February 6, 2025 • 32 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 3 (02/06) - Cheryl Pointdexter comes on the show to talk about SoCal Edison's culpability in the Hurst Fire in 2020 and how she has experienced a lot of hurdles from the state as she tries to rebuild her home 5 years later. LA is spending the more money on homeless people than it is on emergency services. Firefighters were held back from joining the front lines of the Palisades and Eaton Fires because of unserviced fire engines. Newsom was in Washington DC to talk with Trump about wildfire relief.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Can't. I am six forty. You're listening to the John
Cobelt Podcast on the iHeartRadio app. We're on from one
to four every day. We've had quite a show. I
would if you missed it, go to the podcast post
after four o'clock John Cobelt Show on demand on the
iHeart app. Just like the radio show. I'll tell you
more of what we did later on in the hour
and then you could enjoy it later this evening, we've
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continued covering the fires and we're trying to cut through
these loads of horsemen were being shoveled at us by
civic leaders. We've been talking the last couple of days
about Steve Soberoff, who held a private meeting with the
rich guys, the Hollywood agents and telling them, hey, just
hold on, hold on for a year, and whatever you're
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being offered for your property now you'll get triplet next
year because of all the money coming in. But he
didn't want to talk about any of the causes of
the horrific response here in La City from fire management.
He didn't want to talk about the empty reservoir. He
called that politics or negativity or it's the bus to know.
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He only wants raw ros stuff. Well, we're going to
focus on reality here because that's what we do. I
can't imagine living in these fantasy worlds that politicians and
public leaders love to hide in their alternate universes they create.
We're going to talk again now with Cheryl Poindexter. Cheryl
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comunt our show way back in twenty twenty, which is
one of the worst years in human history, and twenty
twenty terrible fire Bobcat fire in the Juniper Hills area,
and she lost everything home, cabin, horse stalls, barn, motor home, trailer.
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Five years later, she's rebuilt the house, but she can't
get inside, and she wants to tell her story as
a warning to all of you in Altadena and the
Palisades who maybe you get caught up in the gas
from bass and sober off and you think this is
going to be easy. Oh and newsome too. Let's get
Cheryl on. Cheryl, how are you man?
Speaker 2 (02:12):
I'm alive.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Yeah, Well that's one good thing.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
Yeah. I want to thank you for what you're doing here,
and I mean for us. I listen to you every
day and thank you from the bottom of my heart.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
And I know you're playing nuts with the stuff that
you've been.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
I've been hearing about how they're going to cut the
red tape and everything, and.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
It's like been making me nuts. And I've been.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Dying to share my experience with these poor people because
they don't know what's coming.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
It's just really, oh.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
My God, give us a quick summary of what happened
to you. It was September eighteenth, twenty twenty. You're out
in Juniper Hills and you run an animal rescue, a
nonprofit animal rescue center. Yeah, and so what happened.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
I lived there twenty years and it was you know,
the AZUSA. They took real good care of Azuza. And
the fire was moving up the hill and it went
to the two and all. There were no firemen up here,
none zero and they had one one uh drop you know,
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the foz Tech plane. One after half of the Juniper
hosts had already burned. They sent one plane and dropped
foz Tech in just a couple of houses and left.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
And they just left us to burn.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
And they said that it was a dispatch problem, that
there was problems with dispatch.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
So you know, I love that.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
I love their their non answers instead of explaining in detail,
tell a story of what got screwed up. They just
had like a vague, bureaucratic phrase, it's a dispatch problem.
Well I just lost everything I own.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
Yeah, well they in the station fire. A few years
before that, there was a fire coming over from acting
and there were there must have been a million firemen
up here.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
I mean they were amazing.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
With bulldozers and everything. And thank god, the wind changed
and and we were okay. But there were a lot
of firemen, but not anymore. It's it's they're they're nowhere.
And I had a friend up on a Devil's punch
bowl who stayed behind to save his house. And there
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were a bunch of workers, you know, with the fire
Forestry department to help them clear the stuff.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
And they left.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
They said, we're getting out of here, and they left.
They freaking left, and he saved us. He stayed behind
and saved his house.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
It was amazing. So you know, you got to after.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
After the after the fire, then you had a round
of looters.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Oh yeah, first the looters come and uh, you know,
first the fire, then the looters, and then it was
uh and then the the code up grades.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Let's talk about that because you wrote you wrote in
your letter that eighty five homes burned, only four have
been rebuilt. Really, right, Well, what what's been the hang up?
I mean, it's been five years, it's a decent amount
of time.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
A lot of people I had excellent insurance with all states.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Not anymore, and they left California.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
So I had really really good insurance, and I had
cod up grades covered in my policy and a lot
of people up here didn't. And I spent you know,
with the permits and the code upgrades well over you know,
close to one hundred thousand dollars just on code up grades.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
I mean it's just yeah, I think, I bet you
most people don't even think about that, that that there'll
be a whole set of code up grades that will
be hundreds of thousands of dollars, and there could just
be dozens and dozens of them because so much has
changed over the decades.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Exactly exactly, and it's ridiculous. I had to get a
whole new well tank. I had to get, you know, pumped,
ten thousand dollars for.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
A pump to pump the.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
Sprinklers, and the ceiling and the attic I had to install.
I mean, it was it just went on and on,
and don't get me started on the soil testing that
I had to pay for. You know, they had to
test the soil and that and that took forever.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
And it just let me let me talk, let me
let me read you something in your letter, it says
the time it took to get people in various agencies
to get off their asses to get something done was
crushingly slow. I was continually told that they were shorthanded
and understaffed, and I just have to be patient. Ye
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talk about that because you haven't been able to move
into your house and your house got rebuilt, but you
can't get in. Why can't you get in?
Speaker 3 (07:20):
They just finished it last week. It's totally finished. And
my contractor, who is really wonderful, Nash Lester Nash. He's
just been great because a lot of contractors wouldn't wouldn't
help me because of the previous contractor I had screwed
me out of just I mean, you've got And that's
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another thing I got to say to the people that
are trying to rebuild, is like the contractors there's like
they're vultures.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
They'll come at you.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
And I mean, he screwed me out of several hundred
thousand dollars and he's in jail now.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
But uh gees, yeah, you've had everything happen. Yeah, what
about these these government agencies or that they don't they
don't have enough uh staffing. No, they don't have enough workers.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
That's the reason why it took me four months to
get temporary power so I could start to rebuild. They said, well,
we're shorthanded. And I'm hearing you know all these people.
There are thousands of people that have lost their house
and if they're short they were shorthanded in the Bobcat fire.
What the hell are they going to do now with
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all of these people that you know, thousands of people
that are going to have to you know, depend on
on having them help them.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
It's not going to happen.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
So with with Newsom and Bass and sober Off saying
that they're gonna uh uh relax all the red tape requirements,
you don't think that's real.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
No bloony blooney, no absolute blooney. That's mean because the
way La County has everything set up, it's.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Just geared to drag. I mean, it's just it's like the.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
Most aggravating thing I've ever been through in my whole life,
and all I want to do is just be back
in my house.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
And I'm saying and they say, oh.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Well, we're real busy with the fires, and I said, well,
you know, and it's priority. You know that these people have,
you know, since November, and they filed before, and I said, no,
I filed four years ago.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
You think that I would have pride?
Speaker 1 (09:34):
So when when all right, let me ask you the
sha before I got to go. So when you see
Bass and Newsom and sober Off and all the rest
of them doing their cheerleading speeches on how easy they're
going to make it to rebuild what you're sitting on
the couch watching them, what are you thinking? What are
you feeling?
Speaker 2 (09:55):
It's a lot they're lying there.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
I don't it's just mainstream many a media boloney. And
when sober Off, you know, I listened to your podcast,
your cast yesterday about you know, he finally said, well,
you know, it's gonna take about five years, and I went, finally, yeah,
that's about right. Yeah, because I'm five years and I'm
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still not in my house, and I don't, you know,
and forget my Barnes.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
And you know, I have no bar and you and
you had good insurance to help me rebuild. All right,
I got it, wrote I got to go. Thank you
very much Scherff for coming on.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
All right, thank you for all your doing. Thank you.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
Well, We'll keep doing it. Cheryl Poindexter who lost her
home back in twenty twenty and Juniper Hills.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI am sixty.
Speaker 5 (10:52):
So.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
Last hour we were telling you that Westside Current has
a breakdown of the LA city budget and it's just
it's just absolutely appalling. You know, the city of Los
Angeles is broke. I could spin this story out of
half a dozen ways, but I just want to focus
on the money that we're spending on homelessness compared to
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the fire department. The amount of money that we are
spending on homelessness is now one point three billion dollars
every year. That is ten percent of the city's budget.
Is that not staggering? Ten percent of the budget on
homelessness and the homeless people are only one percent of
the population, one percent of the population. And even after
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all that money, two thirds of the homeless have no shelter,
not even a shelter bed, they're still laying out in
the streets. Mental patients and drug addicts they get the
same percentage ten percent that the La Fire Department and
emergency medical services get and disaster services. You total up fire, emergency, medical,
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and disaster and it accounts for almost as much as
we're spending on homeless. Almost actually get a little bit more.
And the fire department serves all four million people in
the city of La These homeless programs serve one percent
of that. The police department gets sixteen percent, fire department
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ten percent, and the homeless ten percent. And again, the
police and fire have to cover four million people. Do
you know how much they spend on brush clearance, which
had a lot to do with whipping up the Palisades
fire and the Altadena fire? A million and a half dollars,
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that's it. But we spend one point three billion on
people who start fires. And finally, the La Times has
story today on the people who start fires, and it's
a lot of homeless people. This is the story, though,
is written by three writers, James Coueley, Clara Harder, and
Richard Winton. A little bit scolding though, because they say, well,
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none of the major fires this round have been proven
to be started by homeless, although suspiciously. They still haven't
told us what began the Palisades fire after a month,
they don't know. But if you remember, there were a
number of small fires reported throughout La County in the
days after the Palisades and Altadena fires, and the Time
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says those charges were not accused of sparking sparking the
devastating wildfires. These blazes were much smaller that might have
passed unnoticed if it weren't for all the publicity that
the big fires got. They found these these vagrants burning
dried out Christmas trees and trash, setting dumpsters on fire,
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and then we had the blood towards characters, one in
Debora's neighborhood, one in my neighborhood. Guys running around with
blow torches. And they've had more arson arrests. But they
say that's because the public is noticing these fires. Well,
of course they're noticing these small fires. When you have
twenty four hours twenty four to seven coverage of the
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big fires on TV, you have to be on hyper
alert because we have thousands of mental patients and drug addicts.
Now over fifty percent of the fires that start in
LA are started by vagrants and mental patients, over fifty percent.
It's fourteen thousand a year. And let that sink in.
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We spend more money on homeless than the fire department,
and the homeless one percent of them start fourteen thousand fires,
but the people who put out the fires get less money.
Many of the everyday fires are set intentionally or accidentally,
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or by people experiencing homelessness. They got to use that
woke phrase, they're experiencing homelessness. No, they're methaddicts. They've got
severe mental illness, experiencing homelessness. Nine of the suspects arrested
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for arson after the wildfires were unhoused. No, they were
street vagrants. Five of them appeared to struggle with mental
health or substance abuse. Yeah, the LA Public Defender's Office
is representing seven of those defendants, seven of the nine.
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So not only do we spend over a billion dollars
for failed homeless programs, these people go run around and
they start fires. We got to pay to put out
the fires, and then we pay for the lawyer to
defend them against the arson charges. Just bend over and
take it, you believe this, the fires burn your homes,
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We pay for the homeless to start more fires, we
pay to put out the fires, and then we pay
to defend the homeless against the artison charges. And then
you hear the quote from Sarah Rass, executive director of
this Homeless Coalition. She understands people get frustrated and are
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looking for someone to blame in times of crisis, but
she says, don't confuse the wildfire issue with the homeless
fire issue. See it's two different sets of fires. Really,
is it real? It really is truly one more way
for people to paint with a broad brush, to paint
up with a broad brush. The community experiencing homelessness as
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some sort of other, well, yes, they are some sort
of other. They're people who live outside and they start
fires while they're on drugs. That is another. That's not
somebody I understand. Is this a problem in encampments, yes,
because people should be homed. Well, if you gave them homes,
they'd burned down their homes. You put them in a
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home doesn't cure their mental helenos so their drug addiction.
And why is the answer is like I got to
buy them a home? What kind of extortion? Is that
is like, well, if you don't buy them a home,
they're going to send another fire. Good Lord.
Speaker 4 (17:27):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
We're on from one until four and then after four
o'clock John Cobelt' show on demand on the iHeart app,
and it is it is a jammed show today. Among
the things we had on the show that you could
listen to later on the podcast, we talked with say
Ed Kashani. He's the Palisades resident who has burned out
of his house. He's the one who challenged the DWP
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commissioners and Genie Quinonyez about not filling the reservoir. We
also had on Cheryl Poindexter. She's a listener to the show.
She was burned out five years ago in Juniper Hills
and she wanted everyone to know what the five years
of trying to rebuild has been like. It's been bureaucratic.
How at Alex Ston on to talk about the absurd
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egg prices. So that's all on the podcast and now
in the last segment, I told you the West Side
Current analyzed LA's budget and found that we are spending
more money every year on homeless services, vagrants, and mental
patients than we are spending on the fire department, including
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emergency services, including ambulances, whole, the whole thing. We're spending
about ten percent on the homeless and about ten percent
on the fire department, but the homeless get a little
bit more, and this has led to a huge imbalance,
a huge waste of money because the homeless people start
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the fires, and we don't have enough of a fire
department to handle the fourteen thousand fires that the homeless
start every year. We don't have the money for that,
we don't have the personnel for that. One of the
reasons everyone was caught flat footed when a real fire
started in the wildlands your Pacific Palisades. Well, Annie Rose
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Ramos for KTLA followed up on this because there are
consequences to not spending money on the fire department. If
you remember, we found out that there were one hundred
fire trucks in the garage awaiting repairs, but there are
no mechanics to fix them. So we're going to listen
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to this report KTLA. Annie Rose Ramos, we.
Speaker 5 (19:49):
Are standing in front of just one of LAFD maintenance yards.
This one happens to be the biggest. We were granted
rare and exclusive access inside and what we saw were
dozens upon dozens of emergency vehicles, engines, ladders, ambulances, all
of them sitting here instead of out on the front
lines during the Eaton and Palistates fire. Why are they
sitting here?
Speaker 6 (20:09):
Well, I don't know exactly why each one is here,
but I could tell you what has caused them to
be here and what's caused them to hear is the
LAFD does not have the funding mechanism to supply enough
mechanics and enough money for the parts to repair these engines,
the trucks, the ambulances.
Speaker 5 (20:28):
You say, some of these are new here, they're all
sitting in this lot. Could they have been helpful? Could
they have been used during the Eaton Palistates fire?
Speaker 1 (20:36):
Well, absolutely right.
Speaker 6 (20:38):
More is better, And if they're available and if they
have the proper equipment, we were able. We had more
members report to assist during those fires.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
Then we had spots for them.
Speaker 6 (20:49):
So easily if we would have had an engine, let's
just take Engine fifty seven, if we could staff it
with the minimum equipment, hoses and equipment that you need
to address a fire with the staffing. Absolutely, you could
go in and make a difference.
Speaker 5 (21:06):
So what you're saying is that you had firefighters and
not enough trucks in order to put them in for
the fire.
Speaker 6 (21:13):
Absolutely, yes, that is a fact.
Speaker 5 (21:16):
All right, we're standing here a councilwoman, Tracy Park, thank
you for joining us this morning. You have been inside
of this lot. You've seen firsthand what it looks like.
What is your reaction to seeing all of these emergency vehicles.
Speaker 7 (21:28):
As a resident, as a taxpayer, and as the council
member for the district that is now home to our
city's largest disaster in history. It is incredibly frustrating to say,
all of these assets sitting out of service.
Speaker 5 (21:47):
You know, folks are going to look at it for
themselves this morning and be frustrated as well. They're going
to be angry. We know from Chief Christian Crowley that
these engines, these emergency vehicles here, they might not have
put out the fires, but they could have helped to
save homes. And what do you tell those.
Speaker 7 (22:03):
Constituents, Well, you know, hard to know, given the weather
conditions and the lack of water and other challenges that
we're experienced in the Palisades fire. But on any given
day in the city of Los Angeles, we have assets
that are out of circulation and out of service. There
are large swaths of the city with no resources available.
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And when we don't have the equipment that our firefighters
and paramedics need to keep our city safe, that impacts
everyone in our city.
Speaker 5 (22:35):
You know Captain Freddi Escobar who was talking to us
in that interview and gave us a tour inside, he said,
this is going to be about working with city council.
It's going to be about working with the mayor in
order to impact the understaffing, the money, the budget. He
says that this is an LAFD that has been neglected
for years, So what is the city council doing?
Speaker 7 (22:54):
So we are obviously taking these issues very seriously. I
just recently with Councilwoman Rodriguez, introduced emotion to a June
twenty twenty six bond measure so that we can have
the funding that we need to invest in our facilities
and our equipment and the people that we need to
keep our city safe.
Speaker 5 (23:15):
Like the mechanics and all of those people folks who
are employed here to get these trucks back out on
the front line. That's right.
Speaker 7 (23:21):
So you know we can use the bond measure to
support some of this work. We have to get creative
about these solutions. We all know that we cannot fund
the fire department at the level that it needs inside
the four walls of the current city budget that we have.
But this is a top focus and a priority, and
in the wake of what has happened in our city,
we have no other choice but to make this our
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top priority.
Speaker 5 (23:44):
Councilman Tracy Park, thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
All right, and that's Annie Rose Ramos. This is a
moment where everybody's got to pay attention here. I mean
that encapsulated. That was less than four minutes and then encapsulated.
The crux of the problem here Los Angeles is they
don't have money to fix all the broken fire engines.
If you heard what they said, they had firemen standing
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there available, but these firemen didn't have a fire engine
to climb into. Firemen aren't very very good if they
don't have a fire engine to travel to the fire
and then unroll the hose and attach it to the
attach it to the broken fire hydrant, which leads to
the empty reservoir. You see what's going on here. There's
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no money for water in the reservoir, there's no money
for the fire hydrant to be fixed, there's no money
for the fire engines to be fixed. And so they
have a fireman standing around the worst fire in the
history of Los Angeles, and they were standing around because
we spend more money on homeless than we do fire.
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We only spend half as much as we need to
on the LA Fire Department. Well, the other half is
going to homeless people. And that experiment has gone on
for ten years now, huge failure. We got to shut
that spigot off. We got to drain that reservoir. We
got to stop the whole homeless budget. Just put a
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stop to it and drive everybody out of town. There's
nothing else you can do here. We give them a
billion three every year, and we're getting more homeless. They're
mental patients, they are they are drug addicts. You can't
fix them. They're broken beyond repair. The whole homeless industry
is a racket. It's a scam. It's just a complete fraud,
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and it costs US a billion three. I assume it's
because there must be kickbacks going back to city council members.
There must be nobody in their right mind would spend
more money on one percent of population the homeless, than
the fire department that serves one hundred percent of the population.
And now that we know this, this has got to stop.
You can't have fire and standing around because they don't
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have a fire truck when the worst fire in history
is happening. This is absolutely insane. So you can get
the money, everybody will. You're gonna get the money. Kill
the homeless industry, destroy it, wipe it out, drop some
kind of bureaucratic asteroid on it, put the people on buses,
and get them out of town. That's it. No, we're
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not building homes for them. They're never going to be housed.
They're never gonna be off their trugs, and they're never
gonna take the medication for their illnesses. So you just
might as why'd you be an adult and just accept
all that. More coming up.
Speaker 4 (26:36):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM sixty.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
Conway is coming up in just a few minutes. This
is funny. I enjoy new some twisting in the wind
after he came down here and embarrassed himself trying to
be the big man responding to the fire. And then
he got unmasked by that mother in the Palisades when
she started yelling at him. Remember that woman who's yelling
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at Newsome because her kid's school burned down. And Newsom
tried to get out of it by claiming he was
on the phone with Joe Biden and he wasn't. And
the mom called him on it, saying, well, here, let
me get in on the conversation, let me talk, and
he had to say, well, I've been trying to get
to him, and she said, yeah, I've tried five times.
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Can't get a phone signal. Oh well let's go together
and find the phone signal. Right, totally unmask him to
be a phony. Well, the thing is about Newsom, he's
comfortable being a phony, and he'll just put on He's
like a chameleon. He'll put on a new persona. And
the latest persona is he's going to be the conciliator,
He's going to be the compromiser. He actually flew out
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to Washington this week and yesterday he met with Trump
for more than an hour. Yeah, had a private meeting
with Trump for more than an hour, begging for money.
See He promised two and a half billion dollars in
state tax money to help bail out Los Angeles, but
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he wants Trump to reimburse him. He makes he makes
the promise and then he goes to Trump and so
he has to kiss up to Trump. He's got to
kiss Trump's ass. He is the first Democratic elected official
to meet with Trump in the Oval Office since Trump
took over again. And of course, overriding all this is
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Newsom wants to run for president. And he realizes that
being the leader of the woke resistance is now a
dead end job. The resistance is dead. Woke is dead.
So all the nons, the all the strutting around he
did for the past six years is now dated. It's
out of style. So he's got to put on uh,
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he's got to put out a new costume. And Trump
has cons only threatening to withhold disaster aid, and he
keeps coming up with different demands and Newsom is now
reduced to saying whatever he wants their yes, sir yes.
In fact, it says here that this is from Newsom's
spokeshole is he Garden said they had a very productive
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meeting at the White House, very productive over an hour
Newsom expressed his appreciation for the Trump administration's collaboration. The
governor also thanked Lie Zelden, the head of the EPA,
who dialed in for part of the meeting, thanking him
for deploying more than a thousand workers to help with
debris removal. And while other loser governors from failed states,
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like the governor of New York and Illinois are are
carping and holding meetings trying to revive the resistance, Newsom
has no wants no part of it. He is not
joining them, and because he wants to run for governor
and he is in a huge hole here, and he
needs two and a half billion dollars in reimbursements. And
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it's kind of fun to watch him twist and beg now, god.
Speaker 8 (30:06):
Wait, hey no, hey, no, hey, no, hey, John, I
got a quick question for you. Uh And and tell me, honestly,
do you know who Do you know the name Emmett
Kelly the clown? Yes, yes, yes, you're the only guy
in the building that knows who that is other than me,
the only man in this building.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
It probably doesn't reflect well on either one of us.
That's right, that's right, famous, very famous clown yeah. I
think it was worry or wary Willie that.
Speaker 8 (30:38):
He based that he was a character anyway, he's he's, uh,
you know, one of the my one of the influences
on my dad M Kelly. And I'm and I'm shocked
at nobody. Yeah, that nobody knows who that is.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
I remember him performing at ball games, used to see
them on television.
Speaker 8 (30:54):
Yes, that's right. He was a bad deal. Yeah, he's
a huge deal. I know how you and I are
the only ones left.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
I know.
Speaker 8 (31:00):
I know it's the Titanic over here. But I will
tell you I understand your frustration. You've been here since
what year, nineteen ninety six, ninety four, ninety two, ninety two,
ninety two, okay, and you've been saying the same thing
since ninety two, and people still don't listen to you.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
Some people.
Speaker 8 (31:19):
Yes, right, And I've been right, Yeah, you've been right, Yes, okay,
all right, right, yes, okay. I on the other hand,
I've been right. I've been saying for twenty five years,
you have to get a generator. Now everybody's buying generators.
I've been saying for twenty five years, we got to
cut these palm trees down because they're they're spreading wildfires.
And now the La Times twenty five years later said hey,
(31:40):
maybe it's time to get rid of these palm trees.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
You know, you and I are going to be like
Van Go. That's right. We're going to be appreciated after
we're dead, that after we've checked into the mental institution.
That's right. Maps of our shows will go for millions
of dollars.
Speaker 8 (31:57):
Yes, that's exactly right, and we'll be long gone, our
kids will be able to enjoy them. Alex Stone is
coming on with us tonight and also a scandal with
the super Bowl will get into that. Dean Sharp as well,
and then Petros at six thirty five.
Speaker 1 (32:12):
So go all right, where dig dong with you? By
By the way, big show, Yeah, mist the news live
in the CAFI twenty four newsroom. Hey you've been listening
to the John Cobalt Show podcast. You can always hear
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iHeart app. Just like the radio show. I'll tell you
more of what we did later on in the hour
and then you could enjoy it later this evening, we've
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continued covering the fires and we're trying to cut through
these loads of horsemen were being shoveled at us by
civic leaders. We've been talking the last couple of days
about Steve Soberoff, who held a private meeting with the
rich guys, the Hollywood agents and telling them, hey, just
hold on, hold on for a year, and whatever you're
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being offered for your property now you'll get triplet next
year because of all the money coming in. But he
didn't want to talk about any of the causes of
the horrific response here in La City from fire management.
He didn't want to talk about the empty reservoir. He
called that politics or negativity or it's the bus to know.
(01:08):
He only wants raw ros stuff. Well, we're going to
focus on reality here because that's what we do. I
can't imagine living in these fantasy worlds that politicians and
public leaders love to hide in their alternate universes they create.
We're going to talk again now with Cheryl Poindexter. Cheryl
(01:30):
comunt our show way back in twenty twenty, which is
one of the worst years in human history, and twenty
twenty terrible fire Bobcat fire in the Juniper Hills area,
and she lost everything home, cabin, horse stalls, barn, motor home, trailer.
(01:51):
Five years later, she's rebuilt the house, but she can't
get inside, and she wants to tell her story as
a warning to all of you in Altadena and the
Palisades who maybe you get caught up in the gas
from bass and sober off and you think this is
going to be easy. Oh and newsome too. Let's get
Cheryl on. Cheryl, how are you man?
Speaker 2 (02:12):
I'm alive.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Yeah, Well that's one good thing.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
Yeah. I want to thank you for what you're doing here,
and I mean for us. I listen to you every
day and thank you from the bottom of my heart.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
And I know you're playing nuts with the stuff that
you've been.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
I've been hearing about how they're going to cut the
red tape and everything, and.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
It's like been making me nuts. And I've been.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Dying to share my experience with these poor people because
they don't know what's coming.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
It's just really, oh.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
My God, give us a quick summary of what happened
to you. It was September eighteenth, twenty twenty. You're out
in Juniper Hills and you run an animal rescue, a
nonprofit animal rescue center. Yeah, and so what happened.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
I lived there twenty years and it was you know,
the AZUSA. They took real good care of Azuza. And
the fire was moving up the hill and it went
to the two and all. There were no firemen up here,
none zero and they had one one uh drop you know,
(03:26):
the foz Tech plane. One after half of the Juniper
hosts had already burned. They sent one plane and dropped
foz Tech in just a couple of houses and left.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
And they just left us to burn.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
And they said that it was a dispatch problem, that
there was problems with dispatch.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
So you know, I love that.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
I love their their non answers instead of explaining in detail,
tell a story of what got screwed up. They just
had like a vague, bureaucratic phrase, it's a dispatch problem.
Well I just lost everything I own.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
Yeah, well they in the station fire. A few years
before that, there was a fire coming over from acting
and there were there must have been a million firemen
up here.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
I mean they were amazing.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
With bulldozers and everything. And thank god, the wind changed
and and we were okay. But there were a lot
of firemen, but not anymore. It's it's they're they're nowhere.
And I had a friend up on a Devil's punch
bowl who stayed behind to save his house. And there
(04:40):
were a bunch of workers, you know, with the fire
Forestry department to help them clear the stuff.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
And they left.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
They said, we're getting out of here, and they left.
They freaking left, and he saved us. He stayed behind
and saved his house.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
It was amazing. So you know, you got to after.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
After the after the fire, then you had a round
of looters.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Oh yeah, first the looters come and uh, you know,
first the fire, then the looters, and then it was
uh and then the the code up grades.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Let's talk about that because you wrote you wrote in
your letter that eighty five homes burned, only four have
been rebuilt. Really, right, Well, what what's been the hang up?
I mean, it's been five years, it's a decent amount
of time.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
A lot of people I had excellent insurance with all states.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Not anymore, and they left California.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
So I had really really good insurance, and I had
cod up grades covered in my policy and a lot
of people up here didn't. And I spent you know,
with the permits and the code upgrades well over you know,
close to one hundred thousand dollars just on code up grades.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
I mean it's just yeah, I think, I bet you
most people don't even think about that, that that there'll
be a whole set of code up grades that will
be hundreds of thousands of dollars, and there could just
be dozens and dozens of them because so much has
changed over the decades.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Exactly exactly, and it's ridiculous. I had to get a
whole new well tank. I had to get, you know, pumped,
ten thousand dollars for.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
A pump to pump the.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
Sprinklers, and the ceiling and the attic I had to install.
I mean, it was it just went on and on,
and don't get me started on the soil testing that
I had to pay for. You know, they had to
test the soil and that and that took forever.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
And it just let me let me talk, let me
let me read you something in your letter, it says
the time it took to get people in various agencies
to get off their asses to get something done was
crushingly slow. I was continually told that they were shorthanded
and understaffed, and I just have to be patient. Ye
(07:13):
talk about that because you haven't been able to move
into your house and your house got rebuilt, but you
can't get in. Why can't you get in?
Speaker 3 (07:20):
They just finished it last week. It's totally finished. And
my contractor, who is really wonderful, Nash Lester Nash. He's
just been great because a lot of contractors wouldn't wouldn't
help me because of the previous contractor I had screwed
me out of just I mean, you've got And that's
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another thing I got to say to the people that
are trying to rebuild, is like the contractors there's like
they're vultures.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
They'll come at you.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
And I mean, he screwed me out of several hundred
thousand dollars and he's in jail now.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
But uh gees, yeah, you've had everything happen. Yeah, what
about these these government agencies or that they don't they
don't have enough uh staffing. No, they don't have enough workers.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
That's the reason why it took me four months to
get temporary power so I could start to rebuild. They said, well,
we're shorthanded. And I'm hearing you know all these people.
There are thousands of people that have lost their house
and if they're short they were shorthanded in the Bobcat fire.
What the hell are they going to do now with
(08:32):
all of these people that you know, thousands of people
that are going to have to you know, depend on
on having them help them.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
It's not going to happen.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
So with with Newsom and Bass and sober Off saying
that they're gonna uh uh relax all the red tape requirements,
you don't think that's real.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
No bloony blooney, no absolute blooney. That's mean because the
way La County has everything set up, it's.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Just geared to drag. I mean, it's just it's like the.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
Most aggravating thing I've ever been through in my whole life,
and all I want to do is just be back
in my house.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
And I'm saying and they say, oh.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Well, we're real busy with the fires, and I said, well,
you know, and it's priority. You know that these people have,
you know, since November, and they filed before, and I said, no,
I filed four years ago.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
You think that I would have pride?
Speaker 1 (09:34):
So when when all right, let me ask you the
sha before I got to go. So when you see
Bass and Newsom and sober Off and all the rest
of them doing their cheerleading speeches on how easy they're
going to make it to rebuild what you're sitting on
the couch watching them, what are you thinking? What are
you feeling?
Speaker 2 (09:55):
It's a lot they're lying there.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
I don't it's just mainstream many a media boloney. And
when sober Off, you know, I listened to your podcast,
your cast yesterday about you know, he finally said, well,
you know, it's gonna take about five years, and I went, finally, yeah,
that's about right. Yeah, because I'm five years and I'm
(10:19):
still not in my house, and I don't, you know,
and forget my Barnes.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
And you know, I have no bar and you and
you had good insurance to help me rebuild. All right,
I got it, wrote I got to go. Thank you
very much Scherff for coming on.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
All right, thank you for all your doing. Thank you.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
Well, We'll keep doing it. Cheryl Poindexter who lost her
home back in twenty twenty and Juniper Hills.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI am sixty.
Speaker 5 (10:52):
So.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
Last hour we were telling you that Westside Current has
a breakdown of the LA city budget and it's just
it's just absolutely appalling. You know, the city of Los
Angeles is broke. I could spin this story out of
half a dozen ways, but I just want to focus
on the money that we're spending on homelessness compared to
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the fire department. The amount of money that we are
spending on homelessness is now one point three billion dollars
every year. That is ten percent of the city's budget.
Is that not staggering? Ten percent of the budget on
homelessness and the homeless people are only one percent of
the population, one percent of the population. And even after
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all that money, two thirds of the homeless have no shelter,
not even a shelter bed, they're still laying out in
the streets. Mental patients and drug addicts they get the
same percentage ten percent that the La Fire Department and
emergency medical services get and disaster services. You total up fire, emergency, medical,
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and disaster and it accounts for almost as much as
we're spending on homeless. Almost actually get a little bit more.
And the fire department serves all four million people in
the city of La These homeless programs serve one percent
of that. The police department gets sixteen percent, fire department
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ten percent, and the homeless ten percent. And again, the
police and fire have to cover four million people. Do
you know how much they spend on brush clearance, which
had a lot to do with whipping up the Palisades
fire and the Altadena fire? A million and a half dollars,
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that's it. But we spend one point three billion on
people who start fires. And finally, the La Times has
story today on the people who start fires, and it's
a lot of homeless people. This is the story, though,
is written by three writers, James Coueley, Clara Harder, and
Richard Winton. A little bit scolding though, because they say, well,
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none of the major fires this round have been proven
to be started by homeless, although suspiciously. They still haven't
told us what began the Palisades fire after a month,
they don't know. But if you remember, there were a
number of small fires reported throughout La County in the
days after the Palisades and Altadena fires, and the Time
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says those charges were not accused of sparking sparking the
devastating wildfires. These blazes were much smaller that might have
passed unnoticed if it weren't for all the publicity that
the big fires got. They found these these vagrants burning
dried out Christmas trees and trash, setting dumpsters on fire,
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and then we had the blood towards characters, one in
Debora's neighborhood, one in my neighborhood. Guys running around with
blow torches. And they've had more arson arrests. But they
say that's because the public is noticing these fires. Well,
of course they're noticing these small fires. When you have
twenty four hours twenty four to seven coverage of the
(14:17):
big fires on TV, you have to be on hyper
alert because we have thousands of mental patients and drug addicts.
Now over fifty percent of the fires that start in
LA are started by vagrants and mental patients, over fifty percent.
It's fourteen thousand a year. And let that sink in.
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We spend more money on homeless than the fire department,
and the homeless one percent of them start fourteen thousand fires,
but the people who put out the fires get less money.
Many of the everyday fires are set intentionally or accidentally,
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or by people experiencing homelessness. They got to use that
woke phrase, they're experiencing homelessness. No, they're methaddicts. They've got
severe mental illness, experiencing homelessness. Nine of the suspects arrested
(15:22):
for arson after the wildfires were unhoused. No, they were
street vagrants. Five of them appeared to struggle with mental
health or substance abuse. Yeah, the LA Public Defender's Office
is representing seven of those defendants, seven of the nine.
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So not only do we spend over a billion dollars
for failed homeless programs, these people go run around and
they start fires. We got to pay to put out
the fires, and then we pay for the lawyer to
defend them against the arson charges. Just bend over and
take it, you believe this, the fires burn your homes,
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We pay for the homeless to start more fires, we
pay to put out the fires, and then we pay
to defend the homeless against the artison charges. And then
you hear the quote from Sarah Rass, executive director of
this Homeless Coalition. She understands people get frustrated and are
(16:32):
looking for someone to blame in times of crisis, but
she says, don't confuse the wildfire issue with the homeless
fire issue. See it's two different sets of fires. Really,
is it real? It really is truly one more way
for people to paint with a broad brush, to paint
up with a broad brush. The community experiencing homelessness as
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some sort of other, well, yes, they are some sort
of other. They're people who live outside and they start
fires while they're on drugs. That is another. That's not
somebody I understand. Is this a problem in encampments, yes,
because people should be homed. Well, if you gave them homes,
they'd burned down their homes. You put them in a
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home doesn't cure their mental helenos so their drug addiction.
And why is the answer is like I got to
buy them a home? What kind of extortion? Is that
is like, well, if you don't buy them a home,
they're going to send another fire. Good Lord.
Speaker 4 (17:27):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
We're on from one until four and then after four
o'clock John Cobelt' show on demand on the iHeart app,
and it is it is a jammed show today. Among
the things we had on the show that you could
listen to later on the podcast, we talked with say
Ed Kashani. He's the Palisades resident who has burned out
of his house. He's the one who challenged the DWP
(17:53):
commissioners and Genie Quinonyez about not filling the reservoir. We
also had on Cheryl Poindexter. She's a listener to the show.
She was burned out five years ago in Juniper Hills
and she wanted everyone to know what the five years
of trying to rebuild has been like. It's been bureaucratic.
How at Alex Ston on to talk about the absurd
(18:16):
egg prices. So that's all on the podcast and now
in the last segment, I told you the West Side
Current analyzed LA's budget and found that we are spending
more money every year on homeless services, vagrants, and mental
patients than we are spending on the fire department, including
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emergency services, including ambulances, whole, the whole thing. We're spending
about ten percent on the homeless and about ten percent
on the fire department, but the homeless get a little
bit more, and this has led to a huge imbalance,
a huge waste of money because the homeless people start
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the fires, and we don't have enough of a fire
department to handle the fourteen thousand fires that the homeless
start every year. We don't have the money for that,
we don't have the personnel for that. One of the
reasons everyone was caught flat footed when a real fire
started in the wildlands your Pacific Palisades. Well, Annie Rose
(19:22):
Ramos for KTLA followed up on this because there are
consequences to not spending money on the fire department. If
you remember, we found out that there were one hundred
fire trucks in the garage awaiting repairs, but there are
no mechanics to fix them. So we're going to listen
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to this report KTLA. Annie Rose Ramos, we.
Speaker 5 (19:49):
Are standing in front of just one of LAFD maintenance yards.
This one happens to be the biggest. We were granted
rare and exclusive access inside and what we saw were
dozens upon dozens of emergency vehicles, engines, ladders, ambulances, all
of them sitting here instead of out on the front
lines during the Eaton and Palistates fire. Why are they
sitting here?
Speaker 6 (20:09):
Well, I don't know exactly why each one is here,
but I could tell you what has caused them to
be here and what's caused them to hear is the
LAFD does not have the funding mechanism to supply enough
mechanics and enough money for the parts to repair these engines,
the trucks, the ambulances.
Speaker 5 (20:28):
You say, some of these are new here, they're all
sitting in this lot. Could they have been helpful? Could
they have been used during the Eaton Palistates fire?
Speaker 1 (20:36):
Well, absolutely right.
Speaker 6 (20:38):
More is better, And if they're available and if they
have the proper equipment, we were able. We had more
members report to assist during those fires.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
Then we had spots for them.
Speaker 6 (20:49):
So easily if we would have had an engine, let's
just take Engine fifty seven, if we could staff it
with the minimum equipment, hoses and equipment that you need
to address a fire with the staffing. Absolutely, you could
go in and make a difference.
Speaker 5 (21:06):
So what you're saying is that you had firefighters and
not enough trucks in order to put them in for
the fire.
Speaker 6 (21:13):
Absolutely, yes, that is a fact.
Speaker 5 (21:16):
All right, we're standing here a councilwoman, Tracy Park, thank
you for joining us this morning. You have been inside
of this lot. You've seen firsthand what it looks like.
What is your reaction to seeing all of these emergency vehicles.
Speaker 7 (21:28):
As a resident, as a taxpayer, and as the council
member for the district that is now home to our
city's largest disaster in history. It is incredibly frustrating to say,
all of these assets sitting out of service.
Speaker 5 (21:47):
You know, folks are going to look at it for
themselves this morning and be frustrated as well. They're going
to be angry. We know from Chief Christian Crowley that
these engines, these emergency vehicles here, they might not have
put out the fires, but they could have helped to
save homes. And what do you tell those.
Speaker 7 (22:03):
Constituents, Well, you know, hard to know, given the weather
conditions and the lack of water and other challenges that
we're experienced in the Palisades fire. But on any given
day in the city of Los Angeles, we have assets
that are out of circulation and out of service. There
are large swaths of the city with no resources available.
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And when we don't have the equipment that our firefighters
and paramedics need to keep our city safe, that impacts
everyone in our city.
Speaker 5 (22:35):
You know Captain Freddi Escobar who was talking to us
in that interview and gave us a tour inside, he said,
this is going to be about working with city council.
It's going to be about working with the mayor in
order to impact the understaffing, the money, the budget. He
says that this is an LAFD that has been neglected
for years, So what is the city council doing?
Speaker 7 (22:54):
So we are obviously taking these issues very seriously. I
just recently with Councilwoman Rodriguez, introduced emotion to a June
twenty twenty six bond measure so that we can have
the funding that we need to invest in our facilities
and our equipment and the people that we need to
keep our city safe.
Speaker 5 (23:15):
Like the mechanics and all of those people folks who
are employed here to get these trucks back out on
the front line. That's right.
Speaker 7 (23:21):
So you know we can use the bond measure to
support some of this work. We have to get creative
about these solutions. We all know that we cannot fund
the fire department at the level that it needs inside
the four walls of the current city budget that we have.
But this is a top focus and a priority, and
in the wake of what has happened in our city,
we have no other choice but to make this our
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top priority.
Speaker 5 (23:44):
Councilman Tracy Park, thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
All right, and that's Annie Rose Ramos. This is a
moment where everybody's got to pay attention here. I mean
that encapsulated. That was less than four minutes and then encapsulated.
The crux of the problem here Los Angeles is they
don't have money to fix all the broken fire engines.
If you heard what they said, they had firemen standing
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there available, but these firemen didn't have a fire engine
to climb into. Firemen aren't very very good if they
don't have a fire engine to travel to the fire
and then unroll the hose and attach it to the
attach it to the broken fire hydrant, which leads to
the empty reservoir. You see what's going on here. There's
(24:32):
no money for water in the reservoir, there's no money
for the fire hydrant to be fixed, there's no money
for the fire engines to be fixed. And so they
have a fireman standing around the worst fire in the
history of Los Angeles, and they were standing around because
we spend more money on homeless than we do fire.
(24:52):
We only spend half as much as we need to
on the LA Fire Department. Well, the other half is
going to homeless people. And that experiment has gone on
for ten years now, huge failure. We got to shut
that spigot off. We got to drain that reservoir. We
got to stop the whole homeless budget. Just put a
(25:14):
stop to it and drive everybody out of town. There's
nothing else you can do here. We give them a
billion three every year, and we're getting more homeless. They're
mental patients, they are they are drug addicts. You can't
fix them. They're broken beyond repair. The whole homeless industry
is a racket. It's a scam. It's just a complete fraud,
(25:39):
and it costs US a billion three. I assume it's
because there must be kickbacks going back to city council members.
There must be nobody in their right mind would spend
more money on one percent of population the homeless, than
the fire department that serves one hundred percent of the population.
And now that we know this, this has got to stop.
You can't have fire and standing around because they don't
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have a fire truck when the worst fire in history
is happening. This is absolutely insane. So you can get
the money, everybody will. You're gonna get the money. Kill
the homeless industry, destroy it, wipe it out, drop some
kind of bureaucratic asteroid on it, put the people on buses,
and get them out of town. That's it. No, we're
(26:23):
not building homes for them. They're never going to be housed.
They're never gonna be off their trugs, and they're never
gonna take the medication for their illnesses. So you just
might as why'd you be an adult and just accept
all that. More coming up.
Speaker 4 (26:36):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM sixty.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
Conway is coming up in just a few minutes. This
is funny. I enjoy new some twisting in the wind
after he came down here and embarrassed himself trying to
be the big man responding to the fire. And then
he got unmasked by that mother in the Palisades when
she started yelling at him. Remember that woman who's yelling
(27:05):
at Newsome because her kid's school burned down. And Newsom
tried to get out of it by claiming he was
on the phone with Joe Biden and he wasn't. And
the mom called him on it, saying, well, here, let
me get in on the conversation, let me talk, and
he had to say, well, I've been trying to get
to him, and she said, yeah, I've tried five times.
(27:27):
Can't get a phone signal. Oh well let's go together
and find the phone signal. Right, totally unmask him to
be a phony. Well, the thing is about Newsom, he's
comfortable being a phony, and he'll just put on He's
like a chameleon. He'll put on a new persona. And
the latest persona is he's going to be the conciliator,
He's going to be the compromiser. He actually flew out
(27:51):
to Washington this week and yesterday he met with Trump
for more than an hour. Yeah, had a private meeting
with Trump for more than an hour, begging for money.
See He promised two and a half billion dollars in
state tax money to help bail out Los Angeles, but
(28:13):
he wants Trump to reimburse him. He makes he makes
the promise and then he goes to Trump and so
he has to kiss up to Trump. He's got to
kiss Trump's ass. He is the first Democratic elected official
to meet with Trump in the Oval Office since Trump
took over again. And of course, overriding all this is
(28:34):
Newsom wants to run for president. And he realizes that
being the leader of the woke resistance is now a
dead end job. The resistance is dead. Woke is dead.
So all the nons, the all the strutting around he
did for the past six years is now dated. It's
out of style. So he's got to put on uh,
(28:55):
he's got to put out a new costume. And Trump
has cons only threatening to withhold disaster aid, and he
keeps coming up with different demands and Newsom is now
reduced to saying whatever he wants their yes, sir yes.
In fact, it says here that this is from Newsom's
spokeshole is he Garden said they had a very productive
(29:18):
meeting at the White House, very productive over an hour
Newsom expressed his appreciation for the Trump administration's collaboration. The
governor also thanked Lie Zelden, the head of the EPA,
who dialed in for part of the meeting, thanking him
for deploying more than a thousand workers to help with
debris removal. And while other loser governors from failed states,
(29:41):
like the governor of New York and Illinois are are
carping and holding meetings trying to revive the resistance, Newsom
has no wants no part of it. He is not
joining them, and because he wants to run for governor
and he is in a huge hole here, and he
needs two and a half billion dollars in reimbursements. And
(30:03):
it's kind of fun to watch him twist and beg now, god.
Speaker 8 (30:06):
Wait, hey no, hey, no, hey, no, hey, John, I
got a quick question for you. Uh And and tell me, honestly,
do you know who Do you know the name Emmett
Kelly the clown? Yes, yes, yes, you're the only guy
in the building that knows who that is other than me,
the only man in this building.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
It probably doesn't reflect well on either one of us.
That's right, that's right, famous, very famous clown yeah. I
think it was worry or wary Willie that.
Speaker 8 (30:38):
He based that he was a character anyway, he's he's, uh,
you know, one of the my one of the influences
on my dad M Kelly. And I'm and I'm shocked
at nobody. Yeah, that nobody knows who that is.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
I remember him performing at ball games, used to see
them on television.
Speaker 8 (30:54):
Yes, that's right. He was a bad deal. Yeah, he's
a huge deal. I know how you and I are
the only ones left.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
I know.
Speaker 8 (31:00):
I know it's the Titanic over here. But I will
tell you I understand your frustration. You've been here since
what year, nineteen ninety six, ninety four, ninety two, ninety two,
ninety two, okay, and you've been saying the same thing
since ninety two, and people still don't listen to you.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
Some people.
Speaker 8 (31:19):
Yes, right, And I've been right, Yeah, you've been right, Yes, okay,
all right, right, yes, okay. I on the other hand,
I've been right. I've been saying for twenty five years,
you have to get a generator. Now everybody's buying generators.
I've been saying for twenty five years, we got to
cut these palm trees down because they're they're spreading wildfires.
And now the La Times twenty five years later said hey,
(31:40):
maybe it's time to get rid of these palm trees.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
You know, you and I are going to be like
Van Go. That's right. We're going to be appreciated after
we're dead, that after we've checked into the mental institution.
That's right. Maps of our shows will go for millions
of dollars.
Speaker 8 (31:57):
Yes, that's exactly right, and we'll be long gone, our
kids will be able to enjoy them. Alex Stone is
coming on with us tonight and also a scandal with
the super Bowl will get into that. Dean Sharp as well,
and then Petros at six thirty five.
Speaker 1 (32:12):
So go all right, where dig dong with you? By
By the way, big show, Yeah, mist the news live
in the CAFI twenty four newsroom. Hey you've been listening
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