Speaker 1: This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI
Speaker 1: AM six forty the Gary and Shannon Show on demand
Speaker 1: on the iHeartRadio app. We talked about how the King's
Speaker 1: game was postponed last night. Now the Lakers game today
Speaker 1: against the Hornets will be postponed as well. So that
Speaker 1: is the latest there and the call from Jean Smart.
Speaker 1: You mentioned to postpone or delay or cancel the awards show.
Speaker 1: That's getting a lot of traction as well. You just
Speaker 1: I don't know how you can do it. You know,
Speaker 1: mentioned the Olympics coming and a handful of years how
Speaker 1: you can get ready for that while people are out
Speaker 1: of their homes or tempting to get building permits and
Speaker 1: things like that. That's also a bad look as well.
Speaker 1: They do say. Now good news in Hollywood where the
Speaker 1: city officials say that that fire department has fully contained
Speaker 1: the sunset fire burning in the Hollywood Hills area. This
Speaker 1: is the one that erupted last night just before six pm.
Speaker 2: The news conference from this morning was.
Speaker 3: Frustrating.
Speaker 2: I was going to say it was good, but it
Speaker 2: needs to be better.
Speaker 4: I mean, we talked about the poetry that people wanted
Speaker 4: to get into and the book.
Speaker 2: That is the way we speak the boy.
Speaker 5: That is the way we stand here united Los Angeles
Speaker 5: will stand united and stand strong.
Speaker 6: Okay.
Speaker 4: And that doesn't really do much of anything for anybody.
Speaker 4: And I asked, and if this, if you are the
Speaker 4: person that hears that and thinks to yourself, I feel
Speaker 4: better now.
Speaker 2: I know my home is gone.
Speaker 1: Not one person, maybe her staff or maybe the person
Speaker 1: who wrote that. That Beloney c plus writing assignment. That
Speaker 1: was awful for California public schools. That was awful. And
Speaker 1: if you want to sound like you care, don't do that.
Speaker 1: Do the antithesis of that well, and I will don't
Speaker 1: be polished, be raw, be real, Have talked to people,
Speaker 1: have gone through the neighborhoods, not just sat in the
Speaker 1: helicopter and looked overhead. Don't say you've been to the
Speaker 1: fire lines and the palisades when you have not been
Speaker 1: to the front lines and the palisades. You've may have
Speaker 1: seen them, you may have flown over them, you have
Speaker 1: not been on the front lines in the palisades.
Speaker 4: I guarantee it well, and I want someone who is listen.
Speaker 4: I'll point out Catherine Barger simply because she was the
Speaker 4: one sort of in the control of this.
Speaker 3: It's more no nonsense.
Speaker 4: She's more no nonsense. But I want her to be
Speaker 4: the most no nonsense. I want her to say, I'm
Speaker 4: we're going to do this. We're going to do this
Speaker 4: important news conference. And I just want to point out
Speaker 4: some people. Mayor's here, that guy's here, Assembly members here,
Speaker 4: governors here, so and so.
Speaker 2: Now the people who matter. Let's talk with the fire chief, right,
Speaker 2: Let's talk with the sheriff.
Speaker 1: And save the crocodile tears, you know, save the Oh
Speaker 1: this has just been so horrible, and we are stronger and.
Speaker 3: Save all of that.
Speaker 1: Tell us where people can get resources, where they can
Speaker 1: go for shelter, where they can get food, where they
Speaker 1: can get water, What we're going to do about the water,
Speaker 1: How we're going to bolstero bolster the fire hydrant system,
Speaker 1: How we're going to figure out how to get water
Speaker 1: from northern California to southern California.
Speaker 2: Smelt be damned, smelt be damned.
Speaker 3: I think those are.
Speaker 1: The only times those words have ever been put together.
Speaker 1: Helt be damned. Okay, I'm a fish person. I love fish,
Speaker 1: I love the environment, I love animals. You ever had
Speaker 1: a smelt I've never had a smelt. I don't want
Speaker 1: to smelt, but I understand the smelt live in other
Speaker 1: areas too. It's not like we're saving the endangered smelt,
Speaker 1: are we? I don't think so.
Speaker 4: There are a couple of things to recall about what
Speaker 4: is actually going on right now. The Palisades fire is
Speaker 4: still expanding. It is going the other direction. It basically
Speaker 4: burned to the water, so it can't go any further there.
Speaker 4: But there are areas sort of east towards the four
Speaker 4: or five and north towards Encino and sort of over
Speaker 4: the hill into the valley. That's where it's expanding today, slower, thankfully,
Speaker 4: in the Eton fire up an Altadena. That fire has
Speaker 4: now crept all the way up to Mount Wilson. And
Speaker 4: it's important because there's some pretty important infrastructure up at
Speaker 4: Mount Wilson. And I don't just say that because of
Speaker 4: our radio stations and the antennas that we have up there.
Speaker 4: TV stations across LA have infrastructure up there, including their
Speaker 4: broadcast towers and things like that. The government has stuff
Speaker 4: up there at the Mount Wilson Observatory is up there.
Speaker 4: Some of the camera shots right now show flames at
Speaker 4: the facilities.
Speaker 2: And we've done this before.
Speaker 4: We've talked about stories in that fires in that area before,
Speaker 4: and they've been able to preposition some fire crews up
Speaker 4: there to prevent that from getting out of hand.
Speaker 2: We do not know where they are, I mean I
Speaker 2: know where they are.
Speaker 4: They're obviously busy doing other things, but this could be
Speaker 4: a significant issue that will keep our eyes on when
Speaker 4: we come back. We'll go through a handful some of
Speaker 4: the talkback messages that we've received. You can always leave
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Speaker 3: Right now.
Speaker 1: The fire it alted that began an Alta Dina making
Speaker 1: its way up Eating Canyon. It has gotten pretty damn
Speaker 1: close to Mount Wilson.
Speaker 6: Now.
Speaker 1: There is a line of retardant that has been laid
Speaker 1: down in between the flames approaching the towers and those towers,
Speaker 1: those ever important communication towers there at the top of
Speaker 1: Mount Wilson. But those flames are fast approaching. They were
Speaker 1: able to get that retardant down there before the flames
Speaker 1: reached it, so We'll hope that that holds up, because
Speaker 1: here's the other piece of bad news. One minute ago,
Speaker 1: it came across that fixed wing air tankers are returning
Speaker 1: to bases. They are unable to further drop retardant in
Speaker 1: that fire area due to turbulence. Remember, these wildfires create
Speaker 1: weather systems of their own, They create their own turbulence,
Speaker 1: their own pressure systems, rising cross patterns, all of it.
Speaker 1: So those fixed wing air tankers are unable to fly
Speaker 1: in that fire area right now due to the turbulence,
Speaker 1: which means they are unable to drop retardant to secure
Speaker 1: those towers from the sky. One more piece of bad news.
Speaker 1: Unfortunately La County Fire departments as four firefighters have been
Speaker 1: injured battling that fire. There, the Eaten Fire Alzadena area
Speaker 1: has now destroyed nearly one thousand structures, nine hundred and
Speaker 1: seventy two another eighty four are damaged. It still threatens
Speaker 1: nearly forty thousand homes.
Speaker 7: Wow.
Speaker 4: Wow, you mentioned the evacuation warnings and orders throughout LA County.
Speaker 4: Close to four hundred thousand people. I think it's one
Speaker 4: hundred and eighty thousand under evacuated orders that have had
Speaker 4: to find other places to go, and two hundred thousand
Speaker 4: in the evacuation warning areas which they had suggested. Hey,
Speaker 4: let's not wait, especially a couple of days ago. Don't
Speaker 4: wait for that to turn into an order. You should
Speaker 4: be prepared to get out. You mentioned the fires, the
Speaker 4: eating fire now approaching Mount Wilson. It's not just a couple.
Speaker 4: There's over two dozen TV stations that broadcasts have their
Speaker 4: transmission towers up there on top of Mount Wilson, and
Speaker 4: another couple dozen radio stations that have theirs up there
Speaker 4: as well.
Speaker 1: Just in the past few minutes before I went to
Speaker 1: the commercial and now those flames look to be about
Speaker 1: a quarter mile away from that tower. Now they're licking
Speaker 1: the base, and that tower has overcome with.
Speaker 3: Asy smoke.
Speaker 4: Listen there could the smoke is not a problem if
Speaker 4: the fire starts getting into the wiring, and the smoke
Speaker 4: is not a.
Speaker 3: Problem, But the smoke indicates the fire is.
Speaker 7: On to it.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: And then there are two sections there on the top
Speaker 4: of Mount Wilson. You've got the observatory sort of one section,
Speaker 4: and then most of the transmission portions on the other
Speaker 4: section there. I mean, just all kinds of and it's
Speaker 4: not just TV and radio. You got microwave relay facilities.
Speaker 4: The big huge one up there is I believe it's
Speaker 4: Channel two. That's the tallest of all the towers up
Speaker 4: there cacbs.
Speaker 2: So I don't know what to now.
Speaker 1: Through four pm, wins are slowly going to increase again.
Speaker 1: It looks like the strongest wins this evening Inland Empire,
Speaker 1: Orange County as well. The fire danger stays high until
Speaker 1: we get some rain. Folks, it's been eight months since
Speaker 1: we've had rain. Let me look at the forecast. Nope,
Speaker 1: no rain.
Speaker 2: I got have told you that.
Speaker 3: I wasn't really looking at the forecast.
Speaker 1: Student that was just my own forecast in my head,
Speaker 1: which I think is zach.
Speaker 2: I think it is too.
Speaker 7: It's amazing that no one was hurt in that Hollywood
Speaker 7: Hills evacuation, and I think getting out of that garrid
Speaker 7: block was one of the only times that I've seen
Speaker 7: we're using those stupid electric scooters was appropriate.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I did hear that a lot from last night
Speaker 4: that people trying to get out of the Hollywood Hills
Speaker 4: were frustrated. Listen, they're not designed for evacuations like that,
Speaker 4: and that's part of the reason why when something like
Speaker 4: this happens and we all have to be prepared to
Speaker 4: get out quickly and as silly as simple things. When
Speaker 4: we started getting evacuation warnings at our house, I packed
Speaker 4: the cars and parked them facing out the driveway so
Speaker 4: that in the event we decided we're going to go,
Speaker 4: we're going to go.
Speaker 2: We're not delly dialing.
Speaker 4: Not that that's anybody's fault, but one of the criticisms
Speaker 4: was that there were no law enforcement officers doing traffic
Speaker 4: control of any kind at the bigger intersect.
Speaker 3: Gaved a couple of minutes, you now, which can be
Speaker 3: very key.
Speaker 8: Hey, Gary and Shannon, love you guys. With the power outages,
Speaker 8: why is it nobody knows how to deal with a
Speaker 8: four way stop? If the lights out, it's a four
Speaker 8: ways stop. So many people are just blasting through these
Speaker 8: lights accidents in every intersection. Learn how to four way
Speaker 8: stop people.
Speaker 1: I think people are also preoccupied, you know, And I
Speaker 1: think it's not just complete ignorance. I think people have
Speaker 1: a million things on their mind, especially if they're evacuating,
Speaker 1: and you just got to give people a little bit
Speaker 1: of grace.
Speaker 2: Especially if it's at night.
Speaker 4: I remember doing stories in Seattle all the time where
Speaker 4: the wind would knock out power in different I mean
Speaker 4: it would happen four or five regularly, four or five
Speaker 4: times a month during the winter, and even driving around
Speaker 4: at night. You just especially a familiar or an area
Speaker 4: you're not familiar with. You didn't know that that intersection
Speaker 4: had a light well.
Speaker 1: And when I was trying to get out of my
Speaker 1: neighborhood on it was that Tuesday night, there were so
Speaker 1: many trees in the road and uncertainty of what I
Speaker 1: was going to find. I just wanted to get the
Speaker 1: hells of the freeway. I was like, I don't know
Speaker 1: what's going on. There were no lights on, there were
Speaker 1: no street lights on, there were no home lights on.
Speaker 3: It was very scary.
Speaker 1: I got to the first main intersection, same thing, and
Speaker 1: everyone did stop, treated it like a four way stop, but.
Speaker 3: Mine was a California stop. I wanted to get the
Speaker 3: hell out of there.
Speaker 2: At least you admit it, hy.
Speaker 9: Gari and Shannon, you are so right. I'm so glad
Speaker 9: that you mentioned it. It's not just all about the celebrities.
Speaker 9: There have been a lot of people on the internet, Facebook,
Speaker 9: et cetera that have been saying, oh, it's just celebrity homes.
Speaker 9: They have plenty of money, they can rebuild, And I'm like, no,
Speaker 9: you guys don't know. There are homes in Silmar. Altadena
Speaker 9: grew not out of hills that only have twelve hundred
Speaker 9: square foot homes. And there's so many other people affected.
Speaker 9: It's not just specific palisades. Thank you so much for
Speaker 9: saying it.
Speaker 4: No, well, that's not us. It's just that that's an
Speaker 4: acknowledgment of that.
Speaker 3: This is.
Speaker 2: This is very widespread.
Speaker 4: It's not the old fashioned fire where Malibu goes up
Speaker 4: and everybody gets emails as far east as Fontana to
Speaker 4: see if they're okay.
Speaker 2: So this is this is a major major issue.
Speaker 1: We talked about the King's game postponed last night, Lakers
Speaker 1: game postponed tonight, and now the NFL is talking about
Speaker 1: moving the Rams wild Card playoff game on Monday out
Speaker 1: of Los Angeles as well. That would be moved to Glendale,
Speaker 1: Arizona would be would be but they haven't made that
Speaker 1: decisiony have not. There was discussion much different reasons. There
Speaker 1: were discussions about postponing or moving the Cotton Bowl game
Speaker 1: also out of Dallas, because they're expecting two to four
Speaker 1: inches of snow tomorrow afternoon, which wouldn't be a problem
Speaker 1: Dallas as a dome stadium, but it would be a problem.
Speaker 2: For people getting to and from the game.
Speaker 4: So but again at that point, at this point they've
Speaker 4: said the Cotton Bowl is going to be played.
Speaker 1: Mount Wilson has our attention right now. A wall of
Speaker 1: flames heading towards a major set of TV radio transmission
Speaker 1: towers there Mount Wilson, above the fire burning and Eaton Canyon,
Speaker 1: well not above it anymore.
Speaker 3: The fires at Mount Wilson, they.
Speaker 1: Were able to lay down a line of fire to
Speaker 1: tardant before the fixed wing aircraft had to go back
Speaker 1: to the bases because of turbulence there.
Speaker 4: There are not just radio and television towers up there
Speaker 4: on Mount Wilson, which would be a problem. You've obviously
Speaker 4: got Mount Wilson Observatory, the historic observatory up there, and
Speaker 4: it is a they knew it when they built it.
Speaker 4: That is a fire prone area. So there are some
Speaker 4: safeguards there. But I mean, some of the TV cameras
Speaker 4: that we've seen, some of the images from cameras that
Speaker 4: exist on those towers have shown that the flames are
Speaker 4: right next to the base of some of those towers.
Speaker 1: Well, they've called for the mediate evacuation now of Mount
Speaker 1: Wilson and the observatory.
Speaker 4: I don't know anybody who would have been up there
Speaker 4: other than people potentially in work care. There's one pickup
Speaker 4: truck that you could see in some of those images,
Speaker 4: and there are a couple of different ways to get
Speaker 4: out of there, but not that they are any better
Speaker 4: because you've got to go right back down towards the
Speaker 4: fire for the most part in terms of getting off
Speaker 4: of that mountain. But again, it looks like some of
Speaker 4: those radio and TV towers and other communication infrastructure there
Speaker 4: on Mount Wilson threatened by the fire.
Speaker 5: Northern California up in Mendocino, and I just wanted to
Speaker 5: thank your coverage of the fire. My daughter is attending
Speaker 5: school at CSU Northridge and living in Hollywood, and she
Speaker 5: evacuated last night and I was able to give her
Speaker 5: real time updates that I was hearing through the internet
Speaker 5: at your AM radio station. So I just wanted to
Speaker 5: thank you all for the good work. Thank you so much.
Speaker 2: Thank you, And that's I mean.
Speaker 4: I can't imagine a cop I have full faith that
Speaker 4: my daughter for example, would be able to navigate an
Speaker 4: evacuation warning and a notice, but that would be a
Speaker 4: terror inducing.
Speaker 2: Moment.
Speaker 1: My mom went to San Gabriel High School. She has
Speaker 1: a zoom meeting every week with her friends that went
Speaker 1: to high school with her. And two of those ladies'
Speaker 1: daughters have lost their home. I don't know them. But
Speaker 1: for the first time in twenty plus years of covering fires,
Speaker 1: twenty four years whatever being down here covering fires or
Speaker 1: up in northern California as well, this is the first
Speaker 1: time I've ever known anyone personally.
Speaker 3: To lost a home.
Speaker 1: And that's just me, But five people I know personally,
Speaker 1: not counting those two girls that I've never met. Five
Speaker 1: people I know personally who have lost their homes. I
Speaker 1: mean that is crazy. I mean, if it's just me,
Speaker 1: then everybody else, I mean, this is how widespread it is.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and it's you think about the major events. You
Speaker 4: use the term and Neil actually give you credit for
Speaker 4: it this morning. You use the term that this is
Speaker 4: a generational thing, that this is something that you will
Speaker 4: remember for a very long time and may never be
Speaker 4: repeated in your lifetime. Are a couple of things like that,
Speaker 4: not fires, but I know somebody who was I don't
Speaker 4: know in New York on nine to eleven, right, I
Speaker 4: know somebody who deployed after that, or I mean events
Speaker 4: like that that you think of that when it is
Speaker 4: a large enough event, everybody is impacted by it in
Speaker 4: some way, And this is, I think you're right, is
Speaker 4: one of those types of incidents.
Speaker 1: I've also gotten a lot of calls and texts, more
Speaker 1: so than I ever have gotten from people, family members, friends,
Speaker 1: people I haven't heard from in years, concerned because they're
Speaker 1: watching this on the twenty four hour news networks, right,
Speaker 1: the people that live in other parts of the country,
Speaker 1: and we're in it like we are in it, and
Speaker 1: we are hyper focused on all the details and getting
Speaker 1: the information out, and everyone else in the area is
Speaker 1: in it, so you may not be able to kind
Speaker 1: of like zoom out and see.
Speaker 3: The scope of just how bad it is.
Speaker 2: On and back east.
Speaker 4: I mean, we can talk about the distance as an example,
Speaker 4: between the Palisades fire and the eat And fire. It's
Speaker 4: even thirty miles or whatever it is between the two fires.
Speaker 4: But if you show a map, if you're watching NBC's
Speaker 4: nightly news, for example, and they show a map of
Speaker 4: La and you're not familiar with it. You think it's
Speaker 4: all burning right and that those fires are going to merge.
Speaker 2: They're not.
Speaker 4: But I mean that you we lose kind of the
Speaker 4: scale of some of it. And even you're right because
Speaker 4: we're smack in the middle between these two fires, at
Speaker 4: least at work that it kind of it's hard to
Speaker 4: step back from it and try to give perspective to
Speaker 4: other people.
Speaker 2: Everything. We're fine, Everything's going to be okay, that kind
Speaker 2: of stuff.
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Speaker 5: Hey, dumbass, how much more do you want us to
Speaker 5: donate if they don't put keep water in the fire?
Speaker 8: Hydrogens?
Speaker 3: Dumb ass, hydrate hydrogens.
Speaker 4: I think he was referring to the suggestion that we
Speaker 4: donate to the La City Fire Foundation, which benefits firefighters
Speaker 4: in their families, or the California Fire Foundation, which benefits
Speaker 4: firefighters in their families, as opposed to donating.
Speaker 3: To the city of La And we would never advocate
Speaker 3: for that.
Speaker 2: But don't worry, I'm the dumbass.
Speaker 1: You are a dumb ass. Thank you, I mean in
Speaker 1: a sweet, nice, fun way. Oh, I didn't mean that
Speaker 1: You're a dumb ass.
Speaker 3: You know that, right?
Speaker 2: All mark cards.
Speaker 1: Can I tell you the stupidest headline I've ever read?
Speaker 1: Okay that I can remember. It's from TMZ, Tom Hanks
Speaker 1: and Steven Spielberg. Houses saved like Private Ryan. Well, what
Speaker 1: else are they going to do? Not be that dumb?
Speaker 1: Talk about a dumb ass?
Speaker 2: Covering the fires continued.
Speaker 4: Of course, the power all estates fires up over seventeen
Speaker 4: thousand acres. But one of the places that we've been
Speaker 4: watching most closely in the last few minutes has been
Speaker 4: the Eton fire as it creeps up the hill towards
Speaker 4: Mount Wilson.
Speaker 1: Just like every other point where these fires have erupted,
Speaker 1: this thing moved furiously, angrily, and very quickly as it
Speaker 1: made its way towards those towers. As we mentioned, they
Speaker 1: did look like they were able to get a ring
Speaker 1: of fire retardant in between the flames and the towers.
Speaker 1: At one point, it looks like those flames have passed
Speaker 1: that line and make matters worse, the fixed wing aircraft
Speaker 1: had to go back to the bases because of turbulence.
Speaker 4: Doug Irwin is our regional engineering lead here for IHEARTLA
Speaker 4: and has been up there on Mount Wilson. Let's talk about,
Speaker 4: first of all, just the importance of what that place is.
Speaker 4: There's dozens of radio, TV and other communications towers up there.
Speaker 6: Right and I'm just watching the monitor right now because
Speaker 6: the camera is showing right outside of one of our buildings.
Speaker 6: As a matter of fact, it's it's very scary. But
Speaker 6: we've also got our own cameras and are own stuff
Speaker 6: up there. They're still going even right now. But yeah,
Speaker 6: probably about ninety percent of the radio and TV for
Speaker 6: the Greater LA area is coming from from the top
Speaker 6: of Mount Wilson. I mean it's not complete, but the
Speaker 6: vast majority of it comes from there.
Speaker 4: So knowing that, I mean it's probably designated some sort
Speaker 4: of special protection site by fire by the state. I mean,
Speaker 4: they have an interest in keeping those us, keeping us
Speaker 4: on the air.
Speaker 6: Well, I would certainly hope. So it doesn't appear to
Speaker 6: be that way at the minute that I know that
Speaker 6: they're doing everything they can possibly up there. Right now,
Speaker 6: I see that looks like maybe some fixed wing aircraft
Speaker 6: are flying around again. But I understand that weather conditions
Speaker 6: are not favorable. It's not safe, so you know, we
Speaker 6: unfortunately have to live with the consequences.
Speaker 3: Well, what's the worst case scenario.
Speaker 6: The worst case scenario is that every one of the
Speaker 6: sites burns down, and because the buildings are pretty old.
Speaker 6: The site is pretty old, so fifty sixty years. Most
Speaker 6: of the buildings are made of wood, a lot of
Speaker 6: them have stucco and so forth. But I think probably
Speaker 6: the biggest danger is the roofs catching on fire and
Speaker 6: so forth. So what would happened is that you probably
Speaker 6: have a very spotty radio and television transmission from Mount
Speaker 6: Wilson for at least a couple of weeks.
Speaker 1: So what other sites are used to transmit and are
Speaker 1: they even a fraction and forgive me for being ignorant,
Speaker 1: are they even a fraction of how powerful I don't
Speaker 1: even know if that's the right term.
Speaker 3: Mount Wilson is.
Speaker 6: Well, they don't get out as well as Mount Wilson.
Speaker 6: And that's the reason they don't use is primary sites.
Speaker 6: Mount Wilson is a great site. It's it's world class,
Speaker 6: it's well known, everybody. Everybody knows it, and that's one
Speaker 6: reason there's so much interest in what's going on. There's
Speaker 6: a couple other sites. There's one mountain called Verdugo that
Speaker 6: a lot of sites are on. There's some there's some
Speaker 6: backups up there. There's Flint Peak, which is in Glendale.
Speaker 6: There's some backups up there. There's our other site in
Speaker 6: Hollywood Hills. I remember up there too, so.
Speaker 1: When we were out in field and we would use
Speaker 1: the RPU units and it would always be pointing your
Speaker 1: truck towards one of the transmitter sites. And Verdugo and
Speaker 1: Hollywood Hills were always hit or miss. Mount Wilson was
Speaker 1: always the surefire way to go.
Speaker 6: Mount Wilson can be seen from a long ways. It's
Speaker 6: fifty six hundred feet at the top and it gets
Speaker 6: out as we would say, a long ways, and that's
Speaker 6: why it's so coveted for transmitters out there.
Speaker 4: They talk about the unobstructed views that Mount Wilson has
Speaker 4: of just I mean most, not all, but most of
Speaker 4: southern California, most of the main.
Speaker 2: Places that we would look at.
Speaker 4: What's access like getting up there on a good day,
Speaker 4: not today, but on a good day on.
Speaker 6: A good day. Now a problem highway too goes up there.
Speaker 6: There's there's It's Angelo's Crust Highway runs up there. It's
Speaker 6: really easy it's it's a very busy place on weekends.
Speaker 6: As a matter of fact, fact, you don't want to
Speaker 6: go up there on Saturday night because there's so many
Speaker 6: cars and the people running around there. But normally not
Speaker 6: a problem. It's easy to get up there. It's a
Speaker 6: nice two lane road. They repave it about every five
Speaker 6: years or so. It's it's taken it's well taken care of.
Speaker 6: Mount Wilson Observatory is a place where a lot of
Speaker 6: people go to visit. Yeah, so it's not just our
Speaker 6: businesses up there, the radio and television transmission, but Mount
Speaker 6: Wilson Observatory is is a like a tourist attraction.
Speaker 4: Now we're talking with Dougar when who is our regional
Speaker 4: engineering lead for iHeart about the fire, the eating fire
Speaker 4: that's approaching Mount Wilson and just the treasure trove of
Speaker 4: the communications towers that exist up there, radio, television, microwave
Speaker 4: relays and a bunch of different things up there. Who
Speaker 4: would be up there on a daylight today, I mean
Speaker 4: would just be guys like you.
Speaker 6: Yeah, people like neg going up there for regular visits,
Speaker 6: like the Channel four engineer who is up there on
Speaker 6: a daily basis. There are several the TV stations that
Speaker 6: have people post up there.
Speaker 2: You see a lot of that lot those.
Speaker 6: Are those are people in the working for the fire department. Okay, yeah,
Speaker 6: those are like fire trucks and so forth. So there's
Speaker 6: a lot of visitors up there on a regular basis,
Speaker 6: and we go up there once every week or once
Speaker 6: over a couple of weeks are our own self to check.
Speaker 4: All our stuff outside of the cameras that we have
Speaker 4: that our company has up there kind of helping protect
Speaker 4: our equipment. Do you have other ways to judge whether
Speaker 4: or not it's going to impact transmission for us? And
Speaker 4: by us I mean the company, h well.
Speaker 2: Just regularly.
Speaker 6: Well we know from prior experience. So back in September
Speaker 6: twenty twenty amidst COVID, we had a big series of
Speaker 6: fires that burn up them Mount Wilson, and so we
Speaker 6: know what we had to go through in that particular time.
Speaker 6: And the fire basically didn't burn quite as close as
Speaker 6: it appears to have this time, but it did burn
Speaker 6: right up to the road. And major problems are just
Speaker 6: smoke and dust getting into everything, I believe it or not,
Speaker 6: air filters getting jammed up. That's probably what's going to
Speaker 6: be the first thing that knocks us off the air.
Speaker 6: And really, to be honest with you, is is air filters.
Speaker 6: They get full of particular matter.
Speaker 8: Wow. So, but.
Speaker 6: Didn't affect the road that I recall, And it didn't
Speaker 6: you know, it burned up the other side. It burned
Speaker 6: from the from the east and came west that time
Speaker 6: as opposed to south and north. So the results are
Speaker 6: going to be somewhat different. I'm afraid to say, well,
Speaker 6: I know you're keeping an eye on it. So, but
Speaker 6: thanks for coming in and helping ever well, I appreciate it.
Speaker 4: Again, Doug Or when one of our engineering leads here
Speaker 4: at KFI and iHeart here in Los Angeles, do you think.
Speaker 3: It pains people when they have to come in and
Speaker 3: dumb things down for.
Speaker 1: Us a little bit, a little bit, a little part
Speaker 1: of them to say he's happy to leave.
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