January 30, 2025 • 33 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 3 (01/30) - Attorney Ari Friedman comes on the show to talk about another lawsuit filed against SoCal Edison regarding how the Eaton Fire started. There are calls now for Janisse Quinones to resign as the head of LADWP. More on the possible cause of the Palisades Fire. Pres. Trump called out Pete Buttigieg today over the airline crash in DC.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I am six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
You're listening to the John Cobel Podcast on the iHeartRadio app.
We're on from one until four and after four o'clock
John Cobelt Show on demand on the iHeart app. Coming
up in the next segment, we are going to turn
over the segment to said the Kashani. We have him
appearing at the LEDWP board meeting. He is a Palisades
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residence who got burned out and he spent six minutes
calling for Johnnie Konz to resign. She is the idiot
CEO at LEDWP who did not fill the one hundred
and seventeen million gallon water reservoir it was empty for
the fire. And there's there's been a clip of what
he told the led LEDWP board, including Kens and she
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had to just sit there and take it. And we're
going to play that coming up after the next segment.
In Debora's News and all that. All right, let's get now,
there's so many disasters going on. Let's turn to the
Altadena fire known as the Eaton Fire, which burned thousands
of homes and killed about seventeen people. And boy, there's
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a lot of bad stories around that. Nobody explained still
why so many of the residents didn't get an evacuation
warning for nine hours. All the residents that lived in
the black neighborhoods got nothing from the county government. And
I'm just reading a story from people who told New
York Magazine what their experiences were, and they didn't have
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any La County firefighters in there in their neighborhoods for
three days. And that was even acknowledged by some of
the La County firefighters, like, Yeah, you're right, nobody's been here.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Why, Oh, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
I don't know who's going to unravel and uncover because
we don't have a functioning media anymore.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
But we'll keep doing our part. Here.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Let's talk now with Aarry Friedman. He's a partner at
Wisner Bound, the law firm's attorney who's leaving a lawsuit
on behalf of hundreds of families. Well, in the past,
he led lawsuits from those families in the twenty eighteen campfire,
the twenty eighteen Woolsey fire, and now he's filing against
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so Cal Edison substantially blaming them for the Eaton Altadena fire.
It's been filed in La County Court. Let's get arie
on Ry Friedman.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Welcome, Sewan, Thank you for having me.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Well, explain the nature of the lawsuit here. What are
you alleging against something California Edison.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
Essentially that they negligently maintained their grid and their equipment.
I think we've all seen the videos and the photos
of the fire starting underneath one of its high transmission towers,
and as the days of past, more and more evidence
has come out that that tower apparently was not de
energized and during the wind event was being impacted by debris,
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causing sparks to start the initial flames. So we want
to we want to do everything we can to dig
down and get to the bottom of exactly why this
fire started and how it could have happened in light
of everything that was going on at the time.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Just like in the Palisades case, the National Weather Service
put out extreme fire warnings. It was their highest level
of a blarning they could possibly issue, and it was
several five days in advance of these fires. I don't
understand why didn't Edison de energize the lines.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
You know, that's a great question. One of the things
we're going to be zeroing in on in this lawsuit.
There was some early indication from Edison. You know, their
line has shifted a little bit in these last weeks
from the tower being de energized to then the tower
not being de energized, to then saying that their wind
measurements near this tower didn't cross the threshold which would
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necessitate a shut off. So that's why it was and
de energize at the time. Again, we're going to have
to really drill down during the litigation to find out
whether or not these policies and procedures were sufficient and
whether or not the winds near this power were actually
what Edison said they were. But regardless, I think we
can all agree whatever was in place at the time
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was not sufficient.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Yeah, whether it met their criteria or not.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
If it didn't, their criteria is screwed up, because clearly
the winds were strong enough to create a huge disaster.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
That's exactly right. And that's one of the things that's
really maddening about this was in an event such as
we had, you know, in early January, why are we
even in the first instance, parsing things out so specifically
and not just taking preemptive measures to ensure the community's safety.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Were they claiming that they're threshold was sixty miles an hour,
but the wind speeds only hit fifty nine.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Was that this particular case, I.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
Don't have the publication in front of but I believe
it was something just like that, John. It was that,
you know, they have a certain threshold and the winds
didn't cross it, and I believe it was just a
matter of a few degrees.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Yeah, well at fifty nine instead of sixty, because I
heard that repeated several times in various newscasts, and I
thought that that's insane.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
But of course all of this is insane.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
This have you Was Edison involved in these other lawsuits
that you filed years ago?
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Yeah, so Edison was involved in both the Thomas and
Woolsey fires because Edison, as some people may not be
aware of, Edison essentially has a monopoly over a certain
geographic territory to sell their utilities. So you know up
North for example, that would have been PG and e's territory.
But no, Edison was involved in Thomas and Wolsey in
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twenty seventeen and eighteen.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Those fires they had not maintained their electrical infrastructure. This
according to your lawsuits, aging equipment, overgrown vegetation, inadequate safeguards
during high risk weather. We've got this all over again
now in the eat and fire. Now to Dina, why
won't these companies do the basics here? I mean, I've
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never seen such stubborn executives. They make the same deadly
mistakes over and over again.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
You know, there's a lot of reasons that go into that. John,
I think people are surprised to learn that Edison is
a for profit company that might have an incentive to
run their equipment to failure and maybe not keep up
to date on the most efficient methods of delivering power
if it can cut into profits. That's part of what
the lawsuit is going to be looking at the extent
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that Edison made these decisions to put the profits over
the safety of the community.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
But in the end, these companies get bankrupted for all
the liability they created.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
Well, you know, bankruptcy, you know is not necessarily what
a lot of people understand bankruptcy to mean in the
corporate sense, because if their liabilities exceed their assets or
potential to earn income, then they can essentially restructure themselves
to provide some compensation to the victims while continuing to
go go on and do business, which is what we
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saw happen coming out of the North Bay and campfires
with PG and E. But again, you know, at the
end of the day, the first step is to make
sure that companies are protecting our communities before they decide
how much profit they're going to make in their efforts
to do so.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Is there any way to force them to because I mean,
this has been going on for most of the last decade,
and the fires seem to be getting more disastrous, more deadly,
more homes being burned, and so for all the sanctions
against these companies and lawsuits won and charges filed and
some times executives cleaned out, if you keep getting the
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same result in the end, something more drastic has to
be done here.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
That's right, And unfortunately there's only so much we can
do on the litigation front, being the lawyers pushing back
against this type of behavior. It really needs to be
a much more coordinated effort, both at the legislative level
and the grassroots level of people in the community putting
pressure on the representatives to ensure that changes are actually
impacting the situations that people are facing, especially in these
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shoulder communities that brush up against nature like we have
over Pasadena.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
All right, well, ariy keep in touch with us. Is
this progressive?
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Because I don't I want any of these stories to
get lost in the memory hall.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
I agree, John, and thank you for having me. I
appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Aary Friedman with the Wisnerbaum and this law firm is
filed a suit in La County Superior Court against so
Cal Edison again neglect Misma management. They did not de
energize the electrics, the electrical lines in the Altadena area,
And just another sad, sick chapter with executives who don't
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care how many people they kill, how many thousands of
homes are burned. They never change any of their policies.
God forbid. They put these power lines below ground like
they should be. It's just incredible that we're doing the
same story year after year after year, and the same
companies are causing all this massive damage. When we come back,
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we're going to turn over the next segment we have
audio of when we get his name right, Sayid Kashani.
He's a burned out Palisades resident. He showed up at
the LADWP board meeting, not a whole lot of people
do this, but he did. Gi Konias was there. She's
the CEO, so is the LADWP board. And Kashani told
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kenona Is what he thought of her policies, including not
filling the reservoir with one hundred seventeen million gallons.
Speaker 4 (10:05):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
All right, spend a few minutes now with said Kashani.
He's a burned out Palisades resident and he did what
everybody ought to do. He showed up at the LADWP
board meeting and he dressed. Genie Kinonyez, the CEO. She
was sitting there and she listened to said Kashani, go off.
We've got about six minutes, and it's about the horrific
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response by the LADWP in preparation for the fire season
and not filling the one hundred and seventeen million gallon reservoir.
So turn it over here in atic, said Kashani.
Speaker 5 (10:48):
My name is, said Kashani. Until January seventh, I lived
in the.
Speaker 6 (10:52):
Pacific Palisades operative term being lived till my house burned down.
Speaker 5 (10:57):
I apologize. I come to you dressed like this.
Speaker 6 (11:00):
I'm not used to going on the public dress like this,
but this is all I have to wear, so I apologize.
I would I would like to remind the commissioners of
a little history. When the Saint Francis Dan collapsed, your director,
William Mulholland, immediately resigned. He took full responsibility as leader
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of this organization. And I'm addressing Miss Quinonas. I call
on this board to ask Miss Quinonas also to resign
now to honor the history of this organization and resign
for her culpability in not delivering sufficient water to the Palisades.
Speaker 5 (11:38):
Why, as we know, the.
Speaker 6 (11:40):
Santienez Reservoir is I believe one hundred and fifteen million
gallons and as the principal source of water for that area,
that reservoir was trained by the Department about a year ago.
In all the meetings since then, the Department CEO never
reported to this commission regarding either the reservoir, its status
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or any effort to repair.
Speaker 5 (12:07):
What did you report on?
Speaker 6 (12:09):
Well, I have here per comments made to this board
in November, and what happened to report?
Speaker 7 (12:19):
We're about Kismanic and the organization, and so that's a
huge number for our diversity metrics is about forty eight
percent Latino, So we're getting close to representing the communities
that we're serving.
Speaker 6 (12:38):
So forty nine days later, the city burned out. Your
director is more interested in filling racial quotas than filling reservoirs,
and that was clear from her own comments to this commission. Now,
what is the Commission's responsibility in this? When you will
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pointed when you approve the appointment of Miss Cornonas to
direct the Department of Water and Power, you had not
completed her background check.
Speaker 5 (13:09):
What would that check have shown.
Speaker 6 (13:11):
Miss Cornonas, among her other positions, was placed in charge
of re electrification of Puerto Rico after the Hurricane Ria.
One year after appointment, eighty percent of the island was
still without electricity. To this day, there are still blackouts
electricity on Puerto Rico. This is the legacy of miss
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Cornona's work. She went from there to pged E, which
we all know is a bankrupt utility that burned down
half the state, and you appointed her as the director
of the Department of Water and Power at double the
prior director's salary and a housing allowance without completing any
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background check. Now, let's talk about the reservoir I've looked
at your agendas since miss was appointed. The reservoir never
came up once. You never discussed it, even though it's
a critical piece of infrastructure.
Speaker 5 (14:09):
Let's look at history.
Speaker 6 (14:11):
In twenty twenty one May, there was a major brush
fire in the Palisades, but the reservoir at that time
was full. It provided water, and the fire was controlled.
There was very little structural damage. Why because there was
water this time there was no water without the reservoir.
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The three tanks you have supplying the area, which I
believe someone can crack them wrong, only a million gallons
each are insufficient for any emergency situation. You need one
hundred and eleven million gallons of water in the reservoir
in order to supply the area that was drained. It
was empty, there was no water, and your director never
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reported to you this situation or its urgency. Instead again
filling racial quotas, instead of filling the restid.
Speaker 5 (15:02):
Let's look at money.
Speaker 6 (15:04):
The excuse given was that you needed some kind of
delay to get money together. I don't know, contract whatever
to fix some tear in the cover of the reservoir.
That cost was one hundred and forty thousand dollars you
drained the reservoir in February, didn't.
Speaker 5 (15:19):
Even approve the contract.
Speaker 6 (15:20):
Not you, not the commission, but the DWP did not
even approve the contract to repair until November. It's a
gap of eight months. Reservoir was sitting empty all that time.
Costs of repairs only one hundred and forty thousand dollars.
Speaker 5 (15:36):
That is less than one.
Speaker 6 (15:39):
Fifth of ms Krnona's salary, and you wouldn't pay it
to repair the reservoir. I get the water back online.
What did you spend money on during that time? Well,
one of the things you spent money on is you
approved five million dollars due was a board you approved
five million dollars to pay to out of state colleges
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to transfer students from California universities to out of state's colleges,
including the alma mater of one of your commissioners. Why
are you paying five million dollars to out of state
colleges and you won't pay one hundred thousand dollars to
fix our reservoir.
Speaker 5 (16:20):
These questions have to be answered.
Speaker 6 (16:23):
So until the satisfactory explanation is provided for these things,
I suggest and I call on this board to at
the very least, put miss cornonas on leave, unpaid leave,
take away her house that you're paying for, and let
her prove herself. And she can start by refulling to reservoir, which,
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as I understand, is so empty.
Speaker 5 (16:48):
So what is the explanation for this?
Speaker 6 (16:49):
There's been no explanation offered to the people of Palisades
whose house is burned out. My neighbor on my street
was fighting to save his house four o'clock that afternoon
when the water shut off. Why again, because the reservoir
was a thank you, your time has expired.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
That's it, thank you, your time has expired, and then
they're going to move on. This is the way the
city has run, the Southern County's run. That was absolutely devastating,
and geneez Cononias are sitting there the whole time.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
She should have responded. She should have responded by saying,
I'm sorry, I'm quitting.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Actually, she ought to be sentenced by a court to
stand at the edge of the reservoir with a hose
and stand there until she's filled up the whole reservoir
with the one hundred and seventeen million gallons.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
That should be your sentence. This should be criminal.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
And you heard her babbling about her stupid diversity program.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
God, is that a plague on society, isn't it? So
that's what she's been doing all year? And what a resume.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
She was leading the effort to rebuild the electrical system
in Puerto Rico. Any year later, eighty percent of the
people were still without and then she's connected to PG
and E that disaster. And how many millions of dollars
has she made along the way? What is going on?
I feel like I'm insane. I really feel like I'm insane.
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And that poor guy I'm looking at the at the video.
It's on YouTube, by the way, you can see this
on YouTube. Break we should, or Eric, we should put
a link like maybe a link on x and have
people go to this video and watch him standing there
and he's it's only pair of clothes that he's got.
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I don't know what's wrong with I really don't know
what's going on. And they look at all these these
heads just staring at him. All they have a U
shaped desk, all these all these dead brains staring at him,
all this cattle.
Speaker 8 (19:02):
What's the point of people talking to them if they're
not going to respond. They're not going to answer any
questions or say anything.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
They just tell you your time is up.
Speaker 8 (19:11):
I know, but you deserve an explanation.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
You deserve something that.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
Deserves a house, but they don't give an explanation. Kenonyas
is still not spoken publicly on this. What a disaster
that woman is all right getting over time.
Speaker 4 (19:29):
You're listening to John Cobel's on demand from KFI Am sixty.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
You can follow us at John Cobelt Radio on all
social media and we have posted on X a link
and you should watch this. It's six minutes of a
Palisades resident telling the Los Angeles Department of Water and
Power building the case really why Janice Keonas ought to
resign as the CEO of the LADWP, going through all
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these sins that she has committed not having that reservoir
filled and among other things, and and playing audio of
her at the meeting bragging about reaching all sorts of
diversity goals regarding Hispanic employment. She never mentioned anything in
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for a whole year about what happened to the reservoir,
that it was drained, that it was never refilled. There
was no discussion about the UH about the repairs. She
had nothing to say on any of that. But she
is prattling on about all the diversity goals that she met.
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And she's sitting there listening to said Kashani's his name.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
Listen to this.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
We just posted it. It's about six minutes. It's worth it.
It's quite the case he makes. Now does he say
this and all the stone faces nod, tell him his
time's up, and then everybody goes home.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
And that's it. That's what the whole world is now.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
There's nobody in charge, nobody taking responsibility. They've cost dozens
of lives and thousands and thousands of homes and none
of these people have any shame. There is no shame
at all, no responsibility at all. Here's another angle to this.
There's so much of this stuff, can't fit it into
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the show anymore. La Times has a story today, Who
what or who started the Palisades fire? Two leading theories,
and it's still the same two leading theories. Now it's
been three weeks and there's been very little information about
what started the fire. There has been a team from
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the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. They've had
command post up in the Highlands neighborhood of the Palisades.
That's where ten thirty in the morning January seventh, that Tuesday,
it's where the fire began. The investigators have examined two
hundred and fifty leads. They have ninety hours of video,
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fifty interviews, fifteen team members across the country with various
science backgrounds. They've used high tech mapping drones, a portable lab,
but the ATF won't talk about what they found now.
The Padalisades fire twenty three four hundred acres, destroyed six
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eight hundred structures, many of them homes. One theory is
there was an eight acre fire early morning hours of
the first of January. This was set off with fireworks
by idiot teenagers in the Palisades, and they think maybe
the same area reignited a week later because of the
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intense wins.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
That's theory one.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
Theory number two, the fire was sparked by something else
that morning, maybe another person. I don't know if they
have any vagrants up there. It's funny, but nobody's talking
about the thousands of vagrants that live in the wilds
around here. But that's policy. But it does involve vagrant.
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They're not allowed to say it speak publicly. That's also
a part of the woke progressive movement. LA Fire Department
has declined to answer specific questions about the January first fire.
It's known as the Lochman fire. The files have been sealed.
Why are they sealed if that was the precursor of
the big fire? What do you mean sealed? And they're
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part of the ongoing investigation. Kristen Crowley, the LA Fire
chief another diversity manger, said, we won't leave a fire
that has any hotspots. But with that, I will tell
you that the investigation, the team we have on board
right now will be able to determine whether or not
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that indeed happened. I can look you in the eye
and tell you that full disclosure. If that's what they
found out, we will tell you that, Well, what is this.
We won't leave a fire that has hotspots, but maybe
this was a hotspot, which means you left it.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
Well, why did you leave it? Why was this not
fire monitored?
Speaker 2 (24:18):
Especially when you got the warning about one hundred mile
an hour winds coming on January second, You got that
warning a day after the fire, and then this fire
finally blew up on the seventh five days later. So
Crowley got the warning and did nothing and then told
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you that, well, we.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
Don't leave hotspots. Well, we don't leave.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
Hotspots except the most likely theory about the new fire
is that it was a hot spot, but we didn't
leave it. And if we did leave it, we'll tell you,
except we sealed the files, so we were not telling you.
You see how they do it, and the whole time,
ambassadors in Africa. You see, San Diego has cameras that
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monitor the mountains and the hills, including the Palisades, and
they got the January first blaze on camera. By the way,
I've just talked with somebody. Do you remember years ago
they used to have fire spotters, They used to have
fire towers.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
Yes, I heard that they that they have very few
and the few they have are not even manned regularly.
Speaker 8 (25:29):
So is that gonna change now? I mean here, that's
something that definitely should change. That's something that they could do.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
Why didn't they.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
Have fire spotters in the wilds north of the Palisades
and all the other hill side areas well.
Speaker 8 (25:42):
It's the same question is why didn't they have that
fire squad yesterday that only gets paid when they come
to uh yeah, right right, there's no rhyme or reason
to any of this.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
And with all the technology they don't they can't send
up drones with with with heat shaking or or fire
seeking capabilitabilities, right infrared capabilities to see if there's suddenly
an ignition point. Shouldn't be maybe swarming drones in the
hills during high fire seasons, an advanced warning system.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
Do they have censors up there? Maybe? Have they done anything?
Speaker 2 (26:23):
They've spent obviously no money on the firefighters and no
money on upgraded technology. What we have is only fifty
percent of a fire department, But what they should have
funded all these years instead of spending billions of dollars
on drug addict vagrants and mental patient vagrants. The ATF
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is going to issue a report in about sixty days.
Sometimes it takes many months. I wonder how many secrets
they're keeping right now, because right because most of the
city wants Bass out, I wonder if there's pressure to
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suppress more bad news, to try to protect Bass, protect Newsom,
who's on his last legs as a presidential candidate, to
protect Kristen Crowley and all these other diversity bongers, to
protect Genese Quinonyez. Everything of the last ten years has
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been bragging about diversity, quotas, no money, No money has
been spent on the infrastructure, any kind of infrastructure, water, power, roadways, fire, police,
no extra money chest the legal aliens, homeless people and criminals.
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That's the holy trunity. And now there's another story which
we won't have time to get to, about all the
toxic ash and toxic air. That's another thing, by the way,
that the government historically lies about. They'd lied about it
in New York City. The federal EPA at the time,
under the idiot Bush administration, was claiming that their testing
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shows that the air was okay in Manhattan after the
Twin Towers.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
Oh how could that be? They did? I know, but
that that come on, and.
Speaker 8 (28:28):
You're gonna say the air is great here in southern
California after the fires.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
Oh, there's a way that we're all breathing in lead
and all kinds of heavy toxic metals.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
Right, and then we're going to wonder why we get cancer.
Speaker 8 (28:41):
Yeah, well we have, we have no genetic disposition to it.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
Well, ten years later, how many fire and police, uh
policemen ended up ended up seriously ill I mean they
had emphasey men lug cancer and heart issues and it
was all from the toxic air that the government lied about.
And you know they're going to be lying about the
air here too.
Speaker 8 (29:02):
Well, they can't lie because how many times do they say, oh,
you need to write to beat Karen Bath said to
be safe, right, you can't go in and clean the
debris because it's it's not safe. I want too many talkses,
so that's on record.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
I want to I wonder what the readings are, though
I don't good one to know. Well, yeah, I don't
recall that they've released any numbers.
Speaker 4 (29:27):
You're listening to John Cobel on demand from KFI Am sixty.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
Well, I got a minute here.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
You know what, there's one clip I missed when Trump
going after Pete Boota J. Edge, the old Transportation secretary,
when he was railing away about all the woke progressive
hiring policies that the FAA had Play cut number four.
Speaker 9 (29:48):
The FAA website shows that the agency's guidance and diversity
hiring were last updated on March twenty third of twenty two.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
They wanted to make.
Speaker 5 (29:57):
It even more so. And then I came men and
I assume.
Speaker 9 (30:01):
Maybe this is the reason the FAA, which is overseen
by Secretary Pete Buddhachek, a real winner.
Speaker 5 (30:10):
That's the guy.
Speaker 9 (30:10):
He's a real winner.
Speaker 3 (30:11):
Do you know?
Speaker 9 (30:11):
Badly everything's run since he's run this Department of Transportation.
He's a disaster. He was a disaster as a mayor.
He ran his city into the ground, and he's a
disaster now. He's just got a good line of book.
The Department of Transportation, his government agency charged with regulating
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civil aviation. Well he runs it forty five thousand people
and he's run it right into the ground with his diversity.
So I had to say that it's terrible. Then it's
a group within the FAA. Another story determined that the
workforce was too white, that they had concerted efforts to
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get the administration to change that and to change it imediately.
This was in the Obama administration, just prior to my
getting there.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
Yeah, there you go. I love when he takes down
pomp founds. All right, conways, here we.
Speaker 10 (31:11):
Got a lot of specialists coming on to talk about
this horrible plane crash. We have Patrick Wyle, he's airline consultant.
We also have two other specialists, Tim Lynn, who is
a helicopter pilot, we'll find out what happened, then what's
going on with that. Dean Sharp's coming on as well.
And then so it turns out there were no survivors.
I was watching this thing last night and it's amazing.
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You know, back in the old days, when there's a
plane crash, you'd never see video of it and you'd
only hear about it hours later. Now it's moments later.
I mean, it happened at five point fifty eight and
they're showing replays right away, right away. I mean, you
know everything we live in the sea all world now
of everything you know, you instantly see it. And if
TV's not going to show it, some station I'm not
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going to say which one said this is hard to watch,
and then they didn't show it. They showed right up
into the accident. So you just now go to YouTube
and you see the whole thing.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
Or you know, you can't trust.
Speaker 10 (32:05):
That station, right because they don't understand that we can
handle crap like that.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
Nobody turns it off when you say this is graphic.
Speaker 10 (32:14):
Giving you a warning, right, Like if I said at
five o'clock today, I'm gonna say something might get suspended
for everyone will be like, Okay, what's going on with
that guy? I hope they do suspend him. And then
we also have second storm of the winter expected to
hit southern California. That's next week, like Tuesday, Wednesday. All right,
so get your sandbags. Oh there's gonna be a big one.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 10 (32:37):
I just like to, you know, scare people. No, but
I don't know how big it's gonna be. But look,
the last one we had, we thought it was gonna
be a drizzle and it was a downpour.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
I know at certain point. So a right.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
Conway is next the Crozier with the news live in
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Speaker 2 (00:02):
You're listening to the John Cobel Podcast on the iHeartRadio app.
We're on from one until four and after four o'clock
John Cobelt Show on demand on the iHeart app. Coming
up in the next segment, we are going to turn
over the segment to said the Kashani. We have him
appearing at the LEDWP board meeting. He is a Palisades
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residence who got burned out and he spent six minutes
calling for Johnnie Konz to resign. She is the idiot
CEO at LEDWP who did not fill the one hundred
and seventeen million gallon water reservoir it was empty for
the fire. And there's there's been a clip of what
he told the led LEDWP board, including Kens and she
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had to just sit there and take it. And we're
going to play that coming up after the next segment.
In Debora's News and all that. All right, let's get now,
there's so many disasters going on. Let's turn to the
Altadena fire known as the Eaton Fire, which burned thousands
of homes and killed about seventeen people. And boy, there's
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a lot of bad stories around that. Nobody explained still
why so many of the residents didn't get an evacuation
warning for nine hours. All the residents that lived in
the black neighborhoods got nothing from the county government. And
I'm just reading a story from people who told New
York Magazine what their experiences were, and they didn't have
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any La County firefighters in there in their neighborhoods for
three days. And that was even acknowledged by some of
the La County firefighters, like, Yeah, you're right, nobody's been here.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Why, Oh, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
I don't know who's going to unravel and uncover because
we don't have a functioning media anymore.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
But we'll keep doing our part. Here.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Let's talk now with Aarry Friedman. He's a partner at
Wisner Bound, the law firm's attorney who's leaving a lawsuit
on behalf of hundreds of families. Well, in the past,
he led lawsuits from those families in the twenty eighteen campfire,
the twenty eighteen Woolsey fire, and now he's filing against
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so Cal Edison substantially blaming them for the Eaton Altadena fire.
It's been filed in La County Court. Let's get arie
on Ry Friedman.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Welcome, Sewan, Thank you for having me.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Well, explain the nature of the lawsuit here. What are
you alleging against something California Edison.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
Essentially that they negligently maintained their grid and their equipment.
I think we've all seen the videos and the photos
of the fire starting underneath one of its high transmission towers,
and as the days of past, more and more evidence
has come out that that tower apparently was not de
energized and during the wind event was being impacted by debris,
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causing sparks to start the initial flames. So we want
to we want to do everything we can to dig
down and get to the bottom of exactly why this
fire started and how it could have happened in light
of everything that was going on at the time.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Just like in the Palisades case, the National Weather Service
put out extreme fire warnings. It was their highest level
of a blarning they could possibly issue, and it was
several five days in advance of these fires. I don't
understand why didn't Edison de energize the lines.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
You know, that's a great question. One of the things
we're going to be zeroing in on in this lawsuit.
There was some early indication from Edison. You know, their
line has shifted a little bit in these last weeks
from the tower being de energized to then the tower
not being de energized, to then saying that their wind
measurements near this tower didn't cross the threshold which would
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necessitate a shut off. So that's why it was and
de energize at the time. Again, we're going to have
to really drill down during the litigation to find out
whether or not these policies and procedures were sufficient and
whether or not the winds near this power were actually
what Edison said they were. But regardless, I think we
can all agree whatever was in place at the time
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was not sufficient.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Yeah, whether it met their criteria or not.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
If it didn't, their criteria is screwed up, because clearly
the winds were strong enough to create a huge disaster.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
That's exactly right. And that's one of the things that's
really maddening about this was in an event such as
we had, you know, in early January, why are we
even in the first instance, parsing things out so specifically
and not just taking preemptive measures to ensure the community's safety.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Were they claiming that they're threshold was sixty miles an hour,
but the wind speeds only hit fifty nine.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Was that this particular case, I.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
Don't have the publication in front of but I believe
it was something just like that, John. It was that,
you know, they have a certain threshold and the winds
didn't cross it, and I believe it was just a
matter of a few degrees.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Yeah, well at fifty nine instead of sixty, because I
heard that repeated several times in various newscasts, and I
thought that that's insane.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
But of course all of this is insane.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
This have you Was Edison involved in these other lawsuits
that you filed years ago?
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Yeah, so Edison was involved in both the Thomas and
Woolsey fires because Edison, as some people may not be
aware of, Edison essentially has a monopoly over a certain
geographic territory to sell their utilities. So you know up
North for example, that would have been PG and e's territory.
But no, Edison was involved in Thomas and Wolsey in
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twenty seventeen and eighteen.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Those fires they had not maintained their electrical infrastructure. This
according to your lawsuits, aging equipment, overgrown vegetation, inadequate safeguards
during high risk weather. We've got this all over again
now in the eat and fire. Now to Dina, why
won't these companies do the basics here? I mean, I've
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never seen such stubborn executives. They make the same deadly
mistakes over and over again.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
You know, there's a lot of reasons that go into that. John,
I think people are surprised to learn that Edison is
a for profit company that might have an incentive to
run their equipment to failure and maybe not keep up
to date on the most efficient methods of delivering power
if it can cut into profits. That's part of what
the lawsuit is going to be looking at the extent
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that Edison made these decisions to put the profits over
the safety of the community.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
But in the end, these companies get bankrupted for all
the liability they created.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
Well, you know, bankruptcy, you know is not necessarily what
a lot of people understand bankruptcy to mean in the
corporate sense, because if their liabilities exceed their assets or
potential to earn income, then they can essentially restructure themselves
to provide some compensation to the victims while continuing to
go go on and do business, which is what we
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saw happen coming out of the North Bay and campfires
with PG and E. But again, you know, at the
end of the day, the first step is to make
sure that companies are protecting our communities before they decide
how much profit they're going to make in their efforts
to do so.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Is there any way to force them to because I mean,
this has been going on for most of the last decade,
and the fires seem to be getting more disastrous, more deadly,
more homes being burned, and so for all the sanctions
against these companies and lawsuits won and charges filed and
some times executives cleaned out, if you keep getting the
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same result in the end, something more drastic has to
be done here.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
That's right, And unfortunately there's only so much we can
do on the litigation front, being the lawyers pushing back
against this type of behavior. It really needs to be
a much more coordinated effort, both at the legislative level
and the grassroots level of people in the community putting
pressure on the representatives to ensure that changes are actually
impacting the situations that people are facing, especially in these
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shoulder communities that brush up against nature like we have
over Pasadena.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
All right, well, ariy keep in touch with us. Is
this progressive?
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Because I don't I want any of these stories to
get lost in the memory hall.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
I agree, John, and thank you for having me. I
appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Aary Friedman with the Wisnerbaum and this law firm is
filed a suit in La County Superior Court against so
Cal Edison again neglect Misma management. They did not de
energize the electrics, the electrical lines in the Altadena area,
And just another sad, sick chapter with executives who don't
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care how many people they kill, how many thousands of
homes are burned. They never change any of their policies.
God forbid. They put these power lines below ground like
they should be. It's just incredible that we're doing the
same story year after year after year, and the same
companies are causing all this massive damage. When we come back,
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we're going to turn over the next segment we have
audio of when we get his name right, Sayid Kashani.
He's a burned out Palisades resident. He showed up at
the LADWP board meeting, not a whole lot of people
do this, but he did. Gi Konias was there. She's
the CEO, so is the LADWP board. And Kashani told
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kenona Is what he thought of her policies, including not
filling the reservoir with one hundred seventeen million gallons.
Speaker 4 (10:05):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
All right, spend a few minutes now with said Kashani.
He's a burned out Palisades resident and he did what
everybody ought to do. He showed up at the LADWP
board meeting and he dressed. Genie Kinonyez, the CEO. She
was sitting there and she listened to said Kashani, go off.
We've got about six minutes, and it's about the horrific
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response by the LADWP in preparation for the fire season
and not filling the one hundred and seventeen million gallon reservoir.
So turn it over here in atic, said Kashani.
Speaker 5 (10:48):
My name is, said Kashani. Until January seventh, I lived
in the.
Speaker 6 (10:52):
Pacific Palisades operative term being lived till my house burned down.
Speaker 5 (10:57):
I apologize. I come to you dressed like this.
Speaker 6 (11:00):
I'm not used to going on the public dress like this,
but this is all I have to wear, so I apologize.
I would I would like to remind the commissioners of
a little history. When the Saint Francis Dan collapsed, your director,
William Mulholland, immediately resigned. He took full responsibility as leader
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of this organization. And I'm addressing Miss Quinonas. I call
on this board to ask Miss Quinonas also to resign
now to honor the history of this organization and resign
for her culpability in not delivering sufficient water to the Palisades.
Speaker 5 (11:38):
Why, as we know, the.
Speaker 6 (11:40):
Santienez Reservoir is I believe one hundred and fifteen million
gallons and as the principal source of water for that area,
that reservoir was trained by the Department about a year ago.
In all the meetings since then, the Department CEO never
reported to this commission regarding either the reservoir, its status
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or any effort to repair.
Speaker 5 (12:07):
What did you report on?
Speaker 6 (12:09):
Well, I have here per comments made to this board
in November, and what happened to report?
Speaker 7 (12:19):
We're about Kismanic and the organization, and so that's a
huge number for our diversity metrics is about forty eight
percent Latino, So we're getting close to representing the communities
that we're serving.
Speaker 6 (12:38):
So forty nine days later, the city burned out. Your
director is more interested in filling racial quotas than filling reservoirs,
and that was clear from her own comments to this commission. Now,
what is the Commission's responsibility in this? When you will
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pointed when you approve the appointment of Miss Cornonas to
direct the Department of Water and Power, you had not
completed her background check.
Speaker 5 (13:09):
What would that check have shown.
Speaker 6 (13:11):
Miss Cornonas, among her other positions, was placed in charge
of re electrification of Puerto Rico after the Hurricane Ria.
One year after appointment, eighty percent of the island was
still without electricity. To this day, there are still blackouts
electricity on Puerto Rico. This is the legacy of miss
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Cornona's work. She went from there to pged E, which
we all know is a bankrupt utility that burned down
half the state, and you appointed her as the director
of the Department of Water and Power at double the
prior director's salary and a housing allowance without completing any
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background check. Now, let's talk about the reservoir I've looked
at your agendas since miss was appointed. The reservoir never
came up once. You never discussed it, even though it's
a critical piece of infrastructure.
Speaker 5 (14:09):
Let's look at history.
Speaker 6 (14:11):
In twenty twenty one May, there was a major brush
fire in the Palisades, but the reservoir at that time
was full. It provided water, and the fire was controlled.
There was very little structural damage. Why because there was
water this time there was no water without the reservoir.
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The three tanks you have supplying the area, which I
believe someone can crack them wrong, only a million gallons
each are insufficient for any emergency situation. You need one
hundred and eleven million gallons of water in the reservoir
in order to supply the area that was drained. It
was empty, there was no water, and your director never
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reported to you this situation or its urgency. Instead again
filling racial quotas, instead of filling the restid.
Speaker 5 (15:02):
Let's look at money.
Speaker 6 (15:04):
The excuse given was that you needed some kind of
delay to get money together. I don't know, contract whatever
to fix some tear in the cover of the reservoir.
That cost was one hundred and forty thousand dollars you
drained the reservoir in February, didn't.
Speaker 5 (15:19):
Even approve the contract.
Speaker 6 (15:20):
Not you, not the commission, but the DWP did not
even approve the contract to repair until November. It's a
gap of eight months. Reservoir was sitting empty all that time.
Costs of repairs only one hundred and forty thousand dollars.
Speaker 5 (15:36):
That is less than one.
Speaker 6 (15:39):
Fifth of ms Krnona's salary, and you wouldn't pay it
to repair the reservoir. I get the water back online.
What did you spend money on during that time? Well,
one of the things you spent money on is you
approved five million dollars due was a board you approved
five million dollars to pay to out of state colleges
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to transfer students from California universities to out of state's colleges,
including the alma mater of one of your commissioners. Why
are you paying five million dollars to out of state
colleges and you won't pay one hundred thousand dollars to
fix our reservoir.
Speaker 5 (16:20):
These questions have to be answered.
Speaker 6 (16:23):
So until the satisfactory explanation is provided for these things,
I suggest and I call on this board to at
the very least, put miss cornonas on leave, unpaid leave,
take away her house that you're paying for, and let
her prove herself. And she can start by refulling to reservoir, which,
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as I understand, is so empty.
Speaker 5 (16:48):
So what is the explanation for this?
Speaker 6 (16:49):
There's been no explanation offered to the people of Palisades
whose house is burned out. My neighbor on my street
was fighting to save his house four o'clock that afternoon
when the water shut off. Why again, because the reservoir
was a thank you, your time has expired.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
That's it, thank you, your time has expired, and then
they're going to move on. This is the way the
city has run, the Southern County's run. That was absolutely devastating,
and geneez Cononias are sitting there the whole time.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
She should have responded. She should have responded by saying,
I'm sorry, I'm quitting.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Actually, she ought to be sentenced by a court to
stand at the edge of the reservoir with a hose
and stand there until she's filled up the whole reservoir
with the one hundred and seventeen million gallons.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
That should be your sentence. This should be criminal.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
And you heard her babbling about her stupid diversity program.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
God, is that a plague on society, isn't it? So
that's what she's been doing all year? And what a resume.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
She was leading the effort to rebuild the electrical system
in Puerto Rico. Any year later, eighty percent of the
people were still without and then she's connected to PG
and E that disaster. And how many millions of dollars
has she made along the way? What is going on?
I feel like I'm insane. I really feel like I'm insane.
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And that poor guy I'm looking at the at the video.
It's on YouTube, by the way, you can see this
on YouTube. Break we should, or Eric, we should put
a link like maybe a link on x and have
people go to this video and watch him standing there
and he's it's only pair of clothes that he's got.
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I don't know what's wrong with I really don't know
what's going on. And they look at all these these
heads just staring at him. All they have a U
shaped desk, all these all these dead brains staring at him,
all this cattle.
Speaker 8 (19:02):
What's the point of people talking to them if they're
not going to respond. They're not going to answer any
questions or say anything.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
They just tell you your time is up.
Speaker 8 (19:11):
I know, but you deserve an explanation.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
You deserve something that.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
Deserves a house, but they don't give an explanation. Kenonyas
is still not spoken publicly on this. What a disaster
that woman is all right getting over time.
Speaker 4 (19:29):
You're listening to John Cobel's on demand from KFI Am sixty.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
You can follow us at John Cobelt Radio on all
social media and we have posted on X a link
and you should watch this. It's six minutes of a
Palisades resident telling the Los Angeles Department of Water and
Power building the case really why Janice Keonas ought to
resign as the CEO of the LADWP, going through all
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these sins that she has committed not having that reservoir
filled and among other things, and and playing audio of
her at the meeting bragging about reaching all sorts of
diversity goals regarding Hispanic employment. She never mentioned anything in
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for a whole year about what happened to the reservoir,
that it was drained, that it was never refilled. There
was no discussion about the UH about the repairs. She
had nothing to say on any of that. But she
is prattling on about all the diversity goals that she met.
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And she's sitting there listening to said Kashani's his name.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
Listen to this.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
We just posted it. It's about six minutes. It's worth it.
It's quite the case he makes. Now does he say
this and all the stone faces nod, tell him his
time's up, and then everybody goes home.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
And that's it. That's what the whole world is now.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
There's nobody in charge, nobody taking responsibility. They've cost dozens
of lives and thousands and thousands of homes and none
of these people have any shame. There is no shame
at all, no responsibility at all. Here's another angle to this.
There's so much of this stuff, can't fit it into
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the show anymore. La Times has a story today, Who
what or who started the Palisades fire? Two leading theories,
and it's still the same two leading theories. Now it's
been three weeks and there's been very little information about
what started the fire. There has been a team from
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the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. They've had
command post up in the Highlands neighborhood of the Palisades.
That's where ten thirty in the morning January seventh, that Tuesday,
it's where the fire began. The investigators have examined two
hundred and fifty leads. They have ninety hours of video,
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fifty interviews, fifteen team members across the country with various
science backgrounds. They've used high tech mapping drones, a portable lab,
but the ATF won't talk about what they found now.
The Padalisades fire twenty three four hundred acres, destroyed six
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eight hundred structures, many of them homes. One theory is
there was an eight acre fire early morning hours of
the first of January. This was set off with fireworks
by idiot teenagers in the Palisades, and they think maybe
the same area reignited a week later because of the
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intense wins.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
That's theory one.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
Theory number two, the fire was sparked by something else
that morning, maybe another person. I don't know if they
have any vagrants up there. It's funny, but nobody's talking
about the thousands of vagrants that live in the wilds
around here. But that's policy. But it does involve vagrant.
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They're not allowed to say it speak publicly. That's also
a part of the woke progressive movement. LA Fire Department
has declined to answer specific questions about the January first fire.
It's known as the Lochman fire. The files have been sealed.
Why are they sealed if that was the precursor of
the big fire? What do you mean sealed? And they're
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part of the ongoing investigation. Kristen Crowley, the LA Fire
chief another diversity manger, said, we won't leave a fire
that has any hotspots. But with that, I will tell
you that the investigation, the team we have on board
right now will be able to determine whether or not
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that indeed happened. I can look you in the eye
and tell you that full disclosure. If that's what they
found out, we will tell you that, Well, what is this.
We won't leave a fire that has hotspots, but maybe
this was a hotspot, which means you left it.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
Well, why did you leave it? Why was this not
fire monitored?
Speaker 2 (24:18):
Especially when you got the warning about one hundred mile
an hour winds coming on January second, You got that
warning a day after the fire, and then this fire
finally blew up on the seventh five days later. So
Crowley got the warning and did nothing and then told
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you that, well, we.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
Don't leave hotspots. Well, we don't leave.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
Hotspots except the most likely theory about the new fire
is that it was a hot spot, but we didn't
leave it. And if we did leave it, we'll tell you,
except we sealed the files, so we were not telling you.
You see how they do it, and the whole time,
ambassadors in Africa. You see, San Diego has cameras that
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monitor the mountains and the hills, including the Palisades, and
they got the January first blaze on camera. By the way,
I've just talked with somebody. Do you remember years ago
they used to have fire spotters, They used to have
fire towers.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
Yes, I heard that they that they have very few
and the few they have are not even manned regularly.
Speaker 8 (25:29):
So is that gonna change now? I mean here, that's
something that definitely should change. That's something that they could do.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
Why didn't they.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
Have fire spotters in the wilds north of the Palisades
and all the other hill side areas well.
Speaker 8 (25:42):
It's the same question is why didn't they have that
fire squad yesterday that only gets paid when they come
to uh yeah, right right, there's no rhyme or reason
to any of this.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
And with all the technology they don't they can't send
up drones with with with heat shaking or or fire
seeking capabilitabilities, right infrared capabilities to see if there's suddenly
an ignition point. Shouldn't be maybe swarming drones in the
hills during high fire seasons, an advanced warning system.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
Do they have censors up there? Maybe? Have they done anything?
Speaker 2 (26:23):
They've spent obviously no money on the firefighters and no
money on upgraded technology. What we have is only fifty
percent of a fire department, But what they should have
funded all these years instead of spending billions of dollars
on drug addict vagrants and mental patient vagrants. The ATF
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is going to issue a report in about sixty days.
Sometimes it takes many months. I wonder how many secrets
they're keeping right now, because right because most of the
city wants Bass out, I wonder if there's pressure to
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suppress more bad news, to try to protect Bass, protect Newsom,
who's on his last legs as a presidential candidate, to
protect Kristen Crowley and all these other diversity bongers, to
protect Genese Quinonyez. Everything of the last ten years has
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been bragging about diversity, quotas, no money, No money has
been spent on the infrastructure, any kind of infrastructure, water, power, roadways, fire, police,
no extra money chest the legal aliens, homeless people and criminals.
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That's the holy trunity. And now there's another story which
we won't have time to get to, about all the
toxic ash and toxic air. That's another thing, by the way,
that the government historically lies about. They'd lied about it
in New York City. The federal EPA at the time,
under the idiot Bush administration, was claiming that their testing
(28:18):
shows that the air was okay in Manhattan after the
Twin Towers.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
Oh how could that be? They did? I know, but
that that come on, and.
Speaker 8 (28:28):
You're gonna say the air is great here in southern
California after the fires.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
Oh, there's a way that we're all breathing in lead
and all kinds of heavy toxic metals.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
Right, and then we're going to wonder why we get cancer.
Speaker 8 (28:41):
Yeah, well we have, we have no genetic disposition to it.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
Well, ten years later, how many fire and police, uh
policemen ended up ended up seriously ill I mean they
had emphasey men lug cancer and heart issues and it
was all from the toxic air that the government lied about.
And you know they're going to be lying about the
air here too.
Speaker 8 (29:02):
Well, they can't lie because how many times do they say, oh,
you need to write to beat Karen Bath said to
be safe, right, you can't go in and clean the
debris because it's it's not safe. I want too many talkses,
so that's on record.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
I want to I wonder what the readings are, though
I don't good one to know. Well, yeah, I don't
recall that they've released any numbers.
Speaker 4 (29:27):
You're listening to John Cobel on demand from KFI Am sixty.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
Well, I got a minute here.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
You know what, there's one clip I missed when Trump
going after Pete Boota J. Edge, the old Transportation secretary,
when he was railing away about all the woke progressive
hiring policies that the FAA had Play cut number four.
Speaker 9 (29:48):
The FAA website shows that the agency's guidance and diversity
hiring were last updated on March twenty third of twenty two.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
They wanted to make.
Speaker 5 (29:57):
It even more so. And then I came men and
I assume.
Speaker 9 (30:01):
Maybe this is the reason the FAA, which is overseen
by Secretary Pete Buddhachek, a real winner.
Speaker 5 (30:10):
That's the guy.
Speaker 9 (30:10):
He's a real winner.
Speaker 3 (30:11):
Do you know?
Speaker 9 (30:11):
Badly everything's run since he's run this Department of Transportation.
He's a disaster. He was a disaster as a mayor.
He ran his city into the ground, and he's a
disaster now. He's just got a good line of book.
The Department of Transportation, his government agency charged with regulating
(30:33):
civil aviation. Well he runs it forty five thousand people
and he's run it right into the ground with his diversity.
So I had to say that it's terrible. Then it's
a group within the FAA. Another story determined that the
workforce was too white, that they had concerted efforts to
(30:55):
get the administration to change that and to change it imediately.
This was in the Obama administration, just prior to my
getting there.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
Yeah, there you go. I love when he takes down
pomp founds. All right, conways, here we.
Speaker 10 (31:11):
Got a lot of specialists coming on to talk about
this horrible plane crash. We have Patrick Wyle, he's airline consultant.
We also have two other specialists, Tim Lynn, who is
a helicopter pilot, we'll find out what happened, then what's
going on with that. Dean Sharp's coming on as well.
And then so it turns out there were no survivors.
I was watching this thing last night and it's amazing.
(31:34):
You know, back in the old days, when there's a
plane crash, you'd never see video of it and you'd
only hear about it hours later. Now it's moments later.
I mean, it happened at five point fifty eight and
they're showing replays right away, right away. I mean, you
know everything we live in the sea all world now
of everything you know, you instantly see it. And if
TV's not going to show it, some station I'm not
(31:56):
going to say which one said this is hard to watch,
and then they didn't show it. They showed right up
into the accident. So you just now go to YouTube
and you see the whole thing.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
Or you know, you can't trust.
Speaker 10 (32:05):
That station, right because they don't understand that we can
handle crap like that.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
Nobody turns it off when you say this is graphic.
Speaker 10 (32:14):
Giving you a warning, right, Like if I said at
five o'clock today, I'm gonna say something might get suspended
for everyone will be like, Okay, what's going on with
that guy? I hope they do suspend him. And then
we also have second storm of the winter expected to
hit southern California. That's next week, like Tuesday, Wednesday. All right,
so get your sandbags. Oh there's gonna be a big one.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 10 (32:37):
I just like to, you know, scare people. No, but
I don't know how big it's gonna be. But look,
the last one we had, we thought it was gonna
be a drizzle and it was a downpour.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
I know at certain point. So a right.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
Conway is next the Crozier with the news live in
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