to help this community. it s a very difficult time we re going through with the number of homes, and people out of their homes. we just ask that any of you, any of the public that can help your neighbors, please do that. this is a difficult time for all of us and as we, you know, a lot of those closures are going to continue as the winds are going come back up in the next couple of days. it s important to keep together and fot first responders and those who come from far away, thank you for what you re doing, it s just less than a year from the thomas fire. the same thing happening again here, you know, on the east side of the county and parts of l.a. county. difficult, difficult for this community, but we are a strong community. we come together and as representing the board of supervisors here in ventura county and the county staff, the ceo, i just want to say thank you and we will continue to do all we can to make sure our citizens work with the l.a.
taken. i do know there is the los robles hospital, an acute care hospital in the region. can you imagine, these kids go for a wednesday night, many of them probably having just gone through the election. it s been such a passionate thing with the young people around this country. and they were maybe out celebrating any number of things or just going on a wednesday night to take off the chill from their studies and have a little fun and this is what happens. we are still getting more information trickling in here throughout the course of the hour. one update we do have from our affiliate in los angeles, knbc, they have spoken to the ventura county sheriff s department who confirm that the shooter is down inside the bar, that he has been neutralized. not clear if that means he was shot and killed.
transported. brian olympic grath, brian, do we have a triage area set up for people that are not seriously wounded to go and see you all at some point? yes, right now we do have equipment staged behind me. we have equipment from l.a. city and arrived on scene to support the evolution. we activated rtf which is active shooter trained firefighters to go inside and work with law enforcement. and we do have ambulances staged closer to scene and working ob parrishs directly at the scene. black you tell me about the official response of firefighters here? initial response we upgraded right away with the mess acwe had coming in on the scene immediately upgraded more equipment to get here and asked for surrounding agencies for support. they reached out immediately and
border with los angeles. it s eastern ventura county, so there are hospitals both in the western county and eastern ventura county. but it s not clear exactly how many people have come in or have been treated or are walk-ins. and we haven t gotten a clear idea at this point exactly how many people may have been transported. as for the people who are fortunately not injured, we are looking at crowds. are they being taken to one specific place? are they free to go? well, with this kind of a chaotic scene, you tend to try to interview witnesses who are right there and have kind of stayed. but sometimes people leave the scene. that s part of the challenge for investigates, is you re trying to piece together a timeline and the chain of events, is to try to get as many people who were in proximity to the shooting to be able to talk to them about
we ve been hearing a brief comment from some of the local officials responding to the scene who are describing it still as an active shooter situation, but nonetheless a very tragic situation unfolding there in thousand oaks, california. this is at the borderline bar and grill. this is a place that was hosting what they re calling a college country night. in the thousand oaks area of southern california, which sits about 40 mile s north of downton los angeles along the 101 freeway, there are four colleges in that community, all of whom may have sent students to that borderline bar and grill college country night. those four colleges are california lutheran, pepperdine. this is nothing that was a sponsored event by any of the