WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.720 --> 00:00:04.080 You're listen Saints KFI AM six forty the Bill Handles 2 00:00:04.120 --> 00:00:10.039 show on demand on the iHeartRadio f CAFI Handle Here 3 00:00:10.199 --> 00:00:16.800 on a very smoky and for the wrong reasons. Unfortunately, 4 00:00:17.559 --> 00:00:20.600 very hot if you're in the fire area day, and 5 00:00:20.839 --> 00:00:23.399 none of that particularly good news. As I've mentioned that 6 00:00:23.879 --> 00:00:29.120 this story, this fire story is southern California is not 7 00:00:29.160 --> 00:00:31.559 only a huge story locally, of course it would be, 8 00:00:31.600 --> 00:00:37.479 but nationally and internationally. Alex Stone, ABC News correspondent is 9 00:00:37.520 --> 00:00:42.079 in Altadena and he's reporting both for US and ABC 10 00:00:42.320 --> 00:00:46.560 what's going on. So Alex, thanks for taking the time there. 11 00:00:46.600 --> 00:00:49.640 You are in the Altadena fire area. What are you seeing, 12 00:00:49.679 --> 00:00:50.439 what is going on? 13 00:00:50.600 --> 00:00:51.719 What are you experiencing? 14 00:00:52.719 --> 00:00:56.079 Hi, Bill, I'm on Sacramento Street right now, right off 15 00:00:56.079 --> 00:00:59.679 of Lake Avenue, and there are numerous homes that are 16 00:00:59.679 --> 00:01:02.679 burning around me here, and really they're burning on checks. 17 00:01:02.719 --> 00:01:05.120 There is one engine from La County Fire that just 18 00:01:05.200 --> 00:01:08.400 throw through the area, but there's nothing that they can do. 19 00:01:08.560 --> 00:01:11.560 It is cars, It is homes burning on this street, 20 00:01:11.920 --> 00:01:15.400 and it is street after street that really it was 21 00:01:15.439 --> 00:01:19.439 the winds of about four to five am that where 22 00:01:19.439 --> 00:01:21.599 we got a reading of one hundred miles an hour 23 00:01:21.680 --> 00:01:23.799 on one of the peaks around here. But it was 24 00:01:23.840 --> 00:01:26.200 so strong that when you would get out of your car, 25 00:01:26.400 --> 00:01:29.280 your car door would actually snap all the way back, 26 00:01:29.760 --> 00:01:31.920 and it was hard to just stand at that time. 27 00:01:31.959 --> 00:01:36.040 There were embers flying everywhere, live embers rolling down the street, 28 00:01:36.359 --> 00:01:38.439 and that has led to what we are seeing right 29 00:01:38.480 --> 00:01:40.840 now that in this whole area is I'm looking from 30 00:01:40.920 --> 00:01:43.319 block to block. I can only see that buildings are 31 00:01:43.359 --> 00:01:45.680 on fire, that they have spread. On the one that 32 00:01:45.719 --> 00:01:49.280 I'm on right now, there's two or three cars that 33 00:01:49.319 --> 00:01:52.920 are fully engulfed right now, along with a number of homes, 34 00:01:53.120 --> 00:01:55.840 and it's silent. I'm the only one standing on this street. 35 00:01:56.040 --> 00:01:58.959 There's nothing firefighters can do to battle this right now. 36 00:01:59.120 --> 00:02:01.040 These homes are burning unchecked. 37 00:02:01.120 --> 00:02:03.959 Yeah. Can you imagine being an owner of one of 38 00:02:04.000 --> 00:02:05.239 those homes. 39 00:02:05.439 --> 00:02:08.560 Either being able to watch the home burning. 40 00:02:08.240 --> 00:02:10.719 Down up close, which I'm assuming is not the case 41 00:02:11.560 --> 00:02:15.159 because he said the street is empty, or seeing the 42 00:02:15.199 --> 00:02:19.719 home being burnt and watching a news report and there 43 00:02:19.800 --> 00:02:24.240 are no firefighters and a fire truck goes right past 44 00:02:24.319 --> 00:02:27.800 the house. I mean, that is something that we're not 45 00:02:27.960 --> 00:02:30.319 used to do. They have authorities tell you just where 46 00:02:30.360 --> 00:02:33.319 to stand. Alex, you're an empty street. Did they say 47 00:02:33.319 --> 00:02:34.840 you got to stand over there or are you on 48 00:02:34.879 --> 00:02:35.199 your own? 49 00:02:36.520 --> 00:02:40.280 They're not here. We're we're on our own in here. 50 00:02:40.319 --> 00:02:44.240 But what I'm saying is no hit to firefighters. They're 51 00:02:44.280 --> 00:02:46.759 just out manned right now. There's nothing that one engine 52 00:02:46.800 --> 00:02:47.199 is going to do. 53 00:02:47.400 --> 00:02:47.439 No. 54 00:02:47.599 --> 00:02:48.960 I understand that. 55 00:02:49.080 --> 00:02:51.240 Yeah, that are burning to the ground, but yeah, I 56 00:02:51.240 --> 00:02:55.120 mean this is really a situation of that. With all 57 00:02:55.199 --> 00:02:57.599 three fires that are burning and the size of this 58 00:02:57.680 --> 00:02:59.879 one and the size of one of the physical palissy, 59 00:03:00.000 --> 00:03:02.479 there's nothing that they can do. There are explosions going 60 00:03:02.520 --> 00:03:05.879 off all over the place NonStop as these buildings are burning, 61 00:03:05.919 --> 00:03:09.759 and propaane tanks and ammunition and other things are burning 62 00:03:09.960 --> 00:03:12.919 inside of the homes. But what they have been doing 63 00:03:13.000 --> 00:03:15.960 is I mean, really this is about life safety right now, 64 00:03:16.240 --> 00:03:18.439 telling people to get out and just get out of 65 00:03:18.439 --> 00:03:20.680 the area that the Sheriff's Department has been going through 66 00:03:21.240 --> 00:03:24.039 on their loud speakers, just saying everybody out there are 67 00:03:24.120 --> 00:03:27.719 some lookie loose around that have decided that you know, 68 00:03:27.719 --> 00:03:29.719 they're going to film it rather than go. But the 69 00:03:29.759 --> 00:03:31.840 Sheriff's bar has just been going up and down Lake 70 00:03:31.879 --> 00:03:36.120 Avenue here on their loud speakers saying you must leave immediately. 71 00:03:36.360 --> 00:03:37.680 And so we're seeing a lot of people who are 72 00:03:37.680 --> 00:03:41.080 packing up and getting out, not like Pacific Palisades yesterday 73 00:03:41.439 --> 00:03:43.439 with the bumper to bumper trying to get out. The 74 00:03:43.439 --> 00:03:46.120 streets here are a lot wider, so they're able to 75 00:03:46.159 --> 00:03:48.719 do it. But the people, since you know, and I 76 00:03:48.840 --> 00:03:51.599 came into the main area probably around three point thirty 77 00:03:51.639 --> 00:03:55.000 this morning, people were in a long line trying to 78 00:03:55.039 --> 00:03:57.719 get out with their packed up vehicles and bailing out 79 00:03:57.719 --> 00:03:58.159 of the area. 80 00:03:58.639 --> 00:04:01.759 Yeah, I'm thinking, you know, how do the firefighters even 81 00:04:01.800 --> 00:04:04.599 deal with this? Because you've got one home and let's 82 00:04:04.599 --> 00:04:06.759 say they're fighting a fire and then they're trying to 83 00:04:06.800 --> 00:04:09.680 do some kind of property preservation and then all of 84 00:04:09.719 --> 00:04:14.400 a sudden, six doors away, a fire just ignites, because 85 00:04:14.400 --> 00:04:18.920 an ember just ignites a palm tree or a piece 86 00:04:18.959 --> 00:04:19.720 of brush. 87 00:04:19.759 --> 00:04:21.759 And are they trying to go back and forth? 88 00:04:21.800 --> 00:04:25.240 Are they Do you see any fire equipment dealing with 89 00:04:25.360 --> 00:04:27.199 any fires right now? 90 00:04:29.600 --> 00:04:33.000 They're trying to stop anything that it sparks up, But 91 00:04:33.199 --> 00:04:37.040 some of these embers have been jumping, oh, probably half 92 00:04:37.079 --> 00:04:39.480 a mile to a mile. There were areas this morning 93 00:04:39.560 --> 00:04:42.160 when the wind was at its worst and there was 94 00:04:42.240 --> 00:04:43.639 no way at that time, I would have been able 95 00:04:43.680 --> 00:04:45.319 to talk to you on the phone outside without getting 96 00:04:45.360 --> 00:04:47.360 into a car, whereas right now I'm standing outside and 97 00:04:47.399 --> 00:04:50.360 there's really no wind, thank goodness. But when the embers 98 00:04:50.360 --> 00:04:52.920 were really flying, you would think that you were pretty 99 00:04:53.079 --> 00:04:56.720 far ahead of the front of the fire, the flaming front, 100 00:04:56.959 --> 00:04:58.360 and then all of a sudden, embers would land and 101 00:04:58.399 --> 00:04:59.879 you'd have fire all around you, and it was kind 102 00:04:59.920 --> 00:05:03.959 of playing hopscotch of jumping ahead and getting out of 103 00:05:04.000 --> 00:05:05.680 the area. And there were a few times I saw 104 00:05:05.720 --> 00:05:08.439 firefighters race up and try to put out something before 105 00:05:08.480 --> 00:05:11.839 it it burned a building. But they're you know, like 106 00:05:11.879 --> 00:05:14.240 I say, I mean this really right now is about 107 00:05:14.639 --> 00:05:18.959 trying to rescue people, to get them out, to convince 108 00:05:19.000 --> 00:05:20.800 them to go. We know they've done a number of 109 00:05:20.839 --> 00:05:24.600 rescues of elderly people overnight in the winds. It was 110 00:05:24.600 --> 00:05:27.279 impossible when driving to see five feet in front of 111 00:05:27.279 --> 00:05:31.040 your car, and on tight streets with fire everywhere, and 112 00:05:31.079 --> 00:05:33.240 it's always hard at night time to know really where 113 00:05:33.240 --> 00:05:35.160 the fire is because you can only see this glow. 114 00:05:35.680 --> 00:05:37.759 So they were working on getting people out. Now as 115 00:05:37.759 --> 00:05:39.879 I talk to you right now, it's like they're listening 116 00:05:39.920 --> 00:05:42.680 to KFI. There's a strike team pulling up to this 117 00:05:42.720 --> 00:05:45.519 neighborhood with a number of fire engines. They're pulling up 118 00:05:45.560 --> 00:05:47.160 to one of the high prints as well. It looks 119 00:05:47.160 --> 00:05:50.240 like they may try to battle back some of these 120 00:05:50.279 --> 00:05:53.040 flames that are burning these homes. I mean, these homes 121 00:05:53.079 --> 00:05:56.639 are really going up right now. And well now it 122 00:05:56.639 --> 00:05:58.879 looks like maybe not that there's not a lot they 123 00:05:58.879 --> 00:06:01.480 can do, and they're gonna driven, but they're kind of 124 00:06:01.519 --> 00:06:04.000 keeping an eye on it to know where the flames 125 00:06:04.040 --> 00:06:06.560 are to try to stop them from progressing now that 126 00:06:06.600 --> 00:06:09.040 the wind has died down, But for these homes, there's 127 00:06:09.079 --> 00:06:10.240 nothing that they can do. 128 00:06:10.240 --> 00:06:12.959 Do you see any aircraft dealing with the fire yet? 129 00:06:13.279 --> 00:06:15.279 Daytime winds are down, they should be up. 130 00:06:17.759 --> 00:06:19.600 Sorry, Bill, I was clearing hopefully you couldn't hear that 131 00:06:19.600 --> 00:06:21.879 clearing an emergency alert that was going off on my phone. 132 00:06:22.000 --> 00:06:26.160 No, well you have that, Okay, let me restated. Now 133 00:06:26.240 --> 00:06:29.639 that the winds have died down and it's light, we 134 00:06:29.680 --> 00:06:33.560 have daybreak. Do you see any air assets up that 135 00:06:33.600 --> 00:06:34.240 you're looking at. 136 00:06:35.360 --> 00:06:37.759 No, I haven't heard any air assets. I haven't seen 137 00:06:37.800 --> 00:06:40.639 any air assets. I'm guessing the wind probably at altitude 138 00:06:40.720 --> 00:06:43.319 is still pretty strong. The problem they were having last 139 00:06:43.399 --> 00:06:45.720 night is they hit the ground. Even the helicopters that 140 00:06:45.920 --> 00:06:48.800 were able to fly in pretty strong winds yesterday, not 141 00:06:48.839 --> 00:06:50.959 only because of the safety of the helicopters, but the 142 00:06:51.040 --> 00:06:53.800 drops weren't doing any good. When they would drop water, 143 00:06:54.279 --> 00:06:56.800 it would just fly off at a ninety degree angle 144 00:06:57.079 --> 00:06:59.759 and wasn't hitting the ground. What is It's so dry 145 00:06:59.800 --> 00:07:02.879 that evaporates very quickly, but two in the wind, it 146 00:07:03.079 --> 00:07:05.920 just makes a right hand turn and goes off into 147 00:07:05.959 --> 00:07:08.399 the air and doesn't do any good. Did they Hopefully 148 00:07:08.600 --> 00:07:11.839 the wind stays like it is right now and if 149 00:07:11.879 --> 00:07:14.759 they if it's this way up a little bit at altitude, 150 00:07:15.079 --> 00:07:18.800 that they'll be able there to try to get aircraft 151 00:07:18.839 --> 00:07:21.319 back up at least the helicopters to begin. I mean, 152 00:07:21.360 --> 00:07:23.240 they could just dump on some of these homes and 153 00:07:23.240 --> 00:07:25.160 it would put out a lot of this fire to 154 00:07:25.720 --> 00:07:29.680 just prevent it from continuing to move down. Altadena, Alex, 155 00:07:29.720 --> 00:07:30.120 thank you. 156 00:07:30.680 --> 00:07:32.160 I'm sure we're going to get back to you as 157 00:07:32.199 --> 00:07:34.879 you're reporting on this fire over the next I assume 158 00:07:34.879 --> 00:07:37.000 you've been up all night and you probably not going 159 00:07:37.040 --> 00:07:37.759 to get any sleep for. 160 00:07:37.720 --> 00:07:38.399 A while, so. 161 00:07:39.879 --> 00:07:40.519 Enjoy yourself. 162 00:07:40.519 --> 00:07:43.920 I guess all right, Michael Monks kfi's Michael Monks is 163 00:07:45.079 --> 00:07:46.920 at the Westwood Recreational Center. 164 00:07:47.240 --> 00:07:49.120 Do I have that right, Michael? 165 00:07:49.360 --> 00:07:49.920 You do? Bill. 166 00:07:50.000 --> 00:07:51.680 This is one of these centers that's been set up 167 00:07:51.680 --> 00:07:54.800 for people who have evacuated from the fire in the Palisades. 168 00:07:54.839 --> 00:07:57.600 And I can tell you that just right here in 169 00:07:57.680 --> 00:08:00.439 this small piece of the world, the sky above is 170 00:08:00.680 --> 00:08:04.639 quite a group. You got a significant contrast. There's blue 171 00:08:04.680 --> 00:08:08.759 skies to my right, beautiful California sky, and then to 172 00:08:08.800 --> 00:08:13.839 my left it's dark, gray, cloudy, smoky. The wind is blowing. 173 00:08:13.920 --> 00:08:17.879 It feels ominous, It almost feels funereal. 174 00:08:18.240 --> 00:08:18.480 Here. 175 00:08:18.560 --> 00:08:21.759 There is certainly a ghastly pallor that's hanging over people 176 00:08:21.800 --> 00:08:24.399 here as they wonder what may be left of their 177 00:08:24.399 --> 00:08:27.079 homes or what's still left to come in the Palisades. 178 00:08:27.360 --> 00:08:29.240 And I can tell you this feels a lot different 179 00:08:29.319 --> 00:08:32.320 than the evacuation center I visited not that long ago 180 00:08:32.519 --> 00:08:35.759 when Malibu was burning, where people did show up for 181 00:08:35.799 --> 00:08:38.080 a little while, but there was a lot of optimism 182 00:08:38.120 --> 00:08:39.919 that this is going to pass and we'll be going 183 00:08:39.960 --> 00:08:42.919 back home. This one definitely has more of a sense 184 00:08:43.200 --> 00:08:44.080 of dread. 185 00:08:43.799 --> 00:08:45.919 And concern how many people are there. 186 00:08:46.799 --> 00:08:50.039 I could not get a specific account from the fire 187 00:08:50.039 --> 00:08:53.679 department that's here operating this shelter, but there are dozens. 188 00:08:53.840 --> 00:08:56.360 And there are folks who are sleeping. So they have 189 00:08:56.440 --> 00:09:00.279 a gym here, and that gym is currently closed unless 190 00:09:00.279 --> 00:09:01.799 you're going in there to sleep. So they've got all 191 00:09:01.799 --> 00:09:03.840 the cots set up, and there are definitely people sleeping 192 00:09:03.840 --> 00:09:07.080 in there. A lot of cars are here, and I'm 193 00:09:07.120 --> 00:09:09.639 also seeing a lot of seniors, a lot of folks 194 00:09:09.720 --> 00:09:12.799 using walkers, using wheelchairs. There are a lot of pet 195 00:09:12.840 --> 00:09:17.559 owners here, so people are with their pets. So people 196 00:09:17.639 --> 00:09:20.879 are with their pets, they're walking their dogs. And I 197 00:09:20.960 --> 00:09:23.519 did speak to a guy who was here. He came 198 00:09:23.559 --> 00:09:26.000 down from the palisades. He was waiting it out at first, 199 00:09:26.080 --> 00:09:29.639 he said, until about four o'clock yesterday afternoon. It wasn't 200 00:09:29.759 --> 00:09:32.320 the you know, the lapping of the flames that pushed 201 00:09:32.360 --> 00:09:35.279 him out. It was simply the air quality. When he thought, 202 00:09:35.440 --> 00:09:38.000 I've got to get going, Plus the traffic that was 203 00:09:38.000 --> 00:09:40.039 starting to build on the roads. I mean, if you 204 00:09:40.120 --> 00:09:41.840 live there, you can see it building. He said, I'd 205 00:09:41.840 --> 00:09:44.399 better get in that line right now before he gets worse, 206 00:09:44.440 --> 00:09:46.440 and said he made it out just before that clog 207 00:09:46.559 --> 00:09:48.720 from all the cars that had to be left behind. 208 00:09:48.840 --> 00:09:53.440 So he's not sure what's going on in his neighborhood. 209 00:09:53.480 --> 00:09:56.440 And you know, we know the firefighters are there doing 210 00:09:56.559 --> 00:09:59.039 their best, but it's it's difficult to get a full account. 211 00:09:59.039 --> 00:10:00.639 Now that the sun is coming up and hopefully the 212 00:10:00.720 --> 00:10:03.559 winds die down, maybe we'll get better visuals of what's 213 00:10:03.600 --> 00:10:04.000 going on. 214 00:10:04.240 --> 00:10:07.399 Yeah, I'm assuming a lot of those people have absolutely 215 00:10:07.399 --> 00:10:11.679 no idea as to whether their homes have survived. 216 00:10:11.240 --> 00:10:14.600 Or not, and I we are getting at Yeah, I mean, I. 217 00:10:14.559 --> 00:10:18.799 Will be scrambling, and I'm assuming people are asking everybody 218 00:10:18.840 --> 00:10:23.000 and anybody is there any reporting of neighborhoods that have 219 00:10:23.080 --> 00:10:25.200 gone down? How people are dealing with it? 220 00:10:25.360 --> 00:10:27.679 And I know it's kind of rough throwing a microphone 221 00:10:27.720 --> 00:10:28.799 in front of someone's. 222 00:10:28.480 --> 00:10:31.519 Face, Hey, how you feeling your family just died? You know, 223 00:10:32.000 --> 00:10:34.720 I know how stupid that is. But talk a little 224 00:10:34.759 --> 00:10:36.600 bit about what the conversation is if you've heard it, 225 00:10:36.639 --> 00:10:37.759 and what the concerns are. 226 00:10:38.360 --> 00:10:41.440 Right, people have been a little hesitant to talk formally 227 00:10:41.559 --> 00:10:44.759 to me, but they are talking to me in background basically, 228 00:10:45.039 --> 00:10:46.919 and then I can relay their stories a little bit. 229 00:10:47.039 --> 00:10:49.639 So Hopefully I'll find some people who can. You know, 230 00:10:49.679 --> 00:10:51.679 it is difficult to go up to them, especially with 231 00:10:51.759 --> 00:10:54.480 it still going on and they don't know exactly what's happening. 232 00:10:54.879 --> 00:10:57.080 And you know, I did just see a family walk 233 00:10:57.159 --> 00:10:59.639 past here with two young kids, and it look like 234 00:10:59.639 --> 00:11:02.399 one of the kids was holding one of those pet boxes, 235 00:11:02.440 --> 00:11:04.720 you know, with a pet inside. So I mean, everybody 236 00:11:04.879 --> 00:11:08.200 was completely disrupted. So you have that going on, with 237 00:11:08.519 --> 00:11:11.600 the looming uncertainty of what's happening in your neighborhood. But 238 00:11:11.840 --> 00:11:14.879 one of the gentlemen that I spoke to, says another 239 00:11:14.879 --> 00:11:16.799 guy he knows has not been able to get in 240 00:11:16.840 --> 00:11:19.799 touch with his elderly parents. The land lines are down, 241 00:11:19.840 --> 00:11:22.559 they don't have a mobile phone, and it doesn't think 242 00:11:22.559 --> 00:11:25.879 that they were able to get out. So it's difficult. 243 00:11:25.919 --> 00:11:27.559 You know, when we think of all the technology that 244 00:11:27.600 --> 00:11:31.799 we have, if it becomes unavailable and you can't get somewhere, 245 00:11:32.159 --> 00:11:35.240 then you're left with that worry. So a lot of 246 00:11:35.320 --> 00:11:38.600 questions here in Westwood for these folks at the evacuation 247 00:11:38.720 --> 00:11:41.360 center as they wait for word, and we've got all 248 00:11:41.399 --> 00:11:44.200 of the up to the minute information either coming from 249 00:11:44.240 --> 00:11:49.000 officials or even following the fire on social media, but 250 00:11:49.960 --> 00:11:53.480 you don't know until you know for sure. And that's 251 00:11:53.519 --> 00:11:56.159 what I think everybody just wants to know. Here is 252 00:11:56.200 --> 00:11:57.919 what's happening on their block, all right. 253 00:11:57.960 --> 00:12:02.960 In terms of setting the the center up, do they 254 00:12:03.000 --> 00:12:07.200 have are they bringing kitchens, food, food trucks? Are they 255 00:12:07.200 --> 00:12:09.120 looking at staying there for a number of days or 256 00:12:09.200 --> 00:12:11.960 does it feel very temporary that they're up and out 257 00:12:11.960 --> 00:12:13.879 of there next day or two. 258 00:12:14.360 --> 00:12:15.960 I mean, this is a rec center, so it's a 259 00:12:16.000 --> 00:12:18.200 solid structure, and they just bring in the cots. They 260 00:12:18.200 --> 00:12:20.519 bring in some seating, and they do bring in some 261 00:12:20.559 --> 00:12:22.240 food for people to get when they need it. I 262 00:12:22.279 --> 00:12:25.240 did notice a sign that says, please don't bring donations here, 263 00:12:25.720 --> 00:12:29.039 so take your donations. If people are soliciting that, make 264 00:12:29.080 --> 00:12:32.039 sure you're finding reputable donation sites to drop off. It's 265 00:12:32.039 --> 00:12:34.799 not the evacuation centers that want any of that. So 266 00:12:35.120 --> 00:12:38.120 they are bringing in what they need and not anything 267 00:12:38.279 --> 00:12:40.320 beyond that. But I can tell you the cots are 268 00:12:40.360 --> 00:12:42.159 being used. I'm seeing a lot of people, you know, 269 00:12:42.480 --> 00:12:46.080 munching and standing around, having some coffee and just waiting 270 00:12:46.120 --> 00:12:48.519 for word for what might be next. I'll also note 271 00:12:48.559 --> 00:12:50.600 that you know this is not an area that's been 272 00:12:50.679 --> 00:12:53.039 hit by the fire, but it was certainly hit by 273 00:12:53.039 --> 00:12:55.480 the winds. And I've been here since early this morning, 274 00:12:55.919 --> 00:12:59.320 and crews from the Parks and Recreation Department were already 275 00:12:59.360 --> 00:13:02.559 on site picking up massive branches and pieces of trees 276 00:13:02.600 --> 00:13:05.080 that had blown over. It was kind of a mess here. 277 00:13:05.360 --> 00:13:08.080 And you know, beyond the fire damage, those winds have 278 00:13:08.159 --> 00:13:09.440 I have definitely hurt some other things. 279 00:13:09.480 --> 00:13:10.080 I'll tell you this. 280 00:13:10.159 --> 00:13:12.600 I mean, I know we've got multiple fires burning, but 281 00:13:12.639 --> 00:13:15.679 when I left downtown LA this morning, it felt. 282 00:13:15.480 --> 00:13:17.480 As though the fire were there. 283 00:13:17.799 --> 00:13:21.399 You could smell it so thickly, and the cars and 284 00:13:21.720 --> 00:13:24.639 my parking lot were covered in dirt and slot and 285 00:13:24.679 --> 00:13:27.360 all that. It looked like in a dark covering on 286 00:13:27.440 --> 00:13:31.759 the wind shield. This is burning in very specific places, obviously, 287 00:13:31.960 --> 00:13:34.559 but it seems like all of us in the area 288 00:13:34.720 --> 00:13:36.559 are literally physically feeling it. 289 00:13:37.080 --> 00:13:37.320 Yeah. 290 00:13:37.360 --> 00:13:39.440 And at the same time, why don't you ask Amy 291 00:13:39.480 --> 00:13:43.039 how comfortable she is sitting in her news booth and 292 00:13:43.440 --> 00:13:44.240 just listening to you. 293 00:13:44.480 --> 00:13:46.320 I could have had one more day in there with you, Bill, 294 00:13:46.480 --> 00:13:47.600 you could have That's right. 295 00:13:47.720 --> 00:13:50.519 Unfortunately she's feeling a little bit better. Hey, is the 296 00:13:50.559 --> 00:13:55.639 Red Cross involved at all? Michael, resist this. 297 00:13:55.559 --> 00:13:59.320 Is a city fire is here with this wind, but 298 00:13:59.360 --> 00:14:01.440 the Red Cross is typically involved in a lot of 299 00:14:01.480 --> 00:14:04.679 these as well, So whether this is something that will 300 00:14:04.679 --> 00:14:07.240 be handed over to another agency at some point, I'm 301 00:14:07.240 --> 00:14:10.200 not exactly sure. That the public information officer from the 302 00:14:10.240 --> 00:14:12.600 fire department had arrived about the same time I did 303 00:14:12.639 --> 00:14:14.440 and was looking to gather some of the information that 304 00:14:14.480 --> 00:14:16.639 I'm hoping to relay to you at some point, like 305 00:14:16.679 --> 00:14:19.120 how many people there are, what the operations look. 306 00:14:19.039 --> 00:14:19.879 Like right now. 307 00:14:19.919 --> 00:14:21.200 You've got a lot of people hanging out in their 308 00:14:21.240 --> 00:14:24.559 cars too, so they're here at the evacuation center, maybe 309 00:14:24.559 --> 00:14:26.200 if they need access to a bathroom or if they 310 00:14:26.240 --> 00:14:28.000 want to spread out and lie down on one of 311 00:14:28.000 --> 00:14:30.320 those CODs, but a lot of people are here in 312 00:14:30.360 --> 00:14:33.240 this parking lot hanging out, and it is just it's windy, 313 00:14:33.279 --> 00:14:36.159 the wind is cold, and the sky, like I said, 314 00:14:36.279 --> 00:14:39.519 is just it's so ominous, and you have such contrasts 315 00:14:39.519 --> 00:14:42.480 with the sun glowing in one side, the blue skies 316 00:14:42.519 --> 00:14:44.120 on the other side, and then just in the middle 317 00:14:44.159 --> 00:14:45.600 here it's just dark. 318 00:14:46.080 --> 00:14:48.279 What an aberrational time, Michael. 319 00:14:48.679 --> 00:14:50.279 I know you're going to be reporting most of the day, 320 00:14:50.320 --> 00:14:53.840 so we'll probably talk again, and if not this segment 321 00:14:53.919 --> 00:14:56.919 or the next two, certainly on Gary and Shannon, Michael, 322 00:14:56.960 --> 00:14:57.799 take care of yourself? 323 00:14:58.080 --> 00:14:58.559 Thanks Bill. 324 00:14:58.600 --> 00:15:02.240 All right, as Michael Leavesy talked about how the pallor 325 00:15:02.240 --> 00:15:04.879 of the smoke, just watching a report on k t 326 00:15:05.039 --> 00:15:08.360 LA and one of the reporters and they're they're wearing. 327 00:15:08.080 --> 00:15:10.720 Ski goggles and face masks. 328 00:15:11.320 --> 00:15:11.440 Uh. 329 00:15:11.639 --> 00:15:16.360 The the mask was this dark, dingy gray. 330 00:15:18.080 --> 00:15:22.240 His hands you could see we're dirty. 331 00:15:22.679 --> 00:15:25.679 And the mic flag, you know where it says like 332 00:15:25.840 --> 00:15:28.600 our KFI mic flag at the end of a microphone 333 00:15:29.000 --> 00:15:32.120 that was starting to get gray and spotty just from 334 00:15:32.159 --> 00:15:33.000 the ash. 335 00:15:33.039 --> 00:15:35.120 It's insane. And who's up next? 336 00:15:35.159 --> 00:15:38.000 I know we're changing and we're bringing in, you know, 337 00:15:38.080 --> 00:15:38.679 various people. 338 00:15:38.720 --> 00:15:42.639 This is quote fluid this morning. Who's up next? 339 00:15:42.720 --> 00:15:46.279 Cool thing is Bill Ann has really busted her hump 340 00:15:46.320 --> 00:15:48.159 to make sure you have a list in front of you, 341 00:15:48.480 --> 00:15:53.200 and well I have to your dear friend is going 342 00:15:53.279 --> 00:15:54.080 to be joining us. 343 00:15:54.279 --> 00:15:58.200 Oh, Chuck Lovers is coming. Oh okay, yeah, oh you 344 00:15:58.240 --> 00:16:00.639 know did I print that? Oh yeah, that's on the printer. 345 00:16:00.799 --> 00:16:01.159 All right. 346 00:16:01.159 --> 00:16:03.799 I thought maybe you might talk to Gary Hoffin briefly 347 00:16:03.799 --> 00:16:04.080 about you. 348 00:16:04.200 --> 00:16:07.399 Yeah, yeah, we can do that. Yeah, we can do that. Okay, yeah, 349 00:16:07.440 --> 00:16:10.960 we got a lot fair enough. Thank you for con no, 350 00:16:11.120 --> 00:16:14.159 thank you for straightening that out. Hey, this is why 351 00:16:14.200 --> 00:16:15.840 I get paid the big bucks for doing this. 352 00:16:15.919 --> 00:16:19.600 You know, Oh, Gary and Shannon, you know follow this show. 353 00:16:20.240 --> 00:16:20.559 Gary. 354 00:16:20.559 --> 00:16:22.320 I was listening to Gary this morning because people have 355 00:16:22.320 --> 00:16:24.879 been up there or we've been here all night. I 356 00:16:24.960 --> 00:16:28.159 was listening to Gary talk about driving in this morning 357 00:16:28.320 --> 00:16:32.080 and what he saw, and just as a precursor, Gary 358 00:16:32.159 --> 00:16:34.360 lives if I'm not if I'm right up in the 359 00:16:34.360 --> 00:16:38.320 Santa Clarita Valley which is north well north of Burbank, 360 00:16:38.720 --> 00:16:41.279 And so Gary, if you could repeat, because I think 361 00:16:41.279 --> 00:16:44.360 it's worth repeating what you saw this morning and how 362 00:16:44.399 --> 00:16:44.960 you came in. 363 00:16:45.519 --> 00:16:47.840 So I got the alert actually that I was in 364 00:16:47.879 --> 00:16:50.879 an evacuation zone, which I wasn't, And I got three 365 00:16:50.879 --> 00:16:52.639 of them to say that I was in an evacuation 366 00:16:52.840 --> 00:16:54.919 zone and I wasn't in any of those three. 367 00:16:55.039 --> 00:16:56.679 But it did get me awake. 368 00:16:56.960 --> 00:17:01.600 So I got things ready because the the fire in Silmar, 369 00:17:01.639 --> 00:17:04.319 the Hearst fire, is the closest one to us, and 370 00:17:04.359 --> 00:17:06.839 there are some evacuation zones near us. So what I 371 00:17:06.880 --> 00:17:09.599 did was I got up, got the basic you know, 372 00:17:10.440 --> 00:17:12.160 the basics ready if we ever had to. 373 00:17:12.079 --> 00:17:12.720 Get out of there. 374 00:17:12.759 --> 00:17:15.039 And then I kissed my wife on the forehead and 375 00:17:15.119 --> 00:17:19.279 left and said you're good and driving in coming down 376 00:17:19.279 --> 00:17:21.960 the New Hall Pass, I mean basically I got out 377 00:17:22.000 --> 00:17:24.039 of the door of my house and I could see 378 00:17:24.079 --> 00:17:27.359 the fire in Silmar cresting the top of that ridge. 379 00:17:27.720 --> 00:17:29.559 And then as I come down the New Hall Pass, 380 00:17:30.160 --> 00:17:33.240 you can see the glow on the opposite side of 381 00:17:33.319 --> 00:17:35.920 the hill. And as you've come farther down the freeway, 382 00:17:36.000 --> 00:17:40.519 it just the orange flames, active flames just explode to 383 00:17:40.559 --> 00:17:41.240 the left of you. 384 00:17:41.279 --> 00:17:43.119 They're just all over the side of that hill. 385 00:17:43.400 --> 00:17:46.079 And you drive through Silmar to get to Bourbank. 386 00:17:46.200 --> 00:17:50.720 Yes, right down I five there was another fire actually 387 00:17:51.920 --> 00:17:54.559 right close to where the five and the one seventy 388 00:17:54.720 --> 00:17:57.839 split on the northbound side. As I was driving down, 389 00:17:57.880 --> 00:17:59.920 it was a little vegetation. They put it out, no problem, 390 00:18:00.400 --> 00:18:03.759 but the road five northbound had been closed first when 391 00:18:03.759 --> 00:18:06.359 I drove by it it was actually closed down. That 392 00:18:06.359 --> 00:18:08.440 would I mean, that was hours ago by this time, 393 00:18:08.480 --> 00:18:12.039 but it still was just indicative of the kind of problems. 394 00:18:12.240 --> 00:18:14.039 And then as I got farther down sort of North 395 00:18:14.079 --> 00:18:17.799 Hollywood area, I could see the fire, the eating fire 396 00:18:17.920 --> 00:18:20.200 over an Altadena, which was crazy because I did not 397 00:18:20.359 --> 00:18:23.000 expect to see that. I did not expect it to 398 00:18:23.039 --> 00:18:26.160 be visible from this side from the San Fernando Valley, 399 00:18:26.160 --> 00:18:28.880 and it was clearly visible. And then this morning, I mean, 400 00:18:28.920 --> 00:18:31.160 I know that Neil set you a picture of what 401 00:18:31.200 --> 00:18:33.680