My Pasadena Home Is Surrounded By CA’s Eaton Wildfires w/ OC Fire Chief Brian Fennessy & John Phillips – Ask Dr. Drew - Ep 442
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What is the current situation with the Eaton Canyon Fire?
So in the intervening time, since I was on noon and this now 3 o'clock Pacific time stream, I went out and drove with my son up into the fires here locally. So we sit near the Rose Bowl in Pasadena. Now, I think people know the fires were in Malibu and the Palisades, which is about... 30 miles from here, something like that. Take us an hour and a half to drive there. Nowhere near where we are. No smoke, no nothing from that one. But a new fire broke out in Eaton Canyon, which is exactly where the fire broke out in the 90s that was so devastating. I think they called it the Altaloma Fire then. Maybe somebody looked that up for me. And by the way, and so there is now smoke here where we live because there's the fire surrounding us.
And so my nose, my chest, everything, ashes all over the place.
It's snowing ashes.
And in fact, when you look out the window of our house, I mean, the smoke is, it looks like a very cloudy day.
Kind of orange.
An orangey color. Remember when the fires from... It was in Canada, the smoke descended out of New York City, and you had that sort of orange cast and everything. We have that here, but it's hard to breathe. It messes with your nose and everything. It's nasty. And one of the interesting things I want to point out is, I think it's about five years of no gas-powered vehicles are the equivalent of what just went into the air here in Southern California. We've completely, whatever CO2 we are worried about putting into the atmosphere in California, we have completely undone anything we could possibly do by allowing these fires to occur. So one of the questions I want to ask the fire chief is, is this all preventable? And if it was preventable, why it wasn't prevented? So anyway, we drove up into the fire zone, the nearest one to us. Two areas are broken out here near us within the Eaton Fire. Eaton Canyon Fire is probably about 10 miles from us, something like that.
And it jumped over into Altadena, which is the next city over to Pasadena. It's north up towards the foothills, where when things get into the foothills, it gets bad. That's when things really move along. But it usually blows up into the foothills and away from the residential area. We drove up into it. You get up right into it. Caleb, I think you have some pictures that I took up there in the fire. There were some homes destroyed. There were some businesses threatened. And it was very difficult to breathe up there. It was really kind of nasty. So when I came back down here, it was still bothering me. So the point being is that this is still a long way from us. Conservatively, if the wind were blowing hard, there's zero wind now, and everything's been cleaned up here locally in terms of trees down and that sort of thing. There is zero wind. If the wind were blowing hard like it was yesterday or the day before, I would have some concerns about this. But with no wind...
the fire would have to move through conservatively about a thousand buildings and jump across a riverbed, through the Rose Bowl, across the Rose Bowl parking lot, and go back up the hill where we are to get to us. So it is a long way from us. It's almost unthinkable that it could get here. However, I'm hearing that the... Reservoir management and water management in this part of the world is so shitty that there apparently is no water in Altadena to fight the fires. And thus far, I've seen no air support. We were up there and we saw no planes, no helicopters, none of the usual things that we see fighting fires. So I don't know if they're just going to let this one burn out or what their plan is.
That's where we were. No, no, that's not us. That's up in the Eaton Canyon area. This is Emily. Ellie Barsch said that?
She's in Hollywood.
Yeah, this is a photo that she has from up there.
The clouds.
So she's looking at our smoke all the way over to Hollywood. Yeah, the smoke has been intense. Uncannily so.
It was dark until like 10 a.m.
Yeah, we noticed, my son and I noticed when we drove back.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the current situation with the Eaton Canyon Fire?
0:00–9:22
2
How is the air quality affected by the wildfires?
9:22–14:53
3
What factors contribute to the severity of wildfires in California?
14:53–23:29
4
Is the Eaton Canyon Fire preventable?
23:29–50:29
5
What are the challenges with water management during fires?
50:29–1:10:25
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