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Speaker 3: Jackie Ray.
Speaker 2: It's been one hell of a week and a half,
Speaker 2: I would say, just going on in southern California. You
Speaker 2: know the basics that at this point the Rams played
Speaker 2: earlier tonight against the Minnesota Vikings. They didn't play at
Speaker 2: SOFI Stadium, they played out in Arizona. And you had
Speaker 2: the Lakers playing at home tonight in downtown Los Angeles,
Speaker 2: and you had the Clippers playing down the street from
Speaker 2: SOFI tonight.
Speaker 3: The game's still going on right now.
Speaker 2: I know they're different leagues, but why the different expectations
Speaker 2: as far as appropriate, not appropriate, timely, untimely to move
Speaker 2: these games. We know the NBA they postponed the previous
Speaker 2: Laker and Clipper games, but now they're playing tonight. The
Speaker 2: wins are gusting right now. Can hear it outside the studio?
Speaker 2: The games are going going on in LA except for
Speaker 2: the Rams there in Arizona.
Speaker 4: I you know, I.
Speaker 5: Can't explain this one because in my mind, the NFL
Speaker 5: especially should have at least played in La versus moving
Speaker 5: to the State Farm Arena. Considering all the homes that
Speaker 5: now don't have fire insurance.
Speaker 4: The optics of that just looks bad to me.
Speaker 5: You would have been better playing off in so far
Speaker 5: so when we have teams like you said, the Clippers
Speaker 5: are playing, I don't understand the logic. I do get
Speaker 5: because I was one of the first people that said,
Speaker 5: it's just weird going about I went to karaoke last night.
Speaker 5: It still felt very, very weird to be there having
Speaker 5: a good time when earlier in the day I had
Speaker 5: just been out to Alta Dina donating and seeing how
Speaker 5: it's this weird dichotomy of feeling sad and then doing
Speaker 5: something that feels great. So I'm not upset that they
Speaker 5: moved forward, because at the end of the day, we
Speaker 5: have to move forward, but it just seems like the
Speaker 5: timing is a little bit.
Speaker 4: Off to me.
Speaker 2: In previous shows, I talked about the historical implications of
Speaker 2: canceling or postponing games, how the nation by and large
Speaker 2: has hued more closely to playing the games as a
Speaker 2: way of ensuring emotional continuity. I talked about how the
Speaker 2: World Series was not canceled. During World War Two. I
Speaker 2: talked about how rare it was to cancel games except
Speaker 2: for like the eighty nine earthquake in San Francisco or
Speaker 2: nine to eleven. Had to be very very extreme reasons
Speaker 2: to cancel or postponed games. Not that this is not
Speaker 2: along those levels. But going back to what I said before,
Speaker 2: it seems like there's an inconsistency and the approach where
Speaker 2: inside the same city, on the same street, you have
Speaker 2: a game which is going on, and if you don't know,
Speaker 2: into a dome, it's literally one block away on the
Speaker 2: same street as Sofi Stadium. And having these games on
Speaker 2: where you put off in any way that there are
Speaker 2: games going on. Going back to your point of kind,
Speaker 2: I'm moving on with life and celebrating and having fun
Speaker 2: and you know, goat Lakers. Oh, by the way, the
Speaker 2: city's burning down right.
Speaker 5: It's a tough one because if you're here, if you're
Speaker 5: listening from abroad, it's not something that you feel like
Speaker 5: it impacts the I live in Long Beach, and now
Speaker 5: in Long Beach, the air quality was bad. Long Beach
Speaker 5: is thirty miles away from where the fire is, so
Speaker 5: it's not like it's just exclusive to the Palisades or
Speaker 5: Pasadena or Allta Dina. It's literally affecting a large range
Speaker 5: of people and places. People with asthma in Long Beach
Speaker 5: are having a hard time, so it really doesn't matter
Speaker 5: that you're so far away. On the contrast, what we've
Speaker 5: seen is and I think this is why people are
Speaker 5: having a hard time with the games just resuming as normal.
Speaker 5: So cow has had an amazing outreach of people. People
Speaker 5: have been boots on the ground, immediately taking off work
Speaker 5: to go and help people, try to help people find
Speaker 5: pets or maybe even albums that have priceless memorabili in them.
Speaker 5: So people have really stepped up to help their fellow neighbor.
Speaker 5: So it again, I'm not upset that it's moving forward,
Speaker 5: but I understand when you're talking about people who have
Speaker 5: lost everything and don't have the means to replace it.
Speaker 5: Sometimes I think internally we would want those who have
Speaker 5: more to step up more. So maybe that's what we're
Speaker 5: seeing where people are saying it's just a game. You
Speaker 5: guys can take this off and even donate time and
Speaker 5: money and resources to help people who have lost everything.
Speaker 4: So I understand both sides of it.
Speaker 5: I don't know if there's an answer, but there is
Speaker 5: an inconsistency, and I would love the teams to just
Speaker 5: sit down and say going forward, because as long as
Speaker 5: humans exist, there's going to be tragedies that impact us.
Speaker 5: Going forward, this is how we are going to move
Speaker 5: when it comes to canceling games or not canceling games,
Speaker 5: because if there's a policy set, then there's nothing.
Speaker 3: To argue about.
Speaker 2: Let's drill down on that one because I know, watching
Speaker 2: the Lakers, or watching the Clippers, or watching the NFL
Speaker 2: football playoff games this weekend, yes, there's the obligatory thoughts
Speaker 2: and prayers.
Speaker 3: Our hearts are with the people who are so in
Speaker 3: Los Angeles.
Speaker 2: Please go to NFL dot com, forward slash donat or something.
Speaker 2: They will do the minimum. But what should be the
Speaker 2: expectation as far as the involvement of these leagues. That's
Speaker 2: part one, and also of the players. It's one thing
Speaker 2: to say, you know, we shouldn't play the game. It's
Speaker 2: another thing to say, Hey, the Lakers, you as an
Speaker 2: organization need to be doing more.
Speaker 3: You Clippers need to be doing more.
Speaker 2: You Chargers and Rams need to be doing more as
Speaker 2: an organization. And also my word pressure on players to
Speaker 2: get involved as well.
Speaker 3: What would you say to that?
Speaker 4: Well, I always say players are people.
Speaker 5: JJ Reddick lost his home, the head coach of the
Speaker 5: LA Lakers, he lost his home in the Palisades fire,
Speaker 5: and now he has to go out and coach a game.
Speaker 5: And I don't know if you've ever had that kind
Speaker 5: of loss, It is difficult to just go back out there.
Speaker 4: Athletes do it all the time.
Speaker 5: We saw Isaiah Thomas do it when he lost I
Speaker 5: believe was a sister or whatnot.
Speaker 4: So we've seen players do this over and over again.
Speaker 5: But it's difficult, and so I think instead of saying yes,
Speaker 5: there needs to be a policy in play as far
Speaker 5: as what we're going to do as an organization, but
Speaker 5: when you're talking about people, I do think backing away
Speaker 5: and letting people is in players in this case. But
Speaker 5: people who are impacted by this have the space to
Speaker 5: be impacted by this for more than just a day
Speaker 5: or two. Kawhi Leonard had to take a step away
Speaker 5: from the Clippers because his family had to evacuate. So
Speaker 5: we're not talking about people who aren't impacted and just
Speaker 5: these superstars that are making this kind of money, they
Speaker 5: are also impacted. They want to help and they need
Speaker 5: the space to do it. So maybe it's a case
Speaker 5: by case situation. I do understand the knee jerk reaction
Speaker 5: of thinking that people that have more should do more.
Speaker 5: There's that, but I also think that people who are
Speaker 5: impacted should have the space to be impacted.
Speaker 2: I wonder, and it's not for me to try to
Speaker 2: get in the head of JJ Reddick you mentioned right
Speaker 2: and coach the Los Angeles Lakers. Lakers are finishing up
Speaker 2: their game right now against the San Antonio Spurs at
Speaker 2: Crypto dot Com Arena, but I know that JJ Reddick's
Speaker 2: head cannot be fully invested in the Lakers or that game.
Speaker 2: It just can't be because we are to your point humans.
Speaker 2: I wonder, and I'm not blaming Genie Buss, but I
Speaker 2: would ask her the question. Was there any conversation where
Speaker 2: you said, JJ, I appreciate you wanting to coach, but
Speaker 2: right now I need you to take care of your
Speaker 2: business so you are even better coach on the other
Speaker 2: side of this tragedy, because I remember when Kareem Abdul
Speaker 2: Jabbar's house burned down, he wasn't thinking about basketball.
Speaker 5: Nope, it's difficult, like when you think, sometimes people say, oh,
Speaker 5: I just want to get back to work, no matter
Speaker 5: what it is, I want to get back to work
Speaker 5: to keep my mind off of it. When I lost
Speaker 5: my dad, that was what I did. I mourned for
Speaker 5: three months and I was like, I want to get
Speaker 5: back to work. I thought three months was enough time.
Speaker 5: And then I got back to work and every fifteen
Speaker 5: minutes I have to run to the bathroom because I'm crying.
Speaker 5: You know, so you don't really know how you're going
Speaker 5: to mentally move. But losing everything and just seeing him
Speaker 5: talk about it in a practice and talking about what
Speaker 5: it was, you could see that kind of in play.
Speaker 5: He was solid for a minute and then he wasn't.
Speaker 5: And that's what human emotions do. So again, I think
Speaker 5: humans need space to be humans and just deal with
Speaker 5: these types of things.
Speaker 3: We'll have more on this in just a moment.
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Speaker 2: KFI Mo Kelly and Jackie Ray. We're continuing to go
Speaker 2: Beyond the box Score and we're live everywhere on the
Speaker 2: iHeartRadio app, and we're also continuing our conversation about athletes, sports,
Speaker 2: and also tragedy. There are these expectations that we have
Speaker 2: of athletes as people, athletes as performers, and athletes as
Speaker 2: representatives of communities. Invariably, there will come a point in time.
Speaker 2: And this is not some grand prediction. It's just that
Speaker 2: I've lived on this earth long enough to have seen
Speaker 2: and I know it's coming. There will be some grand
Speaker 2: pronouncement by an athlete about these fires, about the response
Speaker 2: to the fires. And I'm not trying to predicate it's
Speaker 2: going to be this or that. I just know it's coming.
Speaker 2: Someone's going to have a microphone in front of their face.
Speaker 2: They're gonna be asked a question, and they're gonna be
Speaker 2: asked and they're going to answer as honestly as possible.
Speaker 2: How much grace do you give athletes for something like this?
Speaker 2: And I know this is hypothetical, but you know they're
Speaker 2: going to say something which is gonna piss half the
Speaker 2: people off.
Speaker 5: That's a great question, because as a journalist who's been
Speaker 5: in that situation, I would give a tremendous amount of
Speaker 5: grace in this specific instance because of the tragedy, and
Speaker 5: I would probably ask if, especially if it if it
Speaker 5: was a response that I knew was inflammatory, I would
Speaker 5: definitely give a follow up question that would give them
Speaker 5: a chance to maybe clarify that.
Speaker 2: Say that again, that is so key because a lot
Speaker 2: of times you only hear the question, which could lead
Speaker 2: the athlete to it in flatt platy air quotes response,
Speaker 2: but there's no follow up to give the athlete room
Speaker 2: to further elaborate, right.
Speaker 5: And I think that's important as a journalist to do
Speaker 5: that because again, not just a journalist, I'm also a
Speaker 5: human and I've been in situations. I'm pretty calculated with
Speaker 5: my words, so I'm not saying it's never happened to me.
Speaker 5: But when your emotions are at the forefront of your mind,
Speaker 5: I don't care how calculated you are, You're going to
Speaker 5: speak from an emotional place. So that journalistic integrity says,
Speaker 5: ask that follow up question.
Speaker 6: Now.
Speaker 5: If they double down on that, now you can run
Speaker 5: with it. But I do think we should allow people
Speaker 5: enough grace to speak in their emotion and then clarify
Speaker 5: their emotion, especially when they're dealing with tragedy.
Speaker 4: But that's not the society we live in.
Speaker 5: The society even if they do, even if someone does
Speaker 5: follow up with a great question, and they clarify they're
Speaker 5: gonna lead with the inflammatory comment because that's going to
Speaker 5: get more clicks and more views. So but I think
Speaker 5: that that's what in my journalism, that's what I lead
Speaker 5: with the humanity of the player, the humanity of everyone.
Speaker 5: So I think that's what we need to lean into,
Speaker 5: especially in times of tragedy.
Speaker 2: All right, let's keep going down this road. We talk
Speaker 2: about the responsibility of players. We talked about the responsibility
Speaker 2: of organizations and employees of an organization, So let's talk
Speaker 2: more about the responsibility of journalists, specifically sports journalists. What
Speaker 2: other recommendations might you have other than asking that follow
Speaker 2: up question? Don't just ask JJ Reddick about what he
Speaker 2: feels about again, hypothetically what he feels about the response
Speaker 2: to the fires. If you don't have an adequate follow up,
Speaker 2: But what are the recommendations would you have?
Speaker 5: I would recommend you go to an area that has
Speaker 5: been damaged by the fire. If you're following me on
Speaker 5: Instagram at Jackie Ray TV. I went out and I
Speaker 5: saw that, and I'm telling you, the devastation that you
Speaker 5: see in real life is nothing like the devastation you
Speaker 5: see on television, it just hits different.
Speaker 4: The smell and the air is different.
Speaker 5: As you're stepping on the ground and you're stepping over
Speaker 5: glass that has exploded from a car, or you'll see
Speaker 5: a baby crib that you can just make it out
Speaker 5: because of the little bars, but it's burned to the ground.
Speaker 5: You can literally see humanity or someone's life burned to
Speaker 5: the ground. So it gives you a frame of reference
Speaker 5: that will allow you to have grace because now you
Speaker 5: can picture yourself in that situation.
Speaker 4: When you're just talking about what you see on TV, it.
Speaker 5: Does look like a lot of armor againon movies that
Speaker 5: I see, so we can easily just say that's happened
Speaker 5: over there. But when you put yourself in that situation
Speaker 5: as a journalist, it gives you a frame of reference
Speaker 5: to tap into to help you not only understand where
Speaker 5: that athlete is coming from, but to feel their emotion
Speaker 5: and then thereby give them more grace, which I think
Speaker 5: we should do that across the board sometimes, I think,
Speaker 5: especially Americans, we have these opinions about people and we've
Speaker 5: never been in their shoes. So if you put yourself
Speaker 5: in somebody's shoes, it enables you to have a little
Speaker 5: bit more grace.
Speaker 2: Boy, you are preaching tonight to bring up grace and
Speaker 2: then to say imagine yourself in that person's shoes.
Speaker 3: It seems a very simple formulation.
Speaker 2: But I guess it's kind of complex because people, for
Speaker 2: the most part, are not willing to do that. We
Speaker 2: all have these opinions and recommendations from literally thousands of
Speaker 2: miles away, but aren't emotionally impacted, aren't physically impacted, aren't
Speaker 2: in any way connected to what actually is going on here.
Speaker 2: I've heard all sorts of opinions about California and what
Speaker 2: the HeLa fire departments supposed to do from like Australia.
Speaker 2: Are Australia, Yeah, I know, you know something about fires,
Speaker 2: but you don't know anything about la what's going on.
Speaker 2: You don't know anything about Santa Ana wins. And then
Speaker 2: also the people who want to politicize this for their
Speaker 2: own purposes, their own personal political purposes and Grant stunding.
Speaker 2: There will be the investigation, you know, there will be
Speaker 2: a post mortem, as I said, and we'll find out
Speaker 2: who was wrong and why to what degree, what facilities
Speaker 2: and structures and parameters whatever failed, and the people who
Speaker 2: didn't meet the bark, but right now, it should be
Speaker 2: about the.
Speaker 5: People, because the people are who's suffering. And if you
Speaker 5: can't see it in your heart to I saw a
Speaker 5: woman who lives in the Palisades, and that's the thing.
Speaker 5: The Palisades has been the point of contention for a
Speaker 5: lot of people. If you guys don't live in California,
Speaker 5: let me just put it out here right now. Everybody
Speaker 5: in California is not rich. Everybody in California does not
Speaker 5: have the means to build a new house. I don't
Speaker 5: care if they live in Beverly Hills or the Pacific Palisades.
Speaker 4: Whatever you have.
Speaker 5: In your head about the money out here, just throw
Speaker 5: it in the trash because it's not real.
Speaker 3: Life, and it sure doesn't cover everything like that. That's
Speaker 3: a whole different conversation.
Speaker 5: Right So, I saw a woman who lived in the
Speaker 5: Pacific Palisades, which is an affluent area, but she lives
Speaker 5: completely off the land. And again the insurance, the fire
Speaker 5: insurance specifically for that area was canceled, and this woman's
Speaker 5: heart was overjoyed.
Speaker 4: She was crying because she knew her house was burned down.
Speaker 5: She didn't have the means to replace it because again
Speaker 5: her whole life is. She lives off the land. But
Speaker 5: then her sheep ran up to her and she found
Speaker 5: out her her sheep were alive. And the joy that
Speaker 5: that woman had, you would have thought that someone had
Speaker 5: given her a million dollars. So again, you don't know
Speaker 5: what people are going through. But in that moment, it
Speaker 5: wasn't about the materialistic things. It was about an animal,
Speaker 5: a group of animals that brought her joy and she
Speaker 5: knew she hadn't lost everything. Just open your hearts and
Speaker 5: your minds a little bit to just that it's not
Speaker 5: about the house. It's about what the house represents, the
Speaker 5: life that people built, how they chose to raise their family,
Speaker 5: their animals, things. This is a whole person's culture, if
Speaker 5: you will, in one space and it's gone now, So
Speaker 5: have a little empathy.
Speaker 3: Your word is the last word and the best word.
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Speaker 2: relevant information, especially in a time like now. Earlier in
Speaker 2: the show, we were talking about the fires from a
Speaker 2: law enforcement perspective. We listen back to the remarks of
Speaker 2: La County DA Nathan Hawkman, who basically was letting everyone
Speaker 2: know he's following through on his promises to prosecute crimes
Speaker 2: in a way that we haven't seen for a few
Speaker 2: years since George Cascone was in that seat. We also
Speaker 2: heard from Sheriff Robert Luna talking about respecting the curfew
Speaker 2: and how you'll be arrested if you're in the wrong
Speaker 2: place at the wrong time, stay out of the evacuated
Speaker 2: zone owns, and also we heard from LAPD Assistant Chief
Speaker 2: Dominic Troy, who was detailing people are not being arrested
Speaker 2: for just crimes related to the fire. Talked about how
Speaker 2: an individual was arrested regarding the use of illegal use
Speaker 2: of a drone. Also people who were doing things completely
Speaker 2: not connected to the events, but just happened to be
Speaker 2: in an area committee of crime and they were subsequently arrested. Now,
Speaker 2: I want to talk about it from the fire first
Speaker 2: responders perspective, from what we heard earlier today. First up
Speaker 2: is LAPD Chief Crowley from this morning.
Speaker 7: But to start off with just a moment to share
Speaker 7: with everybody out there that's been impacted by these wildland fires,
Speaker 7: that the entire LAFD family sworn civilian, our city family,
Speaker 7: mayor Bass City leadership, everybody, Our thoughts and hearts and
Speaker 7: prayers go out to you as we continue to push
Speaker 7: forward and mitigate this emergency. We understand the impacts and
Speaker 7: we're working and will continue to work very, very very
Speaker 7: hard for everyone. Another point I want to make is
Speaker 7: that also we are so very grateful for the firefighters
Speaker 7: and the first responders that have already arrived and continue
Speaker 7: to arrive in the southern California region. We absolutely know
Speaker 7: that we cannot do this on our own, and we
Speaker 7: are tremendously appreciative of all of your continued support as
Speaker 7: the increasing wind event is upon us as we speak.
Speaker 7: The Los Angeles City Fire Department has maximized our resource
Speaker 7: capabilities and response capabilities. All available LAFD resources.
Speaker 4: Have been staffed.
Speaker 7: I have strategically preposition engine strike teams and task forces
Speaker 7: which are dedicated to rapid response for any new fire
Speaker 7: that breaks out in the city. In addition, I've directed
Speaker 7: the Fire Prevention Bureau to augment wildfire patrols in high
Speaker 7: hazard areas the Palisades fire. Your LFD remains committed to
Speaker 7: this fire and we have significant number of engines that
Speaker 7: have been dedicated to this fire. The crews that are involved,
Speaker 7: we have crews from up and down the state outside
Speaker 7: of the state, have made excellent, excellent work overnight mopping
Speaker 7: up flare ups and hotspots. Their primary focus last night
Speaker 7: was on the Maneville Canyon area, and this fire is
Speaker 7: now at twenty three thousand, seven hundred and thirteen acres
Speaker 7: with fourteen percent containment. With five thousand, one hundred and
Speaker 7: twenty three personnel assigned to the Palisades incident, firefighters will
Speaker 7: continue to work diligently throughout the day to increase containment
Speaker 7: and prevent further fire spread. Again, I want to focus
Speaker 7: our my comments on the amount of resources that are
Speaker 7: here in the Palisades, from the first responders all the
Speaker 7: way up to our incident command teams. Again, we're going
Speaker 7: to keep working really, really hard for you. Just a
Speaker 7: brief comment on the Hearst fire. It's been held to
Speaker 7: seven and ninety nine acres with ninety five percent containment. Again,
Speaker 7: thank you to the community members that are out there
Speaker 7: for remaining vigilant.
Speaker 8: We are not in the clear.
Speaker 7: I want to make sure of that we are not
Speaker 7: in the clear as of yet, and we must not
Speaker 7: let our guard down as we have right now extreme
Speaker 7: fire behavior, and we need to make sure that the
Speaker 7: community is staying updated with the most information updated information
Speaker 7: as well, follow all evacuation warnings and orders without delay,
Speaker 7: and please please stay safe.
Speaker 3: Let me just interject something here.
Speaker 2: Some people may not know how, especially if you're not
Speaker 2: from a LA area, you may not know how the
Speaker 2: municipality works. Crowley is the fire chief for the LA
Speaker 2: Fire Department as in city that's not county, and a
Speaker 2: lot of these fires are happening in portions of LA County.
Speaker 2: Which are not subject to the jurisdiction of La City
Speaker 2: Fire Department. It falls under the county. Like, for example,
Speaker 2: we were talking at length about Altadena. That's an unincorporated
Speaker 2: area of La County, which is not subject to the
Speaker 2: jurisdiction of La City Fire Department. I live within an
Speaker 2: address which is LA but I live in an unincorporated
Speaker 2: portion of LA which means that if I call for
Speaker 2: a first responder, it will be La County Fire Department.
Speaker 2: It'll be La County Sheriff who will respond, even though
Speaker 2: my address says Los Angeles. So we have to be
Speaker 2: mindful of this when we want to assess and parse
Speaker 2: blab about who's responsible for this and who's responsible for that,
Speaker 2: Just know that there are a number of overlapping agencies
Speaker 2: involved in this endeavor. And to that end, we also
Speaker 2: heard from La County Fire Chief Maroni.
Speaker 6: The Eton fire is now estimated to be fourteen thousand, and.
Speaker 2: If you noticed, he's adjusting specifically the Eton fire, which
Speaker 2: is we were talking about Altadina that is La County,
Speaker 2: not La City.
Speaker 6: The Eton fire is now estimated to be fourteen thousand,
Speaker 6: one hundred and seventeen acres with thirty three percent containment.
Speaker 6: We gained no acreage yesterday, which is a very good thing.
Speaker 6: We know that over seven thousand structures are damaged or destroyed,
Speaker 6: and we have three thousand, four hundred and eight firefighting
Speaker 6: personnel assigned to the incident. Twenty six percent of our
Speaker 6: damaged Inspections for dwellings have been completed. Impacted residents may
Speaker 6: visit recovery dot LA County dot gov to view preliminary
Speaker 6: maps showing damage assessments. Please note that the preliminary maps
Speaker 6: have been posted and are being updated daily. If there
Speaker 6: is not a color icon on your address, it means
Speaker 6: the building has not yet been inspected. Severe fire weather
Speaker 6: conditions will continue through Wednesday. Please be assured that all
Speaker 6: fire departments and all law enforcement agencies in the area
Speaker 6: will be prepared. The anticipated winds, combined with low humidities
Speaker 6: and low fuel moistures, will keep the fire threat in
Speaker 6: all of Los Angeles County critical. I ask all Los
Speaker 6: Angeles County residents in wildfire prone areas to understand that
Speaker 6: the necessary public safety power shows are important for our
Speaker 6: collective safety in preventing the next wildfire natural disaster. I
Speaker 6: did wanted to spell one rumor the La County Fire
Speaker 6: Department has never turned down any offers for mutual aid,
Speaker 6: assistance and resources. Repopulation will not occur until all areas
Speaker 6: are safe. Additionally, our Col four point fifteen super Scooper
Speaker 6: that was damaged because of a drone incursion is reportedly
Speaker 6: going to be flying tomorrow morning. It has been repaired
Speaker 6: and we're waiting for the FAA to give us approval
Speaker 6: to fly again. Thank you to Board Chair Supervisor Catherine
Speaker 6: Barger and Supervisor Lindsey Horvath for your unwavering leadership and
Speaker 6: conte and you'd support throughout this unprecedented disaster. And finally,
Speaker 6: to all the Los Angeles County residents affected by this catastrophe,
Speaker 6: please be assured your firefighters continue to work towards full
Speaker 6: containment of these wildfires from the air and on the ground.
Speaker 6: We stand alongside each of you as you begin the
Speaker 6: repopulation of evacuated areas when safe, and the rebuilding of
Speaker 6: your homes, your communities, and your lives. Thank you for me.
Speaker 2: The takeaway outside of the information is he's reiterating that
Speaker 2: there's a distinction to be made between his area of responsibility,
Speaker 2: which has to do with La County and those residents
Speaker 2: versus people who are residents of the municipality the City
Speaker 2: of Los Angeles with Chief Crowley, which is different. Now,
Speaker 2: they may overlap at times when you have these fires,
Speaker 2: which obviously do not respect boundaries. But let's be sure
Speaker 2: that we are looking to the right person to figure
Speaker 2: out who is responsible for our particular area or particular fire.
Speaker 2: As we go forward, I'm mo Kelly CAFI AM six
Speaker 2: forty will have more of this important information what was
Speaker 2: being said and shared over the course of the day.
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Speaker 1: Kelly on demand from KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2: Last second, I was playing some audio from the County
Speaker 2: LA Fire Department Chief Maroney, and I was explaining how
Speaker 2: sometimes we forget. We included that a lot of these
Speaker 2: agencies do overlap as far as how they're trying to
Speaker 2: help everyone in a crisis like this. And even though
Speaker 2: we hear more about Mayor Karen Bass and we hear
Speaker 2: more about LA Fire Department Chief as in City Kristen Crowley,
Speaker 2: that is only a part of the story. Is it's
Speaker 2: much more impactful to La County. And in the last second,
Speaker 2: we were playing audio from a fire department, Ellie County
Speaker 2: Fire Department Chief Maroney talking about his area of responsibility
Speaker 2: and how he was targeting the Eaton Canyon fire. I'm paraphrasing,
Speaker 2: but at the end of his remarks he made mention
Speaker 2: he was appreciative of the help of La County Supervisors
Speaker 2: Catherine Barger and also Lindsey Horvath. And if you know
Speaker 2: what the La County Board of Supervisors will do, they're
Speaker 2: responsible for managing resources and events just like this one.
Speaker 2: In fact, LA County Supervisor Lindsay Horvath will again join
Speaker 2: us tomorrow night to give us an update on her
Speaker 2: particular supervisor district and the areas which are impacted and
Speaker 2: give us an update there about its residents who have
Speaker 2: been evacuated in this place, where they will be going
Speaker 2: next or what services are available to them. But this
Speaker 2: is what Supervisor had to say this morning the.
Speaker 9: Latest Palisades fire updates. As you've heard, more than twenty
Speaker 9: three thousand acres have been impacted by this fire and
Speaker 9: it is fourteen percent contained. We have over fifty one
Speaker 9: hundred personnel, including forty four helicopters and five hundred forty engines.
Speaker 9: The fire continues to hold along Mandeville Canyon, and we
Speaker 9: are grateful for our first responders and all those on
Speaker 9: the front lines fighting in this area. We know it
Speaker 9: is critical and you are doing a great job. We've
Speaker 9: also made significant progress into Panga Oaks, Sylvia Park to
Speaker 9: Mescal Ridge to Mholland. All of these areas have been
Speaker 9: under threat and we are continuing to hold. Santa Monica
Speaker 9: has lifted their evacuation orders and downgraded to warnings in
Speaker 9: North San Vicenti, moving from order to warning. At eight
Speaker 9: am today, all of the warning areas have been lifted.
Speaker 9: A particularly dangerous situation has been issued strongest wins from
Speaker 9: Tuesday morning until Wednesday. We strongly encourage caution and vigilance.
Speaker 9: This is the weather prediction that the National Weather Service
Speaker 9: had going into last week's event, so these conditions are significant,
Speaker 9: they are serious, and we need you to follow all orders.
Speaker 9: All Santa Monica Malibu United School District schools will remain
Speaker 9: closed today. All Santa Monica campuses except for Roosevelt Elementary,
Speaker 9: will be open. All LAUSD schools will be open today
Speaker 9: except Canyon Charter Elementary, Kenter, Canyon Charter Elementary, Palisades Charter Elementary,
Speaker 9: Marquees Charter Elementary, Topanga Charter Elementary, Lenai Road Elementary, and
Speaker 9: Paul Revere Middle School.
Speaker 8: Our Department of Ments Health has.
Speaker 9: Resources for how to speak with our young people about
Speaker 9: wildfires at DMH dot La County dot gov. We need
Speaker 9: to support our children in this time and make sure
Speaker 9: they're able to talk about this tragedy. Our DMH helpline
Speaker 9: is eight hundred eight five four seven seven seven to one.
Speaker 9: Metro fares continue to be suspended for as long as
Speaker 9: conditions remain the same. We thank our Chair of the
Speaker 9: Metro Board, Janis Hahn, and our CEO, Stephanie Wiggins, for
Speaker 9: their assistance. Palisades Post Office has been relocated to Rancho
Speaker 9: Park Post Office. Residents can pick up their mail at
Speaker 9: one one two seven zero, Exposition Boulevard on the first floor.
Speaker 9: Recovery dot La County dot gov has launched. You can
Speaker 9: find initial damage assessments as well as maps to indicate
Speaker 9: your property location and status. Comprehensive list of county resources
Speaker 9: by department, federal, state, local and nonprofit emergency assistants. Once again,
Speaker 9: that website is Recovery dot Lacounty dot gov.
Speaker 8: Our Department of economic opportunities.
Speaker 9: East La Entrepreneur Center and America's Job Centers of California
Speaker 9: open today as well to support impacted workers as well
Speaker 9: as small businesses. As far as public health updates, the
Speaker 9: air quality smoke advisory continues through next week. Please wear
Speaker 9: N ninety five masks outdoors. Find particulates are airborne even
Speaker 9: in areas not impacted by the fires. Especially children and
Speaker 9: older adults, especially those with serious health complications, are particularly
Speaker 9: at risk. LA County Department of Public Health is providing
Speaker 9: N ninety five masks at all evacuation shelters and to
Speaker 9: community based organizations. When you are at home home, please
Speaker 9: close your windows and doors, run the air conditioning or
Speaker 9: air purifiers if you have them, and check your filters regularly.
Speaker 9: In your car, close the windows and vents, turn your
Speaker 9: air conditioning on to recirculate. Do not in any way
Speaker 9: use leaf blowers or other actions that will push ash
Speaker 9: into the air. Follow all drinking water advisories, and due
Speaker 9: to ocean contamination, avoid the following beaches Malibu Point at
Speaker 9: Surfrider Beach, Solstice Creek at Dan Blocker County Beach, and
Speaker 9: Innercabrio Beach in San Pedro To stay informed about the
Speaker 9: latest emergency orders, you can go to emergency dot LA
Speaker 9: County dot gov. And I want to once again thank
Speaker 9: all of those who are on the front lines keeping
Speaker 9: us safe through this very difficult time, all of our
Speaker 9: volunteers who have kicked into action to ensure that our
Speaker 9: community members are supported.
Speaker 8: And I also want to thank our.
Speaker 9: Governor for an additional executive order in addition to the
Speaker 9: one that he issued yesterday to expedite debris removal and
Speaker 9: to reduce the risk of mudslides. As we know, rain
Speaker 9: is predicted starting next week and these complicated conditions may
Speaker 9: only worsen.
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