WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.680 --> 00:00:04.160 You're listening to KFI AM six forty wake Up Call 2 00:00:04.280 --> 00:00:09.640 with me Amy King on demand on the iHeartRadio app. 3 00:00:09.679 --> 00:00:12.800 When fires strikes southern California. 4 00:00:13.119 --> 00:00:14.679 KFI News is on it. 5 00:00:16.679 --> 00:00:22.440 KFI and KOST HD two Los Angeles, Orange County. 6 00:00:22.440 --> 00:00:24.679 It's time for your morning wake up call. 7 00:00:28.199 --> 00:00:29.239 Here's Amy Kig. 8 00:00:32.840 --> 00:00:34.799 Good morning. It's five oh one. 9 00:00:34.920 --> 00:00:40.119 This is your wake up call for Tuesday, January fourteenth. 10 00:00:40.200 --> 00:00:40.920 I'm Amy King. 11 00:00:41.880 --> 00:00:44.960 Thanks to Valentine for stepping up and hosting overnight to 12 00:00:45.039 --> 00:00:47.799 keep you up to date on the fires. Another crazy 13 00:00:47.880 --> 00:00:50.000 day on the way. We are glad that you are here. 14 00:00:50.320 --> 00:00:51.880 We're going to keep you up to date. We're going 15 00:00:51.960 --> 00:00:55.920 to get you great information, including we'll be talking with 16 00:00:56.039 --> 00:00:58.399 the National Weather Service in a couple of minutes about 17 00:00:58.759 --> 00:01:05.400 the key ds, the particularly dangerous situation as the next 18 00:01:05.480 --> 00:01:09.000 round of Santa Ana winds begins to blow. We'll also 19 00:01:09.040 --> 00:01:13.920 be talking about how pets are being helped in the 20 00:01:13.959 --> 00:01:19.280 Altadena fire area. Pasadena Humane is stepping up sending strike 21 00:01:19.400 --> 00:01:21.239 teams into the burn area. We're going to get the 22 00:01:21.319 --> 00:01:24.319 latest on that, and of course, the fires affect your money. 23 00:01:24.319 --> 00:01:26.760 We've got Joel Larsgard, host of How to Money on 24 00:01:26.840 --> 00:01:31.079 KFI on how to protect your money during these wildfires. 25 00:01:31.280 --> 00:01:33.200 Here's what's ahead on wake up call. 26 00:01:33.319 --> 00:01:36.799 Strong Santa Ana winds triggered the highest level red flag 27 00:01:36.840 --> 00:01:40.920 warning called a PDS or a particularly dangerous situation for 28 00:01:41.120 --> 00:01:44.680 southern California, with winds expected to gust fifty five to 29 00:01:44.799 --> 00:01:49.200 seventy miles per hour between now and noon tomorrow. Firefighters 30 00:01:49.200 --> 00:01:51.920 are working to shore up containment lines around fires as 31 00:01:51.959 --> 00:01:55.239 the next wind event moves in. The Palisades fire is 32 00:01:55.280 --> 00:01:58.760 fourteen percent surrounded. The fire in Altadena and Pasadena thirty 33 00:01:58.799 --> 00:02:01.719 three percent surrounded. We're expected to get updates on those 34 00:02:01.760 --> 00:02:04.280 numbers a little bit later this morning. Effect they're going 35 00:02:04.359 --> 00:02:06.959 to be doing another press conference at eight o'clock as 36 00:02:06.959 --> 00:02:09.360 they've been doing each day, to give us an update 37 00:02:09.400 --> 00:02:13.879 from law enforcement and fire officials. So keep it right 38 00:02:13.919 --> 00:02:15.800 here because we will be airing that live for you 39 00:02:15.919 --> 00:02:19.560 right here on KFI. LA District Attorney Nathan Hawkman says 40 00:02:19.599 --> 00:02:23.120 ten people have been charged with looting in fire evacuation zones. 41 00:02:23.439 --> 00:02:26.039 Two were charged with stealing two hundred thousand dollars worth 42 00:02:26.080 --> 00:02:29.719 of property in the zones. Hawkins says anyone caught looting 43 00:02:29.759 --> 00:02:32.439 will be charged to the fullest extent of the law. 44 00:02:33.280 --> 00:02:35.280 Let's get started with some of the stories coming out 45 00:02:35.280 --> 00:02:37.719 of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. The Santa Anas 46 00:02:37.719 --> 00:02:40.800 are expected to kick up through tomorrow in most of 47 00:02:40.840 --> 00:02:45.280 southern California, which is already dealing with deadly wildfires. LA 48 00:02:45.360 --> 00:02:49.039 City Fire Assistant Chief Joe Everett says those wins can 49 00:02:49.120 --> 00:02:51.879 potentially fan fires that haven't been doused yet. 50 00:02:52.000 --> 00:02:55.039 Within the city of Los Angeles. I we're still actively 51 00:02:55.039 --> 00:02:55.639 working in there. 52 00:02:55.680 --> 00:02:58.800 We do have some active, active structure fires left over 53 00:02:58.800 --> 00:03:00.280 from the original impact. 54 00:03:01.240 --> 00:03:04.120 The National Weather Service has issued Red flag warnings as 55 00:03:04.159 --> 00:03:08.360 well as that rare particularly dangerous situation warning. It says 56 00:03:08.360 --> 00:03:10.520 when gus could be as high as seventy miles an 57 00:03:10.560 --> 00:03:14.199 hour in some areas. A fire in Ventura that broke 58 00:03:14.240 --> 00:03:17.319 out last night has been stopped at about fifty five acres. 59 00:03:17.680 --> 00:03:19.439 Crews have been working through the night to put out 60 00:03:19.439 --> 00:03:22.400 hot spots and surround it. It was confined to the 61 00:03:22.479 --> 00:03:26.000 river bottom off North Ventura Boulevard. No homes are threatened. 62 00:03:26.319 --> 00:03:30.120 That the cause of that fire's under investigation. A brush 63 00:03:30.120 --> 00:03:32.800 fire in Harupa Valley and Riverside County has been stopped 64 00:03:32.800 --> 00:03:35.879 at two acres. It started yesterday afternoon in the Santa 65 00:03:35.919 --> 00:03:39.479 Ana River bottom. A neighborhood was briefly placed under an 66 00:03:39.520 --> 00:03:41.919 evacuation warning, but fire crews were able to keep it 67 00:03:41.960 --> 00:03:43.520 from getting into that area. 68 00:03:44.000 --> 00:03:44.960 More than forty. 69 00:03:44.719 --> 00:03:47.759 People have been arrested in Santa Monica on suspicion of 70 00:03:47.800 --> 00:03:51.120 illegally entering the Palisades Fire evacuation zone. 71 00:03:51.159 --> 00:03:54.240 The evacuation zone is under a sunset to sunrise curfew. 72 00:03:54.520 --> 00:03:56.360 Please say the people who were cut there at night 73 00:03:56.400 --> 00:03:59.840 without a valid reason violated local emergency orders in city 74 00:03:59.840 --> 00:04:02.280 and county curfew orders, adding that none of them are 75 00:04:02.360 --> 00:04:03.919 Santa Monica residents. 76 00:04:04.560 --> 00:04:08.919 Kfi's Daniel Martindale says some of those arrested had burglary tools, 77 00:04:09.280 --> 00:04:12.919 two had guns on them. He says even some had 78 00:04:12.919 --> 00:04:16.720 the watch duty fire app open to see which areas 79 00:04:16.879 --> 00:04:18.000 had been evacuated. 80 00:04:19.079 --> 00:04:20.639 That's just infuriating, isn't it. 81 00:04:21.000 --> 00:04:23.959 President Biden says people impacted by the wildfires in LA 82 00:04:24.000 --> 00:04:25.639 are going to get a one time payment of seven 83 00:04:25.680 --> 00:04:28.079 hundred and seventy dollars so they can quickly buy things 84 00:04:28.120 --> 00:04:31.759 like water, baby formula and prescriptions. The announcement yesterday was 85 00:04:31.800 --> 00:04:34.759 criticized on social media especially since the cost of living 86 00:04:34.800 --> 00:04:37.279 in California is higher than in much of the country. 87 00:04:37.639 --> 00:04:42.360 Private forecaster Acuweather has estimated damages and economic loss caused 88 00:04:42.399 --> 00:04:45.480 by the fires to be between two hundred and fifty 89 00:04:45.560 --> 00:04:50.160 and two hundred seventy five billion dollars. Let's now say 90 00:04:50.199 --> 00:04:53.560 good morning to Todd Hall with the National Weather Service. 91 00:04:53.600 --> 00:04:56.920 Morning Todd, good morning. Okay, So Todd, we've. 92 00:04:56.720 --> 00:04:59.920 Mentioned this already, but we have a PDS A pertin 93 00:05:00.000 --> 00:05:04.720 particularly dangerous situation tell us about that particular warning. 94 00:05:06.240 --> 00:05:09.079 So it's it's an extension of our red flag warnings 95 00:05:09.079 --> 00:05:13.759 that highlights just the very extreme critical fireweather conditions that 96 00:05:13.879 --> 00:05:16.560 we want to highlight. And it's really for firefighter safety. 97 00:05:16.560 --> 00:05:19.759 That's what it's designed for the public, of course, can 98 00:05:20.120 --> 00:05:22.759 it's all public information. You can see this stuff. So 99 00:05:22.879 --> 00:05:27.199 it's it highlights the really dangerous conditions that firefighters will 100 00:05:27.240 --> 00:05:29.680 be facing. When you have wind gusts to seventy miles 101 00:05:29.680 --> 00:05:32.360 per hour, embers will be thrown two three miles away 102 00:05:32.959 --> 00:05:38.560 from from any starts, and certainly anything that's that's already burning, 103 00:05:38.800 --> 00:05:41.319 there's those potential that those glowing embers can still be 104 00:05:41.600 --> 00:05:44.319 tossed as well. Several miles away, so we have to 105 00:05:44.839 --> 00:05:46.759 we have we want to bring that heighthend alert to 106 00:05:47.120 --> 00:05:48.399 firefighters for their safety. 107 00:05:48.959 --> 00:05:52.240 Okay, and Todd, is this round of Santa Ana wins 108 00:05:52.279 --> 00:05:53.480 worse than last week? 109 00:05:54.759 --> 00:05:57.519 No, it's expected to be weaker than the last week. 110 00:05:58.480 --> 00:06:00.600 Last week we had we had a very broad area 111 00:06:00.600 --> 00:06:03.240 of gusts between sixty and eighty and some isolated gusts 112 00:06:03.360 --> 00:06:08.560 up to one hundred. We're expecting generally a larger you know, 113 00:06:08.879 --> 00:06:11.959 I guess the most prone areas will gust fifty five 114 00:06:12.000 --> 00:06:14.920 to seventy and we might have a few isolated gusts 115 00:06:14.920 --> 00:06:18.319 to eighty eighty five, But for the most part, it's 116 00:06:18.519 --> 00:06:21.959 it's supposed to schedule to be much weaker than last 117 00:06:21.959 --> 00:06:22.439 week's event. 118 00:06:22.600 --> 00:06:24.560 Okay, that's good news. And how long are the winds 119 00:06:24.600 --> 00:06:25.160 going to last? 120 00:06:26.399 --> 00:06:30.519 We're going to continue to see winds peaking after sunrise today, 121 00:06:30.519 --> 00:06:32.040 We're going to see that bump up in the wind. 122 00:06:33.439 --> 00:06:36.319 They will there will be some weakening through this afternoon 123 00:06:36.360 --> 00:06:38.759 this evening, and then we'll start to see them increase 124 00:06:38.800 --> 00:06:44.360 again into Wednesday morning. So hopefully by Wednesday evening we'll 125 00:06:44.360 --> 00:06:48.160 start to see some improvement in the fireweather conditions. The 126 00:06:48.199 --> 00:06:51.879 red flag warning, the PDS red flag warning, I should say, 127 00:06:51.879 --> 00:06:54.879 the particularly dangerous situation type with red flag warning goes 128 00:06:54.879 --> 00:06:57.519 through noon Wednesday, and then we have the red flag 129 00:06:57.519 --> 00:07:00.800 warning in effect until six pm Wednesday. There's a chance 130 00:07:00.839 --> 00:07:04.079 that some for some portions of La in Ventura Counties 131 00:07:04.120 --> 00:07:07.399 that could be extended in the Thursday, depending upon, uh, 132 00:07:08.160 --> 00:07:12.319 how dry the air masses, how windy it's it still remains, 133 00:07:12.519 --> 00:07:15.800 there's there's still that that that unknown there that we 134 00:07:15.920 --> 00:07:19.680 could be still seeing some of these conditions still existing 135 00:07:20.000 --> 00:07:22.720 in pockets of the south Land. 136 00:07:22.600 --> 00:07:25.639 Okay and Toad you mentioned, like the embers and flare 137 00:07:25.720 --> 00:07:28.720 ups and that kind of thing. Is the is the 138 00:07:28.759 --> 00:07:31.839 threat even greater in the burn areas or is it 139 00:07:31.920 --> 00:07:34.839 actually lower in the burn areas because everything's already burned. 140 00:07:36.920 --> 00:07:39.600 As far as the winds, the strongest winds, we're not 141 00:07:40.000 --> 00:07:44.519 we're not forecasting the strongest winds to hit those burn areas. Now, 142 00:07:44.600 --> 00:07:46.720 the north end of the Eton would be a concern 143 00:07:46.839 --> 00:07:49.000 and the west end of the Palisades would be a 144 00:07:49.040 --> 00:07:53.240 concern because those are the strongest wind corridors expected across 145 00:07:53.439 --> 00:07:56.399 western Ventura County or western Los Angeles County and eastern 146 00:07:56.480 --> 00:08:00.360 Ventura County so that would be the most area is 147 00:08:00.439 --> 00:08:04.160 concerned if there's still any hot spots in those areas. 148 00:08:04.199 --> 00:08:07.439 But certainly with any of these conditions, I mean, we 149 00:08:07.519 --> 00:08:11.079 still have critical fire weather conditions in place. Any wind 150 00:08:11.160 --> 00:08:14.319 guests could still cause some issues to develop on any 151 00:08:14.360 --> 00:08:18.240 of these fires, given the how dry the conditions are, 152 00:08:18.800 --> 00:08:22.639 the lack of rain we've had, and we now had 153 00:08:22.759 --> 00:08:26.120 four Santa Ana event wind events, well three when events, 154 00:08:26.120 --> 00:08:28.560 and this is the fourth one on top of these 155 00:08:28.839 --> 00:08:33.360 these areas already, so any new starts can be can 156 00:08:33.399 --> 00:08:37.000 spread very rapidly, as as we know from our fire partners. 157 00:08:37.039 --> 00:08:39.960 They tend to tell us, working with La County Fire 158 00:08:40.000 --> 00:08:43.039 and Ventura County Fire behavior analysts quite a bit. They 159 00:08:43.080 --> 00:08:48.480 tend to tell us that the fire conditions worsened with 160 00:08:48.480 --> 00:08:51.120 with the Santa Ana wind event we have, and if 161 00:08:51.120 --> 00:08:53.000 you put them in succession, it starts to become a 162 00:08:53.039 --> 00:08:54.200 early dangerous situation. 163 00:08:54.559 --> 00:08:56.919 Okay, well, we know that the Santa Ana winds blow 164 00:08:57.120 --> 00:08:59.840 in the winter time, but why are we getting these 165 00:09:00.080 --> 00:09:02.279 extreme weather conditions back to back to back. 166 00:09:03.879 --> 00:09:07.559 So it's it's really, I mean, most of our firewether 167 00:09:07.600 --> 00:09:10.600 season runs typically between May and October. By October we 168 00:09:10.639 --> 00:09:13.360 start to see some rain. We'll see some some rain 169 00:09:13.639 --> 00:09:16.919 through November, October, Noveber, December, and that will that will 170 00:09:17.000 --> 00:09:21.960 end up and usually bring some moistening of the of 171 00:09:22.000 --> 00:09:25.039 the vegetation and we'll get enough rain. We haven't had 172 00:09:25.080 --> 00:09:27.679 any rain. We've had a quarter inch of rain at downtown, 173 00:09:27.799 --> 00:09:30.240 less than a quarter to rain at downtown since since 174 00:09:30.399 --> 00:09:35.360 uh May. So from through we've had some very dry 175 00:09:36.879 --> 00:09:39.600 We've had some very dry months. We have eight months 176 00:09:39.399 --> 00:09:46.279 of almost no rain whatsoever. And so that's so typically January, 177 00:09:46.320 --> 00:09:49.279 December and January bring our most damaging sant Ana wins. 178 00:09:49.279 --> 00:09:51.639 So that's that's the that's the ones that bring the 179 00:09:51.679 --> 00:09:55.000 seventy the sixty seventy eighty miles pur Santa and wins 180 00:09:55.039 --> 00:09:58.919 that are that that typically do happen this tin of year. 181 00:09:59.039 --> 00:10:02.000 So that's that's more of our damaging wind events. Well, 182 00:10:02.399 --> 00:10:05.279 now our fireweather season ran a little longer because we 183 00:10:05.600 --> 00:10:09.120 had no rain. So now we're in this window where 184 00:10:09.679 --> 00:10:12.799 we have these more damaging stand in the wind events 185 00:10:13.519 --> 00:10:17.759 and then you're throwing the dry vegetation into that next. 186 00:10:17.799 --> 00:10:19.720 All right, well, let's hope that this is the last 187 00:10:19.759 --> 00:10:20.000 of them. 188 00:10:20.279 --> 00:10:22.799 Toddhall with the National Weather Service appreciate your time and 189 00:10:22.879 --> 00:10:23.879 information this morning. 190 00:10:25.039 --> 00:10:25.440 Thank you. 191 00:10:25.519 --> 00:10:26.240 All right, take care. 192 00:10:26.559 --> 00:10:28.480 Let's get back to some of the other stories coming 193 00:10:28.480 --> 00:10:30.399 out of the KFI twenty four our newsroom. Police in 194 00:10:30.440 --> 00:10:33.639 Torrents say they're urging residents to be vigilant as thieves 195 00:10:33.639 --> 00:10:37.279 have been stealing catalytic converters. Police say people stealing them 196 00:10:37.279 --> 00:10:40.919 are sometimes armed. They suggest parking in well lit areas, 197 00:10:40.960 --> 00:10:43.840 closer to an entrance to stores when shopping, and getting 198 00:10:43.840 --> 00:10:47.919 your converted converter welded to your car's frames so it's 199 00:10:48.000 --> 00:10:51.759 not so easy to remove. Special Counsel David Weiss has 200 00:10:51.840 --> 00:10:54.919 released his final report on the investigation into Hunter Biden 201 00:10:54.960 --> 00:10:58.399 and the President's decision to pardon his son. ABC's per 202 00:10:58.519 --> 00:11:00.320 Thomas says the report was released ye yesterday. 203 00:11:00.440 --> 00:11:03.480 In its final report, Special Counsel David Weiss saying other 204 00:11:03.600 --> 00:11:07.039 presidents have pardon family members, but in doing so, none 205 00:11:07.039 --> 00:11:10.039 have taken the occasion as an opportunity to align the 206 00:11:10.080 --> 00:11:13.000 public service at the Department of Justice based solely on 207 00:11:13.080 --> 00:11:14.279 false accusations. 208 00:11:14.360 --> 00:11:18.759 Why says his prosecutions were based on thorough, impartial investigations, 209 00:11:18.879 --> 00:11:22.759 not partisan politics. Some of President elect Trump's nominees will 210 00:11:22.759 --> 00:11:26.240 have their confirmation hearings this week. ABC's Olivia Rubin says 211 00:11:26.240 --> 00:11:27.679 they're set to start today. 212 00:11:27.480 --> 00:11:30.279 Include Department of Defense pick Pete haig Seth. 213 00:11:30.440 --> 00:11:34.600 Attorney General nominee Pam Bondi, and Marco Rubio tap for 214 00:11:34.639 --> 00:11:35.600 Secretary of State. 215 00:11:35.799 --> 00:11:38.799 She says some Republicans have been involved in practice hearings 216 00:11:38.840 --> 00:11:40.919 complete with microphones and name tags. 217 00:11:41.279 --> 00:11:42.759 Country music fans, well. 218 00:11:42.679 --> 00:11:45.399 Pretty much everybody who is a fan of any kind 219 00:11:45.440 --> 00:11:47.879 of music may be extra excited to hear who will 220 00:11:47.879 --> 00:11:50.679 be in DC next week when President Elect Trump takes 221 00:11:50.679 --> 00:11:54.320 the oath of office. ABC's Rachel Scott says Carrie Underwood 222 00:11:54.320 --> 00:11:54.879 will perform. 223 00:11:54.960 --> 00:11:57.159 In a statement, she says, I love our country and 224 00:11:57.200 --> 00:11:59.200 I'm honored to have been asked to sing at the 225 00:11:59.200 --> 00:12:01.919 inauguration be part of this historic event. 226 00:12:03.240 --> 00:12:08.279 The inauguration is scheduled for Monday, January twentieth. As we've 227 00:12:08.320 --> 00:12:11.000 been telling you, the helicopters and the planes have made 228 00:12:11.039 --> 00:12:15.399 a huge difference in the firefight. But with the winds 229 00:12:15.519 --> 00:12:18.240 kicking up again, the concern is are they going to 230 00:12:18.279 --> 00:12:20.960 be grounded? Because you'll remember when the fires first broke out, 231 00:12:21.000 --> 00:12:24.720 the winds were blowing so hard that the helicopters and 232 00:12:24.799 --> 00:12:28.039 the planes had to be grounded. So the question is 233 00:12:28.200 --> 00:12:30.600 when do planes have to stop flying? 234 00:12:31.240 --> 00:12:35.000 The problem is the guts, So the gus peak and 235 00:12:36.600 --> 00:12:42.120 the aircraft limitations or capabilities are then limited based on 236 00:12:42.600 --> 00:12:46.480 approach and departures as well as as Chief mentioned, they 237 00:12:46.759 --> 00:12:52.519 drop accuracy, so each aircraft will have that limitation based 238 00:12:52.519 --> 00:12:55.679 on the manufacturer's recommendation. And then as far as the 239 00:12:55.720 --> 00:13:00.240 safety component. Usually the limiting factor's guts over threw thirty 240 00:13:00.240 --> 00:13:04.559 miles an hour, but the sustained wins anything over forty 241 00:13:05.559 --> 00:13:08.360 is pretty much gonna ground most aircraft, and we. 242 00:13:08.360 --> 00:13:12.399 Are expecting wins to gust over forty miles per hour today. 243 00:13:12.440 --> 00:13:17.759 That was Jerry mcganya with CalFire Incident Management Teams. He 244 00:13:17.879 --> 00:13:20.720 was talking during the most recent press conference and explaining 245 00:13:20.720 --> 00:13:22.679 the win situation. We're going to get another update on 246 00:13:22.679 --> 00:13:25.440 the fires and the wins and the relief efforts. That's 247 00:13:25.480 --> 00:13:27.720 coming up this morning at eight o'clock and we will 248 00:13:27.720 --> 00:13:30.080 bring that to you live right here on KFI. I 249 00:13:30.080 --> 00:13:32.519 want to say congratulations to the la Rams. They beat 250 00:13:32.519 --> 00:13:36.240 the Vikings twenty seven to nine last night in wildcard action. 251 00:13:36.960 --> 00:13:39.759 They're going to take on the Philadelphia Eagles next. That 252 00:13:39.840 --> 00:13:42.720 happens Sunday at noon for the NFL Divisional playoff game. 253 00:13:43.240 --> 00:13:46.679 The game, ironically was supposed to be held at SOFI Stadium, 254 00:13:46.720 --> 00:13:51.360 they moved it to State Farm Stadium in Glendale. Of course, 255 00:13:51.399 --> 00:13:54.519 State Farm is California's largest home insurance provider and announced 256 00:13:54.559 --> 00:13:57.480 last year that it would no longer be taking applications 257 00:13:57.519 --> 00:14:00.919 for property insurance and other policies because of the historic 258 00:14:00.960 --> 00:14:05.720 increases in construction costs and inflation, and of course, wildfire risks. 259 00:14:05.759 --> 00:14:08.519 So kind of weird that it was played at State 260 00:14:08.559 --> 00:14:11.879 Farm Stadium, huh. Firefighters are working to beef up containment 261 00:14:11.879 --> 00:14:15.240 lines around the fire burning in Altadena and Pasadena as 262 00:14:15.279 --> 00:14:18.519 another Santa Ana wind event blows in. The fire is 263 00:14:18.559 --> 00:14:22.120 now thirty three percent surrounded. At least twenty four people 264 00:14:22.159 --> 00:14:25.679 have died in the two largest fires. Officials expect that 265 00:14:25.759 --> 00:14:28.200 number to go up as they get deeper into neighborhoods 266 00:14:28.240 --> 00:14:31.480 to assess the damage. Firefighters have stopped forward progress of 267 00:14:31.480 --> 00:14:34.279 a fire that broke out in Herrupa Valley. The Riverside 268 00:14:34.279 --> 00:14:37.279 Fire Department says the fire started just before five yesterday. 269 00:14:37.720 --> 00:14:41.240 Homes in the area were briefly placed under an evacuation order. 270 00:14:41.720 --> 00:14:43.519 The cause of the fire isn't known. It is in 271 00:14:43.559 --> 00:14:47.240 an area that has homeless camps. The Super Scooper firefighting plane, 272 00:14:47.320 --> 00:14:50.240 damaged by a collision with a drone last week, has 273 00:14:50.279 --> 00:14:53.000 been repaired and is expected to return to the air today. 274 00:14:53.000 --> 00:14:55.720 It's one of two Super Scoopers on loan from Canada. 275 00:14:56.159 --> 00:14:59.360 La County Fire Chief Anthony Maroney says it can return 276 00:14:59.399 --> 00:15:01.759 to service it's cleared by the FAA. 277 00:15:02.159 --> 00:15:04.639 Stick around at six oh five. It's handle on the news. 278 00:15:04.679 --> 00:15:07.120 The guy who won a two billion dollar power jackpot 279 00:15:07.399 --> 00:15:12.600 Powerball jackpot lost his home in Pacific Palisades. Let's say 280 00:15:12.600 --> 00:15:18.320 good morning now to Calabasa's resident, Danny Cooper. Good morning, Danny, 281 00:15:18.360 --> 00:15:21.679 Good morning Amy. So, law enforcement officials have been warning 282 00:15:21.759 --> 00:15:24.559 us over the past days that there are bad actors 283 00:15:24.679 --> 00:15:28.600 out there, and you live in a neighborhood where some 284 00:15:28.679 --> 00:15:30.039 bad actors are cropping up. 285 00:15:30.080 --> 00:15:31.120 Tell us what's going on. 286 00:15:32.559 --> 00:15:36.639 Yeah, the other night we were out back and my 287 00:15:36.759 --> 00:15:39.480 dog started barking. She heard some noises out front. 288 00:15:39.519 --> 00:15:42.039 Who went out to the street and we're like four 289 00:15:42.240 --> 00:15:45.879 cars zooming around and we're like trying to figure what's 290 00:15:45.919 --> 00:15:46.120 going on. 291 00:15:46.240 --> 00:15:46.879 So my wife and I. 292 00:15:48.360 --> 00:15:50.200 One of the cars, like what's going on. They say 293 00:15:50.240 --> 00:15:56.480 they got a tweet from their following this a sorry 294 00:15:56.600 --> 00:16:01.679 ay tweet. This guy Los Angeles Scanner has hundreds of 295 00:16:01.720 --> 00:16:06.519 thousands of followers, and they said there was a false report. 296 00:16:06.559 --> 00:16:07.799 They didn't know it was a false report at the 297 00:16:07.840 --> 00:16:10.399 time that there was a fire on our corner and 298 00:16:10.600 --> 00:16:14.440 clearly was none. They had extinguishers with them, and we 299 00:16:14.480 --> 00:16:16.840 were trying to determine what was going on, to determine 300 00:16:16.840 --> 00:16:19.960 if they lived there or not, and turns out they did. 301 00:16:20.559 --> 00:16:24.200 But at the same time, what we didn't realize at 302 00:16:24.240 --> 00:16:26.159 the end of the street, there was two women knocking 303 00:16:26.240 --> 00:16:29.279 on the seven year old woman's door trying to get her. 304 00:16:29.200 --> 00:16:32.240 To come out and evacuate because there was a fire. 305 00:16:32.960 --> 00:16:36.600 So she didn't she was smart enough, and they said 306 00:16:36.639 --> 00:16:38.600 they were residents. So what happened. 307 00:16:39.639 --> 00:16:43.720 What happened was that somebody had called them a false 308 00:16:43.799 --> 00:16:48.960 report and they were trying to get people to leave 309 00:16:49.000 --> 00:16:51.679 their houses so they could go on and rob them. 310 00:16:51.960 --> 00:16:53.000 So it sounds like Danny. 311 00:16:53.080 --> 00:16:56.360 They created the situation by calling in a false report 312 00:16:56.440 --> 00:16:58.600 for a certain area saying, hey, there's a fire here, 313 00:16:59.080 --> 00:17:02.240 and then people started who were not from the area 314 00:17:02.320 --> 00:17:05.400 started going up to people's doors and saying, hey, you guys, 315 00:17:05.599 --> 00:17:06.559 didn't you see the report. 316 00:17:06.640 --> 00:17:08.359 There's a fire in your area. You need to get out. 317 00:17:09.640 --> 00:17:12.039 Yeah, that's that's exactly what happened. And somehow they got 318 00:17:12.079 --> 00:17:14.079 in our gate. We're a gated community, so they. 319 00:17:14.039 --> 00:17:16.720 Got past security somehow because a delivery van was said 320 00:17:16.759 --> 00:17:18.640 to have come in at around nine to fifteen pm. 321 00:17:19.400 --> 00:17:21.440 Not sure why they let them in, but that's been 322 00:17:21.519 --> 00:17:24.680 taken care of since. And they're trying to get everybody out. 323 00:17:24.759 --> 00:17:28.400 And there's a fire gate by our house, by that 324 00:17:28.599 --> 00:17:31.079 corner where the fire was staying, and they're trying to 325 00:17:31.079 --> 00:17:33.160 get them to open it up because only the fire 326 00:17:33.200 --> 00:17:35.680 department can get it open. That's not the way it works. 327 00:17:36.839 --> 00:17:38.799 And is the fire gate behind your homes? 328 00:17:40.119 --> 00:17:40.440 It is? 329 00:17:40.559 --> 00:17:42.680 It's about one hundred yards from our house. Yeah, goes 330 00:17:42.720 --> 00:17:43.880 out onto Moholland Highway. 331 00:17:44.359 --> 00:17:48.039 And the next day there was another report because all 332 00:17:48.079 --> 00:17:50.079 of a sudden, fire engines started coming on the street. 333 00:17:50.400 --> 00:17:54.279 Said somebody from the neighbor's house had called and reported 334 00:17:54.319 --> 00:17:58.480 a fire. So someone keeps reporting fires. Besides taking away 335 00:17:58.480 --> 00:18:02.000 emergency services were fire department needs to be, they're bringing 336 00:18:02.039 --> 00:18:04.200 them to the neighborhood for false supports, trying to get 337 00:18:04.279 --> 00:18:07.079 us leave, but they don't know that we're all in 338 00:18:07.160 --> 00:18:11.359 a group chain and we're all texting each other, monitoring 339 00:18:11.480 --> 00:18:15.799 the fires, monitoring everything. We monitor Citizen Watch Duty LA 340 00:18:15.920 --> 00:18:19.240 fire apps, so we're on top of everything. But they 341 00:18:19.319 --> 00:18:21.599 keep coming in, trying to get the seventy year old 342 00:18:21.640 --> 00:18:22.880 woman to come out of her house so they can 343 00:18:23.000 --> 00:18:23.279 rob her. 344 00:18:23.599 --> 00:18:25.119 Yeah, that fire chain. 345 00:18:25.400 --> 00:18:28.559 It's a beautiful thing about smaller communities where you guys 346 00:18:28.599 --> 00:18:30.960 all are kind of it's your own little neighborhood watch 347 00:18:31.000 --> 00:18:32.279 and you're watching out for each other. 348 00:18:32.400 --> 00:18:34.359 So that's great that you're doing that. Did you guys 349 00:18:34.440 --> 00:18:36.200 call police immediately or what happened? 350 00:18:37.759 --> 00:18:40.559 What happened was, yeah, well we didn't know that was 351 00:18:40.599 --> 00:18:43.000 going on at the end of the street until ten 352 00:18:43.039 --> 00:18:47.960 minutes later when I texted everybody what happened. She said, Oh, 353 00:18:48.079 --> 00:18:50.119 by the way, this just happened, and we saw that 354 00:18:50.400 --> 00:18:53.400 van come by because I think all the activity on 355 00:18:53.480 --> 00:18:54.559 the streets scared them away. 356 00:18:56.720 --> 00:19:00.400 But yeah, and we called the Sheriff's department immediately. Left 357 00:19:00.480 --> 00:19:03.079 by that point, all right, and what. 358 00:19:03.200 --> 00:19:05.559 Do you recommend because if it's happening in your neighborhood 359 00:19:05.640 --> 00:19:08.359 is probably happening in other neighborhoods. What do you recommend, 360 00:19:08.640 --> 00:19:10.559 you know, I mean, it sounds like you guys kind 361 00:19:10.599 --> 00:19:13.640 of have your your your act together. You've got your 362 00:19:13.720 --> 00:19:15.799 little neighborhood watch going and that kind of stuff. But 363 00:19:15.880 --> 00:19:17.079 what do you recommend for other people? 364 00:19:18.400 --> 00:19:21.839 I do recommend that you do if you don't know 365 00:19:21.880 --> 00:19:24.319 your neighbor, which happens in Los Angeles a lot, make 366 00:19:24.400 --> 00:19:24.960 friends with them. 367 00:19:25.240 --> 00:19:27.759 Because this really united our neighborhood a lot. 368 00:19:28.359 --> 00:19:30.799 We had robberies on the street about seven years ago 369 00:19:30.799 --> 00:19:33.240 when we started a small chain just our street, but 370 00:19:33.359 --> 00:19:36.039 this has expanded to the four hundred and twenty families. 371 00:19:36.079 --> 00:19:40.480 So I would say recommend get out, have a like 372 00:19:40.599 --> 00:19:45.160 you said, a community watch on texting and make sure 373 00:19:45.200 --> 00:19:48.319 everybody knows the numbers of fire department. The Sheriff's department 374 00:19:49.000 --> 00:19:51.720 called nine one one, But everybody stays in touch with 375 00:19:51.839 --> 00:19:54.720 each other and it's a good way to get that 376 00:19:54.799 --> 00:19:55.799 neighborhood vibe going. 377 00:19:56.240 --> 00:19:58.599 Yeah, and it's scary too, because, like you said, they 378 00:19:58.680 --> 00:20:01.279 called it and you got a tweet or whatever. There 379 00:20:01.359 --> 00:20:04.000 was a notification that there was actually a fire and 380 00:20:04.119 --> 00:20:07.759 we could say go to watch duty, which has been invaluable, 381 00:20:07.960 --> 00:20:10.359 but that one isn't going to show up right away. 382 00:20:10.440 --> 00:20:12.359 It's going to show the larger fires. I know there 383 00:20:12.400 --> 00:20:13.119 are some other apps. 384 00:20:13.119 --> 00:20:15.200 In fact, I want to ask Richdimiro about that, because 385 00:20:15.240 --> 00:20:17.200 he's got some other fire watch apps that you can 386 00:20:17.319 --> 00:20:21.119 have specifically for your location that will tell you if 387 00:20:21.160 --> 00:20:24.000 there's actually a fire in your location. But it looks 388 00:20:24.160 --> 00:20:26.559 just you know, with all the great things that people 389 00:20:26.599 --> 00:20:31.240 are doing coming together, it's so just infuriating to hear that. 390 00:20:31.480 --> 00:20:33.359 You know, there are bad actors out there, and you 391 00:20:33.400 --> 00:20:35.079 can't let your guard down. You got to be careful 392 00:20:35.079 --> 00:20:37.519 because people will take advantage in times of crisis. 393 00:20:39.039 --> 00:20:40.720 Absolutely, all right, Danny. 394 00:20:40.519 --> 00:20:43.799 Cooper, Calabasis resident, thank you so much for sharing your story. 395 00:20:44.200 --> 00:20:46.359 Just by sharing that story, you're probably going to help 396 00:20:46.440 --> 00:20:48.039 other people and we appreciate that a ton. 397 00:20:49.279 --> 00:20:50.319 I hope, so thank you. Amy. 398 00:20:50.359 --> 00:20:55.000 All right, take care, Danny. Wow, that really makes me mad. 399 00:20:55.559 --> 00:20:58.279 I mean, doesn't that just make your blood boil? I mean, 400 00:20:58.319 --> 00:21:02.200 people have lost their homes, some have lost their lives, 401 00:21:02.519 --> 00:21:06.240