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Speaker 2: And now Handle on the news.
Speaker 3: Ladies and gentlemen, here's Bill Handle.
Speaker 2: And good morning. I don't know how good it is.
Speaker 1: Bill Handle here and the morning crew, and I woke
Speaker 1: up this morning to the news of the fire, which
Speaker 1: we're gonna be carrying all morning for.
Speaker 2: The most part.
Speaker 1: I mean, there are some big pieces of news in
Speaker 1: addition to that, but I think it's going to be
Speaker 1: the for most of the show, it will be the fire.
Speaker 2: As I woke up this morning, I was listening to.
Speaker 1: Tim Conway, who has been covering the fire for the
Speaker 1: last several hours.
Speaker 3: Tim, I'm still here, buddy, ding along with you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, ding dong with you. Tim. I have to tell
Speaker 2: you something. Usually I don't think.
Speaker 1: Of you as a hard news guy. I think you
Speaker 1: have done a terrific job. I'm not blowing smoke, literally,
Speaker 1: I'm not blowing smoke up your rear.
Speaker 4: End.
Speaker 3: I appreciate that.
Speaker 1: It is a lot of it has to do with
Speaker 1: number one, you You grew up here in southern California,
Speaker 1: so you know the geography backwards and forwards.
Speaker 2: You know the topography, you know all the.
Speaker 1: Landmarks, and you've put it into a in a way.
Speaker 2: That is just really a joy to listen to.
Speaker 1: And I'd love to have your co host with me also, right, Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1: And I only heard during the course I was watching
Speaker 1: a little bit of TV, I only heard firefighters, I think,
Speaker 1: say only half a dozen times. Are priorities? Are people
Speaker 1: first and property second? But as the property values approach
Speaker 1: ten million dollars per home, that line gets blurred, doesn't it.
Speaker 3: That's right? Well, yeah, I think you're right.
Speaker 5: I think the you know, we're all worried about insurance
Speaker 5: on our property. And I think a lot of times,
Speaker 5: you know, don't you think that firefighters when they go
Speaker 5: in and they you know, they put a fire out
Speaker 5: in a guy's house. Don't you think once in a
Speaker 5: while they dip into the fridge for a cold one?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I would think so.
Speaker 1: Or how about a firefighter who is just trying to
Speaker 1: buy a house, couldn't get loan, it's living in an
Speaker 1: apartments watching a twenty five million dollar home.
Speaker 3: Go eh, you know it could be.
Speaker 5: Worsectly exactly right, But man, this fire You know, Bill,
Speaker 5: I know you and I lived and you know, fairly
Speaker 5: close to each other in the San Fernando Valley. You know,
Speaker 5: back in twenty thirty years ago, these fires used to
Speaker 5: take two or three days to get to the coast.
Speaker 3: Man they're doing it in hours now.
Speaker 2: It's just it's insane.
Speaker 1: Well because obviously climate change and if you'll look at
Speaker 1: the climate, and Amy will be telling us about all
Speaker 1: this all morning long, and that is we have very
Speaker 1: low humidity.
Speaker 2: Winds are going.
Speaker 1: To gust up and I think what nine nine thirty
Speaker 1: they're going to be hitting.
Speaker 2: That's right highest level.
Speaker 5: Let me ask you something, Billy, because you're a money guy,
Speaker 5: you know, and you know insurance. You know, you've had
Speaker 5: insurance on homes and cars and stuff like that. When
Speaker 5: you see these fires, don't you get the feeling that
Speaker 5: there when there are now three or four more insurance
Speaker 5: companies that are going to bail on California.
Speaker 1: Before the next commercial. Yes, my insurance my home. You're
Speaker 1: a homeowner. I don't know when your insurance has come
Speaker 1: up for renewal. Mine just did doubled, doubled, seriously, one
Speaker 1: hundred percent increase.
Speaker 3: It's crazy.
Speaker 5: I was, you know, when my wife and I were
Speaker 5: the only two drivers in our house is twenty four
Speaker 5: hundred dollars a year, and now that my eighteen year
Speaker 5: old daughter is driving, it's close to ten thousand dollars.
Speaker 2: It's insane.
Speaker 1: Well, I ended up when my kids and I bought
Speaker 1: part of their cars, and I would own the cars.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't let them actually have title the house because
Speaker 1: I was one of those keys. They acted out. Keys
Speaker 1: are in my pocket. I had to give my daughter
Speaker 1: the car. I had to give her title to the car.
Speaker 1: I can't take away the key. Now, insurance was so astronomical.
Speaker 1: Right now, it's go ahead and kill.
Speaker 2: Anybody you want.
Speaker 1: I'm not responsible, you know, leave me alone. Uh, it's
Speaker 1: just crazy. So you've got to go home and you yes,
Speaker 1: you thank you for you have to sleep. Tim, thank
Speaker 1: you so much.
Speaker 3: Yeah, thank you. Bill handle everybody and no, thank you.
Speaker 1: And Tim Conway Junior everybody, and back and forth, back
Speaker 1: and forth. You know, I wasn't you know what, I
Speaker 1: wasn't surprised, but I got kind of well, I guess
Speaker 1: in one sense, pleasantly surprised at how strong, uh how
Speaker 1: strong Tim was and uh basically leading the coverage here.
Speaker 1: All right, let me say hello to everybody.
Speaker 2: Who is here. Uh Neil just came a war a
Speaker 2: few minutes ago. Good morning, Neil.
Speaker 6: Oh.
Speaker 2: He's waving, not speaking. Amy, Good morning, Bill, good morning.
Speaker 2: We're going to be going to you.
Speaker 1: It's going to be more you than anybody else, I think,
Speaker 1: because you're on top of the latest breaking news. Uh
Speaker 1: Kono is here as always because we have someone running
Speaker 1: the board and who is running around someplace. I'm here,
Speaker 1: I just don't see you, an I am not in
Speaker 1: the studio today. So I'm going to rely on you guys,
Speaker 1: especially to go to the television coverage and we're going
Speaker 1: to try to get We have Michael Monks going out
Speaker 1: and he will be out on the fire.
Speaker 2: We're going to be talking to people who are around
Speaker 2: the fire. In the fire.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to get my friend Chuck Lovers with Chuck
Speaker 1: was with La County Fired.
Speaker 2: He did this.
Speaker 1: He fought these kinds of fires for thirty years. So
Speaker 1: we're going to get some insight as to what is
Speaker 1: going on on the technical side.
Speaker 2: And then people who were just there.
Speaker 1: And of course there's a press conference coming up up
Speaker 1: at seven o'clock.
Speaker 2: Do I have that right? Amy? From the fire department.
Speaker 4: They're saying now.
Speaker 7: That it may be eight o'clock, okay, but whenever it happens,
Speaker 7: we'll bring it to your life, okay.
Speaker 1: And I have not heard of any increase in acreage
Speaker 1: for several hours.
Speaker 2: All I've heard is eighteen hundred plus.
Speaker 7: Yeah. When I got in here, it was at like
Speaker 7: seven hundred, and then it quickly went up to like
Speaker 7: fourteen hundred and fifteen hundred sixteen, and now it's up
Speaker 7: to over eighteen hundred. So it's definitely been growing quickly.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's going to grow even quicker, unfortunately as
Speaker 1: the winds whip up. Although Tim had said that as
Speaker 1: light approaches, let me open the window here, okay. So dark, okay,
Speaker 1: still dark. So as light approaches, we're going to see
Speaker 1: the aircraft, mainly from van Ey's take off, the firefighting
Speaker 1: aircraft of which there's been so much of an increase
Speaker 1: in the last few years, and they've become a game changer.
Speaker 1: Michael Monks, who is out on the fire line? Michael,
Speaker 1: exactly where are you and what are you seeing?
Speaker 8: I am hanging out at one of the evacuation centers
Speaker 8: in the Palisades on LMO Rael Drive. This is one
Speaker 8: that has opened up the folks who were evacuated either
Speaker 8: late last night or early this morning, and so right
Speaker 8: now it's very quiet. There's about a dozen and a
Speaker 8: half cars here. And what's interesting is that when you
Speaker 8: take a peek inside this evacuation center, they've got all
Speaker 8: the little cots set up and all of the coffee
Speaker 8: and little snacks that are available to folks, But none
Speaker 8: of the folks who've driven here are actually in there.
Speaker 8: Just a handful are in there. Everybody's kind of hanging
Speaker 8: out in their cars right now. And you know, I'm
Speaker 8: not a psychiatrist or psychologist, but I can't help but
Speaker 8: assume that, you know, maybe you're holding onto a little
Speaker 8: bit of your own comfort after something as disruptive as
Speaker 8: being evacuated for this very serious fire and all the
Speaker 8: questions still surrounding it about the winds and whether those
Speaker 8: are going to pick up again, what's the condition of
Speaker 8: any of the buildings up there, including your own.
Speaker 3: So I'm gonna hopefully talk.
Speaker 8: To some of these folks as soon as I can
Speaker 8: muster up the strength to bother them. Folks are just
Speaker 8: kind of hanging out right now, very quietly.
Speaker 2: Inside their cars.
Speaker 8: But this evacuation center one of several open for folks,
Speaker 8: others available for animals. But right now it's kind of
Speaker 8: a wait and see thing, literally waiting to see. We're
Speaker 8: hoping to see this sun come up momentarily so that
Speaker 8: authorities can get a clearer picture of the damage and
Speaker 8: also so those airborne firefighters can get a better handle
Speaker 8: on fighting this thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Michael, keep in mind that this is KFI, So
Speaker 1: feel free to shove a microphone in someone's face and say, hey,
Speaker 1: how you feeling.
Speaker 2: I do plan to.
Speaker 8: I did talk to a woman a little bit earlier
Speaker 8: as she pulled in, and you know, she was completely disheveled.
Speaker 8: Oh yeah, scared, and her husband is handicapped disabled and
Speaker 8: he was in the back of the vehicle and she
Speaker 8: needed help from folks inside to come out and help
Speaker 8: get the wheelchair together. She didn't know where to park,
Speaker 8: and so it just gave me a direct sense of
Speaker 8: how people are feeling. I mean, you had to jump
Speaker 8: in a car and then you had to drive somewhere,
Speaker 8: not knowing what this thing is going to look like.
Speaker 8: She was asking me if this was the evacuation center.
Speaker 8: So a lot of confusion on folks face as they
Speaker 8: emerge here in the twilight hours, and it's obviously a
Speaker 8: very scary situation if you had to depart your home.
Speaker 2: Now. Is the Red Cross on site?
Speaker 8: It is a Red Cross operated shelter, Yes, exactly.
Speaker 1: All right, so they're right out there. One of the
Speaker 1: things about the Red Cross they're pretty neat.
Speaker 8: And they're fast. I mean they were out here immediately.
Speaker 8: Everybody looked like they had been cleaned up and showered
Speaker 8: and dressed and in their uniforms and ready to go,
Speaker 8: you know, before I got here.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they know what they're doing for sure.
Speaker 1: All right, Michael, I know you're going to be standing by,
Speaker 1: so we'll be coming to you on a regular basis.
Speaker 1: You're going to be working pretty hard this next shift
Speaker 1: and probably got it the rest of the day.
Speaker 2: Thanks for everything you do, of course, all right. I
Speaker 2: sort of had to say that, didn't.
Speaker 4: I It was very nice of you, It actually was.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm kind of surprised actually now there it
Speaker 1: is right there. Thank Michael Long for everything he does.
Speaker 1: There you go, Hey, you write it, I say it.
Speaker 1: If you're just waking up. There is a I wouldn't
Speaker 1: use the word massive wildfire. It's a last reported eighteen
Speaker 1: hundred acres now, normally an eighteen hundred acre fire, they're
Speaker 1: calling it a wildfire because zero percent contained would not
Speaker 1: be that big a deal. I mean relative to the
Speaker 1: tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of acres that have
Speaker 1: been burnt in various fires throughout California in the last
Speaker 1: couple of three years.
Speaker 2: But this is in the heart of Malibu.
Speaker 1: This is where some of the most expensive homes in
Speaker 1: the US are the US are in the US, Yeah,
Speaker 1: are I got that right? And we're talking about major
Speaker 1: celebrities and high end folks financially and in the public eye.
Speaker 1: Film stars, as Tim Conway said this morning, film stars,
Speaker 1: heads of business. I mean people that are very well known.
Speaker 1: They are the ones that are going to be effective.
Speaker 1: And the homes can be tens of millions, are tens
Speaker 1: of millions of dollars, so particular attention is being paid.
Speaker 1: Let me check in really quickly with Amy, who's been
Speaker 1: following up on this. By the way, Neil is here,
Speaker 1: and of course An is here, and Cono said hello
Speaker 1: to everybody who's working on the show this morning. So Amy,
Speaker 1: what is the latest that we can report?
Speaker 7: Okay, so we're still having that It's eighteen hundred and
Speaker 7: twenty two acres. The La County Sheriff's Department and actually
Speaker 7: fire Chief. They're going to be holding a press conference
Speaker 7: at eight o'clock to give us all the latest numbers,
Speaker 7: so we'll have updates for you by then.
Speaker 4: We'll try to get some more before then.
Speaker 7: We do have about two thousand homes under evacuation warning
Speaker 7: or actually evacuation orders. They are out of their homes
Speaker 7: east of Las Virgins between maul Hull Highway to the
Speaker 7: north and Payouma Road to the south, between Stunt Road
Speaker 7: to the north and Lost Florists to the south, east
Speaker 7: of Carbon Beach Terrace, west of Old Malibu Road, north
Speaker 7: of Pacific Coast Highway. Shelter has been set up at
Speaker 7: Palisades Recreation Center. That's where Michael Monks is and that
Speaker 7: is at eight five to one Alma Real Drive in
Speaker 7: Pacific Palisades. And then if you've got animals that need
Speaker 7: to be taken to shelters, the shelters are at a
Speaker 7: Gora Animal Center care Center in Agra Hills and also
Speaker 7: Pierce College in Woodland Hills. The fire is burning uncontained,
Speaker 7: out completely out of control. Several spot fires have been
Speaker 7: sparked because of the embers and the ash that is
Speaker 7: being thrown way away from the main fire because of
Speaker 7: the Santa Ana winds which are expected to blow between
Speaker 7: forty and fifty miles per hour, and the winds are
Speaker 7: going to be very strong this morning according to the
Speaker 7: National Weather Service, they may die down hopefully this afternoon
Speaker 7: and hopefully give firefighters a little bit of an edge there.
Speaker 1: I have not heard how many homes have burnt. That
Speaker 1: has not been reported.
Speaker 2: No, we know that homes have burned, Okay, we do
Speaker 2: have that.
Speaker 1: And we always talk about structures, and whenever I think
Speaker 1: of structure as opposed to homes, I think of outhouses
Speaker 1: that are sitting on a piece of property. So the
Speaker 1: number of homes and I'm assuming that there has to
Speaker 1: be a fair number, and I would think they would
Speaker 1: have gotten some ideas. So at eight o'clock we're going
Speaker 1: to get much more of an update. One of the
Speaker 1: things Amy, and then we're going to go to Mike Friole.
Speaker 1: One of the things I noticed that it does take
Speaker 1: hours sometimes to get an update as to numbers. If
Speaker 1: you have a if you have fire that's out of
Speaker 1: control like this one, and it is.
Speaker 2: Moving, you would think there.
Speaker 1: Would be some extrapolation, say it is moving at five
Speaker 1: hundred acres an hour or and we're not getting.
Speaker 2: A lot of that.
Speaker 7: Well, the winds did, They did die down a bit
Speaker 7: over the night, although it has been windy there. But
Speaker 7: the winds also shift directions, so it's not just burning
Speaker 7: in a straight line, and it doesn't you know, the
Speaker 7: border of the fire doesn't have like a nice straight
Speaker 7: line either, so I think it's a little more challenging.
Speaker 7: And like we were talking about, with the embers that
Speaker 7: are throwing off from the fire that could spark other fires,
Speaker 7: you have to add those in as well.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and we're going to be talking to my friend
Speaker 1: Chuck Lovers a little bit later on. And what time
Speaker 1: do we have Chuck coming on this morning?
Speaker 2: He was with the.
Speaker 1: La County Fire and he fought these fires and he'll
Speaker 1: give us a lot of technical insight that we're not
Speaker 1: going to get anyplace else.
Speaker 2: Now. We're going to do this for a couple of
Speaker 2: segments at least.
Speaker 1: So at this point, the director of communications for Pepperdine,
Speaker 1: Mike Friel, who is there shelteringly sheltering in place. Mike,
Speaker 1: thanks for joining us. So what's going on on that
Speaker 1: campus right now.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean the night we woke up somewhere around
Speaker 9: eleven em and learned about this fire about five miles
Speaker 9: from campus, and we monitored it as it moves closer toward, uh,
Speaker 9: toward our campus, and unfortunately we had to issue the
Speaker 9: shelter in place protocol. This is a well planned out
Speaker 9: plan to ensure that our our residents are safe. They're
Speaker 9: in the center of campus. They're sheltered in place as
Speaker 9: we speak, in our pace in library and the Tyler
Speaker 9: UH Center of campus. And so right now we're taking
Speaker 9: care of our students and make sure they have what
Speaker 9: they need, and you know, we we really need to
Speaker 9: stay focused on them to ensure that they're taken care of.
Speaker 9: So we are looking for sunrise to make sure we
Speaker 9: can assess and and and see if it's safe to
Speaker 9: to allow for our students to return back to their
Speaker 9: residence halls. We did cancel classes and this is finals week,
Speaker 9: so uh, they're not going to be doing their finals tomorrow,
Speaker 9: but we want to make sure that they're able to
Speaker 9: finish out the semester well.
Speaker 1: All right, for those people that aren't aware of the
Speaker 1: Pepperdine campus, if you want to look it up, you
Speaker 1: want to google it.
Speaker 2: It sits on top of the.
Speaker 1: Mountain right there in Malibu and has a almost unbridled
Speaker 1: view of the Pacific Ocean. It could very well be
Speaker 1: the most beautifully situated campus on the planet. Now, there's
Speaker 1: all that greenery, that huge expanse of grant of grass
Speaker 1: in front all the way down to the highway. What's
Speaker 1: behind it is I'm assuming if you have that much grass,
Speaker 1: there's not a lot of there's not a lot of
Speaker 1: burnable material, but how much around the campus actually is fuel?
Speaker 9: Yeah, we're surrounded in the Santa Monica Mountains by this
Speaker 9: very dry shrubberry, and so there is certainly a threat.
Speaker 9: But you know, we have a campus that's well designed.
Speaker 9: We have made sure that we keep the edges of
Speaker 9: the campus cleared of any brush, and even the shrubbery
Speaker 9: on campus is planted and in a way that we
Speaker 9: know it's resilient and it's going to withstand some of
Speaker 9: these these kinds of conditions. Our buildings are also built
Speaker 9: and designed to withstand this kind of a threat from
Speaker 9: fires as well. So the campus itself is really the
Speaker 9: safest place for our students to be. You know, we
Speaker 9: have planned for these kinds of situations, knowing where we're at.
Speaker 9: It is the most beautiful campus.
Speaker 3: In the world.
Speaker 9: Uh and and yet it's it's also susceptible to fire
Speaker 9: conditions like this. So we are making sure that our students, though,
Speaker 9: are safe and sheltered in place. Thankfully, no significant damage,
Speaker 9: reports of any injury. So we think the worst is
Speaker 9: over for now, but we're going to have to really
Speaker 9: hold our breath for the next twenty four hours.
Speaker 3: Is the winds continue.
Speaker 1: Mike, Thank you, and I'm sure you'll be in touch
Speaker 1: with us throughout the day because I'm not the only
Speaker 1: one that wants to talk to you. Might keep safe
Speaker 1: a good place to be by the way the campus,
Speaker 1: but it really is worth.
Speaker 2: Looking at that be that campus. It is like a stunner.
Speaker 1: The problem is not only the factors Malibu and fires,
Speaker 1: but the weather, not so much the temperature, but the
Speaker 1: humidity and the gusts of wind. Todd Hall, National Weather
Speaker 1: Service kind enough to be with us, Todd, thank you.
Speaker 2: And what are we looking at this morning? Wind? Temperature?
Speaker 6: Yeah, so in general we're we're looking at more of
Speaker 6: the same unfortunately this morning. For the next couple hours,
Speaker 6: we're looking at winds potentially being between twenty to thirty
Speaker 6: miles per hour gusting to forty five to even fifty
Speaker 6: five miles per hour across that area across the Franklin Fire,
Speaker 6: So it still very dry conditions in place. We're seeing
Speaker 6: humidities down to about you know, five to six percent
Speaker 6: across that area.
Speaker 2: Five six percent. Basically it's desert.
Speaker 1: I mean that's almost zero humidity, which of course causes
Speaker 1: fires to go crazy. And add that Augusta win forty
Speaker 1: five miles per hour. You can't you cannot outrun that fire.
Speaker 1: You can't outdrive a fire that moves that quickly.
Speaker 6: Yes, and this is this? Did this actually from start
Speaker 6: to you know, we can see the stuff on satellite
Speaker 6: and watching it progress. Is it from start to the
Speaker 6: way it is right now? I mean it it ran
Speaker 6: very fast, right from right from its ignition start at
Speaker 6: time around eleven o'clock last night.
Speaker 1: And can you tell by just the way the topography
Speaker 1: is where the strongest guts wind are likely to blow.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean typically you're going to see that it's
Speaker 6: oriented down down ridge lines and canyons that are very
Speaker 6: oriented with the wind direction, and that will tend to
Speaker 6: make that fire and make those wins actually run much
Speaker 6: quicker as a result of that.
Speaker 2: All right, Todd, I.
Speaker 1: Am sure you're going to get one or two phone
Speaker 1: calls today and we'll come back and thank you very
Speaker 1: much for the update. Don't bother napping today, Todd. It's
Speaker 1: just not going to happen, all right. A quick word.
Speaker 2: Before we continue on.
Speaker 1: We take our break as we have two ways that
Speaker 1: we want to get you involved. One is we have
Speaker 1: our line open right now at eight hundred and five
Speaker 1: two zero one five three four where you are, what
Speaker 1: you're seeing, that sort of thing, and you'll be talking
Speaker 1: probably the an and if what you have is reasonably
Speaker 1: relevant in terms of where the.
Speaker 2: Fire is going, we'll put you on.
Speaker 1: And there's also you can simply record a here's what's
Speaker 1: going on just before you literally walk out the front
Speaker 1: door and run out trying to save your ass. The
Speaker 1: iHeart app go to the KFI page and there's a
Speaker 1: microphone in the upper right hand corner and just leave
Speaker 1: a message as to what happens, where you.
Speaker 2: Are, what shelter you're at, whatever.
Speaker 1: You can do to give us information because obviously this
Speaker 1: is dynamic and fluid, as it is described the way
Speaker 1: we broadcast these fires.
Speaker 2: Neil, you just haven't said hello to you.
Speaker 3: Good marching.
Speaker 10: We just had National Weather Service meteorologist Todd Hall on,
Speaker 10: of course, talking about the winds. This is something that
Speaker 10: they've been perceiving to be inevitable for the past handful
Speaker 10: of days because of those dry conditions that you guys
Speaker 10: talked about. We're looking at probably ten minutes twenty minutes
Speaker 10: away from winds kicking back up. Earlier this morning they
Speaker 10: were clocked at about sixty five miles per hour.
Speaker 3: Crazy what it was reported.
Speaker 10: The weird thing, and you heard Conway talk about this handle,
Speaker 10: is that you can't get fixed wing planes up there
Speaker 10: when you have those horrible winds. So this starting around
Speaker 10: two o'clock or something like that this morning, they were
Speaker 10: unable to get some of that up as they normally
Speaker 10: would because of those nighttime wins. We'll see how that
Speaker 10: plays out today. But as Amy has been reporting, it's
Speaker 10: moving south. I see it right now, just kissing the
Speaker 10: one freeway there, and that's moving towards the water, which
Speaker 10: is good news at one point, but bad news because
Speaker 10: you've got that mess of homes right there, very expensive,
Speaker 10: as you pointed out, earlier.
Speaker 2: Woke up this morning and woke up to another fire.
Speaker 1: I didn't turn nine KFI heard Tim Conway, who had
Speaker 1: been there from two am. Tim was covering the firing Malibu. YEP,
Speaker 1: it's deja vu all over again, isn't it? Where we're
Speaker 1: watching major fire in Malibu. We have at this point
Speaker 1: no idea how many.
Speaker 2: Homes have burned.
Speaker 1: Amy has reported that there are homes that have burnt,
Speaker 1: and that has been confirmed.
Speaker 4: Amy confirm from people who are on scene that fire
Speaker 4: officials haven't said for sure, but we were expecting to
Speaker 4: find out more when the La Fire in La County
Speaker 4: Sheriff will be holding a news conference from Zooma Beach
Speaker 4: at eight o'clock.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm assuming that people there saying yeah, that house
Speaker 1: is on fire is pretty legitimate in terms of corroboration,
Speaker 1: unless they start mentioning that Martians have come down and
Speaker 1: are putting out the fire.
Speaker 2: And you have those crazy people too.
Speaker 1: So we do know a number of homes have gone
Speaker 1: up based on what Amy's reporting and that kind of corroboration.
Speaker 2: We don't know the actual acreage because.
Speaker 1: Last reported and this is effective as what time, the
Speaker 1: eighteen hundred acre figure was last reported.
Speaker 4: We've had that number since five o'clock this morning.
Speaker 1: Okay, So all right, so there's you know, we're only
Speaker 1: two hours out and so and a press conference coming
Speaker 1: up at eight o'clock or we're going to get other numbers.
Speaker 1: And then as far as the speed of this fire,
Speaker 1: I have not gotten that, Amy. I don't know if
Speaker 1: they've reported the fire is moving at x miles per
Speaker 1: hour or burning up acridge at x at acres per
Speaker 1: period of time, and we haven't gotten that.
Speaker 4: I'm assuming we know we don't have that infest.
Speaker 1: Okay, it's you know, this is early early hours on
Speaker 1: these things, and the information is kind of spotty, and
Speaker 1: the fire officials and I think are reluctant about coming
Speaker 1: out with initial figures, as they should be because these
Speaker 1: are official statements and we rely on them as opposed
Speaker 1: to early news items.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 10: In addition to you were talking about the lack of precipitation,
Speaker 10: how everything's dry, and although we're looking at Malibu right now,
Speaker 10: there are other areas that are particularly dangerous that are
Speaker 10: in that same category as those Malibu mountains. So you're
Speaker 10: looking at Ventura County, thousand Oaks, Ventura, Oxnard, fillmore. Oh Hi,
Speaker 10: All these places like Malibu, Canoga Park, Santa Clarita acted,
Speaker 10: these are all in similar situations as far far as
Speaker 10: the dry brush and high winds and circumstances. So hopefully
Speaker 10: we don't see more and more of these fires and similar.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and we do, I mean during these kinds of
Speaker 1: weather conditions. We had Todd Hall of National Weather Service
Speaker 1: just on a few moments ago, and the reporting now
Speaker 1: is that we're looking at gus Win and coming up
Speaker 1: over the next couple hours as winds are really going
Speaker 1: to kick up gusts up to forty five to fifty
Speaker 1: miles an hour, which of course turbos of fire turbo
Speaker 1: charges where the fire can literally explode and no one
Speaker 1: can try to fight.
Speaker 2: They don't even try to fight it. They just walk
Speaker 2: away or run away.
Speaker 1: And try to get some kind of a fire break
Speaker 1: way way up at the distance. He reported that we're
Speaker 1: looking at humidity at five to six percent. That's bone dry,
Speaker 1: I mean, that is nothing. And when you have the
Speaker 1: humidity at that low a figure, then it all becomes
Speaker 1: firewood and kindling, all of it, and so these fires
Speaker 1: start and then a lot of these are well, it
Speaker 1: used to be a lot of power lines, especially during
Speaker 1: the gusty wind periods. I think is better now because
Speaker 1: the power companies have cleared away a lot of the
Speaker 1: brush under the power polls, those big transmission lines after
Speaker 1: a few billion dollar hits in terms of liability.
Speaker 4: They're also shutting off the power.
Speaker 7: Earlier found out about the fire last night because his
Speaker 7: sister called him and said, hey, the power's out of
Speaker 7: my house.
Speaker 1: It's yeah, and I've gotten those a couple of times
Speaker 1: power will be shut off, power will be shut.
Speaker 2: Off, and it isn't. It just says the possibility.
Speaker 1: And even though I was told from the power company
Speaker 1: that power may be shut off or will be shut off,
Speaker 1: it has not yet happened at my house.
Speaker 10: What would you do if your sister calls you up
Speaker 10: at two in the morning and tell you heard powers out?
Speaker 2: Let me sleep? What are you doing.
Speaker 3: If you don't know it's a fire. It's like, why
Speaker 3: are you calling me by your power out?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: If I look out the window and it's still dark, eh,
Speaker 1: I roll over.
Speaker 10: You want to get an idea of some of the wind,
Speaker 10: The Magic Mountain Truck Trail had a recorded wind gust
Speaker 10: of ninety three miles per hour earlier today, Bony Mountain,
Speaker 10: which overlooks the San Monica Mountains, which overlooks Thousand Oaks.
Speaker 3: Newbray Park had.
Speaker 10: Recorded can you image us of seventy three miles?
Speaker 2: Unbelievable?
Speaker 1: So Magic Mountain, I'm assuming is closed, and if not
Speaker 1: completely closed, a couple of rides like the burn a
Speaker 1: Wheel is going to shut down.
Speaker 3: A fly about.
Speaker 2: Yeah, wow, I tell you we do it. At some point.
Speaker 1: I've been doing broadcasting here. I've been broadcasting a KFI
Speaker 1: now for what is it now, nineteen eighty nine?
Speaker 2: Wow? Long time?
Speaker 6: Too long?
Speaker 2: Yeah, way too yeah, way too long? What station was this?
Speaker 1: In any case, it's frankly, I'm getting tired of reporting
Speaker 1: on fires.
Speaker 2: That's how often we get fires.
Speaker 1: And it is you know, and then and the fires
Speaker 1: Amy pointed out, Uh, it was they would be nothing.
Speaker 1: You'd have two or three homes being burnt up.
Speaker 2: Amy. Remember when the news was.
Speaker 1: If you lost half a dozen homes in a given fire,
Speaker 1: that would almost end of the world headlines.
Speaker 7: Yes, and now and now we have hundreds or entire
Speaker 7: towns wiped out. Yeah, and it is paradise in northern California.
Speaker 1: And it is less news with dozens of homes, hundreds
Speaker 1: of homes than it was five or six homes years ago.
Speaker 1: Did I give you an idea of the severity of
Speaker 1: the fires and climate change? All right, we're gonna come back,
Speaker 1: take a break. What do we have AND's running around there?
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Speaker 1: few people as well. We'll do this very much on
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