WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.240 --> 00:00:05.080 You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM 2 00:00:05.120 --> 00:00:05.919 six forty. 3 00:00:06.400 --> 00:00:11.400 KFI AM six forty Bill Handle Here Tuesday morning, December tenth. 4 00:00:11.519 --> 00:00:16.320 We woke up this morning to news of a fire 5 00:00:16.640 --> 00:00:21.920 in Malibu that we've been covering all morning. Tim Conway 6 00:00:21.960 --> 00:00:26.239 came in about two o'clock this morning and stayed basically 7 00:00:26.359 --> 00:00:28.920 until we came on the air at six, and he'll 8 00:00:28.920 --> 00:00:32.439 be back again this afternoon four to seven. What a 9 00:00:32.520 --> 00:00:36.200 yeoman's job he did, so thank you to Timmy really 10 00:00:36.200 --> 00:00:38.240 did a great job. And if he didn't do a 11 00:00:38.280 --> 00:00:40.920 good job, believe me, I would tell you he did 12 00:00:40.920 --> 00:00:45.679 a rotten job. So we have been paying attention to 13 00:00:45.719 --> 00:00:49.640 this Malibu fire. It's not enormous relative to other fires 14 00:00:49.640 --> 00:00:54.640 here in California, but it is newsworthy in that it's 15 00:00:54.880 --> 00:00:59.719 Malibu again, and that seems every other fire happens in 16 00:00:59.759 --> 00:01:04.319 Malay and the homes. There are homes that have gone 17 00:01:04.439 --> 00:01:07.920 up and some of these homes and I'm guessing now 18 00:01:08.359 --> 00:01:10.920 as to which ones, because we don't know exactly which homes. 19 00:01:10.959 --> 00:01:15.159 We have some kind of aerial view. I'm watching KTLA, 20 00:01:16.359 --> 00:01:22.560 which here we goes behind me screen and its a lot. 21 00:01:22.280 --> 00:01:24.560 Of smoke, a lot of fire still continuing. 22 00:01:25.200 --> 00:01:28.840 It is uncontained as of right now, and this is 23 00:01:28.959 --> 00:01:32.680 the time where it's going to be particularly rough because 24 00:01:32.959 --> 00:01:35.560 the strongest wins are going to be with us until 25 00:01:35.560 --> 00:01:38.680 about nine thirty ten o'clock. We are waiting for a 26 00:01:38.760 --> 00:01:43.640 press conference from the fire authorities that was scheduled to 27 00:01:43.719 --> 00:01:48.719 start at eight o'clock. And Michael Monks, KFI reporter has 28 00:01:48.799 --> 00:01:51.920 been to a couple of places in southern California or 29 00:01:52.000 --> 00:01:59.040 in the Malibu region. The fire is overlooking the Pacific Ocean. 30 00:02:00.079 --> 00:02:04.879 It's a very tough way to live in Malibu. Lindsay 31 00:02:04.959 --> 00:02:07.560 has her cousin living there who had lost a home 32 00:02:08.159 --> 00:02:12.360 in the previous fire. Is right in the middle of 33 00:02:12.840 --> 00:02:16.960 the area where the fires are burning and we. 34 00:02:18.520 --> 00:02:19.240 Can't reach them. 35 00:02:20.120 --> 00:02:23.080 There is no internet, there are no phones, and everybody 36 00:02:23.120 --> 00:02:25.680 is scrambling to see how they're doing. And if you 37 00:02:25.719 --> 00:02:27.919 know anybody in Malibu, it's going to be tough. We 38 00:02:27.960 --> 00:02:32.039 talked to the Red Cross, Mimi Teller, who is the 39 00:02:32.280 --> 00:02:36.039 spokesperson for the Red Cross. Amy, I know. 40 00:02:36.199 --> 00:02:38.240 They're actually they're getting started right now. 41 00:02:38.360 --> 00:02:39.759 Oh okay, let's go to the presser. 42 00:02:41.120 --> 00:02:45.520 Last night at ten fifty pm, LA County Fire units 43 00:02:46.080 --> 00:02:49.800 were responded to a report of a brushfire at Malibu 44 00:02:49.879 --> 00:02:54.960 Canyon Road and the tunnel units reported five acres of 45 00:02:55.039 --> 00:03:00.000 heavy brush burning and being spread by strong Santa Ana wins. 46 00:03:01.520 --> 00:03:06.000 The fire is currently estimated at over two thousand, two 47 00:03:06.080 --> 00:03:09.360 hundred acres and we have seven hundred. 48 00:03:11.039 --> 00:03:12.960 Of the firefighters that we're on SCEEN. 49 00:03:13.759 --> 00:03:19.360 We have only a minimal number of homes destroyed, However, 50 00:03:19.439 --> 00:03:25.719 I do not have the exact number to give your viewers. Thankfully, 51 00:03:25.919 --> 00:03:31.360 we have no reports of serious injuries or fatalities, and 52 00:03:31.879 --> 00:03:36.840 this fire is not contained and we remain under an 53 00:03:36.919 --> 00:03:43.120 immediate threat because of the red flag conditions. The current 54 00:03:43.240 --> 00:03:48.479 red flag alert is projected to continue through Wednesday evening 55 00:03:49.080 --> 00:03:54.719 at eight pm for strong winds and low humidities and 56 00:03:54.759 --> 00:03:58.199 the cause of the fire is unknown at this time, 57 00:03:58.840 --> 00:04:02.360 but it is under act of investigation by the Los 58 00:04:02.360 --> 00:04:09.599 Angeles County Fire and Sheriffs Arson investigators. Lastly, I'd like 59 00:04:09.680 --> 00:04:15.080 to acknowledge and thank our partners, both fire and law enforcement, 60 00:04:15.280 --> 00:04:16.920 for their assistance this morning. 61 00:04:17.759 --> 00:04:20.120 We certainly couldn't do it without them. 62 00:04:21.480 --> 00:04:25.720 And one request from water Works District twenty nine and 63 00:04:25.800 --> 00:04:30.199 the Department of Public Works is to ask residents that 64 00:04:30.240 --> 00:04:33.319 are not in the immediate fire area to police turn 65 00:04:33.399 --> 00:04:39.639 off their sprinklers. We are currently monitoring our water pressure. 66 00:04:40.120 --> 00:04:43.959 We do have personnel on scene that water should be 67 00:04:44.079 --> 00:04:50.519 used for firefighting and not to sprinkle or irrigate your lawns, 68 00:04:51.040 --> 00:04:53.279 and it's going to be of little use from starting 69 00:04:53.399 --> 00:04:57.480 from having a brush fire start near your home. Next up, 70 00:04:57.560 --> 00:05:01.439 I'd like to ask our Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert 71 00:05:01.519 --> 00:05:04.399 Lunat to come up and give the law enforcement update. 72 00:05:04.560 --> 00:05:09.959 Thank you, thank you, Chief, and good morning to all 73 00:05:10.000 --> 00:05:13.439 of you, and thank you for covering this very important event. 74 00:05:14.279 --> 00:05:17.639 The Sheriff's Department has been coordinating with our local state 75 00:05:17.680 --> 00:05:21.160 and fire partners, and the County Office of Emergency Management 76 00:05:21.759 --> 00:05:25.600 to monitor the Franklin fire, which started in Malibu Canyon Road, 77 00:05:25.759 --> 00:05:31.199 north of Malibu Cress Road and south of Francisco Ranch Road. 78 00:05:32.560 --> 00:05:35.759 We currently have well over one hundred and fifty personnel, 79 00:05:36.079 --> 00:05:39.680 including our Malibu Search and Rescue that are assisting with 80 00:05:39.759 --> 00:05:45.920 this fire incident. We currently have eighteen operations that include evacuations, 81 00:05:46.439 --> 00:05:50.839 road closures, and security patrols. Nine of those missions are 82 00:05:50.879 --> 00:05:56.360 completed and nine of them are still ongoing. For current closures, 83 00:05:57.040 --> 00:06:00.879 there are several road closures in effected in the affected area. 84 00:06:01.360 --> 00:06:04.800 There is a soft closure on Los Virginis Road at 85 00:06:04.839 --> 00:06:11.120 Loss Hills Road, hard closures at Los Virginis and Molhulland Highway, 86 00:06:11.399 --> 00:06:15.879 and on Pacific Coast Highway between Topanga Canyon Boulevard and 87 00:06:16.000 --> 00:06:22.959 Canyon Doom Road. Regarding evacuations, a little after midnight, we 88 00:06:23.000 --> 00:06:29.279 started multiple evacuation orders and warnings in between Trancas Canyon 89 00:06:30.079 --> 00:06:33.920 and the west to Tapega Canyon Boulevard and everything south 90 00:06:34.000 --> 00:06:38.720 of Mount Hulland Highway to Pacific Coast Highway. There are 91 00:06:38.759 --> 00:06:44.279 approximately eighteen thousand people and eight thousand, one hundred structures 92 00:06:44.279 --> 00:06:48.519 in the affected area. Of the eight thousand, one hundred structures, 93 00:06:49.000 --> 00:06:53.160 two thousand and forty three structures are under evacuation orders 94 00:06:53.560 --> 00:06:58.519 and six thousand, forty six are under evacuation warnings. And 95 00:06:58.560 --> 00:07:01.000 I just want to throw something out to our residents 96 00:07:01.120 --> 00:07:05.240 that's critical. I cannot tell you how much we appreciate 97 00:07:05.920 --> 00:07:09.040 when a deputy or another official comes to your door 98 00:07:09.600 --> 00:07:12.480 or you get a notification that there is a warning 99 00:07:13.240 --> 00:07:18.519 or specifically an order you need to evacuate. It saves 100 00:07:18.600 --> 00:07:23.279 lives and it actually impacts the lives of our first responders, 101 00:07:24.000 --> 00:07:26.399 because if they have to come in to save a life, 102 00:07:26.600 --> 00:07:29.040 they're putting their own lives at risk, which we're willing 103 00:07:29.079 --> 00:07:33.399 to do. But please, just the residents are doing an 104 00:07:33.399 --> 00:07:35.560 amazing job this far, and I just want to say thank. 105 00:07:35.399 --> 00:07:37.879 You to all of them. 106 00:07:37.920 --> 00:07:42.680 With evacuations continuing, Pepperdine University has a shelter and place 107 00:07:42.800 --> 00:07:48.720 order for approximately eight hundred students. Fires can be extremely 108 00:07:48.800 --> 00:07:52.759 unpredictable and we highly encourage residents in the fire areas 109 00:07:52.800 --> 00:07:56.879 to be prepared to heat our evacuation warnings, gather all 110 00:07:56.920 --> 00:08:01.800 important items, documents, medications, and in case you need in 111 00:08:01.839 --> 00:08:04.360 case you need to leave your residence immediately. 112 00:08:04.920 --> 00:08:05.680 Very important. 113 00:08:06.360 --> 00:08:10.120 The safety of our community members is our number one priority, 114 00:08:10.560 --> 00:08:14.360 and we will continue to assist all impacted residents as 115 00:08:14.399 --> 00:08:15.399 they are waking up this. 116 00:08:15.399 --> 00:08:17.639 Morning and whether they're. 117 00:08:19.040 --> 00:08:22.000 They're in need of any kind of assistance, even directions, 118 00:08:22.040 --> 00:08:22.560 we're there. 119 00:08:22.680 --> 00:08:24.399 We're here to help you. 120 00:08:25.000 --> 00:08:28.160 In regards to shelters that we're using, we have several 121 00:08:28.199 --> 00:08:29.959 shelters that have been established for. 122 00:08:29.959 --> 00:08:31.560 The residents that are displaced. 123 00:08:32.320 --> 00:08:36.159 Pacific Palisades Recreation Center at eight fifty one Alma Real 124 00:08:36.320 --> 00:08:41.720 Drive and Pacific Palisades for small animals, the Agora Animal 125 00:08:41.799 --> 00:08:46.000 Shelter on a two nine five two five Agora Road 126 00:08:46.080 --> 00:08:51.320 in Agora Hills for large animals, Pierce College at six 127 00:08:51.399 --> 00:08:57.320 ' two zero one. Whenetka Avenue in Woodland Hills, the 128 00:08:57.360 --> 00:09:01.679 fire chief talked about damage. Unfortunately, we did have one 129 00:09:01.759 --> 00:09:04.799 black and white patrol car from our Santa Clarita Sheriff 130 00:09:04.879 --> 00:09:08.320 station that was damaged in the fire. Thank god, the 131 00:09:08.360 --> 00:09:12.879 deputy was not injured. We are very appreciative of the 132 00:09:12.919 --> 00:09:15.759 collaborative efforts. If you look around me, this is a 133 00:09:15.799 --> 00:09:19.879 team effort, whether it's all the different agencies on the fireside, 134 00:09:20.279 --> 00:09:22.120 the different agencies on the police side. 135 00:09:22.159 --> 00:09:23.480 I can't thank the California. 136 00:09:23.519 --> 00:09:26.320 I have patrol enough for a lot of the road closures 137 00:09:26.679 --> 00:09:30.399 that are taking place. But again, as I close here, 138 00:09:30.720 --> 00:09:34.399 I do urge our residents to stay informed. Stay informed 139 00:09:34.399 --> 00:09:38.080 by watching or following credible news sources. Like most of you, 140 00:09:39.039 --> 00:09:42.639 visit our Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department social media or 141 00:09:42.799 --> 00:09:48.639 Lacounty dot gov slash emergency for updated information. 142 00:09:49.159 --> 00:09:50.080 Thank you very much. 143 00:09:51.879 --> 00:09:55.440 Now I'm going to introduce Kevin McGowan, our Director of 144 00:09:55.480 --> 00:10:01.240 Office of Emergency Services Services for Los Angeles County. 145 00:10:01.639 --> 00:10:02.360 Thank you, Seff. 146 00:10:04.159 --> 00:10:06.360 Our heart goes out to all those that have been 147 00:10:06.399 --> 00:10:10.039 impacted by this wildline fire. I also want to say 148 00:10:10.080 --> 00:10:12.879 thank you to the residents, as the sheriff said, but 149 00:10:12.960 --> 00:10:15.799 also to all of our field responders and our emergency 150 00:10:15.840 --> 00:10:21.240 operations Center responders. The county's emergency organization went into its 151 00:10:21.279 --> 00:10:25.639 full activation at the onset of the forecast, well before 152 00:10:26.399 --> 00:10:30.279 the fire actually started. We saw the significance from the 153 00:10:30.360 --> 00:10:35.360 National Weather Service, another great partner during this incident, describing 154 00:10:35.360 --> 00:10:40.080 this as a particularly dangerous situation that warranted a really 155 00:10:40.080 --> 00:10:45.440 sizable preparedness campaign across the entire county that continues. 156 00:10:44.919 --> 00:10:46.080 Still at this moment. 157 00:10:46.679 --> 00:10:48.679 We still have a lot of risk and threat throughout 158 00:10:48.679 --> 00:10:52.080 the county beyond just just what's occurring at the Franklin fire. 159 00:10:52.919 --> 00:10:56.639 We activated our Emergency Operations Center yesterday at seven am, 160 00:10:57.120 --> 00:11:00.399 and it's been activated twenty four to seven since it 161 00:11:00.440 --> 00:11:03.879 assisted with the Sheriff's Department and the Fire Department, along 162 00:11:03.919 --> 00:11:06.759 with our partners at the City of Malibu, with all 163 00:11:06.799 --> 00:11:10.559 of our alert and warning emergency notifications. I really want 164 00:11:10.600 --> 00:11:13.879 to express my gratitude and thanks to the residents for 165 00:11:14.600 --> 00:11:18.120 complying with all those emergency notifications. It takes a team 166 00:11:18.159 --> 00:11:23.039 effort for us to do effective evacuations, especially when it's nighttime. Lastly, 167 00:11:24.279 --> 00:11:27.559 just to echo what the sheriff said, real time information 168 00:11:27.759 --> 00:11:31.360 can be found by visiting our website LA County dot 169 00:11:31.360 --> 00:11:34.320 gov slash emergency. And with that, I have the pleasure 170 00:11:34.480 --> 00:11:38.759 of introducing the mayor for Malibu, Marann Riggins. 171 00:11:40.679 --> 00:11:44.840 Sire to hear the mayor talk, because now we're into 172 00:11:45.360 --> 00:11:48.919 the politicians, and we're going to have the mayor, and 173 00:11:48.960 --> 00:11:53.759 then we'd like to introduce the council person for our district, 174 00:11:54.399 --> 00:11:57.799 then the assembly person for our district to talk about 175 00:11:57.840 --> 00:12:01.360 how terrific that person is. And then the head of 176 00:12:01.399 --> 00:12:06.480 the mosquito abatement district to talk about how they're dealing 177 00:12:06.559 --> 00:12:10.200 with mosquitos in the area. And let's talk about the 178 00:12:10.240 --> 00:12:11.679 water district person. 179 00:12:11.799 --> 00:12:13.039 Now we have to talk about that. 180 00:12:13.679 --> 00:12:17.799 Up to that point, this was a terrific press conference. 181 00:12:18.559 --> 00:12:22.600 I mean it was right from the beginning. Here's the information, 182 00:12:23.519 --> 00:12:27.080 here's what we need, here's what we're doing. Here are 183 00:12:27.120 --> 00:12:31.159 the centers, here's where you go. Here's how many people 184 00:12:31.200 --> 00:12:33.879 are out there. Here are the teams that we have 185 00:12:34.120 --> 00:12:37.000 out We have eighteen teams and this is what they're doing, 186 00:12:37.559 --> 00:12:40.159 all solid, good information. 187 00:12:41.320 --> 00:12:43.639 The good news is they didn't start. 188 00:12:43.200 --> 00:12:46.320 With let's talk to every politician who is up here 189 00:12:46.360 --> 00:12:49.399 just trying to get re elected. So I have to 190 00:12:49.480 --> 00:12:54.360 give big kudos to the fire department, the Sheriff's department, 191 00:12:54.879 --> 00:12:58.120 the emergency center. They actually did a very good job. 192 00:12:58.159 --> 00:13:00.840 And now they're into the crapple. I'm sure, and I'm 193 00:13:00.840 --> 00:13:04.279 willing to bet Kno. If we come back fifteen minutes 194 00:13:04.320 --> 00:13:09.320 from now, we'll be hearing politician number twelve talking about 195 00:13:09.360 --> 00:13:10.120 what's going on. 196 00:13:10.679 --> 00:13:13.879 They did say Bill that the mayor spoke and said 197 00:13:13.879 --> 00:13:17.399 that the city Hall is one of the buildings under 198 00:13:17.440 --> 00:13:20.399 the evacuation order, so they are not operating out of 199 00:13:20.440 --> 00:13:23.240 city Hall this morning. They are operating their emergency center 200 00:13:23.360 --> 00:13:27.720 remotely from another place, and also asked residents to have 201 00:13:27.799 --> 00:13:30.600 their Genesis apps ready to serve. 202 00:13:30.759 --> 00:13:33.720 How many let me ask you this, and maybe I 203 00:13:33.919 --> 00:13:35.440 jumped out of there too quickly. 204 00:13:35.720 --> 00:13:38.360 No, I don't think, because now Lindsay Horvath is talking. 205 00:13:38.159 --> 00:13:42.159 Now, of course, and how many thank yous are going around. 206 00:13:42.320 --> 00:13:45.000 I'd like to thank our partners for doing this, and 207 00:13:45.080 --> 00:13:49.120 I'd like to thank this organization I'd like, it's just 208 00:13:50.039 --> 00:13:52.360 I don't know if that's going on. And you know, Amy, 209 00:13:52.600 --> 00:13:56.799 you're looking at this, I'd love to hear how much 210 00:13:58.200 --> 00:14:00.360 or how long this thing is going to go. And 211 00:14:00.720 --> 00:14:02.720 at this point, I want to take guesses we're going 212 00:14:02.759 --> 00:14:03.759 to do a football pool. 213 00:14:04.600 --> 00:14:05.960 I'm saying till. 214 00:14:05.679 --> 00:14:08.080 Two minutes before we walk out, we'll be hearing these 215 00:14:08.080 --> 00:14:11.960 people talk, maybe maybe half an hour later. 216 00:14:12.159 --> 00:14:12.840 What do you think? 217 00:14:13.320 --> 00:14:13.720 All right? 218 00:14:13.879 --> 00:14:17.200 So, one of the things that both and I think 219 00:14:17.240 --> 00:14:22.480 it was the both the sheriff and the fire chief 220 00:14:22.919 --> 00:14:26.360 said that he thanks everybody for actually paying attention to 221 00:14:26.399 --> 00:14:34.679 evacuation orders and staying. Ignoring evacuation orders are a terrible thing, 222 00:14:34.720 --> 00:14:35.000 and he. 223 00:14:34.960 --> 00:14:36.799 Said, we're there to rescue lives. 224 00:14:38.120 --> 00:14:42.559 When you talk about the floods and the hurricanes, the 225 00:14:42.919 --> 00:14:47.879 rescue people said, real simple, you're not out. 226 00:14:48.039 --> 00:14:49.559 If you think we're going to come. 227 00:14:49.440 --> 00:14:55.440 And rescue you, you're nuts. We're just leaving you alone 228 00:14:55.600 --> 00:14:58.080 and you deal with it. And I would think the 229 00:14:58.159 --> 00:15:02.000 same thing here, would you put first responders at risk? 230 00:15:02.159 --> 00:15:07.080 And the fire chief even said that our first responders 231 00:15:07.480 --> 00:15:08.159 put their. 232 00:15:08.080 --> 00:15:09.159 Lives on the line. 233 00:15:10.000 --> 00:15:13.840 Why if people don't want to evacuate or they ignore 234 00:15:13.879 --> 00:15:20.120 evacuation orders, and how many people do ignore evacuation evacuation 235 00:15:20.360 --> 00:15:24.960 orders constantly and inevitably the news goes up to these 236 00:15:25.000 --> 00:15:27.440 folks after the fact and said, yes, I heard the 237 00:15:27.480 --> 00:15:33.960 evacuation order. Yes, I understood that it was mandatory, but 238 00:15:34.039 --> 00:15:36.559 I decided to write it out and here I am. 239 00:15:37.159 --> 00:15:41.120 And then there are places where the reporters go up 240 00:15:41.159 --> 00:15:44.759 to someone and say, hey, I noticed you didn't go, 241 00:15:44.960 --> 00:15:47.759 You didn't mandate, you didn't didn't follow the mandate for 242 00:15:47.799 --> 00:15:54.279 evacuation orders. Why, oh you're dead? Oh I'm sorry. Let 243 00:15:54.279 --> 00:15:58.519 me go to the next person, Michael Monks. Is he 244 00:15:58.600 --> 00:16:01.720 available as to what's happened? And do we have Michael 245 00:16:01.879 --> 00:16:02.360 coming out? 246 00:16:02.759 --> 00:16:03.200 I'm here? 247 00:16:03.399 --> 00:16:04.480 Okay, there you go, Michael. 248 00:16:04.559 --> 00:16:04.799 Okay. 249 00:16:04.960 --> 00:16:08.840 Last year were at on PCH this KFI reporter Michael 250 00:16:09.200 --> 00:16:11.480 at where are you now and what is happening in 251 00:16:11.519 --> 00:16:12.000 your world? 252 00:16:12.159 --> 00:16:15.639 I've returned to the evacuation center in the Palisades because 253 00:16:15.679 --> 00:16:20.440 there really is such limited mobile and antenna service in 254 00:16:20.759 --> 00:16:23.480 Malibu right now, So in order to talk to you all, 255 00:16:23.559 --> 00:16:26.399 I've come back to the Palisades outside the evacuation center. 256 00:16:26.440 --> 00:16:29.720 But what I did observe there was a lot of 257 00:16:29.720 --> 00:16:33.440 smoke You could definitely smell and taste the fire there, 258 00:16:33.759 --> 00:16:36.919 and it was a crazy scene to see pch empty. 259 00:16:37.240 --> 00:16:39.399 You know, rarely do you get the chance to drive 260 00:16:39.519 --> 00:16:44.480 on that highway alone. So that was it was neat 261 00:16:45.159 --> 00:16:48.360 obviously a tragic set of circumstances, but you've got you know, 262 00:16:48.720 --> 00:16:52.519 everything else looks so normal. It was business as usual 263 00:16:52.639 --> 00:16:55.639 driving in towards Malibu before the road is closed, where 264 00:16:55.679 --> 00:16:58.240 they did let the media go by, food trucks, people 265 00:16:58.679 --> 00:17:02.399 hanging out, and then you cross into the Malibu city 266 00:17:02.440 --> 00:17:05.720 limit and it becomes a city of tumbleweeds because of 267 00:17:05.759 --> 00:17:08.039 all of the closures, and you've got the beauty of 268 00:17:08.079 --> 00:17:10.640 Malibu and then a mountain on fire behind it. 269 00:17:11.400 --> 00:17:15.519 I'm looking at some of the television coverage the monitors 270 00:17:15.559 --> 00:17:16.119 behind me. 271 00:17:16.240 --> 00:17:19.559 So if I sound a little echoe, forgive me. 272 00:17:20.200 --> 00:17:23.680 And we're looking at this is KTLA that does a 273 00:17:23.680 --> 00:17:28.440 phenomenal job of covering local news like this, and the 274 00:17:28.599 --> 00:17:30.160 coverage they're showing. 275 00:17:29.799 --> 00:17:32.799 There isn't much fire. What I do see is a 276 00:17:32.839 --> 00:17:36.160 lot of smoke. I don't know if there's much fire there. 277 00:17:36.200 --> 00:17:37.440 You've been following this a lot more. 278 00:17:37.599 --> 00:17:38.599 That's what I saw. 279 00:17:39.000 --> 00:17:41.960 Primarily by the time the sun came up and they 280 00:17:41.960 --> 00:17:43.559 were able to start attacking this thing. 281 00:17:43.599 --> 00:17:44.160 From the air. 282 00:17:44.640 --> 00:17:47.400 It was a lot more smoke that was visible, and 283 00:17:47.480 --> 00:17:50.200 I saw a lot of choppers. I forgive me for 284 00:17:50.240 --> 00:17:52.559 not knowing the terms, but it was those specialty choppers 285 00:17:52.559 --> 00:17:54.839 that have like two propellers on top and the front 286 00:17:54.880 --> 00:17:57.200 and the back that are sent in to help bat. 287 00:17:57.119 --> 00:18:01.200 Yeah, they're known as specialty I helicopters with two roaders 288 00:18:01.359 --> 00:18:02.720 on top is what they're called. 289 00:18:02.759 --> 00:18:04.720 And I think they are managed by the Department of 290 00:18:04.799 --> 00:18:05.839 Mosquito Abatement. 291 00:18:06.160 --> 00:18:09.480 Yes, absolutely, hopefully now the camera. 292 00:18:09.160 --> 00:18:13.920 Has now it's come into a view of there actually 293 00:18:14.000 --> 00:18:17.200 is fire along the ridges, but not a huge amount. 294 00:18:17.279 --> 00:18:20.799 We're not talking about massive blazes that are going up 295 00:18:20.839 --> 00:18:22.559 thirty forty eighty feet. 296 00:18:23.000 --> 00:18:24.200 Well, there's a couple. 297 00:18:24.160 --> 00:18:27.440 There, but they it doesn't look like even with this 298 00:18:28.599 --> 00:18:31.480 wind that is supposed to be here, the fires are 299 00:18:31.480 --> 00:18:34.640 burning straight up, and that usually indicates there are but 300 00:18:34.799 --> 00:18:38.240 there's not a lot of wind. When the fire goes sideways, 301 00:18:38.519 --> 00:18:41.200 then you're looking at this thing moving very very quickly. 302 00:18:41.359 --> 00:18:43.559 How many people are This is the story we've been 303 00:18:43.559 --> 00:18:46.079 covering this morning. There seems to be a We talked 304 00:18:46.119 --> 00:18:49.559 to the Red Cross lady Mimi Teller, there was virtually 305 00:18:49.920 --> 00:18:53.799 nobody at the evacuation center, and you had mentioned that 306 00:18:53.920 --> 00:18:57.000 when you first went there before going on PCH there 307 00:18:57.119 --> 00:18:58.279 was nobody there. 308 00:18:59.000 --> 00:19:00.160 What's happening now. 309 00:19:00.480 --> 00:19:01.279 It's sort of the same. 310 00:19:01.319 --> 00:19:03.839 I had talked to Mimi as well earlier this morning, 311 00:19:03.880 --> 00:19:06.720 and there were people parked here, and like I had 312 00:19:06.759 --> 00:19:09.799 mentioned on the earlier broadcast, it seemed that people were 313 00:19:09.920 --> 00:19:13.319 here hanging out in their vehicles that they must have 314 00:19:13.359 --> 00:19:15.880 found some comfort in that for now instead of going 315 00:19:15.920 --> 00:19:17.799 inside and sitting on one of these cots at the 316 00:19:17.839 --> 00:19:21.079 recreation center. So the situation is the parking lot is 317 00:19:21.119 --> 00:19:23.799 still full. The difference now is that there are a 318 00:19:23.880 --> 00:19:25.759 lot more people who are coming here to use this 319 00:19:25.839 --> 00:19:28.599 place as it is intended. It's a recreation center, so 320 00:19:28.640 --> 00:19:30.920 I'm seeing a lot of pickleball rackets go in. So 321 00:19:30.960 --> 00:19:34.960 it's hard to discern between people who have evacuated any 322 00:19:35.039 --> 00:19:37.440 type of birding neighborhood in Malibu and folks who are 323 00:19:37.480 --> 00:19:39.839 just out for a little Tuesday recreation. 324 00:19:39.920 --> 00:19:41.599 A lot of dogs are running around now. 325 00:19:42.000 --> 00:19:44.680 But we have stood by here with the hoping to 326 00:19:44.799 --> 00:19:48.440 talk to some folks who left the scene of the fire, 327 00:19:48.799 --> 00:19:51.240 and that hasn't worked out yet. Folks have pretty much 328 00:19:51.240 --> 00:19:53.920 either remained in their car or they've driven on I'll 329 00:19:53.960 --> 00:19:56.799 tell you, And this is me making a deduction. 330 00:19:56.880 --> 00:19:57.240 I guess. 331 00:19:57.240 --> 00:19:59.759 I'm not sure, but driving on PCH before you got 332 00:19:59.799 --> 00:20:02.759 to the Malibu City limit sign, I saw. 333 00:20:02.400 --> 00:20:04.400 A lot of cars just parked. 334 00:20:04.119 --> 00:20:07.200 Alongside the beach, and I'm wondering if folks also just 335 00:20:07.240 --> 00:20:10.200 evacuated down to the side of the road to wait 336 00:20:10.240 --> 00:20:11.960 it out until they could go back. 337 00:20:12.519 --> 00:20:15.000 And that's what I was guessing was happening. 338 00:20:15.079 --> 00:20:18.079 And that's very interesting, as you pointed out, because this 339 00:20:18.279 --> 00:20:23.079 is very southern California, because as your house is burning 340 00:20:23.160 --> 00:20:25.720 to the ground, let's go out and play some pickleball. 341 00:20:26.880 --> 00:20:29.240 And I can't imagine any place else in the country 342 00:20:29.279 --> 00:20:32.440 where that would be happening. I'm also assuming, since this 343 00:20:32.519 --> 00:20:36.960 is Malibu and there aren't very many poor areas of Malibu, 344 00:20:37.160 --> 00:20:40.720 as Mini pointed out, a lot of people where they 345 00:20:40.759 --> 00:20:44.839 are under mandatory evacuations and paying attention to it, which 346 00:20:44.880 --> 00:20:48.599 is the vast, vast majority. They're going to hotels. Who 347 00:20:48.640 --> 00:20:50.440 the hell wants to sit in a Red Cross center? 348 00:20:51.519 --> 00:20:52.000 For sure? 349 00:20:52.079 --> 00:20:55.519 I mean, yeah, with ramen for breakfast, That's what she 350 00:20:55.640 --> 00:20:58.960 told me ramen. Who the hell has ramen for breakfast? 351 00:20:59.400 --> 00:21:02.960 Certainly not anybody with a better appetite, I suppose. But 352 00:21:03.319 --> 00:21:05.839 I don't like to make assumptions as a reporter, but 353 00:21:05.880 --> 00:21:09.440 I will tell you my observations, Bill, and it's there's 354 00:21:09.440 --> 00:21:10.960 some pretty nice cars in this parking lot. 355 00:21:11.079 --> 00:21:14.240 Yeah yeah, And so as she pointed out, people have friends, 356 00:21:15.440 --> 00:21:19.200 they go to hotels and there's enough money there where. 357 00:21:19.960 --> 00:21:21.400 I mean, you just don't want to do that. 358 00:21:21.880 --> 00:21:23.680 And I don't know if you noticed, Bill, but there 359 00:21:23.759 --> 00:21:26.640 was an update from Pepperdine that contradicted what was said 360 00:21:26.640 --> 00:21:30.759 at that press conference. The press conference owned that Pepperdine 361 00:21:31.279 --> 00:21:33.759 was still on a shelter in place thing. The university 362 00:21:33.759 --> 00:21:36.039 has since put out a message that they've lifted that 363 00:21:36.279 --> 00:21:38.519 and that students are now allowed to go back to 364 00:21:38.559 --> 00:21:40.920 their residential homes, although they're encouraged to kind of stay 365 00:21:40.920 --> 00:21:42.319 off the Malibu city streets. 366 00:21:42.799 --> 00:21:46.279 So they're maintaining the pickleball. 367 00:21:46.519 --> 00:21:49.599 Tournament there, always playing pickleball up up up there at 368 00:21:49.599 --> 00:21:50.279 the school as well. 369 00:21:50.319 --> 00:21:53.279 I'll get it all right, Michael, thank you all these 370 00:21:53.359 --> 00:21:56.519 good stuff. Michael Monks, KFI reporter. We were told by 371 00:21:56.680 --> 00:22:00.440 the fire chief I think it was like count because 372 00:22:00.480 --> 00:22:03.119 it's Malibu is not a city onto itself as part 373 00:22:03.119 --> 00:22:06.880 of Ali County. And we didn't get a whole lot 374 00:22:06.880 --> 00:22:09.559 of information twenty two hundred acres. But a couple of 375 00:22:09.599 --> 00:22:14.440 things that make this particularly newsworthy. One it's Malibu, and 376 00:22:14.480 --> 00:22:19.440 Malibu has gone through these fires of a couple of times. 377 00:22:19.640 --> 00:22:22.000 And we pay particular attention. 378 00:22:22.079 --> 00:22:24.599 And the other thing, which and I don't want to 379 00:22:24.640 --> 00:22:29.400 say that to the fire department, a fifteen million dollar 380 00:22:29.440 --> 00:22:34.960 home is more important than an eight hundred thousand dollars 381 00:22:35.079 --> 00:22:40.720 home because it's still property. But I think a fifteen 382 00:22:40.759 --> 00:22:44.400 million dollar home is more important than an eight hundred 383 00:22:44.480 --> 00:22:45.559 thousand dollars home. 384 00:22:46.319 --> 00:22:49.559 Just you know, I'm just putting myself as a fireman. 385 00:22:49.680 --> 00:22:54.440 That's all. They don't care, Okay, fair enough. 386 00:22:55.039 --> 00:22:58.839 The other very I think interesting part of this is 387 00:22:59.359 --> 00:23:00.000 the Red Cross. 388 00:23:00.279 --> 00:23:01.440 And I had a good time. 389 00:23:01.279 --> 00:23:04.400 With Mimi Teller or spokesperson for the Red Cross, making 390 00:23:04.400 --> 00:23:08.599 fun of the food, etc. They are an extraordinary organization. 391 00:23:09.079 --> 00:23:13.119 When you talk about any kind of natural disaster, many 392 00:23:13.160 --> 00:23:17.519 times they're out before the first responders. I mean, this 393 00:23:17.799 --> 00:23:21.599 is and it's all donation, no government grants, and so 394 00:23:22.160 --> 00:23:28.680 they're out there immediately. They set up at various evacuation centers. 395 00:23:28.680 --> 00:23:32.359 I think there's one no one showed up. Versuly fifteen 396 00:23:32.400 --> 00:23:35.039 people showed up, and Mimi was saying they're set for 397 00:23:35.160 --> 00:23:39.119 eight hundred people at that evacuation center, and a couple 398 00:23:39.160 --> 00:23:41.000 of times we talked, well, once we talked to her, 399 00:23:41.039 --> 00:23:43.039 and a couple times we talked to Michael Monks who 400 00:23:43.160 --> 00:23:44.960 was at the evacuation center. 401 00:23:45.319 --> 00:23:47.079