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Evacuation Urgency Amid Impending Lava Danger
Mike Roark
All right we know that stuff is lava. What do we do next?
Amy Barnes
You have got to evacuate the West Side. This thing is going to burn through the city until it reaches the ocean.
Roark
The West Side, it's a million people!
Barnes
There will be a million dead or homeless people if we don't evacuate! This is going to destroy everything it touches!
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Determined Challenges in Crisis Response
Amy Barnes
All right, the bus is just deflecting this, OK? It's coming back around, it's obviously got in the store, and we are dealing with very determined stuff here!
[pointing out the blazing department store and melting bus to Roark]
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Magma and Lava in Los Angeles Discussion
Amy
Sometimes magma can find one of those fissures and rise up through it.
Mike
What's magma?
Rachel
Lava.
Mike
Lava? Right here in L.A?
Amy
It is one of several possibilities. It is unlikely, but it is a possibility.
Mike
We have a history of that here in the downtown area?
Rachel
]...1943 a Mexican farmer sees smoke coming out of the middle of his cornfield. A week later there's a volcano a thousand feet high. There's no history of anything until it happens. Then there is.
[[w:Parícutin|Parícutin]
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Consequences of Ignoring Seismic Risks
Amy
God, this is so stupid. The city's finally paying for its arrogance.
Mike
Which particular arrogance is that?
Amy
Building a subway under land that's seismically active.
Mike
Yeah, it was a foolish man that built his house upon the sand.
Amy
Matthew 7:26. Favorite among geologists.
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Unknown Volcanoes Among Known Ones
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There are at least 1,500 active volcanoes in the world that we know about...and at least one that we don't.
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Heatwave in Los Angeles
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Welcome to Los Angeles. It's hotter than hell.
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Emergency Airport Update Amid Volcano Crisis
Woman
Emmit, FAA’s on the line. They want an update.
Emmit
Where are we with the airports?
Marty
We shut down all outgoing. Everything incoming is being re-routed to Ontario.
Emmit
No, no, no, no. Marty, no... Look at that screen! That cloud is blowing due east. We gotta send everything to San Diego.
Man
Emmit, they got two gas lines burning on Fairfax. They can't get any hydrant pressure.
Emmit
Swimming pools.
Man
What about them?
Emmit
Pump out all the swimming pools. That's a thousand gallons a pop. That's all the water we need.
Man
Emmit, we just got a call from La Brea. There's total gridlock from Pico to Sunset.
Emmit
Didn't we send over all those damn traffic cops?
Man
That's who's calling; they're stuck at Olympic. Cars keep stalling out because of all the ash. It's clogging up the air filters.
Emmit
], right?
[[w:Chevrolet Chevette|Chevettes]
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Emergency Preparedness in a Crisis Situation
Mike
I can't leave you here after an earthquake.
Kelly Roark
Why not? I'm 13 years old. I know what to do.
Mike
OK. What do you do?
Kelly
Get in the door frame, stick your head between your knees, and kiss your ass goodbye.
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The Coast Is Toast
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The Coast Is Toast.
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Office Dynamics Amidst Crisis Management
Mike
If a dam breaks somewhere, the Mayor calls, I don't want you telling her Roark went fishing.
Emmit
Look, see, the mayor's in Aspen, okay? We don't pull her off of the slopes for only a 4.9. Besides, I'd cover for you.
Mike
I'm sure you would. You look very comfortable sitting behind my desk talking on my telephone.
Emmit
Yeah, it's kinda like I belong there or something.
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Uncertainty Amidst a Volcanic Crisis
Amy
How fast can you get to the corner of Wilshire and Western, we got a problem.
[calling Roark on his phone]
Mike
No, no. Not anymore. We have got it stopped.
Amy
The volume of ash coming down is way too high to think that we're out of danger.
Mike
So, well how come it stopped?
Amy
Well, maybe it didn't, maybe it just went someplace else.
Mike
So, how do you know it didn't stop?
Amy
You know, I don't. But when Mount Saint Helens blew, the force was 27,000 times greater then that of the Hiroshima bomb. Do you think that vent released anywhere near that much energy yet?
Mike
No.
Amy
Well, lets just assume that we haven't seen the real bulk of the magma yet, okay? Trust me, get down here. Shit.
[hangs up the phone]
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Emergency Response Planning During a Crisis
Mike Roark
Knock this shit off! What is with you people? Chief, how long will it take this stuff to get to Fairfax?
LAFD Chief
At this speed, it'll about ten minutes, give or take.
Roark
Enough time to build a barricade? All right, look Wilshire Boulevard, Fairfax. Eighty K-rails, double stacked in a horseshoe. OK? A cul-de-sac. That's gotta be a wall at least six feet high.
[everybody is blank; flips map and starts drawing]
Dr Amy Barnes
D'you have any helicopters, water tankers?
Roark
Not yet, but they're on the way.
Barnes
All right great. Once you get this lava to pool ok, dump everything you've got on it, all at once, try to form a crust. Maybe it'll dam itself, it's ].
[[w:Eldfell|what they did in Iceland]
Roark
Thank you.
[surprised at Amy's solution]
Barnes
You're welcome.
DWP Official
This is like putting a Band-Aid on a broken leg.
LAPD Lt Ed Fox
I don't know how many men we should keep putting in front of this thing.
Roark
We're going to put as many people in front of it as it takes. Listen up, people! Let me tell you what's south of us: no more museums, no more department stores, just homes! People! If we turn and run now, they're gonna be defenseless! You don't like my plan? That's good. Give me another plan, but don't tell me we're backing out! Is everybody clear on that?
People
Yeah!
Roark
All right, let's go. Build a wall!
[everybody scrambles to work]
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Chaos Surrounds Us All
Emmit Reese
] couldn't reroute this shit, it's everywhere!
[[Moses]
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