January 10, 2025 • 35 mins
Royal Oakes comes on the show to talk about having to evacuate from the Eaton Fire. Jojo from 102.7 KIISFM comes on the show to talk about the partnership iHeartRadio and the LA Dream Center have made to help with the fire relief. Moist Line Rounds 1 & 2.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Can't I am six forty. You're listening to the John
Cobel podcast on the iHeartRadio app. There's a serious movement
to recall Karen Bass. Go to change dot org. Sign
this petition. It's all the way up to thirty nine thousand,
seven hundred ninety one signatures. I think there's been about
three thousand signatures in the last three hours. In the
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last one hour, thirty nine thousand. Just go to change
dot org. Type in Karen Bass in the search box.
Demand the immediate resignation of Mayor Karen Bass, because this
has to end. It's got to be over. This era
has to end, and she should be the first one
carried out, and then we'll work on Newsom. He's got
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to go too. It's over. Let's talk to oh two
rounds of the moistline. Lots of fire reaction on the moistline.
Oh yeah, all right, you're gonna get your say. We've
been here talking most of the time, but you get
your you get your chance. Coming up in the next segment,
let's talk to Royal Oaks, a legal analyst for Can't
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fin and ABC News, and he's evacuated as well.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Royally there, Yeah, I'm here. Pretty scary stuff for this.
I mean we're lucky, of course, Ady in my family,
and but gosh, you know, some people have lost their lives.
I know three guys whose houses burned to the ground
in Altadena. But it was amazing. I've never been through
anything like this.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
John.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
It was about three or four in the morning on Wednesday,
and you know, we kind of knew that we might
be told you got to leave. But you know, it's
just an optimist. You think it's just four or five
miles away in Altadena. So but bam, when you're told
you got to leave, your life, kind of the flightshes
before you. I mean, we've lived in the same house
for thirty nine years, and so when you think about
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taking a last look at it, and you know, what
do you take? Obviously the key thing is that people
and you get the pets safe. But I mean we
had hoses up on our roof, John hooked to a
rooftop sprinkler systems. I'm up there unfurling the hoses and
I just thought to myself, you know, these winds are
pretty high. I think I've got wrapped my arm around
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the balcony. And if I hadn't about five seconds later,
a sixty mile an hour roughly gust hit. I could
have wound up on the ground. That'd be fun to
go to the emergency room on a night like that.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Off a roof at sixty miles an hour and that
would hurt.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Yeah, But I mean everything happens with lightning speed. I
mean you just go from during a sixty in a
matter of minutes, and it's just so tragic what's happened.
And obviously we've got to figure out if anybody is
to blame, and the preparation should have been better. I
posted a substack column. It's called two Lawyers Walk into
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a Bar, but the column, of course, is about the evacuation.
So anybody wants to hear some of the other reflections,
I've got to check out the substack column. But it's
it's really a scary experience. And obviously people are still unsubtle.
I mean, we can't get back into our community, and
I hear about the looting just going crazy. You got
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cops on corners with the you know, let me see
your ID. If you don't have a local idea, they
don't let people in because I mean, it's just ripe
for the picking and nobody's at home, and if the
police weren't there to stop it, I mean, it's just
it's gonna spread like great.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
And last night watching the coverage and having you know,
your phone go off, you know every minute and a
half that there's a new fire here and there, it's like,
obviously the arsonists are on the loose, and the motivation
might be to clear people out of the neighborhood so
they could they could steal everything. That's got to be
going on. That's got to be part of this, because
last night the winds had died down and the fires
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were popping up all over the place in the valley,
not even in the hills.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Absolutely obviously job number one is to get everybody safe
right now. But you know, looking forward, I got to
say you, you did an amazing job interviewing Rick Caruso
the other day in your show, and he takes such
common sense going. I mean, he's obviously cutting the fire
department budget without having any kind of foresight about something
like this. I mean, we got so many and did
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you hear these with the canopies of trees that can
just spread amazingly fast.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
And she had another cut on the table Monday, there
was a memo fifty million dollars more was going to
be cut the day before the Palisades fire, fifty million
more bass was going to cut. You can't make this
stuff up. And when Caruso was on, he was talking
about how the reservoirs were empty and they didn't fill them,
and people said, what is he talking about. Well, we
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found out Times had the story this morning. A one
hundred and seventy million gallon reservoir in Pacific Palisades is
sitting empty. They closed it.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
For me. I think the bottom line is when you
got a government that is focused on shifting to progressive
values and programs and they're happy to cut public safety
and health stuff. Time for a change.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Yeah all right, Well we'll glad you're safe. Your house
is okay.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
So far, so just having to get back in pretty soon.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Okay, Well, thanks for checking in. We'll talk with you soon.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
All right, Royal Oaks, our ABC News legal analysts, now
you last night? Yeah, me, I got a text saying
turn on KFI. Deb's got a breaking news story. And
I'm thinking, well, you just went home and you were
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going to evacuate. What happened here?
Speaker 5 (05:27):
So I was going to evacuate I get home because
of the West Hills Calabasas fire, which was really close
to us. Anyway, So I texted my neighbor and I said,
are you guys going to evacuate? She said, not yet,
we're packed up, we're ready. But we just found out
that some other neighbors they surrounded a guy who was
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riding his mountain bike in our neighborhood with a torch,
allegedly trying to set fires, and they sent me the
pick and I said, wait what I mean?
Speaker 6 (06:02):
Literally it was around the corner from me.
Speaker 5 (06:04):
So I called into the station and I said, hey,
I just want to give you this, this breaking news.
Speaker 6 (06:10):
Do with it what you want.
Speaker 5 (06:12):
Because the guy told me he didn't want to go
on the air, I said, hey, will you go on
the air?
Speaker 6 (06:15):
Can you talk about this?
Speaker 5 (06:16):
And he said, well, I wasn't the one that actually
was there, but other neighbors were there, and you know,
he he was able to take pictures.
Speaker 6 (06:23):
Anyway, you had the photos.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
This really happened. There was a guy really arresting us
for carrying a torch.
Speaker 6 (06:29):
Yes, so.
Speaker 5 (06:31):
I guess he was detained at first. So here's the story.
So that really happened. And then people started piecing this
together and it turned out that he was a possible
arson suspect in that West Hills fire. But they didn't
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arrest him for arson because they don't have the proof yet.
But they did so this guy in my neighborhood going
around with the torch, allegedly trying to start fires.
Speaker 6 (07:01):
They arrested him.
Speaker 5 (07:03):
For violating his parole, a felony parole violation.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
We don't know what the felon is, No, we don't.
Speaker 6 (07:09):
Know, But do you know how scary?
Speaker 5 (07:10):
I mean again, I live up in the hills and
here's a guy that and then these neighbors, God bless them,
they tackled him.
Speaker 6 (07:19):
They zip tied this guy until police arrived.
Speaker 7 (07:22):
He had a.
Speaker 5 (07:23):
Freaking torch and he's going around and trying to set
fires in our neighbors.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
You see a guy with a torch, you gotta tackle
and tie him up because the police aren't going to
get there.
Speaker 5 (07:35):
So now we all have to carry zip ties with
us at all times.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
I guess we do.
Speaker 8 (07:41):
It was it was.
Speaker 6 (07:41):
It was crazy.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
We got a water down our own home like Royal
Oaks did. Because the fire Department's not going to show up.
Speaker 5 (07:48):
And I hate to sound like a broken record because
I have mentioned this a couple of times on the air,
But the winds are picking up again. Next week, Tuesday,
we have another red flag warning and there's no rain,
no rain before Tuesday. So I'd like to know what
are we doing to prepare for next week?
Speaker 9 (08:05):
They're not.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
This is what it's always been. We just didn't have
the crisis to expose it. Now the crisis is exposed
the way the city has been run I think for
over ten years.
Speaker 5 (08:18):
Now, okay, But we have been talking about this new
round of wins for I think at least two days now, okay.
So when we're talking that, the red flag warning goes
into effect on Tuesday, So there's plenty of time that
these officials could make sure that what happened this week
doesn't happen again next week.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Well, I don't know. I think Karen Bass is on
a plane to Zimbabwe. I think there's another inauguration to
attend there, and she's probably going to find another one
hundred million to cut from the fire department budget.
Speaker 6 (08:46):
Don't say that.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
These aren't jokes. I know this is based on reality. Here,
all right, Well, it's your Aura has become dangerous now.
Speaker 6 (08:57):
I know, I knew you were going to say, let me.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Want to live next door to you, let alone be
on a plane with you. I mean, this is this
is terrible there all right. When we come back, it's
going to be your turn to unleash. Got to have
so much stuff still to get to. I guess we're
gonna We're gonna have plenty next week because there's a
whole there's a whole bunch of stories on how we
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got here, all the bad decisions from Karen Bass and Newsome.
It's just the whole range. This had to happen. This
wasn't an accident. This was like, oh my god, it's
bad luck. No, this was going to happen. It was
baked in, and we told you eventually, bad stuff is
going to happen because you cannot run a government a
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society like this. You can't do it. All this progressive
garbage defies all logic and reason, and you can only
do that for so long and then things come crashing down.
And it's crashing now and it may continue to crash
for a while. This is bad. These people have to
resign or be removed, and you have to vote for
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other people. We're pretty far down the hill. Now we'll
talk more.
Speaker 8 (10:13):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Wow. This petition is getting a lot of hits. Change
dot org demand the immediate resignation of Mayor Karen Bass. Yeah,
type in Karen Bass in the search box, and the
demand is that she goes for this massive mismanagement. Gross
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mismanagement is the way it's written, and failure to effectively respond.
Even the fire chief said the city failed the La
Fire Department because the funding was cut, and a memo
has been leaked. On Monday, Bass wanted another fifty million
dollars cut the fire department, and the Wall Street Journal
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has a story I'll tell you about this after Dever's
three thirty news that the Department of Water and Power
did not have a plan to shut off power in
advance of the fires. This is shocking. It flat out
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says they hadn't developed a plan, not that they didn't
execute the plan. I guess they never thought of it.
You know, you shut off the power during a windstorm.
Speaker 6 (11:33):
Well, my power I am a DWP.
Speaker 5 (11:35):
Uh yeah, that's that's who I have, and my power
was shot off, but not preemptively.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Yeah, well no, that's that's after the year after win. Yeah,
the utility pauls pulls fall over and the wires hit
the ground. All right. The the resignation demand, it's up
to forty four hundred and thirty one. What was it
an hour hour ago that I first read that, and
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it was like a thirty six thousand, So it's getting
so demand their immediate reservation. Americ Karen Bass type Karen
Bass in the search box change dot org and let's
create a media event here. Time now for you to
air your grievances. I understand there's a lot of fire
commentary with the Moistline eight seven seven moist eighty six
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round one. Let's go, mak Shure, thanks.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
For calling the moistline. I'm so excited to hear from you.
It's about time.
Speaker 10 (12:31):
What's going on with missim And guess why aren't you
trying to get every resident in state of California to
stop using gas?
Speaker 11 (12:39):
He is crazy as them.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
January sixth, National Store Lose to Day.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
The fires we had to speak are just terrible. But
how was it that they can be running out of water?
The fire department would go to a fire hydrant and
there was no water in it.
Speaker 9 (12:53):
We have an ocean here.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
The desalination plants should be built all along the curst.
There should be no water in California. I love trade travel,
but just California so called high speed trade. It's absurd,
it's o reprised, it should have never been starting.
Speaker 8 (13:10):
And this is such a clown.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
As a first sent from Baker Soil, I cannot imagine
why I'd want to go to Mercet. Why is it
even in Mercett?
Speaker 12 (13:18):
I mean, this guy is a clown.
Speaker 9 (13:20):
Why do they call these things wildfires when most of
these things are either arson or they're down fire lines.
Speaker 13 (13:26):
Why does everybody have to get up and talk. We
don't want to hear about the weather. We already know
the weather's bad. Sit down, shut up and tell us
about the fire. Half the people talking about this thing
don't know anything about it, and I've never even heard
of them. Gavin Newsome, that gigantic idiot.
Speaker 10 (13:43):
Jesus Christ.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
What I'm more on?
Speaker 14 (13:45):
Sure now there's fires raging and you don't find out
your forests. California's nuts, and that's why my husband and
I left. You guys, keep electing the same darn people
every single time.
Speaker 9 (13:59):
It's not cancel the high speed rail, use that lad
to build homeless communities.
Speaker 10 (14:04):
We'll call them Gavin towns.
Speaker 9 (14:06):
This gas drilling banning oil banning thing.
Speaker 11 (14:09):
Is silly from the context that you put.
Speaker 15 (14:11):
It in, and now we have to buy it from adversarial.
Speaker 12 (14:13):
Nations and whatnot.
Speaker 9 (14:15):
But beyond that it.
Speaker 10 (14:16):
Has to get shipped here, which means.
Speaker 9 (14:17):
You're using even more oil.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
It's just lunacy.
Speaker 15 (14:21):
Yeah, I think it's time to maybe think about a
mayor bath recall.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
We can do.
Speaker 10 (14:26):
It means should be held highly responsible or cutting our
water off from the delta, off that little anchoby the
delta smell.
Speaker 7 (14:37):
If we weren't spending so much money on illegal aliens
with a buy more fire trucks, have fireman emergency personnel,
but our money is being wasted elsewhere.
Speaker 16 (14:50):
John, look on the positive side, if Maravas is gone
during this emergency and we don't have to listen to
her ramble on and on and on and on in
the news, that would be the plus side of her
being out of the country during this time that her
city is burning down.
Speaker 13 (15:06):
When you put two hundred hoses on a water system,
it drains.
Speaker 17 (15:10):
Down the water systems where there's no pressure running out
of water.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
That's unexcusable, unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
But we pay the highest taxes in the country.
Speaker 9 (15:20):
Biden asked her to go to Ghana, so it's more
of a political piece and she gets kudos for that
that yet her city's burning down.
Speaker 18 (15:29):
Yeah, big mouth Baths went to Ghana on official business
because it's an inauguration of a president. So we the
taxpayers have to pay for it. And what do we
the taxpayers get for our money in return?
Speaker 1 (15:48):
She just gets a free vacation.
Speaker 9 (15:50):
It's ridiculous.
Speaker 17 (15:52):
The key word about the mayor having access just means
lines were available to her.
Speaker 14 (15:57):
They're playing with words.
Speaker 9 (15:59):
She was on the phone all the time.
Speaker 18 (16:02):
Oh my god, I do not understand the mayor of
La leaving the country.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
She needs to get back right now.
Speaker 10 (16:12):
And give the money from a homeless to the fire
department for God's sake.
Speaker 5 (16:16):
I won't forget that seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars
is more than the president even makes.
Speaker 19 (16:22):
I'll tell you why we don't have any water for
La fire, because we're becoming a third world country or
being run by people are not qualified to be in
their positions when you have that and then I get
hired because of certain criterias that you're going to have
an unacceptable service.
Speaker 9 (16:39):
No, a lot of insurance companies, I'm not going to
cover this, but they're going to find some reason not
to cover it. It's a lot of money.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
Thank you for leaving your message.
Speaker 20 (16:48):
Please hang up, goodbye.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
We've got another round of the voiceline coming up in
the last segment when we return after Deborah's news, the
Departartment of Water Power did not have a plan to
proactively shut off electricity during the windstorms. I thought the
whole world had agreed that they were going to do
that from now on so that the wires don't touch
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down and start vegetation fires.
Speaker 6 (17:18):
Well, we should be burying the wires.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
Yeah, we should have happened. Yeah, like sometime in the
last hundred years. Secondly, the New York Times has a
story on how Los Angeles firefighters ran out of water.
We found out today from the Ally Times that there
was a reservoir. I never heard of this reservoir, but
it holds one hundred and seventeen million gallons of water
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in the Palisades. It exists. It was shut down for maintenance.
It's empty. They decided to do maintenance during fire season,
one hundred and seventeen million gallons. They only had three
million gallons available in their tanks. This is a real story.
Do this all next.
Speaker 8 (18:02):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
In just a moment, we're going to tell you about
the LADWP did not have a plan to shut off
electricity before the windstorm hit. And there's a story from
Daniel Guss and Josh Boswell in the Daily Mail how
the head of the LADWP, Denise Qinonez, knew about the
empty reservoir in the Palisades and the broken hydrants months
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before the fires and did nothing. But first, Jojo on
the radio, Jojoe on Kiss FM. He's at the Dream Center,
the Dream Center in Los Angeles and iHeartMedia Los Angeles
are joining forces to help those affected by the fires
in La County. Jojo, how are you?
Speaker 11 (18:50):
I'm doing good.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
I heard you.
Speaker 11 (18:51):
We were listening to you on the way in and
we heard you talking about the empty reservoirs. And not
to get all into it, but I though you'll be yelling.
But my jos feeling what you're saying. That was just
it's just insanity. But on a good note, this is
one of those you know, we've had very no reason
to smile in the last couple of days for obvious reasons.
But when you see things like this here at the
Dream Center, people are like strangers helping strangers. They we've
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worked with these guys. I don't know if you know
this now, but we work with the Dream Center for
about a decade now, I think something like that. And
when they put the war own, people started running and
people are There's lines of people around the building making
donations or you know, receiving items that they need, and
it's just things are going well on here. I mean
they showed me one room, a pretty good room in
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one of their warehouses. It was empty, completely empty last night,
and today it's full of clothes. So things are you know,
things are moving.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
What kind of things can cafe listeners go and donate?
Speaker 11 (19:46):
Basically, I guess the main thing they're looking for now
is up well everything of course, but nonperishable foods. I
know they're doing a strong push on that. I mean
the list is on the website, but bottled water, sports drinks,
baby supplies, the hygiene product you know, yeah, clothing and blankets,
first aid kids. I know they mentioned air purifiers and math,
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pet food and pet supplies, you know, cleaning supplies.
Speaker 19 (20:10):
You know.
Speaker 11 (20:11):
I'm sure we're missing something on that list, but yeah,
any anything you can think. I mean, I don't know,
Like my car, I've packed up some blankets and water
in the back. We got our suitcase. It's still ready
to go. I live in Santa Florta. We're kind of
keeping an eye on the side valley fires and the
Archer fire that popped up today but luckily got put
up quick. We were all kind of on edge, but
you kind of forget what, you know, like we were
talking on air, but things to pack, you know, in
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your go bag, And then when it was time for
us to pack, I'm like, oh my god, I almost
forgot to do it myself. It's just it's kind of stressful.
So sometimes you just, you know, just whatever you think
people need, bring it. But mainly I guess non perishable
food items are the main thing, and looking for it
right now.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
The Dream Center's at twenty three on Bellevue Avenue in
LA and you could also donate money at Dreamcenter dot
org slash donate Jojo.
Speaker 11 (20:54):
Yeah, great, By the way, John, how are you doing?
Speaker 2 (20:57):
You and your family?
Speaker 21 (20:58):
All good?
Speaker 2 (20:58):
Your house safe and all.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
Yeah, we're about a block and a half from the
mandatory evacuation zone. So I go home and I sit
on the roof. I look to the west, see what's coming.
But yeah, so far, okay, all right, all right? Jojo
on the radio on Kiss FM, and he's doing good
work there at the Dream Center, twenty three year o
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on Bellevue Avenue in La Or donate money at Dreamcenter
dot org slash donate, and he went through the list
there but non perishable food items, bottled water, toothpaste, soap, shampoo, clothing, blankets,
baby supplies, air purifiers, masks, flashlights, and batteries, first aid kits,
pet food, cleaning supplies. Do you have any of that?
You want to go out and buy some of that
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and bring it over to the Dream Center. They need it,
and they're they're handing it out to people who've been
displaced by the fire. Ah, continuing on, Oh, this is
just crazy. According to the Accordy of The Wall Street Journal,
the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power has not
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developed a plan to shut off parts of its electrical
system in advance before windstorms so that the sparks from
the power lines won't start a wildfire. Other Californias do so.
Other California utilities do so periodically. But they.
Speaker 19 (22:26):
Don't.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
They didn't implement the plan. They don't have a plan.
This is inexplicable. You have to be able to cut
off the electricity and advance of a windstorm or the
electrical wires fall and hit the ground. That's been the
source of many of the northern California fires that were really,
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really huge. This is just unbelievable. According to a lawyer
named Michael Wara, who directs the Climate and Energy Policy
Program at Stanford University, LEDWP is operating in a way
that is very different from any of the investor owned
utilities in California or across the West. But there's more.
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According to Daniel Guss, who's on our show Frequencies, an
independent journalist here in La Josh Boswell, we've had on
from the Daily Mail. They have teamed up on a
story that the Daily Mail published. We told you about
Genie Quinonez. She makes seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars
a year she's running the lawp now. She knew that
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the reservoir in the Palisades was empty months ago. She
knew about the broken hydrants. We told you at the
beginning of the show that the La Times had a
story that broke this morning that LADWP had an empty
reservoir in the Palisades that halts one hundred and seventeen
million gallons of water. It was empty because it was
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under maintenance. Apparently it's been under maintenance for months. They
never got around to fixing the cover or whatever their
kakamami excuse is, so they left it empty. We had
the former GM of the LADWP who said, complicated explanation,
but maybe thirty to forty million gallons could have been
available for the Tuesday night fire. They had three million
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gallons in tanks up in the hills, another forty million
gallons that would have given them twelve times as much water.
The original three million gallons lasted seventeen hours. They would
have had twelve times as much water, but they ran out.
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The hydrants were dry, the tanks were empty. Genie Quinonez
knew about the empty reservoir and broken hydrants. You know
what Kinonis did in the past. She used to be
a top executive at PG and E. But you know
the company that went bankrupt because they started all those
massive wildfires in northern California. Is this her life's mission
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to work for public utilities that kill people or destroy
their homes? Is this why she was put on the
planet to be working for companies that either burn down
homes or don't provide water to put out the homes
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that are on fire. She got seven hundred and fifty
thousand dollars on orders of Karen Bass. The city maxed
out its budget to attract private sector talent. This is
private sector talent. CEO Jennis quinnanis. She was a senior
vice president at PG and E from twenty twenty one
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to twenty twenty three. She oversaw the shutdown and the
emptying of the reservoir in the Pacific Palisades. They never
refilled it. The reservoir has been offline for a while.
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It's been months, and they've known about the broken hydrants
for months. At La Fire Department, senior officer told The
Daily Mail that the lack of water was already a
common problem, exasperated exacerbated by the DWP because they failed
to fix cut off fire hydrants, so they shut down
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this reservoir during the entire fire season. At a press
conferences with Kinonas said the firefighters ran out of water
due to low pressure. They were using water faster than
it was being replied. Had they had this reservoir filled,
it would have given them another forty million gallons. They
would not have had lost they would not have lost
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the pressure. So that's why the fire department at three
in the morning on Wednesday was left without water as
a weapon. They had drained their tanks, the reservoir was empty.
Keonas had emptied the reservoir months ago, never refilled it,
never fixed the broken fire hydrants. Play it Runday, night
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and time. But play a little clip. I want people
to know her voice.
Speaker 21 (27:35):
Listen to her so she please correct me if I'm wrong.
But we we were trying to keep water at all
altitudes on the Polisades, and I think about three in
the morning dusk when the hydrants went dried above the
Brainwood area, obviously pushed water on the on the on
that trunk line on the east side of.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
That stop stop. You can just tell the way people talk.
She shut down the reservoir and left it empty one
hundred and seventeen million gallons. The thing sits in the
heart of Pacific Palisades. Karen Bass hired her at paid
her seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars, which was three
hundred thousand dollars more than her predecessor. I'm gonna have
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an aneurysm. Let the people scream. Next Moistline Part two.
Speaker 8 (28:26):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
Six forty Moistline Round two. Let's go.
Speaker 9 (28:36):
Hey, Sean, thanks for calling the moistline.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
I'm so excited to hear from you. To baptime.
Speaker 9 (28:41):
The city looks like a third Dwarf country because of
how filthy and dirty it is. But watch as the
Olympics get closer that certain parts of the city get
cleaned up. That way, mass can just stand on her
ego podium and basque in her glory. The whole homeless debacle,
it's a Monday laundering scheme.
Speaker 17 (29:02):
Newsom's involved, of course, the mayor and a bunch of
other people.
Speaker 22 (29:06):
Why are we spending all this money on high speed
rail when we really could buy our own super Scoopers
and not have to borrow them from Canada instead of
a train to nowhere that nobody wants to ride.
Speaker 20 (29:17):
I love that report that corner bath in the tunnel,
and she was such a whimp that she couldn't.
Speaker 22 (29:22):
Even take the courage to admit what she did with wrongs.
Speaker 9 (29:25):
Get little rid of that.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
Everybody's going to be talking.
Speaker 15 (29:28):
We should have done this and should have looked into that.
NSM be another big fire, and SM be the same situation.
Speaker 13 (29:35):
I swear to God, John, these dump mayors and politicians Ghana.
Who the hell paid for this flight and trip?
Speaker 9 (29:42):
Karen Bass? What is she doing.
Speaker 19 (29:45):
Taking exotic trips when LA has so many problems going on.
Speaker 13 (29:50):
Newsom and Karen Bass are going to make specific palisades,
low income homeless shelters that they rebuild.
Speaker 20 (29:57):
These people I saw today at Costco into Mac. I
knew that they were left wingers, and sure enough, when
the man turned around, he was wearing a sweatshirt emblazoned
on the front with California Air Resources Board.
Speaker 9 (30:12):
Screw Karen Bass a lazy people. The only answer for
the current situation in LA is for the people to
recall them all.
Speaker 16 (30:22):
Biden's giving all this aid right away to California.
Speaker 9 (30:25):
Because if he doesn't, all the Ritchie rich on the
left are never.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
Going to vote for him again.
Speaker 17 (30:29):
Or the Dems, Gavin Newsom, Nancy Pelosi, Karen Bass, all
the other left.
Speaker 13 (30:35):
Wing wackos need to be held vicariously liable for allowing
this fires to happen, forgiving all of our money, all
of our tax base to illegal immigrants, whereas Newton's their
resources board.
Speaker 2 (30:46):
Now look at all the pollution from these fires.
Speaker 19 (30:48):
Give me a break.
Speaker 17 (30:50):
Rachel Garbish should have a statue put on the Capitol
lawn and should get some kind of Metal of Valor award.
God blow us that lady.
Speaker 3 (31:01):
Forty four hours without power.
Speaker 19 (31:04):
We pay the highest electric rates in the country.
Speaker 9 (31:07):
What is wrong with southern California.
Speaker 4 (31:10):
The reason why Kamala Harris was talking is because she's
trying to be the big hero to step into California
to be governor. She doesn't want Bass to be governor.
Speaker 13 (31:21):
California Coastal Commission will never allow those homes to be
built on the west side of the Pacific Coast Highway.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
Ever.
Speaker 12 (31:30):
Again, I think everyone should join me and go into
the LADWP website, going to the report fraud link, calling
that number and then recording the fact that they have
a water director making some of her fifty thousand dollars
a year can't even provide water.
Speaker 15 (31:46):
And I think all this criticism of Mayor Bass for
being exnitor the fire is really unfair and very harsh
because she's so incompetent and ulis what real good could
she have done even if she was sitting in her
office by the former you're gonna do.
Speaker 3 (32:01):
Thank you for leaving your message.
Speaker 20 (32:03):
Please hang up good time.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
That's the moistline eight seven seven Moist eighty six for
next week. And we've got Tim Conway dig dong with you.
Speaker 23 (32:14):
Hey, you know these I just heard that guy talk
about the California Coastal Commission.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
He's right.
Speaker 23 (32:21):
When I was working with Kali Sex, we had a
guy on from the Coastal Commission and I said to
him off the air. He wouldn't say this on the air,
but he said it off the air. That Commission's goal
is to take the entire coast to California and take
it back to nineteen twelve, where no homes are on it.
Before LA was four LA, before San Francisco. They don't
want any homes anywhere near the ocean. No, they're crazy fanatics, right,
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and they're not answerable to anybody, the governor. They're not
answerable to the governor. They don't report to the governor.
They report to nobody. It's the strongest agency in California
by far, and they're never going to allow it, those
those houses to be permitted again ever.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
I've read that. I mean, that's true. That that's the
kind of power they have.
Speaker 23 (33:02):
It takes you six seven years to renovate your home
in Malibu when you're you're not even building up from
the top, you're just moving you know, a wall or
or you know, a part of your patio.
Speaker 1 (33:13):
It takes five, six seven years. No, it's a choking
bureaucracy because they're crazy people. They're crazy fanatics, and you
can't recall them, you can't vote for them, you can't
remove them. It's just but the terrible No, it's gonna
be a nightmare for all these people. And you know,
the Coastal Commission is not just on the beach. It
comes inland.
Speaker 23 (33:31):
I don't remember how how ful it is, but it's
not short, you know, it's like a half mile or
mile or something, and a lot of those homes in
Pacific Palisades probably fall into that California Coastal Commission.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
Oh yeah, they will. And there the ones on the
Malibu Beach.
Speaker 23 (33:45):
You watch these wealthy people get pissed. They're going to
be really effing angry. You know, when there are two
people in this country, you really don't want to piss
off one of them are people with nothing to lose.
They're the most dangerous people in the world. The second
the wealthy. You kiss off wealthy people who have eight, nine,
ten million dollar homes. They always get their way, that's
their use to and if you tell them no, watch out.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
Yeah, well they ought to get all these people removed
out of government. Now this is going to be some show.
Speaker 23 (34:13):
Yeah, when these wealthy people come down and lay the
law down, I hope.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
So they're going somebody's got to do it.
Speaker 23 (34:19):
They're going to they're going to the Pacific Palisades are
going to change this state.
Speaker 1 (34:23):
They're going to change this Right. If this isn't the moment,
then you might as well pack up and leave.
Speaker 23 (34:28):
Yeah, they're going to change the way government works in
this state because they are. They are on their last nerve. Yeah,
and look there are people signing up right now for FEMA,
who are getting denied already?
Speaker 1 (34:40):
Is that right? They're already getting denied.
Speaker 23 (34:42):
I heard one of the supervisors talk about today somebody
signed up for some relief and it was already denied,
denied before they ask. Yeah, this is going to change
politics in California forever.
Speaker 1 (34:53):
Well, I guess maybe that's what was needed. Maybe I
don't know, it's not. People are not it's going to
take that crap. All right, Conway's next, and we got.
Speaker 23 (34:59):
A host of I've got like thirty people on today,
all right, too many people.
Speaker 1 (35:03):
And Kruzer's got the News live in the CAF. Oh oh,
one more thing. I wanted to mention the change dot
org petition typing Karen Bass in the search box. The
petition is demand the immediate resignation of Mayor Karen Bass.
Forty two and seventeen signatures up six thousand signatures in
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just the last hour and a half. After that's right,
Krusher's got the News Live CAFI twenty four hour News Center. Hey,
you've been listening to the John Covelt Show podcast. You
can always hear the show live on KFI AM six
forty from one to four pm every Monday through Friday,
and of course anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
Can't I am six forty. You're listening to the John
Cobel podcast on the iHeartRadio app. There's a serious movement
to recall Karen Bass. Go to change dot org. Sign
this petition. It's all the way up to thirty nine thousand,
seven hundred ninety one signatures. I think there's been about
three thousand signatures in the last three hours. In the
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last one hour, thirty nine thousand. Just go to change
dot org. Type in Karen Bass in the search box.
Demand the immediate resignation of Mayor Karen Bass, because this
has to end. It's got to be over. This era
has to end, and she should be the first one
carried out, and then we'll work on Newsom. He's got
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to go too. It's over. Let's talk to oh two
rounds of the moistline. Lots of fire reaction on the moistline.
Oh yeah, all right, you're gonna get your say. We've
been here talking most of the time, but you get
your you get your chance. Coming up in the next segment,
let's talk to Royal Oaks, a legal analyst for Can't
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fin and ABC News, and he's evacuated as well.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Royally there, Yeah, I'm here. Pretty scary stuff for this.
I mean we're lucky, of course, Ady in my family,
and but gosh, you know, some people have lost their lives.
I know three guys whose houses burned to the ground
in Altadena. But it was amazing. I've never been through
anything like this.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
John.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
It was about three or four in the morning on Wednesday,
and you know, we kind of knew that we might
be told you got to leave. But you know, it's
just an optimist. You think it's just four or five
miles away in Altadena. So but bam, when you're told
you got to leave, your life, kind of the flightshes
before you. I mean, we've lived in the same house
for thirty nine years, and so when you think about
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taking a last look at it, and you know, what
do you take? Obviously the key thing is that people
and you get the pets safe. But I mean we
had hoses up on our roof, John hooked to a
rooftop sprinkler systems. I'm up there unfurling the hoses and
I just thought to myself, you know, these winds are
pretty high. I think I've got wrapped my arm around
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the balcony. And if I hadn't about five seconds later,
a sixty mile an hour roughly gust hit. I could
have wound up on the ground. That'd be fun to
go to the emergency room on a night like that.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Off a roof at sixty miles an hour and that
would hurt.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Yeah, But I mean everything happens with lightning speed. I
mean you just go from during a sixty in a
matter of minutes, and it's just so tragic what's happened.
And obviously we've got to figure out if anybody is
to blame, and the preparation should have been better. I
posted a substack column. It's called two Lawyers Walk into
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a Bar, but the column, of course, is about the evacuation.
So anybody wants to hear some of the other reflections,
I've got to check out the substack column. But it's
it's really a scary experience. And obviously people are still unsubtle.
I mean, we can't get back into our community, and
I hear about the looting just going crazy. You got
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cops on corners with the you know, let me see
your ID. If you don't have a local idea, they
don't let people in because I mean, it's just ripe
for the picking and nobody's at home, and if the
police weren't there to stop it, I mean, it's just
it's gonna spread like great.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
And last night watching the coverage and having you know,
your phone go off, you know every minute and a
half that there's a new fire here and there, it's like,
obviously the arsonists are on the loose, and the motivation
might be to clear people out of the neighborhood so
they could they could steal everything. That's got to be
going on. That's got to be part of this, because
last night the winds had died down and the fires
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were popping up all over the place in the valley,
not even in the hills.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Absolutely obviously job number one is to get everybody safe
right now. But you know, looking forward, I got to
say you, you did an amazing job interviewing Rick Caruso
the other day in your show, and he takes such
common sense going. I mean, he's obviously cutting the fire
department budget without having any kind of foresight about something
like this. I mean, we got so many and did
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you hear these with the canopies of trees that can
just spread amazingly fast.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
And she had another cut on the table Monday, there
was a memo fifty million dollars more was going to
be cut the day before the Palisades fire, fifty million
more bass was going to cut. You can't make this
stuff up. And when Caruso was on, he was talking
about how the reservoirs were empty and they didn't fill them,
and people said, what is he talking about. Well, we
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found out Times had the story this morning. A one
hundred and seventy million gallon reservoir in Pacific Palisades is
sitting empty. They closed it.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
For me. I think the bottom line is when you
got a government that is focused on shifting to progressive
values and programs and they're happy to cut public safety
and health stuff. Time for a change.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Yeah all right, Well we'll glad you're safe. Your house
is okay.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
So far, so just having to get back in pretty soon.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Okay, Well, thanks for checking in. We'll talk with you soon.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
All right, Royal Oaks, our ABC News legal analysts, now
you last night? Yeah, me, I got a text saying
turn on KFI. Deb's got a breaking news story. And
I'm thinking, well, you just went home and you were
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going to evacuate. What happened here?
Speaker 5 (05:27):
So I was going to evacuate I get home because
of the West Hills Calabasas fire, which was really close
to us. Anyway, So I texted my neighbor and I said,
are you guys going to evacuate? She said, not yet,
we're packed up, we're ready. But we just found out
that some other neighbors they surrounded a guy who was
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riding his mountain bike in our neighborhood with a torch,
allegedly trying to set fires, and they sent me the
pick and I said, wait what I mean?
Speaker 6 (06:02):
Literally it was around the corner from me.
Speaker 5 (06:04):
So I called into the station and I said, hey,
I just want to give you this, this breaking news.
Speaker 6 (06:10):
Do with it what you want.
Speaker 5 (06:12):
Because the guy told me he didn't want to go
on the air, I said, hey, will you go on
the air?
Speaker 6 (06:15):
Can you talk about this?
Speaker 5 (06:16):
And he said, well, I wasn't the one that actually
was there, but other neighbors were there, and you know,
he he was able to take pictures.
Speaker 6 (06:23):
Anyway, you had the photos.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
This really happened. There was a guy really arresting us
for carrying a torch.
Speaker 6 (06:29):
Yes, so.
Speaker 5 (06:31):
I guess he was detained at first. So here's the story.
So that really happened. And then people started piecing this
together and it turned out that he was a possible
arson suspect in that West Hills fire. But they didn't
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arrest him for arson because they don't have the proof yet.
But they did so this guy in my neighborhood going
around with the torch, allegedly trying to start fires.
Speaker 6 (07:01):
They arrested him.
Speaker 5 (07:03):
For violating his parole, a felony parole violation.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
We don't know what the felon is, No, we don't.
Speaker 6 (07:09):
Know, But do you know how scary?
Speaker 5 (07:10):
I mean again, I live up in the hills and
here's a guy that and then these neighbors, God bless them,
they tackled him.
Speaker 6 (07:19):
They zip tied this guy until police arrived.
Speaker 7 (07:22):
He had a.
Speaker 5 (07:23):
Freaking torch and he's going around and trying to set
fires in our neighbors.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
You see a guy with a torch, you gotta tackle
and tie him up because the police aren't going to
get there.
Speaker 5 (07:35):
So now we all have to carry zip ties with
us at all times.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
I guess we do.
Speaker 8 (07:41):
It was it was.
Speaker 6 (07:41):
It was crazy.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
We got a water down our own home like Royal
Oaks did. Because the fire Department's not going to show up.
Speaker 5 (07:48):
And I hate to sound like a broken record because
I have mentioned this a couple of times on the air,
But the winds are picking up again. Next week, Tuesday,
we have another red flag warning and there's no rain,
no rain before Tuesday. So I'd like to know what
are we doing to prepare for next week?
Speaker 9 (08:05):
They're not.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
This is what it's always been. We just didn't have
the crisis to expose it. Now the crisis is exposed
the way the city has been run I think for
over ten years.
Speaker 5 (08:18):
Now, okay, But we have been talking about this new
round of wins for I think at least two days now, okay.
So when we're talking that, the red flag warning goes
into effect on Tuesday, So there's plenty of time that
these officials could make sure that what happened this week
doesn't happen again next week.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Well, I don't know. I think Karen Bass is on
a plane to Zimbabwe. I think there's another inauguration to
attend there, and she's probably going to find another one
hundred million to cut from the fire department budget.
Speaker 6 (08:46):
Don't say that.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
These aren't jokes. I know this is based on reality. Here,
all right, Well, it's your Aura has become dangerous now.
Speaker 6 (08:57):
I know, I knew you were going to say, let me.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Want to live next door to you, let alone be
on a plane with you. I mean, this is this
is terrible there all right. When we come back, it's
going to be your turn to unleash. Got to have
so much stuff still to get to. I guess we're
gonna We're gonna have plenty next week because there's a
whole there's a whole bunch of stories on how we
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got here, all the bad decisions from Karen Bass and Newsome.
It's just the whole range. This had to happen. This
wasn't an accident. This was like, oh my god, it's
bad luck. No, this was going to happen. It was
baked in, and we told you eventually, bad stuff is
going to happen because you cannot run a government a
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society like this. You can't do it. All this progressive
garbage defies all logic and reason, and you can only
do that for so long and then things come crashing down.
And it's crashing now and it may continue to crash
for a while. This is bad. These people have to
resign or be removed, and you have to vote for
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other people. We're pretty far down the hill. Now we'll
talk more.
Speaker 8 (10:13):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Wow. This petition is getting a lot of hits. Change
dot org demand the immediate resignation of Mayor Karen Bass. Yeah,
type in Karen Bass in the search box, and the
demand is that she goes for this massive mismanagement. Gross
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mismanagement is the way it's written, and failure to effectively respond.
Even the fire chief said the city failed the La
Fire Department because the funding was cut, and a memo
has been leaked. On Monday, Bass wanted another fifty million
dollars cut the fire department, and the Wall Street Journal
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has a story I'll tell you about this after Dever's
three thirty news that the Department of Water and Power
did not have a plan to shut off power in
advance of the fires. This is shocking. It flat out
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says they hadn't developed a plan, not that they didn't
execute the plan. I guess they never thought of it.
You know, you shut off the power during a windstorm.
Speaker 6 (11:33):
Well, my power I am a DWP.
Speaker 5 (11:35):
Uh yeah, that's that's who I have, and my power
was shot off, but not preemptively.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Yeah, well no, that's that's after the year after win. Yeah,
the utility pauls pulls fall over and the wires hit
the ground. All right. The the resignation demand, it's up
to forty four hundred and thirty one. What was it
an hour hour ago that I first read that, and
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it was like a thirty six thousand, So it's getting
so demand their immediate reservation. Americ Karen Bass type Karen
Bass in the search box change dot org and let's
create a media event here. Time now for you to
air your grievances. I understand there's a lot of fire
commentary with the Moistline eight seven seven moist eighty six
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round one. Let's go, mak Shure, thanks.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
For calling the moistline. I'm so excited to hear from you.
It's about time.
Speaker 10 (12:31):
What's going on with missim And guess why aren't you
trying to get every resident in state of California to
stop using gas?
Speaker 11 (12:39):
He is crazy as them.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
January sixth, National Store Lose to Day.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
The fires we had to speak are just terrible. But
how was it that they can be running out of water?
The fire department would go to a fire hydrant and
there was no water in it.
Speaker 9 (12:53):
We have an ocean here.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
The desalination plants should be built all along the curst.
There should be no water in California. I love trade travel,
but just California so called high speed trade. It's absurd,
it's o reprised, it should have never been starting.
Speaker 8 (13:10):
And this is such a clown.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
As a first sent from Baker Soil, I cannot imagine
why I'd want to go to Mercet. Why is it
even in Mercett?
Speaker 12 (13:18):
I mean, this guy is a clown.
Speaker 9 (13:20):
Why do they call these things wildfires when most of
these things are either arson or they're down fire lines.
Speaker 13 (13:26):
Why does everybody have to get up and talk. We
don't want to hear about the weather. We already know
the weather's bad. Sit down, shut up and tell us
about the fire. Half the people talking about this thing
don't know anything about it, and I've never even heard
of them. Gavin Newsome, that gigantic idiot.
Speaker 10 (13:43):
Jesus Christ.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
What I'm more on?
Speaker 14 (13:45):
Sure now there's fires raging and you don't find out
your forests. California's nuts, and that's why my husband and
I left. You guys, keep electing the same darn people
every single time.
Speaker 9 (13:59):
It's not cancel the high speed rail, use that lad
to build homeless communities.
Speaker 10 (14:04):
We'll call them Gavin towns.
Speaker 9 (14:06):
This gas drilling banning oil banning thing.
Speaker 11 (14:09):
Is silly from the context that you put.
Speaker 15 (14:11):
It in, and now we have to buy it from adversarial.
Speaker 12 (14:13):
Nations and whatnot.
Speaker 9 (14:15):
But beyond that it.
Speaker 10 (14:16):
Has to get shipped here, which means.
Speaker 9 (14:17):
You're using even more oil.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
It's just lunacy.
Speaker 15 (14:21):
Yeah, I think it's time to maybe think about a
mayor bath recall.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
We can do.
Speaker 10 (14:26):
It means should be held highly responsible or cutting our
water off from the delta, off that little anchoby the
delta smell.
Speaker 7 (14:37):
If we weren't spending so much money on illegal aliens
with a buy more fire trucks, have fireman emergency personnel,
but our money is being wasted elsewhere.
Speaker 16 (14:50):
John, look on the positive side, if Maravas is gone
during this emergency and we don't have to listen to
her ramble on and on and on and on in
the news, that would be the plus side of her
being out of the country during this time that her
city is burning down.
Speaker 13 (15:06):
When you put two hundred hoses on a water system,
it drains.
Speaker 17 (15:10):
Down the water systems where there's no pressure running out
of water.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
That's unexcusable, unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
But we pay the highest taxes in the country.
Speaker 9 (15:20):
Biden asked her to go to Ghana, so it's more
of a political piece and she gets kudos for that
that yet her city's burning down.
Speaker 18 (15:29):
Yeah, big mouth Baths went to Ghana on official business
because it's an inauguration of a president. So we the
taxpayers have to pay for it. And what do we
the taxpayers get for our money in return?
Speaker 1 (15:48):
She just gets a free vacation.
Speaker 9 (15:50):
It's ridiculous.
Speaker 17 (15:52):
The key word about the mayor having access just means
lines were available to her.
Speaker 14 (15:57):
They're playing with words.
Speaker 9 (15:59):
She was on the phone all the time.
Speaker 18 (16:02):
Oh my god, I do not understand the mayor of
La leaving the country.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
She needs to get back right now.
Speaker 10 (16:12):
And give the money from a homeless to the fire
department for God's sake.
Speaker 5 (16:16):
I won't forget that seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars
is more than the president even makes.
Speaker 19 (16:22):
I'll tell you why we don't have any water for
La fire, because we're becoming a third world country or
being run by people are not qualified to be in
their positions when you have that and then I get
hired because of certain criterias that you're going to have
an unacceptable service.
Speaker 9 (16:39):
No, a lot of insurance companies, I'm not going to
cover this, but they're going to find some reason not
to cover it. It's a lot of money.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
Thank you for leaving your message.
Speaker 20 (16:48):
Please hang up, goodbye.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
We've got another round of the voiceline coming up in
the last segment when we return after Deborah's news, the
Departartment of Water Power did not have a plan to
proactively shut off electricity during the windstorms. I thought the
whole world had agreed that they were going to do
that from now on so that the wires don't touch
(17:16):
down and start vegetation fires.
Speaker 6 (17:18):
Well, we should be burying the wires.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
Yeah, we should have happened. Yeah, like sometime in the
last hundred years. Secondly, the New York Times has a
story on how Los Angeles firefighters ran out of water.
We found out today from the Ally Times that there
was a reservoir. I never heard of this reservoir, but
it holds one hundred and seventeen million gallons of water
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in the Palisades. It exists. It was shut down for maintenance.
It's empty. They decided to do maintenance during fire season,
one hundred and seventeen million gallons. They only had three
million gallons available in their tanks. This is a real story.
Do this all next.
Speaker 8 (18:02):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
In just a moment, we're going to tell you about
the LADWP did not have a plan to shut off
electricity before the windstorm hit. And there's a story from
Daniel Guss and Josh Boswell in the Daily Mail how
the head of the LADWP, Denise Qinonez, knew about the
empty reservoir in the Palisades and the broken hydrants months
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before the fires and did nothing. But first, Jojo on
the radio, Jojoe on Kiss FM. He's at the Dream Center,
the Dream Center in Los Angeles and iHeartMedia Los Angeles
are joining forces to help those affected by the fires
in La County. Jojo, how are you?
Speaker 11 (18:50):
I'm doing good.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
I heard you.
Speaker 11 (18:51):
We were listening to you on the way in and
we heard you talking about the empty reservoirs. And not
to get all into it, but I though you'll be yelling.
But my jos feeling what you're saying. That was just
it's just insanity. But on a good note, this is
one of those you know, we've had very no reason
to smile in the last couple of days for obvious reasons.
But when you see things like this here at the
Dream Center, people are like strangers helping strangers. They we've
(19:13):
worked with these guys. I don't know if you know
this now, but we work with the Dream Center for
about a decade now, I think something like that. And
when they put the war own, people started running and
people are There's lines of people around the building making
donations or you know, receiving items that they need, and
it's just things are going well on here. I mean
they showed me one room, a pretty good room in
(19:33):
one of their warehouses. It was empty, completely empty last night,
and today it's full of clothes. So things are you know,
things are moving.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
What kind of things can cafe listeners go and donate?
Speaker 11 (19:46):
Basically, I guess the main thing they're looking for now
is up well everything of course, but nonperishable foods. I
know they're doing a strong push on that. I mean
the list is on the website, but bottled water, sports drinks,
baby supplies, the hygiene product you know, yeah, clothing and blankets,
first aid kids. I know they mentioned air purifiers and math,
(20:06):
pet food and pet supplies, you know, cleaning supplies.
Speaker 19 (20:10):
You know.
Speaker 11 (20:11):
I'm sure we're missing something on that list, but yeah,
any anything you can think. I mean, I don't know,
Like my car, I've packed up some blankets and water
in the back. We got our suitcase. It's still ready
to go. I live in Santa Florta. We're kind of
keeping an eye on the side valley fires and the
Archer fire that popped up today but luckily got put
up quick. We were all kind of on edge, but
you kind of forget what, you know, like we were
talking on air, but things to pack, you know, in
(20:31):
your go bag, And then when it was time for
us to pack, I'm like, oh my god, I almost
forgot to do it myself. It's just it's kind of stressful.
So sometimes you just, you know, just whatever you think
people need, bring it. But mainly I guess non perishable
food items are the main thing, and looking for it
right now.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
The Dream Center's at twenty three on Bellevue Avenue in
LA and you could also donate money at Dreamcenter dot
org slash donate Jojo.
Speaker 11 (20:54):
Yeah, great, By the way, John, how are you doing?
Speaker 2 (20:57):
You and your family?
Speaker 21 (20:58):
All good?
Speaker 2 (20:58):
Your house safe and all.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
Yeah, we're about a block and a half from the
mandatory evacuation zone. So I go home and I sit
on the roof. I look to the west, see what's coming.
But yeah, so far, okay, all right, all right? Jojo
on the radio on Kiss FM, and he's doing good
work there at the Dream Center, twenty three year o
(21:21):
on Bellevue Avenue in La Or donate money at Dreamcenter
dot org slash donate, and he went through the list
there but non perishable food items, bottled water, toothpaste, soap, shampoo, clothing, blankets,
baby supplies, air purifiers, masks, flashlights, and batteries, first aid kits,
pet food, cleaning supplies. Do you have any of that?
You want to go out and buy some of that
(21:42):
and bring it over to the Dream Center. They need it,
and they're they're handing it out to people who've been
displaced by the fire. Ah, continuing on, Oh, this is
just crazy. According to the Accordy of The Wall Street Journal,
the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power has not
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developed a plan to shut off parts of its electrical
system in advance before windstorms so that the sparks from
the power lines won't start a wildfire. Other Californias do so.
Other California utilities do so periodically. But they.
Speaker 19 (22:26):
Don't.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
They didn't implement the plan. They don't have a plan.
This is inexplicable. You have to be able to cut
off the electricity and advance of a windstorm or the
electrical wires fall and hit the ground. That's been the
source of many of the northern California fires that were really,
(22:50):
really huge. This is just unbelievable. According to a lawyer
named Michael Wara, who directs the Climate and Energy Policy
Program at Stanford University, LEDWP is operating in a way
that is very different from any of the investor owned
utilities in California or across the West. But there's more.
(23:18):
According to Daniel Guss, who's on our show Frequencies, an
independent journalist here in La Josh Boswell, we've had on
from the Daily Mail. They have teamed up on a
story that the Daily Mail published. We told you about
Genie Quinonez. She makes seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars
a year she's running the lawp now. She knew that
(23:41):
the reservoir in the Palisades was empty months ago. She
knew about the broken hydrants. We told you at the
beginning of the show that the La Times had a
story that broke this morning that LADWP had an empty
reservoir in the Palisades that halts one hundred and seventeen
million gallons of water. It was empty because it was
(24:04):
under maintenance. Apparently it's been under maintenance for months. They
never got around to fixing the cover or whatever their
kakamami excuse is, so they left it empty. We had
the former GM of the LADWP who said, complicated explanation,
but maybe thirty to forty million gallons could have been
available for the Tuesday night fire. They had three million
(24:28):
gallons in tanks up in the hills, another forty million
gallons that would have given them twelve times as much water.
The original three million gallons lasted seventeen hours. They would
have had twelve times as much water, but they ran out.
(24:48):
The hydrants were dry, the tanks were empty. Genie Quinonez
knew about the empty reservoir and broken hydrants. You know
what Kinonis did in the past. She used to be
a top executive at PG and E. But you know
the company that went bankrupt because they started all those
massive wildfires in northern California. Is this her life's mission
(25:14):
to work for public utilities that kill people or destroy
their homes? Is this why she was put on the
planet to be working for companies that either burn down
homes or don't provide water to put out the homes
(25:36):
that are on fire. She got seven hundred and fifty
thousand dollars on orders of Karen Bass. The city maxed
out its budget to attract private sector talent. This is
private sector talent. CEO Jennis quinnanis. She was a senior
vice president at PG and E from twenty twenty one
(25:56):
to twenty twenty three. She oversaw the shutdown and the
emptying of the reservoir in the Pacific Palisades. They never
refilled it. The reservoir has been offline for a while.
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It's been months, and they've known about the broken hydrants
for months. At La Fire Department, senior officer told The
Daily Mail that the lack of water was already a
common problem, exasperated exacerbated by the DWP because they failed
to fix cut off fire hydrants, so they shut down
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this reservoir during the entire fire season. At a press
conferences with Kinonas said the firefighters ran out of water
due to low pressure. They were using water faster than
it was being replied. Had they had this reservoir filled,
it would have given them another forty million gallons. They
would not have had lost they would not have lost
(27:08):
the pressure. So that's why the fire department at three
in the morning on Wednesday was left without water as
a weapon. They had drained their tanks, the reservoir was empty.
Keonas had emptied the reservoir months ago, never refilled it,
never fixed the broken fire hydrants. Play it Runday, night
(27:33):
and time. But play a little clip. I want people
to know her voice.
Speaker 21 (27:35):
Listen to her so she please correct me if I'm wrong.
But we we were trying to keep water at all
altitudes on the Polisades, and I think about three in
the morning dusk when the hydrants went dried above the
Brainwood area, obviously pushed water on the on the on
that trunk line on the east side of.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
That stop stop. You can just tell the way people talk.
She shut down the reservoir and left it empty one
hundred and seventeen million gallons. The thing sits in the
heart of Pacific Palisades. Karen Bass hired her at paid
her seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars, which was three
hundred thousand dollars more than her predecessor. I'm gonna have
(28:20):
an aneurysm. Let the people scream. Next Moistline Part two.
Speaker 8 (28:26):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
Six forty Moistline Round two. Let's go.
Speaker 9 (28:36):
Hey, Sean, thanks for calling the moistline.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
I'm so excited to hear from you. To baptime.
Speaker 9 (28:41):
The city looks like a third Dwarf country because of
how filthy and dirty it is. But watch as the
Olympics get closer that certain parts of the city get
cleaned up. That way, mass can just stand on her
ego podium and basque in her glory. The whole homeless debacle,
it's a Monday laundering scheme.
Speaker 17 (29:02):
Newsom's involved, of course, the mayor and a bunch of
other people.
Speaker 22 (29:06):
Why are we spending all this money on high speed
rail when we really could buy our own super Scoopers
and not have to borrow them from Canada instead of
a train to nowhere that nobody wants to ride.
Speaker 20 (29:17):
I love that report that corner bath in the tunnel,
and she was such a whimp that she couldn't.
Speaker 22 (29:22):
Even take the courage to admit what she did with wrongs.
Speaker 9 (29:25):
Get little rid of that.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
Everybody's going to be talking.
Speaker 15 (29:28):
We should have done this and should have looked into that.
NSM be another big fire, and SM be the same situation.
Speaker 13 (29:35):
I swear to God, John, these dump mayors and politicians Ghana.
Who the hell paid for this flight and trip?
Speaker 9 (29:42):
Karen Bass? What is she doing.
Speaker 19 (29:45):
Taking exotic trips when LA has so many problems going on.
Speaker 13 (29:50):
Newsom and Karen Bass are going to make specific palisades,
low income homeless shelters that they rebuild.
Speaker 20 (29:57):
These people I saw today at Costco into Mac. I
knew that they were left wingers, and sure enough, when
the man turned around, he was wearing a sweatshirt emblazoned
on the front with California Air Resources Board.
Speaker 9 (30:12):
Screw Karen Bass a lazy people. The only answer for
the current situation in LA is for the people to
recall them all.
Speaker 16 (30:22):
Biden's giving all this aid right away to California.
Speaker 9 (30:25):
Because if he doesn't, all the Ritchie rich on the
left are never.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
Going to vote for him again.
Speaker 17 (30:29):
Or the Dems, Gavin Newsom, Nancy Pelosi, Karen Bass, all
the other left.
Speaker 13 (30:35):
Wing wackos need to be held vicariously liable for allowing
this fires to happen, forgiving all of our money, all
of our tax base to illegal immigrants, whereas Newton's their
resources board.
Speaker 2 (30:46):
Now look at all the pollution from these fires.
Speaker 19 (30:48):
Give me a break.
Speaker 17 (30:50):
Rachel Garbish should have a statue put on the Capitol
lawn and should get some kind of Metal of Valor award.
God blow us that lady.
Speaker 3 (31:01):
Forty four hours without power.
Speaker 19 (31:04):
We pay the highest electric rates in the country.
Speaker 9 (31:07):
What is wrong with southern California.
Speaker 4 (31:10):
The reason why Kamala Harris was talking is because she's
trying to be the big hero to step into California
to be governor. She doesn't want Bass to be governor.
Speaker 13 (31:21):
California Coastal Commission will never allow those homes to be
built on the west side of the Pacific Coast Highway.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
Ever.
Speaker 12 (31:30):
Again, I think everyone should join me and go into
the LADWP website, going to the report fraud link, calling
that number and then recording the fact that they have
a water director making some of her fifty thousand dollars
a year can't even provide water.
Speaker 15 (31:46):
And I think all this criticism of Mayor Bass for
being exnitor the fire is really unfair and very harsh
because she's so incompetent and ulis what real good could
she have done even if she was sitting in her
office by the former you're gonna do.
Speaker 3 (32:01):
Thank you for leaving your message.
Speaker 20 (32:03):
Please hang up good time.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
That's the moistline eight seven seven Moist eighty six for
next week. And we've got Tim Conway dig dong with you.
Speaker 23 (32:14):
Hey, you know these I just heard that guy talk
about the California Coastal Commission.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
He's right.
Speaker 23 (32:21):
When I was working with Kali Sex, we had a
guy on from the Coastal Commission and I said to
him off the air. He wouldn't say this on the air,
but he said it off the air. That Commission's goal
is to take the entire coast to California and take
it back to nineteen twelve, where no homes are on it.
Before LA was four LA, before San Francisco. They don't
want any homes anywhere near the ocean. No, they're crazy fanatics, right,
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and they're not answerable to anybody, the governor. They're not
answerable to the governor. They don't report to the governor.
They report to nobody. It's the strongest agency in California
by far, and they're never going to allow it, those
those houses to be permitted again ever.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
I've read that. I mean, that's true. That that's the
kind of power they have.
Speaker 23 (33:02):
It takes you six seven years to renovate your home
in Malibu when you're you're not even building up from
the top, you're just moving you know, a wall or
or you know, a part of your patio.
Speaker 1 (33:13):
It takes five, six seven years. No, it's a choking
bureaucracy because they're crazy people. They're crazy fanatics, and you
can't recall them, you can't vote for them, you can't
remove them. It's just but the terrible No, it's gonna
be a nightmare for all these people. And you know,
the Coastal Commission is not just on the beach. It
comes inland.
Speaker 23 (33:31):
I don't remember how how ful it is, but it's
not short, you know, it's like a half mile or
mile or something, and a lot of those homes in
Pacific Palisades probably fall into that California Coastal Commission.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
Oh yeah, they will. And there the ones on the
Malibu Beach.
Speaker 23 (33:45):
You watch these wealthy people get pissed. They're going to
be really effing angry. You know, when there are two
people in this country, you really don't want to piss
off one of them are people with nothing to lose.
They're the most dangerous people in the world. The second
the wealthy. You kiss off wealthy people who have eight, nine,
ten million dollar homes. They always get their way, that's
their use to and if you tell them no, watch out.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
Yeah, well they ought to get all these people removed
out of government. Now this is going to be some show.
Speaker 23 (34:13):
Yeah, when these wealthy people come down and lay the
law down, I hope.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
So they're going somebody's got to do it.
Speaker 23 (34:19):
They're going to they're going to the Pacific Palisades are
going to change this state.
Speaker 1 (34:23):
They're going to change this Right. If this isn't the moment,
then you might as well pack up and leave.
Speaker 23 (34:28):
Yeah, they're going to change the way government works in
this state because they are. They are on their last nerve. Yeah,
and look there are people signing up right now for FEMA,
who are getting denied already?
Speaker 1 (34:40):
Is that right? They're already getting denied.
Speaker 23 (34:42):
I heard one of the supervisors talk about today somebody
signed up for some relief and it was already denied,
denied before they ask. Yeah, this is going to change
politics in California forever.
Speaker 1 (34:53):
Well, I guess maybe that's what was needed. Maybe I
don't know, it's not. People are not it's going to
take that crap. All right, Conway's next, and we got.
Speaker 23 (34:59):
A host of I've got like thirty people on today,
all right, too many people.
Speaker 1 (35:03):
And Kruzer's got the News live in the CAF. Oh oh,
one more thing. I wanted to mention the change dot
org petition typing Karen Bass in the search box. The
petition is demand the immediate resignation of Mayor Karen Bass.
Forty two and seventeen signatures up six thousand signatures in
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just the last hour and a half. After that's right,
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