WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.600 --> 00:00:02.919 This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI 2 00:00:03.080 --> 00:00:05.839 AM six forty the Gary and Shannon Show on demand 3 00:00:05.919 --> 00:00:08.759 on the iHeartRadio app. We talked about how the King's 4 00:00:08.800 --> 00:00:11.759 game was postponed last night. Now the Lakers game today 5 00:00:11.839 --> 00:00:17.280 against the Hornets will be postponed as well. So that 6 00:00:17.600 --> 00:00:21.920 is the latest there and the call from Jean Smart. 7 00:00:21.960 --> 00:00:25.800 You mentioned to postpone or delay or cancel the awards show. 8 00:00:26.160 --> 00:00:28.280 That's getting a lot of traction as well. You just 9 00:00:28.359 --> 00:00:30.079 I don't know how you can do it. You know, 10 00:00:30.280 --> 00:00:33.799 mentioned the Olympics coming and a handful of years how 11 00:00:33.840 --> 00:00:36.439 you can get ready for that while people are out 12 00:00:36.439 --> 00:00:39.039 of their homes or tempting to get building permits and 13 00:00:39.079 --> 00:00:41.799 things like that. That's also a bad look as well. 14 00:00:42.719 --> 00:00:45.520 They do say. Now good news in Hollywood where the 15 00:00:45.600 --> 00:00:48.960 city officials say that that fire department has fully contained 16 00:00:49.439 --> 00:00:52.159 the sunset fire burning in the Hollywood Hills area. This 17 00:00:52.200 --> 00:00:55.799 is the one that erupted last night just before six pm. 18 00:00:58.280 --> 00:01:00.719 The news conference from this morning was. 19 00:01:02.200 --> 00:01:02.840 Frustrating. 20 00:01:03.479 --> 00:01:05.680 I was going to say it was good, but it 21 00:01:05.719 --> 00:01:06.599 needs to be better. 22 00:01:07.159 --> 00:01:09.920 I mean, we talked about the poetry that people wanted 23 00:01:09.920 --> 00:01:11.120 to get into and the book. 24 00:01:11.480 --> 00:01:13.040 That is the way we speak the boy. 25 00:01:13.159 --> 00:01:16.879 That is the way we stand here united Los Angeles 26 00:01:17.000 --> 00:01:19.560 will stand united and stand strong. 27 00:01:19.680 --> 00:01:19.920 Okay. 28 00:01:20.079 --> 00:01:22.920 And that doesn't really do much of anything for anybody. 29 00:01:22.959 --> 00:01:25.920 And I asked, and if this, if you are the 30 00:01:26.000 --> 00:01:29.480 person that hears that and thinks to yourself, I feel 31 00:01:29.519 --> 00:01:30.120 better now. 32 00:01:30.760 --> 00:01:31.719 I know my home is gone. 33 00:01:31.799 --> 00:01:35.560 Not one person, maybe her staff or maybe the person 34 00:01:35.560 --> 00:01:40.000 who wrote that. That Beloney c plus writing assignment. That 35 00:01:40.120 --> 00:01:44.799 was awful for California public schools. That was awful. And 36 00:01:44.840 --> 00:01:48.079 if you want to sound like you care, don't do that. 37 00:01:48.760 --> 00:01:51.760 Do the antithesis of that well, and I will don't 38 00:01:51.760 --> 00:01:56.159 be polished, be raw, be real, Have talked to people, 39 00:01:56.480 --> 00:01:58.599 have gone through the neighborhoods, not just sat in the 40 00:01:58.640 --> 00:02:01.439 helicopter and looked overhead. Don't say you've been to the 41 00:02:01.439 --> 00:02:03.879 fire lines and the palisades when you have not been 42 00:02:03.920 --> 00:02:05.959 to the front lines and the palisades. You've may have 43 00:02:06.120 --> 00:02:08.199 seen them, you may have flown over them, you have 44 00:02:08.280 --> 00:02:11.199 not been on the front lines in the palisades. 45 00:02:11.240 --> 00:02:15.360 I guarantee it well, and I want someone who is listen. 46 00:02:15.560 --> 00:02:17.960 I'll point out Catherine Barger simply because she was the 47 00:02:17.960 --> 00:02:19.719 one sort of in the control of this. 48 00:02:20.159 --> 00:02:21.360 It's more no nonsense. 49 00:02:21.680 --> 00:02:23.759 She's more no nonsense. But I want her to be 50 00:02:24.280 --> 00:02:27.599 the most no nonsense. I want her to say, I'm 51 00:02:27.840 --> 00:02:29.639 we're going to do this. We're going to do this 52 00:02:30.840 --> 00:02:33.240 important news conference. And I just want to point out 53 00:02:33.240 --> 00:02:36.919 some people. Mayor's here, that guy's here, Assembly members here, 54 00:02:37.240 --> 00:02:38.719 governors here, so and so. 55 00:02:39.039 --> 00:02:41.599 Now the people who matter. Let's talk with the fire chief, right, 56 00:02:41.719 --> 00:02:42.639 Let's talk with the sheriff. 57 00:02:42.719 --> 00:02:46.479 And save the crocodile tears, you know, save the Oh 58 00:02:46.560 --> 00:02:49.639 this has just been so horrible, and we are stronger and. 59 00:02:49.960 --> 00:02:51.000 Save all of that. 60 00:02:51.479 --> 00:02:54.280 Tell us where people can get resources, where they can 61 00:02:54.319 --> 00:02:56.560 go for shelter, where they can get food, where they 62 00:02:56.599 --> 00:02:58.680 can get water, What we're going to do about the water, 63 00:02:59.000 --> 00:03:01.960 How we're going to bolstero bolster the fire hydrant system, 64 00:03:02.319 --> 00:03:05.000 How we're going to figure out how to get water 65 00:03:05.039 --> 00:03:07.560 from northern California to southern California. 66 00:03:08.000 --> 00:03:12.479 Smelt be damned, smelt be damned. 67 00:03:13.520 --> 00:03:14.280 I think those are. 68 00:03:14.159 --> 00:03:17.159 The only times those words have ever been put together. 69 00:03:17.240 --> 00:03:22.400 Helt be damned. Okay, I'm a fish person. I love fish, 70 00:03:22.439 --> 00:03:24.680 I love the environment, I love animals. You ever had 71 00:03:24.719 --> 00:03:27.159 a smelt I've never had a smelt. I don't want 72 00:03:27.159 --> 00:03:29.120 to smelt, but I understand the smelt live in other 73 00:03:29.159 --> 00:03:31.960 areas too. It's not like we're saving the endangered smelt, 74 00:03:32.120 --> 00:03:33.400 are we? I don't think so. 75 00:03:34.000 --> 00:03:37.120 There are a couple of things to recall about what 76 00:03:38.000 --> 00:03:42.039 is actually going on right now. The Palisades fire is 77 00:03:42.159 --> 00:03:45.840 still expanding. It is going the other direction. It basically 78 00:03:45.840 --> 00:03:48.759 burned to the water, so it can't go any further there. 79 00:03:49.120 --> 00:03:52.360 But there are areas sort of east towards the four 80 00:03:52.479 --> 00:03:56.280 or five and north towards Encino and sort of over 81 00:03:56.319 --> 00:04:01.319 the hill into the valley. That's where it's expanding today, slower, thankfully, 82 00:04:01.879 --> 00:04:05.479 in the Eton fire up an Altadena. That fire has 83 00:04:05.520 --> 00:04:08.240 now crept all the way up to Mount Wilson. And 84 00:04:08.280 --> 00:04:12.159 it's important because there's some pretty important infrastructure up at 85 00:04:12.159 --> 00:04:14.520 Mount Wilson. And I don't just say that because of 86 00:04:14.680 --> 00:04:18.000 our radio stations and the antennas that we have up there. 87 00:04:18.759 --> 00:04:22.439 TV stations across LA have infrastructure up there, including their 88 00:04:22.480 --> 00:04:25.439 broadcast towers and things like that. The government has stuff 89 00:04:25.480 --> 00:04:27.600 up there at the Mount Wilson Observatory is up there. 90 00:04:28.199 --> 00:04:32.079 Some of the camera shots right now show flames at 91 00:04:32.199 --> 00:04:33.120 the facilities. 92 00:04:33.600 --> 00:04:35.600 And we've done this before. 93 00:04:35.639 --> 00:04:38.879 We've talked about stories in that fires in that area before, 94 00:04:39.240 --> 00:04:42.120 and they've been able to preposition some fire crews up 95 00:04:42.160 --> 00:04:44.040 there to prevent that from getting out of hand. 96 00:04:44.920 --> 00:04:47.399 We do not know where they are, I mean I 97 00:04:47.439 --> 00:04:48.000 know where they are. 98 00:04:48.000 --> 00:04:51.040 They're obviously busy doing other things, but this could be 99 00:04:51.120 --> 00:04:54.240 a significant issue that will keep our eyes on when 100 00:04:54.279 --> 00:04:56.399 we come back. We'll go through a handful some of 101 00:04:56.439 --> 00:04:59.240 the talkback messages that we've received. You can always leave 102 00:04:59.319 --> 00:05:02.160 us a talkback message on the iHeart app. 103 00:05:02.240 --> 00:05:04.480 Just hit that little microphone. It sends us a message. 104 00:05:04.480 --> 00:05:07.519 You can also use your Amazon Alexa enabled device and 105 00:05:07.560 --> 00:05:09.959 tell Alexa to send us a message bad news. 106 00:05:10.000 --> 00:05:10.519 Right now. 107 00:05:11.120 --> 00:05:15.399 The fire it alted that began an Alta Dina making 108 00:05:15.439 --> 00:05:19.079 its way up Eating Canyon. It has gotten pretty damn 109 00:05:19.199 --> 00:05:20.600 close to Mount Wilson. 110 00:05:20.720 --> 00:05:20.920 Now. 111 00:05:20.920 --> 00:05:24.480 There is a line of retardant that has been laid 112 00:05:24.560 --> 00:05:28.920 down in between the flames approaching the towers and those towers, 113 00:05:28.920 --> 00:05:32.600 those ever important communication towers there at the top of 114 00:05:32.680 --> 00:05:37.160 Mount Wilson. But those flames are fast approaching. They were 115 00:05:37.240 --> 00:05:40.720 able to get that retardant down there before the flames 116 00:05:40.920 --> 00:05:44.480 reached it, so We'll hope that that holds up, because 117 00:05:44.800 --> 00:05:47.839 here's the other piece of bad news. One minute ago, 118 00:05:48.000 --> 00:05:52.759 it came across that fixed wing air tankers are returning 119 00:05:52.800 --> 00:05:57.560 to bases. They are unable to further drop retardant in 120 00:05:57.639 --> 00:06:02.399 that fire area due to turbulence. Remember, these wildfires create 121 00:06:02.439 --> 00:06:05.920 weather systems of their own, They create their own turbulence, 122 00:06:05.959 --> 00:06:10.959 their own pressure systems, rising cross patterns, all of it. 123 00:06:11.560 --> 00:06:14.759 So those fixed wing air tankers are unable to fly 124 00:06:14.879 --> 00:06:17.800 in that fire area right now due to the turbulence, 125 00:06:18.120 --> 00:06:21.879 which means they are unable to drop retardant to secure 126 00:06:22.439 --> 00:06:26.600 those towers from the sky. One more piece of bad news. 127 00:06:26.680 --> 00:06:30.800 Unfortunately La County Fire departments as four firefighters have been 128 00:06:30.800 --> 00:06:35.439 injured battling that fire. There, the Eaten Fire Alzadena area 129 00:06:35.680 --> 00:06:39.000 has now destroyed nearly one thousand structures, nine hundred and 130 00:06:39.000 --> 00:06:42.879 seventy two another eighty four are damaged. It still threatens 131 00:06:43.160 --> 00:06:45.040 nearly forty thousand homes. 132 00:06:46.360 --> 00:06:46.720 Wow. 133 00:06:48.519 --> 00:06:54.240 Wow, you mentioned the evacuation warnings and orders throughout LA County. 134 00:06:54.360 --> 00:06:57.759 Close to four hundred thousand people. I think it's one 135 00:06:57.879 --> 00:07:01.399 hundred and eighty thousand under evacuated orders that have had 136 00:07:01.399 --> 00:07:05.480 to find other places to go, and two hundred thousand 137 00:07:05.800 --> 00:07:09.879 in the evacuation warning areas which they had suggested. Hey, 138 00:07:09.920 --> 00:07:12.279 let's not wait, especially a couple of days ago. Don't 139 00:07:12.279 --> 00:07:14.319 wait for that to turn into an order. You should 140 00:07:14.360 --> 00:07:18.759 be prepared to get out. You mentioned the fires, the 141 00:07:18.839 --> 00:07:21.879 eating fire now approaching Mount Wilson. It's not just a couple. 142 00:07:22.360 --> 00:07:28.319 There's over two dozen TV stations that broadcasts have their 143 00:07:28.319 --> 00:07:32.040 transmission towers up there on top of Mount Wilson, and 144 00:07:33.240 --> 00:07:35.959 another couple dozen radio stations that have theirs up there 145 00:07:36.000 --> 00:07:36.360 as well. 146 00:07:36.600 --> 00:07:38.399 Just in the past few minutes before I went to 147 00:07:38.399 --> 00:07:41.360 the commercial and now those flames look to be about 148 00:07:41.360 --> 00:07:43.959 a quarter mile away from that tower. Now they're licking 149 00:07:44.000 --> 00:07:47.360 the base, and that tower has overcome with. 150 00:07:49.439 --> 00:07:50.040 Asy smoke. 151 00:07:50.240 --> 00:07:55.040 Listen there could the smoke is not a problem if 152 00:07:55.079 --> 00:07:57.399 the fire starts getting into the wiring, and the smoke 153 00:07:57.519 --> 00:07:57.879 is not a. 154 00:07:57.839 --> 00:07:59.800 Problem, But the smoke indicates the fire is. 155 00:07:59.759 --> 00:08:00.399 On to it. 156 00:08:00.560 --> 00:08:01.079 Yeah. 157 00:08:01.120 --> 00:08:03.279 And then there are two sections there on the top 158 00:08:03.319 --> 00:08:07.519 of Mount Wilson. You've got the observatory sort of one section, 159 00:08:08.120 --> 00:08:11.680 and then most of the transmission portions on the other 160 00:08:11.800 --> 00:08:15.040 section there. I mean, just all kinds of and it's 161 00:08:15.040 --> 00:08:18.600 not just TV and radio. You got microwave relay facilities. 162 00:08:19.959 --> 00:08:23.920 The big huge one up there is I believe it's 163 00:08:24.040 --> 00:08:26.680 Channel two. That's the tallest of all the towers up 164 00:08:26.680 --> 00:08:28.560 there cacbs. 165 00:08:28.560 --> 00:08:31.360 So I don't know what to now. 166 00:08:31.399 --> 00:08:35.279 Through four pm, wins are slowly going to increase again. 167 00:08:35.360 --> 00:08:38.600 It looks like the strongest wins this evening Inland Empire, 168 00:08:38.679 --> 00:08:43.879 Orange County as well. The fire danger stays high until 169 00:08:43.960 --> 00:08:47.480 we get some rain. Folks, it's been eight months since 170 00:08:47.480 --> 00:08:51.320 we've had rain. Let me look at the forecast. Nope, 171 00:08:51.360 --> 00:08:51.799 no rain. 172 00:08:52.759 --> 00:08:53.559 I got have told you that. 173 00:08:54.480 --> 00:08:56.000 I wasn't really looking at the forecast. 174 00:08:56.039 --> 00:08:58.519 Student that was just my own forecast in my head, 175 00:08:58.679 --> 00:08:59.840 which I think is zach. 176 00:09:01.440 --> 00:09:02.240 I think it is too. 177 00:09:06.120 --> 00:09:08.600 It's amazing that no one was hurt in that Hollywood 178 00:09:08.639 --> 00:09:11.919 Hills evacuation, and I think getting out of that garrid 179 00:09:11.919 --> 00:09:14.600 block was one of the only times that I've seen 180 00:09:14.600 --> 00:09:17.720 we're using those stupid electric scooters was appropriate. 181 00:09:17.840 --> 00:09:19.720 Yeah, I did hear that a lot from last night 182 00:09:19.799 --> 00:09:21.759 that people trying to get out of the Hollywood Hills 183 00:09:22.360 --> 00:09:27.360 were frustrated. Listen, they're not designed for evacuations like that, 184 00:09:27.440 --> 00:09:30.240 and that's part of the reason why when something like 185 00:09:30.320 --> 00:09:33.720 this happens and we all have to be prepared to 186 00:09:33.799 --> 00:09:37.720 get out quickly and as silly as simple things. When 187 00:09:37.759 --> 00:09:40.919 we started getting evacuation warnings at our house, I packed 188 00:09:40.960 --> 00:09:43.840 the cars and parked them facing out the driveway so 189 00:09:43.879 --> 00:09:45.519 that in the event we decided we're going to go, 190 00:09:45.720 --> 00:09:46.279 we're going to go. 191 00:09:46.360 --> 00:09:47.240 We're not delly dialing. 192 00:09:47.679 --> 00:09:50.480 Not that that's anybody's fault, but one of the criticisms 193 00:09:50.559 --> 00:09:53.320 was that there were no law enforcement officers doing traffic 194 00:09:53.360 --> 00:09:55.399 control of any kind at the bigger intersect. 195 00:09:55.519 --> 00:09:57.200 Gaved a couple of minutes, you now, which can be 196 00:09:57.320 --> 00:09:57.759 very key. 197 00:09:58.279 --> 00:10:02.240 Hey, Gary and Shannon, love you guys. With the power outages, 198 00:10:02.759 --> 00:10:05.360 why is it nobody knows how to deal with a 199 00:10:05.399 --> 00:10:09.320 four way stop? If the lights out, it's a four 200 00:10:09.360 --> 00:10:13.240 ways stop. So many people are just blasting through these 201 00:10:13.320 --> 00:10:18.279 lights accidents in every intersection. Learn how to four way 202 00:10:18.360 --> 00:10:19.159 stop people. 203 00:10:19.879 --> 00:10:23.639 I think people are also preoccupied, you know, And I 204 00:10:23.679 --> 00:10:26.720 think it's not just complete ignorance. I think people have 205 00:10:26.759 --> 00:10:29.759 a million things on their mind, especially if they're evacuating, 206 00:10:29.960 --> 00:10:33.440 and you just got to give people a little bit 207 00:10:33.480 --> 00:10:34.440 of grace. 208 00:10:34.159 --> 00:10:35.279 Especially if it's at night. 209 00:10:35.919 --> 00:10:38.159 I remember doing stories in Seattle all the time where 210 00:10:38.159 --> 00:10:40.519 the wind would knock out power in different I mean 211 00:10:40.519 --> 00:10:44.159 it would happen four or five regularly, four or five 212 00:10:44.200 --> 00:10:47.919 times a month during the winter, and even driving around 213 00:10:47.960 --> 00:10:50.840 at night. You just especially a familiar or an area 214 00:10:50.840 --> 00:10:53.399 you're not familiar with. You didn't know that that intersection 215 00:10:53.480 --> 00:10:54.519 had a light well. 216 00:10:54.559 --> 00:10:56.000 And when I was trying to get out of my 217 00:10:56.080 --> 00:11:02.639 neighborhood on it was that Tuesday night, there were so 218 00:11:02.679 --> 00:11:05.320 many trees in the road and uncertainty of what I 219 00:11:05.360 --> 00:11:06.639 was going to find. I just wanted to get the 220 00:11:06.679 --> 00:11:08.919 hells of the freeway. I was like, I don't know 221 00:11:08.960 --> 00:11:11.639 what's going on. There were no lights on, there were 222 00:11:11.679 --> 00:11:14.600 no street lights on, there were no home lights on. 223 00:11:15.000 --> 00:11:16.200 It was very scary. 224 00:11:16.320 --> 00:11:19.200 I got to the first main intersection, same thing, and 225 00:11:19.279 --> 00:11:22.000 everyone did stop, treated it like a four way stop, but. 226 00:11:21.879 --> 00:11:23.639 Mine was a California stop. I wanted to get the 227 00:11:23.639 --> 00:11:24.279 hell out of there. 228 00:11:24.919 --> 00:11:26.120 At least you admit it, hy. 229 00:11:26.039 --> 00:11:28.600 Gari and Shannon, you are so right. I'm so glad 230 00:11:28.639 --> 00:11:31.200 that you mentioned it. It's not just all about the celebrities. 231 00:11:31.360 --> 00:11:34.360 There have been a lot of people on the internet, Facebook, 232 00:11:34.399 --> 00:11:37.240 et cetera that have been saying, oh, it's just celebrity homes. 233 00:11:37.240 --> 00:11:39.960 They have plenty of money, they can rebuild, And I'm like, no, 234 00:11:40.080 --> 00:11:43.279 you guys don't know. There are homes in Silmar. Altadena 235 00:11:43.399 --> 00:11:45.759 grew not out of hills that only have twelve hundred 236 00:11:45.759 --> 00:11:48.840 square foot homes. And there's so many other people affected. 237 00:11:48.879 --> 00:11:52.440 It's not just specific palisades. Thank you so much for 238 00:11:52.519 --> 00:11:52.960 saying it. 239 00:11:53.120 --> 00:11:55.879 No, well, that's not us. It's just that that's an 240 00:11:55.919 --> 00:11:57.080 acknowledgment of that. 241 00:11:57.159 --> 00:11:57.440 This is. 242 00:11:58.039 --> 00:11:59.600 This is very widespread. 243 00:12:00.120 --> 00:12:03.559 It's not the old fashioned fire where Malibu goes up 244 00:12:03.600 --> 00:12:06.600 and everybody gets emails as far east as Fontana to 245 00:12:06.639 --> 00:12:07.559 see if they're okay. 246 00:12:08.080 --> 00:12:10.799 So this is this is a major major issue. 247 00:12:10.879 --> 00:12:14.200 We talked about the King's game postponed last night, Lakers 248 00:12:14.240 --> 00:12:17.879 game postponed tonight, and now the NFL is talking about 249 00:12:17.919 --> 00:12:22.039 moving the Rams wild Card playoff game on Monday out 250 00:12:22.080 --> 00:12:25.360 of Los Angeles as well. That would be moved to Glendale, 251 00:12:25.440 --> 00:12:28.639 Arizona would be would be but they haven't made that 252 00:12:28.679 --> 00:12:32.120 decisiony have not. There was discussion much different reasons. There 253 00:12:32.159 --> 00:12:36.759 were discussions about postponing or moving the Cotton Bowl game 254 00:12:36.960 --> 00:12:40.080 also out of Dallas, because they're expecting two to four 255 00:12:40.080 --> 00:12:43.120 inches of snow tomorrow afternoon, which wouldn't be a problem 256 00:12:43.159 --> 00:12:46.440 Dallas as a dome stadium, but it would be a problem. 257 00:12:46.120 --> 00:12:47.879 For people getting to and from the game. 258 00:12:48.000 --> 00:12:50.279 So but again at that point, at this point they've 259 00:12:50.320 --> 00:12:51.960 said the Cotton Bowl is going to be played. 260 00:12:52.120 --> 00:12:56.440 Mount Wilson has our attention right now. A wall of 261 00:12:56.519 --> 00:13:01.000 flames heading towards a major set of TV radio transmission 262 00:13:01.080 --> 00:13:06.200 towers there Mount Wilson, above the fire burning and Eaton Canyon, 263 00:13:06.279 --> 00:13:07.440 well not above it anymore. 264 00:13:07.600 --> 00:13:09.960 The fires at Mount Wilson, they. 265 00:13:09.799 --> 00:13:12.240 Were able to lay down a line of fire to 266 00:13:12.320 --> 00:13:15.639 tardant before the fixed wing aircraft had to go back 267 00:13:15.679 --> 00:13:17.879 to the bases because of turbulence there. 268 00:13:18.039 --> 00:13:21.919 There are not just radio and television towers up there 269 00:13:21.919 --> 00:13:23.919 on Mount Wilson, which would be a problem. You've obviously 270 00:13:23.919 --> 00:13:27.879 got Mount Wilson Observatory, the historic observatory up there, and 271 00:13:28.559 --> 00:13:32.200 it is a they knew it when they built it. 272 00:13:32.440 --> 00:13:35.639 That is a fire prone area. So there are some 273 00:13:35.679 --> 00:13:39.080 safeguards there. But I mean, some of the TV cameras 274 00:13:39.120 --> 00:13:42.200 that we've seen, some of the images from cameras that 275 00:13:42.320 --> 00:13:45.440 exist on those towers have shown that the flames are 276 00:13:45.600 --> 00:13:47.840 right next to the base of some of those towers. 277 00:13:47.879 --> 00:13:50.759 Well, they've called for the mediate evacuation now of Mount 278 00:13:50.759 --> 00:13:52.399 Wilson and the observatory. 279 00:13:53.240 --> 00:13:54.879 I don't know anybody who would have been up there 280 00:13:54.919 --> 00:13:59.159 other than people potentially in work care. There's one pickup 281 00:13:59.200 --> 00:14:01.039 truck that you could see in some of those images, 282 00:14:01.879 --> 00:14:04.759 and there are a couple of different ways to get 283 00:14:04.759 --> 00:14:07.120 out of there, but not that they are any better 284 00:14:07.159 --> 00:14:09.039 because you've got to go right back down towards the 285 00:14:09.080 --> 00:14:12.600 fire for the most part in terms of getting off 286 00:14:12.600 --> 00:14:14.480 of that mountain. But again, it looks like some of 287 00:14:14.519 --> 00:14:18.720 those radio and TV towers and other communication infrastructure there 288 00:14:18.720 --> 00:14:20.720 on Mount Wilson threatened by the fire. 289 00:14:20.519 --> 00:14:23.879 Northern California up in Mendocino, and I just wanted to 290 00:14:23.879 --> 00:14:27.799 thank your coverage of the fire. My daughter is attending 291 00:14:27.879 --> 00:14:31.279 school at CSU Northridge and living in Hollywood, and she 292 00:14:31.360 --> 00:14:34.320 evacuated last night and I was able to give her 293 00:14:34.399 --> 00:14:38.440 real time updates that I was hearing through the internet 294 00:14:39.519 --> 00:14:41.720 at your AM radio station. So I just wanted to 295 00:14:41.720 --> 00:14:43.879 thank you all for the good work. Thank you so much. 296 00:14:44.000 --> 00:14:45.240 Thank you, And that's I mean. 297 00:14:45.279 --> 00:14:51.679 I can't imagine a cop I have full faith that 298 00:14:51.759 --> 00:14:54.080 my daughter for example, would be able to navigate an 299 00:14:54.080 --> 00:14:58.600 evacuation warning and a notice, but that would be a 300 00:14:58.720 --> 00:15:00.279 terror inducing. 301 00:15:01.919 --> 00:15:02.240 Moment. 302 00:15:02.399 --> 00:15:05.039 My mom went to San Gabriel High School. She has 303 00:15:05.080 --> 00:15:08.000 a zoom meeting every week with her friends that went 304 00:15:08.039 --> 00:15:11.399 to high school with her. And two of those ladies' 305 00:15:11.519 --> 00:15:15.480 daughters have lost their home. I don't know them. But 306 00:15:15.679 --> 00:15:19.519 for the first time in twenty plus years of covering fires, 307 00:15:19.600 --> 00:15:22.720 twenty four years whatever being down here covering fires or 308 00:15:22.960 --> 00:15:25.360 up in northern California as well, this is the first 309 00:15:25.399 --> 00:15:27.799 time I've ever known anyone personally. 310 00:15:27.559 --> 00:15:28.799 To lost a home. 311 00:15:29.480 --> 00:15:33.399 And that's just me, But five people I know personally, 312 00:15:33.480 --> 00:15:36.759 not counting those two girls that I've never met. Five 313 00:15:36.799 --> 00:15:38.919 people I know personally who have lost their homes. I 314 00:15:38.919 --> 00:15:41.279 mean that is crazy. I mean, if it's just me, 315 00:15:41.399 --> 00:15:44.080 then everybody else, I mean, this is how widespread it is. 316 00:15:44.320 --> 00:15:48.000 Yeah, and it's you think about the major events. You 317 00:15:48.120 --> 00:15:50.559 use the term and Neil actually give you credit for 318 00:15:50.600 --> 00:15:52.200 it this morning. You use the term that this is 319 00:15:52.240 --> 00:15:55.000 a generational thing, that this is something that you will 320 00:15:55.039 --> 00:15:57.120 remember for a very long time and may never be 321 00:15:57.240 --> 00:16:01.960 repeated in your lifetime. Are a couple of things like that, 322 00:16:02.320 --> 00:16:07.519 not fires, but I know somebody who was I don't 323 00:16:07.519 --> 00:16:10.480 know in New York on nine to eleven, right, I 324 00:16:10.519 --> 00:16:14.840 know somebody who deployed after that, or I mean events 325 00:16:15.080 --> 00:16:18.840 like that that you think of that when it is 326 00:16:18.879 --> 00:16:22.120 a large enough event, everybody is impacted by it in 327 00:16:22.159 --> 00:16:24.480 some way, And this is, I think you're right, is 328 00:16:24.519 --> 00:16:26.799 one of those types of incidents. 329 00:16:26.960 --> 00:16:29.039 I've also gotten a lot of calls and texts, more 330 00:16:29.080 --> 00:16:32.759 so than I ever have gotten from people, family members, friends, 331 00:16:32.879 --> 00:16:36.480 people I haven't heard from in years, concerned because they're 332 00:16:36.519 --> 00:16:38.879 watching this on the twenty four hour news networks, right, 333 00:16:38.960 --> 00:16:40.720 the people that live in other parts of the country, 334 00:16:41.279 --> 00:16:43.759 and we're in it like we are in it, and 335 00:16:43.799 --> 00:16:47.039 we are hyper focused on all the details and getting 336 00:16:47.039 --> 00:16:49.840 the information out, and everyone else in the area is 337 00:16:49.840 --> 00:16:53.799 in it, so you may not be able to kind 338 00:16:53.879 --> 00:16:56.200 of like zoom out and see. 339 00:16:55.960 --> 00:16:59.120 The scope of just how bad it is. 340 00:17:00.120 --> 00:17:01.799 On and back east. 341 00:17:01.840 --> 00:17:04.440 I mean, we can talk about the distance as an example, 342 00:17:04.480 --> 00:17:06.599 between the Palisades fire and the eat And fire. It's 343 00:17:06.680 --> 00:17:09.279 even thirty miles or whatever it is between the two fires. 344 00:17:09.759 --> 00:17:12.440 But if you show a map, if you're watching NBC's 345 00:17:12.519 --> 00:17:14.559 nightly news, for example, and they show a map of 346 00:17:14.680 --> 00:17:17.400 La and you're not familiar with it. You think it's 347 00:17:17.440 --> 00:17:20.119 all burning right and that those fires are going to merge. 348 00:17:20.119 --> 00:17:20.440 They're not. 349 00:17:20.599 --> 00:17:23.720 But I mean that you we lose kind of the 350 00:17:23.759 --> 00:17:27.319 scale of some of it. And even you're right because 351 00:17:27.319 --> 00:17:30.039 we're smack in the middle between these two fires, at 352 00:17:30.119 --> 00:17:34.799 least at work that it kind of it's hard to 353 00:17:34.839 --> 00:17:37.799 step back from it and try to give perspective to 354 00:17:37.799 --> 00:17:38.279 other people. 355 00:17:38.279 --> 00:17:40.400 Everything. We're fine, Everything's going to be okay, that kind 356 00:17:40.400 --> 00:17:40.839 of stuff. 357 00:17:42.000 --> 00:17:44.519 More talkbacks, by the way, leave us a talkback message 358 00:17:44.519 --> 00:17:45.880 on the iHeart app. 359 00:17:46.000 --> 00:17:47.920 Just hit the microphone and send us a message. 360 00:17:48.000 --> 00:17:50.279 Hey, dumbass, how much more do you want us to 361 00:17:50.359 --> 00:17:53.599 donate if they don't put keep water in the fire? 362 00:17:53.680 --> 00:17:54.279 Hydrogens? 363 00:17:54.519 --> 00:17:56.880 Dumb ass, hydrate hydrogens. 364 00:17:57.160 --> 00:17:59.799 I think he was referring to the suggestion that we 365 00:18:00.279 --> 00:18:05.400 donate to the La City Fire Foundation, which benefits firefighters 366 00:18:05.400 --> 00:18:08.559 in their families, or the California Fire Foundation, which benefits 367 00:18:09.279 --> 00:18:12.359 firefighters in their families, as opposed to donating. 368 00:18:12.000 --> 00:18:15.640 To the city of La And we would never advocate 369 00:18:15.680 --> 00:18:15.880 for that. 370 00:18:16.119 --> 00:18:19.240 But don't worry, I'm the dumbass. 371 00:18:20.359 --> 00:18:22.680 You are a dumb ass. Thank you, I mean in 372 00:18:22.720 --> 00:18:27.559 a sweet, nice, fun way. Oh, I didn't mean that 373 00:18:27.559 --> 00:18:28.240 You're a dumb ass. 374 00:18:28.240 --> 00:18:28.759 You know that, right? 375 00:18:28.880 --> 00:18:29.640 All mark cards. 376 00:18:31.319 --> 00:18:33.880 Can I tell you the stupidest headline I've ever read? 377 00:18:34.000 --> 00:18:39.440 Okay that I can remember. It's from TMZ, Tom Hanks 378 00:18:39.519 --> 00:18:52.119 and Steven Spielberg. Houses saved like Private Ryan. Well, what 379 00:18:52.160 --> 00:18:55.039 else are they going to do? Not be that dumb? 380 00:18:55.279 --> 00:18:56.480 Talk about a dumb ass? 381 00:18:56.839 --> 00:18:58.480 Covering the fires continued. 382 00:18:58.640 --> 00:19:01.559 Of course, the power all estates fires up over seventeen 383 00:19:01.640 --> 00:19:03.680 thousand acres. But one of the places that we've been 384 00:19:03.720 --> 00:19:06.640 watching most closely in the last few minutes has been 385 00:19:06.640 --> 00:19:09.519 the Eton fire as it creeps up the hill towards 386 00:19:09.559 --> 00:19:10.279 Mount Wilson. 387 00:19:10.440 --> 00:19:14.680 Just like every other point where these fires have erupted, 388 00:19:14.720 --> 00:19:19.640 this thing moved furiously, angrily, and very quickly as it 389 00:19:19.680 --> 00:19:22.559 made its way towards those towers. As we mentioned, they 390 00:19:22.799 --> 00:19:24.680 did look like they were able to get a ring 391 00:19:24.720 --> 00:19:28.799 of fire retardant in between the flames and the towers. 392 00:19:28.799 --> 00:19:31.359 At one point, it looks like those flames have passed 393 00:19:31.400 --> 00:19:34.559 that line and make matters worse, the fixed wing aircraft 394 00:19:34.839 --> 00:19:37.240 had to go back to the bases because of turbulence. 395 00:19:37.640 --> 00:19:41.599 Doug Irwin is our regional engineering lead here for IHEARTLA 396 00:19:41.839 --> 00:19:44.839 and has been up there on Mount Wilson. Let's talk about, 397 00:19:44.880 --> 00:19:47.279 first of all, just the importance of what that place is. 398 00:19:47.319 --> 00:19:52.119 There's dozens of radio, TV and other communications towers up there. 399 00:19:52.559 --> 00:19:55.680 Right and I'm just watching the monitor right now because 400 00:19:55.759 --> 00:19:58.440 the camera is showing right outside of one of our buildings. 401 00:19:58.480 --> 00:20:01.759