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Doug Eastick

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Jan 7, 2025, 11:29:00 PM1/7/25
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i am watching LA tv feeds on youtube.   hope everyone stays safe.

here's one channel.
LIVE WIND COVERAGE: Brush fires erupt as powerful windstorm slams SoCal

bluesky hashtag here as well for palisadesFire
Hashtag — Bluesky


Doug Eastick

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Jan 7, 2025, 11:34:02 PM1/7/25
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EatonFire too near pasadena

Hashtag — Bluesky


Kevin M.

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Jan 7, 2025, 11:36:46 PM1/7/25
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The winds are bad where I am, but I’m miles from the big fire. Power is in flux in my neighborhood. Hoping the Getty Villa survived. At the very least, the air quality is going to suck. 

Kevin M. (RPCV)


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Kevin M.

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Jan 8, 2025, 10:52:38 PM1/8/25
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Just to update: Hollywood Blvd (the part you’ve seen on TV, including everything from the Chinese theater to the Pantages) is under mandatory evacuation due to a new fire that sprung up. The most famous landmarks most at risk from this specific fire are the Hollywood Bowl and Magic Castle.

Lots of celebrities evacuated. The only one I’ve seen who has confirmed his house is gone is Cary Elwes, aka Wesley from The Princess Bride (which I just started showing in class to my students). 

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Melissa P

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Jan 8, 2025, 10:57:03 PM1/8/25
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I read that Billy Crystal lost his home.

I have relatives in Altadena.  I've texted them, but haven't gotten a response.


Kevin M.

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Jan 8, 2025, 11:01:59 PM1/8/25
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I confess, I scaled back on Facebook as a New Year’s resolution, and with Meta’s recent anti-gay policy changes, I’m not even on Threads anymore either. So other celebs might be posting but I’m not seeing it. 

I haven’t seen too many specifics about the Eaton Fire in Alta Dena, other than it’s still 0% contained. Praying for your relatives. 

Kevin M. (RPCV)


Melissa P

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Jan 8, 2025, 11:18:17 PM1/8/25
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Thank you.

I JUST heard from them a few minutes ago.  They -- and their house -- are still standing.


Kevin M.

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Jan 9, 2025, 12:29:59 AM1/9/25
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Glad they are alright. 

Here’s more info on the Hollywood Fire:



Kevin M.

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Jan 9, 2025, 1:20:38 AM1/9/25
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Highlight of the TV coverage so far. KTLA interviewed a local who was volunteering during the fire. He was, to anyone at all aware of pop culture in the last 40 years, obviously Steve Guttenberg. The reporter doing the interviewing… utterly clueless as to who he was talking with.


I’ve really been trying to watch the news the last 48 hours, as this is an event occurring right in my kitchen, so to speak. 

I will say that a few at KTLA and KCAL/CBS2 are trying, but there are no experts on staff to report intelligently on the weather or the climate or disaster relief or specific communities (unless they live there, which none of them can afford to do anymore). They are well meaning amateurs, working for scale. I appreciate the effort, but I miss well trained and well funded TV journalism. 

I caught about 8 seconds of CNN, and I actually felt violent at the sight of Anderson Cooper and I had to switch it off. He has no business being in my state, and he has even less business being on a news channel, and the fact that he was both made me irrationally angry. 

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PGage

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Jan 9, 2025, 4:54:11 AM1/9/25
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I have a good friend who was evacuated from Alta Dena yesterday. We had some tense hours when she was out of contact, but then I was able to contact her, she is fine, but house likely destroyed. I went to grad school in the area and lived in northern Pasadena for 6 years, and no several of the churches and schools there that seem to have been destroyed.

I grew up near Sylmar (Hurst Fire) and have siblings and other family members who still live in that area. They are not evacuated, but are very scared and emotionally exhausted. My family chat has been constantly active since like 3:00 yesterday morning, with a lot of SoCal talk about what routes to take if necessary to evacuate safely, but mostly with family members just trying to get their heads around what is happening, and the surreal feeling that the City of Los Angeles is on fire, which is so beyond the usual wildfire risk areas.

Spent so much of my youth on beaches of Malibu and up and down the PCH; local landmarks, Gelsons; we had a family reunion at a restaurant there last year, which now appears to be in ashes. 

I currently live in a rural mountain community in Northern California which is under constant fire threat and have lived through multiple evacuations; as bad as that has been, we who live here look around and accept that, yeah, when you decide to live in a forest you are going to have to deal with the threat of fire. But to see this happening in the second largest urban area in the US is unreal. Hoping all here in SoCal or who have friends/family there are safe.

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Doug Eastick

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Jan 9, 2025, 12:25:41 PM1/9/25
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it is crazy to watch this.

Now that the TV choppers are back in the air, the level of devastation in Palisades is just crazy.       I was really surprised at the technology of video on the choppers:  the level of zoom, as well as the digital-overlay of the streets.    So much more tech than the yellow football line.

I cannot really appreciate the wind velocities reported.    I just don't get that kind of wind where I am.   Add in fire and holy crap.


Kevin M.

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Jan 9, 2025, 1:13:12 PM1/9/25
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The stations don’t own the helicopters anymore… they subcontract, so to get the contract the pilots put on the latest camera and surveillance technology (for car chases). During pursuits you can see the speed of the cars, as well at the street names. Even a map overlay to orient you. 

None of it actually helps in informing us about the fires, of course, but fire on TV = huge ratings, so that’s what they will keep showing as long as in ember is still glowing. 

Kevin M. (RPCV)


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Doug Eastick

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Jan 10, 2025, 6:58:32 AM1/10/25
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I think it was Thursday afternoon I listened to MSNBC for a bit and Katy Tur was reporting from where she grew up (palisades? Altadena?). Which reminded me that I have not watched the Whirlybird movie about her parents careers as media chopper pilots during LA roits circa 1991(?).


(Aside: there's so many damn movies and shows that I "add to my list to watch" and then never really watch them) 


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