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Speaker 1: Yes, it was just the sky that I think the

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Speaker 1: whole country's captivated with what's happened in northern California Wine country,

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Speaker 1: in particular in Sonoma. One of the areas affectively the

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Speaker 1: glenn Ellen area of Sonoma. My favorite place there is

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Speaker 1: Aventine Restaurant there run by Adolpho and and Tony. Very nice. Uh.

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Speaker 1: Tony joins us right now. And Tony, first of all,

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Speaker 1: what happened at Aventine? Tell me the story. I've heard

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Speaker 1: a little bit from your brother in law Joe, but

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Speaker 1: tell me tell me the story. Yeah. So, currently, um

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Speaker 1: Aventine is still standing when literally all around it we

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Speaker 1: have a state regional park that separates by a creek. Right,

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Speaker 1: It's like away is all completely burned. Um. The main

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Speaker 1: town of glen Ellen, all of the businesses have been

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Speaker 1: still are still standing. We have been going out in market,

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Speaker 1: the lodge, UM, the hotel, you know, all the way

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Speaker 1: down with Glenna and starts, the whole. All those little

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Speaker 1: businesses are still there. But ten just can get away.

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Speaker 1: All the houses down warm Springs are are gone. It's

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Speaker 1: absolutely devastating. We cannot get into the area currently. They've

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Speaker 1: been letting people in and out periodically. Adulso actually went

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Speaker 1: up this morning to get UM all the food he

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Speaker 1: could out of the restaurant and take it to another

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Speaker 1: local restaurant that's in Sonoma sets helping evacuations, UM and

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Speaker 1: in evacuates and Sonoma UM and a lot of the

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Speaker 1: local businesses there are Rand mckins and Sonoma is helping

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Speaker 1: UM and taken in so many people. And even though

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Speaker 1: we're still seeming, and we were also expected at such

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Speaker 1: a small community and we are all so closed. UM,

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Speaker 1: it's just it's devastating. It's if we I don't think

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Speaker 1: any of us understand what it's going to be like

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Speaker 1: for the next few years. I do know that a

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Speaker 1: lot of our community is standing there helping each other,

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Speaker 1: and we're all saying, Okay, let's get this done, let's

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Speaker 1: get ready to rebuild. We're going to do this. Uh.

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Speaker 1: And the wants helping out. How's how's Angela your mother

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Speaker 1: in law and and and other neighbors. Right, So Angela

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Speaker 1: has a house in Glen Ollen also, and as of

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Speaker 1: you know, yesterday it was still standing. She had two

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Speaker 1: horses in glenn Allen that she actually was just able

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Speaker 1: to get out yesterday. UM and she was a wrapped

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Speaker 1: because she couldn't get in there for the longest time

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Speaker 1: and she now had them got them out to safety.

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Speaker 1: And that's what a lot of people are dealing with

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Speaker 1: their their animals that they can't save. And um and

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Speaker 1: that's just hard on obviously people. Sure and Angela Aliott

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Speaker 1: are known to people throughout the Bay areas before remember

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Speaker 1: the border supervisors and and uh, I guess when I

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Speaker 1: think about the business aspects here that you know, the

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Speaker 1: loss of income for the times that your your clothes

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Speaker 1: has got to be really difficult to make or break

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Speaker 1: for these businesses, some of them even even if they

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Speaker 1: can get up and running sometime in the next few weeks.

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Speaker 1: And I can't even I don't think we can't even

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Speaker 1: think about that right now. I think what we needed,

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Speaker 1: what we want is power back on for us to

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Speaker 1: get back in there and to uh help feed all

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Speaker 1: these people that are still there. I was reading on Facebook,

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Speaker 1: um that people are wandering around in areas that are

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Speaker 1: not evacuated, looking for restaurants, looking for grocery stores, looking

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Speaker 1: for anything open because they have you know, nothing, um

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Speaker 1: so and they can't go anywhere. People don't have anywhere

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Speaker 1: to go. So it's just that it's devastating. We want

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Speaker 1: to get in there and help the community, but we

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Speaker 1: can't even get into the restaurant there. That's all the

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Speaker 1: mandatory evacuation in Glen Ellen right now. The California Fire

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Speaker 1: Chief Ken Pimlott had made some comments and he said,

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Speaker 1: you know, we've had fires, We've had big fires in

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Speaker 1: And he said, you know, we're not going to be

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Speaker 1: you know the impact on this area. We've got stories

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Speaker 1: before you see any real recovery. Yeah, it's really it's upsetting.

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Speaker 1: It's and people are planning weddings, Like there are weddings

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Speaker 1: planned um in the area that I'm reading online. Can

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Speaker 1: But I mean, obviously we're we're all recommending that they

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Speaker 1: have to go to somewhere else, but don't come because

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Speaker 1: up there. Anyone that has asthma UM, which includes my

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Speaker 1: mother in law. She shouldn't be up there. They shouldn't

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Speaker 1: be in the smoke. You've got to be safe first, first,

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Speaker 1: and foremost. What do we know about the wineries and

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Speaker 1: what's happened to wineries in Sonoma. I've read most of

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Speaker 1: Napa wineries seem to have have been okay, but Sonoma not

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Speaker 1: so much. Um, there's so much help information out there.

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Speaker 1: I don't want to make any speculations. UM. I know

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Speaker 1: I've gotten personal emails from friends that have wineries, and

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Speaker 1: most of them are safe. But it's not over yet.

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Speaker 1: I mean, actually think the evenest part is right now.

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Speaker 1: Our home is safe, it's standing right now. The restaurant

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Speaker 1: is safe and standing, but we won't know until this

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Speaker 1: is over. Well, we certainly wish you safe. Governor Jerry

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Speaker 1: Brown has said that the recovery could cost tens of

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Speaker 1: who said who said, we've had big fires in the past,

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Speaker 1: though this is one of the biggest in California's a

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Speaker 1: of late. Corey. Indeed, uh, grace, uh, glad to have

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Speaker 1: you on, Tony tell this horrible story. We're glad to

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Speaker 1: have you wanted. I wish you things would remain okay

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Speaker 1: for you and your family and for the restaurant UH

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Speaker 1: for Aventine Tony of Verona from Aventine in glen ellen Um.

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Speaker 1: Glad to have you with us.