November 16, 2025 • 31 mins
US Senators from other states come to LA to hear from victims of the Palisades Fire, criticizing Democratic officials for the fire and the response to it; the LAPD has moved forward on hiring more officers than the city council said it could; A massive rainstorm has blown through Southern California but it looks like we've been spared from the worst of it.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to KFI Am six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
This is Michael Monk's reports on Michael Monks from KFI
News with you till nine o'clock tonight on this very
very rainy Saturday night in southern California. I do hope
you've managed to stay dry and safe. It is a
little hairy out there, but maybe not yet as bad
as it could have been.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Forecast was pretty rough.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
We've got a storm evacuation coming out of the City
of La all lifted now. The City of La has
lifted all evacuation orders and warnings which had been issued
for mud or debris flows. And that is straight from
the horse's mouth at the La Fire Department. The California
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Highway Patrol has issued a sig alert shutting down lanes two, three,
and four of the southbound Long Beach seven to ten
Freeway and the Long Beach Boulevard off ramp. That is
due to flooding that is happening right now. We do
still have a flood advisory from the National Weather Service
in La and Oxnard that is an effect until eight
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o'clock tonight, so about one hour away before that expires.
We're also watching this pursuit that has been on the
westbound ninety one since about fifteen minutes ago a stolen
vehicle believed to be a stolen blue Toyota Sedan. The
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California Highway Patrol is in pursuit of that right now
and we will continue to monitor that to see if
that has any resolution. But just moments ago, this thing
was on the very wet freeway with moderate traffic, not
overwhelmingly heavy. But I imagine all of you listening in the
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car right now who are driving on freeways or even
serve the streets, are doing so a little more cautiously
than usual because of all that wetness. There were lots
of reports of spinouts today. Maybe people got a little
bit ahead of themselves, going a little bit too fast.
But imagine driving on the freeway, pumping the brakes a
little bit, seeing water build up on the road, and
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then all of these flashing blue lights are coming up
behind you because some yahoo has stolen a car, and
naturally we've got, you know, a big pursuit. Very scary
out there, but do stay safe. It is a very
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very wet day. I mean, this rain has been so gloomy.
It's the type of day where you really don't even
want to leave the house. I had a nice long
nap today myself, but did drive a bit, went up
to Hollywood and back to downtown, then up here to Burbank,
and traffic was moderate. It wasn't as bad as it
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usually is on Saturdays. Didn't see a lot of shopping
going on out in the stores. But it's wet. They
have delivered on that promise, and of course the threat
of mud slines exist even after the rain is over,
so we may not be out of the woods yet
with that sort of thing. So that's something that you'll
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want to continue to pay attention to. We heard out
of Riverside County firefighters in Palm Springs rescued two people
and a dog from a vehicle that was caught in
floodwater in Thousand Palms near Palm Springs. That was reported
at about five o'clock this afternoon at Barcelona Drive and
Boca Chica Trail. This was a slow moving floodwater that
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rose to the wheel wells at a height of about
one foot, according to fire officials. So that's how quickly
these things can change when you're out there in these
types of weather conditions. If you want to share with
us how you're coping with the rain and the weather
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and the forecasts, and how it may have dampened your weekend.
Join our conversation. We want to know how it looks
in your neck of the woods here in southern California.
Open up that iHeartRadio app and click on the talkback
button and we will play some throughout the next couple
of hours that we've got together. We of course, also
have a lot of news that we want to get to.
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This is a very very newsy week, and we're going
to recap most of it. I can tell you that
the Palisades Fire remains in the headlines, and this week
it was back in for a couple of different reasons,
and that is because US senators not connected directly to
California at all have come here to Los Angeles to
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hear from victims of the Palisades Fire. And these Republican
lawmakers got an earful from folks who are angry about
why the fire happened in the first place and what
has happened since or what has not happened since, including
reality television star Spencer Pratt, who has become an outspoken
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advocate on behalf of folks who lost property in the
Palisades fire and a vocal opponent of Governor Newsom and
Mayor Bass will take you to that hearing in our
very next segment. Meanwhile, at LA City Hall, something very
strange has been going on. We talked extensively on this program,
since I'm the city hall reporter here at KFI, about
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the budget problems that La was facing last year, and
it looked like the city was going to be laying
off about sixteen hundred employees, including hundreds in the police department,
not sworn officers but civilian employees. All of those jobs
ended up saved, and Mayor Bass and the council came
up with a budget that would allow for the LAPD
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to hire two hundred and forty officers. Well, there was
also an additional agreement that said, once those two hundred
and forty officers are hired, we will clear a path
for another two hundred and forty officers, So basically four
hundred and eighty total half and then the second half.
But that second half was only supposed to come after
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funding was identified, but the LAPD has already exceeded that
budget without that funding source identified and members of the
city Council are not happy about that. We're going to
take you to that meeting so you can hear from
the council members and their shock and great displeasure over
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getting this news from the LAPD that they're hiring more
officers than they were allowed to hire. Now, I think
everyone agrees that the LAPD could use some more hands.
We've heard from leadership in that department, regardless of who's
been the chief over the last several years, that they
do not have near as many as they need in general.
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But with these global events as they call them, coming
World Cup, Super Bowl, Olympics.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
They need a lot more officers.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
But perhaps they've moved a little bit too fast and
the city's not happy about it. Another thing that happened
at la City Hall this week rent control, and this
has really upset property owners. It's made a lot of
tenants happy who advocated for this change, but the city
has decided to cap how much rent can be raised
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and what are called rent stabilized units, and that has
some landlords calling the city council socialists, and that word
is music to the ears of one citywide elected official
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who announced this week he's no longer a Democrat.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
You'll hear from him and.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
His urgence to folks across the city to elect more
people who look and act and govern like Zoorn Mamdani,
the newly elected socialist mayor of New York City. We're
gonna start our next hour with that analysis. The proposed
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gondola from Union Station to Dodger Stadium got a thumbs
down from city Council this week. We'll get into that
as well here on Michael Monk's reports. I'm so glad
you're with us on this very, very rainy Saturday night.
The rain did not deter the Trojans of the University
of Southern California, who improved to eight and two on
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the season with a twenty six to twenty one win
over Iowa. So their college football playoff hopes are still alive.
You see LA meanwhile, taking another rubbing on the road
in the Big Ten. This time they're in Columbus facing
number one ranked Ohio State, and your UCLA Bruins are
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trailing forty one to seven. As the third quarter has
come to a close. We've got much more ahead, lots
of news to get to. We'll continue to monitor the weather.
Let you know what's going on with that pursuit on
the freeway if anything comes of that, So keep.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
It right here all night tonight. We're with you till
nine o'clock.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
You're listening to KFI Am six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
This is Michael Monks reports on Michael Monks from kf
I News with you till nine o'clock tonight. A very rainy, wet,
chilly Saturday night across southern California. The rain has really
come down. It doesn't look like we faced any serious
disasters here in this region, but we will continue to
keep an eye on this. We'll get back to that
reporting in just a moment. First, let's hear from our listener, Mike.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
Hey, Mike, it's Mike.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
You can you tell me what the intro song was
that you played at the beginning of your show. It
instantly brought me back to somewhere anyway, Thanks man, have
a great show, Mike.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
Great to hear from you.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
I'm sorry I can, but I bet our good buddy,
Oliver Boone, our technical director tonight, can help.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
Oliver. Good evening to you, good evening. How you doing that?
Was Blease sky Mine by midnight Oil? Oh?
Speaker 2 (10:31):
They sang the beds are burning, that beds are Burning
song from the eighties. Yes, right, I didn't know that.
I don't know if I knew that first song. But Mike,
there you go. Maybe some nightclub in nineteen eighty nine
and the Lost Love. Anyway, there you go. Thanks to you,
thanks to Oliver. All Right, So we're monitoring the storm situation.
Here's some reports from our partners at ABC News as
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this thing started to roll in.
Speaker 5 (10:54):
Southern California being hit with heavy rains, more than twenty
two million residents bracing for possible flash flooding and the
risk of mud slides and debris flows, and areas burned
by wildfires earlier this year. California Governor Gavin Newsom deployed
more than two hundred and seventy personnel ahead of the storm,
including several search and rescue teams, helicopters, and dozers near
burn scar areas. Sheriff's deputies going door to door in
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the Eton burn Scar area in Altadena notifying residents of
evacuation orders. Rocke Kerjean's home was spared by the fires
and mud slides earlier this year, but he's concerned about
this round of heavy rains.
Speaker 6 (11:28):
It seemed like at least some of the growth and
the vegetations on the mountain has already come back, which
is really helping retain.
Speaker 7 (11:34):
Some of that debris.
Speaker 5 (11:36):
And those evacuation orders in the burnscar areas of the
Altadena Pacific Palisades areas remain in effect through tomorrow morning.
Speaker 8 (11:43):
The hot spot of the rain here, which will be
so Cal La and the surrounding areas. We could see
an inchin hour per raine, all adding up to around
for to six inches of rain, and that in and of.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
Itself is bad.
Speaker 8 (11:53):
Again you factor in the burn scars, things like that, flows,
mud slides.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
You have to be on high alert for this event.
Speaker 8 (11:59):
The only the good news is that the rain is
expected to taper down as we had later into the day.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
Today.
Speaker 8 (12:05):
La is under a flash flood warning La County and
portions of Ventura County as well, and really they have
just been getting hammered over the last several hours here.
So there's that flash flood warning, a floodwatch from Santa
Maria down to Santa Barbara out into the valleys as well,
all the way down to San Diego and ocean side.
Speaker 5 (12:23):
What they did to prepare ahead of this storm is
we saw a lot of residents that were getting sandbags.
Some decided to evacuate just as a precaution because they
don't want to be inside their homes in case the
worst happened, which would be that big mudslide coming down.
We heard from officials they can't stop a mudslide once
it happens, which is why everyone here in Los Angeles
is on high alert. The big concern is the wildfires.
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What they did on these really steep hillsides is it
loosens that top soil. So when you have such a
huge amount of rain coming in such a short period
of time, thwart period of time, thwart period of time,
thwart period. That is how we see these mud mud
slides happened, those debris flows, and so yes, more than
twenty two million people on alert, many residents concerned because
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they did see massive mudslides last year California in the
midst of rapid rainfall, more than twenty two million residents
bracing for a high risk of flash flooding, mudslide, and
debrif flow with up to six inches or more of
rain through Saturday evening. While the rain should help firefighters
loose top soil after wildfires pose a great risk for mudslides.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
So that was some of the dramatic reporting that was
leading up to today and yesterday that there was going
to be hell to pay possibly and a lot of
preparation took place, and it does look like everybody has
turned out okay for the most part. Maybe a little wet,
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maybe a little bored because events got canceled and your
plans got canceled, But it was not as bad as
it could have been. And I think a lot of
the preparation that folks in leadership and we on the
ground day, we heated the advice and we took the
necessary precautions. And just in, La County has canceled its
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evacuation warnings and targeted evacuation orders for the Franklin and
Palisades fire burn areas as of six o'clock. They say
that is due to improving weather conditions, and that news
from the county follows news from the City of Los Angeles,
which lifted all evacuation orders and warnings which had been
issued for mud or debris flows. That was according to
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the La Fire Department just as we went on the
air today. So the condition seemed to be improving. It
was kind of an annoying day, but nowhere near as
bad as it could have been. There is a wildfire
burning though in California currently, rain and fire pummeling parts
of California, the Packfire forcing evacuations at these ten to
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twenty structures damaged or dis detroid so far, and at
least thirty four hundred acres burning near Mammoth Mountain.
Speaker 9 (15:04):
Was so smoky on the highway right when I turned out,
you couldn't even see the lanes.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
Kay Richmond was one of those forced to leave her home.
She said she'd had less than thirty minutes.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
To pack up.
Speaker 5 (15:14):
The packfire near Mammoth Mountain forcing residents to evacuate, consuming
more than three thousand acres and eighteen percent contained, at
least twenty eight structures destroyed, more than one thousand still
at risk. While the rain should help firefighters loose top
soil after wildfires pose a great risk for mudslides.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
And that fire is burning northeast of Fresno near Mammoth
And as of this moment, CalFire says that the fire
there is about fifty six percent contained and it has
burned around three thousand acres Meanwhile, we've been talking about
burn scars here, Palisades, Eton, Franklin, those the fire itself,
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the Palisades fire in particular, got the attention of US
Senators who came to La to hear from victims of
that fire, who say that fire never should have happened,
and what has happened since is just not good enough.
We'll get into that when Michael Monks Reports continues.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
Next.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
You're listening to KFI Am six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
This is Michael Monks Reports. I'm Michael Monks from KFI
News with you till nine o'clock tonight on a rainy
Saturday evening across southern California. I hope you're safe and dry.
United States Senators members of a committee came out here
to California, including Senator Rick Scott of Florida and Ron
Johnson of Wisconsin, because they wanted to hear from survivors
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of the Palisades fire about what led to that fire
and what has happened since. And the hearing was pretty
emotional on Thursday, as victims talked about losing everything. Twelve people,
of course, died in that fire, and many many homes
and businesses were lost. One of the most outspoken advocates
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who was emerged from that fire is Spencer Pratt, who
gained fame as a reality TV star on MTV. He
has been highly critical if Governor k Newsom of Eliemayor
Bass and of the fire prep, of the fire response,
and the aftermath. And he spoke at this hearing, and
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here is part of what Spencer Pratt told these United
States Senators.
Speaker 10 (17:35):
Despite having routine fires every few decades, the state Park
has failed to do any real prescribe fire or fuels
mitigation to protect our community. And on January first, they
didn't even have the decency to extinguish a small brush
fire that ignited just above us, letting it continue to
burn unchecked for a week ahead of the forecasted Santa
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Ana wins that eventually rekindled the fire and destroyed our
town on January seventh. As you know, my family and
I lost our home, our home, and everything we own
in the Palisades fire. It's been ten months and our
government leaders, instead of helping us rebuild, have only served
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to make the rebuilding process so painful and slow that
many just quit and are forced out of their hometown
through attrition. So vultures like Gavin Newsom and Scott Wiener
have a blank slate to remake the Palisades in the
vision of their wealthy donors and foreign investors. By the
grace of God, my family survived. Twelve the Pallisades family
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were killed in the fire, nearly all of them elderly
or disabled, left to die in their homes. These people,
these twelve people, deserve to feel safe in their homes,
but were instead lost and there was a direct result
of gross negligent and mismanagement vi our state and our
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local government. A small fire ignited on January first, was
abandoned embers visibly smoldering and waiting to be rekindled, with
no management or supervision by Tipega State Park. When the
disaster hit, water spies were inadequate, and we had a
severe lack of first responders due to a series of
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unfortunate choices made by our state and local leaders. After
the fire, residents were left dealing with the consequences of
being uninsured and underinsured make it making it impossible for
them to recoup the value of their homes.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
That was Spencer Pratt, who lost his home in the
Palisades fire. Became famous years ago on MTV and reality programming,
and has since become a vocal opponent of Ellemir Bask
Governor Newsom for their response to the Palisades Fire and
the events that led up to it. He spoke on
Thursday to a United States Senate panel that held a
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hearing here featuring Senators Rick Scott of Florida and Ron
Johnson of Wisconsin, both Republicans. Here's what Senator Rick Scott
said after the hearing.
Speaker 11 (20:14):
I want to thank all the witnesses today. Let's start
with first off, Spitzer Pratt. I came out here in August,
uh to understand what happened. I'd somebody that worked with
me had told me that the basically was no response
to this fire. So what would I learned from talking
to Spencer's The fire shouldn't have happened. There should have
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been that the firefighters should have been able to stop it.
Speaker 6 (20:37):
Uh.
Speaker 11 (20:37):
There's a lot of promises made afterwards that have completely
come that haven't happened, and it's impacted a lot of
our seniors.
Speaker 4 (20:44):
Uh.
Speaker 11 (20:44):
So I want to we want to make sure that
we've helped these victims and this never, never, never happens again,
it's not fair to the people that paid their taxes,
paid their insurance and done all these things, and now
all of a sudden, you know, their house burns down
and there's no help. Sinner Johnson and I are going
to continue to show up. We're going to continue to
make sure that there's a thorough investigation to help these victims,
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especially our senors. The most un vulnerable group is our seniors.
So I just want to thank Spencer Pratt for his help.
I want thank Sena Johnson for his help. But we're
going to get to the bottom of this.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
The fire in the Palisades, we have since learn, was
started by the re emergence of an earlier fire. That's
according to federal prosecutors who have charged demand with setting
what was known as the Lachman fire on January first.
The La Fire Department responded to that fire, but did
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not put it fully out before they left the scene,
and when the Santa Ana Wins blew in nearly a
week later, that fire re emerged and became the destructive
Palisades Fire. That situation was raised at La City Hall
again this week, just yesterday, in fact, as Chief Jim
Moore was confirmed by the LA City Council. He is
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LA Mayor Bass's pick to lead the LA Fire Department
after she fired former fire Chief Kristin Crowley for the
response to the Palisades Fire. Here's what Chief More had
to say.
Speaker 12 (22:09):
The Palisades Fire tested every part of our organization and
took a heartbreaking toll on our residents and on our firefighters.
Yet through it all, the men and women of the
Los Angeles Fire Department stood strong. They worked tirelessly, often
under unbearable conditions, to protect lives, homes, and our communities.
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Their bravery and professionalism are a reminder of what this
department is all about. I want them to know that
I see them, I stand with them, and I will
continue to stand.
Speaker 3 (22:42):
Up for them.
Speaker 12 (22:44):
At the same time, I recognize that we're at a crossroads,
not only for our department, but for public trust. The
media attention following the January wildfires has raised real concerns,
both within our ranks and across our city. I understand
these concerns. I believe that addressing them openly and honestly
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is essential for restoring confidence in our leadership. That's why
I fully support Mayor Bass's request for a throw independent
investigation into the department's response to the Lachman's fire.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
That is new newly named La City Fire Department Chief
I May Moore talking to the City Council just before
they voted to confirm his nomination to lead that embattled
department as it begins to call back public trust in
its favor after the Palisades fire and the Lochman fires
earlier this year. I'll take you to La City Hall next,
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where the LAPD has moved forward with plans to hire
way more officers than the city gave it permission to do.
And that was a big surprise to city council members,
especially the ones who serve on the budget committee. And
then it's forced the city to move some money around.
And the LAPD is not the only department that is
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all ready over budget in an already financially struggling city.
We'll pick up that next here on Michael Monks Reports.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
You're listening to KFI Am six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
This is Michael Monks Reports on Michael Monks from KFI News.
Interesting times at La City Hall because we all know
how difficult the city's financial position is.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
If you listen to KFI.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
At all, we hit this really hard late in the spring,
early in the summer, as the city was crafting its budget,
trying to close a one billion dollar deficit and trying
to prevent the layoffs of sixteen hundred employees.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
Well they did.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
They had to change some things around, move some people
from departments that they did not previously work for, but
they saved all the jobs and closed that budget gap.
But now here we are in December. The fiscal year
started July first, We're approaching December, which would be not
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even five months yet from end of this fiscal year,
and already various departments are overspending again, including the Los
Angeles Police Department. So just this past week, Yaly City
Council had to approve a plan to address a projected
budget gap of two hundred and sixty three million dollars
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caused by unexpected spending and several city departments. Now, this
move that they did this week barely scratches the service
of that two hundred and sixty three million.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
This was just the initial step.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
So they authorized the allocation of just over fourteen million
dollars to cover immediate expenses. That includes more than a
million dollars for outside Council. Now these lawyers that the
city has hired in addition to the city Attorney's office,
these private law firms that they brought on have been
dealing with some fire litigation, but also with homelessness and
lawsuits against the city on that issue. They also had
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to deal with six million dollars for costs related to
clean up a fire debris and repairs to stormwater infrastructure.
But the most surprising to me to emerge from this
conversation this past week involved the Los Angeles Police Department.
The LAPD had been targeted for layoffs when things looked
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bleak at the end of the previous fiscal year. About
four hundred positions were going to be eliminated, not officers,
but civilian workforce, and that ended up not happening. In fact,
the LAPD was greenlighted to hire two hundred and forty
more officers, and then after that they could possibly hire
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another two hundred and forty more if the funding were identified.
That announcement came later from Mahor Bass herself, who said
she had worked with leadership up a city council to
announce this. The problem is the LAPED has already moved
forward with hiring above that two hundred forty mark, and
the money to pay for it has not been identified,
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which surprised Councilman Katie Roslavsky at the City Council's Budget committee.
So let's take a listen to what she had to
say to one of the LAPD representatives.
Speaker 7 (27:22):
Welcome. So, the report details overspending a three point five
to six million resulting from projected sworn hiring above the
levels assumed in the twenty five to twenty six budget.
How many additional recruits does that three point five to
six million account for or is it really just a
question of hiring sooner than expected.
Speaker 9 (27:42):
The three point five to six stuff, say, assumes hiring
up to four hundred and ten recruits, So that's one
hundred seventy one hundred seventy above a two forty that's
budgeted one hundred and seventy of the two forty. The
budget assumed hiring two forty. We are the hiring plan
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assumes we would hire four ten through the end of
the year.
Speaker 7 (28:09):
But that's not what was approved in the budget.
Speaker 3 (28:12):
That's correct.
Speaker 9 (28:13):
The budget assumed hiring two forty.
Speaker 7 (28:17):
So we know because we adopted it and it was
voted on by the Council and signed by the Mayor
that the twenty five to twenty six adopted budget authorized
two hundred and forty police officers, with the potential of
hiring up to four hundred and eighty officers contingent upon
available funding. I'm wondering what funding sources have been identified
to support hiring additional officers.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
Turns out no additional funding sources have been identified. And
that is how things are operated at La City Hall.
People do apparently whatever they want and then they ask
for forgiveness later, and forgiveness comes in the way of
your tax dollars and the city being in financial crisis.
The areas that end up suffering because of this incompetence
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and this lack of account ability are the areas that
you deal with the most. Whether you live in La
or just visit La. It has a lot to do
with the cleanliness of the city and the safety of
the city. Street light, street cleaning, those have been cut dramatically,
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and so does the budget mean anything at all. That's
what Councilman temic Oscar wanted to know.
Speaker 6 (29:24):
We have to be grown ups here. Yeah, every dollar
only has one hundred pennies and the document. The budget
has to mean something. I mean, everyone's worst fear about
a department running rogue, and I think if you put
if you list of the departments that are most likely
to run rogue, we're looking at him right here. I'm
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a huge, gigantic supporter of hiring LAPD officers, but it
has to be in the budget, has to be on
the budget, and it happened.
Speaker 7 (29:58):
And if there's a proposal to find the money so
that we can hire the additional officers, I would welcome
that report so that we can budget it. But we
haven't seen that proposal. Right Where's the new money going
to come from?
Speaker 2 (30:11):
It may come from you, the taxpayer, because it's not
been found yet. The city's financial condition was bad at
the end of the previous physical year. It was bad
to start this current fiscal year. It has only gotten worse.
My prediction, and I'm not always great at handicapping this,
and I hope I'm wrong. Those layoffs are going to
be back on the table when we get to talking
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about the next budget come the spring, and you know
we'll have that covered.
Speaker 3 (30:37):
For you right here.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
Up next, there is a Democrat city official who says
he's no longer a Democrat, and is also hinted that
some zoron Mumdani's are needed here in La. You know
the guy who's just elected mayor of New York City
as a socialist. You'll hear from him at the top
of the next hour. Keep it right here, we've got
another hour together on Michael Monk's Reports KFI A
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News with you till nine o'clock tonight on this very
very rainy Saturday night in southern California. I do hope
you've managed to stay dry and safe. It is a
little hairy out there, but maybe not yet as bad
as it could have been.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Forecast was pretty rough.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
We've got a storm evacuation coming out of the City
of La all lifted now. The City of La has
lifted all evacuation orders and warnings which had been issued
for mud or debris flows. And that is straight from
the horse's mouth at the La Fire Department. The California
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Highway Patrol has issued a sig alert shutting down lanes two, three,
and four of the southbound Long Beach seven to ten
Freeway and the Long Beach Boulevard off ramp. That is
due to flooding that is happening right now. We do
still have a flood advisory from the National Weather Service
in La and Oxnard that is an effect until eight
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o'clock tonight, so about one hour away before that expires.
We're also watching this pursuit that has been on the
westbound ninety one since about fifteen minutes ago a stolen
vehicle believed to be a stolen blue Toyota Sedan. The
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California Highway Patrol is in pursuit of that right now
and we will continue to monitor that to see if
that has any resolution. But just moments ago, this thing
was on the very wet freeway with moderate traffic, not
overwhelmingly heavy. But I imagine all of you listening in the
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car right now who are driving on freeways or even
serve the streets, are doing so a little more cautiously
than usual because of all that wetness. There were lots
of reports of spinouts today. Maybe people got a little
bit ahead of themselves, going a little bit too fast.
But imagine driving on the freeway, pumping the brakes a
little bit, seeing water build up on the road, and
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then all of these flashing blue lights are coming up
behind you because some yahoo has stolen a car, and
naturally we've got, you know, a big pursuit. Very scary
out there, but do stay safe. It is a very
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very wet day. I mean, this rain has been so gloomy.
It's the type of day where you really don't even
want to leave the house. I had a nice long
nap today myself, but did drive a bit, went up
to Hollywood and back to downtown, then up here to Burbank,
and traffic was moderate. It wasn't as bad as it
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usually is on Saturdays. Didn't see a lot of shopping
going on out in the stores. But it's wet. They
have delivered on that promise, and of course the threat
of mud slines exist even after the rain is over,
so we may not be out of the woods yet
with that sort of thing. So that's something that you'll
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want to continue to pay attention to. We heard out
of Riverside County firefighters in Palm Springs rescued two people
and a dog from a vehicle that was caught in
floodwater in Thousand Palms near Palm Springs. That was reported
at about five o'clock this afternoon at Barcelona Drive and
Boca Chica Trail. This was a slow moving floodwater that
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rose to the wheel wells at a height of about
one foot, according to fire officials. So that's how quickly
these things can change when you're out there in these
types of weather conditions. If you want to share with
us how you're coping with the rain and the weather
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and the forecasts, and how it may have dampened your weekend.
Join our conversation. We want to know how it looks
in your neck of the woods here in southern California.
Open up that iHeartRadio app and click on the talkback
button and we will play some throughout the next couple
of hours that we've got together. We of course, also
have a lot of news that we want to get to.
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This is a very very newsy week, and we're going
to recap most of it. I can tell you that
the Palisades Fire remains in the headlines, and this week
it was back in for a couple of different reasons,
and that is because US senators not connected directly to
California at all have come here to Los Angeles to
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hear from victims of the Palisades Fire. And these Republican
lawmakers got an earful from folks who are angry about
why the fire happened in the first place and what
has happened since or what has not happened since, including
reality television star Spencer Pratt, who has become an outspoken
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advocate on behalf of folks who lost property in the
Palisades fire and a vocal opponent of Governor Newsom and
Mayor Bass will take you to that hearing in our
very next segment. Meanwhile, at LA City Hall, something very
strange has been going on. We talked extensively on this program,
since I'm the city hall reporter here at KFI, about
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the budget problems that La was facing last year, and
it looked like the city was going to be laying
off about sixteen hundred employees, including hundreds in the police department,
not sworn officers but civilian employees. All of those jobs
ended up saved, and Mayor Bass and the council came
up with a budget that would allow for the LAPD
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to hire two hundred and forty officers. Well, there was
also an additional agreement that said, once those two hundred
and forty officers are hired, we will clear a path
for another two hundred and forty officers, So basically four
hundred and eighty total half and then the second half.
But that second half was only supposed to come after
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funding was identified, but the LAPD has already exceeded that
budget without that funding source identified and members of the
city Council are not happy about that. We're going to
take you to that meeting so you can hear from
the council members and their shock and great displeasure over
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getting this news from the LAPD that they're hiring more
officers than they were allowed to hire. Now, I think
everyone agrees that the LAPD could use some more hands.
We've heard from leadership in that department, regardless of who's
been the chief over the last several years, that they
do not have near as many as they need in general.
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But with these global events as they call them, coming
World Cup, Super Bowl, Olympics.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
They need a lot more officers.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
But perhaps they've moved a little bit too fast and
the city's not happy about it. Another thing that happened
at la City Hall this week rent control, and this
has really upset property owners. It's made a lot of
tenants happy who advocated for this change, but the city
has decided to cap how much rent can be raised
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and what are called rent stabilized units, and that has
some landlords calling the city council socialists, and that word
is music to the ears of one citywide elected official
(07:54):
who announced this week he's no longer a Democrat.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
You'll hear from him and.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
His urgence to folks across the city to elect more
people who look and act and govern like Zoorn Mamdani,
the newly elected socialist mayor of New York City. We're
gonna start our next hour with that analysis. The proposed
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gondola from Union Station to Dodger Stadium got a thumbs
down from city Council this week. We'll get into that
as well here on Michael Monk's reports. I'm so glad
you're with us on this very, very rainy Saturday night.
The rain did not deter the Trojans of the University
of Southern California, who improved to eight and two on
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the season with a twenty six to twenty one win
over Iowa. So their college football playoff hopes are still alive.
You see LA meanwhile, taking another rubbing on the road
in the Big Ten. This time they're in Columbus facing
number one ranked Ohio State, and your UCLA Bruins are
(09:08):
trailing forty one to seven. As the third quarter has
come to a close. We've got much more ahead, lots
of news to get to. We'll continue to monitor the weather.
Let you know what's going on with that pursuit on
the freeway if anything comes of that, So keep.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
It right here all night tonight. We're with you till
nine o'clock.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
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This is Michael Monks reports on Michael Monks from kf
I News with you till nine o'clock tonight. A very rainy, wet,
chilly Saturday night across southern California. The rain has really
come down. It doesn't look like we faced any serious
disasters here in this region, but we will continue to
keep an eye on this. We'll get back to that
reporting in just a moment. First, let's hear from our listener, Mike.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
Hey, Mike, it's Mike.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
You can you tell me what the intro song was
that you played at the beginning of your show. It
instantly brought me back to somewhere anyway, Thanks man, have
a great show, Mike.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
Great to hear from you.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
I'm sorry I can, but I bet our good buddy,
Oliver Boone, our technical director tonight, can help.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
Oliver. Good evening to you, good evening. How you doing that?
Was Blease sky Mine by midnight Oil? Oh?
Speaker 2 (10:31):
They sang the beds are burning, that beds are Burning
song from the eighties. Yes, right, I didn't know that.
I don't know if I knew that first song. But Mike,
there you go. Maybe some nightclub in nineteen eighty nine
and the Lost Love. Anyway, there you go. Thanks to you,
thanks to Oliver. All Right, So we're monitoring the storm situation.
Here's some reports from our partners at ABC News as
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this thing started to roll in.
Speaker 5 (10:54):
Southern California being hit with heavy rains, more than twenty
two million residents bracing for possible flash flooding and the
risk of mud slides and debris flows, and areas burned
by wildfires earlier this year. California Governor Gavin Newsom deployed
more than two hundred and seventy personnel ahead of the storm,
including several search and rescue teams, helicopters, and dozers near
burn scar areas. Sheriff's deputies going door to door in
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the Eton burn Scar area in Altadena notifying residents of
evacuation orders. Rocke Kerjean's home was spared by the fires
and mud slides earlier this year, but he's concerned about
this round of heavy rains.
Speaker 6 (11:28):
It seemed like at least some of the growth and
the vegetations on the mountain has already come back, which
is really helping retain.
Speaker 7 (11:34):
Some of that debris.
Speaker 5 (11:36):
And those evacuation orders in the burnscar areas of the
Altadena Pacific Palisades areas remain in effect through tomorrow morning.
Speaker 8 (11:43):
The hot spot of the rain here, which will be
so Cal La and the surrounding areas. We could see
an inchin hour per raine, all adding up to around
for to six inches of rain, and that in and of.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
Itself is bad.
Speaker 8 (11:53):
Again you factor in the burn scars, things like that, flows,
mud slides.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
You have to be on high alert for this event.
Speaker 8 (11:59):
The only the good news is that the rain is
expected to taper down as we had later into the day.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
Today.
Speaker 8 (12:05):
La is under a flash flood warning La County and
portions of Ventura County as well, and really they have
just been getting hammered over the last several hours here.
So there's that flash flood warning, a floodwatch from Santa
Maria down to Santa Barbara out into the valleys as well,
all the way down to San Diego and ocean side.
Speaker 5 (12:23):
What they did to prepare ahead of this storm is
we saw a lot of residents that were getting sandbags.
Some decided to evacuate just as a precaution because they
don't want to be inside their homes in case the
worst happened, which would be that big mudslide coming down.
We heard from officials they can't stop a mudslide once
it happens, which is why everyone here in Los Angeles
is on high alert. The big concern is the wildfires.
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What they did on these really steep hillsides is it
loosens that top soil. So when you have such a
huge amount of rain coming in such a short period
of time, thwart period of time, thwart period of time,
thwart period. That is how we see these mud mud
slides happened, those debris flows, and so yes, more than
twenty two million people on alert, many residents concerned because
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they did see massive mudslides last year California in the
midst of rapid rainfall, more than twenty two million residents
bracing for a high risk of flash flooding, mudslide, and
debrif flow with up to six inches or more of
rain through Saturday evening. While the rain should help firefighters
loose top soil after wildfires pose a great risk for mudslides.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
So that was some of the dramatic reporting that was
leading up to today and yesterday that there was going
to be hell to pay possibly and a lot of
preparation took place, and it does look like everybody has
turned out okay for the most part. Maybe a little wet,
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maybe a little bored because events got canceled and your
plans got canceled, But it was not as bad as
it could have been. And I think a lot of
the preparation that folks in leadership and we on the
ground day, we heated the advice and we took the
necessary precautions. And just in, La County has canceled its
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evacuation warnings and targeted evacuation orders for the Franklin and
Palisades fire burn areas as of six o'clock. They say
that is due to improving weather conditions, and that news
from the county follows news from the City of Los Angeles,
which lifted all evacuation orders and warnings which had been
issued for mud or debris flows. That was according to
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the La Fire Department just as we went on the
air today. So the condition seemed to be improving. It
was kind of an annoying day, but nowhere near as
bad as it could have been. There is a wildfire
burning though in California currently, rain and fire pummeling parts
of California, the Packfire forcing evacuations at these ten to
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twenty structures damaged or dis detroid so far, and at
least thirty four hundred acres burning near Mammoth Mountain.
Speaker 9 (15:04):
Was so smoky on the highway right when I turned out,
you couldn't even see the lanes.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
Kay Richmond was one of those forced to leave her home.
She said she'd had less than thirty minutes.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
To pack up.
Speaker 5 (15:14):
The packfire near Mammoth Mountain forcing residents to evacuate, consuming
more than three thousand acres and eighteen percent contained, at
least twenty eight structures destroyed, more than one thousand still
at risk. While the rain should help firefighters loose top
soil after wildfires pose a great risk for mudslides.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
And that fire is burning northeast of Fresno near Mammoth
And as of this moment, CalFire says that the fire
there is about fifty six percent contained and it has
burned around three thousand acres Meanwhile, we've been talking about
burn scars here, Palisades, Eton, Franklin, those the fire itself,
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the Palisades fire in particular, got the attention of US
Senators who came to La to hear from victims of
that fire, who say that fire never should have happened,
and what has happened since is just not good enough.
We'll get into that when Michael Monks Reports continues.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
Next.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
You're listening to KFI Am six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
This is Michael Monks Reports. I'm Michael Monks from KFI
News with you till nine o'clock tonight on a rainy
Saturday evening across southern California. I hope you're safe and dry.
United States Senators members of a committee came out here
to California, including Senator Rick Scott of Florida and Ron
Johnson of Wisconsin, because they wanted to hear from survivors
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of the Palisades fire about what led to that fire
and what has happened since. And the hearing was pretty
emotional on Thursday, as victims talked about losing everything. Twelve people,
of course, died in that fire, and many many homes
and businesses were lost. One of the most outspoken advocates
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who was emerged from that fire is Spencer Pratt, who
gained fame as a reality TV star on MTV. He
has been highly critical if Governor k Newsom of Eliemayor
Bass and of the fire prep, of the fire response,
and the aftermath. And he spoke at this hearing, and
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here is part of what Spencer Pratt told these United
States Senators.
Speaker 10 (17:35):
Despite having routine fires every few decades, the state Park
has failed to do any real prescribe fire or fuels
mitigation to protect our community. And on January first, they
didn't even have the decency to extinguish a small brush
fire that ignited just above us, letting it continue to
burn unchecked for a week ahead of the forecasted Santa
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Ana wins that eventually rekindled the fire and destroyed our
town on January seventh. As you know, my family and
I lost our home, our home, and everything we own
in the Palisades fire. It's been ten months and our
government leaders, instead of helping us rebuild, have only served
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to make the rebuilding process so painful and slow that
many just quit and are forced out of their hometown
through attrition. So vultures like Gavin Newsom and Scott Wiener
have a blank slate to remake the Palisades in the
vision of their wealthy donors and foreign investors. By the
grace of God, my family survived. Twelve the Pallisades family
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were killed in the fire, nearly all of them elderly
or disabled, left to die in their homes. These people,
these twelve people, deserve to feel safe in their homes,
but were instead lost and there was a direct result
of gross negligent and mismanagement vi our state and our
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local government. A small fire ignited on January first, was
abandoned embers visibly smoldering and waiting to be rekindled, with
no management or supervision by Tipega State Park. When the
disaster hit, water spies were inadequate, and we had a
severe lack of first responders due to a series of
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unfortunate choices made by our state and local leaders. After
the fire, residents were left dealing with the consequences of
being uninsured and underinsured make it making it impossible for
them to recoup the value of their homes.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
That was Spencer Pratt, who lost his home in the
Palisades fire. Became famous years ago on MTV and reality programming,
and has since become a vocal opponent of Ellemir Bask
Governor Newsom for their response to the Palisades Fire and
the events that led up to it. He spoke on
Thursday to a United States Senate panel that held a
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hearing here featuring Senators Rick Scott of Florida and Ron
Johnson of Wisconsin, both Republicans. Here's what Senator Rick Scott
said after the hearing.
Speaker 11 (20:14):
I want to thank all the witnesses today. Let's start
with first off, Spitzer Pratt. I came out here in August,
uh to understand what happened. I'd somebody that worked with
me had told me that the basically was no response
to this fire. So what would I learned from talking
to Spencer's The fire shouldn't have happened. There should have
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been that the firefighters should have been able to stop it.
Speaker 6 (20:37):
Uh.
Speaker 11 (20:37):
There's a lot of promises made afterwards that have completely
come that haven't happened, and it's impacted a lot of
our seniors.
Speaker 4 (20:44):
Uh.
Speaker 11 (20:44):
So I want to we want to make sure that
we've helped these victims and this never, never, never happens again,
it's not fair to the people that paid their taxes,
paid their insurance and done all these things, and now
all of a sudden, you know, their house burns down
and there's no help. Sinner Johnson and I are going
to continue to show up. We're going to continue to
make sure that there's a thorough investigation to help these victims,
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especially our senors. The most un vulnerable group is our seniors.
So I just want to thank Spencer Pratt for his help.
I want thank Sena Johnson for his help. But we're
going to get to the bottom of this.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
The fire in the Palisades, we have since learn, was
started by the re emergence of an earlier fire. That's
according to federal prosecutors who have charged demand with setting
what was known as the Lachman fire on January first.
The La Fire Department responded to that fire, but did
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not put it fully out before they left the scene,
and when the Santa Ana Wins blew in nearly a
week later, that fire re emerged and became the destructive
Palisades Fire. That situation was raised at La City Hall
again this week, just yesterday, in fact, as Chief Jim
Moore was confirmed by the LA City Council. He is
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LA Mayor Bass's pick to lead the LA Fire Department
after she fired former fire Chief Kristin Crowley for the
response to the Palisades Fire. Here's what Chief More had
to say.
Speaker 12 (22:09):
The Palisades Fire tested every part of our organization and
took a heartbreaking toll on our residents and on our firefighters.
Yet through it all, the men and women of the
Los Angeles Fire Department stood strong. They worked tirelessly, often
under unbearable conditions, to protect lives, homes, and our communities.
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Their bravery and professionalism are a reminder of what this
department is all about. I want them to know that
I see them, I stand with them, and I will
continue to stand.
Speaker 3 (22:42):
Up for them.
Speaker 12 (22:44):
At the same time, I recognize that we're at a crossroads,
not only for our department, but for public trust. The
media attention following the January wildfires has raised real concerns,
both within our ranks and across our city. I understand
these concerns. I believe that addressing them openly and honestly
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is essential for restoring confidence in our leadership. That's why
I fully support Mayor Bass's request for a throw independent
investigation into the department's response to the Lachman's fire.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
That is new newly named La City Fire Department Chief
I May Moore talking to the City Council just before
they voted to confirm his nomination to lead that embattled
department as it begins to call back public trust in
its favor after the Palisades fire and the Lochman fires
earlier this year. I'll take you to La City Hall next,
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where the LAPD has moved forward with plans to hire
way more officers than the city gave it permission to do.
And that was a big surprise to city council members,
especially the ones who serve on the budget committee. And
then it's forced the city to move some money around.
And the LAPD is not the only department that is
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all ready over budget in an already financially struggling city.
We'll pick up that next here on Michael Monks Reports.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
You're listening to KFI Am six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
This is Michael Monks Reports on Michael Monks from KFI News.
Interesting times at La City Hall because we all know
how difficult the city's financial position is.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
If you listen to KFI.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
At all, we hit this really hard late in the spring,
early in the summer, as the city was crafting its budget,
trying to close a one billion dollar deficit and trying
to prevent the layoffs of sixteen hundred employees.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
Well they did.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
They had to change some things around, move some people
from departments that they did not previously work for, but
they saved all the jobs and closed that budget gap.
But now here we are in December. The fiscal year
started July first, We're approaching December, which would be not
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even five months yet from end of this fiscal year,
and already various departments are overspending again, including the Los
Angeles Police Department. So just this past week, Yaly City
Council had to approve a plan to address a projected
budget gap of two hundred and sixty three million dollars
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caused by unexpected spending and several city departments. Now, this
move that they did this week barely scratches the service
of that two hundred and sixty three million.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
This was just the initial step.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
So they authorized the allocation of just over fourteen million
dollars to cover immediate expenses. That includes more than a
million dollars for outside Council. Now these lawyers that the
city has hired in addition to the city Attorney's office,
these private law firms that they brought on have been
dealing with some fire litigation, but also with homelessness and
lawsuits against the city on that issue. They also had
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to deal with six million dollars for costs related to
clean up a fire debris and repairs to stormwater infrastructure.
But the most surprising to me to emerge from this
conversation this past week involved the Los Angeles Police Department.
The LAPD had been targeted for layoffs when things looked
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bleak at the end of the previous fiscal year. About
four hundred positions were going to be eliminated, not officers,
but civilian workforce, and that ended up not happening. In fact,
the LAPD was greenlighted to hire two hundred and forty
more officers, and then after that they could possibly hire
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another two hundred and forty more if the funding were identified.
That announcement came later from Mahor Bass herself, who said
she had worked with leadership up a city council to
announce this. The problem is the LAPED has already moved
forward with hiring above that two hundred forty mark, and
the money to pay for it has not been identified,
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which surprised Councilman Katie Roslavsky at the City Council's Budget committee.
So let's take a listen to what she had to
say to one of the LAPD representatives.
Speaker 7 (27:22):
Welcome. So, the report details overspending a three point five
to six million resulting from projected sworn hiring above the
levels assumed in the twenty five to twenty six budget.
How many additional recruits does that three point five to
six million account for or is it really just a
question of hiring sooner than expected.
Speaker 9 (27:42):
The three point five to six stuff, say, assumes hiring
up to four hundred and ten recruits, So that's one
hundred seventy one hundred seventy above a two forty that's
budgeted one hundred and seventy of the two forty. The
budget assumed hiring two forty. We are the hiring plan
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assumes we would hire four ten through the end of
the year.
Speaker 7 (28:09):
But that's not what was approved in the budget.
Speaker 3 (28:12):
That's correct.
Speaker 9 (28:13):
The budget assumed hiring two forty.
Speaker 7 (28:17):
So we know because we adopted it and it was
voted on by the Council and signed by the Mayor
that the twenty five to twenty six adopted budget authorized
two hundred and forty police officers, with the potential of
hiring up to four hundred and eighty officers contingent upon
available funding. I'm wondering what funding sources have been identified
to support hiring additional officers.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
Turns out no additional funding sources have been identified. And
that is how things are operated at La City Hall.
People do apparently whatever they want and then they ask
for forgiveness later, and forgiveness comes in the way of
your tax dollars and the city being in financial crisis.
The areas that end up suffering because of this incompetence
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and this lack of account ability are the areas that
you deal with the most. Whether you live in La
or just visit La. It has a lot to do
with the cleanliness of the city and the safety of
the city. Street light, street cleaning, those have been cut dramatically,
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and so does the budget mean anything at all. That's
what Councilman temic Oscar wanted to know.
Speaker 6 (29:24):
We have to be grown ups here. Yeah, every dollar
only has one hundred pennies and the document. The budget
has to mean something. I mean, everyone's worst fear about
a department running rogue, and I think if you put
if you list of the departments that are most likely
to run rogue, we're looking at him right here. I'm
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a huge, gigantic supporter of hiring LAPD officers, but it
has to be in the budget, has to be on
the budget, and it happened.
Speaker 7 (29:58):
And if there's a proposal to find the money so
that we can hire the additional officers, I would welcome
that report so that we can budget it. But we
haven't seen that proposal. Right Where's the new money going
to come from?
Speaker 2 (30:11):
It may come from you, the taxpayer, because it's not
been found yet. The city's financial condition was bad at
the end of the previous physical year. It was bad
to start this current fiscal year. It has only gotten worse.
My prediction, and I'm not always great at handicapping this,
and I hope I'm wrong. Those layoffs are going to
be back on the table when we get to talking
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about the next budget come the spring, and you know
we'll have that covered.
Speaker 3 (30:37):
For you right here.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
Up next, there is a Democrat city official who says
he's no longer a Democrat, and is also hinted that
some zoron Mumdani's are needed here in La. You know
the guy who's just elected mayor of New York City
as a socialist. You'll hear from him at the top
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