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Speaker 2: And we've been asking for rain.
Speaker 3: We've been hoping for rain, praying for rain, even begging
Speaker 3: for rain. And the rain at least to according to
Speaker 3: Mark Ronner and most weathercasts supposed to be here by
Speaker 3: the end of the week. In the next day or two,
Speaker 3: how much well, maybe a tenth to a half an
Speaker 3: inch of rain to most areas of southern California if
Speaker 3: you count through Sunday. Quote, local amounts up to one
Speaker 3: inch are possible across south facing slopes of the San
Speaker 3: Gabriel Mountains. And that's according to the National Weather Service.
Speaker 3: Might even see thunderstorms. The Weather Service says snowfall amounts
Speaker 3: will range from two to five inches above five thousand feet,
Speaker 3: with local amounts of up to ten inches at the resorts.
Speaker 3: And I know Mark Ronner knows a little bit about
Speaker 3: Greek mythology. If I said scilla and sharpittis, I say, look,
Speaker 3: I don't you dare correct me.
Speaker 2: Mister Ronner. Sorry, what were you saying?
Speaker 4: Is that the Odyssey no Iliad. No, which one is it?
Speaker 4: What are you trying to say? No, rock and a
Speaker 4: hard place? Basically, oh yeah, between Scilla and Caribis is
Speaker 4: just it's an old saying. I'm all, no, No, I
Speaker 4: think it's from the Iliad, if I'm not miss so
Speaker 4: from a also from a police song, I think, isn't it?
Speaker 4: Are you quoting Sting no is as part of no?
Speaker 3: I think the mythology pre dates Sting. But the point
Speaker 3: is it's almost like, well, if you want rain, okay,
Speaker 3: but with it most likely comes mudslides.
Speaker 2: All right? Do you want to know the story on? Yes? Please?
Speaker 4: Between Scylla and Charybdis is an idiom deriving from Greek mythology,
Speaker 4: which has been associated that right with the proverbial advice
Speaker 4: to choose the lesser of two evils.
Speaker 2: Got that right?
Speaker 4: Several other idioms, such as on the horns of a
Speaker 4: dilemma between the devil and the deep blue sea, and
Speaker 4: between a rock and a hard place. That's press similar meanings.
Speaker 4: So no, but but what work is it from? I
Speaker 4: think it's from the Iliad. They were mythical sea monsters. No,
Speaker 4: I'm saying from what story? Let's see Homer Homer mentioned them.
Speaker 3: Okay, that's that's the Iliad, thank you very much, got
Speaker 3: that right.
Speaker 4: That'll be too quick with that they have. There's way
Speaker 4: too there's a surfea. There's too much information on it,
Speaker 4: a lot to wade through.
Speaker 5: Here.
Speaker 3: On old Wikipedia, it says Scilla is a six headed
Speaker 3: monster in Greek mythology who appears in the Odyssey.
Speaker 2: Oki Dok. My point being yes.
Speaker 4: Around the world, thinking I should go outside and wait
Speaker 4: for you to arrive at the verb or the point
Speaker 4: or whatever the point is for all the bad news
Speaker 4: that the fires have given us, and we know that
Speaker 4: is let's say that's the rock.
Speaker 3: We know we're going to get some rain this weekend.
Speaker 3: And on the surface you would think, yes, we want rain,
Speaker 3: but it may present another disaster with the mud.
Speaker 2: Slides as well.
Speaker 4: It is really a be careful what you wish for
Speaker 4: a situation, right, And which goes back to what I
Speaker 4: was saying at the very top.
Speaker 3: It's like ken La slash Southern California, catch or break.
Speaker 2: I don't, I don't think. So It's like if you
Speaker 2: would have asked us what do we need? We need rain?
Speaker 3: We need rain, and yes, we'll get rain, and then
Speaker 3: we might have to turn around and literally the next
Speaker 3: day or two because of these burn scars as they're called,
Speaker 3: deal with the immediate impact of blood slides, and that
Speaker 3: could take out even more homes depending on where we're
Speaker 3: talking about in the city, especially in Tula. I know
Speaker 3: you know something about this, especially in Alta Dina.
Speaker 6: Where the terrain slopes that automatically slopes down, and I
Speaker 6: can only imagine all that debris just flowing downhill. If
Speaker 6: we get a significant enough rain. I'm hoping we just
Speaker 6: get a drizzle. Let us get just a little something
Speaker 6: to help quiet down or tamper down some of these
Speaker 6: blazes and get us to that point because we don't
Speaker 6: need a lot.
Speaker 7: We don't need a dluge.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we don't need that, but we probably will because
Speaker 3: we never get anything in reasonable proportion. Yes, we have
Speaker 3: a fire season, This is an unreasonable proportion.
Speaker 2: I think most people would agree.
Speaker 3: Yes, we had that rain season last year, but that
Speaker 3: wasn't a reasonable proportion. It seems like it's all or
Speaker 3: nothing to there's nothing in between. There's no nuance to
Speaker 3: our weather, unfortunately. But this is one of those moments
Speaker 3: where we want rain, but not too much, too fast,
Speaker 3: too soon or we're dealing with a different set of
Speaker 3: disasters as early as next week.
Speaker 2: You know, we're talking about if we get.
Speaker 3: As much rains as being forecast, we could have areas
Speaker 3: of flash flooding as well, flash flooding mud slides. And
Speaker 3: then we're right back here talking about another disaster for
Speaker 3: southern California where it won't be the fires, but it
Speaker 3: will be flash flooding and mud slides.
Speaker 6: And I just think about the Palisades as well, and
Speaker 6: how that area has been impacted and how bad a
Speaker 6: really heavy rain will be then that area as well.
Speaker 6: It's you set it at the top of the show.
Speaker 6: Can we get a break? We really need one now.
Speaker 6: We need rain to help our firefighters. We need rain
Speaker 6: to assist in areas where there is no water to
Speaker 6: be drawn. We absolutely need that. But God, please hear
Speaker 6: us here. Our prayers do not drown us in muck
Speaker 6: and debris and toxic chemicals that just make the land
Speaker 6: all but damn.
Speaker 3: To your point, Tuala La County public Works, they've already
Speaker 3: mobilized their twenty four to seven storm patrols. If you're wondering,
Speaker 3: are we preparing for this as opposed to just sitting
Speaker 3: back and waiting for it to happen. All flood controlled
Speaker 3: dams and channels have been prepared, according to La County
Speaker 3: public Works, Concrete barriers, you know, those k rails, they're
Speaker 3: being deployed to divert those debris flows that you were
Speaker 3: talking about, Touala, and crews are filling sandbags for businesses
Speaker 3: and residents in areas impacted by the fires as we speak.
Speaker 3: And this is something that you can prepare for to
Speaker 3: a certain extent, but it's all It all depends on
Speaker 3: the amount of rain we have. You know, we can
Speaker 3: not too much, hopefully not that unreasonable amount that we're
Speaker 3: talking about, and hopefully we won't have to come behind
Speaker 3: one disaster with another disaster. Yes we want the rain,
Speaker 3: but no, we don't want the debris flow, we don't
Speaker 3: want the mud slides, and we don't want other people,
Speaker 3: more people to lose their houses.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 3: Please, Southern California, can you please catch one break? And
Speaker 3: Mark Ronner, thank you for correcting me. I know you
Speaker 3: enjoyed that, are you You're acknowledging this? Wow, Let's make
Speaker 3: sure don't ruin it. Don't ruin it. Let me enjoy
Speaker 3: this moment. It happens so seldom. Okay, all done, Okay,
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Speaker 3: to be serious when we come back. We made mention
Speaker 3: of these mud slides and also how certain communities are
Speaker 3: preparing for these possible mud slides.
Speaker 2: We talked about Altadena.
Speaker 3: We'll talk more about Altadena and what that city is
Speaker 3: doing for the mud slides if they should come.
Speaker 2: That's next.
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Speaker 3: Altadena I think has gotten it worse than anywhere else.
Speaker 3: The residents of Altadena have gotten it worse in my estimation,
Speaker 3: than anywhere else for a number of reasons, but also
Speaker 3: because of circumstances. Altaedina and I would include Pasadena in
Speaker 3: this next portion. They got through the fires Altaedna. When
Speaker 3: I say got through, most of it's gone. Start there,
Speaker 3: most of Altadena as we knew it, Remember it is
Speaker 3: gone on the other side of that, and correct me
Speaker 3: if I'm wrong. Told I think they've just recently reopened
Speaker 3: certain neighborhoods for people to go back up there.
Speaker 6: Soft openings you have to have your id to go
Speaker 6: up the hill, and they don't suggest you stay up
Speaker 6: there because with the winds the way they were blowing
Speaker 6: even earlier today.
Speaker 2: All that.
Speaker 6: Dust, all that ash, all that in the air, it's
Speaker 6: not good for your health. So if you are going,
Speaker 6: please heed the advice of every health advocate out there,
Speaker 6: wear in ninety five goggles, full painter suit if you can.
Speaker 3: But yeah, Wednesday, let's say a lot of this started
Speaker 3: happening where they were at least residents former residence. Former
Speaker 3: residence were allowed to go back and survey the damage.
Speaker 3: And there are those people who have some semblance of
Speaker 3: a house left and given that, there won't be enough
Speaker 3: time to either search through the house or prepare the
Speaker 3: house for this weekend. What I mean by that is,
Speaker 3: with the rain that we're talking about that is coming
Speaker 3: that we all theoretically would want, it provides a new
Speaker 3: danger and a new threat to the remaining houses, an
Speaker 3: all toa dina. And when I say danger, there's a
Speaker 3: sixty to eighty percent chance of a small amount of
Speaker 3: rain for southern California that we talked about. Keep that
Speaker 3: in mind, small amount, but up to an inch of
Speaker 3: rain could be disastrous. For all to Dina quote, even
Speaker 3: a drop of rain will flow seven times greater than
Speaker 3: it did prior to the fires. And that's Lisa der
Speaker 3: Derderian Derdairian, who's a Pasadena city spokesperson. We see in
Speaker 3: these foothills where the fire has burned deep into the roots,
Speaker 3: there's nothing left holding the soil on the ground. And
Speaker 3: she's talking about Pasadena, but above that is Altadena, so
Speaker 3: it has to go through Altadena first before presumably it
Speaker 3: would hit Pasadena. So if there are any mud slides, Altadena's
Speaker 3: going to have to deal with them first, am I right?
Speaker 6: Absolutely? And you also have to take into consideration with
Speaker 6: the way these houses fell, with the way many of
Speaker 6: them just fell from the roof straight down. All the debris,
Speaker 6: all the rubble on the ground has blocked a lot
Speaker 6: of the pathways and ways that water escapes through the
Speaker 6: streets into the gutters, and the drainage system which is
Speaker 6: all but clogged in Altadena, which is going to allow
Speaker 6: all that water to just either pile up in places
Speaker 6: and come down or just come straight down period.
Speaker 3: A thirty six member CalFire strike team from northern California
Speaker 3: spent most of yesterday and today making sandbags which will
Speaker 3: be distributed to various locations throughout both cities and for
Speaker 3: pickup later this week. Not a lot of time in between.
Speaker 3: You got maybe today tomorrow, possibly Friday before the rains come.
Speaker 3: Or you got today tomorrow Friday, if you're going to
Speaker 3: at least assess the damage at your property, make an
Speaker 3: insurance claim, take pictures all that, you won't have much
Speaker 3: time to do anything in the next Basically, we want
Speaker 3: to talk about two days now.
Speaker 7: And my appointment is on Monday.
Speaker 6: So I'm oh, man, I'm real salty about this rain
Speaker 6: coming right now. Depending on what it does, I'm like, oh,
Speaker 6: those are going Monday.
Speaker 4: No.
Speaker 3: How are most people, when I say most people, the
Speaker 3: people that you've been in contact with, because you talked
Speaker 3: about dozens and dozens of people that you knew personally,
Speaker 3: ye who lost their homes, How are they processing dealing
Speaker 3: with this moment to the month's light even mean anything?
Speaker 6: At this point, At this point, most people I'm talking
Speaker 6: to and interacting with, they're absolutely numb. They are not
Speaker 6: dealing with this well at all. There are people who
Speaker 6: who don't even know what to do. I mean, they
Speaker 6: don't know if they should put up a go fund me,
Speaker 6: and many of those who have are now worried that
Speaker 6: their go fundme pages are going to impact whatever money
Speaker 6: is that they were going to get.
Speaker 7: From their insurance.
Speaker 6: How does that work, because you know, they're trying to
Speaker 6: see if their plan counts it as a gift or
Speaker 6: actual monies earned that's supposed to be taking care. There's
Speaker 6: just so much confusion, and there are fifty eleven different
Speaker 6: organizations in Altadena giving out tons and tons of great information,
Speaker 6: but it's tons and tons of great information, and it's
Speaker 6: hard to sort through all of that, and each person
Speaker 6: has a different on the surface need. Even though we're
Speaker 6: all dealing with this loss, everyone has a different question
Speaker 6: and there is no one spot in one place to
Speaker 6: gather information from it. Hey talk to FEMA, Hey talk
Speaker 6: to Judy chu, Hey talk to this, talk to everybody.
Speaker 6: And everyone's just like, I don't know what to make
Speaker 6: of this. So people are are frantic, they're crying people.
Speaker 6: I know people who have gone up today and even
Speaker 6: some tried to go up yesterday and some of the
Speaker 6: areas and they could do nothing but just cry. They
Speaker 6: couldn't even get done what they wanted to get done
Speaker 6: because they couldn't help. The devastation is that severe that
Speaker 6: they're just up there crying. They're like, I couldn't even stay.
Speaker 6: I had to go to see every single thing gone.
Speaker 3: The through line through all of this is information being
Speaker 3: able to get and access the information. I think if
Speaker 3: you lost your house, well hopefully you have your phone.
Speaker 3: It doesn't mean that you did have your phone or
Speaker 3: you have internet access and can find out the real information.
Speaker 2: We were talking about scams the house. Someone was trying
Speaker 2: to scam you as well.
Speaker 3: Yes, you know, to separate the real information from the
Speaker 3: scam information, where to go, how to do it in
Speaker 3: a timely fashion.
Speaker 2: And we're going to talk about later tonight.
Speaker 3: We're going to talk about how some Alzadena residents say
Speaker 3: they didn't even receive the order to evacuate during the
Speaker 3: Eating fire.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that makes sense. Yeah, if you weren't.
Speaker 3: Listening to KFI, which is a distinct possibility, if you
Speaker 3: weren't watching TV intently to look for an evacuation order.
Speaker 3: Because we were in we work in the news, Tuala
Speaker 3: we were aware of the situation, and I said Tuala
Speaker 3: go and that was it wasn't even a mandatory evacuation
Speaker 3: by the time you got to your house, it was
Speaker 3: mandatory evacuation. That's how quickly the situation changed. Yes, yes,
Speaker 3: I got to the house.
Speaker 6: And also I'm going to a text message from you saying
Speaker 6: the evacuation is mandatory.
Speaker 3: Now I'm like, I know, but that came from me,
Speaker 3: not official information. So that's just me, my friend telling
Speaker 3: you you know. Yes, yes, So we have to talk
Speaker 3: about that. There's an information deficit in all this why
Speaker 3: and I think it has contributed to why some areas
Speaker 3: were hit worse. The loss of life was worse. I
Speaker 3: think that's connected to it as well. And we'll deal
Speaker 3: with that. And when we come back on the other
Speaker 3: side of this break, we're going to get into We're
Speaker 3: going to actually go back to the Hues fire, give
Speaker 3: you the latest on that, let you know about the
Speaker 3: evacuation shelters for residents, because again it's about the flow
Speaker 3: of information. And as that Hues fire, which is that
Speaker 3: ninety four hundred and fifty seven acres already burned about
Speaker 3: five percent contained, it's really important now, especially if you're
Speaker 3: in and around that impacted area, that you have the
Speaker 3: most recent, relevant and accurate information to make sure that
Speaker 3: you and your family are safe, so we will be
Speaker 3: doing that next and also you know, once again pets
Speaker 3: are also being impacted by these fires, and we're going
Speaker 3: to find out where you can take pets, both large
Speaker 3: and small when we come back.
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Speaker 3: As we continue to talk about these fires, more specifically
Speaker 3: the Hughes fire.
Speaker 2: And to update you, it's not much of an update.
Speaker 3: It's still at ninety four hundred acres which have been burned,
Speaker 3: about five percent containment. But if you have been evacuated,
Speaker 3: here's some information you need to have. The temporary evacuation
Speaker 3: center which was at Valencia High School that has been
Speaker 3: relocated to Heart High School, So if you were going
Speaker 3: to go to Valencia High School, do not. It has
Speaker 3: since been relocated to Heart High School, which is two
Speaker 3: four eight two five New Hall Avenue in Santa Clarita.
Speaker 3: Animal shelters for large animals, you can go to the
Speaker 3: Lancaster Animal Care Center which is five two one zero
Speaker 3: West Avenue I in Lancaster, you can go to Pierce College,
Speaker 3: which is six ' two zero one with Netca Avenue
Speaker 3: and Woodland Hills. For small animals, you can go to
Speaker 3: the Palmdale Animal Care Center three eight five five zero
Speaker 3: Sierra Highway in Palmdale. And if you didn't hear I
Speaker 3: was saying at the beginning of the show, I kind
Speaker 3: of know that area well. My wife and I La Muhir,
Speaker 3: we were actually looking at property out in Palmdale. And
Speaker 3: if you drive out to Palmdale, you're passing through Santa
Speaker 3: Clarita Valencia all through this and if you have any
Speaker 3: real familiarity with that terrain, it's just going to burn
Speaker 3: and burn and burn. Actually, I'm surprised that it has
Speaker 3: not impacted structures, but I can understand why you can
Speaker 3: lose ten thousand acres like that but also not hit
Speaker 3: any structures because it's just it is just rife with
Speaker 3: areas which are dry and going to burn uncontrollably.
Speaker 2: But back to the small animals.
Speaker 3: If you were going to go to the Agora Animal
Speaker 3: Care Center, which was given out earlier by different news sources,
Speaker 3: do not because that location was deemed full as of
Speaker 3: three point thirty pm earlier today, So do not try
Speaker 3: to take your small animals or any small animals to
Speaker 3: the Agura Animal Care Center. It is full and you
Speaker 3: will likely be turned away. You can go to the
Speaker 3: Lancaster Animal Care Center, which is five to one zero
Speaker 3: West Avenue I in Lancaster. And yes, they're taking both
Speaker 3: small and large animals that I think would be your
Speaker 3: better bet. Hopefully and correct me if I'm wrong to allow.
Speaker 3: Because we've had these dangerous and deadly fires in the
Speaker 3: previous week and a half, people were more aware, possibly
Speaker 3: more prepared for these fires impacting them. They weren't impacted
Speaker 3: maybe a week and a half ago, but now they
Speaker 3: kind of No. When I say the drill, that's you know,
Speaker 3: maybe the wrong phraseology. That's not a drill, But I'm
Speaker 3: saying they know what to do now. More likely people
Speaker 3: had a go bag prepared. They know what that is,
Speaker 3: they know what to put in it. If not, we'll
Speaker 3: review it again. But because of what happened week and
Speaker 3: a half or so ago, you're more prepared for dealing
Speaker 3: with this, even though it may not have affected you then,
Speaker 3: but it's affecting you now.
Speaker 2: Oh absolutely.
Speaker 6: And I know several people that I work with at
Speaker 6: the school live in the Santa Clarita, Palm Dell, Lancaster area,
Speaker 6: and they got those calls and they took off immediately.
Speaker 6: And many who I've been in communication with and I've
Speaker 6: seen already, they're saying, hey, we're good, we made it back.
Speaker 6: Bag was already packed or ready to go. They're all there,
Speaker 6: we go, ready, lady to go. They were not caught unawares.
Speaker 6: They knew from the impact of the eating fire. They
Speaker 6: knew how close in proximity just over mountain ranges that
Speaker 6: they are. When the fires took off in West Hills
Speaker 6: and started moving all around everyone in southern California, in
Speaker 6: any dry mountainous region right now, we are all anxious
Speaker 6: when the wind starts blowing. When the wind starts blowing,
Speaker 6: we all get a little tight. We all get a
Speaker 6: little tight and see what's happening. We know for a
Speaker 6: fact that there have been several arsonists who have been caught,
Speaker 6: so a lot of these now we know could potentially
Speaker 6: be man made. And so that's why we are such
Speaker 6: we're so on guard right now.
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, And you don't need to necessarily wait for
Speaker 3: a fire to make its way to your doorstep because
Speaker 3: of that arsonist component. Our go bags are still sitting
Speaker 3: right next to the door for a week and a half.
Speaker 3: Why because we know the situation and the winds could
Speaker 3: change at any given moment. And whereas you may have
Speaker 3: thought that you were not in an evacuation area or
Speaker 3: an impacted area all of a sudden, put it this way.
Speaker 3: I know the people who lived in Santa Clarita or
Speaker 3: Valencia or a Castake when they woke up this morning,
Speaker 3: they had no expectation of being in a burn zone area,
Speaker 3: and then by ten thirty they were Yes. So you
Speaker 3: can't just assume, well, it's not going to be us,
Speaker 3: it's not going to be my neighborhood, it's not going
Speaker 3: to be my city. And along those lines mandatory evacuation
Speaker 3: orders you might have heard some from Mark Ronner, But
Speaker 3: to elaborate, there's Costic, Cambridge, There's Castic Lake, Lake, Green Hill,
Speaker 3: Hasley Hillcrest, Paradise, ranch Ridge, Romero and Sloan. Those are
Speaker 3: mandatory evacuation areas and neighborhoods. Go And if you were
Speaker 3: near those neighborhoods, I would just say just go, don't wait.
Speaker 3: We talked about when Twala was evacuating. It was a
Speaker 3: warning and before he even get to his house. It
Speaker 3: was mandatory.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Yeah, And just this is something that you all talked about.
Speaker 6: I remember even listening about how off the emergency alerts were.
Speaker 6: I promise, if you get an alert right now, don't
Speaker 6: wait to wait for an mandatory evacuation alert you've been advised,
Speaker 6: go on and leave the area anyway, Get out of
Speaker 6: the area before the traffic gets too crazy. Because when
Speaker 6: I got to Outadena, all the lights were off, all
Speaker 6: the power was out, and it was crazy getting back
Speaker 6: down the hill and even traversing the freeway because there.
Speaker 7: Was so much going on. No, don't wait, Oh, don't wait.
Speaker 2: That's a great point. I think we need to highlight it.
Speaker 3: When Shannon Ferrin was evacuating, she was doing it from
Speaker 3: a power outage area. When you were evacuating, it was
Speaker 3: from a power outage area. That presents other obstacles and
Speaker 3: dangers when you're trying to get to wherever you're going,
Speaker 3: as far as let's say you're trying to get back
Speaker 3: to your house and get the necessary documents, which you
Speaker 3: may not already have set aside. Sometimes you have to
Speaker 3: prepare for the evacuation. And that's what we would advise.
Speaker 3: Sometimes you can't prepare, but if you've been watching what
Speaker 3: has been happening in southern California for the past two weeks,
Speaker 3: you should be prepared at this point. Hopefully you did
Speaker 3: not squander that opportunity to get yourself ready. So if
Speaker 3: you do need to go back to your house, if
Speaker 3: you're somewhere else, all you need to do is pick
Speaker 3: your stuff up, which may be sitting right next to
Speaker 3: your front door, as it is in my house, and
Speaker 3: you can just go and you will not be one panicked,
Speaker 3: You'll not be in a rush, and you'd be less
Speaker 3: likely to forget something very important. And if you have to,
Speaker 3: if you should have to deal with an area which
Speaker 3: is dealing with a loss of power, you can navigate
Speaker 3: that a little bit more slowly and safely.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we should all be on notice at this point,
Speaker 3: no matter where you live in southern California, given the
Speaker 3: weather right now, given the possibility and arguably propensity for
Speaker 3: a would be arsonist, Let's be honest, you cannot presume
Speaker 3: that your house, your neighborhood is safe. So it's incumbent
Speaker 3: upon you to make sure you're doing everything within your
Speaker 3: power to keep yourself safe before it comes to a
Speaker 3: point where you lose all these options.
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Speaker 3: Were going to continue our fire coverage and when we
Speaker 3: come back, we're going to tell you about some of
Speaker 3: the schools and school districts which have announced closures already
Speaker 3: tode to these fires and more that's coming up next.
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Speaker 3: our fire coverage. The Hughes fire has been the dominant
Speaker 3: story of the day. It started around ten thirty this
Speaker 3: morning in the Castake area and it has consumed more
Speaker 3: than ninety four hundred acres and it's about five percent contained.
Speaker 3: And with that, we've been giving some evacuation information where
Speaker 3: you can take pets, large animals, small animals. We have
Speaker 3: some more information for you and possibly your children, as
Speaker 3: all schools in the Castake Union School District are going
Speaker 3: to be closed tomorrow, as well as several schools in
Speaker 3: the william S. Hart Union High School District, the Saugust
Speaker 3: Union School District, and both college of the Canyons campuses. Again,
Speaker 3: all schools in the Castake Union School District are going
Speaker 3: to be closed tomorrow, and I would be willing to
Speaker 3: bet Friday as well. That's me just talking about it.
Speaker 3: But if you're going to be closed Thursday, it's reasonable
Speaker 3: to assume that Friday would be closed as well for
Speaker 3: just logistical reasons, but also several schools in the william
Speaker 3: S Heart Union High School District. I would contact your
Speaker 3: high school if that is your district for clarity. The
Speaker 3: Saugust Union School District and both College of the Canyons campuses.
Speaker 3: The Heart District center notification of parents and others in
Speaker 3: the district community today announcing that the school would be
Speaker 3: canceled at the four impacted campuses on Thursday.
Speaker 2: The note read as follows quote. We know that many
Speaker 2: of you.
Speaker 3: Are impacted by the fire and cast Stake and we
Speaker 3: hope you are able to safely return to your home soon.
Speaker 3: Thank you to the first responders who are fighting to
Speaker 3: keep our homes and community safe. Some of our schools
Speaker 3: are currently under evacuation orders or evacuation warnings. And going
Speaker 3: back to the press conference which was about five pm today,
Speaker 3: you had a number of different agencies which were represented
Speaker 3: from the LA Fire Department, the county, that is, you
Speaker 3: had the La Shaff's Department. I'm going to place some
Speaker 3: of that audio from Robert Luna in just a moment,
Speaker 3: you had cal Fire, the US Forest Service, and these
Speaker 3: overlapping agencies were all involved in the Hughes fire. Specifically
Speaker 3: that said, let's listen to Sheriff Robert Luna what he
Speaker 3: had to say earlier today.
Speaker 8: So for us, obviously in unified command with our partners
Speaker 8: at the Fire Department from the very beginning of this incident,
Speaker 8: fire incident, and right now, the numbers that I have
Speaker 8: is that we have approximately thirty one thousand people who
Speaker 8: are affected by our evacuation orders, another twenty three thousand
Speaker 8: that are impacted by evacuation warnings. Along with the work
Speaker 8: that our deputies have been doing, and you've seen them
Speaker 8: going from neighborhood to neighborhood making sure that we are
Speaker 8: protecting the neighborhoods to make sure nobody gets hurt, traffic
Speaker 8: ingress and egress. And also unfortunately, when we talk about fires,
Speaker 8: our staff knows that immediately they start what we call
Speaker 8: looter suppression, just to make sure that no one's coming
Speaker 8: into the area to take advantage when people are evacuating
Speaker 8: their homes. So I want to make sure people know
Speaker 8: that that if you leave your homes, there will be
Speaker 8: additional deputies working out there in the neighborhoods to make
Speaker 8: sure your homes are safe. In regards to staffing, we
Speaker 8: are staffing up. You hear sirens in the distance, they're
Speaker 8: not only fire apparatus, but you see deputies coming in
Speaker 8: from different parts of the county.
Speaker 9: You see our incident management team over my.
Speaker 8: Left shoulder setting up with the big trailers that will
Speaker 8: assume responsibility for this incident from the Sheriff's department perspective,
Speaker 8: and again in unified command. With all of our partners,
Speaker 8: we have what I estimate well over four hundred personnel
Speaker 8: total regarding this incident and managing other incidences around the
Speaker 8: County of Los Angeles. I do want to bring your
Speaker 8: attention to the fact that during this incident, one of
Speaker 8: the areas that initially was in evacuation warning that did
Speaker 8: turn into an evacuation order was our Pitches Detention Center,
Speaker 8: which is not too far from here. The Pitches Detention
Speaker 8: Center has actually three different facilities.
Speaker 9: One of the facilities was evacuated.
Speaker 8: In discussing this with our partners from the department, who
Speaker 8: are experts in this area, they recommended and we agreed
Speaker 8: that the one facility PD South would be evacuated that
Speaker 8: had approximately four hundred and seventy six inmates. We move
Speaker 8: those inmates to another facility on the campus. The other
Speaker 8: two campuses are structured much better than the one that
Speaker 8: we evacuated from, but total, on the entire campus we
Speaker 8: have approximately four thousand, five hundred inmates a little over that.
Speaker 8: We do have a plan in place in case the
Speaker 8: fire conditions. Our fire partners would advise if it gets worse,
Speaker 8: whether it's wind, whatever, that may be a plan in
Speaker 8: place to evacuate the rest of the inmates on the
Speaker 8: entire facility if we absolutely had to. Other than that,
Speaker 8: it's a newer incident and it's evolving, it's going to change.
Speaker 8: We're ready for just about anything, which by the way,
Speaker 8: includes being prepared for any other incident that would break
Speaker 8: God forbid anywhere in the County of Los Angeles. I
Speaker 8: do want to report that the five Freeway has been closed,
Speaker 8: but I'm told that after this press conference for a
Speaker 8: variety of reasons, we will reopen the freeway so that
Speaker 8: people can go back and forth.
Speaker 9: Again.
Speaker 3: I just want to clarify that, of course, the five
Speaker 3: Freeway is open. This was from the press conference at
Speaker 3: five pm earlier today, but the five Freeway is open
Speaker 3: in both directions.
Speaker 9: This press conference.
Speaker 8: For a variety of reasons, we will reopen the freeway
Speaker 8: so that people can go back and forth.
Speaker 2: Again.
Speaker 8: I do want to reiterate that if you do not
Speaker 8: live in this area and you're following the smoke, you
Speaker 8: want to go see what the firefighters are doing, turn
Speaker 8: on the television set. Do not drive into these areas.
Speaker 8: You are impacting the ingress and egress of emergency vehicles.
Speaker 8: We don't need more traffic, We want less traffic. We
Speaker 8: don't want you walking around in the impacted areas to
Speaker 8: impact the community members who live here.
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