January 15, 2025 • 31 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 3 (01/15) - Orange County DA Todd Spitzer comes on the show to talk about he is teaming with with LA County DA Nathan Hochman to try to make looting a felony punishable by state prison. Data shows that the LA Fire Department is one of the most underfunded departments in the country. More on John's personal experience being in the evacuation warning zone for the Palisades Fire.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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We are now going to talk with Todd Spitzer, Orange
County DA. He and Nathan Hockman have put out a
public demand asking Governor Newsom to have a special legislative
session to make looting a felony punishable by state prison.
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I didn't know that looting was not a felon. Is
a felony punishable by state prison?
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Who knew?
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Let's get Todd on here, Todd, this has got to
be some kind of joke.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Yeah, well, let me just clarify just it's a little
bit of a nuance right now. Looting in California is
a local jail time, so you can't go to state prison.
It's still a felony, but it's what we call a wobbler,
which means a judge can reduce it to a misdemeanor.
We want to take that away, make it a state
prison charge. We want to make it a strike. In California.
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If you look at the report, some of these people
being arrested have strikes. Well, if you already have a strike,
if it's your third strike, the looting, you can go
away for twenty five to life. That's a deterrent. John.
That's what we need, right, need these criminals to think twice.
But they still have the mindset under George Gascon and
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the Karen Beth State legislature that nothing happens to you
when you hurt good people. And so we want to
make it a strike. We want to make it state prison.
And the other thing that's not a crime. This is
what's not a crime. If you trespass onto somebody's property
where their home is ashes and you're trying to find say, jewelry,
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things that are you know, metals that are diamonds or
things like that, that is not a crime. It's a
crime to trespass, which is a simple misdemeanor. But if
you trespass to commit looting for the purpose of stealing,
that is not a crime. In California and we want
to make that a crime. So if you're digging through
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right the ashes of these individuals who are like circling
like vultures, acting like scavengers and grave robbers, we want
to make sure they're punished. Not only punished, John, but
they have to understand, these criminals, that there's a deterrent.
Who the hell is paying for all this? You and
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I pay for our homeowner's insurance, our personal property right,
We pay our taxes for police and fire. Do you
know no one's even thinking about the recovery costs for
the National Guard, for all these firefighters and deputy sheriffs
who are being deployed to keep people out. We ought
to pay for that. Like, at the end of the day,
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there's absolute consequences for the legislature that Karen Bass created
when she was Speaker of the Assembly, and now we're
living with the consequences of the people who are criminals
in the aftermath of these horrific fires.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
I had forgotten. I wonder when she was Speaker of
the Assembly how many garbage bills were passed under her leadership.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
I was there, John, I was an assemblyman, she was
my speaker. I had fab beyond Nunyaz and Karen Baths
fab beyond Nunyaz was the one who murdered the college
student when he was going to San Diego. No, I'm
sorry Fabyon's son, but that we were dealing with this
mentality up there that everybody can be rehabilitated and no
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one is responsible for the consequences of their action. And
then look at this is what's happening today. The homeless
and everything else is a result of the policies that
these elected officials have created in the other offices that
they've held in the past.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Yeah, that's what's stunning. And most people don't know that.
They don't remember that Karen Bass ran the Assembly and
a lot of these terrible bills that gave criminals such
license to steal and harm people they passed under her
rule with her support.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Well, let me just tell you. I mean, you know, Nathan, listen.
One of the things I do want to highlight is
I am so pleased to be working with mister Hawkman
as a district attorney who's a real leader and cares
deeply about protecting Los Angeles County. And I heard during
the news top of the hour what he said about
filing against people if they can charge them with murder
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and things like that, life in prison. But let me
tell you, I couldn't get George Gass going on the
phone to even have a conversation, let alone leading a
charge in California. To get the legislature to pay attention
to the looting statue. Oh that's a great thing.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
I wondered how many of these guys that they've arrested
that Hawkman's prosecuting had long rap sheets and never spent
any time in jail because the gas going the last
four years.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
I can tell you without even studying it, all those
guys who have strikes, nothing happened to him under gascon
If their crimes were within the last four years, they
got probably apologies letters for him. And now if we
can change the law, now, mind you just think about this.
If we don't get this special session from the governor,
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then all the arrests that are being made are still
being prosecuted under the old law, and we can't charge
these people or Nathan cannot have cannot charge. We need
the law changes immediately so we can use these laws
to go after these scuff laws.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
All right, If the law's not changed, and these looting
charges could be a misdemeanor or a felony. It's a
wobbler who decides that it could be a misdemeanor.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Is that a judge?
Speaker 3 (06:04):
So the DA makes the initial decision what to charge,
but a judge can reduce it. And we know with
so many of Newsom's appointees now to the Superior Court,
he's appointed so many liberal judges, former public defenders, they've
made a mockery of the criminal justice system.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Okay, so that's why.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
You need them.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
That's why you need this law past to make it
mandatory that it's a selony.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
That's not exactly right.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
John can't be reduced to misdemeanor, can't be a wobbler.
It's going to be a felony, and you will go
to state prison.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
Absolutely. We cannot allow the judges. You know, they're like, ah, whatever,
they don't care. I mean sometimes they do, but you know,
if the cases get aged over a period of years,
they lose interest. There's not as much media scrutiny. So
they give a guy a break. These people don't deserve
any breaks whatsoever. We are all paying for it. We're
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going to continue to pay for it. We can't afford
our infrastructure. We pay taxes the highest in the nation,
and yet we don't have water in our reservoirs or
at the fire hydrants. Can you believe that criminal in
and of itself? John, Now tell me what is going on?
Speaker 2 (07:13):
How could they not fill a reservoir with one hundred
and seventeen million gallons? How could they decide not to
send fire engines and firefighters to a high risk area?
Speaker 1 (07:24):
How does this all go on?
Speaker 2 (07:25):
How do they They have underfunded the LA Fire Department
by fifty percent.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Right, but everybody who's homeless deserves to have a five
hundred thousand dollars home. Let's not forget that. Let's not
forget the priorities. We're not giving people a tough shed,
a place that's humane to live in and take them
out of the elements. We need to build them a
complete condominium or apartment. And the money's been squandered in
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La to the tune five hundred thousand dollars a.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Door we spend, and yet.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
We don't have money. So we don't have enough money
for the homeless, who a lot don't even want to
be indoors. But we can't even afford to protect the
caxpay the people that are working every day to sustain
the government in and of itself. And what you didn't
mention about miss baths and going to Ghana and being
in Congress is guess who was paying for all those trips.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
We were, We were, we were.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
We were. So when you're deciding, do I want to
leave Congress and get travel all over the world at
the best hotels for free, or do I want to
go back to the city of Los Angeles and actually
be closest to the government and the constituents and they
can see my work every day and when I fail,
it's front and center. That's what local government is. It
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is potholes, fire hydrants, and reservoirs.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
You know, we paid billions for homeless here in La County,
and we got more homeless. We paid billions for that
high speed railroad. We have no railroad, and then they
underfund fire department by fifty percent and the Palisades burns
to the ground.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
Well, by the time this is done, the smart people
are going to take the money whatever they can get
from the insurance companies and they're going to go to
Tennessee and we're going to lose all of that tax base,
not only because people cannot live here and afford to
live here. They won't be able to get insurance, they
will not be able to rebuild, We will not get materials.
It will be years before we recover from any of
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this because of the cost of goods and services and
the lack of skilled labor. And people are just going
to say, I can't put up with California anymore.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
All right, Todd, thank you for coming on.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
Hi, John, thank you.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
God Spitzer. All Right, We've got so much more to do.
CNN did an extensive story today about LA Fire Department
being the most understaffed fire department in America. Seriously, that's
the headline in CNN. At CNN, we'll tell you about it.
Speaker 4 (10:03):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
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Speaker 1 (10:09):
Listen to this. This is from CNN.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Data shows that LA Fire Department among the most understaffed
in America. Less than a month before the fire swept
across Los Angeles, a group of longtime firefighters gathered at
city Hall to plead for more resources. Was Karen Bass
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in that day or was she maybe in the Philippines.
I don't know her travel schedule, so firefighters said they
were at a breaking point. Another revealed that million dollar
fire trucks are sitting idle because of budget cuts. It
has shrunk the number of mechanics. They don't have the
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mechanics to fix them. There were reports that there were
one hundred fire trucks waiting to be fixed no mechanics.
Freddie Escobar, who's on this show, president of the city's
fire union, I'm going to say what people can't say.
If we cut one position, if we close one station,
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the residents of Los Angeles are going to pay the
ultimate sacrifice and someone will die. He said this twenty
one days before the Palisades fire. We had Freddy on
the air just recently and he told us a lot
of behind the scenes information about what's going on here
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and the way he said, I'm going to say what
people can't say. Everybody's afraid to say. The truth is
everybody afraid is afraid they're going to get fired, demoded, investigated,
put on leave, smeared in the media. Everything they say
will be denied. They're character torn up. Part that's the
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problem here. Nobody can tell the truth because everyone's terrified,
because these stupid bastards in power that everybody keeps voting
for over and over again, and then Karen Bass goes
drinking in Africa party with the President of Ghana after
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the fire warning. A CNN analysis of the most recent
data they looked at the ten largest US cities and
other comparable departments shows that the Los Angeles Fire Department
is less staffed than almost any other major city. It
is struggling to meet daily emergencies and larger disasters. CNN says,
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despite being located in one of the most fire prone
areas in the country, the Los Angeles Fire Department has
less than one firefighter for every one thousand residents.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
It's post to have double that.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
Chicago, Dallas, and Houston has two firefighters every thousand residents.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
We have one.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
One of the speakers that joined the firefighters Council, member
Tracy Park, the only same one out of fifteen council members.
She warned that, by the way, have you seen any
other council members stepping forward like she?
Speaker 1 (13:31):
Has you seen anybody?
Speaker 2 (13:35):
Where are they all, all these well progressive jackasses who
defunded the fire department for decades? Where are they now
hiding in their safe homes? That didn't burn down. Nobody
in their family died. They didn't lose all their belongings.
They have all their sofas and televisions and beds and clothes.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
And their dogs and their cats.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Huh, I'm talking about the other fourteen. She warned resources
were being stressed. She warned this a month ago, Tracy.
She warned that resources were being strained quote beyond the brink,
despite a dangerously increasing risk of wildfire. And didn't they
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say that over and over again climate change? Oh fires
all season, fires all year now, not just a season.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
What did you do then? Oh? You drained the reservoir.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
Good idea. Hey, you know these really bad firestorms are
coming because of climate change. I know it. I know
what to do. Let's drain one hundred and seventeen million
gallons out of the reservoir. Excellent idea. Shows you are
really fearful of climate change, right, you really are afraid
of that, you phony baloney. But they are a bunch
of hocksters climate change. You should be building extra reservoirs,
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you idiots, Tracy Park said, time and again, elected leaders
in Los Angeles have failed to make meaningful and vent
spens on our public safety. As a result, Angelino's are
suffering the consequences. Twenty one days later, specific Palisades burns.
The firefighters say their lack of resources means they have
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trouble responding to structural fires, traffic accidents, medical emergencies which
have spiked amid a worsening homeless crisis.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
I can't tell you how I mean.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Fourteen thousand fires a year started by drug addicts and
mental patients who are living out in public. I think
Garcetti and Bass didn't do anything about. They work over time,
double time, They're exhausted, They're emotionally and physically spent. Then
when they are available, there were a thousand firefighters available
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to go up to the Palisades to act as a
preventative measure. None of the thousand were sent there. On
that Tuesday morning, forty fire engines parked. None of those
were sent there. They sent and I'll go through this again.
I started the show with it. I want everybody listening
listens late in the show to understand this story of
the La Times today about how they had forty engines
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and a thousand firefighters that they did not send to
the Palisades NodD until the fire was completely out of control.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
Don't tell me. Don't tell me.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
Forty engines, a thousand firefighters, and one hundred and seventeen
million gallons of water wouldn't have had effect on a
fire if they could have gotten it right in the
first half hour hour, of course it would have. And
Kristin Crowley wrote the same thing the fire chief, and
the memo was on the city website. Karen Bass has
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taken it down. She's tried to erase the evidence, but
nothing disappears on the internet. There are screenshots of that
memo and it's made its way into all the stories.
Crowley said that the city's population had own from two
and a half million in nineteen sixty to four million
in twenty twenty, but the city has fewer fire stations
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today than it did in nineteen sixty, even though the
call volume has more than quadrupled. In that memo, the
agency needs sixty two new fire stations one hundreds more
firefighters just to meet the national average, and of course
we have an above average fire risk. Bass did put
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budget cuts into the department, claiming it was tough budgetary times. Bass,
not responding to a request from CNN Fire Department of
ficials not responding to a request from CNN, and Escobar says,
this isn't about one budget cycle, It's about a single
This is not about a single mayor. This has been
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the case for decades, Garcetti Viragosa, probably since.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
Dick Reardon was the mayor.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
I've had nothing but idiots cutting the budget and not
growing the fire department, but billions on homeless, billions on
high speed rail, billions to give to all the fraudsters
around the world for COVID unemployment, nothing for the La
Fire Department, and the Palisades.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
Is in ruins.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
You vote for these people, you defend them, some of
you to the death. I hear people defending bass. Don't
want to hear it. Don't want to live with you
people anymore. You're ething crazy.
Speaker 4 (18:32):
You are You're listening to John Cobels on demand from
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Speaker 2 (18:39):
And I'm going to tell you something, and upfront, I'm
going to say that my problem is is petty compared
to what the people are suffering with Pacific Palisades. But
I just want to mention it briefly as a warning
to everybody in the Palisades. What you're in for we
have the power out in our neighborhood. It's been out
since Friday night. We're not in fire danger anymore. There
may have been some damage. LADWP. Every time we call
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them we get a different answer, like six different answers.
And now we're being told that LADWP won't do anything
without permission from the Los Angeles Fire Department. LA Fire
Department has to approve. They have not And now it
could be next week, maybe next Tuesday, that we'd live.
Next Tuesday, we have to hover for another week in
the dark. It's fifty eight degrees in our house. And again,
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I'm in no danger of anything bad happening. I got
a couple of birds that I don't know what to
do with because they can't live that long in fifty
eight degree weather. But outside of that, we're all fine,
no damage. You cannot believe the run around we're getting
from LADWP and other city offices. And you were on
the phone.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
I was on the.
Speaker 5 (19:42):
Phone for hours this morning talking to LADWP and a
local fire station, and then fire station tells me one thing,
DWP tells me another. We have trees that are literally
branches are hanging over power lines, and that's pretty scary,
and so I call DWP. They said no, talk to
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the fire department. The fire department says no, that's DWP.
DWP says, well, we can't do anything if it's on
private property. And I mean back and forth, back and forth.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
They do this on.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
Purpose, that's the game plan.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
Everybody at the DWP, they got a little sign on
the desk, tell them to call the fire department. At
the fire department, tell them to call DWP. They do
this on purpose. We are run by idiots or worse,
people who don't care. Maybe an idiot cares, but he's
just incompetent. These people don't care.
Speaker 5 (20:37):
And then I found out something new and interesting. So
DWP is not going to trim trees if they're on
low power voltage lines, but if they are on high
power voltage lines, they will. But because there are so
many overgrown trees right in branches hanging over power lines
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all over the place, I have no idea how long
it's going to take for them to get to all
of those.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
A crew showed up in front of our house today
to cut some trees that are touching power lines in
front of our home. They show up today as a
private company that was contracted out. Yes, they show up
after the fire happened. All the months and years that
we did have a fire, we haven't had a fire
in our area since I think twenty eighteen, the Getty fire.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
S it's been seven years. Nobody cut the trees.
Speaker 5 (21:29):
So in seven years, nobody has cut those trees that
were hanging over your power lines.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
I don't ever remember seeing a crew. Suppose it could
have come when I wasn't around, but my wife and
I don't remember this happening. I'm seeing now tree cutting crews.
Actually saw three of them. I drove from my house
to my friend in Westwood where I'm taking a shower
every day, and then up here over to Burbank, and
I'm seeing crews now after it happened.
Speaker 5 (21:56):
Well, the Santa Anna's are going to be coming back
Monday too, Tuesday, and then the bad Santa Anna's. This
is in the forecast coming back. I think it's Thursday, and.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
Then yes, you mean next week, Yes, next week. I
told you yesterday that I didn't want to believe we're
coming back. So they are.
Speaker 5 (22:13):
They're going to be your Monday, Tuesday, and then the
bad ones on Thursday. So it is a good thing
that they are cutting down.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
Oh I'm glad they are. But can you imagine the summer.
Speaker 5 (22:24):
If we hardly get any rain, then we're going to
have the Santa Anna is blowing and we're going to
have the heat.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
Yeah, and now I know, Now I know.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
The part of the La Fire Department is fifty percent underfunded,
and the ones they do have, they don't deploy the firefighters,
they don't deploy the fire trucks. Everybody lies like hell,
people write memos, people make speeches, and Karen Bass might
be in Africa. Let me quickly go through a story
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we discussed at the beginning of the show. I just
want as many people as possible to hear about it.
Please go read it. It's in the La Times. It's
written by Paul Pringle, a lean check Mitian Dakota Smith.
Headline is LA Fire officials could have put engines in
the palisades before the fire.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
They didn't.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
This is the La Times acting like a responsible newspaper
and doing journalism again. It's the same writers and editors
that we had two months ago. But Trump won soon
Chiong had an epiphany and now the orders have gone
out to start covering news like normal newspeople used to do.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
All right, we'll take it.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
So they discovered, and they've got proof that the top
commanders in the LA Fire Department did not decided not
to assign one thousand available firefighters and forty fire engines
water carrying engines in advance of the fire. They had
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put nine engines in the San Fernando Valley in Hollywood,
they were on duty. They had forty more, but they
thought there were going to be fires in the valley
and in Hollywood. They didn't expect one in the Palisades why,
I don't know. They still had a fire smoldering from
New Year's Day that might have been set by fireworks,
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might have been the cause of the reignition, don't know
for sure.
Speaker 3 (24:24):
Yet.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
You hear them complaining that they about the cuts in
the budget, and that's true. Budget's been cut, it's fifty
percent underfunded. The low water levels in the fire hydrants,
that's true, because they didn't fill the one hundred and
seventeen million gallon reservoir.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
All true.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
But they had a thousand extra firefighters that they could
have asked to stay for a second shift, and they
had forty engines available of course, the fire chief, Kristen
Crowley is saying, well, we're getting a lot of nine
to one one calls.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
They doubled down trees, down power lines, but.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
A lot of homeless people starting fires fourteen thousand a year.
You've got to connect all these dots. Garsetti. Allowing the
homeless situation to metastasize and grow wild has further destroyed
the city. Still to this day, I hope he never
comes back from India. It's funny how these mayors love
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to be overseas. He lusted after India, Bass lusted after Ghana,
but neither one of them wants to run the place
and do the basics. Los Angeles Fire Department, a battalion
chief Rick Crawford said, the plan they're using now you
should have used before the fire. And Crowley, the fire chief,
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she and her staff are now giving all sorts of
different stories. Every time the Times calls they get a
differ story. A documents showed that they had a ready
reserve of nine engines to go to fire prone areas.
The fire department said no. Some officials said no, And
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at first they said, well, those nine engines were inoperable.
Then another spokesman said well, four of the nine were
not available. Then a third official had a document that
said seven were actually in service at one point or
another after the fire ignited. And then you have the
Deputy Chief, Richard Fields, who according to The Times, was
in charge of staffing and equipment decisions ahead of the fire,
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said that his plan was appropriate for immediate response. No,
it was it Pacific Palisades is gone. But thanks for trying.
Speaker 4 (26:46):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI Am
six forty.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
Only got a minute. I wanted to fit this in.
There's still some dope still working at the LA time
who think it's twenty twenty. Russ Mitchell writes endless climate
change columns, and I wish they had written half as
many columns about the LA Fire Department being fifty percent
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underfunded as they have written articles about climate change. But
he had to admit that owning an electric vehicle when
fire breaks out and you have to evacuate probably not
the best move.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
He writes.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
You've plugged your electric vehicle into your home charger, hit
the sack overnight high winds, top of the power line,
your charger blacks out. Report of a fire evacuation order.
Your battery is only charged to twenty five percent, and
it's your only car. And now suddenly California car buyers
are expressing fears. Yeah, what do you think there's nowhere
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to charge these cars.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
On Palisades?
Speaker 2 (28:00):
Drive trying to get out of the Palisades and your
electric car is on low battery. You are screwed. You
are going to burn to death and die. Oh and
if your electric vehicle catches fire, those things, those things
burn for days. And I love this quote. Some industry
analysts named Jessica Caldwell well evs require a different relationship
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with your vehicle that people have had before. They require
a lot more planning. I don't want to plan when
there's a fire burning in my backyard. I want to
get in the car and drive out of there at
ninety miles an hour.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
I don't want to plan. Oh is there an electric
vehicle charging station around?
Speaker 3 (28:44):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (28:44):
My god.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
This includes, she says, setting up a home charger, which
sometimes requires an electrical upgrade.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
Don't want to do that.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
Calculating roots for longer distance travel to find where charging
is available. I do that in the middle of a fire.
People are insane searching for working public chargers. When charging
stations are jammed or chargers are inoperable. Do you know
what it would have been like if we had nothing
but charging stations in the palisades, all those cars. People
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just started shooting each other. Yeah, electric cars, good idea, Conway.
Speaker 6 (29:29):
Buddy, I agree with you, but I think that that
we're old school, especially you. You don't go to Costco
because when it was price Club, somebody returned all your
items thirty five years.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
Ago, not thirty five years ago. But just to that
is right. That's a great story. That's a great story.
I hold brudges for a long time. I get it.
I get it.
Speaker 6 (29:53):
You've got to you know, you gotta let them know
they're not screwed around with the wrong guy.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
We've got we got a big show here. Chris Christy's
coming on.
Speaker 6 (30:00):
He's done some amazing work for Channel seven in the
helicopter over these fires.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
For the last week and two days.
Speaker 6 (30:06):
And then we also have the head of Petco, the
director of life saving at Petco coming on to talk
about your pets. That's a big story as well. And
then a guy named Brad Meltzer, a very popular author.
He wrote the JFK Conspiracy the secret plot that killed
Kennedy and whyatt failed and so we'll talk to him
because now with Trump getting into the Oval office, he
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might release all that stuff.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
I know it's sixty years yeah right, yeah, over sixty years, yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
Sixty two years or so, yeah, sixty two years.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
Yeah, yeah, that's there must be something in there. Yeah, right,
why wouldn't sailed down for sixty two? And even Trump
had promised the first time he was going to open
it up and then he looked at it, going not
now yeah, well now he's not running for reelection, right, yeah,
so everything goes. I mean, almost everybody from the era
is dead, so yeah, right, everybody.
Speaker 6 (30:54):
But you know, even all that, you know, the Walter Cronkites,
everybody reported.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
It, you know, all the CIA officer, sure, they're all
people with Linda Johnson, right because eveny other suspects.
Speaker 6 (31:04):
Even if you were in the CIA at twenty, which
is very young, you're already eighty two, you know, and
that's a long eighty two.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
Yeah, you know, yeah, you know, you don't know what's
going on anyway. Ye uh all right, Conway's next.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
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We are now going to talk with Todd Spitzer, Orange
County DA. He and Nathan Hockman have put out a
public demand asking Governor Newsom to have a special legislative
session to make looting a felony punishable by state prison.
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I didn't know that looting was not a felon. Is
a felony punishable by state prison?
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Who knew?
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Let's get Todd on here, Todd, this has got to
be some kind of joke.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Yeah, well, let me just clarify just it's a little
bit of a nuance right now. Looting in California is
a local jail time, so you can't go to state prison.
It's still a felony, but it's what we call a wobbler,
which means a judge can reduce it to a misdemeanor.
We want to take that away, make it a state
prison charge. We want to make it a strike. In California.
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If you look at the report, some of these people
being arrested have strikes. Well, if you already have a strike,
if it's your third strike, the looting, you can go
away for twenty five to life. That's a deterrent. John.
That's what we need, right, need these criminals to think twice.
But they still have the mindset under George Gascon and
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the Karen Beth State legislature that nothing happens to you
when you hurt good people. And so we want to
make it a strike. We want to make it state prison.
And the other thing that's not a crime. This is
what's not a crime. If you trespass onto somebody's property
where their home is ashes and you're trying to find say, jewelry,
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things that are you know, metals that are diamonds or
things like that, that is not a crime. It's a
crime to trespass, which is a simple misdemeanor. But if
you trespass to commit looting for the purpose of stealing,
that is not a crime. In California and we want
to make that a crime. So if you're digging through
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right the ashes of these individuals who are like circling
like vultures, acting like scavengers and grave robbers, we want
to make sure they're punished. Not only punished, John, but
they have to understand, these criminals, that there's a deterrent.
Who the hell is paying for all this? You and
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I pay for our homeowner's insurance, our personal property right,
We pay our taxes for police and fire. Do you
know no one's even thinking about the recovery costs for
the National Guard, for all these firefighters and deputy sheriffs
who are being deployed to keep people out. We ought
to pay for that. Like, at the end of the day,
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there's absolute consequences for the legislature that Karen Bass created
when she was Speaker of the Assembly, and now we're
living with the consequences of the people who are criminals
in the aftermath of these horrific fires.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
I had forgotten. I wonder when she was Speaker of
the Assembly how many garbage bills were passed under her leadership.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
I was there, John, I was an assemblyman, she was
my speaker. I had fab beyond Nunyaz and Karen Baths
fab beyond Nunyaz was the one who murdered the college
student when he was going to San Diego. No, I'm
sorry Fabyon's son, but that we were dealing with this
mentality up there that everybody can be rehabilitated and no
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one is responsible for the consequences of their action. And
then look at this is what's happening today. The homeless
and everything else is a result of the policies that
these elected officials have created in the other offices that
they've held in the past.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Yeah, that's what's stunning. And most people don't know that.
They don't remember that Karen Bass ran the Assembly and
a lot of these terrible bills that gave criminals such
license to steal and harm people they passed under her
rule with her support.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Well, let me just tell you. I mean, you know, Nathan, listen.
One of the things I do want to highlight is
I am so pleased to be working with mister Hawkman
as a district attorney who's a real leader and cares
deeply about protecting Los Angeles County. And I heard during
the news top of the hour what he said about
filing against people if they can charge them with murder
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and things like that, life in prison. But let me
tell you, I couldn't get George Gass going on the
phone to even have a conversation, let alone leading a
charge in California. To get the legislature to pay attention
to the looting statue. Oh that's a great thing.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
I wondered how many of these guys that they've arrested
that Hawkman's prosecuting had long rap sheets and never spent
any time in jail because the gas going the last
four years.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
I can tell you without even studying it, all those
guys who have strikes, nothing happened to him under gascon
If their crimes were within the last four years, they
got probably apologies letters for him. And now if we
can change the law, now, mind you just think about this.
If we don't get this special session from the governor,
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then all the arrests that are being made are still
being prosecuted under the old law, and we can't charge
these people or Nathan cannot have cannot charge. We need
the law changes immediately so we can use these laws
to go after these scuff laws.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
All right, If the law's not changed, and these looting
charges could be a misdemeanor or a felony. It's a
wobbler who decides that it could be a misdemeanor.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Is that a judge?
Speaker 3 (06:04):
So the DA makes the initial decision what to charge,
but a judge can reduce it. And we know with
so many of Newsom's appointees now to the Superior Court,
he's appointed so many liberal judges, former public defenders, they've
made a mockery of the criminal justice system.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Okay, so that's why.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
You need them.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
That's why you need this law past to make it
mandatory that it's a selony.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
That's not exactly right.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
John can't be reduced to misdemeanor, can't be a wobbler.
It's going to be a felony, and you will go
to state prison.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
Absolutely. We cannot allow the judges. You know, they're like, ah, whatever,
they don't care. I mean sometimes they do, but you know,
if the cases get aged over a period of years,
they lose interest. There's not as much media scrutiny. So
they give a guy a break. These people don't deserve
any breaks whatsoever. We are all paying for it. We're
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going to continue to pay for it. We can't afford
our infrastructure. We pay taxes the highest in the nation,
and yet we don't have water in our reservoirs or
at the fire hydrants. Can you believe that criminal in
and of itself? John, Now tell me what is going on?
Speaker 2 (07:13):
How could they not fill a reservoir with one hundred
and seventeen million gallons? How could they decide not to
send fire engines and firefighters to a high risk area?
Speaker 1 (07:24):
How does this all go on?
Speaker 2 (07:25):
How do they They have underfunded the LA Fire Department
by fifty percent.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Right, but everybody who's homeless deserves to have a five
hundred thousand dollars home. Let's not forget that. Let's not
forget the priorities. We're not giving people a tough shed,
a place that's humane to live in and take them
out of the elements. We need to build them a
complete condominium or apartment. And the money's been squandered in
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La to the tune five hundred thousand dollars a.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Door we spend, and yet.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
We don't have money. So we don't have enough money
for the homeless, who a lot don't even want to
be indoors. But we can't even afford to protect the
caxpay the people that are working every day to sustain
the government in and of itself. And what you didn't
mention about miss baths and going to Ghana and being
in Congress is guess who was paying for all those trips.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
We were, We were, we were.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
We were. So when you're deciding, do I want to
leave Congress and get travel all over the world at
the best hotels for free, or do I want to
go back to the city of Los Angeles and actually
be closest to the government and the constituents and they
can see my work every day and when I fail,
it's front and center. That's what local government is. It
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is potholes, fire hydrants, and reservoirs.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
You know, we paid billions for homeless here in La County,
and we got more homeless. We paid billions for that
high speed railroad. We have no railroad, and then they
underfund fire department by fifty percent and the Palisades burns
to the ground.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
Well, by the time this is done, the smart people
are going to take the money whatever they can get
from the insurance companies and they're going to go to
Tennessee and we're going to lose all of that tax base,
not only because people cannot live here and afford to
live here. They won't be able to get insurance, they
will not be able to rebuild, We will not get materials.
It will be years before we recover from any of
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this because of the cost of goods and services and
the lack of skilled labor. And people are just going
to say, I can't put up with California anymore.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
All right, Todd, thank you for coming on.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
Hi, John, thank you.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
God Spitzer. All Right, We've got so much more to do.
CNN did an extensive story today about LA Fire Department
being the most understaffed fire department in America. Seriously, that's
the headline in CNN. At CNN, we'll tell you about it.
Speaker 4 (10:03):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Listen to this. This is from CNN.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Data shows that LA Fire Department among the most understaffed
in America. Less than a month before the fire swept
across Los Angeles, a group of longtime firefighters gathered at
city Hall to plead for more resources. Was Karen Bass
(10:37):
in that day or was she maybe in the Philippines.
I don't know her travel schedule, so firefighters said they
were at a breaking point. Another revealed that million dollar
fire trucks are sitting idle because of budget cuts. It
has shrunk the number of mechanics. They don't have the
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mechanics to fix them. There were reports that there were
one hundred fire trucks waiting to be fixed no mechanics.
Freddie Escobar, who's on this show, president of the city's
fire union, I'm going to say what people can't say.
If we cut one position, if we close one station,
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the residents of Los Angeles are going to pay the
ultimate sacrifice and someone will die. He said this twenty
one days before the Palisades fire. We had Freddy on
the air just recently and he told us a lot
of behind the scenes information about what's going on here
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and the way he said, I'm going to say what
people can't say. Everybody's afraid to say. The truth is
everybody afraid is afraid they're going to get fired, demoded, investigated,
put on leave, smeared in the media. Everything they say
will be denied. They're character torn up. Part that's the
(12:02):
problem here. Nobody can tell the truth because everyone's terrified,
because these stupid bastards in power that everybody keeps voting
for over and over again, and then Karen Bass goes
drinking in Africa party with the President of Ghana after
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the fire warning. A CNN analysis of the most recent
data they looked at the ten largest US cities and
other comparable departments shows that the Los Angeles Fire Department
is less staffed than almost any other major city. It
is struggling to meet daily emergencies and larger disasters. CNN says,
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despite being located in one of the most fire prone
areas in the country, the Los Angeles Fire Department has
less than one firefighter for every one thousand residents.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
It's post to have double that.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
Chicago, Dallas, and Houston has two firefighters every thousand residents.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
We have one.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
One of the speakers that joined the firefighters Council, member
Tracy Park, the only same one out of fifteen council members.
She warned that, by the way, have you seen any
other council members stepping forward like she?
Speaker 1 (13:31):
Has you seen anybody?
Speaker 2 (13:35):
Where are they all, all these well progressive jackasses who
defunded the fire department for decades? Where are they now
hiding in their safe homes? That didn't burn down. Nobody
in their family died. They didn't lose all their belongings.
They have all their sofas and televisions and beds and clothes.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
And their dogs and their cats.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Huh, I'm talking about the other fourteen. She warned resources
were being stressed. She warned this a month ago, Tracy.
She warned that resources were being strained quote beyond the brink,
despite a dangerously increasing risk of wildfire. And didn't they
(14:16):
say that over and over again climate change? Oh fires
all season, fires all year now, not just a season.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
What did you do then? Oh? You drained the reservoir.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
Good idea. Hey, you know these really bad firestorms are
coming because of climate change. I know it. I know
what to do. Let's drain one hundred and seventeen million
gallons out of the reservoir. Excellent idea. Shows you are
really fearful of climate change, right, you really are afraid
of that, you phony baloney. But they are a bunch
of hocksters climate change. You should be building extra reservoirs,
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you idiots, Tracy Park said, time and again, elected leaders
in Los Angeles have failed to make meaningful and vent
spens on our public safety. As a result, Angelino's are
suffering the consequences. Twenty one days later, specific Palisades burns.
The firefighters say their lack of resources means they have
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trouble responding to structural fires, traffic accidents, medical emergencies which
have spiked amid a worsening homeless crisis.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
I can't tell you how I mean.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Fourteen thousand fires a year started by drug addicts and
mental patients who are living out in public. I think
Garcetti and Bass didn't do anything about. They work over time,
double time, They're exhausted, They're emotionally and physically spent. Then
when they are available, there were a thousand firefighters available
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to go up to the Palisades to act as a
preventative measure. None of the thousand were sent there. On
that Tuesday morning, forty fire engines parked. None of those
were sent there. They sent and I'll go through this again.
I started the show with it. I want everybody listening
listens late in the show to understand this story of
the La Times today about how they had forty engines
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and a thousand firefighters that they did not send to
the Palisades NodD until the fire was completely out of control.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
Don't tell me. Don't tell me.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
Forty engines, a thousand firefighters, and one hundred and seventeen
million gallons of water wouldn't have had effect on a
fire if they could have gotten it right in the
first half hour hour, of course it would have. And
Kristin Crowley wrote the same thing the fire chief, and
the memo was on the city website. Karen Bass has
(16:45):
taken it down. She's tried to erase the evidence, but
nothing disappears on the internet. There are screenshots of that
memo and it's made its way into all the stories.
Crowley said that the city's population had own from two
and a half million in nineteen sixty to four million
in twenty twenty, but the city has fewer fire stations
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today than it did in nineteen sixty, even though the
call volume has more than quadrupled. In that memo, the
agency needs sixty two new fire stations one hundreds more
firefighters just to meet the national average, and of course
we have an above average fire risk. Bass did put
(17:29):
budget cuts into the department, claiming it was tough budgetary times. Bass,
not responding to a request from CNN Fire Department of
ficials not responding to a request from CNN, and Escobar says,
this isn't about one budget cycle, It's about a single
This is not about a single mayor. This has been
(17:49):
the case for decades, Garcetti Viragosa, probably since.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
Dick Reardon was the mayor.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
I've had nothing but idiots cutting the budget and not
growing the fire department, but billions on homeless, billions on
high speed rail, billions to give to all the fraudsters
around the world for COVID unemployment, nothing for the La
Fire Department, and the Palisades.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
Is in ruins.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
You vote for these people, you defend them, some of
you to the death. I hear people defending bass. Don't
want to hear it. Don't want to live with you
people anymore. You're ething crazy.
Speaker 4 (18:32):
You are You're listening to John Cobels on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
And I'm going to tell you something, and upfront, I'm
going to say that my problem is is petty compared
to what the people are suffering with Pacific Palisades. But
I just want to mention it briefly as a warning
to everybody in the Palisades. What you're in for we
have the power out in our neighborhood. It's been out
since Friday night. We're not in fire danger anymore. There
may have been some damage. LADWP. Every time we call
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them we get a different answer, like six different answers.
And now we're being told that LADWP won't do anything
without permission from the Los Angeles Fire Department. LA Fire
Department has to approve. They have not And now it
could be next week, maybe next Tuesday, that we'd live.
Next Tuesday, we have to hover for another week in
the dark. It's fifty eight degrees in our house. And again,
(19:24):
I'm in no danger of anything bad happening. I got
a couple of birds that I don't know what to
do with because they can't live that long in fifty
eight degree weather. But outside of that, we're all fine,
no damage. You cannot believe the run around we're getting
from LADWP and other city offices. And you were on
the phone.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
I was on the.
Speaker 5 (19:42):
Phone for hours this morning talking to LADWP and a
local fire station, and then fire station tells me one thing,
DWP tells me another. We have trees that are literally
branches are hanging over power lines, and that's pretty scary,
and so I call DWP. They said no, talk to
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the fire department. The fire department says no, that's DWP.
DWP says, well, we can't do anything if it's on
private property. And I mean back and forth, back and forth.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
They do this on.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
Purpose, that's the game plan.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
Everybody at the DWP, they got a little sign on
the desk, tell them to call the fire department. At
the fire department, tell them to call DWP. They do
this on purpose. We are run by idiots or worse,
people who don't care. Maybe an idiot cares, but he's
just incompetent. These people don't care.
Speaker 5 (20:37):
And then I found out something new and interesting. So
DWP is not going to trim trees if they're on
low power voltage lines, but if they are on high
power voltage lines, they will. But because there are so
many overgrown trees right in branches hanging over power lines
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all over the place, I have no idea how long
it's going to take for them to get to all
of those.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
A crew showed up in front of our house today
to cut some trees that are touching power lines in
front of our home. They show up today as a
private company that was contracted out. Yes, they show up
after the fire happened. All the months and years that
we did have a fire, we haven't had a fire
in our area since I think twenty eighteen, the Getty fire.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
S it's been seven years. Nobody cut the trees.
Speaker 5 (21:29):
So in seven years, nobody has cut those trees that
were hanging over your power lines.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
I don't ever remember seeing a crew. Suppose it could
have come when I wasn't around, but my wife and
I don't remember this happening. I'm seeing now tree cutting crews.
Actually saw three of them. I drove from my house
to my friend in Westwood where I'm taking a shower
every day, and then up here over to Burbank, and
I'm seeing crews now after it happened.
Speaker 5 (21:56):
Well, the Santa Anna's are going to be coming back
Monday too, Tuesday, and then the bad Santa Anna's. This
is in the forecast coming back. I think it's Thursday, and.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
Then yes, you mean next week, Yes, next week. I
told you yesterday that I didn't want to believe we're
coming back. So they are.
Speaker 5 (22:13):
They're going to be your Monday, Tuesday, and then the
bad ones on Thursday. So it is a good thing
that they are cutting down.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
Oh I'm glad they are. But can you imagine the summer.
Speaker 5 (22:24):
If we hardly get any rain, then we're going to
have the Santa Anna is blowing and we're going to
have the heat.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
Yeah, and now I know, Now I know.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
The part of the La Fire Department is fifty percent underfunded,
and the ones they do have, they don't deploy the firefighters,
they don't deploy the fire trucks. Everybody lies like hell,
people write memos, people make speeches, and Karen Bass might
be in Africa. Let me quickly go through a story
(22:56):
we discussed at the beginning of the show. I just
want as many people as possible to hear about it.
Please go read it. It's in the La Times. It's
written by Paul Pringle, a lean check Mitian Dakota Smith.
Headline is LA Fire officials could have put engines in
the palisades before the fire.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
They didn't.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
This is the La Times acting like a responsible newspaper
and doing journalism again. It's the same writers and editors
that we had two months ago. But Trump won soon
Chiong had an epiphany and now the orders have gone
out to start covering news like normal newspeople used to do.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
All right, we'll take it.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
So they discovered, and they've got proof that the top
commanders in the LA Fire Department did not decided not
to assign one thousand available firefighters and forty fire engines
water carrying engines in advance of the fire. They had
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put nine engines in the San Fernando Valley in Hollywood,
they were on duty. They had forty more, but they
thought there were going to be fires in the valley
and in Hollywood. They didn't expect one in the Palisades why,
I don't know. They still had a fire smoldering from
New Year's Day that might have been set by fireworks,
(24:21):
might have been the cause of the reignition, don't know
for sure.
Speaker 3 (24:24):
Yet.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
You hear them complaining that they about the cuts in
the budget, and that's true. Budget's been cut, it's fifty
percent underfunded. The low water levels in the fire hydrants,
that's true, because they didn't fill the one hundred and
seventeen million gallon reservoir.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
All true.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
But they had a thousand extra firefighters that they could
have asked to stay for a second shift, and they
had forty engines available of course, the fire chief, Kristen
Crowley is saying, well, we're getting a lot of nine
to one one calls.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
They doubled down trees, down power lines, but.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
A lot of homeless people starting fires fourteen thousand a year.
You've got to connect all these dots. Garsetti. Allowing the
homeless situation to metastasize and grow wild has further destroyed
the city. Still to this day, I hope he never
comes back from India. It's funny how these mayors love
(25:30):
to be overseas. He lusted after India, Bass lusted after Ghana,
but neither one of them wants to run the place
and do the basics. Los Angeles Fire Department, a battalion
chief Rick Crawford said, the plan they're using now you
should have used before the fire. And Crowley, the fire chief,
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she and her staff are now giving all sorts of
different stories. Every time the Times calls they get a
differ story. A documents showed that they had a ready
reserve of nine engines to go to fire prone areas.
The fire department said no. Some officials said no, And
(26:13):
at first they said, well, those nine engines were inoperable.
Then another spokesman said well, four of the nine were
not available. Then a third official had a document that
said seven were actually in service at one point or
another after the fire ignited. And then you have the
Deputy Chief, Richard Fields, who according to The Times, was
in charge of staffing and equipment decisions ahead of the fire,
(26:35):
said that his plan was appropriate for immediate response. No,
it was it Pacific Palisades is gone. But thanks for trying.
Speaker 4 (26:46):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI Am
six forty.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
Only got a minute. I wanted to fit this in.
There's still some dope still working at the LA time
who think it's twenty twenty. Russ Mitchell writes endless climate
change columns, and I wish they had written half as
many columns about the LA Fire Department being fifty percent
(27:12):
underfunded as they have written articles about climate change. But
he had to admit that owning an electric vehicle when
fire breaks out and you have to evacuate probably not
the best move.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
He writes.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
You've plugged your electric vehicle into your home charger, hit
the sack overnight high winds, top of the power line,
your charger blacks out. Report of a fire evacuation order.
Your battery is only charged to twenty five percent, and
it's your only car. And now suddenly California car buyers
are expressing fears. Yeah, what do you think there's nowhere
(27:56):
to charge these cars.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
On Palisades?
Speaker 2 (28:00):
Drive trying to get out of the Palisades and your
electric car is on low battery. You are screwed. You
are going to burn to death and die. Oh and
if your electric vehicle catches fire, those things, those things
burn for days. And I love this quote. Some industry
analysts named Jessica Caldwell well evs require a different relationship
(28:25):
with your vehicle that people have had before. They require
a lot more planning. I don't want to plan when
there's a fire burning in my backyard. I want to
get in the car and drive out of there at
ninety miles an hour.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
I don't want to plan. Oh is there an electric
vehicle charging station around?
Speaker 3 (28:44):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (28:44):
My god.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
This includes, she says, setting up a home charger, which
sometimes requires an electrical upgrade.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
Don't want to do that.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
Calculating roots for longer distance travel to find where charging
is available. I do that in the middle of a fire.
People are insane searching for working public chargers. When charging
stations are jammed or chargers are inoperable. Do you know
what it would have been like if we had nothing
but charging stations in the palisades, all those cars. People
(29:20):
just started shooting each other. Yeah, electric cars, good idea, Conway.
Speaker 6 (29:29):
Buddy, I agree with you, but I think that that
we're old school, especially you. You don't go to Costco
because when it was price Club, somebody returned all your
items thirty five years.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
Ago, not thirty five years ago. But just to that
is right. That's a great story. That's a great story.
I hold brudges for a long time. I get it.
I get it.
Speaker 6 (29:53):
You've got to you know, you gotta let them know
they're not screwed around with the wrong guy.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
We've got we got a big show here. Chris Christy's
coming on.
Speaker 6 (30:00):
He's done some amazing work for Channel seven in the
helicopter over these fires.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
For the last week and two days.
Speaker 6 (30:06):
And then we also have the head of Petco, the
director of life saving at Petco coming on to talk
about your pets. That's a big story as well. And
then a guy named Brad Meltzer, a very popular author.
He wrote the JFK Conspiracy the secret plot that killed
Kennedy and whyatt failed and so we'll talk to him
because now with Trump getting into the Oval office, he
(30:27):
might release all that stuff.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
I know it's sixty years yeah right, yeah, over sixty years, yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
Sixty two years or so, yeah, sixty two years.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
Yeah, yeah, that's there must be something in there. Yeah, right,
why wouldn't sailed down for sixty two? And even Trump
had promised the first time he was going to open
it up and then he looked at it, going not
now yeah, well now he's not running for reelection, right, yeah,
so everything goes. I mean, almost everybody from the era
is dead, so yeah, right, everybody.
Speaker 6 (30:54):
But you know, even all that, you know, the Walter Cronkites,
everybody reported.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
It, you know, all the CIA officer, sure, they're all
people with Linda Johnson, right because eveny other suspects.
Speaker 6 (31:04):
Even if you were in the CIA at twenty, which
is very young, you're already eighty two, you know, and
that's a long eighty two.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
Yeah, you know, yeah, you know, you don't know what's
going on anyway. Ye uh all right, Conway's next.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
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