WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.600 --> 00:00:02.919 This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI 2 00:00:03.080 --> 00:00:05.839 AM six forty, the Gary and Shannon Show on demand 3 00:00:05.919 --> 00:00:09.119 on the iHeartRadio. At we do have a massive fire 4 00:00:09.199 --> 00:00:13.560 incident in the Palisades right now. They say, this beast 5 00:00:13.679 --> 00:00:16.679 started at about ten acres. That was the quickest estimate 6 00:00:16.760 --> 00:00:19.399 you could get already at ten acres, but with the 7 00:00:19.399 --> 00:00:23.120 potential to spread to two hundred acres within twenty minutes. 8 00:00:23.359 --> 00:00:26.879 And this thing is living up to its potential, they 9 00:00:26.920 --> 00:00:27.879 say right now. 10 00:00:28.079 --> 00:00:29.800 The crews on the ground. 11 00:00:29.480 --> 00:00:33.359 Are furiously engaged in structure protection. They say that the 12 00:00:33.399 --> 00:00:37.320 fire is going to impact structures in the Floresta Place 13 00:00:37.479 --> 00:00:42.200 area in about ten minutes, ten minutes away from hitting 14 00:00:42.320 --> 00:00:45.200 these neighborhoods. If you look at a map of the Palisades, 15 00:00:45.520 --> 00:00:49.920 that Floresta Street backs up right there to that Temescul 16 00:00:50.159 --> 00:00:54.359 Ridge area, the point where this fire is burning. This 17 00:00:54.679 --> 00:00:57.679 is one of those ones that it is just moving 18 00:00:57.759 --> 00:01:00.719 too fast to be able to have any real impact 19 00:01:00.840 --> 00:01:02.320 on this thing right away. 20 00:01:02.759 --> 00:01:06.799 The smoke itself is just basically going down the mountain, 21 00:01:06.879 --> 00:01:10.000 down the hill towards the ocean. That's clearly the direction 22 00:01:10.079 --> 00:01:12.680 that these winds are coming from, and that means, like 23 00:01:12.719 --> 00:01:15.040 you said, it is headed towards those neighborhood as as 24 00:01:15.719 --> 00:01:19.079 after it burns through this wildland. The images that we 25 00:01:19.120 --> 00:01:22.439 are seeing a lot of them are from people, I 26 00:01:22.439 --> 00:01:25.159 mean they're posting them on social media, but they're down ten, 27 00:01:25.599 --> 00:01:27.359 like at the ten and the four or five, and 28 00:01:27.400 --> 00:01:29.439 you could see this plume of smoke that far down 29 00:01:29.519 --> 00:01:30.680 along the west side there. 30 00:01:30.799 --> 00:01:33.879 They did request two air tankers to be deployed to 31 00:01:33.920 --> 00:01:36.120 the area, which have arrived. I was wondering what the 32 00:01:36.159 --> 00:01:40.480 capability of La County fire firefighting aircraft would be with 33 00:01:40.599 --> 00:01:43.640 winds like this forty to sixty miles per hour GUS 34 00:01:43.680 --> 00:01:47.319 at this moment. The Super Scoopers, I didn't know we 35 00:01:47.359 --> 00:01:50.519 still had the lease in January to the Super Scoopers 36 00:01:50.519 --> 00:01:53.840 out of Quebec, but we do. And the Super Scoopers 37 00:01:53.879 --> 00:01:58.400 can fly in wind they can scoop water while flying 38 00:01:58.439 --> 00:02:01.760 into headwinds up to forty five miles per hour, and 39 00:02:01.799 --> 00:02:05.920 the pilots there, also on loan from Canada, can adjust 40 00:02:05.959 --> 00:02:10.240 their approach to handle different different varying wind speeds and 41 00:02:10.360 --> 00:02:14.800 gusts and wave heights on the water source. These are 42 00:02:14.919 --> 00:02:19.039 the special machines that we get for fires like this 43 00:02:19.199 --> 00:02:22.599 when we have this wildland interface with homes that we 44 00:02:22.639 --> 00:02:27.719 have so often here in southern California. These babies can 45 00:02:27.759 --> 00:02:31.319 fly and wind so they can reach locations quickly, repeatedly 46 00:02:31.400 --> 00:02:34.560 drop water and flames in the gusts, unlike a lot 47 00:02:34.599 --> 00:02:37.280 of firefighting aircraft that we have year round here in 48 00:02:37.319 --> 00:02:38.360 southern California. 49 00:02:38.400 --> 00:02:41.719 Again, this fire looks like is just south of Temescal 50 00:02:41.800 --> 00:02:44.319 Peak as sort of the Topega State Park area and 51 00:02:44.439 --> 00:02:48.800 is burning down into the Palisades along Palisades Drive and 52 00:02:48.879 --> 00:02:53.800 Kaye Victoria was where they first reported the first flames 53 00:02:54.439 --> 00:02:56.520 just near Goat Peak if you know that is, and 54 00:02:56.560 --> 00:02:59.240 it's headed down towards the Palisades. There are a lot 55 00:02:59.319 --> 00:03:03.240 of images is from cameras, whether they're helicopter cameras from 56 00:03:03.240 --> 00:03:06.680 TV stations farther away, or some of the alert net 57 00:03:06.719 --> 00:03:08.800 cameras that were put up by UC San Diego over 58 00:03:08.840 --> 00:03:11.599 the course of the last several years, that show very 59 00:03:11.639 --> 00:03:14.560 active flames going right up to those homes. 60 00:03:14.639 --> 00:03:16.840 Yeah, these are not that it matters. A home is 61 00:03:16.879 --> 00:03:17.319 a home. 62 00:03:17.800 --> 00:03:20.319 It could be a hovel, it could be a six 63 00:03:20.400 --> 00:03:23.400 million dollar mansion, and that's what they are about. 64 00:03:23.439 --> 00:03:28.280 Six million dollar mansions to say the least, and looking. 65 00:03:28.039 --> 00:03:30.879 At the forecast here, we've got fifty mile per hour 66 00:03:30.919 --> 00:03:32.080 winds kicking in soon. 67 00:03:32.919 --> 00:03:35.039 I was just checking the weather stations in that area, 68 00:03:35.080 --> 00:03:38.360 and that's the basic thirty to forty mile an hour 69 00:03:38.439 --> 00:03:42.840 sustained winds, and then gusts could be higher than that here. 70 00:03:43.319 --> 00:03:46.439 And again it's at least twenty This is just going 71 00:03:46.439 --> 00:03:49.000 too fast for anybody to get a good read on 72 00:03:49.120 --> 00:03:51.719 how much it is at least twenty acres. 73 00:03:51.840 --> 00:03:55.120 They don't have time because their hands are full with 74 00:03:55.120 --> 00:03:56.759 structure protection at this point. 75 00:03:57.400 --> 00:03:59.759 At this point, also on social media at least or 76 00:03:59.800 --> 00:04:01.840 make and the phone calls in the newsroom. We do 77 00:04:01.919 --> 00:04:08.479 not have word of the official evacuation it UH parameters yet. 78 00:04:08.599 --> 00:04:11.599 But if you're in that neighborhood, like you said, along 79 00:04:11.639 --> 00:04:18.360 that that specific street, the forresta floresta place and via Floresta, 80 00:04:18.399 --> 00:04:21.680 et cetera, if you're in that neighborhood bien Venita Avenue, 81 00:04:22.319 --> 00:04:23.160 you know already. 82 00:04:23.560 --> 00:04:25.399 Yeah, you clearly are aware of this. 83 00:04:25.759 --> 00:04:28.439 It's it's not time to joke around. It's not time 84 00:04:28.480 --> 00:04:31.600 to wait for instructions. Get yourself to safety. 85 00:04:31.800 --> 00:04:36.000 That sunset fire, they say, according to all these scanners 86 00:04:36.160 --> 00:04:41.480 and the uh in the information coming out of there, 87 00:04:41.319 --> 00:04:47.079 the messaging has kind of been we've got this. The 88 00:04:47.120 --> 00:04:49.040 crews on the scene can handle it because they know 89 00:04:49.079 --> 00:04:50.360 what's happening in the Palisades. 90 00:04:50.600 --> 00:04:51.519 It's not that far away. 91 00:04:51.600 --> 00:04:53.560 When you look at the sunset fire to the Palisades fire, 92 00:04:53.639 --> 00:04:57.959 same kind of area there, and uh, that's how that's 93 00:04:57.959 --> 00:05:00.519 how bad the Palisade situation is. The guy it suns 94 00:05:00.519 --> 00:05:02.839 that are like, you know, what we'll do with what 95 00:05:02.879 --> 00:05:03.560 we have here. 96 00:05:03.639 --> 00:05:06.040 We'll see a little bit later the afternoon, probably exactly 97 00:05:07.480 --> 00:05:12.279 this fire again at least twenty acres several hundred homes 98 00:05:12.319 --> 00:05:14.160 are now going to be threatened by this fire in 99 00:05:14.199 --> 00:05:16.879 the Pacific Palisades. It started up in the mountains in 100 00:05:16.920 --> 00:05:19.399 the hills there and is coming down towards the ocean, 101 00:05:20.120 --> 00:05:25.360 towards that floresta place neighborhood. Ridgeview Country estates all along 102 00:05:25.360 --> 00:05:28.000 that the viewpoint there at the Tamescal Ridge trail that's 103 00:05:28.079 --> 00:05:30.839 up there. A couple of different trailheads obviously in that 104 00:05:30.959 --> 00:05:35.720 area the viewpoint, the Temiscal Ridge trailhead, Almetio trailhead, and 105 00:05:35.759 --> 00:05:38.720 the Rivas Canyon trailhead. So if you're an avid hiker, 106 00:05:38.759 --> 00:05:42.120 you may recognize some of those some of those names 107 00:05:42.120 --> 00:05:43.839 for the trails in that area where this thing is 108 00:05:44.399 --> 00:05:47.560 just chewing through some of this the wildland. 109 00:05:47.920 --> 00:05:50.240 This is going to be an all day slash day's 110 00:05:50.680 --> 00:05:54.959 event because as we talked to the National Weather Service, 111 00:05:55.000 --> 00:05:57.920 we talked to Henry de Carlo, these aren't winds for 112 00:05:57.959 --> 00:06:00.480 this morning. These are winds that may die down a 113 00:06:00.519 --> 00:06:03.360 little bit this afternoon, kick back up this evening, and 114 00:06:03.519 --> 00:06:07.600 last for days this week here in southern California. 115 00:06:07.839 --> 00:06:09.879 So all hands on deck. 116 00:06:09.920 --> 00:06:13.600 As you mentioned earlier, there are several agencies fire agencies 117 00:06:13.639 --> 00:06:17.199 from northern California that have made their way down here 118 00:06:17.279 --> 00:06:19.759 to get ready for this. The fire crews were in 119 00:06:19.839 --> 00:06:22.759 position for this event. But when you get a fire 120 00:06:22.920 --> 00:06:28.199 like this burning with ample fuel, you've got winds exceeding, 121 00:06:28.279 --> 00:06:31.160 like you said, forty miles per hour up to sixty 122 00:06:31.279 --> 00:06:36.000 and then the gusts are even higher. Right now, it's 123 00:06:36.079 --> 00:06:39.879 get everybody out, protect the homes, and then we'll assess 124 00:06:40.000 --> 00:06:42.439 where we're at in terms of how big this thing 125 00:06:42.519 --> 00:06:45.120 got how quickly, because we just don't know at this point, 126 00:06:45.160 --> 00:06:48.360 but if the pictures are in any indication, this thing 127 00:06:48.480 --> 00:06:50.600 took off the way that it was predicted to from 128 00:06:50.600 --> 00:06:55.160 ten acres to two hundred and the matter of twenty minutes. 129 00:06:55.680 --> 00:06:59.720 And now you're seeing, you know, it's just dangerously if 130 00:06:59.759 --> 00:07:00.759 not in neighborhoods. 131 00:07:01.079 --> 00:07:03.279 Down there at the bottom of the hill, closer to 132 00:07:03.319 --> 00:07:08.279 the water, that intersection of Sunset and Lost Leonis Drive, 133 00:07:08.920 --> 00:07:11.959 there's a couple dozen fire trucks that are trying to 134 00:07:11.959 --> 00:07:12.920 make their way up the hill. 135 00:07:13.040 --> 00:07:16.680 That's the staging area leones In twenty three. That's where 136 00:07:16.680 --> 00:07:18.519 they're going to stage. That's where they're going to stage. Okay, 137 00:07:18.639 --> 00:07:19.360 well then that makes sense. 138 00:07:19.399 --> 00:07:20.639 But I was going to say, there are people that 139 00:07:20.759 --> 00:07:22.240 do not look like they're getting out of the way 140 00:07:22.240 --> 00:07:22.879 of these fires. 141 00:07:23.120 --> 00:07:23.360 Front. 142 00:07:23.399 --> 00:07:25.279 No, that's where they're staging, and that's where they will 143 00:07:25.279 --> 00:07:28.959 dispatch all of the different resources. All of the incident 144 00:07:29.000 --> 00:07:32.120 commanders will meet there and they'll bring out their maps 145 00:07:32.199 --> 00:07:36.079 and they will dispatch all of the different crews, hand crews, 146 00:07:36.279 --> 00:07:41.199 ground crews, line crews, and the air attack as well 147 00:07:41.240 --> 00:07:44.879 will be probably mapped out there at that point. 148 00:07:45.600 --> 00:07:47.519 And again, I mean, this is one of those this 149 00:07:47.600 --> 00:07:51.240 is one of those frustrating situations where there's I mean, 150 00:07:51.240 --> 00:07:53.800 there's plenty of neighborhood streets to get out of there, 151 00:07:53.839 --> 00:07:57.560 but you're going to have to plan now on moving. 152 00:07:58.439 --> 00:08:00.160 Do not wait for them to let you know that 153 00:08:00.199 --> 00:08:02.839 this is your areas under evacuation because right now, as 154 00:08:02.839 --> 00:08:05.680 we've said, they're having a hard time just keeping a 155 00:08:05.720 --> 00:08:09.480 guess on how large this fire is at least twenty acres, 156 00:08:09.480 --> 00:08:11.680 but you can guarantee just by the visuals that it's 157 00:08:11.720 --> 00:08:14.439 well over that by now. Don't want to make any 158 00:08:14.439 --> 00:08:16.319 sort of guess because it would be uneducated on my 159 00:08:16.360 --> 00:08:18.720 part to do so, but it's well over twenty acres. 160 00:08:18.759 --> 00:08:20.959 I'll tell you that we are on top of this 161 00:08:21.079 --> 00:08:23.639 fire coming called the Palisades fire because it is in 162 00:08:23.680 --> 00:08:26.240 the Palisades and it looks like it is gobbling up 163 00:08:26.600 --> 00:08:29.279 part of the Palisades. It quickly took off from ten 164 00:08:29.319 --> 00:08:32.919 acres to it was perceived that it would go to 165 00:08:32.960 --> 00:08:38.440 two hundred acres within twenty minutes. There are several resources 166 00:08:38.720 --> 00:08:43.200 structure protection crews on the scene. Specifically, we heard from 167 00:08:43.200 --> 00:08:47.480 the Floresta Place neighborhood where it is happening right now, 168 00:08:47.519 --> 00:08:50.080 where the fire is supposed to hit add about right now. 169 00:08:50.159 --> 00:08:53.039 The latest is that they're seeing spotting ahead of this 170 00:08:53.200 --> 00:08:56.519 thing a mile to three quarters of a mile out, 171 00:08:56.639 --> 00:09:00.879 which was the absolute fear when you're thinking about the 172 00:09:00.879 --> 00:09:03.000 winds and the gusts that are coming with this wind 173 00:09:03.000 --> 00:09:05.759 event that'll take a fire and carry it and keep 174 00:09:05.799 --> 00:09:06.440 carrying it. 175 00:09:06.440 --> 00:09:10.399 Well, and that's well. I mean, there's a couple thousand 176 00:09:10.440 --> 00:09:13.360 homes well within that range at the front end of 177 00:09:13.360 --> 00:09:13.799 that fire. 178 00:09:14.120 --> 00:09:15.080 And you see the smoke. 179 00:09:15.120 --> 00:09:17.919 It's not just white, it's that black smoke, which means 180 00:09:17.919 --> 00:09:19.159 it's burning through fuel. 181 00:09:20.159 --> 00:09:23.399 There are two at least four helicopters that I saw, 182 00:09:23.519 --> 00:09:26.519 at least two Super Scoopers that are flying and are 183 00:09:26.519 --> 00:09:29.600 trying to get some structure protection in that area. 184 00:09:29.679 --> 00:09:34.000 Caesar works at Sunset Smash and joins us. Now Caesar 185 00:09:34.159 --> 00:09:35.519 crazy over there right now. 186 00:09:35.559 --> 00:09:39.240 I bet it is very concerning at this point because 187 00:09:39.559 --> 00:09:43.120 there's black smoke. It seems like there's still in the area, 188 00:09:43.279 --> 00:09:46.240 and everyone out of here is just concern about what 189 00:09:46.320 --> 00:09:48.919 was going on. Taking picture videos. We just saw two 190 00:09:48.919 --> 00:09:51.639 airplanes coming by, like I think they're trying to like 191 00:09:51.720 --> 00:09:55.799 spray you know, the the fire to try to put 192 00:09:55.799 --> 00:09:59.039 it down, but it's just increasing every minut They just 193 00:09:59.080 --> 00:10:01.360 get it fire. And why are you gonna know what 194 00:10:01.440 --> 00:10:01.919 we're gonna do? 195 00:10:02.120 --> 00:10:05.120 Are you fully in the smoke right now or is 196 00:10:05.159 --> 00:10:07.559 it still we We're very. 197 00:10:07.440 --> 00:10:11.440 Close by right now, We're very close. It's coming this way. 198 00:10:11.440 --> 00:10:13.360 Actually the wings are going in that direction. 199 00:10:13.799 --> 00:10:14.720 Yeah, we can hear it. 200 00:10:14.799 --> 00:10:18.000 Yeah, you're right there, off to Mescal Canyon Road where 201 00:10:18.039 --> 00:10:21.320 just above you this thing started to take off. Are 202 00:10:21.360 --> 00:10:25.399 there people in your in your business? Are people taking off? 203 00:10:25.480 --> 00:10:26.679 What are you seeing? No? 204 00:10:26.840 --> 00:10:29.879 Right, No, Most of our customers, like when they saw it, 205 00:10:30.000 --> 00:10:32.279 like people we start calling it time with their friends. 206 00:10:32.320 --> 00:10:34.639 And most of our friends are living within the area. 207 00:10:36.519 --> 00:10:38.120 So what are you guys going to do? You think? 208 00:10:39.120 --> 00:10:41.919 Well, at this point right now, we're hoping it was 209 00:10:41.960 --> 00:10:44.159 going to be put out like week or I mean, 210 00:10:44.480 --> 00:10:46.639 at least being able to see that it was. It 211 00:10:46.679 --> 00:10:51.399 was being reduced. But it's growing, uh too fast. So 212 00:10:51.440 --> 00:10:54.559 I think we're gonna have to hopefully shut down and 213 00:10:54.679 --> 00:10:56.679 just you know, try to avoil the traffic, trying to 214 00:10:56.879 --> 00:10:59.120 leave the streets open for the fire department to work. 215 00:11:00.240 --> 00:11:01.120 That's the right thing to do. 216 00:11:01.279 --> 00:11:04.120 Caesar, Caesar, thank you for your time. Stay safe out there. 217 00:11:05.000 --> 00:11:05.399 Thank you. 218 00:11:05.840 --> 00:11:09.120 You met Caesar's working at Sunset smashed there in the 219 00:11:09.200 --> 00:11:11.919 Palisades and talked about some of that smoke that you can. 220 00:11:12.240 --> 00:11:14.799 I mean you could hear the wind through his phone there. 221 00:11:15.320 --> 00:11:18.480 The images are not good and they're not getting any better. 222 00:11:18.559 --> 00:11:22.000 This is a fire that started just about maybe a 223 00:11:22.000 --> 00:11:25.399 little less than an hour ago in that summit area 224 00:11:25.399 --> 00:11:28.240 and the Pacific Palisades, just in those hills there next 225 00:11:28.240 --> 00:11:31.200 to goat peak and making its way down the hill 226 00:11:31.759 --> 00:11:35.799 towards all those homes, the Ridgeview Country Estates and along 227 00:11:35.879 --> 00:11:40.639 those the Bi and Venita Avenue via Floresta and Floresta Place. 228 00:11:40.720 --> 00:11:42.879 Those are the homes and the streets that are the 229 00:11:42.919 --> 00:11:44.840 most threatened right now. 230 00:11:44.960 --> 00:11:46.679 And I mean even with. 231 00:11:47.039 --> 00:11:51.879 The obscured view through the smoke, you can still see 232 00:11:51.919 --> 00:11:55.440 plenty of active flames in that area. You mentioned that 233 00:11:55.679 --> 00:11:58.360 they have a staging area for all of these different 234 00:11:58.360 --> 00:12:01.639 fire agencies that are coming in policies. Drive in sunset 235 00:12:01.639 --> 00:12:05.399 there right there as you get into Pacific Palisades, and 236 00:12:06.360 --> 00:12:09.000 I mean there are dozens of fire trucks and some 237 00:12:09.080 --> 00:12:11.200 of them aren't going anywhere as of yet. And I 238 00:12:11.200 --> 00:12:13.000 don't know if it's a traffic issue or they're just 239 00:12:13.039 --> 00:12:13.799 waiting to be tech. 240 00:12:13.840 --> 00:12:15.919 They're just waiting to be dispatched. 241 00:12:16.000 --> 00:12:18.399 Yeah, I mean La County Fire, you're not going to 242 00:12:18.480 --> 00:12:23.200 find better organizational capabilities in terms of dispatching crews where 243 00:12:23.240 --> 00:12:26.960 they need to go. The challenge I would imagine with 244 00:12:27.080 --> 00:12:30.679 a fire moving this quickly is as soon as you 245 00:12:30.720 --> 00:12:34.960 want to dispatch a crew to one specific area, it 246 00:12:35.159 --> 00:12:36.600 has shifted. 247 00:12:36.320 --> 00:12:40.360 To another area being more of a priority. 248 00:12:41.080 --> 00:12:46.120 So it is and as I mentioned, it is spotting 249 00:12:46.679 --> 00:12:49.720 a half mile to three quarters of a mile away 250 00:12:49.840 --> 00:12:53.600 from where this fire erupted and where it's moving. So 251 00:12:53.879 --> 00:12:57.200 that is an indication that the embers are being driven 252 00:12:57.320 --> 00:13:01.320 by the winds and they're starting spot fire. That is 253 00:13:01.399 --> 00:13:03.840 a freaking nightmare. When you've got a beast of a 254 00:13:03.879 --> 00:13:08.159 fire like this burning with that much fuel, vegetation and 255 00:13:08.360 --> 00:13:13.960 homes that service fuel, and then you've got spot fires everywhere, 256 00:13:14.279 --> 00:13:17.720 not everywhere, but in a number of places. You've got 257 00:13:17.759 --> 00:13:21.960 to give everything your attention, and there's only so much 258 00:13:22.000 --> 00:13:24.480 attention to give. Despite the fact that we had crews 259 00:13:24.759 --> 00:13:27.440 coming from other agencies to get ready for this wind 260 00:13:27.440 --> 00:13:29.840 event that has been forecast for a while. That was 261 00:13:30.000 --> 00:13:32.000 the good thing, I guess, is that we knew we 262 00:13:32.120 --> 00:13:36.159 had people in place, but like we were talking to 263 00:13:36.159 --> 00:13:39.120 the National Weather Service Henry to Carlo earlier, and it 264 00:13:39.279 --> 00:13:42.000 just didn't seem like this was one of those Oh, 265 00:13:42.039 --> 00:13:43.840 it's going to be cold out today, or it's going 266 00:13:43.919 --> 00:13:46.000 to be windy, or it's a Santa Ana. This seemed 267 00:13:46.039 --> 00:13:48.399 like it was going to be a major deal when 268 00:13:48.440 --> 00:13:52.919 it came to the fire risk in January. In January, 269 00:13:53.559 --> 00:13:56.879 National Weather Service says, usually we get rain in October 270 00:13:56.960 --> 00:13:58.919 through this time of year to kind of help us 271 00:13:58.960 --> 00:13:59.559 combat this. 272 00:14:00.120 --> 00:14:00.639 We did not. 273 00:14:01.679 --> 00:14:02.120 We didn't. 274 00:14:02.200 --> 00:14:05.720 We had I think it was from May to December thirty. First, 275 00:14:05.840 --> 00:14:09.919 it was the second driest time period that we've seen 276 00:14:10.200 --> 00:14:13.759 since we've started keeping records here in La at least 277 00:14:13.759 --> 00:14:17.480 in downtown La. Again, this fire that's burning in the 278 00:14:17.519 --> 00:14:20.799 Palisades making its way towards the homes as you get 279 00:14:20.840 --> 00:14:25.240 farther down, and if the spotting was correct, I mean, 280 00:14:25.320 --> 00:14:27.759 if that distance is correct, there are hundreds, if not 281 00:14:27.799 --> 00:14:32.000 a couple of thousand homes that are very at extreme 282 00:14:32.120 --> 00:14:34.480 risk right now. That as some of these embers could 283 00:14:34.480 --> 00:14:37.440 get in someone's eaves, into their backyard, into their trees 284 00:14:37.519 --> 00:14:40.360 or whatever and cause some huge problems in some of 285 00:14:40.360 --> 00:14:41.279 those neighborhoods. 286 00:14:41.399 --> 00:14:43.480 All Right, we will stay on top of this. 287 00:14:43.720 --> 00:14:47.279 According to La Fire, the last update from an overhead 288 00:14:47.360 --> 00:14:51.039 copter is two hundred acres will be sure to grow. 289 00:14:51.159 --> 00:14:53.720 That was the estimate. That's what they said. What happened, 290 00:14:53.720 --> 00:14:55.759 that this thing would take off with a vengeance and 291 00:14:55.799 --> 00:14:56.480 it has. 292 00:14:57.200 --> 00:14:57.759 Keep it here. 293 00:14:57.879 --> 00:14:59.720 They told us it was going to be destructive, life 294 00:14:59.720 --> 00:15:04.720 throughout threatening and it has not disappointed unfortunately. Like we 295 00:15:04.720 --> 00:15:07.840 were told by the meteorologists we've spoken to so far 296 00:15:08.000 --> 00:15:12.080 on the show, the winds on this Santa Ana event 297 00:15:12.159 --> 00:15:14.960 are coming from the north and from the east, and 298 00:15:15.000 --> 00:15:17.679 because of that what we saw are rupped near Ta 299 00:15:17.720 --> 00:15:20.720 Mescal Canyon there in the Palisades. 300 00:15:20.200 --> 00:15:22.159 Has now moved west. 301 00:15:22.279 --> 00:15:26.799 The eastward northeast winds, i should say, have pushed this 302 00:15:26.879 --> 00:15:29.279 thing now into the Summit park area. 303 00:15:29.399 --> 00:15:30.679 So it's right now. 304 00:15:30.399 --> 00:15:36.279 It's pushing against that Chastain Parkway, Kaye Brittany area, threatening 305 00:15:36.320 --> 00:15:39.240 the entire Summit area of the Palisades. 306 00:15:39.519 --> 00:15:42.960 Yeah, it's very close to where it actually started. Now, 307 00:15:43.399 --> 00:15:46.480 the as you mentioned, the wind blowing it to the 308 00:15:46.519 --> 00:15:50.360 south end sort of to the west, means that it's 309 00:15:50.799 --> 00:15:53.840 just making a dead hit. It could on a different 310 00:15:54.519 --> 00:15:58.600 neighborhoods there in the Palisades. It's at about two hundred 311 00:15:58.639 --> 00:16:02.679 acres is what the what we're getting from dispatch tapes, 312 00:16:02.960 --> 00:16:06.559 from dispatch traffic that's going out there. There are firefighting 313 00:16:06.600 --> 00:16:11.639 aircraft in the air, but they I mean they can't. 314 00:16:12.159 --> 00:16:14.600 They're going to have a struggle regardless of what's going 315 00:16:14.639 --> 00:16:17.559 on wind wise, because of the quickness with which this 316 00:16:17.720 --> 00:16:18.600 fire is growing. 317 00:16:18.840 --> 00:16:21.360 It's forty to sixty mile per hour winds right now. 318 00:16:21.399 --> 00:16:25.279 Those are the sustained winds you're going to guss obviously higher. 319 00:16:25.679 --> 00:16:28.240 We heard that there was going to be a little 320 00:16:28.240 --> 00:16:31.519 bit of a lull this afternoon. We're not there yet, obviously, 321 00:16:32.200 --> 00:16:34.039 and then in the evening they're going to pick back 322 00:16:34.159 --> 00:16:36.320 up again, so there may be a bit of a 323 00:16:36.320 --> 00:16:38.200 sweet spot where they can get in. Like you said, 324 00:16:38.200 --> 00:16:42.519 there do have at least four firefighting aircraft from the 325 00:16:42.559 --> 00:16:45.240 sky attacking this thing. It is all hands on tech 326 00:16:45.279 --> 00:16:47.039 on the ground. I'm not sure if they've been able 327 00:16:47.039 --> 00:16:50.240 to get hand crews in there yet. We do know 328 00:16:50.279 --> 00:16:53.480 that there have been power There have been power services 329 00:16:53.519 --> 00:16:58.480 cut in the Palisades and in Malibu as well. PCH 330 00:16:58.559 --> 00:17:02.360 eastbound is closed to Panga Canyon Boulevard due to this. 331 00:17:02.480 --> 00:17:04.880 They want to be able to open up all those 332 00:17:05.079 --> 00:17:07.599 arteries for as many engines as possible. 333 00:17:08.000 --> 00:17:08.839 So we were talking to. 334 00:17:08.799 --> 00:17:12.680 Caesar from Sunset Smash Burger Joint there and he said, 335 00:17:12.720 --> 00:17:15.319 we may just leave to keep the roads open, and 336 00:17:15.359 --> 00:17:19.000 that should be the mindset for everybody. It is going 337 00:17:19.079 --> 00:17:22.359 to be devastation there when you look at how quickly 338 00:17:22.400 --> 00:17:23.759 this thing was able to take off. 339 00:17:23.839 --> 00:17:26.480 Yeah, it's been about an hour that we first heard 340 00:17:26.519 --> 00:17:28.359 about this fire, and I'm kind of surprised that we 341 00:17:28.400 --> 00:17:32.240 haven't had any official evacuation orders or warnings from people. 342 00:17:32.279 --> 00:17:35.920 But it's this maybe indicative of just how quickly this 343 00:17:35.960 --> 00:17:38.160 thing is going. They don't have time to put out 344 00:17:38.160 --> 00:17:41.200 an evacuation actly. It's upon you now at this point 345 00:17:41.799 --> 00:17:43.599 to make a judgment as to whether to get out. 346 00:17:43.599 --> 00:17:45.079 But I got to tell you, it seems like the 347 00:17:45.119 --> 00:17:48.359 needle would be pointing towards you know, go protect yourself. 348 00:17:48.359 --> 00:17:52.519 You can go back later. The red flag parking restrictions, 349 00:17:52.559 --> 00:17:54.920 of course, have been up throughout We knew that they 350 00:17:54.920 --> 00:17:59.519 were going to be posted starting this morning because of 351 00:17:59.759 --> 00:18:03.440 the red flag warnings that we were going to see. 352 00:18:03.559 --> 00:18:05.720 I mean those areas that have very high fire hazard 353 00:18:05.839 --> 00:18:08.200 severity zones, you know where those are, the montain and 354 00:18:08.240 --> 00:18:11.319 the mountains. Your car was going to be towed if 355 00:18:11.359 --> 00:18:13.240 you were parked in those areas. This is one of 356 00:18:13.240 --> 00:18:16.319 those areas that does have some red flag parking restrictions, 357 00:18:16.519 --> 00:18:19.519 and it is just in case of an incident like 358 00:18:19.599 --> 00:18:23.000 this where you've got to have the fire apparatus get 359 00:18:23.079 --> 00:18:27.240 up into these neighborhoods and have as much space available 360 00:18:27.400 --> 00:18:28.960 to get through there because. 361 00:18:28.720 --> 00:18:30.599 They know that there will be people leaving going the 362 00:18:30.680 --> 00:18:31.079 other way. 363 00:18:31.240 --> 00:18:34.599 The pictures of this with the massive plume of white 364 00:18:34.640 --> 00:18:38.039 and black smoke with a heavy runway, I mean, this 365 00:18:38.039 --> 00:18:41.039 thing starts in the hills and already the plume has 366 00:18:41.079 --> 00:18:44.279 made it out miles towards the ocean. There will be 367 00:18:44.400 --> 00:18:48.000 held up because of the juxtaposition of the homes and 368 00:18:48.119 --> 00:18:52.079 the blue sky and the fire. As just the case 369 00:18:52.119 --> 00:18:57.039 in point for the fight against wildland urban interface, right, 370 00:18:57.240 --> 00:19:00.319 this is why you don't build homes in area is 371 00:19:00.519 --> 00:19:04.160 like this. Well that's southern California for you, isn't it. 372 00:19:05.799 --> 00:19:09.000 So we have now two hundred acres at this point, 373 00:19:09.039 --> 00:19:12.079 but that was just like the last helicopter that was 374 00:19:12.119 --> 00:19:14.119 able to go overhead of this thing, and that was 375 00:19:14.200 --> 00:19:17.319 moments ago. They say that the gusts right now in 376 00:19:17.440 --> 00:19:20.720 excess of forty five miles per hour in that fire zone, 377 00:19:21.000 --> 00:19:22.319 and it is spotting. 378 00:19:22.640 --> 00:19:25.160 It is spotting. You knew that was going to happen 379 00:19:25.480 --> 00:19:25.799 with the. 380 00:19:25.759 --> 00:19:29.720 Potential for those gusts to carry the embers in other locations. 381 00:19:30.400 --> 00:19:33.880 So you can see that active flame in several different spots, 382 00:19:34.200 --> 00:19:39.680 and unfortunately it is near several different neighborhoods. So you know, 383 00:19:39.920 --> 00:19:43.960 you've got to use those resources. Got to be a 384 00:19:44.000 --> 00:19:46.720 freaking genius, a fire genius out there to know exactly 385 00:19:47.279 --> 00:19:50.599 where the priority spots are. When you think about this, 386 00:19:51.480 --> 00:19:54.839 where the fire erupted from, where it's headed, how many 387 00:19:54.839 --> 00:19:57.480 flanks are there to that fire, and then where the 388 00:19:57.480 --> 00:19:59.599 spot fire is headed, and did they have fuel? 389 00:19:59.759 --> 00:20:02.640 Are the and neighborhoods, yeah, there's spotfires. 390 00:20:02.680 --> 00:20:04.519 I think are the things that concern me the most, 391 00:20:04.759 --> 00:20:07.359 just in terms of how out of control this thing 392 00:20:07.440 --> 00:20:10.039 could get. If this stays in the wild land, If 393 00:20:10.039 --> 00:20:12.160 this stays in the hills in the brush, that's one 394 00:20:12.160 --> 00:20:13.920 thing it has not, But if it gets into those 395 00:20:13.960 --> 00:20:17.720 neighborhoods and and continues to you know, bounce house to house, 396 00:20:17.799 --> 00:20:20.960 block to block, then you're talking about the potential for 397 00:20:21.279 --> 00:20:24.599 a much more serious threat to life and limb. 398 00:20:24.759 --> 00:20:26.839 Then we're yeah, and we're not even at that point yet, 399 00:20:26.880 --> 00:20:27.039 you know. 400 00:20:27.119 --> 00:20:30.880 I mean, like there's there's times when we've had wildfires. 401 00:20:30.920 --> 00:20:33.079