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Speaker 2: wake up call for Monday, January. Good morning, I'm Amy King. Wow.
Speaker 2: It's been a heck of a week, but we're glad
Speaker 2: you're getting this week started with us. It looks like
Speaker 2: we could be in for more. We're going to bring
Speaker 2: you all up to date on what's going on with
Speaker 2: the fires, what's coming up. But I wanted to share
Speaker 2: a couple of positive things because man, this has been
Speaker 2: a rough week. Remember mister Rogers, he also said he
Speaker 2: always said look for the helpers. People have been turning
Speaker 2: out in droves to help. It's been amazing to see
Speaker 2: they We've got the Dream Center that's taking in donations
Speaker 2: and they've just got piles stacked high, like ten feet
Speaker 2: high of donations to people, which is amazing. And they
Speaker 2: have another donation center set up out at Santa Anita,
Speaker 2: and I was watching that over the weekend. Amazing. They said,
Speaker 2: we've got enough. Can you imagine that we've got enough?
Speaker 2: I think as we move through this, they're probably going
Speaker 2: to need more. But right now they do Pasadena Humane
Speaker 2: packed to the rafters with food and donations. They've taken
Speaker 2: in hundreds of animals and people have turned out. They said,
Speaker 2: we don't even need any more volunteers. They've got so
Speaker 2: many people who are coming into help. And then a
Speaker 2: couple of things that I thought were very cool. On
Speaker 2: Saturday night, I turned on the TV. I came in
Speaker 2: and worked on Saturday afternoon with Neil Sevedra, and Saturday
Speaker 2: night I turned on the TV. There was normal programming.
Speaker 2: I was so excited because it's been all fires for
Speaker 2: like the last week, so I went, that's got to
Speaker 2: be a good sign, right. And then also I think
Speaker 2: it was CBS I was watching and they were showing
Speaker 2: the hillside and it was dark, like no glow from
Speaker 2: the fires, which was again another really positive sign. And
Speaker 2: then of course there's that big, beautiful white full moon
Speaker 2: the other day when I was driving in it was
Speaker 2: distinctly yellow because from the smoke, and it's better. Air
Speaker 2: quality is still not great, but there's a big, beautiful
Speaker 2: full moon up in the sky and it is gorgeous.
Speaker 2: Here's what's ahead on wake up call. Another strong Santa
Speaker 2: Ana wind event is expected to blow in later tonight
Speaker 2: and last until Wednesday. GUS could reach its highs eighty
Speaker 2: miles per hour during the peak of the windstorm. Authority
Speaker 2: say anyone living near the fire zones or in the
Speaker 2: mountains and foothills needs to be ready to evacuate at
Speaker 2: a moment's notice. Containment of the Palisades fire has increased
Speaker 2: to thirteen percent. It's burned twenty three thy seven hundred
Speaker 2: thirteen acres. Firefighters have surrounded twenty seven percent of the fire,
Speaker 2: and Alta Dina it's burned just over fourteen thousand acres.
Speaker 2: ABC's Alex Stone has been on the line of the
Speaker 2: fire and we're going to be talking with him in
Speaker 2: just about three minutes, so stick around for that. He's
Speaker 2: going to have some amazing stories for us. Most LAUSD
Speaker 2: schools are going to reopen this morning. Superintendent Alberto Carvalla
Speaker 2: says conditions have improved across the region and the district
Speaker 2: is confident it is safe for students and employees to
Speaker 2: return to campus. Most schools in Santa Monica are also
Speaker 2: reopening today. There are a couple that are still closed,
Speaker 2: but schools Malibu were going to stay closed until at
Speaker 2: least Wednesday. Let's get started with some of the stories
Speaker 2: coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. At
Speaker 2: least twenty four deaths are now blamed on the fires
Speaker 2: in Pacific Palisades in Altadena. LAPD Chief Jim McDonald says
Speaker 2: beliefs have been overwhelmed by the number of people wanting
Speaker 2: to go back into the fire areas, but he says
Speaker 2: the focus is now turning to search and recovery.
Speaker 7: We will have cadaverdog deployment and that will result in
Speaker 7: crime scene preservation efforts and then the recovery of remains,
Speaker 7: working closely with the La County Coroner.
Speaker 2: A nightly curfew from six pm to six am is
Speaker 2: still in effect on the mandatory evacuation areas around Pacific
Speaker 2: Palisades and Altadena. Only firefighters, utility workers, and law enforcement
Speaker 2: are allowed into that area. The La County das set
Speaker 2: to announce charges this afternoon. Against people arrested for looting
Speaker 2: and arson. Nathan Hakman said last week his office would
Speaker 2: be charging people arrested for arson, breaking curfew and looting.
Speaker 8: Looting is a despicable crime.
Speaker 9: For the people who have already been arrested, Please know
Speaker 9: this is not going to end well. You will be
Speaker 9: punished to the full extent of the law.
Speaker 2: The DA's office says the looting charges being announced today
Speaker 2: are against a group of people in Pacific Palisades, and
Speaker 2: the arson charges are against a man in Azusa. The
Speaker 2: man allegedly started a fire at Pioneer Park late Friday
Speaker 2: night and was arrested as he allegedly watched the fire burn.
Speaker 2: Let's say good morning now to ABC's Alex Stone. Alex,
Speaker 2: things are looking better and worse in the wildfires burning
Speaker 2: in southern California. And you've been on the lines. Tell
Speaker 2: us what you've seen.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you know, I mean all day yesterday it looked
Speaker 6: so much better. I've been on the Eton fire now
Speaker 6: since Wednesday morning, and yesterday we saw big change that
Speaker 6: the fire activity, and it was the same on the
Speaker 6: Palisades fire as well. But the fire activity was minimal
Speaker 6: to none really no wind and they were able to
Speaker 6: hit it really hard. But the question is going to
Speaker 6: be this next round coming in, and that's what firefighters
Speaker 6: are getting ready for that. They know that the high
Speaker 6: winds are probably going to be in slightly different areas
Speaker 6: than they were this last go around, But still, does
Speaker 6: it spark up what's already out there, what's already burning?
Speaker 6: Does something new start? The fire Chief La County Anthony Moroni,
Speaker 6: I mean, he admits that they're worried about that, telling us.
Speaker 10: These winds, combined with low relative humidities and low fuel
Speaker 10: moistures will keep the fire threat in Los Angeles County
Speaker 10: very high.
Speaker 6: So, I mean it's really getting through these next two
Speaker 6: or three days that it's going to come down the
Speaker 6: can we push through without a new wildfire roaring up
Speaker 6: or without these kicking back up? But driving through the
Speaker 6: communities of Altadena, I mean, it's just everything is gone.
Speaker 6: There's not a lot left. Home after home, building after building,
Speaker 6: everything is gone.
Speaker 2: Alex tell us, because we've seen a lot of pictures
Speaker 2: and so from your not bird's eide view, but from
Speaker 2: your vantage from street level, is it you say everything?
Speaker 2: Are there a few houses still standing dotted here and there?
Speaker 2: Or is it just complete, complete destruction.
Speaker 6: There are some more on the perimeter of the burn
Speaker 6: area where there will be a lot of homes that
Speaker 6: are burned, and then one that is there and you go, wow,
Speaker 6: how did that one? You know, with the Christmas decoration
Speaker 6: still up and it will look perfect. But in the
Speaker 6: heart of the burning near like fair Oaks and Palm,
Speaker 6: I mean, it's just it. Nothing, nothing made it in
Speaker 6: that area.
Speaker 2: But there's and it's got to be here. And I
Speaker 2: haven't obviously been into this burn area, but there was
Speaker 2: another fire that basically took out the whole the towns
Speaker 2: of Talent and Phoenix in southern Oregon, and it was
Speaker 2: just eerie to drive around because you'd see like a
Speaker 2: chimney standing and the foundation but nothing else, or a
Speaker 2: washing machine here and there, but the rest was just
Speaker 2: reduced to ash.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and that's very much what it's like. And everything
Speaker 6: is a gray color. You know, it's all kind of
Speaker 6: and it's cliche y is the moonscape or the you know,
Speaker 6: the accurate Yeah, but it really is that it is
Speaker 6: this gray ash everywhere. There's still a lot of power
Speaker 6: lines down southern California. Edison was coming in yesterday beginning
Speaker 6: to get up and bring down some of the burned
Speaker 6: out towers, the poles of the power poles, Yeah, get
Speaker 6: those down, get some of the dangling wires down. But yeah,
Speaker 6: the vehicles, many of them melted where parts of them
Speaker 6: melted down the road and then solidified. When you look
Speaker 6: at the homes, it really is only the chimney. Most
Speaker 6: of them are older homes in Altadena, so they've got
Speaker 6: brick chimneys. Those remained. You'll see the outline of what
Speaker 6: was a sink or a washing machine. Yesterday there was
Speaker 6: a we I was walking along and all of a
Speaker 6: sudden there's a whisk from somebody's kitchen sitting there. So
Speaker 6: just random items that are all over the place. Found
Speaker 6: a football yesterday that like a child's football, totally untouched,
Speaker 6: that was just sitting there. And so that there are
Speaker 6: some random things. You go, well, how did that make it?
Speaker 6: But these other things didn't. A lot of melted Christmas decorations.
Speaker 6: But for the homes, they burned quickly and very hot,
Speaker 6: and so there's not a lot left. As the flames
Speaker 6: came through mainly on Wednesday morning in Altadena, and you know,
Speaker 6: still they've got to get in many areas they've only
Speaker 6: done I think twenty some odd percent of the search
Speaker 6: of the buildings. They've got to get cadaver dogs in,
Speaker 6: and the numbers have been going up and they're probably
Speaker 6: going to keep going up, but people who could not
Speaker 6: get out.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's twenty four at this point in both.
Speaker 6: Yeah, the number dead twenty four. I think that they've
Speaker 6: searched like twenty seven percent of the grid something like that.
Speaker 6: Hopefully they are searching in areas where they knew that
Speaker 6: it was likely that that there were people who were killed,
Speaker 6: because otherwise, if they've only searched twenty seven percent and
Speaker 6: we're at twenty four dead on both of the fires,
Speaker 6: then the number is going to keep going out. But
Speaker 6: if they're now and we haven't talked to how they're
Speaker 6: doing the grid search, if they're going out from the
Speaker 6: hardest hit area, well then the numbers should slow down
Speaker 6: as they're going out.
Speaker 2: But that's not clear.
Speaker 6: But we saw the medical examiner driving around yesterday yesterday
Speaker 6: that you know that there's just so much that they've
Speaker 6: got to do, and people badly want to get in,
Speaker 6: and they know that that people want to get back in,
Speaker 6: But there's a lot going on inside right now all.
Speaker 2: Right, ABC's Alex Stone, thank you so much for the information.
Speaker 2: Be safe out there, you got it.
Speaker 6: Thanks Amy.
Speaker 2: All right, Amazingly, there are other things going on in
Speaker 2: the world, so let's continue and check out some of
Speaker 2: the other stories going on that are coming out of
Speaker 2: the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. A six point nine
Speaker 2: magnitude earthquake has hit southwestern Japan. The Japan Meteorological Agency
Speaker 2: says a tsunami warning has been issued. That just hit
Speaker 2: less than a half an hour ago, so we're still
Speaker 2: waiting to get more information about that. Confirmation. Hearings are
Speaker 2: said to get underway on Capitol Hill this week. ABC's
Speaker 2: Mary Alice Parks says more than a dozen of President
Speaker 2: elect Trump's key nominees will be questioned, including Trump's pick
Speaker 2: to lead the Defense Department, Pete Hegseth.
Speaker 3: He's been one of Trump's most controversial nominees, facing accusations
Speaker 3: of sexual and financial misconduct, as well as alcohol abuse.
Speaker 3: He denies those claims and has never been charged.
Speaker 2: Excess hearing is scheduled for tomorrow. Hospitals across the US
Speaker 2: are reporting a wave of respiratory illnesses. The CDC says
Speaker 2: more than half of the country is seeing high levels
Speaker 2: of flu, covid RSV, and even the common cold. I
Speaker 2: can attest to that one. ABC's Morgan Norwood says, so
Speaker 2: far this season, more than sixty three thousand people have
Speaker 2: had to go to the hospital because of the flu.
Speaker 11: Pediatric units especially overwhelmed, with some hospitals hitting ninety five
Speaker 11: percent capacity. Health experts are urging everyone to get their
Speaker 11: annual flu and covid vaccines if they haven't already, and
Speaker 11: to of course stay home if you are sick.
Speaker 2: She says. At least to twenty seven hundred people have
Speaker 2: died from various viruses. The White House says President Biden
Speaker 2: and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu have talked about the ongoing
Speaker 2: negotiations for a ceasefire hostage deal in Gaza. President elect
Speaker 2: Trump's pick for National security advisor, Florida Republican Congressman Mike Walls,
Speaker 2: says negotiations are literally happening as we speak.
Speaker 9: Let's have a ceasefire, Let's allow our hostages to be
Speaker 9: set free. I want to see them walking across the tarmac,
Speaker 9: or at a minimum, some type of agreement.
Speaker 2: During the President's call us official say Biden, stress, the
Speaker 2: immediate need for a cease fire in Gaza and the
Speaker 2: return of the hostages, as well as an increased flow
Speaker 2: in humanitarian aid. A new report says banks around the
Speaker 2: world are getting ready to cut up to two hundred
Speaker 2: thousand jobs in the next three to five years. A
Speaker 2: survey by Bloomberg Intelligence says it's because artificial intelligence is
Speaker 2: being used more and more in the financial industry. The
Speaker 2: report says most of the jobs being cut will be
Speaker 2: in back and middle offices, as well as operations. House
Speaker 2: Republicans from several states, including California, are set to meet
Speaker 2: with President elect Trump to talk about increasing the ten
Speaker 2: thousand dollars cap on state and local tax deductions. Bloomberg
Speaker 2: reports Trump's economic advisors are looking at doubling it to
Speaker 2: twenty thousand dollars. It says if the incoming administration goes
Speaker 2: ahead with the change, it will mean big savings for
Speaker 2: people around the US, and anyone affected by the wildfires
Speaker 2: in southern California has more time to file their taxes.
Speaker 2: Governor Newsom has ordered the tax deadline for fire affected
Speaker 2: residents to be pushed back from April fifteenth to October
Speaker 2: twenty fifth. October fifteenth of this year. So, as you know,
Speaker 2: the Chargers didn't make it. I know producer and while
Speaker 2: she's sitting over there crying still, so we'll be cheering
Speaker 2: on the La Rams tonight in Wildcard playoff action. LA
Speaker 2: is actually in Arizona to take on the Minnesota Vikings.
Speaker 2: The game was supposed to be played at SOFI Stadium,
Speaker 2: but was moved to Glendale because of the wildfires. It
Speaker 2: starts at five o'clock on ABC and ESPN. At least
Speaker 2: thirty five historic locations have been destroyed by the wind
Speaker 2: whipped wildfires in southern California. Confirmed losses include Will Rogers
Speaker 2: Historic Ranch House and other buildings at Will Rogers State
Speaker 2: Historic Park, the Altadina Community Church, the Pasadena Jewish Temple,
Speaker 2: and Saint Mark's Episcopal Church. Red flag parking restrictions are
Speaker 2: in effect in the city of La starting at eight
Speaker 2: am because of another Santa Ana wind event. LA Fire
Speaker 2: says the restrictions will be enforced to make sure firefighters
Speaker 2: can get more quickly to the fires that break out,
Speaker 2: and also to keep the streets clear for anyone who
Speaker 2: may need to get out of the evacuated areas. Air
Speaker 2: quality in southern California continues to be unhealthy. Public health
Speaker 2: officials say people should stay inside as much as possible
Speaker 2: and wear masks outside. At six oh five, it's handle
Speaker 2: on the news. A guy dressed like a firefighter has
Speaker 2: been busted in a burn area in Malibu. Right now,
Speaker 2: let's say good morning to ABC's Karen Travers. Karen, is
Speaker 2: the fires still smolder and even burn in some areas.
Speaker 2: The government's lending a helping hand to people who've lost everything,
Speaker 2: and the danger isn't even over yet.
Speaker 12: Yeah, I mean, we heard from the FEMA administrator, Dan
Speaker 12: chris Well yesterday. She was out doing Sunday political talk
Speaker 12: show interviews, including ABC's This Week, and she said that
Speaker 12: the biggest concern she has right now is that it's
Speaker 12: still such a dangerous situation. She said, the red flag
Speaker 12: warnings have been reissued, the winds are coming back, and
Speaker 12: they want to make sure people are in a safe place.
Speaker 12: But she did say that FEMA has the funds it
Speaker 12: needs right now for this immediate response and to help
Speaker 12: with the ongoing recovery efforts. FEMA, of course, got twenty
Speaker 12: seven billion dollars in that government funding bill at the
Speaker 12: end of last year, so she said, you know, they
Speaker 12: have enough funding at this point, and they're trying to
Speaker 12: make sure it gets to the people that need it,
Speaker 12: so that you know, a couple things like one reimbursing
Speaker 12: state and local officials for the cost of fighting the fires,
Speaker 12: which as you know, is very much a still ongoing
Speaker 12: effort and will be for some time, and also helping
Speaker 12: people who need it right now. The President last week
Speaker 12: issued a major Disaster declaration for California and with that,
Speaker 12: FEMA was able to activate its Critical Needs Assistance program
Speaker 12: and that means that people can apply for that initial
Speaker 12: payment of seven hundred and seventy dollars, and the White
Speaker 12: House says twenty four thousand people have registered for FEMA assistance.
Speaker 12: But they really want people to take advantage of what
Speaker 12: is available to them, you know, don't wait, here's the money.
Speaker 12: We can get this out to you right now, because
Speaker 12: they want to help people with immediate critical needs and
Speaker 12: that's just have lost everything or evacuated.
Speaker 2: And Karen, that's seven hundred seven I need dollars. That's
Speaker 2: just a one time flat kind of tie you over
Speaker 2: until more assistance gets in. That's not that that's not
Speaker 2: all they're going to get.
Speaker 12: That is not all it is. We've talked about this
Speaker 12: a lot back in the fall, a lot of misinformation
Speaker 12: back then about the hurricanes too, and people saying, well,
Speaker 12: that's all they're getting. No, this is just a here
Speaker 12: is this, apply for this. Get it because you need
Speaker 12: some money right now, because you don't have things, either
Speaker 12: because you've evacuated or because you've lost everything. So this
Speaker 12: is available to you. Figure out how to get it,
Speaker 12: then get it quickly, okay.
Speaker 2: And then what are some of the things Karen, that
Speaker 2: FEMA specifically does to help people, you.
Speaker 12: Know, specifically they're trying to work well. First of all,
Speaker 12: you know, the big thing is like reimbursing state and
Speaker 12: local officials for the cost. Like they're getting funding out there,
Speaker 12: so that's kind of like a big picture thing. Second,
Speaker 12: they're setting up things where they can actually get assistance
Speaker 12: to neighborhoods and people that need it too. It's working
Speaker 12: on housing situations. You know, there's a rental assistance and
Speaker 12: reimbursements if you are staying in a hotel or if
Speaker 12: you are staying in some sort of short term rental FAMA.
Speaker 12: The administrator, Dan chris Well, said that there is funding
Speaker 12: available to you to get reimbursed for that. The other
Speaker 12: big thing that they're starting to think about, I mean
Speaker 12: that's starting, but they're working on right now. And this
Speaker 12: is going to be a big problem is like the
Speaker 12: eventual longer term housing crisis. Where do people go? You know,
Speaker 12: if you rebuild in your community, where are you in
Speaker 12: the meantime though? And if your kids are still able
Speaker 12: to go to their school, how do you stay by
Speaker 12: their community? Where is your job? And the White House
Speaker 12: has been very clear like they want to help people
Speaker 12: stay where they have been, but that's going to be challenging.
Speaker 12: They need to get a sense of the available housing inventory,
Speaker 12: figure out what they could do in terms of temporary housing, shelters,
Speaker 12: things like that. And that's the federal government working with
Speaker 12: state and local officials.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I mean with twelve thousand people at least, well there's
Speaker 2: twelve thousand homes and other buildings, but say it's only
Speaker 2: only ten thousand or something like that, that's still ten
Speaker 2: thousand people and there's already a housing shortage. So it's
Speaker 2: going to be really interesting to see where those people
Speaker 2: are going to land in the interim until they can rebuild.
Speaker 12: Yeah. Yeah, and that emphasis them like trying to help
Speaker 12: people stay where they are. If your school is still functioning,
Speaker 12: you want your kids to be able to go to
Speaker 12: their school. This is such a tumultuous time already. You
Speaker 12: don't want to inject any more uncertainty for your family.
Speaker 12: But that's challenging to keep everything as normal as possible.
Speaker 2: Okay. And for people who want to apply, I know
Speaker 2: you've got to run just FEMA dot gov.
Speaker 12: Yeah, there's all sorts of you can go to FEMA
Speaker 12: and it will direct you to everything you need through there.
Speaker 2: Okay. ABC's Karen Travis, thank you so much for the information.
Speaker 2: We'll touch to you soon.
Speaker 12: Got a great day, all right you.
Speaker 2: Two red flag warnings are in effect through Wednesday across
Speaker 2: southern California as more strong Santa Ana winds are expected
Speaker 2: to blow through. LA County Fire Chief Anthony Moroney says
Speaker 2: the fireweather conditions are critical.
Speaker 10: These winds, combined with low relative humidities and low fuelm moistures,
Speaker 10: will keep the fire threat in Los Angeles County very high.
Speaker 2: Maroni says firefighters are prepared to keep dealing with severe
Speaker 2: conditions for as long as they need to. LA City
Speaker 2: Fire Chief Kristin Crowley says her department will have every
Speaker 2: firefighter on hand and available for this wind event. Investigators
Speaker 2: are looking to see if an electrical fire and eaton
Speaker 2: canyon may have started the massive wildfire above Altadena.
Speaker 13: Photos and videos taken by residents last Tuesday night show
Speaker 13: Southern California Edison electrical transmission tower and flames amid damaging
Speaker 13: and erratic winds which were headed down the canyon and
Speaker 13: toward homes.
Speaker 2: Kfi's Daniel Martindale says the California Department of Forestry is
Speaker 2: investigating the tower and the surrounding area. The fires burned
Speaker 2: more than fourteen thousand acres since last week, destroyed about
Speaker 2: seven thousand homes and businesses and other buildings, and killed
Speaker 2: at least sixteen people. The incoming Trump administration has been
Speaker 2: invited to bring it down allegation to La to see
Speaker 2: firsthand the devastation caused by the wildfires. LA County Supervisor
Speaker 2: Catherine Barger says she has personally invited President Electroump to
Speaker 2: make the trip.
Speaker 4: To meet with our impacted residents and hear their stories,
Speaker 4: to thank our first responders, and most importantly, to see
Speaker 4: how the federal government can help our communities heal and rebuild.
Speaker 2: She says the federal government is an essential partner when
Speaker 2: it comes to responding to an emergency and to helping
Speaker 2: communities recover. Metro is going to continue to offer free
Speaker 2: rides on its trains and buses as the fires continue.
Speaker 2: The one thirty four and the six oh two lines
Speaker 2: which run along PCH are canceled until further notice. In Altadena,
Speaker 2: the six sixty and six sixty two routes are being detoured,
Speaker 2: along with the Metro micro which serves Pasadena, Altadena, and
Speaker 2: Sierra Mount a Madre. The Southern California rescue group Pause
Speaker 2: for Life Canine Rescue, and the Internet Sational pet Air
Speaker 2: Transport operation Wings of Rescue has flown about one hundred
Speaker 2: dogs and cats to Seattle from Southern California. The shelter
Speaker 2: animals were flown from Hollywood Burbank Airport to Seattle yesterday.
Speaker 2: Sending those animals north freeze up space in the shelters
Speaker 2: here for animals coming in because of the fires, either
Speaker 2: by being dropped off by their owners or those being
Speaker 2: found wandering in the burn areas. And evacuation order has
Speaker 2: been downgraded to a warning for an area of the
Speaker 2: Eton fire South of New York Drive and east of
Speaker 2: North Hill Avenue to Altadena Drive. In Altadena, the Ela
Speaker 2: County Sheriff's Departments's residents with homes in that area will
Speaker 2: now be permitted to return to the area. Some residents
Speaker 2: in the Palas Sades fire burn area will also be
Speaker 2: allowed to return to their homes. The orders have been
Speaker 2: downgraded to warnings. The La County Sheriff's Departments is The
Speaker 2: affected areas include north of West Sunset Boulevard up to
Speaker 2: and including Mount Saint Mary's University, North Bundy Drive to
Speaker 2: the four h five and from the northern boundary of
Speaker 2: the Encina Reservoir van Alden Avenue east to Strawberry Field Park.
Speaker 2: Good news. Two people have been arrested for flying drones
Speaker 2: around Altadena, where they eaton fires, burn more than fourteen
Speaker 2: thousand acres and destroyed or damaged seven thousand homes, businesses,
Speaker 2: and other buildings. At six oh five, it's handled on
Speaker 2: the news. Governor Newsom says, damn the environment. We got
Speaker 2: to rebuild. Good thing. Let's say good morning now to
Speaker 2: Jean Gable, who is a SPOKESPURN spokesperson with Wings of Rescue.
Speaker 2: Earlier in the show, I said, look for the helpers. Well,
Speaker 2: here are some of the helpers. Good morning, Jean.
Speaker 5: How are you doing. Amy, good to talk to you today.
Speaker 2: Doing great. So we know that a lot of pets
Speaker 2: have been dropped off at shelters or they were found
Speaker 2: wandering like if people couldn't get back to their houses
Speaker 2: to rescue their pets, and so those pets are going
Speaker 2: into shelters in La which is stressing an all rad
Speaker 2: overcrowded shelter system. So that's where Wings of Rescue comes in.
Speaker 5: Absolutely, we've actually been flying out of Los Angeles for
Speaker 5: quite some time because the conditions in the La Metro
Speaker 5: area are very bad right now. Our shelters are pull
Speaker 5: up and a lot of places that in the past
Speaker 5: have been able to considerably diminish euthanasias are back up
Speaker 5: to having to put down lots of animals. So we
Speaker 5: were already trying to do our best to take pets
Speaker 5: out of shelters that were already available for adoption and
Speaker 5: move them to shelters around the country where there's an
Speaker 5: open kennel space. Well, now that the fires happened, that
Speaker 5: just puts an incredible amount of extra pressure on not
Speaker 5: only space at shelters, but on the rescue workers that
Speaker 5: are at those shelters who have to take care of
Speaker 5: these pets and try to find the owners, and grimly
Speaker 5: I've been hearing about a lot of the shelters are
Speaker 5: actually picking up remains so that owners will have closure
Speaker 5: when they're able to take stock of all of this.
Speaker 5: So it's a very hard job for them. And by
Speaker 5: taking out pets that are already in those shelters and
Speaker 5: available for adoption, we can free up a lot of
Speaker 5: space and resources for them. So we did two flights
Speaker 5: this past weekend, one on Saturday and one on Sunday,
Speaker 5: both from the Hollywood burd Bank and Sole planeloads of
Speaker 5: the pets we took I think about sixty pets on
Speaker 5: Saturday and almost ninety pets on Sunday.
Speaker 2: Okay, So Gene, tell us what these flights are like.
Speaker 2: Are these are the animals they're loaded into the cargo
Speaker 2: area or are they're in the main cabin? How are
Speaker 2: they being transported?
Speaker 5: We use pressurized fully We only fly fully pressurized in
Speaker 5: temperature controlled planes. Pets always ride in the main cabin
Speaker 5: along with the pilots and crew. In this case, we
Speaker 5: are using turboprop planes, which typically would have carried thirty
Speaker 5: or forty passengers, so they're fairly large planes. We can
Speaker 5: take oftentimes one hundred hundred and fifty pets depending on
Speaker 5: the size. All crates, all dogs and cats have to
Speaker 5: be in crates securely fastening crates. All of them carry
Speaker 5: medical certificates from a veterinarian with them to wherever they're going,
Speaker 5: and they have water and other things that they may
Speaker 5: need on the flight, depending on the leaf of the flight.
Speaker 5: So it's a pretty pretty big operation. We depend we
Speaker 5: provide the flight part of the component. We depend on
Speaker 5: a shelter at the ascending end and at the receiving
Speaker 5: end to actually gather the pets and then take the
Speaker 5: pets and make sure that they get put up for
Speaker 5: adoption and get good homes.
Speaker 2: Okay, Gene, So for the how do you find those shelters?
Speaker 2: Do you guys just start calling shelters around the US
Speaker 2: and just say, hey, if we're overcrowded, we need to
Speaker 2: relieve some of the pressure on the system. Can you
Speaker 2: take some in.
Speaker 5: Yes, we do a lot of that. Sometimes the shelters
Speaker 5: we work with have allies around the country that they
Speaker 5: work with but one way or the other, somebody has
Speaker 5: to agree to take these pets before obviously we'll take off,
Speaker 5: and with a planeload of pets, we never go anywhere
Speaker 5: until all the pets are spoken for. We run a
Speaker 5: fairly complicated system where the receiving shelters often there are
Speaker 5: multiple shelters. When we land, they get a choice of
Speaker 5: pets that they want, because we don't want pets going
Speaker 5: anywhere where they're either not going to be able to
Speaker 5: find a good home or they're going to displace pets
Speaker 5: that are already at those shelters. So there's a lot
Speaker 5: of flexibility on the part of the receiving shelters. They're
Speaker 5: the ones who have to determine whether or not bringing
Speaker 5: these pets in is going to be a burden to
Speaker 5: their local community. We don't want to create that situation
Speaker 5: at all.
Speaker 2: Of course, of course, and we want to stress too
Speaker 2: that the animals that you are flying out, like you
Speaker 2: said that a group just went to Seattle yesterday, they
Speaker 2: are not rescued pets from the fires. These were dogs
Speaker 2: and cats that were already in the shelter waiting to
Speaker 2: be adopted.
Speaker 5: Absolutely, I think that's a common question. We get this.
Speaker 5: We'll see what happens if somebody comes and tries to
Speaker 5: claim their pet and it's all a tennesse seattle. That
Speaker 5: never happens. We only will transport pets, and this is
Speaker 5: not just in disaster situations, but in general. We will
Speaker 5: only transport pets that have been in a shelter for
Speaker 5: at least thirty days and are considered free and clear
Speaker 5: and ready for adoption at those shelters, well, we'll take
Speaker 5: them to another shelter.
Speaker 2: Okay, do you have more flights planned for the wildfire
Speaker 2: response or is this just part of your ongoing operation.
Speaker 5: We do actually have two flights on next Saturday that
Speaker 5: we're doing from Los Angeles to Fort Worth, Texas, and
Speaker 5: we'll probably carry a couple hundred pets there, and then
Speaker 5: we just have ongoing flights. We do weekly flights from
Speaker 5: central California because there's a lot of issues there, and
Speaker 5: we've been doing more and more flights from Vanuy's and
Speaker 5: the south of Los Angeles, in Indio and places like that.
Speaker 5: There's a lot of overpopulation, so we go wherever we can. Unfortunately,
Speaker 5: right now, the shelters around the United States are very
Speaker 5: full up and it's a tight situation, but we make
Speaker 5: sure we flying home for him. And what it means
Speaker 5: now is during the pandemic, we could fly and drop
Speaker 5: off one hundred dogs at one shelter and that wouldn't
Speaker 5: be a problem. Now we often have to find several
Speaker 5: shelters on the receiving end, or we might even have
Speaker 5: to make several stops with our plane before we can
Speaker 5: find homes for everybody on flight.
Speaker 2: Well, the important part is you're giving dogs and cats
Speaker 2: a second chance, and that is wonderful. How can people help?
Speaker 5: We are at wingso Rescue dot org and as they
Speaker 5: go there, there's plenty of opportunities to donate. We unfortunately,
Speaker 5: because we work all over the country, we don't really
Speaker 5: have much of a volunteer network ourselves, but we can
Speaker 5: encourage people to volunteer at their local shelters, which is
Speaker 5: really where the action is. They're on the ground doing
Speaker 5: the hard work.
Speaker 2: All right, Gene Gable with Wings of Rescue, continued safe
Speaker 2: flights and thank you for giving those pups a second chance.
Speaker 2: They need it and we appreciate it.
Speaker 5: Thank you, Amy. We know you're on the level and
Speaker 5: we're very happy to be on the show this morning.
Speaker 5: Thank you.
Speaker 2: Thanks again, Gene, and if you want to donate, it's
Speaker 2: a nonprofit Wings of Rescue dot org. They're going to
Speaker 2: be making another trip from La to Texas to take
Speaker 2: some adoptable dogs and cats to an area that's not
Speaker 2: quite so crowded because, as we know, a lot of
Speaker 2: animals have come in. We talked to Kevin McManus at
Speaker 2: Pasadena Humane last week and they had already taken in
Speaker 2: and this was like as last Wednesday or Thursday, they
Speaker 2: had already taken in three hundred and fifty animals, both
Speaker 2: from people who had dropped them off at the shelter
Speaker 2: to temporarily take care of them while they were in
Speaker 2: evacuation zones and animals that were found wandering in neighborhoods.
Speaker 2: Let's get back to some of the stories coming out
Speaker 2: of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
Speaker 4: I'm happy to be alive, and any step, said I
Speaker 4: can take towards bettering myself.
Speaker 2: At this point, I will. This woman in Altadina says
Speaker 2: she never imagined the fire in her neighborhood would explode
Speaker 2: like it did.
Speaker 4: I said, oh my god, but maybe it's not that
Speaker 4: bad because we've had fires behind Angela's National Force.
Speaker 3: Before this time, I.
Speaker 6: Said, it'll be okay, it'll be fully curtained.
Speaker 4: I said, but I'm coming back.
Speaker 5: It's going to be contained.
Speaker 12: I'm coming back.
Speaker 2: And of course, people who have lost their homes are
Speaker 2: still not being allowed back into mandatory evacuation zones to
Speaker 2: see if their homes are still there or what's left
Speaker 2: of them until at least Thursday. Because of more strong
Speaker 2: winds in the forecast. Law enforcement officials say it's just
Speaker 2: not safe to allow people back in yet. About seven
Speaker 2: thousand homes and other buildings have been damaged or destroyed
Speaker 2: in the fire in the Altadena area. The fire that
Speaker 2: started in Pacific Palisades has burned nearly twenty four thousand
Speaker 2: acres and is thirteen percent surrounded. That's up from yesterday.
Speaker 2: Operations Section Chief Christianltz says more than five thousand firefighters
Speaker 2: have been working from the air and on the ground
Speaker 2: to stop the fire and that the right half of
Speaker 2: the fire from Tapanga is looking good.
Speaker 8: We still have resources going all along the fire's edge,
Speaker 8: securing that edge, using mop up techniques to get deeper
Speaker 8: and deeper in to secure that at to limit any
Speaker 8: probability of any kind of escape that we have all
Speaker 8: around the perimeter on the top half of the fire.
Speaker 2: He says, crews have been looking for heat sources and
Speaker 2: putting those out. Structure protection groups are also being placed
Speaker 2: along the top side of the fire because of the
Speaker 2: winds expected this week. Those crews will also be used
Speaker 2: for initial attack on any potential new fires. The fire
Speaker 2: that burned more than a thousand acres in West Hills
Speaker 2: and into Ventura County has been surrounded. CalFire says crews
Speaker 2: spent the day yesterday putting out remaining hotspots and improving
Speaker 2: containment lines to prevent flare ups before strong winds return
Speaker 2: this week. The fire started Thursday afternoon in an area
Speaker 2: north of the one to one Freeway near Valley Circle Boulevard.
Speaker 2: Evacuations were ordered, but no homes were damaged or destroyed.
Speaker 2: LA won't just have to rebuild homes and businesses after
Speaker 2: the fires, It'll also have to replant and tree advocates
Speaker 2: have vowed to make the city beautiful again.
Speaker 14: Advocates aim to replace non native species like palms with
Speaker 14: fire resilient trees such as coast live oaks, which provide
Speaker 14: shade without adding wildfire risk. These native trees are adapted
Speaker 14: to the region's climate and even rely on fire to reproduce.
Speaker 14: Aaron Thomas, director of Urban Forestry at Northeast Trees, saw
Speaker 14: this resilience firsthand when five coasts Live oaks in his
Speaker 14: family's backyard survived the Eaton fire. Despite challenges, groups like
Speaker 14: Tree People remain dedicated to rebuilding urban forests to better
Speaker 14: withstand climate extremes. Bragita de Gastino k if I News.
Speaker 2: A lot of us feel a little bit stemied, stifled,
Speaker 2: like you don't know what you can do. You're like,
Speaker 2: how do I help? How do I help? And it's
Speaker 2: I can't even imagine what the people who are out
Speaker 2: of their homes and can't get back into their homes
Speaker 2: are feeling, and the ones who know their homes are gone,
Speaker 2: how they're feeling. We're going to tell you how you
Speaker 2: can help in just a second. Here's a few things
Speaker 2: we're following from the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. The
Speaker 2: number of people killed in the wildfires in southern California
Speaker 2: is up to twenty four. Eight are in the Palisades
Speaker 2: burn area, sixteen in the Eton fire. Officials say they
Speaker 2: expect that number to increase as they search through the
Speaker 2: ash and rubble of the fires and Pacific Palisades and Alta,
Speaker 2: Dina and Pasadena. We were talking to ABC's Alex Stone.
Speaker 2: He said that they'd only covered about twenty seven per
Speaker 2: of the ground and they've got the cadaver dogs and
Speaker 2: the medical examiner out there, so they're going to keep
Speaker 2: on searching. We'll hope that the number doesn't go up much.
Speaker 2: Investigators are looking into whether an electrical transmission tower may
Speaker 2: have sparked the fire in Altadena that's burned more than
Speaker 2: fourteen thousand acre. Photos and videos taken by residents last
Speaker 2: Tuesday night show a SoCal Edison tower in flames as
Speaker 2: high winds whipped through the area. The California Department of
Speaker 2: Forestry and Fire Protections investigating the tower and the surrounding area.
Speaker 2: Residents who live in the wildfire burn areas can now
Speaker 2: see the damage from the fire that has taken out
Speaker 2: more than twelve thousand homes and other buildings. LA County
Speaker 2: officials say preliminary maps and damage assessments can be seen
Speaker 2: at Recovery dot La County dot gov, slash Eaten dash
Speaker 2: Fire and then the site affected for those affected by
Speaker 2: the Palisades fire is similar Recovery dot La County dot
Speaker 2: gov and then slash Palisades dash Fire. The sites will
Speaker 2: be updated daily, so even if you can't get into
Speaker 2: those areas, you can go and look, we're just minutes
Speaker 2: away from handle. On the news this morning, LA County's
Speaker 2: new da is going to be throwing the book at
Speaker 2: an alleged arsonist and also some looters. Okay, I mentioned
Speaker 2: how can you help? What can you do? And it
Speaker 2: was pretty heartwarming to be watching over the weekend as
Speaker 2: you saw video at the Dreams Center with iHeartMedia has
Speaker 2: teamed up with the Dream Center Los Angeles to take
Speaker 2: donations for wildfire victims, and stuff is stacked so high
Speaker 2: at the donation center. And then also there was another
Speaker 2: one that popped up out in Santa Anita and it
Speaker 2: was at the Santa Nita Racetrack, huge amounts of people
Speaker 2: just milling around dropping off donations, and then at the
Speaker 2: Dream Center yesterday people are starting to pick them up.
Speaker 2: So amazing how Angelino's are turning out to help people
Speaker 2: who are so affected, who've lost literally everything. I don't
Speaker 2: know if you've seen the interviews, but I watched an
Speaker 2: interview with one woman who was wearing sweats and she said,
Speaker 2: this is all I got. That's it. We got out
Speaker 2: and it's just hard to imagine, hard to fathom. But
Speaker 2: here's the things that we're looking for at the Dreams Center.
Speaker 2: A non perishable food, canned food, snacks, ready to eat meals,
Speaker 2: bottled water, and sports drinks. Bottled water, especially because in
Speaker 2: the Pasadena area they're not supposed to drink the water
Speaker 2: because the water is been damaged by the fires, so
Speaker 2: bottled water and sports drinks always a good idea. Hygiene products,
Speaker 2: things like toothpaste and soap and shampoo, and feminine products,
Speaker 2: clothing and blankets, of course, baby supplies. I saw a
Speaker 2: lot of diapers on TV, but diapers, formula, baby wipes,
Speaker 2: baby food, air purifier, and masks. Health officials are saying
Speaker 2: that air quality is really bad, especially around where the
Speaker 2: fires are. It's getting better in some areas as the
Speaker 2: winds blow it out, blow the pollution out, but there's
Speaker 2: still some pretty bad areas, and officials are saying you
Speaker 2: really should be wearing an N ninety five mask if
Speaker 2: you need to be outside. So they're taking air pure
Speaker 2: fires and masks, flashlights, batteries, portable phone chargers. Didn't even
Speaker 2: think about that, like, what if your phone dies and
Speaker 2: then how do you charge it? You need a charger, first,
Speaker 2: aid kits, medical supplies, and then of course pet food
Speaker 2: and supplies for anyone who has animals, and then cleaning supplies, mops, buckets, disinfectant, gloves, gloves,
Speaker 2: anything to assist with the recovery. All the items that
Speaker 2: are collected at the Dreams Center are then being distributed
Speaker 2: to people who need it. Here's where you can donate.
Speaker 2: You can drop off items at the Dream Center. It's
Speaker 2: at twenty three oh one Bellvue Avenue in La nine
Speaker 2: zero zero two six twenty three oh one Bellevue Avenue.
Speaker 2: That's where you can donate. And if you don't have
Speaker 2: a donation of things, you can always donate money Dreamscenter
Speaker 2: dot org slash donate. Can also find information on where
Speaker 2: to donate on our website. KFI AM six forty and
Speaker 2: we thank you for any donation that you can make.
Speaker 2: Let's get back to some of the stories coming out
Speaker 2: of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Most schools in
Speaker 2: the LA School District are set to reopen following fire
Speaker 2: related closures. Masks will be provided to students and workers.
Speaker 2: No outdoor or athletic activities will be held. Schools in
Speaker 2: the most severely impacted fire areas are going to stay closed.
Speaker 2: Most Santa Monica schools are also reopening today. Schools in
Speaker 2: Malibu will remain closed until at least Wednesday because of
Speaker 2: another round of red flag warnings, which forecasters say could
Speaker 2: create particularly dangerous fire conditions. The death toll from the
Speaker 2: fires in Pacific Palisades and altadenas gone up to twenty four,
Speaker 2: most of them are in the Eton fire area sixteen people.
Speaker 2: Officials say they are in a search and recovery mode
Speaker 2: and are limiting access to burned out areas. The electrical
Speaker 2: fire in Eaton care Onion is being looked at as
Speaker 2: the possible cause of the fire above Altadena. Kfis Daniel
Speaker 2: Martindale's photos and videos taken by people in the area
Speaker 2: last week show a transmission tower on fire during strong winds.
Speaker 13: The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection is now
Speaker 13: investigating the tower and the surrounding area. Officials are keeping
Speaker 13: the area off limits to everyone but investigators.
Speaker 2: The Eton fires burned more than fourteen thousand acres since
Speaker 2: last week, it's destroyed thousands of homes and killed at
Speaker 2: least sixteen people. Containment of that fires up to twenty
Speaker 2: seven percent. A man dressed as a firefighter has been
Speaker 2: arrested for allegedly breaking to a home in Malibu.
Speaker 15: The man was arrested on suspicion of impersonating a firefighter.
Speaker 15: LA County Sheriff Robert Lunas says more than thirty people
Speaker 15: have been arrested in and near wildfire evacuation zones. Twenty
Speaker 15: five of them were arrested in the vicinity of the
Speaker 15: Eton fire in Altadena and Pasadena.
Speaker 2: Some were arrested for curfew violations. Again, curfews in the
Speaker 2: mandatory evacuation zones are still in effect from six pm
Speaker 2: until six a eight. Governor Newsom says he wants too
Speaker 2: fast track efforts to rebuild after the deadly wildfires. He
Speaker 2: told NBC's Meet the Press he has issued an executive
Speaker 2: order to remove some of the obstacles faced by residents
Speaker 2: hoping to quickly rebuild.
Speaker 11: We're already organizing Marshall Plan.
Speaker 8: We already have a team and looking and reimagining LA
Speaker 8: two point zero, and we.
Speaker 15: Are making sure everyone's included, not just the folks on
Speaker 15: the coast.
Speaker 2: His executive order is expected to suspend some laws aimed
Speaker 2: at protecting the environment. Newsom is also called for investigations
Speaker 2: into the wildfire response, specifically into why Cruise ran out
Speaker 2: of water. FEMA is setting up at eight libraries in
Speaker 2: La County to help people with submitting applications for disaster relief.
Speaker 2: They'll be available from nine am to five pm today
Speaker 2: in Alhambra, La Kenyata, Flintridge, La Crescenta at the Live
Speaker 2: Oak Library, and in San Fernando, San Gabriel, Temple City,
Speaker 2: and West Hollywood. The Chinese owners of TikTok, having said
Speaker 2: if they're going to sell the app to an American company,
Speaker 2: as is required by a law signed by President Biden, ByteDance,
Speaker 2: has until January nineteenth to sell or be banned in
Speaker 2: the US for alleged national security concerns. ABC's Alexis Christopher
Speaker 2: says that's a day before the inauguration of President elect Trump,
Speaker 2: who has asked the courts to delay any decision on
Speaker 2: the app.
Speaker 16: The Apple and Google Play stores will not be able
Speaker 16: to host the app any longer, so if you never
Speaker 16: downloaded it, you won't be able to If you're one
Speaker 16: of the one hundred and seventy million people in this
Speaker 16: country who have the app half the country, you're no
Speaker 16: longer going to get software updates.
Speaker 2: She says. Internet hosting companies and data storage providers that
Speaker 2: support the app will not be able to do so anymore,
Speaker 2: and if they do, they'll get fined. Leslie Charleson, who
Speaker 2: played Monica Quartermain on General Hospital for over forty five years,
Speaker 2: has died. The show's executive producer says she died yesterday.
Speaker 2: Charleston played Monica since nineteen seventy seven. That makes her
Speaker 2: the show's longest serving cast member. Leslie Charleson was seventy nine.
Speaker 2: This is KFI and kost HD two Los Angeles, Orange
Speaker 2: County Southland weather from KFI another Santa Ana wind events
Speaker 2: expected to blow through later today through Wednesday, with red
Speaker 2: flag warnings in effect again. Sunny, smokey, windy high's in
Speaker 2: the middupper sixties at the beaches Metrola and Inland Orange County,
Speaker 2: load to upper sixties in the valleys and Inland Empire
Speaker 2: fifties for the Anelote Valley. Clear skies tonight, with lows
Speaker 2: in the thirties and forties, sunny tomorrow with highs in
Speaker 2: the middubber sixties, couple degrees warmer for Wednesday, and then
Speaker 2: cooling back down a couple degrees with highs in the
Speaker 2: sixties Thursday and Friday. It's fifty five in Los Alamitos,
Speaker 2: fifty in Santa Clarita, fifty four in Seal Beach, and
Speaker 2: fifty two in Whittier. We lead local live from the
Speaker 2: KFI twenty four hour newsroom. I'm Amy King. This has
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