September 25, 2024 • 33 mins
O.C. Fire Chief Brian Fennessey -- On Thursday, September 19, eight of our OCFA Handcrew members were returning from battling the Airport Fire when they were involved in a rollover crash on a freeway in Irvine. Eight members were injured, six were critically injured and transported to area hospitals // OCFA GoFund Me /OCFA for injured firefighters // Oakland A’s last game in Oakland before they move to Sacramento // Porta-Potty business smelling up the neighborhood / Population is declining
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's KFI AM six forty and you're listening to the
Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Everybody remembers that horrible accent where the firefighters were coming
home from a long day on the two forty one
and the driver went to avoid a ladder and hit
the guard rail. The truck flipped over and seven of
those firefighters from the Orange County Fire Authority were transported
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to the hospital by ambulance, eight of them by helicopter.
And the fire chief, the OCFA Fire Chief Brian Phantasy
is with us.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Brian, how are you, sir?
Speaker 4 (00:41):
Good?
Speaker 5 (00:41):
Thank you for having me on the show.
Speaker 4 (00:43):
Man.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
I can't believe what you guys have gone through. I
saw the initial press conference and the emotion in you
talking about your your fellow firefighters. It's as if there
was no difference than you talking about family members there.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
It was really really moving.
Speaker 5 (00:58):
Oh you know what, I appreciate you're saying that. And
you know a lot of people talk about the fire
service family and and you know here at the OCFA,
it's true. I mean I hire every one of these
these firefighters and personally meet with them before you know,
we hand them their badge, and they go through training
and so it was very, very personal, and so I
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appreciate I appreciate you noticing that.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Yeah it was you can see it.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
You know, you had a sports coat and a shirt on,
so you weren't on duty. It was very late and
you and you got there and it just it just
seemed like it knocked the wind out of you like
it did.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Everybody North County or in southern California.
Speaker 5 (01:38):
Yeah, I did, you know. I was actually traveling back
from Boston a fire service conference, and about an hour
before landing, I started getting text messages about an accident.
And at that point we didn't know, you know, the
the level of injuries, whether we had anybody that was
fatally injured or anything out. So you know, I knew
(02:01):
it was bad when I got to my car in
the airport and the turn on the car and your channels,
your station's on the radio reporting this accident, and so yeah,
it was quite a wake up.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
And I chief are these seasonal or career firefighters who've
been injured.
Speaker 5 (02:18):
Well, they're full time firefighters, so most of them, you know,
are are younger because it's a job that really requires
I mean, you don't see a lot of you know,
forty fifty sixty year holds doing this kind of work.
But they they're full time employees, their hand crew firefighters,
and most of them, if not all of them, are
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looking to compete for a job. You know what we
would call on the floor on your basic you know,
fire engine and fire trucks. So they come here and
they you know, work on the hand crew. It's an
opportunity for us to evaluate, you know, their character because
we hire for character and it's a bridge program. So
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when they do apply for a regular firefighter job, they
get a special look. And I've told them all that
if they you know, get ninety percent of better acumulative,
they immediately go to the fire chief interview, which is
the last stage of our hiring, and we've had such
success with that.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
And that's great.
Speaker 5 (03:18):
Just we're wonderful people.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
Cheef is what was their day like before the accident?
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Were they coming off a twelve hour grueling shift, where
they were they going home for the weekend? What was
what was it like to you know, twelve to twenty
four hours before the accident.
Speaker 5 (03:34):
So you know they were working twenty four hour shifts
early on in the of the airport fire. They were
there initially when the fire started in Tribucal Canyon and
were on the fire scent. So that day they had
just finished a twelve hour day shift. They reduced the
shifts down the twelve hours so that we didn't have
a lot of people out on the fire line where
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it was. You know, the conditions are very hazardous. The
fire wasn't burning a lot, but there's a lot of
open line. And when I say that, I mean open
fire line, and for those that don't know what that means,
you know, the only way you can assure that the
fire is not going to spread anymore is to you know,
get right on the black edge down to mineral soil.
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So we use chainsaws, we use shovels, we use all
kinds of hand tools, and we create basically a fuel break,
a break in that fuel well. This fire burned into
a lot of really really tough, nasty country where we
couldn't put bulldozers, you can't get hose layers. So the
only people they can access, you know, the edge of
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this fire, whether it's cold or not, are hand crews.
Hotshot crews, hand crews I mean, which are basically the
same thing. And so they'd spend all day, you know,
at hiking and working very hard cutting out the edge
of this fire. And so they were released, you know,
back to their buggies as we call them, and en
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route to the instant command post to get a meal
and get clean and then probably go back to camp.
So I don't think any of them expected the rest
of the day to go as it did, you know.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
I again, Chief Brian fantasies with us from the Orange
County Fire Authority. When there's a police chase in La
or any city and a police officer gets hurt in
the chase, the person they're chasing is responsible for that injury.
Is it the same thing with fire? If they find
out who is responsible for this fire, will they be
strapped with the medical bills and the responsibility of these
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firefighters that were injured?
Speaker 5 (05:35):
Well, that's a really great question. You know, I don't
know that for sure. I am not sure in terms
of how legally that all works. That certainly makes sense.
I know that when we had the two Handcree firefighters
that were you know, severely burned on in the twenty
nineteen Silverado fire, that that was part of I believe
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the County Dad have that, at least initially as a case,
but I would be the wrong person ask I don't know, actually.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
And can you give us an idea for you know,
people like me who've never even seen the inside one
of these transport vehicles. Are they sitting in rows? Do
they have seat belts? What is it like inside there?
Speaker 5 (06:21):
Well, that's a really good question. I started my career
in nineteen seventy eight as a hotshot crew member and
spent the better part of thirteen years either riding in
the back of one of those or driving up front
and leading crews all over the Western US. And I
will say that the crew carriers of today are far
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better than they were back in the late seventies and
eighties when I was on the cruise. And even then,
though we each had our own individual seats, we had
seat belts. But these are largely you know, boxes, metal
boxes that have utility compartments that have all the tools
and chainsaws and everything you would need. So they're much nicer,
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their air conditioned. They certainly weren't when I was there,
but they're they're very modern vehicles, but they are obviously
a bit top heavy. They are made of you know,
a lot of metal, and so as you can imagine,
you know, when the crew rolled, man, they got banged
up really good inside that thing. And thankfully they were
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all seat belted. Otherwise we've been talking about fatalities. And
in fact, I'm told by many of the crew that
was there that when the truck was landed upside down
when it was done rolling, all of those in the
back of the truck were suspended by their seat belts
in their seats and be released and drug out of
the back. But yeah, they spent a lot of time
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in these vehicles traveling up and down the state of
California and here County, and so it's their.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Their mobile home, if you will see can we give
I'd like to give a special thanks in a shout
out to the hospital that that welcomed all of these
you know the seven delivery, you know, transported by ambulance
eight by helicopter. What is the main hospital that that
that obviously saved lives that day.
Speaker 5 (08:10):
Well, this was a multi casualty incident what we would
call an m c I. And so when our crews
arrived at scene, our paramedics they start triaging and treating
those patients and then we have what's called a medical
a medcom somebody that is in charge of putting a
number to the patient and and cataloging where they're going.
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And so you know, there were four hospitals that we
sent our firefighters to. There was OC Global Mission Hospital,
Hogue Irvine, and UC Irvine. H all eight that were transported.
Of the eight, four have been released. Some of those
are still pretty banged up with broken bones and those
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sorts of things. But we still have four Handcree firefighters
in the hospital right now. So you know, this the
pretty major major injuries we have.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
Uh, the how to donate.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
I know there's a lot of gofundmes set up for
for these guys. Were they all Were they all men?
Speaker 5 (09:11):
They were all men?
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Okay, yes we have We're going to give out that information.
I really appreciate you coming on. I know that Orange County,
like La County, they really support the firefighters. And I
imagine you've seen in the outpouring of not only wallets,
but flowers and hearts and messages from people live in
Orange County.
Speaker 5 (09:31):
Oh Conley, I can't begin to tell you, and thank
everybody that's listening that has reached out. I mean, this
is I mean, my my text messages, my emails, all
of ours have continued to blow up even through today,
not just to your locally, but nationally and even internationally.
So the outpouring of support for you know, the families
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that are dealing with their their injured firefighters is has
just been incredible. So I I want to thank you
and everybody.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
The least we could do. I know, there was a
very difficult fire to fight.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
The the you know, the temperature was out of control
and there's a lot of brush from the you know,
the two years we've had a lot of rain and
a lot of.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
Dead brush there too. There was a really tough fire.
Speaker 5 (10:16):
Thanks. You know, we're only in the halfway point here
in southern California, am I'm expected to get hotter and
we ever, sant Ana wins ahead of us, and so
we're not through yet. We've got a we've got a
tough road ahead, I think before we see any any
measurable rain.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Well, God bless all these guys. Please come back with us.
We'd love to have you. And thanks for checking.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
In with us.
Speaker 5 (10:37):
Thank you, sir.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
I appreciate it all right.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Chief Brian Fantasy with the Orange County Fire Authority. That
guy has had a really bad week. Twenty of these guys,
you know, banged up in this in this horrible incident
because somebody dropped the ladder on the freeway. That's it,
I think what happened, and the crew vehicle to avoid
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the ladder and flipped a couple of times. And now
these guys are really banged up.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
So we came back.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
We'll tell you exactly how to access the GoFundMe and
how to donate if you'd like to do that.
Speaker 6 (11:13):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
We just had the fire chief on from the Orange
County Fired Authority Authority, Chief Brian Fantasy, and if you'd
like to donate to the firefighters that got injured in
the rollover on the two forty one man, they would
appreciate that. You can go to go fund me and
it's very easy. Just type in when you go to
go fundme O c FA. It'll be the first one
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that comes up stands for Orange County Fire Authority, I
believe OCFA, and they have a goal of five hundred
thousand dollars. There are two hundred and eighty eight hundred
and eighty seven dollars, so they're well passed the halfway
point of their goal. And I've noticed that, and this
is really great. If you look up the top donors
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to the firefighters, who many of them got injured, the
number one donor one the top donation is the FNA
Credit Union FNA Credit Union, and that's the Federal credit Union.
In money, I think it's Monterey Park that donated twenty
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five thousand dollars. Twenty five thousand dollars. That is sensational,
the FNA Credit Union, and that's that's a tremendous donation.
And then some of the other top donations. I noticed
there was a guy named Steve Story who donated fifteen thousand.
The San Berndino County Fire Management Association they donated five thousand,
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Chino Valley Fire Foundation they noted donated five thousand. And
then this is interesting, the Bear divis Hontshots three thousand dollars,
Christina Singleton two thousand, and then if you keep going
down the list, here Sacramento Area Firefighters Local five twenty two, right,
probably they don't have a ton of money. The Sacramento
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Area Firefighters Local five to twenty two. They donated two
thousand dollars and then they said that wasn't enough. They
donated another two thousand, so four thousand dollars from Sacramento
Fire Area Firefighters Local five twenty two.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
That's just a tiny.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Little firefighting group up in Sacramento. Again, probably not a
lot of money, but they knew that these guys needed
it and they reached out and they donated four thousand dollars.
The Seal Beach Police Officers Association, nowhere near this this incident,
one thousand, five hundred dollars. And if you keep going
down the list, there's a lot of firefighters, you know,
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firefighting organizations rialto Professional Firefighters Local three six eight eight,
again probably not flush with money, donate one thousand dollars.
So that is that is terrific when people step up
and donate like that. Again, go to go fund me.
Everyone knows how to get there and just type in
O c FA. It'll be the first thing that pops
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up O c FA and let's see if we can
get these guys up to a half million dollars. And
again that's not a lot for how many you know,
guys that were injured, but at least it'll help with
you know, I'm sure a lot of them have kids,
young young kids, probably babies, you know, they're they're young themselves,
they're probably you know, lateeens nineteen twenty twenty one, twenty five,
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twenty eight, and so they probably have you know, fairly new,
brand new children that are young and could could use
some help. And it's gonna be a long road to
recover from this long, long road. And so if you can,
I bet they'd appreciate if you threw in a couple bucks,
you know, five bucks here, ten bucks there, and we'll
keep an eye on this and see how how it
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grows and progresses by these guys. It's going to take
a long time for a lot of these guys to
get back, and so anything you could hear it in
the chief's voice, anything, this really rattled them. And thank
god nobody died. It could have easily we could have
been reporting on three four, five of these guys had
passed away and we could have had a big funeral
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that was you know, international attention. And thank god, you know,
knock on wood, that did not happen. So we'll keep
mentioning it. But again, go fund me, oh c FA
if you got a couple bucks laying around and you
want to throw it at them, Man, would they appreciate it?
Speaker 3 (15:41):
You have no idea.
Speaker 6 (15:42):
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AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
And people are already donating to the Orange County Fire Authority.
It was at two hundred and eighty eight ninety seven.
Now it's at two eighty one. So already in the
last it says here the fundraisers are near you, and
two hundred and sixty nine people just donated. So that
is cool. If you donated, thank you, thank you, thank you.
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On their behalf, they would love it. All right, we
have some more news to get into. Of course, we
cover the MTA bus hijacking.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
That was a big deal. That was crazy.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
And now we have the final games coming up here
in for the Oakland A's. I grew up with watching
the Oakland A's all the time, and now they're not
going to be a team anymore. They're moving to Sacramento.
Before they moved to Las Vegas.
Speaker 7 (16:41):
Hays fans are coming to the Colisseum this week to
live in the moment, to have one last tail, you
know that, to get one last look, how do.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
You know they're going to come here to live in
the moment?
Speaker 7 (16:50):
Hayes fans are coming to the Colisseum this week to live.
Speaker 8 (16:52):
In the moment.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
Have you asked them all.
Speaker 7 (16:55):
To have one last tailgate to get one last look
at the team? With Oakland printed a loss the chest,
it's hard to process.
Speaker 9 (17:02):
I can't.
Speaker 8 (17:03):
I can't believe.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Wait a minute, it's hard to process. It's hard to process.
A team that's had financial problems and the threat of
moving for the last eight hundred years, it's hard to process.
Speaker 8 (17:14):
Then it's hard to process.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
Nobody went to the games? How is it hard to process?
Speaker 2 (17:19):
It'd be hard to process if the Dodgers moved to
I don't know, Miami, that'd be.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
Really difficult to process.
Speaker 9 (17:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
Not the A's moving.
Speaker 8 (17:29):
It's hard to process. It's not I can't.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
I can't believe it is happening.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
Really well, you've got to have your belief system looked at,
because it's on the fritz.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
It's fritzing right now. Your belief system is no good.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
They've been threatening to move for twenty years, since nineteen
eighty nine, when they played in the World Series against
the San Francisco Giants and there's that big earthquake. There
was talk of them moving back then, and that's thirty
five years ago.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
I can't I can't believe it is happening. Yeah, well,
you got to start believing.
Speaker 9 (18:00):
I mean, I keep taking if I wake.
Speaker 8 (18:02):
Up, they're gonna change their mind.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
Well maybe if enough people woke up and went to
the stadium, they wouldn't be moving.
Speaker 7 (18:08):
Many fans tell us their devotion to the A's won't
follow the team to Sacramento or Vegas.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
Yeah that's well, Look, they didn't fall them to the coliseum.
Why would they going to Sacramento or Vegas? Nobody would
didn't go to the stadium right there. Yeah, they didn't
go to stadium they can see from their house.
Speaker 9 (18:24):
Why do you think they're gonna follow them in Vegas?
Speaker 2 (18:28):
Yeah, I although I will say there's a lot of
people that follow the Raiders to Vegas. I was in
Vegas over the weekend when there's a Raider game. Man,
there are a ton of Raiders.
Speaker 10 (18:37):
But the Raiders they never had problems filling up Oakland Coliseum,
did they?
Speaker 3 (18:41):
No, not at all. I don't think so, No, not
at all.
Speaker 5 (18:43):
I'm not going to be following them, uh after after what,
I'm not going to be following them after.
Speaker 11 (18:53):
No, I'm gonna I'm gonna be a Mariners man.
Speaker 7 (18:55):
And you think about all the workers who are losing
their jobs. Fan favorite vendor Ice Cold Kenny Bow speaks
his mind about a relocation that he says never had
to happen.
Speaker 9 (19:06):
There's no reason to leave. This team had been turned apart.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
Every time we get good players, anytime we got.
Speaker 7 (19:12):
In attendance, this first game of the final homestand the
greatest Hall of Famer Ricky Henderson. Any message for the
fans attending their last game last year.
Speaker 4 (19:23):
We have fun.
Speaker 5 (19:23):
That's all held the time, great memory.
Speaker 7 (19:30):
The always passionate fans out in right field are doing
their best to enjoy every moment and savor these memories.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
I don't want people to be sad. I don't.
Speaker 11 (19:38):
This is our home, this is our hometown team, this
is our stadium.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
I want people to just be.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
Has that guy heard that they've moved who they're moving?
This guy doesn't seem to have any of the news
in him.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
I don't want people to be sad. Okay, well they're not.
I don't.
Speaker 11 (19:53):
This is our home, this is our hometown team.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
Why is everybody sad? It's not your hometown. It's moving
on our.
Speaker 11 (20:02):
Home this is our hometown team was this is our stadium?
Was I want people just to be loud and proud
like we always had been. And I don't want anyone
to throw anything on the field.
Speaker 8 (20:13):
Still it hurts. It's how fun. It's not easy. It sucks.
It's one of the worst feelings in the world. I
don't want those on any fan base.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
I don't watch this on any person.
Speaker 8 (20:21):
You're my worst enemy. This is this is not cool,
not fun.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
Disappointment to sadness.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
Where are the Where were the Where were these passionate
fans for the last twenty years?
Speaker 3 (20:29):
Not at the stadium, I'll tell you that sadness. Hoping
for Americal. That guy's great. He still has hopes. Hoping
for Americal.
Speaker 5 (20:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
I think he's hoping to extend the beer sales. Hoping
for America, Yeah amercle Man.
Speaker 8 (20:48):
Hoping for Americal Circle.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
Yeah, a miracle, hoping for Americal amracle.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
Yeah, it's not going to happen. Hoping for marigolds. He's
shopping for flowers at Low's.
Speaker 5 (20:59):
I hope for a miracle.
Speaker 10 (21:01):
I heard Gary and Shannon talking today about how I
guess the team is telling the players after the game
tomorrow don't.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
Hang around, Oh really because they're not quite sure what
the games.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
Oh that's crazy, man, Man, that really is sad. I
mean Oakland has had it really rough over the last
couple of years, maybe last decade or so. The first
in and out they closed down Oakland. You know, they
lost the Raiders, they lost the A's.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
Doesn't they lost the Golden State.
Speaker 10 (21:33):
That's what I was gonna say. Don't The Warriors do
still do well, like as far as attendance, Yeah, but
they're not in Oakland anymore. Where they moved to San
Jose or San Francisco.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
They've moved.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
Yeah, I mean it's not I think they used to
play in Oakland and now they don't, is what the
word is on the streets. I think they play in
San Jose or Santa Clara. God, I don't even know
where they play. Where the Warriors played, Belly, You're you
got to basketball background, you know it.
Speaker 10 (22:03):
Is San Francisco here, San Francisco ten Yeah, San Francisco
Chase Center in San Francisco.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
Okay, So they've moved across the Bay everybody has left Denny's,
left Oakland Denny's because they're getting you know, worked over
in Oakland.
Speaker 3 (22:19):
Man, they gotta do something about that. Something's going on.
Something's going on in Oakland.
Speaker 6 (22:24):
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Speaker 3 (22:30):
There's a porta potty.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
Homeowner in Long Beach says the stench from a local
porta potty company is too much for him, way too much. Now,
let's find out how close this lad lives to the
porta potty business and more, well, sort of makes sense
a more. Yeah, it is a toilet bowl, doesn't smell
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like it it is.
Speaker 12 (22:56):
Lydia Santana says she wears her mess each time she
passes you. I did rental on Cherry Avenue as she
walks to the Store's.
Speaker 8 (23:03):
Horrible, like somebody's dead, like real nasty.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
Yeah, well that's the business there in.
Speaker 12 (23:10):
William says that smell is overwhelming, especially when he drops
off recyclables at the plat next door, and horrible like
death across the street. That death smell is pretty constant.
Speaker 9 (23:21):
It smells like something died, Yeah, like a cat, the
light thing like that.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
Yeah, everyone's got the same vibe over there. Smells horrible.
Speaker 3 (23:30):
I love what that guy said. It smells like something bad.
Speaker 9 (23:35):
It smells like something died.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
Oh did he say die? Oh wait, let's.
Speaker 9 (23:39):
See it smells like something died.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
Yeah, yeah, died.
Speaker 5 (23:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
But it does smell like something bad. It does, does.
Guy's got his nose right on top of it.
Speaker 9 (23:49):
Smells like something died.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
Yeah, like a cat, A light thing like that, Like
a cat?
Speaker 9 (23:54):
Is he saying?
Speaker 3 (23:55):
Like a cat?
Speaker 5 (23:57):
Right? He?
Speaker 12 (23:58):
Low and his roommate lived right across the street from United.
Ray Lou and this roommate live right across the street
from United Rental.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
Ah, what a break for them. Probably got a cheap
apartment too, Yeah, live right across the street from a
porter potty joined.
Speaker 12 (24:11):
Ray Lou and his roommate live right across the street
from United Rental.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
How about you guys pay for a two bedroom six
dollars a month. Wow, you got a sweet deal.
Speaker 12 (24:20):
That moved into the Cherry Avenue location about four years ago.
The company runs out porter potties. The manager did not
want to common to us about the complaints from neighbors
who say the company stores the used ponds at the
facility and drains the sewage into tanks nearby, creating a
stench that's hard to escape.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
Yeah, it's a horrible, horrible way to go.
Speaker 8 (24:40):
I don't know.
Speaker 9 (24:41):
We've just got to keep in the house. Look like
these out close the windows. Yeah, that's on that open table.
Speaker 8 (24:49):
Did this hot weather?
Speaker 9 (24:50):
You could really smell it.
Speaker 12 (24:52):
Robert Salina says the recent heat wave made things even worse.
He's lived in the neighborhood for more than thirty years
and never dealt with the smell and till the company
moved in. Now it's constant.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
Okay, Well that's not fair. If they were there before
the company, that's not fair.
Speaker 5 (25:07):
You know.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
I always I always find it fascinating that a guy
is complaining about the smell of an oil refinery, but
he moved next to an existing oil refinery, you know.
But in this case, those people were there first, and
then the porta potti guy came in.
Speaker 4 (25:23):
Like poop.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
But how does that saying go, He who smelt it,
delt it?
Speaker 2 (25:31):
Yes, that's right. Maybe this is not the only exception
to that. Possibly poop. Yeah, well it's not like poop.
I mean, this is like a god. I mean, this
is like you know, hughl Houser, it's not like poop.
It is in this case, it is it's like somebody dead.
It's like a dead cat. It's like a dead vegetable.
It's like dead meat.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
It's number two. Yeah, it's it is like poop. Now
it is, you.
Speaker 8 (25:54):
Know, and sometimes it's it's it's just really overbearing.
Speaker 3 (25:57):
Nobody does nothing about it.
Speaker 12 (25:59):
They say they've reached stats to the city for help,
but to no avail.
Speaker 5 (26:02):
People don't want to smell that that smell, especially when
in the resident.
Speaker 12 (26:06):
I did talk to a Neighborhoo messaged me and said
he actually contacted the Southern California Air Quality Control Management
District rather and see what they could do. They said,
there has to be at least six complaints.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
Filed against Oh, that seems like a doable. Six complaints, right,
here's one like poop. There's one like poop. There's two
like poop, three like poop, four like poop five, And
I couldn't get six like poop.
Speaker 9 (26:31):
There is the company, so they could take action.
Speaker 12 (26:34):
There's only one complain filed right now?
Speaker 3 (26:36):
Okay, well then one complete? What does that guy poop
file more complaints like poop?
Speaker 2 (26:45):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (26:45):
Tell them. You don't want that sucker there? The hell?
That is crazy? All right? Population decline? Where is this?
Speaker 2 (26:54):
You think population declined? Certainly not Southern Californian great place to.
Speaker 13 (26:57):
Live, sunny skies, the Beat, the mountains, Hollywood, Disneyland, sports
and entertainment.
Speaker 3 (27:04):
Who wants to leave here?
Speaker 13 (27:05):
Southern California sure has a lot going back to it,
But for.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
Some it's just not enough.
Speaker 13 (27:11):
What Population growth in Southern California is slowing for many reasons,
but mostly the high cost of living.
Speaker 4 (27:19):
The cost of land, the cost of material, the cost
of labor that add up to high home prices.
Speaker 3 (27:27):
Komey, I just say, is the executive got a name?
What a great name?
Speaker 8 (27:31):
Come?
Speaker 2 (27:32):
I just say homee A just say ah, that guy's
the winner.
Speaker 13 (27:36):
Coomy, I just say is the executive director of the
Southern California Association of Governments that hosted the thirty fifth
Annual Demographics Workshop in downtown Los Angeles this morning. This
meeting of the mines meant to study this particular issue closely.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
Yeah, people are taken off a lot of four.
Speaker 4 (27:55):
Year universities that graduate thousands and thousands of talented young
people every single year, and we can't keep them here
because they can't afford to live there, given the fact
that housing is really expensive in this region.
Speaker 13 (28:08):
Of course, there are also political reasons to leave the state.
With crime and homelessness primary factors.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
It's the two things that everybody complains about, homelessness and crime.
Speaker 3 (28:21):
With crime and homeless cost.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
Homeless cost and crime the three things that people really
complain about a lot here.
Speaker 13 (28:28):
With crime and homelessness primary factors. But some of these
folks say it's possible that trend could soon change.
Speaker 3 (28:35):
Oh okay, people are come back.
Speaker 14 (28:37):
In the last ten years, median household incomes in our
region here have gone up seventeen percent. They've only gone
up eleven percent for the rest of the country, and
that's inflation adjusted.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
Yeah, but if they go up seventeen percent and you're
still getting knocked with a fifty percent increase in your
insurance and your bills, that doesn't mean anything.
Speaker 14 (28:54):
So purchasing power has gotten stronger here.
Speaker 13 (28:57):
Other statistics showing that while the number of young adult
spying homes in southern California dropped consistently from two thousand
and five to twenty fifteen, that number has actually been
creeping up since then.
Speaker 14 (29:09):
Home prices have actually been accelerating more in the rest
of the country than in southern California since the pandemic.
So in a way, our housing crunch is kind of
you know, the Boise's and the Austins and the Denvers
of the country are kind of catching up to our
level of home price acceleration.
Speaker 3 (29:25):
All right, well, people are, you know, complaining about everything?
Speaker 2 (29:28):
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and bruis tomorrow? We are told to promote that are
where is that going to be?
Speaker 9 (29:49):
Huntington Beach?
Speaker 3 (29:50):
Huntington Beach at where BJ's or yeah, BJS across from Terrabella.
Oh was that right? We were at that BJ's.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
We did a live remote there at that BJS where.
Speaker 3 (30:03):
We did don't they have two?
Speaker 5 (30:03):
There?
Speaker 3 (30:04):
Is that the one we did five?
Speaker 5 (30:07):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (30:07):
Okay, we were we were at the one downtown. We're
at the better one, I think, Oh.
Speaker 3 (30:11):
Yeah, that's where the people are from one. Yeah, that's right.
Sort of crows knocked it out with the volume. That's
what I keep hearing.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
Crozier was there on his vacation day and so he
didn't have to work and sampled those margaritas and margarita's.
Speaker 3 (30:32):
Yeah, yeah, many margaritas.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
And I think you had eight between the four o'clock
started the show and like four oh eight.
Speaker 10 (30:40):
I was not drunk.
Speaker 3 (30:42):
No, not drunk. Yeah, a lot of people that said
you're drunk.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
No, you weren't drunk. I've seen you drunk. You weren't drunk.
But those are the little tiny mini margaritas.
Speaker 3 (30:51):
Yeah, what are those?
Speaker 5 (30:52):
Run?
Speaker 3 (30:52):
What were they? Do you remember what those were? Nope? No,
they helped you out.
Speaker 10 (30:55):
Huh yeah, right, that was great though.
Speaker 3 (30:57):
That was a great a couple of great listeners. Give
me a couple of shots the time back. Yeah, you're
defeating your argument if you weren't drunk. Oh, it was
there five hours. I know, I know, I know. I'm
trying to help you out. But they're gonna be at
the one near the four or five?
Speaker 2 (31:13):
Ah, are you going to it? Steph flush you said
you were gonna be, You're threatening to go. You're still
planning on it. It's threatening I'm gonna be here. Oh
you're gonna be here?
Speaker 9 (31:20):
Huh?
Speaker 3 (31:20):
Belly, are you gonna be here? Garvin channing off for one?
Speaker 2 (31:23):
Yeah, they started. They started nine am. That'll drive and
then Belly, you're going you're stop by, You're gonna stop
on the way up? Yes, you promise because no, So
Angel's the only one going.
Speaker 3 (31:36):
Angel. What time are you gonna be there? Oh? Probably
at nine? You're not going.
Speaker 5 (31:44):
Where?
Speaker 3 (31:45):
Okay, you're out Crozier.
Speaker 5 (31:46):
Are you going?
Speaker 9 (31:47):
Tell no?
Speaker 3 (31:49):
Now, I'm out of my way.
Speaker 4 (31:50):
Man.
Speaker 3 (31:50):
That means I gotta go. All right, look forward to
hearing you drunk there. I'll get down there. Maybe.
Speaker 5 (31:56):
Nah.
Speaker 3 (31:56):
I can't promise, no way, I don't promost anything.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
But they're going to be there from nine am until
one pm at the BJ's near the four oh five.
We'll come back with the address of that inside. Evidently
everyone's sitting on their hands here. I'm not going to
go to break until somebody tells me.
Speaker 3 (32:16):
I was editing, So I am ax.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
Know, let's let's get somebody here that calls horse Races.
Speaker 9 (32:23):
Two hundred Main Street.
Speaker 10 (32:25):
Is it that that's that's sixteen sixty Beach Boulevard, Yeah, Beach, yeah.
Speaker 3 (32:34):
One six zero six zero Beach, Bullivar.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
Yeah, Barnes and Nobles, Yeah right there, yeah, Edender and
Beach right there, all right, yeah, right next to a
party city Parties, and I don't know what else is
there auto club. So go over near your license and
(33:00):
say hi to Gary Shannon Big Door nine am to
one pm tomorrow in Orange County right on Edinger and Beach.
Speaker 3 (33:09):
So go check them out live on Cafe.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
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Speaker 2 (00:08):
Everybody remembers that horrible accent where the firefighters were coming
home from a long day on the two forty one
and the driver went to avoid a ladder and hit
the guard rail. The truck flipped over and seven of
those firefighters from the Orange County Fire Authority were transported
(00:28):
to the hospital by ambulance, eight of them by helicopter.
And the fire chief, the OCFA Fire Chief Brian Phantasy
is with us.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Brian, how are you, sir?
Speaker 4 (00:41):
Good?
Speaker 5 (00:41):
Thank you for having me on the show.
Speaker 4 (00:43):
Man.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
I can't believe what you guys have gone through. I
saw the initial press conference and the emotion in you
talking about your your fellow firefighters. It's as if there
was no difference than you talking about family members there.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
It was really really moving.
Speaker 5 (00:58):
Oh you know what, I appreciate you're saying that. And
you know a lot of people talk about the fire
service family and and you know here at the OCFA,
it's true. I mean I hire every one of these
these firefighters and personally meet with them before you know,
we hand them their badge, and they go through training
and so it was very, very personal, and so I
(01:20):
appreciate I appreciate you noticing that.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Yeah it was you can see it.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
You know, you had a sports coat and a shirt on,
so you weren't on duty. It was very late and
you and you got there and it just it just
seemed like it knocked the wind out of you like
it did.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Everybody North County or in southern California.
Speaker 5 (01:38):
Yeah, I did, you know. I was actually traveling back
from Boston a fire service conference, and about an hour
before landing, I started getting text messages about an accident.
And at that point we didn't know, you know, the
the level of injuries, whether we had anybody that was
fatally injured or anything out. So you know, I knew
(02:01):
it was bad when I got to my car in
the airport and the turn on the car and your channels,
your station's on the radio reporting this accident, and so yeah,
it was quite a wake up.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
And I chief are these seasonal or career firefighters who've
been injured.
Speaker 5 (02:18):
Well, they're full time firefighters, so most of them, you know,
are are younger because it's a job that really requires
I mean, you don't see a lot of you know,
forty fifty sixty year holds doing this kind of work.
But they they're full time employees, their hand crew firefighters,
and most of them, if not all of them, are
(02:39):
looking to compete for a job. You know what we
would call on the floor on your basic you know,
fire engine and fire trucks. So they come here and
they you know, work on the hand crew. It's an
opportunity for us to evaluate, you know, their character because
we hire for character and it's a bridge program. So
(03:00):
when they do apply for a regular firefighter job, they
get a special look. And I've told them all that
if they you know, get ninety percent of better acumulative,
they immediately go to the fire chief interview, which is
the last stage of our hiring, and we've had such
success with that.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
And that's great.
Speaker 5 (03:18):
Just we're wonderful people.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
Cheef is what was their day like before the accident?
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Were they coming off a twelve hour grueling shift, where
they were they going home for the weekend? What was
what was it like to you know, twelve to twenty
four hours before the accident.
Speaker 5 (03:34):
So you know they were working twenty four hour shifts
early on in the of the airport fire. They were
there initially when the fire started in Tribucal Canyon and
were on the fire scent. So that day they had
just finished a twelve hour day shift. They reduced the
shifts down the twelve hours so that we didn't have
a lot of people out on the fire line where
(03:55):
it was. You know, the conditions are very hazardous. The
fire wasn't burning a lot, but there's a lot of
open line. And when I say that, I mean open
fire line, and for those that don't know what that means,
you know, the only way you can assure that the
fire is not going to spread anymore is to you know,
get right on the black edge down to mineral soil.
(04:17):
So we use chainsaws, we use shovels, we use all
kinds of hand tools, and we create basically a fuel break,
a break in that fuel well. This fire burned into
a lot of really really tough, nasty country where we
couldn't put bulldozers, you can't get hose layers. So the
only people they can access, you know, the edge of
(04:38):
this fire, whether it's cold or not, are hand crews.
Hotshot crews, hand crews I mean, which are basically the
same thing. And so they'd spend all day, you know,
at hiking and working very hard cutting out the edge
of this fire. And so they were released, you know,
back to their buggies as we call them, and en
(04:59):
route to the instant command post to get a meal
and get clean and then probably go back to camp.
So I don't think any of them expected the rest
of the day to go as it did, you know.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
I again, Chief Brian fantasies with us from the Orange
County Fire Authority. When there's a police chase in La
or any city and a police officer gets hurt in
the chase, the person they're chasing is responsible for that injury.
Is it the same thing with fire? If they find
out who is responsible for this fire, will they be
strapped with the medical bills and the responsibility of these
(05:33):
firefighters that were injured?
Speaker 5 (05:35):
Well, that's a really great question. You know, I don't
know that for sure. I am not sure in terms
of how legally that all works. That certainly makes sense.
I know that when we had the two Handcree firefighters
that were you know, severely burned on in the twenty
nineteen Silverado fire, that that was part of I believe
(06:01):
the County Dad have that, at least initially as a case,
but I would be the wrong person ask I don't know, actually.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
And can you give us an idea for you know,
people like me who've never even seen the inside one
of these transport vehicles. Are they sitting in rows? Do
they have seat belts? What is it like inside there?
Speaker 5 (06:21):
Well, that's a really good question. I started my career
in nineteen seventy eight as a hotshot crew member and
spent the better part of thirteen years either riding in
the back of one of those or driving up front
and leading crews all over the Western US. And I
will say that the crew carriers of today are far
(06:41):
better than they were back in the late seventies and
eighties when I was on the cruise. And even then,
though we each had our own individual seats, we had
seat belts. But these are largely you know, boxes, metal
boxes that have utility compartments that have all the tools
and chainsaws and everything you would need. So they're much nicer,
(07:03):
their air conditioned. They certainly weren't when I was there,
but they're they're very modern vehicles, but they are obviously
a bit top heavy. They are made of you know,
a lot of metal, and so as you can imagine,
you know, when the crew rolled, man, they got banged
up really good inside that thing. And thankfully they were
(07:25):
all seat belted. Otherwise we've been talking about fatalities. And
in fact, I'm told by many of the crew that
was there that when the truck was landed upside down
when it was done rolling, all of those in the
back of the truck were suspended by their seat belts
in their seats and be released and drug out of
the back. But yeah, they spent a lot of time
(07:47):
in these vehicles traveling up and down the state of
California and here County, and so it's their.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Their mobile home, if you will see can we give
I'd like to give a special thanks in a shout
out to the hospital that that welcomed all of these
you know the seven delivery, you know, transported by ambulance
eight by helicopter. What is the main hospital that that
that obviously saved lives that day.
Speaker 5 (08:10):
Well, this was a multi casualty incident what we would
call an m c I. And so when our crews
arrived at scene, our paramedics they start triaging and treating
those patients and then we have what's called a medical
a medcom somebody that is in charge of putting a
number to the patient and and cataloging where they're going.
(08:31):
And so you know, there were four hospitals that we
sent our firefighters to. There was OC Global Mission Hospital,
Hogue Irvine, and UC Irvine. H all eight that were transported.
Of the eight, four have been released. Some of those
are still pretty banged up with broken bones and those
(08:52):
sorts of things. But we still have four Handcree firefighters
in the hospital right now. So you know, this the
pretty major major injuries we have.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
Uh, the how to donate.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
I know there's a lot of gofundmes set up for
for these guys. Were they all Were they all men?
Speaker 5 (09:11):
They were all men?
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Okay, yes we have We're going to give out that information.
I really appreciate you coming on. I know that Orange County,
like La County, they really support the firefighters. And I
imagine you've seen in the outpouring of not only wallets,
but flowers and hearts and messages from people live in
Orange County.
Speaker 5 (09:31):
Oh Conley, I can't begin to tell you, and thank
everybody that's listening that has reached out. I mean, this
is I mean, my my text messages, my emails, all
of ours have continued to blow up even through today,
not just to your locally, but nationally and even internationally.
So the outpouring of support for you know, the families
(09:55):
that are dealing with their their injured firefighters is has
just been incredible. So I I want to thank you
and everybody.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
The least we could do. I know, there was a
very difficult fire to fight.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
The the you know, the temperature was out of control
and there's a lot of brush from the you know,
the two years we've had a lot of rain and
a lot of.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
Dead brush there too. There was a really tough fire.
Speaker 5 (10:16):
Thanks. You know, we're only in the halfway point here
in southern California, am I'm expected to get hotter and
we ever, sant Ana wins ahead of us, and so
we're not through yet. We've got a we've got a
tough road ahead, I think before we see any any
measurable rain.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Well, God bless all these guys. Please come back with us.
We'd love to have you. And thanks for checking.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
In with us.
Speaker 5 (10:37):
Thank you, sir.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
I appreciate it all right.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Chief Brian Fantasy with the Orange County Fire Authority. That
guy has had a really bad week. Twenty of these guys,
you know, banged up in this in this horrible incident
because somebody dropped the ladder on the freeway. That's it,
I think what happened, and the crew vehicle to avoid
(11:00):
the ladder and flipped a couple of times. And now
these guys are really banged up.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
So we came back.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
We'll tell you exactly how to access the GoFundMe and
how to donate if you'd like to do that.
Speaker 6 (11:13):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
We just had the fire chief on from the Orange
County Fired Authority Authority, Chief Brian Fantasy, and if you'd
like to donate to the firefighters that got injured in
the rollover on the two forty one man, they would
appreciate that. You can go to go fund me and
it's very easy. Just type in when you go to
go fundme O c FA. It'll be the first one
(11:43):
that comes up stands for Orange County Fire Authority, I
believe OCFA, and they have a goal of five hundred
thousand dollars. There are two hundred and eighty eight hundred
and eighty seven dollars, so they're well passed the halfway
point of their goal. And I've noticed that, and this
is really great. If you look up the top donors
(12:05):
to the firefighters, who many of them got injured, the
number one donor one the top donation is the FNA
Credit Union FNA Credit Union, and that's the Federal credit Union.
In money, I think it's Monterey Park that donated twenty
(12:26):
five thousand dollars. Twenty five thousand dollars. That is sensational,
the FNA Credit Union, and that's that's a tremendous donation.
And then some of the other top donations. I noticed
there was a guy named Steve Story who donated fifteen thousand.
The San Berndino County Fire Management Association they donated five thousand,
(12:52):
Chino Valley Fire Foundation they noted donated five thousand. And
then this is interesting, the Bear divis Hontshots three thousand dollars,
Christina Singleton two thousand, and then if you keep going
down the list, here Sacramento Area Firefighters Local five twenty two, right,
probably they don't have a ton of money. The Sacramento
(13:14):
Area Firefighters Local five to twenty two. They donated two
thousand dollars and then they said that wasn't enough. They
donated another two thousand, so four thousand dollars from Sacramento
Fire Area Firefighters Local five twenty two.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
That's just a tiny.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Little firefighting group up in Sacramento. Again, probably not a
lot of money, but they knew that these guys needed
it and they reached out and they donated four thousand dollars.
The Seal Beach Police Officers Association, nowhere near this this incident,
one thousand, five hundred dollars. And if you keep going
down the list, there's a lot of firefighters, you know,
(13:56):
firefighting organizations rialto Professional Firefighters Local three six eight eight,
again probably not flush with money, donate one thousand dollars.
So that is that is terrific when people step up
and donate like that. Again, go to go fund me.
Everyone knows how to get there and just type in
O c FA. It'll be the first thing that pops
(14:18):
up O c FA and let's see if we can
get these guys up to a half million dollars. And
again that's not a lot for how many you know,
guys that were injured, but at least it'll help with
you know, I'm sure a lot of them have kids,
young young kids, probably babies, you know, they're they're young themselves,
they're probably you know, lateeens nineteen twenty twenty one, twenty five,
(14:40):
twenty eight, and so they probably have you know, fairly new,
brand new children that are young and could could use
some help. And it's gonna be a long road to
recover from this long, long road. And so if you can,
I bet they'd appreciate if you threw in a couple bucks,
you know, five bucks here, ten bucks there, and we'll
keep an eye on this and see how how it
(15:03):
grows and progresses by these guys. It's going to take
a long time for a lot of these guys to
get back, and so anything you could hear it in
the chief's voice, anything, this really rattled them. And thank
god nobody died. It could have easily we could have
been reporting on three four, five of these guys had
passed away and we could have had a big funeral
(15:26):
that was you know, international attention. And thank god, you know,
knock on wood, that did not happen. So we'll keep
mentioning it. But again, go fund me, oh c FA
if you got a couple bucks laying around and you
want to throw it at them, Man, would they appreciate it?
Speaker 3 (15:41):
You have no idea.
Speaker 6 (15:42):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
And people are already donating to the Orange County Fire Authority.
It was at two hundred and eighty eight ninety seven.
Now it's at two eighty one. So already in the
last it says here the fundraisers are near you, and
two hundred and sixty nine people just donated. So that
is cool. If you donated, thank you, thank you, thank you.
(16:11):
On their behalf, they would love it. All right, we
have some more news to get into. Of course, we
cover the MTA bus hijacking.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
That was a big deal. That was crazy.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
And now we have the final games coming up here
in for the Oakland A's. I grew up with watching
the Oakland A's all the time, and now they're not
going to be a team anymore. They're moving to Sacramento.
Before they moved to Las Vegas.
Speaker 7 (16:41):
Hays fans are coming to the Colisseum this week to
live in the moment, to have one last tail, you
know that, to get one last look, how do.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
You know they're going to come here to live in
the moment?
Speaker 7 (16:50):
Hayes fans are coming to the Colisseum this week to live.
Speaker 8 (16:52):
In the moment.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
Have you asked them all.
Speaker 7 (16:55):
To have one last tailgate to get one last look
at the team? With Oakland printed a loss the chest,
it's hard to process.
Speaker 9 (17:02):
I can't.
Speaker 8 (17:03):
I can't believe.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Wait a minute, it's hard to process. It's hard to process.
A team that's had financial problems and the threat of
moving for the last eight hundred years, it's hard to process.
Speaker 8 (17:14):
Then it's hard to process.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
Nobody went to the games? How is it hard to process?
Speaker 2 (17:19):
It'd be hard to process if the Dodgers moved to
I don't know, Miami, that'd be.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
Really difficult to process.
Speaker 9 (17:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
Not the A's moving.
Speaker 8 (17:29):
It's hard to process. It's not I can't.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
I can't believe it is happening.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
Really well, you've got to have your belief system looked at,
because it's on the fritz.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
It's fritzing right now. Your belief system is no good.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
They've been threatening to move for twenty years, since nineteen
eighty nine, when they played in the World Series against
the San Francisco Giants and there's that big earthquake. There
was talk of them moving back then, and that's thirty
five years ago.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
I can't I can't believe it is happening. Yeah, well,
you got to start believing.
Speaker 9 (18:00):
I mean, I keep taking if I wake.
Speaker 8 (18:02):
Up, they're gonna change their mind.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
Well maybe if enough people woke up and went to
the stadium, they wouldn't be moving.
Speaker 7 (18:08):
Many fans tell us their devotion to the A's won't
follow the team to Sacramento or Vegas.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
Yeah that's well, Look, they didn't fall them to the coliseum.
Why would they going to Sacramento or Vegas? Nobody would
didn't go to the stadium right there. Yeah, they didn't
go to stadium they can see from their house.
Speaker 9 (18:24):
Why do you think they're gonna follow them in Vegas?
Speaker 2 (18:28):
Yeah, I although I will say there's a lot of
people that follow the Raiders to Vegas. I was in
Vegas over the weekend when there's a Raider game. Man,
there are a ton of Raiders.
Speaker 10 (18:37):
But the Raiders they never had problems filling up Oakland Coliseum,
did they?
Speaker 3 (18:41):
No, not at all. I don't think so, No, not
at all.
Speaker 5 (18:43):
I'm not going to be following them, uh after after what,
I'm not going to be following them after.
Speaker 11 (18:53):
No, I'm gonna I'm gonna be a Mariners man.
Speaker 7 (18:55):
And you think about all the workers who are losing
their jobs. Fan favorite vendor Ice Cold Kenny Bow speaks
his mind about a relocation that he says never had
to happen.
Speaker 9 (19:06):
There's no reason to leave. This team had been turned apart.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
Every time we get good players, anytime we got.
Speaker 7 (19:12):
In attendance, this first game of the final homestand the
greatest Hall of Famer Ricky Henderson. Any message for the
fans attending their last game last year.
Speaker 4 (19:23):
We have fun.
Speaker 5 (19:23):
That's all held the time, great memory.
Speaker 7 (19:30):
The always passionate fans out in right field are doing
their best to enjoy every moment and savor these memories.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
I don't want people to be sad. I don't.
Speaker 11 (19:38):
This is our home, this is our hometown team, this
is our stadium.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
I want people to just be.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
Has that guy heard that they've moved who they're moving?
This guy doesn't seem to have any of the news
in him.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
I don't want people to be sad. Okay, well they're not.
I don't.
Speaker 11 (19:53):
This is our home, this is our hometown team.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
Why is everybody sad? It's not your hometown. It's moving
on our.
Speaker 11 (20:02):
Home this is our hometown team was this is our stadium?
Was I want people just to be loud and proud
like we always had been. And I don't want anyone
to throw anything on the field.
Speaker 8 (20:13):
Still it hurts. It's how fun. It's not easy. It sucks.
It's one of the worst feelings in the world. I
don't want those on any fan base.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
I don't watch this on any person.
Speaker 8 (20:21):
You're my worst enemy. This is this is not cool,
not fun.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
Disappointment to sadness.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
Where are the Where were the Where were these passionate
fans for the last twenty years?
Speaker 3 (20:29):
Not at the stadium, I'll tell you that sadness. Hoping
for Americal. That guy's great. He still has hopes. Hoping
for Americal.
Speaker 5 (20:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
I think he's hoping to extend the beer sales. Hoping
for America, Yeah amercle Man.
Speaker 8 (20:48):
Hoping for Americal Circle.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
Yeah, a miracle, hoping for Americal amracle.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
Yeah, it's not going to happen. Hoping for marigolds. He's
shopping for flowers at Low's.
Speaker 5 (20:59):
I hope for a miracle.
Speaker 10 (21:01):
I heard Gary and Shannon talking today about how I
guess the team is telling the players after the game
tomorrow don't.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
Hang around, Oh really because they're not quite sure what
the games.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
Oh that's crazy, man, Man, that really is sad. I
mean Oakland has had it really rough over the last
couple of years, maybe last decade or so. The first
in and out they closed down Oakland. You know, they
lost the Raiders, they lost the A's.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
Doesn't they lost the Golden State.
Speaker 10 (21:33):
That's what I was gonna say. Don't The Warriors do
still do well, like as far as attendance, Yeah, but
they're not in Oakland anymore. Where they moved to San
Jose or San Francisco.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
They've moved.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
Yeah, I mean it's not I think they used to
play in Oakland and now they don't, is what the
word is on the streets. I think they play in
San Jose or Santa Clara. God, I don't even know
where they play. Where the Warriors played, Belly, You're you
got to basketball background, you know it.
Speaker 10 (22:03):
Is San Francisco here, San Francisco ten Yeah, San Francisco
Chase Center in San Francisco.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
Okay, So they've moved across the Bay everybody has left Denny's,
left Oakland Denny's because they're getting you know, worked over
in Oakland.
Speaker 3 (22:19):
Man, they gotta do something about that. Something's going on.
Something's going on in Oakland.
Speaker 6 (22:24):
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Speaker 3 (22:30):
There's a porta potty.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
Homeowner in Long Beach says the stench from a local
porta potty company is too much for him, way too much. Now,
let's find out how close this lad lives to the
porta potty business and more, well, sort of makes sense
a more. Yeah, it is a toilet bowl, doesn't smell
(22:55):
like it it is.
Speaker 12 (22:56):
Lydia Santana says she wears her mess each time she
passes you. I did rental on Cherry Avenue as she
walks to the Store's.
Speaker 8 (23:03):
Horrible, like somebody's dead, like real nasty.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
Yeah, well that's the business there in.
Speaker 12 (23:10):
William says that smell is overwhelming, especially when he drops
off recyclables at the plat next door, and horrible like
death across the street. That death smell is pretty constant.
Speaker 9 (23:21):
It smells like something died, Yeah, like a cat, the
light thing like that.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
Yeah, everyone's got the same vibe over there. Smells horrible.
Speaker 3 (23:30):
I love what that guy said. It smells like something bad.
Speaker 9 (23:35):
It smells like something died.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
Oh did he say die? Oh wait, let's.
Speaker 9 (23:39):
See it smells like something died.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
Yeah, yeah, died.
Speaker 5 (23:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
But it does smell like something bad. It does, does.
Guy's got his nose right on top of it.
Speaker 9 (23:49):
Smells like something died.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
Yeah, like a cat, A light thing like that, Like
a cat?
Speaker 9 (23:54):
Is he saying?
Speaker 3 (23:55):
Like a cat?
Speaker 5 (23:57):
Right? He?
Speaker 12 (23:58):
Low and his roommate lived right across the street from United.
Ray Lou and this roommate live right across the street
from United Rental.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
Ah, what a break for them. Probably got a cheap
apartment too, Yeah, live right across the street from a
porter potty joined.
Speaker 12 (24:11):
Ray Lou and his roommate live right across the street
from United Rental.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
How about you guys pay for a two bedroom six
dollars a month. Wow, you got a sweet deal.
Speaker 12 (24:20):
That moved into the Cherry Avenue location about four years ago.
The company runs out porter potties. The manager did not
want to common to us about the complaints from neighbors
who say the company stores the used ponds at the
facility and drains the sewage into tanks nearby, creating a
stench that's hard to escape.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
Yeah, it's a horrible, horrible way to go.
Speaker 8 (24:40):
I don't know.
Speaker 9 (24:41):
We've just got to keep in the house. Look like
these out close the windows. Yeah, that's on that open table.
Speaker 8 (24:49):
Did this hot weather?
Speaker 9 (24:50):
You could really smell it.
Speaker 12 (24:52):
Robert Salina says the recent heat wave made things even worse.
He's lived in the neighborhood for more than thirty years
and never dealt with the smell and till the company
moved in. Now it's constant.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
Okay, Well that's not fair. If they were there before
the company, that's not fair.
Speaker 5 (25:07):
You know.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
I always I always find it fascinating that a guy
is complaining about the smell of an oil refinery, but
he moved next to an existing oil refinery, you know.
But in this case, those people were there first, and
then the porta potti guy came in.
Speaker 4 (25:23):
Like poop.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
But how does that saying go, He who smelt it,
delt it?
Speaker 2 (25:31):
Yes, that's right. Maybe this is not the only exception
to that. Possibly poop. Yeah, well it's not like poop.
I mean, this is like a god. I mean, this
is like you know, hughl Houser, it's not like poop.
It is in this case, it is it's like somebody dead.
It's like a dead cat. It's like a dead vegetable.
It's like dead meat.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
It's number two. Yeah, it's it is like poop. Now
it is, you.
Speaker 8 (25:54):
Know, and sometimes it's it's it's just really overbearing.
Speaker 3 (25:57):
Nobody does nothing about it.
Speaker 12 (25:59):
They say they've reached stats to the city for help,
but to no avail.
Speaker 5 (26:02):
People don't want to smell that that smell, especially when
in the resident.
Speaker 12 (26:06):
I did talk to a Neighborhoo messaged me and said
he actually contacted the Southern California Air Quality Control Management
District rather and see what they could do. They said,
there has to be at least six complaints.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
Filed against Oh, that seems like a doable. Six complaints, right,
here's one like poop. There's one like poop. There's two
like poop, three like poop, four like poop five, And
I couldn't get six like poop.
Speaker 9 (26:31):
There is the company, so they could take action.
Speaker 12 (26:34):
There's only one complain filed right now?
Speaker 3 (26:36):
Okay, well then one complete? What does that guy poop
file more complaints like poop?
Speaker 2 (26:45):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (26:45):
Tell them. You don't want that sucker there? The hell?
That is crazy? All right? Population decline? Where is this?
Speaker 2 (26:54):
You think population declined? Certainly not Southern Californian great place to.
Speaker 13 (26:57):
Live, sunny skies, the Beat, the mountains, Hollywood, Disneyland, sports
and entertainment.
Speaker 3 (27:04):
Who wants to leave here?
Speaker 13 (27:05):
Southern California sure has a lot going back to it,
But for.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
Some it's just not enough.
Speaker 13 (27:11):
What Population growth in Southern California is slowing for many reasons,
but mostly the high cost of living.
Speaker 4 (27:19):
The cost of land, the cost of material, the cost
of labor that add up to high home prices.
Speaker 3 (27:27):
Komey, I just say, is the executive got a name?
What a great name?
Speaker 8 (27:31):
Come?
Speaker 2 (27:32):
I just say homee A just say ah, that guy's
the winner.
Speaker 13 (27:36):
Coomy, I just say is the executive director of the
Southern California Association of Governments that hosted the thirty fifth
Annual Demographics Workshop in downtown Los Angeles this morning. This
meeting of the mines meant to study this particular issue closely.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
Yeah, people are taken off a lot of four.
Speaker 4 (27:55):
Year universities that graduate thousands and thousands of talented young
people every single year, and we can't keep them here
because they can't afford to live there, given the fact
that housing is really expensive in this region.
Speaker 13 (28:08):
Of course, there are also political reasons to leave the state.
With crime and homelessness primary factors.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
It's the two things that everybody complains about, homelessness and crime.
Speaker 3 (28:21):
With crime and homeless cost.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
Homeless cost and crime the three things that people really
complain about a lot here.
Speaker 13 (28:28):
With crime and homelessness primary factors. But some of these
folks say it's possible that trend could soon change.
Speaker 3 (28:35):
Oh okay, people are come back.
Speaker 14 (28:37):
In the last ten years, median household incomes in our
region here have gone up seventeen percent. They've only gone
up eleven percent for the rest of the country, and
that's inflation adjusted.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
Yeah, but if they go up seventeen percent and you're
still getting knocked with a fifty percent increase in your
insurance and your bills, that doesn't mean anything.
Speaker 14 (28:54):
So purchasing power has gotten stronger here.
Speaker 13 (28:57):
Other statistics showing that while the number of young adult
spying homes in southern California dropped consistently from two thousand
and five to twenty fifteen, that number has actually been
creeping up since then.
Speaker 14 (29:09):
Home prices have actually been accelerating more in the rest
of the country than in southern California since the pandemic.
So in a way, our housing crunch is kind of
you know, the Boise's and the Austins and the Denvers
of the country are kind of catching up to our
level of home price acceleration.
Speaker 3 (29:25):
All right, well, people are, you know, complaining about everything?
Speaker 2 (29:28):
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hair dot com. Hey aren't Gary and Shannon doing news
and bruis tomorrow? We are told to promote that are
where is that going to be?
Speaker 9 (29:49):
Huntington Beach?
Speaker 3 (29:50):
Huntington Beach at where BJ's or yeah, BJS across from Terrabella.
Oh was that right? We were at that BJ's.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
We did a live remote there at that BJS where.
Speaker 3 (30:03):
We did don't they have two?
Speaker 5 (30:03):
There?
Speaker 3 (30:04):
Is that the one we did five?
Speaker 5 (30:07):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (30:07):
Okay, we were we were at the one downtown. We're
at the better one, I think, Oh.
Speaker 3 (30:11):
Yeah, that's where the people are from one. Yeah, that's right.
Sort of crows knocked it out with the volume. That's
what I keep hearing.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
Crozier was there on his vacation day and so he
didn't have to work and sampled those margaritas and margarita's.
Speaker 3 (30:32):
Yeah, yeah, many margaritas.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
And I think you had eight between the four o'clock
started the show and like four oh eight.
Speaker 10 (30:40):
I was not drunk.
Speaker 3 (30:42):
No, not drunk. Yeah, a lot of people that said
you're drunk.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
No, you weren't drunk. I've seen you drunk. You weren't drunk.
But those are the little tiny mini margaritas.
Speaker 3 (30:51):
Yeah, what are those?
Speaker 5 (30:52):
Run?
Speaker 3 (30:52):
What were they? Do you remember what those were? Nope? No,
they helped you out.
Speaker 10 (30:55):
Huh yeah, right, that was great though.
Speaker 3 (30:57):
That was a great a couple of great listeners. Give
me a couple of shots the time back. Yeah, you're
defeating your argument if you weren't drunk. Oh, it was
there five hours. I know, I know, I know. I'm
trying to help you out. But they're gonna be at
the one near the four or five?
Speaker 2 (31:13):
Ah, are you going to it? Steph flush you said
you were gonna be, You're threatening to go. You're still
planning on it. It's threatening I'm gonna be here. Oh
you're gonna be here?
Speaker 9 (31:20):
Huh?
Speaker 3 (31:20):
Belly, are you gonna be here? Garvin channing off for one?
Speaker 2 (31:23):
Yeah, they started. They started nine am. That'll drive and
then Belly, you're going you're stop by, You're gonna stop
on the way up? Yes, you promise because no, So
Angel's the only one going.
Speaker 3 (31:36):
Angel. What time are you gonna be there? Oh? Probably
at nine? You're not going.
Speaker 5 (31:44):
Where?
Speaker 3 (31:45):
Okay, you're out Crozier.
Speaker 5 (31:46):
Are you going?
Speaker 9 (31:47):
Tell no?
Speaker 3 (31:49):
Now, I'm out of my way.
Speaker 4 (31:50):
Man.
Speaker 3 (31:50):
That means I gotta go. All right, look forward to
hearing you drunk there. I'll get down there. Maybe.
Speaker 5 (31:56):
Nah.
Speaker 3 (31:56):
I can't promise, no way, I don't promost anything.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
But they're going to be there from nine am until
one pm at the BJ's near the four oh five.
We'll come back with the address of that inside. Evidently
everyone's sitting on their hands here. I'm not going to
go to break until somebody tells me.
Speaker 3 (32:16):
I was editing, So I am ax.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
Know, let's let's get somebody here that calls horse Races.
Speaker 9 (32:23):
Two hundred Main Street.
Speaker 10 (32:25):
Is it that that's that's sixteen sixty Beach Boulevard, Yeah, Beach, yeah.
Speaker 3 (32:34):
One six zero six zero Beach, Bullivar.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
Yeah, Barnes and Nobles, Yeah right there, yeah, Edender and
Beach right there, all right, yeah, right next to a
party city Parties, and I don't know what else is
there auto club. So go over near your license and
(33:00):
say hi to Gary Shannon Big Door nine am to
one pm tomorrow in Orange County right on Edinger and Beach.
Speaker 3 (33:09):
So go check them out live on Cafe.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
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