WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.720 --> 00:00:04.040 You're listening to KAPI AM six forty, the Bill Handle 2 00:00:04.120 --> 00:00:06.799 Show on demand on the iHeartRadio f. 3 00:00:13.400 --> 00:00:15.839 And now Handle on the news. 4 00:00:16.359 --> 00:00:19.120 Ladies and gentlemen, here's Bill Handle. 5 00:00:20.320 --> 00:00:22.480 And good morning. I don't know how good it is. 6 00:00:22.760 --> 00:00:26.359 Bill Handle here and the morning crew, and I woke 7 00:00:26.440 --> 00:00:28.960 up this morning to the news of the fire, which 8 00:00:29.000 --> 00:00:30.399 we're gonna be carrying all morning for. 9 00:00:30.359 --> 00:00:30.879 The most part. 10 00:00:30.920 --> 00:00:33.000 I mean, there are some big pieces of news in 11 00:00:33.039 --> 00:00:35.240 addition to that, but I think it's going to be 12 00:00:35.560 --> 00:00:39.359 the for most of the show, it will be the fire. 13 00:00:40.079 --> 00:00:41.719 As I woke up this morning, I was listening to. 14 00:00:41.640 --> 00:00:45.000 Tim Conway, who has been covering the fire for the 15 00:00:45.079 --> 00:00:46.240 last several hours. 16 00:00:46.640 --> 00:00:49.399 Tim, I'm still here, buddy, ding along with you. 17 00:00:49.439 --> 00:00:51.679 Yeah, ding dong with you. Tim. I have to tell 18 00:00:51.719 --> 00:00:54.759 you something. Usually I don't think. 19 00:00:54.640 --> 00:00:57.399 Of you as a hard news guy. I think you 20 00:00:57.600 --> 00:01:01.920 have done a terrific job. I'm not blowing smoke, literally, 21 00:01:02.320 --> 00:01:04.120 I'm not blowing smoke up your rear. 22 00:01:04.239 --> 00:01:04.359 End. 23 00:01:05.040 --> 00:01:05.879 I appreciate that. 24 00:01:05.920 --> 00:01:07.359 It is a lot of it has to do with 25 00:01:07.439 --> 00:01:10.079 number one, you You grew up here in southern California, 26 00:01:10.159 --> 00:01:12.680 so you know the geography backwards and forwards. 27 00:01:13.159 --> 00:01:15.799 You know the topography, you know all the. 28 00:01:15.840 --> 00:01:19.239 Landmarks, and you've put it into a in a way. 29 00:01:19.040 --> 00:01:21.480 That is just really a joy to listen to. 30 00:01:22.000 --> 00:01:26.920 And I'd love to have your co host with me also, right, Yeah, exactly. 31 00:01:27.000 --> 00:01:30.319 And I only heard during the course I was watching 32 00:01:30.319 --> 00:01:34.439 a little bit of TV, I only heard firefighters, I think, 33 00:01:34.519 --> 00:01:39.040 say only half a dozen times. Are priorities? Are people 34 00:01:39.159 --> 00:01:44.719 first and property second? But as the property values approach 35 00:01:44.799 --> 00:01:47.519 ten million dollars per home, that line gets blurred, doesn't it. 36 00:01:47.560 --> 00:01:49.840 That's right? Well, yeah, I think you're right. 37 00:01:49.920 --> 00:01:52.239 I think the you know, we're all worried about insurance 38 00:01:52.280 --> 00:01:55.799 on our property. And I think a lot of times, 39 00:01:56.079 --> 00:01:58.719 you know, don't you think that firefighters when they go 40 00:01:58.840 --> 00:02:01.879 in and they you know, they put a fire out 41 00:02:01.920 --> 00:02:03.959 in a guy's house. Don't you think once in a 42 00:02:04.000 --> 00:02:06.120 while they dip into the fridge for a cold one? 43 00:02:06.359 --> 00:02:08.719 Yeah, I would think so. 44 00:02:09.039 --> 00:02:12.680 Or how about a firefighter who is just trying to 45 00:02:12.680 --> 00:02:15.960 buy a house, couldn't get loan, it's living in an 46 00:02:15.960 --> 00:02:18.719 apartments watching a twenty five million dollar home. 47 00:02:18.800 --> 00:02:21.879 Go eh, you know it could be. 48 00:02:21.840 --> 00:02:26.240 Worsectly exactly right, But man, this fire You know, Bill, 49 00:02:26.280 --> 00:02:30.120 I know you and I lived and you know, fairly 50 00:02:30.120 --> 00:02:32.479 close to each other in the San Fernando Valley. You know, 51 00:02:32.560 --> 00:02:36.879 back in twenty thirty years ago, these fires used to 52 00:02:36.879 --> 00:02:38.639 take two or three days to get to the coast. 53 00:02:38.680 --> 00:02:40.280 Man they're doing it in hours now. 54 00:02:40.439 --> 00:02:41.759 It's just it's insane. 55 00:02:41.759 --> 00:02:44.479 Well because obviously climate change and if you'll look at 56 00:02:44.479 --> 00:02:46.120 the climate, and Amy will be telling us about all 57 00:02:46.240 --> 00:02:49.039 this all morning long, and that is we have very 58 00:02:49.080 --> 00:02:49.879 low humidity. 59 00:02:50.560 --> 00:02:51.879 Winds are going. 60 00:02:51.639 --> 00:02:55.199 To gust up and I think what nine nine thirty 61 00:02:55.240 --> 00:02:56.039 they're going to be hitting. 62 00:02:56.240 --> 00:02:57.680 That's right highest level. 63 00:02:57.919 --> 00:03:00.199 Let me ask you something, Billy, because you're a money guy, 64 00:03:00.280 --> 00:03:04.319 you know, and you know insurance. You know, you've had 65 00:03:04.360 --> 00:03:07.000 insurance on homes and cars and stuff like that. When 66 00:03:07.039 --> 00:03:10.120 you see these fires, don't you get the feeling that 67 00:03:10.159 --> 00:03:13.039 there when there are now three or four more insurance 68 00:03:13.039 --> 00:03:16.319 companies that are going to bail on California. 69 00:03:15.560 --> 00:03:20.759 Before the next commercial. Yes, my insurance my home. You're 70 00:03:20.800 --> 00:03:24.439 a homeowner. I don't know when your insurance has come 71 00:03:24.520 --> 00:03:29.520 up for renewal. Mine just did doubled, doubled, seriously, one 72 00:03:29.560 --> 00:03:30.680 hundred percent increase. 73 00:03:31.319 --> 00:03:32.439 It's crazy. 74 00:03:32.479 --> 00:03:34.599 I was, you know, when my wife and I were 75 00:03:34.599 --> 00:03:36.879 the only two drivers in our house is twenty four 76 00:03:36.960 --> 00:03:39.680 hundred dollars a year, and now that my eighteen year 77 00:03:39.719 --> 00:03:42.639 old daughter is driving, it's close to ten thousand dollars. 78 00:03:42.960 --> 00:03:44.280 It's insane. 79 00:03:44.439 --> 00:03:48.360 Well, I ended up when my kids and I bought 80 00:03:48.439 --> 00:03:50.919 part of their cars, and I would own the cars. 81 00:03:51.039 --> 00:03:53.319 I wouldn't let them actually have title the house because 82 00:03:53.319 --> 00:03:55.159 I was one of those keys. They acted out. Keys 83 00:03:55.159 --> 00:03:58.240 are in my pocket. I had to give my daughter 84 00:03:58.280 --> 00:04:01.599 the car. I had to give her title to the car. 85 00:04:01.719 --> 00:04:04.800 I can't take away the key. Now, insurance was so astronomical. 86 00:04:04.960 --> 00:04:06.759 Right now, it's go ahead and kill. 87 00:04:06.599 --> 00:04:07.280 Anybody you want. 88 00:04:07.319 --> 00:04:10.120 I'm not responsible, you know, leave me alone. Uh, it's 89 00:04:10.240 --> 00:04:12.639 just crazy. So you've got to go home and you yes, 90 00:04:12.960 --> 00:04:14.879 you thank you for you have to sleep. Tim, thank 91 00:04:14.919 --> 00:04:15.479 you so much. 92 00:04:15.599 --> 00:04:18.759 Yeah, thank you. Bill handle everybody and no, thank you. 93 00:04:18.879 --> 00:04:21.839 And Tim Conway Junior everybody, and back and forth, back 94 00:04:21.879 --> 00:04:24.680 and forth. You know, I wasn't you know what, I 95 00:04:24.800 --> 00:04:28.240 wasn't surprised, but I got kind of well, I guess 96 00:04:28.240 --> 00:04:32.040 in one sense, pleasantly surprised at how strong, uh how 97 00:04:32.040 --> 00:04:35.879 strong Tim was and uh basically leading the coverage here. 98 00:04:35.959 --> 00:04:37.920 All right, let me say hello to everybody. 99 00:04:37.600 --> 00:04:40.439 Who is here. Uh Neil just came a war a 100 00:04:40.439 --> 00:04:41.759 few minutes ago. Good morning, Neil. 101 00:04:43.600 --> 00:04:43.759 Oh. 102 00:04:43.800 --> 00:04:48.800 He's waving, not speaking. Amy, Good morning, Bill, good morning. 103 00:04:49.160 --> 00:04:50.160 We're going to be going to you. 104 00:04:50.279 --> 00:04:52.519 It's going to be more you than anybody else, I think, 105 00:04:52.519 --> 00:04:55.959 because you're on top of the latest breaking news. Uh 106 00:04:56.120 --> 00:05:00.000 Kono is here as always because we have someone running 107 00:05:00.079 --> 00:05:03.639 the board and who is running around someplace. I'm here, 108 00:05:04.439 --> 00:05:06.560 I just don't see you, an I am not in 109 00:05:06.600 --> 00:05:09.639 the studio today. So I'm going to rely on you guys, 110 00:05:10.839 --> 00:05:13.120 especially to go to the television coverage and we're going 111 00:05:13.160 --> 00:05:15.160 to try to get We have Michael Monks going out 112 00:05:16.000 --> 00:05:17.560 and he will be out on the fire. 113 00:05:17.680 --> 00:05:22.079 We're going to be talking to people who are around 114 00:05:22.079 --> 00:05:23.120 the fire. In the fire. 115 00:05:23.160 --> 00:05:26.800 I'm trying to get my friend Chuck Lovers with Chuck 116 00:05:26.920 --> 00:05:28.160 was with La County Fired. 117 00:05:28.519 --> 00:05:29.160 He did this. 118 00:05:29.279 --> 00:05:32.680 He fought these kinds of fires for thirty years. So 119 00:05:32.720 --> 00:05:35.560 we're going to get some insight as to what is 120 00:05:35.639 --> 00:05:37.439 going on on the technical side. 121 00:05:38.160 --> 00:05:40.040 And then people who were just there. 122 00:05:40.360 --> 00:05:43.839 And of course there's a press conference coming up up 123 00:05:43.920 --> 00:05:46.000 at seven o'clock. 124 00:05:46.079 --> 00:05:48.160 Do I have that right? Amy? From the fire department. 125 00:05:48.360 --> 00:05:49.120 They're saying now. 126 00:05:48.959 --> 00:05:52.079 That it may be eight o'clock, okay, but whenever it happens, 127 00:05:52.120 --> 00:05:53.360 we'll bring it to your life, okay. 128 00:05:53.399 --> 00:05:56.560 And I have not heard of any increase in acreage 129 00:05:56.639 --> 00:05:58.199 for several hours. 130 00:05:58.199 --> 00:05:59.839 All I've heard is eighteen hundred plus. 131 00:06:00.120 --> 00:06:04.240 Yeah. When I got in here, it was at like 132 00:06:05.040 --> 00:06:07.199 seven hundred, and then it quickly went up to like 133 00:06:07.279 --> 00:06:09.920 fourteen hundred and fifteen hundred sixteen, and now it's up 134 00:06:09.959 --> 00:06:13.399 to over eighteen hundred. So it's definitely been growing quickly. 135 00:06:14.360 --> 00:06:17.120 Yeah, and it's going to grow even quicker, unfortunately as 136 00:06:17.160 --> 00:06:21.600 the winds whip up. Although Tim had said that as 137 00:06:22.240 --> 00:06:27.879 light approaches, let me open the window here, okay. So dark, okay, 138 00:06:28.120 --> 00:06:30.839 still dark. So as light approaches, we're going to see 139 00:06:31.079 --> 00:06:35.360 the aircraft, mainly from van Ey's take off, the firefighting 140 00:06:35.399 --> 00:06:37.720 aircraft of which there's been so much of an increase 141 00:06:37.959 --> 00:06:41.319 in the last few years, and they've become a game changer. 142 00:06:41.519 --> 00:06:45.480 Michael Monks, who is out on the fire line? Michael, 143 00:06:45.480 --> 00:06:48.560 exactly where are you and what are you seeing? 144 00:06:49.600 --> 00:06:52.279 I am hanging out at one of the evacuation centers 145 00:06:52.360 --> 00:06:55.439 in the Palisades on LMO Rael Drive. This is one 146 00:06:55.480 --> 00:06:58.720 that has opened up the folks who were evacuated either 147 00:06:58.839 --> 00:07:02.800 late last night or early this morning, and so right 148 00:07:02.839 --> 00:07:05.279 now it's very quiet. There's about a dozen and a 149 00:07:05.360 --> 00:07:08.279 half cars here. And what's interesting is that when you 150 00:07:08.319 --> 00:07:10.759 take a peek inside this evacuation center, they've got all 151 00:07:10.759 --> 00:07:13.759 the little cots set up and all of the coffee 152 00:07:13.959 --> 00:07:16.639 and little snacks that are available to folks, But none 153 00:07:16.639 --> 00:07:18.839 of the folks who've driven here are actually in there. 154 00:07:19.040 --> 00:07:21.959 Just a handful are in there. Everybody's kind of hanging 155 00:07:21.959 --> 00:07:25.199 out in their cars right now. And you know, I'm 156 00:07:25.199 --> 00:07:29.279 not a psychiatrist or psychologist, but I can't help but 157 00:07:29.360 --> 00:07:32.079 assume that, you know, maybe you're holding onto a little 158 00:07:32.079 --> 00:07:35.240 bit of your own comfort after something as disruptive as 159 00:07:35.319 --> 00:07:39.040 being evacuated for this very serious fire and all the 160 00:07:39.120 --> 00:07:41.839 questions still surrounding it about the winds and whether those 161 00:07:41.879 --> 00:07:44.560 are going to pick up again, what's the condition of 162 00:07:44.839 --> 00:07:47.360 any of the buildings up there, including your own. 163 00:07:47.959 --> 00:07:50.399 So I'm gonna hopefully talk. 164 00:07:50.199 --> 00:07:52.759 To some of these folks as soon as I can 165 00:07:53.279 --> 00:07:55.680 muster up the strength to bother them. Folks are just 166 00:07:55.759 --> 00:07:58.199 kind of hanging out right now, very quietly. 167 00:07:57.959 --> 00:07:59.040 Inside their cars. 168 00:07:59.240 --> 00:08:02.319 But this evacuation center one of several open for folks, 169 00:08:02.560 --> 00:08:06.759 others available for animals. But right now it's kind of 170 00:08:06.759 --> 00:08:09.759 a wait and see thing, literally waiting to see. We're 171 00:08:09.759 --> 00:08:12.680 hoping to see this sun come up momentarily so that 172 00:08:13.160 --> 00:08:17.600 authorities can get a clearer picture of the damage and 173 00:08:17.680 --> 00:08:21.199 also so those airborne firefighters can get a better handle 174 00:08:21.240 --> 00:08:22.120 on fighting this thing. 175 00:08:22.399 --> 00:08:26.480 Yeah, Michael, keep in mind that this is KFI, So 176 00:08:26.759 --> 00:08:29.720 feel free to shove a microphone in someone's face and say, hey, 177 00:08:29.720 --> 00:08:30.439 how you feeling. 178 00:08:32.120 --> 00:08:32.919 I do plan to. 179 00:08:33.039 --> 00:08:35.039 I did talk to a woman a little bit earlier 180 00:08:35.080 --> 00:08:39.720 as she pulled in, and you know, she was completely disheveled. 181 00:08:39.960 --> 00:08:44.240 Oh yeah, scared, and her husband is handicapped disabled and 182 00:08:44.519 --> 00:08:46.759 he was in the back of the vehicle and she 183 00:08:46.919 --> 00:08:49.720 needed help from folks inside to come out and help 184 00:08:49.759 --> 00:08:53.039 get the wheelchair together. She didn't know where to park, 185 00:08:53.360 --> 00:08:56.320 and so it just gave me a direct sense of 186 00:08:56.440 --> 00:08:58.759 how people are feeling. I mean, you had to jump 187 00:08:58.759 --> 00:09:01.840 in a car and then you had to drive somewhere, 188 00:09:01.879 --> 00:09:03.720 not knowing what this thing is going to look like. 189 00:09:03.799 --> 00:09:06.399 She was asking me if this was the evacuation center. 190 00:09:06.879 --> 00:09:10.440 So a lot of confusion on folks face as they 191 00:09:11.480 --> 00:09:15.480 emerge here in the twilight hours, and it's obviously a 192 00:09:15.559 --> 00:09:17.840 very scary situation if you had to depart your home. 193 00:09:17.879 --> 00:09:20.399 Now. Is the Red Cross on site? 194 00:09:20.759 --> 00:09:23.320 It is a Red Cross operated shelter, Yes, exactly. 195 00:09:23.399 --> 00:09:25.000 All right, so they're right out there. One of the 196 00:09:25.039 --> 00:09:26.840 things about the Red Cross they're pretty neat. 197 00:09:26.919 --> 00:09:29.120 And they're fast. I mean they were out here immediately. 198 00:09:29.120 --> 00:09:31.480 Everybody looked like they had been cleaned up and showered 199 00:09:31.519 --> 00:09:33.720 and dressed and in their uniforms and ready to go, 200 00:09:34.279 --> 00:09:35.399 you know, before I got here. 201 00:09:35.519 --> 00:09:36.919 Yeah, they know what they're doing for sure. 202 00:09:36.960 --> 00:09:38.679 All right, Michael, I know you're going to be standing by, 203 00:09:38.720 --> 00:09:40.960 so we'll be coming to you on a regular basis. 204 00:09:41.000 --> 00:09:42.840 You're going to be working pretty hard this next shift 205 00:09:42.879 --> 00:09:44.399 and probably got it the rest of the day. 206 00:09:45.360 --> 00:09:49.519 Thanks for everything you do, of course, all right. I 207 00:09:49.559 --> 00:09:51.000 sort of had to say that, didn't. 208 00:09:50.720 --> 00:09:53.799 I It was very nice of you, It actually was. 209 00:09:54.000 --> 00:09:57.960 You know, I'm kind of surprised actually now there it 210 00:09:58.000 --> 00:10:02.759 is right there. Thank Michael Long for everything he does. 211 00:10:03.120 --> 00:10:06.399 There you go, Hey, you write it, I say it. 212 00:10:06.840 --> 00:10:11.320 If you're just waking up. There is a I wouldn't 213 00:10:11.399 --> 00:10:15.240 use the word massive wildfire. It's a last reported eighteen 214 00:10:15.279 --> 00:10:20.480 hundred acres now, normally an eighteen hundred acre fire, they're 215 00:10:20.480 --> 00:10:23.759 calling it a wildfire because zero percent contained would not 216 00:10:23.879 --> 00:10:27.720 be that big a deal. I mean relative to the 217 00:10:27.960 --> 00:10:32.120 tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of acres that have 218 00:10:32.240 --> 00:10:35.720 been burnt in various fires throughout California in the last 219 00:10:35.759 --> 00:10:36.799 couple of three years. 220 00:10:37.039 --> 00:10:39.000 But this is in the heart of Malibu. 221 00:10:39.759 --> 00:10:43.399 This is where some of the most expensive homes in 222 00:10:43.440 --> 00:10:47.919 the US are the US are in the US, Yeah, 223 00:10:48.039 --> 00:10:51.840 are I got that right? And we're talking about major 224 00:10:52.000 --> 00:10:57.159 celebrities and high end folks financially and in the public eye. 225 00:10:57.559 --> 00:11:01.399 Film stars, as Tim Conway said this morning, film stars, 226 00:11:02.159 --> 00:11:04.679 heads of business. I mean people that are very well known. 227 00:11:05.559 --> 00:11:07.519 They are the ones that are going to be effective. 228 00:11:07.519 --> 00:11:09.639 And the homes can be tens of millions, are tens 229 00:11:09.639 --> 00:11:13.279 of millions of dollars, so particular attention is being paid. 230 00:11:13.840 --> 00:11:16.919 Let me check in really quickly with Amy, who's been 231 00:11:17.039 --> 00:11:19.120 following up on this. By the way, Neil is here, 232 00:11:19.159 --> 00:11:23.320 and of course An is here, and Cono said hello 233 00:11:23.440 --> 00:11:26.399 to everybody who's working on the show this morning. So Amy, 234 00:11:26.960 --> 00:11:29.559 what is the latest that we can report? 235 00:11:29.759 --> 00:11:33.080 Okay, so we're still having that It's eighteen hundred and 236 00:11:33.080 --> 00:11:40.360 twenty two acres. The La County Sheriff's Department and actually 237 00:11:40.480 --> 00:11:43.360 fire Chief. They're going to be holding a press conference 238 00:11:43.559 --> 00:11:45.799 at eight o'clock to give us all the latest numbers, 239 00:11:45.799 --> 00:11:47.879 so we'll have updates for you by then. 240 00:11:47.960 --> 00:11:49.519 We'll try to get some more before then. 241 00:11:49.960 --> 00:11:53.440 We do have about two thousand homes under evacuation warning 242 00:11:53.639 --> 00:11:57.320 or actually evacuation orders. They are out of their homes 243 00:11:57.840 --> 00:12:00.879 east of Las Virgins between maul Hull Highway to the 244 00:12:00.919 --> 00:12:03.600 north and Payouma Road to the south, between Stunt Road 245 00:12:03.600 --> 00:12:06.000 to the north and Lost Florists to the south, east 246 00:12:06.080 --> 00:12:08.960 of Carbon Beach Terrace, west of Old Malibu Road, north 247 00:12:08.960 --> 00:12:11.720 of Pacific Coast Highway. Shelter has been set up at 248 00:12:11.720 --> 00:12:15.000 Palisades Recreation Center. That's where Michael Monks is and that 249 00:12:15.159 --> 00:12:17.159 is at eight five to one Alma Real Drive in 250 00:12:17.200 --> 00:12:19.639 Pacific Palisades. And then if you've got animals that need 251 00:12:19.679 --> 00:12:22.120 to be taken to shelters, the shelters are at a 252 00:12:22.120 --> 00:12:25.799 Gora Animal Center care Center in Agra Hills and also 253 00:12:25.960 --> 00:12:31.120 Pierce College in Woodland Hills. The fire is burning uncontained, 254 00:12:31.480 --> 00:12:35.600 out completely out of control. Several spot fires have been 255 00:12:35.679 --> 00:12:39.000 sparked because of the embers and the ash that is 256 00:12:39.039 --> 00:12:42.679 being thrown way away from the main fire because of 257 00:12:42.720 --> 00:12:45.720 the Santa Ana winds which are expected to blow between 258 00:12:46.000 --> 00:12:48.159 forty and fifty miles per hour, and the winds are 259 00:12:48.159 --> 00:12:51.639 going to be very strong this morning according to the 260 00:12:51.720 --> 00:12:55.960 National Weather Service, they may die down hopefully this afternoon 261 00:12:56.000 --> 00:12:58.480 and hopefully give firefighters a little bit of an edge there. 262 00:12:58.799 --> 00:13:02.799 I have not heard how many homes have burnt. That 263 00:13:02.840 --> 00:13:03.799 has not been reported. 264 00:13:03.879 --> 00:13:06.279 No, we know that homes have burned, Okay, we do 265 00:13:06.360 --> 00:13:06.600 have that. 266 00:13:06.639 --> 00:13:09.639 And we always talk about structures, and whenever I think 267 00:13:09.679 --> 00:13:12.320 of structure as opposed to homes, I think of outhouses 268 00:13:12.679 --> 00:13:16.440 that are sitting on a piece of property. So the 269 00:13:16.720 --> 00:13:19.840 number of homes and I'm assuming that there has to 270 00:13:19.879 --> 00:13:22.919 be a fair number, and I would think they would 271 00:13:22.919 --> 00:13:25.519 have gotten some ideas. So at eight o'clock we're going 272 00:13:25.559 --> 00:13:27.879 to get much more of an update. One of the 273 00:13:27.879 --> 00:13:30.720 things Amy, and then we're going to go to Mike Friole. 274 00:13:31.240 --> 00:13:34.000 One of the things I noticed that it does take 275 00:13:34.120 --> 00:13:37.159 hours sometimes to get an update as to numbers. If 276 00:13:37.200 --> 00:13:39.480 you have a if you have fire that's out of 277 00:13:39.480 --> 00:13:41.120 control like this one, and it is. 278 00:13:41.120 --> 00:13:43.240 Moving, you would think there. 279 00:13:43.039 --> 00:13:47.000 Would be some extrapolation, say it is moving at five 280 00:13:47.080 --> 00:13:49.919 hundred acres an hour or and we're not getting. 281 00:13:49.639 --> 00:13:50.240 A lot of that. 282 00:13:50.639 --> 00:13:52.799 Well, the winds did, They did die down a bit 283 00:13:52.840 --> 00:13:55.519 over the night, although it has been windy there. But 284 00:13:55.639 --> 00:13:58.360 the winds also shift directions, so it's not just burning 285 00:13:58.399 --> 00:14:00.799 in a straight line, and it doesn't you know, the 286 00:14:00.840 --> 00:14:02.960 border of the fire doesn't have like a nice straight 287 00:14:03.000 --> 00:14:05.080 line either, so I think it's a little more challenging. 288 00:14:05.120 --> 00:14:07.279 And like we were talking about, with the embers that 289 00:14:07.320 --> 00:14:12.000 are throwing off from the fire that could spark other fires, 290 00:14:12.080 --> 00:14:13.360 you have to add those in as well. 291 00:14:14.039 --> 00:14:16.360 Yeah, and we're going to be talking to my friend 292 00:14:16.559 --> 00:14:19.679 Chuck Lovers a little bit later on. And what time 293 00:14:19.720 --> 00:14:22.679 do we have Chuck coming on this morning? 294 00:14:22.759 --> 00:14:24.559 He was with the. 295 00:14:24.519 --> 00:14:27.240 La County Fire and he fought these fires and he'll 296 00:14:27.279 --> 00:14:29.840 give us a lot of technical insight that we're not 297 00:14:29.840 --> 00:14:30.840 going to get anyplace else. 298 00:14:31.039 --> 00:14:32.799 Now. We're going to do this for a couple of 299 00:14:32.799 --> 00:14:34.080 segments at least. 300 00:14:34.519 --> 00:14:38.440 So at this point, the director of communications for Pepperdine, 301 00:14:38.600 --> 00:14:44.120 Mike Friel, who is there shelteringly sheltering in place. Mike, 302 00:14:44.200 --> 00:14:46.440 thanks for joining us. So what's going on on that 303 00:14:46.480 --> 00:14:47.360 campus right now. 304 00:14:48.919 --> 00:14:52.279 Yeah, I mean the night we woke up somewhere around 305 00:14:52.279 --> 00:14:57.120 eleven em and learned about this fire about five miles 306 00:14:57.159 --> 00:15:03.440 from campus, and we monitored it as it moves closer toward, uh, 307 00:15:03.679 --> 00:15:07.440 toward our campus, and unfortunately we had to issue the 308 00:15:07.519 --> 00:15:12.440 shelter in place protocol. This is a well planned out 309 00:15:12.879 --> 00:15:17.320 plan to ensure that our our residents are safe. They're 310 00:15:17.320 --> 00:15:19.600 in the center of campus. They're sheltered in place as 311 00:15:19.600 --> 00:15:21.960 we speak, in our pace in library and the Tyler 312 00:15:22.559 --> 00:15:26.799 UH Center of campus. And so right now we're taking 313 00:15:26.840 --> 00:15:30.519 care of our students and make sure they have what 314 00:15:30.600 --> 00:15:36.080 they need, and you know, we we really need to 315 00:15:36.200 --> 00:15:40.120 stay focused on them to ensure that they're taken care of. 316 00:15:40.200 --> 00:15:44.600 So we are looking for sunrise to make sure we 317 00:15:44.639 --> 00:15:49.200 can assess and and and see if it's safe to 318 00:15:49.200 --> 00:15:51.360 to allow for our students to return back to their 319 00:15:51.399 --> 00:15:55.039 residence halls. We did cancel classes and this is finals week, 320 00:15:55.159 --> 00:15:59.039 so uh, they're not going to be doing their finals tomorrow, 321 00:15:59.679 --> 00:16:01.919 but we want to make sure that they're able to 322 00:16:01.960 --> 00:16:03.279 finish out the semester well. 323 00:16:03.720 --> 00:16:05.799 All right, for those people that aren't aware of the 324 00:16:05.840 --> 00:16:09.159 Pepperdine campus, if you want to look it up, you 325 00:16:09.240 --> 00:16:09.960 want to google it. 326 00:16:09.960 --> 00:16:12.440 It sits on top of the. 327 00:16:12.279 --> 00:16:17.320 Mountain right there in Malibu and has a almost unbridled 328 00:16:17.399 --> 00:16:19.440 view of the Pacific Ocean. It could very well be 329 00:16:19.519 --> 00:16:23.559 the most beautifully situated campus on the planet. Now, there's 330 00:16:23.639 --> 00:16:27.559 all that greenery, that huge expanse of grant of grass 331 00:16:27.639 --> 00:16:32.000 in front all the way down to the highway. What's 332 00:16:32.080 --> 00:16:35.240 behind it is I'm assuming if you have that much grass, 333 00:16:35.320 --> 00:16:38.000 there's not a lot of there's not a lot of 334 00:16:38.000 --> 00:16:43.000 burnable material, but how much around the campus actually is fuel? 335 00:16:45.279 --> 00:16:49.320 Yeah, we're surrounded in the Santa Monica Mountains by this 336 00:16:49.559 --> 00:16:57.639 very dry shrubberry, and so there is certainly a threat. 337 00:16:57.679 --> 00:17:01.399 But you know, we have a campus that's well designed. 338 00:17:01.840 --> 00:17:05.519 We have made sure that we keep the edges of 339 00:17:05.559 --> 00:17:09.720 the campus cleared of any brush, and even the shrubbery 340 00:17:09.759 --> 00:17:13.519 on campus is planted and in a way that we 341 00:17:13.559 --> 00:17:15.920 know it's resilient and it's going to withstand some of 342 00:17:15.960 --> 00:17:20.079 these these kinds of conditions. Our buildings are also built 343 00:17:20.759 --> 00:17:24.359 and designed to withstand this kind of a threat from 344 00:17:24.400 --> 00:17:27.960 fires as well. So the campus itself is really the 345 00:17:27.960 --> 00:17:31.680 safest place for our students to be. You know, we 346 00:17:31.799 --> 00:17:37.599 have planned for these kinds of situations, knowing where we're at. 347 00:17:37.680 --> 00:17:39.839 It is the most beautiful campus. 348 00:17:39.400 --> 00:17:39.920 In the world. 349 00:17:40.400 --> 00:17:45.400 Uh and and yet it's it's also susceptible to fire 350 00:17:45.440 --> 00:17:50.079 conditions like this. So we are making sure that our students, though, 351 00:17:50.200 --> 00:17:55.400 are safe and sheltered in place. Thankfully, no significant damage, 352 00:17:55.720 --> 00:17:59.079 reports of any injury. So we think the worst is 353 00:17:59.119 --> 00:18:00.920 over for now, but we're going to have to really 354 00:18:01.319 --> 00:18:03.279 hold our breath for the next twenty four hours. 355 00:18:03.279 --> 00:18:04.480 Is the winds continue. 356 00:18:04.720 --> 00:18:07.359 Mike, Thank you, and I'm sure you'll be in touch 357 00:18:07.400 --> 00:18:09.000 with us throughout the day because I'm not the only 358 00:18:09.039 --> 00:18:11.319 one that wants to talk to you. Might keep safe 359 00:18:11.640 --> 00:18:13.720 a good place to be by the way the campus, 360 00:18:14.000 --> 00:18:15.440 but it really is worth. 361 00:18:15.240 --> 00:18:18.599 Looking at that be that campus. It is like a stunner. 362 00:18:19.319 --> 00:18:22.279 The problem is not only the factors Malibu and fires, 363 00:18:22.680 --> 00:18:28.000 but the weather, not so much the temperature, but the 364 00:18:28.079 --> 00:18:33.440 humidity and the gusts of wind. Todd Hall, National Weather 365 00:18:33.559 --> 00:18:36.920 Service kind enough to be with us, Todd, thank you. 366 00:18:37.480 --> 00:18:41.880 And what are we looking at this morning? Wind? Temperature? 367 00:18:44.160 --> 00:18:47.079 Yeah, so in general we're we're looking at more of 368 00:18:47.079 --> 00:18:49.400 the same unfortunately this morning. For the next couple hours, 369 00:18:49.440 --> 00:18:53.160 we're looking at winds potentially being between twenty to thirty 370 00:18:53.400 --> 00:18:56.200 miles per hour gusting to forty five to even fifty 371 00:18:56.200 --> 00:18:59.680 five miles per hour across that area across the Franklin Fire, 372 00:19:00.640 --> 00:19:03.960 So it still very dry conditions in place. We're seeing 373 00:19:04.000 --> 00:19:06.279 humidities down to about you know, five to six percent 374 00:19:06.400 --> 00:19:09.200 across that area. 375 00:19:08.319 --> 00:19:10.680 Five six percent. Basically it's desert. 376 00:19:10.720 --> 00:19:15.160 I mean that's almost zero humidity, which of course causes 377 00:19:15.200 --> 00:19:19.160 fires to go crazy. And add that Augusta win forty 378 00:19:19.160 --> 00:19:22.400 five miles per hour. You can't you cannot outrun that fire. 379 00:19:22.480 --> 00:19:24.799 You can't outdrive a fire that moves that quickly. 380 00:19:26.240 --> 00:19:29.119 Yes, and this is this? Did this actually from start 381 00:19:29.200 --> 00:19:31.039 to you know, we can see the stuff on satellite 382 00:19:31.160 --> 00:19:35.640 and watching it progress. Is it from start to the 383 00:19:36.079 --> 00:19:38.319 way it is right now? I mean it it ran 384 00:19:38.480 --> 00:19:42.039 very fast, right from right from its ignition start at 385 00:19:42.160 --> 00:19:43.880 time around eleven o'clock last night. 386 00:19:44.440 --> 00:19:48.480 And can you tell by just the way the topography 387 00:19:48.640 --> 00:19:53.519 is where the strongest guts wind are likely to blow. 388 00:19:54.680 --> 00:19:56.559 Yeah, I mean typically you're going to see that it's 389 00:19:56.599 --> 00:20:01.400 oriented down down ridge lines and canyons that are very 390 00:20:01.480 --> 00:20:04.160 oriented with the wind direction, and that will tend to 391 00:20:04.160 --> 00:20:07.559 make that fire and make those wins actually run much 392 00:20:07.640 --> 00:20:09.160 quicker as a result of that. 393 00:20:10.279 --> 00:20:11.480 All right, Todd, I. 394 00:20:11.400 --> 00:20:13.279 Am sure you're going to get one or two phone 395 00:20:13.279 --> 00:20:16.799 calls today and we'll come back and thank you very 396 00:20:16.880 --> 00:20:21.559 much for the update. Don't bother napping today, Todd. It's 397 00:20:21.599 --> 00:20:26.039 just not going to happen, all right. A quick word. 398 00:20:25.279 --> 00:20:26.839 Before we continue on. 399 00:20:27.079 --> 00:20:29.559 We take our break as we have two ways that 400 00:20:29.839 --> 00:20:34.079 we want to get you involved. One is we have 401 00:20:34.200 --> 00:20:36.960