we learned that from the fire chief maroney of l.a. county. that is something that people still need to heed. let's go back live to the fire chief of the city now kristin crowley. >> to challenge firefighting efforts for the palisades area. wind gusts are up to 60 miles-an-hour and expected to resume throughout the entire day. firefighters and air resources will continue to work to protect the community and infrastructures and gain control so that we can contain this fire. damage assessments are ongoing at the palisades fire. however, preliminary reports estimate the damage or destroyed structures to be in the thousands. it is safe to say that the palisades fire is one of the most destructive natural disasters in the history of los angeles. we will continue to provide additional information as it becomes available. i'll move on to the hurst fire. january 7th start. the size, 855 acres, unified in command, lafd, united states fire service, angeles national forest and lapd. 0% containment. firefighters held the fire within a planned containment

we'll hear from la county fire chief anthony maroney. after that, we'll hear from la pd chief jim mcdonnell. then sheriff robert luna. and following that, we'll hear from la dwp general manager jim, the skin giannis as well as superintendent about albert. oprah follow. the mayor will come back to the podium and open it up for questions. i'll call on questions from the left. and with that, we're best. thank you. >> good evening, everyone. i stand here today with incredible sympathy and concern about the devastation and the tragedy that our city and county are facing. and i definitely want to send my condolences to the families who lost loved ones to the families and neighborhoods who lost property. this firestone firestorm is the big one in magnitude. >> hurricane force winds are usually accompanied by rain storms. but these are hurricane force winds that are combined with extremely dry drought conditions to provide context at 10:20pm, am yesterday. the palace, 8 fire was at 10 acres. 12 minutes later, it was a 200 acres to those who fled

county fire chief anthony maroney. >> thank you, supervisor. good morning. the eaton fire current estimated acreage 13,956 acres with 3% containment. we still have 4,000 to 5,000 struck tons destroyed. we'll get a more accurate number for you. we have 1,527 firefighting personnel remaining assigned to this incident. l.a. county fire department is in unified command with the u.s. forest service, sheriffs along with several other fire departments and the pasadena police department. yesterday afternoon the fire in the eaton canyon made a push towards historic mount wilson. this observatory is okay thanks to the efforts of the firefighters and observatory staff and no buildings have been destroyed at mount wilson. a firefighter did suffer a significant fall injury yesterday at the eaton fire. he remains hospitalized, resting comfortably in stable condition and expected to make a full recovery. the cause of the fire remains unknown and we will advise the media once we get the cause determined. we are appreciative to our many mutual aid partners from out of state

damage assessments, chief maroney did speak about a specific number.s we validate it. approximately 400 firefighters have been deployed to the palisades fire. we have many hundreds of law enforcement officers. our partner agency responders, public work members are engaged in supporting our overall operations. we are going to be transitioning to cal fire this morning to manage this incident. next, i would like to talk briefly about the hurst fire located in sylmar. last night, at approximately 10:10 p.m. the fire erupted in the sylmar area of los angeles adjacent to los angeles national forest. the fire has rapidly expanded to over 500 acres, prompting emergency evacuations of more than 3000 residents. this fire is burning within the footprint of the historic saddle ridge fire. despite the extreme winds and significant risks, and that is what we will talk about from today and probably throughout the next few days, there is always the significant risk that life and robert he will continue to focus on saving that. the exact acreage at this time will be co

anthony maroney. so good evening. thank you for the comprehensive update. chief crowley. >> my name is anthony the county of los angeles fire chief. and i'm going to give an la county update in addition to region. one update. for the eaton fire in los angeles county helped edina pasadena and sierra madre, the la county fire department continues to be unified command with the u.s. forest service and the pasadena and sierra madre fire departments. in addition to our law enforcement partners. the fire has been mapped this afternoon at 10,600 acres and it is still growing. we have 0% containment. we have over 750 firefighting personnel assigned on the line and mutual aid resources from out of state, including arizona, have arrived to assist us with this firefight. unfortunately. we have 5 reported civilian fatalities. a number of injuries and over 1000 structures damaged or destroyed. the cause of the fire is unknown and under active investigation by both the los angeles county fire department, los angeles county sheriff's department. and the u.s. forest servic

county fire department, and we are super proud and impressed of the heroic efforts of chief maroney, assistant chief smith, our liaison, megyn courier, and all the brave men and women who have been putting their lives on the line to protect us. multiple agencies are involves -- involved, cal fire, l.a. city fire, and just yesterday during the kenneth fire, the day before -- i've lost so much track of time. during the ken e nyet fire just on our northern border, kenneth, ventura county was involved as well. so many agencies are putting their resources together, and we feel, we feel so protected here and so fortunate to have come this far. griff: mr. mayor, you mentioned that you've lost track of the days. we were talking with a couple in the last hour who came to this palisades church and preschool to collect tiles of their children, and he -- the father told me, he said it's been five days, it feels like it's the been five months, what they've gone through. what has this personally been like for you as you reflect on on the past five days? >> yeah. the past five days have been insane

that's looking fire chief tony maroney. thank you. sheriff luanne supervisor barger chair of the board. so i get a little bit by my comments to update for the eaton fire here in los angeles county that's affecting the unincorporated community of altadena. in addition to the cities of pasadena arcadia and sierra madre, we remain in unified command. however, we have added one unified command partner cal fire incident management team 3 has been assigned to the incident to assist with recovery operations. recovery operations consist of trying to coordinate all of our human remain detection teams that will be going house to house to make sure that we can account for anybody who's been killed. in the fire. also setting up community recovery centers. they're also going to be doing damage inspection, coordination for us. so the eden fire is now estimated to be 13,000, 690 acres. it's grown since our morning press conference because the fire making a run towards the historic mount wilson area. we are still at 0% containment, but we now have a

i want our community to know this and chief maroney did talk about this for a second. in every conversation we're having about evacuations, warnings, whether they are going to implement them or take them away, the conversation about repopulation is on all of our minds. i know that we are attending -- staff is attending community meetings, whether they be out in the palisades fire area in malibu for us at la county sheriffs in the altadena area, we're hearing our community loud and clear and we want to get you in there as soon as possible. but i want to reiterate what is holding us up. this is very important. we are still, for the altadena area, we're in the third day of grid searching. it is a very grim task and we unfortunately every day we're doing this, we're running across the remains of individual community members. that's not easy work. very sad to report. and i believe that work is not only going to continue but i believe wealth owe continue to find remains. so please be patient with us. people are saying i just want to go look at my house and see what's left. w

i am going to now introduce the fire chief for los angeles county, best looking fire chief, tony maroney. >> thank you sheriff luna. i will limit my comments to an update for the easton fire, here in los angeles county, that's affecting the unincorporated community of altadena, in addition to the cities of pasadena, arcadia and sierra madre, we remain in unified command but we have added one unified command partner, cal fire incident management team three, has been assigned to the incident, to assist with recovery operations. recovery operations consists of trying to coordinate all of our human remain detection teams that will be going house to house to make sure that we can account for anybody who's been killed in the fire, also, setting up community recovery centers, they will also be doing damage inspection coordination for us. so the eaton fire is now estimated to be 13,698 acres, it's grown since our morning press conference because the fire is making a run towards the historic mount wilson area. we are still at 0% containment, but we now have a better estimation of the number of fi

so gratitude to those who are doing the work since yesterday through the night and like chief maroney said, we're going to continue to work hard. insurer that we save. people lives and property. >> the pacific palisades fire is now the most destructive in los angeles. history of firefighters are working hard has more than 70,000 people are under evacuation orders. now we know 2 people have died and more than 1000 buildings have destroyed we're going to continue to stay on top of this here on air and online on kron 4. so stay with us. we can has more coverage throughout the next 2 hours here. we'll go now to the east bay because today former congresswoman barbara lee officially announced her bid for mayor in oakland, the special election as an april and as kron 4 street journal reports lee's broad range of supporters say she is the right person for the job. doesn't run from challenges. >> we rise meet them together. wednesday morning. former east bay congresswoman barbara lee's campaign releasing a pre-produced video on social media in which lee reaffirms her commitment to oakland and

county fire chief anthony maroney. chief, can you talk about the size and scope of the hughes fire? yes. we can. so currently, the fire is. >> estimated to. >> be 5054 acres. we have 0% containment. >> we're obviously. >> battling these. >> red flag. >> winds 35 miles an hour with gusts even higher. we're concentrating on evacuation orders and evacuation warnings. we don't want any more people in southern california to lose their life due to fire. so we're trying to get people out of harm's way. but this fire is growing. it doesn't look like we're going to be able to contain it anytime soon. and we're just doing our very best for perimeter control and evacuation. >> for residents in the affected areas. what is your guidance right now. >> would be to to have your mobile devices on. do not silence the evacuation warnings. they can go to the local media. they can also go to the l.a. county website to see where the evacuation orders are. but they should be receiving alerts. we also have sheriff's deputies that are driving through neighborhoods that are under evacuation order, using thei

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commissioner maroney i missioner mr. baldauf i commissioner vergara yes, commissioner right. >> yes. mr. nega sworn yes. and commission president matsuda yes. some of commissioners that motion passes unanimously 6 to 0 placing us on item three commission comments and questions are there any commission comments or questions? >> commissioner nargiwo mr. shukri what can you tell us about the mccloskey building and the state law that it's currently under in terms of the housing? >> i actually don't have a lot of information. maybe director hillis might have some more. i'd have to research our current work on the site. >> yeah, i'm not i'm not 100% sure but i think what happened is the state corrected and in in you can correct me if i'm wrong prior to this you could use a b 2011 to demo a historic resource a listed historic resource. but they closed that loophole in the law. they also clarified what is a freeway and whatever they actually took out that 500ft from a freeway in put in kind of building conditions you had to comp

with that, i'm going to introduce tar la county fire chief, anthony maroney, to update you and i wantk chief maroney and as well as all the firefighters and the community to making sure we have all the resources and firefighters necessary. chief? good morning, thank you, supervisor parker. my name is anthony maroney and i am the los angeles county fire chief and also the region one coordinator... inaudible in addition ., ., ., in addition to the eaton canyon _ in addition to the eaton canyon fire- _ in addition to the eaton canyon fire. although - in addition to the eaton canyon fire. although i - in addition to the eaton canyon fire. although i amj canyon fire. although i am aware we have four large fires burning in la county at this time. the palisades fire is located in both la city and eating canyon. we are in unified command with the city of los angeles fire department, in addition to kells fire. we have well over... thousands of acres that have burned and the fire is going. we have zero percentage of containment. we have an estimated 1000 structures destroyed and also no reporte

iwill fire chief anthony maroney. good morning. i will be providing a fire update.fire update. the fight is _ providing a fire update. the fight is now estimated to be 14.117 — fight is now estimated to be 14,117 acres, with 15% containment. with over 7000 structures damaged or destroyed. we have 2832 personnel assigned to the _ we have 2832 personnel assigned to the incident and it is static_ to the incident and it is static at _ to the incident and it is static at this time. elevated to critical fire weather conditions are predicted to continue through wednesday. moderate to locally strong santa _ moderate to locally strong santa ana winds will affect los angeles — santa ana winds will affect los angeles county and today, tomorrow and then again on monday— tomorrow and then again on monday through wednesday. la county — monday through wednesday. la county fire will be prepared. these — county fire will be prepared. these wins, combined with the dry air— these wins, combined with the dry air and _ these wins, combined with the dry airand dry these wins, combined wi

i specifically want to thank chief maroney, captain— want to thank chief maroney, captain drew smithnership in making topanga a top priority and firefighting efforts. in response to the ongoing _ efforts. in response to the ongoing fire, we have declared a local— ongoing fire, we have declared a local health emergency as the chair— a local health emergency as the chair shared and this is effective countywide. this also includes — effective countywide. this also includes prohibiting the use of power— includes prohibiting the use of power air— includes prohibiting the use of power air blowers which can spread _ power air blowers which can spread harmful ash and smoke particles — spread harmful ash and smoke particles. the motions that supervisor barber indicated also — supervisor barber indicated also include a funding programme for those impacted. we know— programme for those impacted. we know that while we are fighting on the immediate term, we also — fighting on the immediate term, we also no longer have to start getting — we also no longer have to start getting those systems in pla

chief maroney did talk about this for a second.in the altadena area, we are hearing of the community loud and clear and we want to get you in there as soon as we can but i want to reiterate what is holding us up. this is very important. we are in the third day of great searching and it's a very grim task and we unfortunately everyday running across the remains of individual community members. that is not easy work, very sad to report and