be grounded? Because you'll remember when the fires first broke out,
Speaker 7: the winds were blowing so hard that the helicopters and
Speaker 7: the planes had to be grounded. So the question is
Speaker 7: when do planes have to stop flying?
Speaker 13: The problem is the guts, So the gus peak and
Speaker 13: the aircraft limitations or capabilities are then limited based on
Speaker 13: approach and departures as well as as Chief mentioned, they
Speaker 13: drop accuracy, so each aircraft will have that limitation based
Speaker 13: on the manufacturer's recommendation. And then as far as the
Speaker 13: safety component. Usually the limiting factor's guts over threw thirty
Speaker 13: miles an hour, but the sustained wins anything over forty
Speaker 13: is pretty much gonna ground most aircraft, and we.
Speaker 7: Are expecting wins to gust over forty miles per hour today.
Speaker 7: That was Jerry mcganya with CalFire Incident Management Teams. He
Speaker 7: was talking during the most recent press conference and explaining
Speaker 7: the win situation. We're going to get another update on
Speaker 7: the fires and the wins and the relief efforts. That's
Speaker 7: coming up this morning at eight o'clock and we will
Speaker 7: bring that to you live right here on KFI. I
Speaker 7: want to say congratulations to the la Rams. They beat
Speaker 7: the Vikings twenty seven to nine last night in wildcard action.
Speaker 7: They're going to take on the Philadelphia Eagles next. That
Speaker 7: happens Sunday at noon for the NFL Divisional playoff game.
Speaker 7: The game, ironically was supposed to be held at SOFI Stadium,
Speaker 7: they moved it to State Farm Stadium in Glendale. Of course,
Speaker 7: State Farm is California's largest home insurance provider and announced
Speaker 7: last year that it would no longer be taking applications
Speaker 7: for property insurance and other policies because of the historic
Speaker 7: increases in construction costs and inflation, and of course, wildfire risks.
Speaker 7: So kind of weird that it was played at State
Speaker 7: Farm Stadium, huh. Firefighters are working to beef up containment
Speaker 7: lines around the fire burning in Altadena and Pasadena as
Speaker 7: another Santa Ana wind event blows in. The fire is
Speaker 7: now thirty three percent surrounded. At least twenty four people
Speaker 7: have died in the two largest fires. Officials expect that
Speaker 7: number to go up as they get deeper into neighborhoods
Speaker 7: to assess the damage. Firefighters have stopped forward progress of
Speaker 7: a fire that broke out in Herrupa Valley. The Riverside
Speaker 7: Fire Department says the fire started just before five yesterday.
Speaker 7: Homes in the area were briefly placed under an evacuation order.
Speaker 7: The cause of the fire isn't known. It is in
Speaker 7: an area that has homeless camps. The Super Scooper firefighting plane,
Speaker 7: damaged by a collision with a drone last week, has
Speaker 7: been repaired and is expected to return to the air today.
Speaker 7: It's one of two Super Scoopers on loan from Canada.
Speaker 7: La County Fire Chief Anthony Maroney says it can return
Speaker 7: to service it's cleared by the FAA.
Speaker 6: Stick around at six oh five. It's handle on the news.
Speaker 7: The guy who won a two billion dollar power jackpot
Speaker 7: Powerball jackpot lost his home in Pacific Palisades. Let's say
Speaker 7: good morning now to Calabasa's resident, Danny Cooper. Good morning, Danny,
Speaker 7: Good morning Amy. So, law enforcement officials have been warning
Speaker 7: us over the past days that there are bad actors
Speaker 7: out there, and you live in a neighborhood where some
Speaker 7: bad actors are cropping up.
Speaker 6: Tell us what's going on.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the other night we were out back and my
Speaker 3: dog started barking. She heard some noises out front.
Speaker 4: Who went out to the street and we're like four
Speaker 4: cars zooming around and we're like trying to figure what's
Speaker 4: going on.
Speaker 3: So my wife and I.
Speaker 4: One of the cars, like what's going on. They say
Speaker 4: they got a tweet from their following this a sorry
Speaker 4: ay tweet. This guy Los Angeles Scanner has hundreds of
Speaker 4: thousands of followers, and they said there was a false report.
Speaker 4: They didn't know it was a false report at the
Speaker 4: time that there was a fire on our corner and
Speaker 4: clearly was none. They had extinguishers with them, and we
Speaker 4: were trying to determine what was going on, to determine
Speaker 4: if they lived there or not, and turns out they did.
Speaker 4: But at the same time, what we didn't realize at
Speaker 4: the end of the street, there was two women knocking
Speaker 4: on the seven year old woman's door trying to get her.
Speaker 3: To come out and evacuate because there was a fire.
Speaker 3: So she didn't she was smart enough, and they said
Speaker 3: they were residents. So what happened.
Speaker 4: What happened was that somebody had called them a false
Speaker 4: report and they were trying to get people to leave
Speaker 4: their houses so they could go on and rob them.
Speaker 6: So it sounds like Danny.
Speaker 7: They created the situation by calling in a false report
Speaker 7: for a certain area saying, hey, there's a fire here,
Speaker 7: and then people started who were not from the area
Speaker 7: started going up to people's doors and saying, hey, you guys,
Speaker 7: didn't you see the report.
Speaker 6: There's a fire in your area. You need to get out.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's that's exactly what happened. And somehow they got
Speaker 3: in our gate. We're a gated community, so they.
Speaker 4: Got past security somehow because a delivery van was said
Speaker 4: to have come in at around nine to fifteen pm.
Speaker 3: Not sure why they let them in, but that's been
Speaker 3: taken care of since. And they're trying to get everybody out.
Speaker 4: And there's a fire gate by our house, by that
Speaker 4: corner where the fire was staying, and they're trying to
Speaker 4: get them to open it up because only the fire
Speaker 4: department can get it open. That's not the way it works.
Speaker 6: And is the fire gate behind your homes?
Speaker 7: It is?
Speaker 3: It's about one hundred yards from our house. Yeah, goes
Speaker 3: out onto Moholland Highway.
Speaker 4: And the next day there was another report because all
Speaker 4: of a sudden, fire engines started coming on the street.
Speaker 4: Said somebody from the neighbor's house had called and reported
Speaker 4: a fire. So someone keeps reporting fires. Besides taking away
Speaker 4: emergency services were fire department needs to be, they're bringing
Speaker 4: them to the neighborhood for false supports, trying to get
Speaker 4: us leave, but they don't know that we're all in
Speaker 4: a group chain and we're all texting each other, monitoring
Speaker 4: the fires, monitoring everything. We monitor Citizen Watch Duty LA
Speaker 4: fire apps, so we're on top of everything. But they
Speaker 4: keep coming in, trying to get the seventy year old
Speaker 4: woman to come out of her house so they can
Speaker 4: rob her.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that fire chain.
Speaker 7: It's a beautiful thing about smaller communities where you guys
Speaker 7: all are kind of it's your own little neighborhood watch
Speaker 7: and you're watching out for each other.
Speaker 6: So that's great that you're doing that. Did you guys
Speaker 6: call police immediately or what happened?
Speaker 4: What happened was, yeah, well we didn't know that was
Speaker 4: going on at the end of the street until ten
Speaker 4: minutes later when I texted everybody what happened. She said, Oh,
Speaker 4: by the way, this just happened, and we saw that
Speaker 4: van come by because I think all the activity on
Speaker 4: the streets scared them away.
Speaker 3: But yeah, and we called the Sheriff's department immediately. Left
Speaker 3: by that point, all right, and what.
Speaker 7: Do you recommend because if it's happening in your neighborhood
Speaker 7: is probably happening in other neighborhoods. What do you recommend,
Speaker 7: you know, I mean, it sounds like you guys kind
Speaker 7: of have your your your act together. You've got your
Speaker 7: little neighborhood watch going and that kind of stuff. But
Speaker 7: what do you recommend for other people?
Speaker 4: I do recommend that you do if you don't know
Speaker 4: your neighbor, which happens in Los Angeles a lot, make
Speaker 4: friends with them.
Speaker 3: Because this really united our neighborhood a lot.
Speaker 4: We had robberies on the street about seven years ago
Speaker 4: when we started a small chain just our street, but
Speaker 4: this has expanded to the four hundred and twenty families.
Speaker 4: So I would say recommend get out, have a like
Speaker 4: you said, a community watch on texting and make sure
Speaker 4: everybody knows the numbers of fire department. The Sheriff's department
Speaker 4: called nine one one, But everybody stays in touch with
Speaker 4: each other and it's a good way to get that
Speaker 4: neighborhood vibe going.
Speaker 7: Yeah, and it's scary too, because, like you said, they
Speaker 7: called it and you got a tweet or whatever. There
Speaker 7: was a notification that there was actually a fire and
Speaker 7: we could say go to watch duty, which has been invaluable,
Speaker 7: but that one isn't going to show up right away.
Speaker 6: It's going to show the larger fires. I know there
Speaker 6: are some other apps.
Speaker 7: In fact, I want to ask Richdimiro about that, because
Speaker 7: he's got some other fire watch apps that you can
Speaker 7: have specifically for your location that will tell you if
Speaker 7: there's actually a fire in your location. But it looks
Speaker 7: just you know, with all the great things that people
Speaker 7: are doing coming together, it's so just infuriating to hear that.
Speaker 7: You know, there are bad actors out there, and you
Speaker 7: can't let your guard down. You got to be careful
Speaker 7: because people will take advantage in times of crisis.
Speaker 11: Absolutely, all right, Danny.
Speaker 7: Cooper, Calabasis resident, thank you so much for sharing your story.
Speaker 7: Just by sharing that story, you're probably going to help
Speaker 7: other people and we appreciate that a ton.
Speaker 3: I hope, so thank you. Amy.
Speaker 7: All right, take care, Danny. Wow, that really makes me mad.
Speaker 7: I mean, doesn't that just make your blood boil? I mean,
Speaker 7: people have lost their homes, some have lost their lives,
Speaker 7: some of lost pets, and there's people out there taking advantage.
Speaker 7: And like we were saying, just in Santa Monica, they've
Speaker 7: made like thirty arrests for people who were just breaking curfew.
Speaker 7: None of them were from Santa Monica, but they were
Speaker 7: in the area and you can expect that they were
Speaker 7: up to no good. We mentioned pets, and Assistant Chief
Speaker 7: Choi was asked about pets who had to be left
Speaker 7: behind during the most recent press conference or got left
Speaker 7: behind because people heard about the fire and couldn't get
Speaker 7: back to their homes to get their pets. They're obviously
Speaker 7: frustrated and frantic because they're not being allowed back into
Speaker 7: the area because the fire danger. The fire is still
Speaker 7: burning in some places, there's hazardous material. They're going through
Speaker 7: and doing the searches. But so the question is, you know,
Speaker 7: if you can't get in to get to your pets,
Speaker 7: do you have any options?
Speaker 14: There are other options that we can do. For example,
Speaker 14: officers that are patrolling the area can get a list
Speaker 14: of locations at the checkpoint. Officers can patrol these areas
Speaker 14: and go check themselves. I'm not saying that's exactly going
Speaker 14: to have, but there are options where we don't have
Speaker 14: to leave a pet in there if we're made aware
Speaker 14: of that.
Speaker 10: So you can go to the.
Speaker 14: Checkpoints and talk to officers. But I urge you not
Speaker 14: to go there, just to wait to go in to
Speaker 14: see your house, which is largely what a lot of
Speaker 14: these individuals are doing. They're waiting to be escorted to
Speaker 14: see their property, which we can't too. We still aren't
Speaker 14: doing medication and pets. However, we can come up with
Speaker 14: a way where if somebody knows a pet is in
Speaker 14: the residence, that we'll do everything we can in our
Speaker 14: authority to go in there and get that pet.
Speaker 15: And then Gigi on that note, Passing Humane Society is
Speaker 15: actually going into the Alcadena area that's under evacuation orders
Speaker 15: and feeding pets, so there is we will link up
Speaker 15: and see if we can duplicate that.
Speaker 7: And that was County Supervisor Catherine Barger mentioning Pasadena Humane.
Speaker 7: So we reached out to our friends at Pasadena Humane.
Speaker 7: We wanted to get them on again because they are
Speaker 7: taking care of hundreds of extra animals during this wildfire
Speaker 7: event and now they're going into the burn areas to
Speaker 7: feed and then rescuing any animals who may be left behind.
Speaker 6: So we're going to be talking to them right after this.
Speaker 7: Firefighters are bracing for the return of dangerous Santa Ana
Speaker 7: wins that could test containment lines around the Palisades and
Speaker 7: eaten fires and potentially spark new fires. The most dangerous
Speaker 7: winds are expected between now and noon tomorrow in the
Speaker 7: western Santa Monica and San Gabriel Mountains, the five and
Speaker 7: fourteen corridors, and western San Fernando Valley. Police are warning
Speaker 7: people to watch out for scams if they're looking to
Speaker 7: donate to fire relief areas. Authorities say they've seen a
Speaker 7: rise in scam artists who are exploiting the crisis. The
Speaker 7: City of La is distributing n ninety five masks at
Speaker 7: all city public libraries, recreation centers, and senior centers because
Speaker 7: of the poor air quality from the fires. A list
Speaker 7: of library locations is available online. At six oh five,
Speaker 7: it's handle on the news. A fire broke out and
Speaker 7: was quickly attacked by firefighters. Thousands of firefighters are out
Speaker 7: on the lines just waiting for the next fire as
Speaker 7: the winds increase again. At five point fifty, Joel Larsgard's
Speaker 7: going to have some information on some of the scams
Speaker 7: to watch out for after the fires, and also insurance,
Speaker 7: how to navigate it, what you can do to hopefully
Speaker 7: keep your home covered right Now let's say good morning
Speaker 7: to the PR and communications director at Pasadena Humane. It's
Speaker 7: Kevin McManus. Kevin, thanks for coming on with us again
Speaker 7: this morning. Pasadena Humane, as we know, is always helping
Speaker 7: animals and especially helping during this weather emergency in several
Speaker 7: different ways. We've just heard that you've been approved to
Speaker 7: send a strike team into the burn areas to rescue
Speaker 7: and feed animals.
Speaker 6: Can you tell us about that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's correct.
Speaker 11: We were partnered with a bunch of organizations, many of
Speaker 11: whom like San Diego Humane and SPCA and LA County
Speaker 11: have specially trained animal control officers who are being allowed
Speaker 11: into the fire areas, and they've been able to rescue
Speaker 11: a number of animals from from homes and find a
Speaker 11: lot of stray animals that have been displaced.
Speaker 7: Okay, now, and Catherine Barger, the county supervisor, announced yesterday
Speaker 7: that you had just been kind of led into the area.
Speaker 7: But it sounds like you've been going into the area
Speaker 7: or not you personally, but your teams have been going
Speaker 7: into the area to look for animals for a bit.
Speaker 10: Now, a couple of days.
Speaker 11: Yeah, I mean obviously much longer than you know. We
Speaker 11: would have liked to been in there right away, but
Speaker 11: obviously we have to make sure that it's safe, and
Speaker 11: cal Fire has given us the okay because of the
Speaker 11: assistance that they especially trained folks.
Speaker 6: Okay, and what are you finding, Kevin.
Speaker 11: Well, we have been able to get into some homes
Speaker 11: and where we've known that there were pets, you know,
Speaker 11: who had to be left behind during evacuation, and we
Speaker 11: have been able to rescue some of those and reunite
Speaker 11: them with their families, which is, you know, obviously the goal.
Speaker 11: The stray animals that we found, we're scanning for microchips
Speaker 11: right in the field, so we have almost if the
Speaker 11: pet is microchipped or has collars and tags, we have
Speaker 11: almost immediate information. So that's been a really uplifting part
Speaker 11: of our mission as well. And then the stray animals
Speaker 11: that we just sound and cannot identify or bring them
Speaker 11: back to the shelter, getting their photos on our website
Speaker 11: immediately or within an hour or rather, so people who
Speaker 11: are out there looking for their lost pets in the
Speaker 11: Eating Fire area specifically, they can well anyone can look
Speaker 11: at the website obviously, but we're finding the animals in
Speaker 11: the Eating Fire area.
Speaker 7: And it's got to be so frustrating for like we
Speaker 7: were talking about the people who had to you know,
Speaker 7: either were not home when the fire started and weren't
Speaker 7: able to get back, or for whatever reason, had to
Speaker 7: just leave because there was literally no time. I mean,
Speaker 7: we've heard stories of people having ninety seconds to leave
Speaker 7: everything behind and the frustration and the panic that they
Speaker 7: must feel knowing that their animals are out there and
Speaker 7: need them.
Speaker 6: So it's it's so amazing that you guys are out
Speaker 6: there and doing the help that you can.
Speaker 7: I heard too that there's a I think I read
Speaker 7: from DA that there's like you're putting cat feeding stations
Speaker 7: out because there are cats that just kind of roam
Speaker 7: around the neighborhood.
Speaker 11: That's correct, So we uh you know, at the at
Speaker 11: the shelter, we have kind of almost like a database
Speaker 11: of known cat colonies. So that's people who have taken
Speaker 11: advantage of our uh tr tn R services. So if
Speaker 11: we uh so we have a lot of locations that
Speaker 11: we've done a lot of us SPAN neuter for the
Speaker 11: cats in the area, and so we know that with
Speaker 11: feral cats, in particular community cats, they they're not going
Speaker 11: to be the ones that are going to let you
Speaker 11: come and pick them up and put them in a
Speaker 11: create when even even in a fire. So so we
Speaker 11: are going out leaving water, cat food and hoping that
Speaker 11: there's some some cats who are able to uh to
Speaker 11: make it to that food. And I believe the next
Speaker 11: step is just art setting humane traps to see if
Speaker 11: we can catch any of those cats and you know,
Speaker 11: treat any injuries, make sure that they're okay, okay.
Speaker 6: And are you finding a lot of injured animals?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it's been.
Speaker 11: As the fire has, as the days have progressed since
Speaker 11: the initial fire on the injuries are a little bit
Speaker 11: more severe and unfortunately we have found a lot of
Speaker 11: animals as well. But yeah, it's that's kind of what
Speaker 11: my our vet was briefing me a couple of days ago,
Speaker 11: and she said, look, the first ones to get out,
Speaker 11: you know, they're going to have a little bit of
Speaker 11: smoke inhalation, they're going to maybe have some burns on
Speaker 11: there and their pause of their feet and obviously they'll
Speaker 11: be the higher As it progresses the longer time than
Speaker 11: an animals in that environment, in that air, the respiratory
Speaker 11: issues become greater and the chance obviously of burns is
Speaker 11: increased as well, so uh, yeah, there's something mean. I know,
Speaker 11: one of the very cute dogs that we have featured
Speaker 11: on our social media passed away the other day, so
Speaker 11: that was, you know, heartbreaking, But obviously we have been
Speaker 11: able to save so many so it's been you know,
Speaker 11: a mixed bag.
Speaker 6: So to continue doing your great work, you need our help.
Speaker 6: So what do we what do we need to do?
Speaker 11: Well? At this point, we're uh, we are so full
Speaker 11: of in kind donations thanks to you know, just the
Speaker 11: outpouring and support from our amazing community, so we cannot
Speaker 11: take any more physical donations at for now. So we're
Speaker 11: asking people to pause if they have things that they
Speaker 11: want to bring to us financially doing since the most
Speaker 11: direct way, so we can you know, buy specialized equipment
Speaker 11: for our animal control officers to help assist with this effort,
Speaker 11: so we can treat the animals with the utmost care
Speaker 11: in our animal ICU and we can direct those resources
Speaker 11: to exactly what we need. And someone brought something up
Speaker 11: with me last night that I hadn't even really been
Speaker 11: tracking on, but we really want to buy all of
Speaker 11: our supplies locally, uh, to support the businesses that we
Speaker 11: have been you know, using for for you know, a
Speaker 11: century in some cases with with acumine humane so and
Speaker 11: financial donations allow.
Speaker 6: Us to do that, all right, So money is what
Speaker 6: they need right now.
Speaker 7: They have enough people to foster, they have enough volunteers,
Speaker 7: they have enough food for now.
Speaker 11: What they need is emctually, if I could just started,
Speaker 11: we will need more fosters and volunteers. You do, and
Speaker 11: we're kind of we will probably in a week or two.
Speaker 11: So we have gone again an overwhelming scruit support. We
Speaker 11: put the call out and people have answered.
Speaker 6: So much so that we have to kind of you
Speaker 6: have to put a pause on.
Speaker 11: A Yeah, we have to put a pause on it.
Speaker 11: And we also have for the stray animals who coming in,
Speaker 11: we're extending the stray hold. Normally we do a five
Speaker 11: days stray hold, which allows an owner to find their
Speaker 11: lost pet in five days, but because of the circumstances
Speaker 11: we've we've extended that to three weeks. So so we
Speaker 11: won't be able to move any of the animals out
Speaker 11: of our shelter into foster homes or adoptive homes for
Speaker 11: another two and a half.
Speaker 3: Weeks at this point.
Speaker 6: Okay, day by day, right, Kevin.
Speaker 11: Day by day. But we're also you know, knowing that
Speaker 11: this is this is a marathon at this point, and
Speaker 11: so we're going to be in the care of a
Speaker 11: lot of animals for a long time, and so we
Speaker 11: are definitely going to need assistance.
Speaker 6: Okay. And again, what's the website where they can make
Speaker 6: a donation?
Speaker 11: The most direct one is give dot Pasadena Humane dot org.
Speaker 3: Splash fire.
Speaker 11: Another blessing of this is so many people poured support
Speaker 11: is that our website has been experiencing some difficulties, so
Speaker 11: this is kind of the work around if you want
Speaker 11: to make a donation now, people who want to look
Speaker 11: for lost pets find about other services. It's Pasadena Humane
Speaker 11: dot org.
Speaker 7: Okay, and we need to save as many as we
Speaker 7: possibly can. Kevin McManus with Pasadena Humane, thank you for
Speaker 7: all of your efforts and your team's efforts. It's just
Speaker 7: amazing what you guys are doing and we appreciate it.
Speaker 11: Thank you so much.
Speaker 6: Thank you all right, take care.
Speaker 7: We're so proud to be associated with Pasadena Humane. They
Speaker 7: do such amazing work. One of the things that the
Speaker 7: fires has taught have taught us is that we need
Speaker 7: to be ready to go La County Fire Chief Anthony
Speaker 7: Morony addressed this during the most recent press conference and
Speaker 7: basically said, if you don't have a wildfire plan, you
Speaker 7: need one.
Speaker 16: We really want residents in La County to be prepared.
Speaker 16: If you don't have a wildfire evacuation plan for your
Speaker 16: family and your home, please make one today. Visit www
Speaker 16: dot Lacounty, excuse me, www dot fire, dot La County
Speaker 16: dot gov. Forward slash RSG that stands for ready set Go.
Speaker 16: I would recommend in an abundance of caution, if you
Speaker 16: get an alert on your telephone for an evacuation warning,
Speaker 16: leave then don't wait for the order, because we know
Speaker 16: from experience that if you wait for the order, you
Speaker 16: might get caught up in the congestion that you referenced.
Speaker 16: And please do not silence the emergency alerts on your telephone.
Speaker 16: If we send out an alert at three am on
Speaker 16: Tuesday night or Wednesday night Wednesday morning, when you're sleeping,
Speaker 16: we want you to wake up and evacuate. We know
Speaker 16: we had some issues earlier, but please do not turn
Speaker 16: off that those wireless emergency alerts on your telephone.
Speaker 7: All right, So, La County to find out the Ready
Speaker 7: Set Go recommendations. You can go to fire dot Lacounty
Speaker 7: dot gov and then slash RSG, which means ready, set go.
Speaker 7: I know I have my go bag now at least
Speaker 7: half done, producer and says she's got her car full
Speaker 7: just in case, because we got more wins on the way.
Speaker 7: Hopefully they're not going to turn into fires, but we
Speaker 7: got to be ready. Fire officials say, cruise are ready
Speaker 7: as Santa Ana wins pick up again. The Palisades, Eton
Speaker 7: and Hears fires erupted a week ago. Today, more than
Speaker 7: ninety two thousand people are under evacuation orders. Another eighty
Speaker 7: nine thousand are under evacuation warnings. At least three lawsuits
Speaker 7: have been filed against Southern California Edison over aims that
Speaker 7: its electrical equipment is responsible for starting the fire in
Speaker 7: Eaton Canyon. The lawsuits claim eyewitnesses saw a fire at
Speaker 7: the base of a transmission tower that's owned by Edison.
Speaker 6: Edison says that is not the case.
Speaker 7: More than forty people have been arrested for illegally entering
Speaker 7: the Palisades fire evacuation zone in Santa Monica during curfew.
Speaker 7: Police say the people who were caught there at night
Speaker 7: without a valid reason, violated local emergency orders and city
Speaker 7: in county curfew orders, adding that none of them are
Speaker 7: Santa Monica residents. We're just minutes away from a handle
Speaker 7: on the news this morning, Life in prison. That's what's
Speaker 7: on the table for people arrested for looting an arson
Speaker 7: during the wildfires. Right now, let's say good morning to
Speaker 7: the host of How to Money on KFI. It's Joel
Speaker 7: lars Guard. Joel, as we've been talking about this hour,
Speaker 7: there are things that you need to watch out for
Speaker 7: because there are bad actors out there, and we want
Speaker 7: to make sure that people protect their money. So let's
Speaker 7: talk a little bit about like how they can make
Speaker 7: sure that they don't get scammed during the wildfires.
Speaker 12: Sure, yeah, it's a good question, and yeah, you're right.
Speaker 12: There are sadly a lot of people in the aftermath
Speaker 12: of a crisis who try to benefit themselves, whether that
Speaker 12: is looters, or whether that is scam artists online trying
Speaker 12: to raise money for fake charities and so, or even
Speaker 12: let's say legitimate websites where you might go to donate
Speaker 12: and you might be confronted with fees or expenses that
Speaker 12: you didn't bargain for. So For instance, a lot of
Speaker 12: individuals have turned to GoFundMe to try to raise money
Speaker 12: for rebuilding efforts or you know, just to essentially make
Speaker 12: ends meet for the time being because they don't have
Speaker 12: a place to live and go Fundme is a site
Speaker 12: that claims to not take any fees for themselves, just
Speaker 12: a processing fee for credit cards, which is understandable. Yet
Speaker 12: then on top of that, they will charge these tips
Speaker 12: that you maybe like, you scroll through there and you know,
Speaker 12: you can eliminate the tip while you're trying to make
Speaker 12: the donation, but you might be kind of surprised by
Speaker 12: it and the tip can be pretty hef so be
Speaker 12: careful when you're giving donations. They're also just fake charities
Speaker 12: out there now trying to raise money, especially online, and
Speaker 12: go to charities that you know and trust. And if
Speaker 12: you're looking to find a charity to donate to, charitynavigator
Speaker 12: dot org has a great list of highly rated charities
Speaker 12: that you can give to so that they have vetted
Speaker 12: and I just think, like, especially now, if your heart
Speaker 12: is tugged to give money, which understandably is make sure
Speaker 12: that money is actually going to help people in need
Speaker 12: and not going to pad the pockets of people who
Speaker 12: are up.
Speaker 7: To no good and even I think we've talked about
Speaker 7: this before, Joel, something like the Red Cross.
Speaker 6: You've got to make sure you're giving to the actual
Speaker 6: Red Cross.
Speaker 12: Yes, that's right, that's right. And so the Red Cross
Speaker 12: is listed on Charity Navigators site as one of the
Speaker 12: best places to give money right now, but I would
Speaker 12: like literally click over to the American Red Cross from
Speaker 12: Charity Navigator. Just make sure that you are not, you know,
Speaker 12: giving to somebody who says they're the Red Cross, or
Speaker 12: think about if you get a phone call or something.
Speaker 12: And it's true that time is of the essence to
Speaker 12: get funds to people, but people will try to get
Speaker 12: you to donate immediately and before you hang up the
Speaker 12: phone and that kind of stuff, and that is a
Speaker 12: red flag. If someone is trying to pitch you on
Speaker 12: a donation and they're saying you need to do it
Speaker 12: right now, right now, right now, well you need to
Speaker 12: actually make sure you're going to the proper website for
Speaker 12: the Red Cross is Redcross dot org. But make sure
Speaker 12: that you are not in a moment of compassion giving
Speaker 12: somewhere that where the money isn't actually going to help
Speaker 12: anybody in need.
Speaker 7: Okay, And I want to just touch on homeowners insurance
Speaker 7: and maybe we'll talk about it more next week, because
Speaker 7: this is going to be an issue as we move forward.
Speaker 7: But you know, a lot of people are losing their
Speaker 7: homeowners insurance. We're hearing that some people didn't have homeowner's
Speaker 7: insurance because the rates have gotten so crazy high. Is
Speaker 7: there anything customers can do to keep their insurance?
Speaker 5: Gosh.
Speaker 12: So it's a really difficult situation right now in California
Speaker 12: insurance wise, and it's only been getting worse over the
Speaker 12: past couple of years. And these fires just go to
Speaker 12: show why insurance companies have been reticent to write policies
Speaker 12: in certain areas and why they have been reducing or
Speaker 12: removing coverage from certain places because they are just high
Speaker 12: risk areas.
Speaker 1: And so.
Speaker 12: The truth is, insurance costs are going up, and more
Speaker 12: people are going to find themselves looking to the fair
Speaker 12: plan for basic coverage that won't be as good as
Speaker 12: what they had, and self insurance and having more money
Speaker 12: on hand is going to be more important than ever.
Speaker 12: There is no fantastic, simple, easy, inexpensive solutions, sadly, but yeah,
Speaker 12: we're finding ourselves in the state of California kind of
Speaker 12: between a rock and a hard place insurance wise, and
Speaker 12: there will be more coming out in the coming months,
Speaker 12: and the state is going to have to do something
Speaker 12: I think to help citizens when it comes to allowing
Speaker 12: insurance companies and entire seeing insurance companies back into the
Speaker 12: state to write coverage, because we just need a more
Speaker 12: competitive marketplace.
Speaker 6: Yeah, okay, I.
Speaker 7: Hope we can revisit this again because I think there's
Speaker 7: more to dive into. But for more great tips on
Speaker 7: how to protect your money and how to grow your money,
Speaker 7: you can listen to how to Money with Joel Larsgard.
Speaker 7: It's right here on KFI Sundays from noon to two.
Speaker 7: You can follow Joel at how to Money. Joel, Thank you, Joel.
Speaker 12: Thanks Amy.
Speaker 6: All right, touch to you soon.
Speaker 7: Let's get back to some of the stories coming out
Speaker 7: of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Charges have been
Speaker 7: filed against nine people accused of stealing from homes in
Speaker 7: wildfire zones.
Speaker 5: The homes are in Alta, Dina and Mandeville Canyon. In
Speaker 5: one case, an Emmy Award was taken and another two
Speaker 5: hundred thousand dollars worth of stuff. LAPD Assistant Chief Blake
Speaker 5: Chow says police and prosecutors are serious about jailing looters.
Speaker 4: It's not enough that they have to worry about their
Speaker 4: properties and rebuilding and things like that, but now they
Speaker 4: would have to worry about criminals coming up there and
Speaker 4: taking advantage.
Speaker 5: La County DA Nathan Hoffman also says charges were brought
Speaker 5: against a man accused of setting a fire and a
Speaker 5: parking zuza, that one is unrelated to the wildfires. Michael
Speaker 5: Monks KFI News.
Speaker 7: Governor Newsom says he wants the state to provide another
Speaker 7: two and a half billion dollars in funding for fire
Speaker 7: response and recovery.
Speaker 9: On Monday, Newsom signed a proclamation that expands the scope
Speaker 9: of the state legislature's current special session. The governor is
Speaker 9: requesting a billion dollars more go toward emergency response, clean up,
Speaker 9: and recovery, and he wants another one point five billion
Speaker 9: dollars in funding to prepare for the threats of firestorms
Speaker 9: and other natural disasters in the future.
Speaker 7: Hey if i's Daniel Martin Dale says, according to Newsom,
Speaker 7: California is organizing a Marshall Plan to help La rebuild
Speaker 7: faster and stronger. A man from Altadena who won a
Speaker 7: huge lottery jackpot has lost one of his homes in
Speaker 7: the Palisades fire.
Speaker 8: Edwin Castro won the largest lottery jackpot in history, taking
Speaker 8: home close to a billion dollars after taxes. Now, Castro
Speaker 8: went on a shopping spree, buying multimillion dollar homes in Altadena, Malibu,
Speaker 8: and the Hollywood Hills. Last week. Two of his homes
Speaker 8: were in evacuation zones, and the third in Malibu burned
Speaker 8: down in the fire that first started in the Palisades.
Speaker 8: According to new satellite images reviewed by the La Times,
Speaker 8: that mansion, which was nearly four million dollars, was bought
Speaker 8: by Castro in September twenty twenty three because other two
Speaker 8: homes weren't evacuation zones, but those are still standing. Andrew
Speaker 8: Caravella KFI News.
Speaker 7: The La County Department of Parks and Recreation is launching
Speaker 7: care camps to help families impacted by the fires. Care
Speaker 7: camps give kids something to do, enjoy music, arts and crafts, sports,
Speaker 7: as well as taking trips to the La Natural History
Speaker 7: Museum very cool place, the Librea tar Pits another very
Speaker 7: cool place, and of course Dodger Stadium one of my
Speaker 7: favorite places. The Department's also going to provide breakfast, snacks,
Speaker 7: and lunch daily. The department is also seeking donations to
Speaker 7: support its care camps, which will run through the month
Speaker 7: of January. This is KFI and KOSTHD two Los Angeles,
Speaker 7: Orange County Southland. Weather from KFI. Those Santa Ana wins
Speaker 7: expected to blow again today.
Speaker 6: They'll be the.
Speaker 7: Strongest from now through tomorrow at noon with wind gus
Speaker 7: fifty five to seventy miles brour sunny sky is other
Speaker 7: than that ties around seventy at the beaches Metro La
Speaker 7: and Inland O c. Sixties to about seventy in the
Speaker 7: Valley's in Inland Empire, forties and fifties. In the Antelope
Speaker 7: Valley it's forty five and Dana point forty seven in
Speaker 7: Long Beach, fifty in Calabasas, forty nine in Garden Grove.
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