10 Burst results for "Ron Lynn"
The Times: Daily news from the L.A. Times
"ron lynn" Discussed on The Times: Daily news from the L.A. Times
"Sitting in the earthquake chair is always as Ron Lynn, Ron, what school is more seismically prepared. UCLA or USC. I don't know. That's a good question. Oh, that's typical of a UC Berkeley graduate to say. Our Cassandra of the coast is Rosanna Shaw, knock knock, who's there? Asuka. Ask a who. Ask a reporter. That's good. That's what this panel is supposedly about. And back in the wildfire chair is Alex wigglesworth. Alex, how on earth did you tell the ring gods to make it rain so much over the past three months? And did it dance? You did a dance? What kind of dance? Rain dance. Ask a dumb question, get a very smart response. Masters, thank you so much. So I want to start with Ron. What's your origin story? How did you get to start covering earthquakes of all the beats you possibly could have? Yeah, that's an interesting question. So basically, I'll get into this a little bit later, but on my 7th birthday was the Loma prieta earthquake. It actually happened at 5 O 4 p.m., which is right about the time that we're holding this. And it was an event in my life that really resonated with me. So fast forward to when I've been at the Los Angeles Times, when there would be earthquakes, I would write about them. And there was this giant earthquake that happened in New Zealand. In 2011. And there were a number of buildings that collapsed and a lot of people died. And so rice church one, right? The Christchurch one, right. And so one of the things that came to mind was, you know, could this happen here? There were these big concrete buildings that collapsed and one of the things that came up on one of those Google searches that you can do is that there was a type of building there called a non ductal concrete building that collapsed there. And we also had these buildings here in Los Angeles. And so one of the things that me and Rosanna, we did was we looked to see we did grill UCLA USC and UC Berkeley on this as well. Yes. Look to see where are these buildings in California? Well, specifically in Los Angeles. And we found out that there were a bunch of these scientists that actually that had a list of these buildings. But they didn't want to give it out. They were really worried about getting sued and we thought, gosh, that seems like not a good reason to not give that information out. So did you do like Louise Beltran and you're like eyebrow starts coaching when you heard that? Like, oh, I got to get after them. Yeah, it really was like that. And so one of the things that we did since they wouldn't give us the list is that we're like, oh, well, we'll just try to make our own list. It wouldn't be as good, but we'll do our best. But it was good enough to kind of show the scale of the problem. And we did a story on it. We said the city officials have known about this problem for decades, but haven't done anything about it. And that caused some embarrassment with the city and long story short. The city, a couple of years later, decided that they would implement a law requiring these types of buildings as well as another class of buildings to be retrofitted. And that's kind of one of the key things that got me going on this. And 12 years later, how do you like covering earthquakes? I think it's one of the most important and fulfilling beats that I've done. I know for a lot of people thinking about it brings a sense of existential dread. But for me, I'm actually kind of optimistic about it. One of the things that I found out in all this reporting is that people think, oh my goodness, this means I'm going to die and I should be scared. And so I don't want to think about it. But if we can send people to the moon, surely we can make our buildings safer. And one of the things that I found about it was just this idea that you can actually make buildings a lot safer. There's a lot of things that you can do that are in your control to help write out these quakes. Especially when you have a vengeful master like yourself. Alex, California, you still have wildfires every once in a while. Now it's a yearlong thing. How did you get into covering wildfires? Yeah, so I'm actually from Philly. So wildfires aren't so much a thing there. We have gun violence, the occasional hurricane. It's pretty much it. But I moved to LA in 2016, and I live near downtown, but you can see the San Gabriel mountains from my house. And I remember the first time I saw a smoke plume from a wildfire there. I thought that the city was under attack, like nuclear attack. I was losing my mind. Because before that, when I thought of wildfires, I thought of smokey the bear fires burning deep in a forest somewhere away from people. And that's when I realized that even when fires are burning in areas that we think of as wilderness, oftentimes and increasingly, it's really close to communities. So it's something that's top of mind for a lot of people. And that's why I feel privileged to be able to cover it. When you actually go cover wildfires, does it scare you? Because earthquakes, Ron is just kind of like a firefighter waiting for something to happen. You could talk about preparation, but for you, like there is no plan like, oh, a wildfire, we're gonna start one in a couple of days or forecasting. It just happens. I mean, it can be a little scary. But I mean, I'm always conscious about putting my safety first. I go to base camp, I check in with the firefighters. I mean, I think that there's definitely ways to tell the story without putting yourself in the middle of a raging wildfire. 'cause then you know, you're not only risking yourself right, you're also risking responders who would be coming to rescue you. So there are ways to do it just to be safe, checking in a lot, be aware of your surroundings. And we do training every year at the LA times. For not just me, but other reporters who want to cover wildfires, like a year ago, we had the el segundo fire department come out and they taught us actually how to use the fire shelters where you zip yourself into a tinfoil bag. So I felt good. I feel prepared as we would. Now that all the sports teams and Philadelphia are good, what's the biggest disaster over there? Again, gun violence, the occasional hurricane. The occasional hurricane? Yeah. What? Yeah, every once in a while, I mean, it's not like Florida, but we got like flooding and high winds. It's happened. Like sandy, that was a oh yeah. A lot of flooding for everybody. Speaking of scary ocean things, Rosanna covers the coast and all sorts of different ways. And you know, used to be a wonder twin with Ron, covering the earthquake, so
The Times: Daily news from the L.A. Times
"ron lynn" Discussed on The Times: Daily news from the L.A. Times
"Snow now? Yes, more snow is good, and it's a big piece of California's water supply, but you're right, that too much snow or snow combined with rain in ways that may become more frequent can be hazardous. A rain on snow event, where a warm storm comes in and dumps a bunch of rain on heavy snow could lead to really serious major flooding. Now, fortunately, this time, the most recent storms that have come in have been colder ones. And so they've allowed the snow to accumulate, but early on, there were some rains that came in and mixed with the snow. So if some parts even high in the Sierra Nevada, we're seeing a mix of rain and snow. As the atmosphere continues to get warmer into the future, that will be a growing hazard for the state to deal with, what happens when there is more rain falling at high elevations and sometimes washing out that snow and creating floods. Oh man, rain snow sounds like some like third rate marvel villain here. What can defeat rain snow then? Does the sequel to the bomb cyclone movie? Yeah. Hey, why are we doing a podcast? Let's get into Hollywood. Of course now we're gonna stay in the podcast forever, but to everyone then. Is there an upside to all of these storms? Let's start with Haley. Yeah, definitely. The latest U.S. drought monitor update actually shows 0% of the state under exceptional drought, which is the worst category. It's the first time that's happened in a long time, even a week ago. We had 7% of the state in that category. So certainly the damage and the devastation are not welcome, but the moisture definitely is. A super welcome. It's such a change from a month ago when we were looking at possibly another year of the same just relentless dryness. So instead of being exceptional drought, we're just in super drought then. I think that category is severe, actually. I think that's the extreme. 20 7% of the state is in extreme drought now. And that's likely to ease a bit, but that dryness deficit is still there. And the thing is, this is the only way we get out of these droughts. You saw everything that happened in 2017. We got basically an end to the drought emergency back then, but it almost caused the failure of a retaining wallet or vil dam, which if it happened could have washed away a lot of people. And there were evacuations. It was madness. And unfortunately, this is what we can expect in a climate changed global warming future where our droughts are going to be very intense and our wet periods are going to be very intense too. So what we're seeing now amplify that by a couple by a lot. And that's our future. So what can people do then to prepare? We've talked about flood kits in our flood episode in November and of course we always talk about earthquake kits, but Ron, what would a storm kit look like? I think like a lot of us up here in Northern California, that's even changed just after a lot of us were shocked by the New Year's Eve floods. A lot of places in San Francisco throughout the Bay Area, whole restaurants, whole homes were really flooded. And a lot of food was destroyed. So the new thing that people are looking at is that if your home or your business has had a history of flooding, it's time to get those sandbags ready, especially in a major event. And then just other things that you can think about. If you have extended power outages, what are you going to do during those extended power outages? And then be able to be ready to evacuate at a moment's notice. And in fact, what's scary and it'll be important to know for the rest of this season is that a lot of people are suddenly realizing that they live really close to a river or a creek. And you should all be aware of that and it's super important, you know, get those cell phone and email alerts to your local county and city so that you can really know when floodwaters might be happening. It's super important just to be aware of what's going on. Well, the only time the county ever hits me up is for taxes. So I don't know about that. That's right. And the state also has a lot to do to become more resilient in these big floods. That means more investment in infrastructure and looking at restoring river flood plains so that the water can spread out when there are these big floods to reduce the threats. It's really a big task to make the state better prepared for big floods. And up here, what they're also suggesting is that be a good neighbor if you see a bunch of leaves clogging up your neighborhood storm drain, go clear that out, that's going to help everyone not get flooded in the next rainstorm. Haley, what should be in good storm kit? It's probably the same for most types of disaster. I guess with a flood kit, maybe you want some rain boots or something like that. But otherwise, you know, batteries, flashlights, radios, things that you could use in a power outage. Some extra money is a good thing with cash because sometimes credit cards aren't working when powers. How about crypto? Crypto is great, yeah. I think you should really invest in not right now. Yeah, that'll be really helpful. All that kind of stuff. Keep gas in your car, just the usual stay prepared mindset. We have already forgotten what our master of masters Louis o'hagan advised us last time. A boat. We all need a boat. Kayak. Kayak up. Dinghy, maybe? Can we get a LA times arc? Yes. Oh my God, the LA times arc will rise above all. We'll have more after the break. And now comes our traditional ending to masters of disasters where we ask our masters, what's bringing them joy during these terrible difficult wet and yet dry times. Ron, let's start with you. Let's bring you joy this month. A persimmons were working through our stash of the bumper crop of persimmons that we have and making them into persimmon bread. Perfect. I hate to say this, actually, no, I say this proudly. I pronounce them persimmons. Ah, just like I pronounce Valentine's Day Valentine's Day and library library. But we should do a whole thing on local pronunciation. Artichoke in parts of Northern California has pronounced artichoke, and it's like a thing. Artichoke. Okay, that is silly, more silly than persimmons, but what do I know? Ian, what's bringing you joy? Well, the other day, the clouds parted for a bit and I took a walk on the central coast and it was just beautiful out there wildflowers and green and a nice respite from The Rain. That's hope we get more of that, both The Rain and the beautiful moments. And Hailey, what's bringing you joy this month. I'm actually getting ready to move to a new house. So I'm really excited for new beginnings and the chance to get to know a new neighborhood and take a break from disaster reporting and pick out some paint colors and furniture and all that kind of stuff. Nice. What's a good paint color to go with disasters? Persimmon. Boom, mic drop right there. Masters as always, thank you much for this conversation, Ron Lynn, Hailey Smith in the end James gracias. Thanks. Thanks. Thank you. LA times subscribers are everywhere. Your friend, who does the research weeks before the election, or the coworker, who somehow always predicts awards show winners. Yeah. It's easy to spot a subscriber. Learn more at LA times dot com slash subscribe. Before we end today's episode, we want to share some sad news from the LA times family. On January 4th, fast break reporter Gregory Yi died from complications from a respiratory issue. Gregory had been with the time since the summer of 2021 and quickly made a mark at the paper with his warm heart, his wonderful laugh, his wizardry of covering, breaking news in a way that nevertheless
The Times: Daily news from the L.A. Times
"ron lynn" Discussed on The Times: Daily news from the L.A. Times
"In the wildfire chair, we have Alex wigglesworth, Alex, when you see people burning firewood for barbecues, what do you do? Make s'mores. Oh gosh. There is nothing. Covering earthquakes is Ron Lynn. Any chance Ron that you could put a giant N95 thousand mask on the San Andreas fault so the big one ever happens? Yeah, we just need some big rubber bands. Okay, okay, good to know. I'll be on that. And finally, our Cassandra, the coast, Rosanna Shaw. I heard that in addition to being declared an honorary turn this year, you now have a superpower. What is it? Gustavo, I hate to break it to you, but I think you've already made this joke before. Did I? Your jokes are like a starfish, no matter how many times the leg gets cut off, it just grows back. Or maybe it's just my bad jokes that happen. That must be regenerative jokes. That's what Rosanna gots. Welcome all. Alex, let's start with you. I want to ask about these viral resignation letters going around from four service firefighters. What do they say? Yeah, so I recently wrote about a resignation letter written by a really accomplished experienced foreign service firefighter and was widely shared within the agency and externally because it gave voice to a lot of frustrations that many federal firefighters share right now. The firefighter Chris Mariano was the squad boss of the truckee interagency hotshot crew, which is a really elite unit. He wrote that he's seen wildfires grow more dangerous and destructive that the forest service isn't giving firefighters more resources to deal with them. The pay is low, the working conditions are grueling. There's a ton of trauma and stress. Mariano wrote that he really feels that the forest service is failing its firefighters. And he said the result is that there's a dire retention issue that people are leaving at what he called a terrifying rate. That means there's even more work to be divided up among the firefighters who are left, which has helped create a real morale crisis. And this fits with what I've heard from other sources within the forest service. I've been told that California is only about 62% staffed going into this year's fire season that about 34% of engines in California are on 5 day staffing, meaning there aren't enough crew members to run them 7 days a week. And then another 13% are down staffed, meaning they're effectively parked because there aren't enough people to run them at all. I'm also hearing that many of the firefighters quitting are mid career professionals whose expertise is really needed to fight increasingly complex fires. Rosanna, coastal erosion, rising sea levels, devastated ecosystems. They're like incremental catastrophe, and we've gotten better at getting people to care. And yet mother nature continues and people don't seem to care enough. So the scientists at U talked on the coast do they feel like they're in the movie don't look up and they're screaming at waves like Leo and J law for people to pay attention to no avail. I mean, I agree that a lot more people are starting to care about climate change. It's hard not to when drought and wildfires have become so in your face and our firefighters are Tapping out, but what I have noticed in California is that the debate isn't whether climate change is happening, it's how much time we have. Is this something that we have to deal with now or can we continue business as usual and not worry about this for another 50, 60, 70 years, and the void that most scientists and environmentalists are screaming into right now is getting more people to realize that we are running out of time to argue about when is the right time to take action. There's a lot of talking in circles right now and we are running out of time to plan and argue and think about thinking about what the solution should be. So for the scientists and engineers who see the facts so clearly, the political and social aspects of climate change can be exhausting. Yeah, I mean, because with firefighters, you're fighting fires right there that could kill you immediately. And there's a lot of labor, but sometimes that existential and moral and political way is even more crushing in many ways. Yeah, and it's really hard to communicate. And I say this to as a reporter in this space. But I will say the science communication has gotten a lot better. And a scientist have become more open about talking about their own frustrations. It has created more of a community around this, which has been really powerful to see, especially when scientists get personal about the issues that they are studying. I think a lot of parents I've talked to the way they talk about how they are wrestling with what kind of world we're leaving behind for our children. I think has really also added depth to this conversation. Ron, you're mister earthquake, but bizarro Ron is mister COVID. And our colleagues have done many, many stories about fatigue among frontline workers who have been working to fight the pandemic now what? Two and a half years and going and now more variants are more contagious and more and more and more. Are they about shouting into that anti vaccine void and dealing with surge after surge? Yeah, it's an incredible strain. And you know, there have been plenty of nurses and other healthcare providers who have just said, you know what? It's too much. I'm out. It's a real strain. I mean, this was also an issue even before COVID, but COVID has dramatically worsened it. In fact, the Surgeon General actually issued a whole advisory addressing health worker burnout. And one of the things that the certain general said was that fear loneliness and uncertainty were pervasive, the threat of targeted harassment and violence underscored many interactions, and some health workers were forced to wall themselves off from their loved ones. It is a difficult time not only in the healthcare industry, but also even among veterinarians as well. If we don't have nurses and doctors anymore, how do we fight COVID? Do we fight it with vicks VapoRub? I mean, you know, what if it comes down to that? In fact, there have been studies that in which they expect that by the year 20, 33, there could be a shortage of a 100,000 physicians by then. And health officials warn that the most alarming gaps are expected in primary care in rural communities. So the result could just be that it's just harder to find a doctor. I mean, I'm sure many of you have had a situation where we need medical care and the weight to get an appointment is long. And it's not a good situation. Officials really need to figure out a way to kind of address healthcare worker burnout, otherwise it's just gonna get harder and harder to get the medical care that we need. Tijuana care here we come. We'll be right back. Hey drag fans, listen up. I'm Alaska. And I'm Willem, and we are the hosts of race chaser, the premier RuPaul's Drag Race recap podcast. We are bona FIDE drag. Icons. And on our podcast, we like to take you behind the scenes of this season and all the seasons of drag race. Race chaser with Alaskan Willem is the ultimate backstage pass for both drag, obsessives, and new fans alike. So check out the new episodes of race chaser every Wednesday and Friday wherever you get your podcast streams. Do it. These days, you use your personal info to do just about everything, especially when you're online. And guess what? With all that info just floating around out there, it can make the Internet a practical gold mine for identity thieves. Actually wait, I take it back. That's not fair to gold miners. Mining is hard work. But stealing your identity, it turns out, can be dangerously easy. Now it's easy to help protect yourself with LifeLock by Norton. LifeLock monitors your info and alerts you to potential identity threats, and if you are a victim of identity theft, a dedicated U.S. based restoration specialist will work to fix it. Identity thieves have had it easy for far too long. Now it's finally your turn. No one can prevent all identity theft or monitor all transactions that all businesses. But everyone can save up to 25% off their first year by going to life lock dot com slash LA times. That's life lock dot com slash LA times for 25% off your first year. LifeLock,
The Times: Daily news from the L.A. Times
"ron lynn" Discussed on The Times: Daily news from the L.A. Times
"In the wildfire chair is always as LA times reporter Alex wigglesworth. Hey, Alex, if it's raining, that means no infernos, which means you get to have a break until summer, right? Don't jinx me. Occupying the coastal chair is Rosanna Shaw. If it rains Rosanna, that means water level rises, so does that mean the coast is anti rain? Hey, Gustavo. I would say the coast is more anti Gustavo jokes. Ah, that's mean. Well, whatever coast I only like you and Laguna Beach anyway. Finally, our earthquake chairperson is Ron Lynn. Ron, can we just get rain to drown the monsters that live in fault lines? And then therefore, and earthquakes forever? Yes, yes, that's a big plan. You've got it. Awesome. I should win the Nobel Prize for that. Well, welcome all is always in. We'll start with Alex. And it sounds counterintuitive, but this year's fire season was poised to be pretty disastrous, given the drought levels, but then it rained, so yay? Right, those rainstorm said started last month where kind of a mixed bag for Northern California. On one hand, people were relieved because rain like that can really help with fires that are burning. And once you start to get these rains, that pretty much means the end of the fire season or at least the season of these really large intense fires. At the same time, these storms dropped so much rain up there, and they happened right after, even while some of these fires were still burning, there was no time in between for the landscape to recover. So authorities were also worried about flooding and debris flows. Also, in Southern California, fire season is not over yet. We didn't get that much rain from these storms. It's too soon to say whether this specific string of storms is linked to climate change, but scientists say these rapid shows from intense fire seasons to record breaking storms will continue to become more common as a planet warmth. You're damned if you do and you're damned if you don't when it comes to disasters in California like, okay, fires gone because The Rain, but because the fire just destroyed so much of the land, now it's all of a sudden, vulnerable to flooding and mudslides. Yeah, this risk is especially high if it rains soon after a fire, but it can last for up to 5 years until plants that were burned grow back. That's because a loss of vegetation exposes the soil to erosion and ash and other burn material can kind of clog the soil and prevent it from absorbing water. That can make The Rain run off the soil like its pavement. All that can turn into a debris flow, which is when the water carries the loose mud soil and rock down a slope. When that flow is sandier and more water saturated, it's called a mud flow, not a mud side because Rosetta will yell at me. Yeah, can I jump in? I'm sorry. I need to set the record straight for the gazillions time. I know people in California like to say mudslide and the quote unquote news media Gustavo is also very guilty of this. But there is no such thing as a mudslide. It's a mud flow or debris flow, or it's a landslide, which is a totally different phenomenon. Ron and Alex have heard me go off on this so many times. I'm mudslide is a melted chocolate dessert Gustavo, ask any signs. But mud slides doesn't it? You have mud when it rains, it turns into mud when it falls down like the hills, it slides, so mudslide, right? No, it's a B grade melted chocolate dessert okay, I'm just pulled up the U.S. geological surveys glossary. And here is their definition for mudslides. This is from the United States geological survey, and this is going to put you all to shame. Mudslide, it imprecise, but popular term coined in California, frequently used by Lehman and the news media to describe a wide scope of events ranging from debris laden floods to landslides, not technically correct, period. Please see mud flow previous glossy. Mud flow mud slides sounds like Texas Ron help me. You're your team mudslide, right? Well, I'm not going to get into it, but I can tell you if any California should know about two things. One is a debris flow, which is basically when a lot of water falls down a debris flow can happen within minutes and send torrents of mud and water, screaming down slopes. And you know, can be potentially deadly. The other thing that people wanna know about are something called deep seated. How you see? Look at this. Ron, Ron is from California, and he almost said mudslide. He gives me crap about this all the time. He is low key on team mudslides because he's like every single other California in this state. Good man. We were actually in the same meeting with some USGS person when we heard that like, oh, mudslides actually don't exist. And we both gasped and were like, we didn't both. And I said, that makes a 100% sense. And I will forever never use the word mud slide again. So deep seated glass. Again. Do you see the landslides are a thing people in Orange County? You'll remember this, the Bluebird canyon, a landslide that happened. I don't think it was even very rainy when it actually happened. But over the many months of water accumulation, a landslide can happen. And it can also be very deadly as well. So two things to keep in mind debris flow and deep seated landslides. Fine, Rosanna beets mudslides, landslides for.
The Times: Daily news from the L.A. Times
"ron lynn" Discussed on The Times: Daily news from the L.A. Times
"As usual. We have our trio of hair and introducing first and foremost our earthquake. Wizard also dabbles in cove in nineteen reporting ron lynn. What's going on. Hey rosanna shies cassandra of the coast including earthquake caused landslides and tsunamis that i'm sure eventually earthquake caused wildfires. That caused climate the coast to go up. High rosanna salvo and alex wigglesworth covers wildfires. Which means she is now working all the time year round even more. So than ron kovic. Hey alex hi how you doing. Oh scared as usual so looking for comfort from all of you. So we'll start with you. Alex do we know how this. Dixie fire started. Not for sure. An investigation is in its early stages farces decided to blow up with the red flag warning event that we went into. We're in another red flag warning event. Starting today that was edwin zuniga and he's the public information officer for the california department of forestry and fire protection that said the fire started near where a tree had fallen into a power line maintained by pacific gas electric company the utility that supplies power to parts of northern and central california. Then nine days later another tree appears to have fallen into another. Pg and e. power line about thirty miles away and a separate fire started. That eventually merged with the dixie fire prosecutors in butte and plumas county's are investigating pg for potential criminal charges. They're looking at whether pg needed everything. It was supposed to do to mitigate the risk of a wildfire things like trimming the vegetation maintaining the equipment and then also other. pg need responded appropriately once it became aware of disturbances on the power lines pg and he has already said that in the case of the first fire it took about ten hours for a worker to reach the site and call it in these prosecutors say that pg and he should have known this power line was in a really high risk fire area the canyon where the first fire started is the same canyon where the campfire started in two thousand eighteen that destroyed the ton of paradise and killed eighty six people. Pg pleaded guilty to eighty four counts of manslaughter after its equipment was found to have started that fire. And in fact pg and he had flagged the power line that might have started the dixie fire to be buried underground as part of a safety campaign announced as a result of the campfire. The work on the project hadn't started yet still. Ps you need told me that it was up to date on trimming and poll inspections in the area and it is cooperating with the investigation while for the days where we had to worry about when a tree felling of forests. If it made a sound terrible. I have to move on with these jokes to keep levity. Studies have shown that humans ignite the majority of wildfires in the us. And as you pointed out alex it could mean mismanaged power lines. Muffler akins caused a fire sparked from a shovel and well even gender reveal celebrations because people are dumb but it's how we're interacting with a changing climate. That's making an already bad situation worse gel regardless of how fires are starting these conditions are helping them really take off. It's been hot. The vegetation is historically dry in some areas. There's a build up of this dry vegetation for a bunch of reasons from the elimination of indigenous burning practices two years of aggressive fire suppression. Here's dixie fire public information officer ryan bain talking to the. Ap the associated press earlier this month about the drought's impact on the fire or the water to do as far as mop up. So we're playing catch up with this fire It's very difficult to get out in front of it. Because of the intensity of the fire and the the dryness of of the fuels out there so california is going through a drought this year and of course there are also more people living near these wilderness areas than there were twenty years ago so when fires do burn out of control or is a bigger chance they could sweep through town. We actually saw a lot of these conditions align. When the dixie fire destroyed the town of greeneville of fired actually been burning for about three weeks. At that point then bad weather conditions set in and got windier and even drier the fire hit pockets of overgrown unburned fuel these patches of timber that were clogged with undergrowth. The undergrowth helps the fire. Get up into the crowns of the trees which actually allows the flames to run across the treetops. That through embers over the containment line though sparks landed and dry vegetation and started spot fires which caused the fire to grow over the line and race towards the town and by then the fire was also burning so intensely through all that fuel that it was creating its own weather patterns that were helping it to grow larger and making it more dangerous to fight on this fire. Behavior was zola. Radic that it was really a scramble to make sure that everyone even got out of greenville safely. And it's one thing when it's like saying southern california infamously. Mike davis author wrote an essay about twenty five years ago. Called the case for letting malibu burn and he was criticizing suburbia. But we're talking about small cities up into sierras. You know where. It's all green forest mountains. These towns are not supposed to be at risk of getting burned every year maybe once in a generation but not every year shorewood w seeing fire enter populated areas more frequently and in some areas where i mean. There are some areas where experts thought firewood really never enter. That are now at risk for burning. Ron your earthquake guy. But you've also covered wildfires in your career like a good master of disaster and while every california and grows up with earthquakes wing to fall in us like well an earthquake. The anxiety around fires is just right up there with them. I mean i've read accounts of the spaniards who came here in the seventeen seventy and they would write about these humongous fires going all along the coast to the point whereas all smokey yeah i mean that's right. I mean. fires have always been a part of the california landscape whether naturally or even indigenous tribes practicing intentional burns for thousands of years. But for modern day california apocalyptic fires were not an annual thing like growing up in the bay area. I have this indelible memory. When i was a kid of the oakland hills burning in nineteen ninety-one and that was at the time the second deadliest fire in california history. Unfortunately twenty five people died many trying to escape but now it's kind of like an annual currence in two thousand seventeen. There was the tubs fire. In napa sonoma counties that resulted in twenty two deaths. Alex just talked about the campfire. That flattened much of the town of paradise. And then just last year fifteen people died in the north complex fire north of sacramento and the scary thing is is that it used to be. The deadly fires usually happened in october and november when we saw the santa anna winds or the diablo winds up in the bay area but ninety more some of the deadliest fires have started as early as august this month as last year. North complex fire did and it's just nuts. I mean growing up in the bear. We never thought of santa cruz counties with its redwoods ever catching fire. But that's exactly what happened last year. Yeah it's like the fire. The century every month in california whether northern southern everywhere. Yeah it becomes to a point where we're always like you know i'm on tenterhooks. Last fall was the first season where i actually had to buy air filters and put them all around my place because the stench of the smoke was just so bad. We couldn't breathe. It used to be that. I would tell people moving into the area. You know what. Don't worry about the smoke this year. It's like it's a one in every ten year thing. I can't say that anymore because it's now the case where we do have to prepare for lots of smoke every late summer and every early fall bad air quality. That's going to be another topic and probably next month. The way california's going rosanna. You've also covered wildfires because again when you're a master of disaster you have to be limber with your doom and you recently looked up your old reporting from.
Cracking Aces
"ron lynn" Discussed on Cracking Aces
"About how many chips head. Yeah but that's on your friend. Yeah but it's the total scumbag but he was like covering up his chips. He was like let me see your child. Have to raise your arm. If you say a number you can say any number of its scummy friend of the program. Jake schwartz got pretty screwed at the final table of Wbz five diamond Two or three years ago where I think one of the the recreational guys at the final table opened and jake was in the big blind with ace jack. I think And he asked the guy only gypsy on. Because you know they're big stacks. They weren't even sacks of ten or twenty or whatever And the guy. The guy. I don't i forget if he if it ended up coming out that he like had history of that or like did it on purpose but completely Lied undershot. Let's say it was like. He said he had two million behind three point. Two million instead of being like a twenty bonchamps feels like a thirty five blind shop. Do you think it should be not a good hand. Do you think it'd be a not like not just an unwritten rule but like an actual rule that you have to use your best ability to say but you're penalized for lying not penalize phone purposely. Deceive no no. Because i think there are ways to to help with that naturally for me like it'd be much easier if it was a rule where you had to keep your your chips and stacks of yes a tens or twenty dougherty is ripe in like you should have to keep its twenties or in denominations of ten her. I get people want to like build fancy fund castles but it just like speeds the game up. It's much easier it's cleaner it's and then that's stuff that type of stuff doesn't happen you don't have to rely on. Somebody is keeping their word or you know you're being accurate was almost linda. Sorry what was that. What was the what was one more east like kinda lot about it and got win a hand and he was kind of coverage stack and ryan. I mean you. Should boys hawkins your jake's especially when he lied so something he basically got win a hand to induce a mistake. And i'm talking. Ron ron lynn. And great grey do but he was always one of those guys wanna screw goes all. I'm talking oh but a fistfight at the table on hotel two. I sitting there like like trying to kind of wins back but trying to stay away from it. It's like eighty catered. I broke fight if two people get just called me out of here. But he's best player.
Cracking Aces
"ron lynn" Discussed on Cracking Aces
"Yeah but that's on your friend. Yeah but it's the total scumbag but he was like covering up his chips. He was like let me see your child. Have to raise your arm. If you say a number you can say any number of its scummy friend of the program. Jake schwartz got pretty screwed at the final table of Wbz five diamond Two or three years ago where I think one of the the recreational guys at the final table opened and jake was in the big blind with ace jack. I think And he asked the guy only gypsy on. Because you know they're big stacks they weren't in even sacks of ten or twenty or whatever And the guy the guy. I don't i forget if he if it ended up coming out that he like had history of that or like did it on purpose but completely under so let's say it was like. He said he had two million behind three point. Two million instead of being like a twenty bonchamps feels like a thirty five blind shop. Do you think it should be not a good hand. Do you think it'd be a not like not just an unwritten rule but like an actual rule that you have to use your best ability to say but you're penalized for lying not penalize phone purposely. Deceive no no. Because i think there are ways to to help with that naturally for me like it'd be much easier if it was a rule where you had to keep your your chips and stacks of yes a tens or twenty dougherty is ripe in like you should have to keep its twenties or in denominations of ten. Yeah her i get. People want to like build fancy fund castles but it just like speeds the game up. It's much easier it's cleaner it's and then that's stuff that type of stuff doesn't happen you don't have to rely on. Somebody is keeping their word or you know or being accurate was almost linda. Sorry what was say what was the what was one more east like kinda lot about it and got win a hand and he was kind of coverage stack and ryan. I mean you. Should boys. Hawkins your jake's especially when he lied so something he basically got win a hand to induce a mistake. And i'm talking. Ron ron lynn. And great grey do but he was always one of those guys wanna screw goes all. I'm talking oh but a fistfight at the table on hotel to i was sitting there like like trying to kind of wins back but trying to stay away from it. It's like eighty catered. I broke fight if two people get just called me out of here. But he's best player.
790 KABC
"ron lynn" Discussed on 790 KABC
"800 to 2 to 5 to 2 to is the telephone number 1 802 22 K A. B C Randy, Are you a fan of old school? Saturday night Live? Oh, absolutely. I've been watching this show my entire life, including when they started putting repeats on comedy Central when I was a kid. Okay, so you'll have to correct me if I'm wrong when I described this, But there was a skit I want to say in the nineties when Alec Baldwin used to guest host all the time. And the skit Woz. He was operating a dirty cake shop. And people would go in and they would try to buy all these various kinds of dirty cakes, and he would suggest a cake with a woman sitting on a toilet. And then the customer would be disgusted and they would leave and then the next one would come in and the sales pitch would be exactly the same. He would lead him in that direction. And every customer that came into the cake shop. Got that same pitch. Do you remember that's get Try to remember that one. I gotta look that one up. Yeah, that's worth checking out on YouTube. That character in that skit kind of reminds me of the L A times is wrong, Lynn because every question that he asked, is, Do you feel vindicated for setting all the restaurants down? He asked it to Barbara. For rare, He asked it to the mayor. In fact, let's listen. Let's listen to him. Ask that question to Barbara Ferrer. Our next question comes from the line of Ron Lynn. Ron, your line is open. Please go ahead. Hi doctors and supervisor Thanks so much for talking with us today really appreciate it. We have questions for you today. Dr Pereira and supervisor on whether you're vindicated in the public health strategy Project room key and when teachers will get vaccines, first doctor further, and Supervisor L. A county received criticism and lawsuits from some restaurant owners on the outdoor dining ban. County data shows that virus transmission rates started dropping around the same time as the outdoor dining ban and the safe ride home order were issued, which occurred a week ahead of the ST Stay at home order. Does the current good news vindicate your efforts to ban outdoor dining and imposing early, safer at home order? Okay. Now, let's get a completely different question. For l. A mayor Eric Garcetti. I'm deeply feel vindicated that you backed the public Health department here because you know, there's a lot of public criticism. You know about this, but In the end, the public health Department was right. That really bad circles coming on. I just want to know what you thought about that. Thank you. You should really work in a dirty cake shop. Joining us to talk about this and much, much more. Is Fox 11th Film Illusion. Bill Welcome. Hey, John. Thanks for having me, man. That's quite a Quite a variety of questions there. Yeah. You know what? Um, I heard the same thing I was listening in on the DPH pressure the other day. When I heard that question asked in my my job kind of hit the floor. I understand. Ron later explained that he was talking about That our number that health officials like to talk about you know how many people get infected by one single person, he says. That number got lower, but I mean, look at any chart after the outdoor dining band went into effect, our numbers shot up like a missile straight up right afterwards. And if you were we remember at the time supervisors Catherine Parker and Janice Hahn They voted against it. They were concerned that hey, if we shut down outdoor dining, where essentially going to be forcing people indoors, going into the fall going into the colder weather? We're worried people are going to congregate indoors more. And you know, people can debate the outdoor dining ban all they want, but the fact is In the months after it. We went into our worst surge ever, and we're still not out of it. Um, so I don't understand why it would be asked of health officials that they feel vindicated for that. Um, it was just bizarre from my perspective. Well in L. A doesn't operate in a vacuum. We have other cities and other states that air doing similar things and one of the reasons that the city of Chicago decided to reopen their bars and restaurants. I believe for not just outdoor, but indoor dining as well. Was because they realize that by shutting all of them down what they did was, they pushed everyone into crowded little apartments or Grandma's kitchen for Christmas or whatever, and that caused their numbers to explode. The same thing happened in Los Angeles. Yeah. And now they're taking another page out of the exact same playbook. They today they're letting outdoor dining reopen with the caveat that TVs have to be turned off s. Oh, So now the idea is, obviously they don't want people gathering at sports bars and restaurants to watch the Super Bowl next weekend, right? So what they haven't learned. What are people going to do now? Okay, so they don't want him watching it outside. They want to take the outdoor option away. What are people gonna do? Instead? They're gonna watch it indoors. They're going to go to private parties at home. They're gonna watch it. It have people over to watch the game. I would think health officials would want people outside in the fresh air at lower capacity. Rather than crammed inside of private homes. Um, but, hey, I'm not a health expert, but it just seems it just seems logical. So, yeah, they're reopening the outdoor dining today, but TV is has to be gone or turned off. Or they could just put him on PBS and no one will pay attention and that will do the same thing. S so, um, you know, it's uh Yeah, You know it. There's a lot of criticism towards the county online about this. This latest order today. You know, people saying they gotta have some sort of control. Um, you know, no matter what it is, they're saying it's arbitrary. But, um, you know, at least for I feel I just feel so bad for these restaurants because they've just been Kick left and right throughout this whole process, and you know, at least finally, they're getting to open back up today a little bit, even though it's in the middle of the storm. I don't know what you're hearing from your contacts in the restaurant industry. But when I talked to friends who own restaurants or work in restaurants or are tangentially related to that world, they They look at this order at they're reopening with certainly optimism, However, it's optimism with a certain but what's around the corner sort of attitude because He's not saying they're allowed to be open outdoors in perpetuity he's saying is long as his projections say that they're allowed to be open. They will be allowed to remain open. But the minute that his projections go in a different direction. He can shut him down any time he wants..
The John Phillips Show
Los Angeles County outdoor dining returns with new COVID-19 rules
"Okay, so you'll have to correct me if I'm wrong when I described this, But there was a skit I want to say in the nineties when Alec Baldwin used to guest host all the time. And the skit Woz. He was operating a dirty cake shop. And people would go in and they would try to buy all these various kinds of dirty cakes, and he would suggest a cake with a woman sitting on a toilet. And then the customer would be disgusted and they would leave and then the next one would come in and the sales pitch would be exactly the same. He would lead him in that direction. And every customer that came into the cake shop. Got that same pitch. Do you remember that's get Try to remember that one. I gotta look that one up. Yeah, that's worth checking out on YouTube. That character in that skit kind of reminds me of the L A times is wrong, Lynn because every question that he asked, is, Do you feel vindicated for setting all the restaurants down? He asked it to Barbara. For rare, He asked it to the mayor. In fact, let's listen. Let's listen to him. Ask that question to Barbara Ferrer. Our next question comes from the line of Ron Lynn. Ron, your line is open. Please go ahead. Hi doctors and supervisor Thanks so much for talking with us today really appreciate it. We have questions for you today. Dr Pereira and supervisor on whether you're vindicated in the public health strategy Project room key and when teachers will get vaccines, first doctor further, and Supervisor L. A county received criticism and lawsuits from some restaurant owners on the outdoor dining ban. County data shows that virus transmission rates started dropping around the same time as the outdoor dining ban and the safe ride home order were issued, which occurred a week ahead of the ST Stay at home order. Does the current good news vindicate your efforts to ban outdoor dining and imposing early, safer at home order? Okay. Now, let's get a completely different question. For l. A mayor Eric Garcetti. I'm deeply feel vindicated that you backed the public Health department here because you know, there's a lot of public criticism. You know about this, but In the end, the public health Department was right. That really bad circles coming on. I just want to know what you thought about that. Thank you. You should really work in a dirty cake shop. Joining us to talk about this and much, much more. Is Fox 11th Film Illusion. Bill Welcome. Hey, John. Thanks for having me, man. That's quite a Quite a variety of questions there. Yeah. You know what? Um, I heard the same thing I was listening in on the DPH pressure the other day. When I heard that question asked in my my job kind of hit the floor. I understand. Ron later explained that he was talking about That our number that health officials like to talk about you know how many people get infected by one single person, he says. That number got lower, but I mean, look at any chart after the outdoor dining band went into effect, our numbers shot up like a missile straight up right afterwards. And if you were we remember at the time supervisors Catherine Parker and Janice Hahn They voted against it. They were concerned that hey, if we shut down outdoor dining, where essentially going to be forcing people indoors, going into the fall going into the colder weather? We're worried people are going to congregate indoors more. And you know, people can debate the outdoor dining ban all they want, but the fact is In the months after it. We went into our worst surge ever, and we're still not out of it. Um, so I don't understand why it would be asked of health officials that they feel vindicated for that. Um, it was just bizarre from my perspective. Well in L. A doesn't operate in a vacuum. We have other cities and other states that air doing similar things and one of the reasons that the city of Chicago decided to reopen their bars and restaurants. I believe for not just outdoor, but indoor dining as well. Was because they realize that by shutting all of them down what they did was, they pushed everyone into crowded little apartments or Grandma's kitchen for Christmas or whatever, and that caused their numbers to explode. The same thing happened in Los Angeles. Yeah. And now they're taking another page out of the exact same playbook. They today they're letting outdoor dining reopen with the caveat that TVs have to be turned off s. Oh, So now the idea is, obviously they don't want people gathering at sports bars and restaurants to watch the Super Bowl next weekend, right? So what they haven't learned. What are people going to do now? Okay, so they don't want him watching it outside. They want to take the outdoor option away. What are people gonna do? Instead? They're gonna watch it indoors. They're going to go to private parties at home. They're gonna watch it. It have people over to watch the game. I would think health officials would want people outside in the fresh air at lower capacity. Rather than crammed inside of private homes. Um, but, hey, I'm not a health expert, but it just seems it just seems logical. So, yeah, they're reopening the outdoor dining today, but TV is has to be gone or turned off.
790 KABC
"ron lynn" Discussed on 790 KABC
"In Torrance had to cancel their appointment today because there weren't enough employees to stick the deals in the arms. Well, they need to go down to skid row and find people who are good at using needles. We do have a lot of experts taking underpass. Any underpass. 802 22 k A. B. C is the phone number 1 802 2 to 5 to two to it is a pleasure to welcome our next guest to the program. She is a trauma surgeon and expert on mass casualties. Former chief medical officer for Harris who you could follow on Twitter at Dr Kelly, Victory, Doctor Kelly Victory Welcome. Hey, John and happy Wuhan Wednesday. I'm so excited now that the mainstream media has made it Okay for a stripper too. This is the China virus. Finally, after all these months of Colin is racist and xenophobic. It's now apparently okay to call the China virus, or I have to assume that it is now that they are referring to the South African variant in the UK strain and the Brazilian variants. So now we finally have the imprimatur that we can refer to this by its rightful name that China virus. Well, there's also a California varying. Did you see that? Yeah, of course. There. You know what happens when you get to California variant, though you lose all of your taste, except for Kale. Exactly and come, Buja got it. All right. I want to play a outrageous piece of sound for you. This is at a press conference at the county of Los Angeles, where they fake doctor was there in the supervisors, and the question arose from the L A Times is Ron Lynn if the fake doctor feels vindicated Over the outdoor dining ban. Let's see if we can follow along with this logic. Our next question comes from the line of Ron Lynn. Ron, your line is open. Please go ahead. Hi doctors and supervisor Thanks so much for talking with us today really appreciate it. We have questions for you today, Dr. Prayer and supervisor on whether you're vindicated in the public health strategy Project room Key and when teachers will get vaccines, first doctor for her and Supervisor L. A county received criticism and lawsuits from some restaurant owners on the outdoor dining band. County data shows that virus transmission rates started dropping around the same time as the outdoor dining ban and the same front home order were issued, which occurred a week ahead of the ST Stay at home order. Does the current good news vindicate your efforts to ban outdoor dining and imposing early? Safer at home order? Yeah, thanks a million run. So you know, I think it's important to note that Um, when we are issuing our health officer orders as supervisor, So these mentioned, you know, it's with a lot of documents on a A lot of study of What is the data saying? What is the science say, and at the time we were seeing this sort of steep increase in cases, and we do know that it's really important for people to have those face coverings on when they're around people that aren't in their household. And that was what we base that decision on because at that point we were on this alarming trajectory of exponential increases in our cases. I don't know. You know whether you know vindicated is the right word. I think we made a tough decision at a tough point in time. I think it's a combination of No safety modifications that we asked people to make on people's willingness to actually take personal responsibility for their own actions that helps us get to the place. We're actually seeing a decline. You know, the two have to go hand in hand, especially in the county this side So I want to just acknowledge and thank all of the restaurants who in fact did close. They're out there dining sites and did help us. In fact, I drive down rates. It's taken us a long time. It was a horrible surge. We lost lots of people on. We continue to have lots of people in the hospital who are sick. In what Bizarro world is that an appropriate question? The governor of New York Andrew Cuomo, is more deserving of an Emmy for killing all of his state's nursing home population than she is of a pat on the back for shutting down the restaurants and bars for outdoor dining. No kidding. First of all, I really want to be a politician or an appointed official who could just take sort of these grapefruits. We said we just, you know, pitch me grapefruits and see if I can hit it out of the park. But it never fails to amaze me. How many words she and Gavin Newsom can use to say nothing. For starters, it's remarkable. She's absolutely incorrect in her reporting of the data, quote unquote in the science In fact, we have seen an uptick. In cases in every municipality, John every state, every country that has, uh, applied these sorts of lockdowns. We've actually seen an increase in cases, not a decrease. If you look at those areas of the country that have been fully open for indoor and outdoor dining open for small businesses open for in person learning in school places like Texas, South Dakota, Florida Those areas have done remarkably well in contradistinction the places like California It is precisely the lockdown that have actually fueled a quote. Uptick in cases Now I like you. I am thrilled that they are doing a 1 80 on this and that they are actually re opening everything. But let's be very clear. It is absolutely irrefutable that this is entirely political. The reason Gavin Newsom is doing this is whether it's a combination of the recall effort or the fact that he is not going to have the support that he needs a couple years from now, Whatever it is, this is entirely political. And we're seeing it not just in the state of California this has been happening nationally. Really in the even in the hours and days leading up to the actual inauguration of Joe Biden..