March 25, 2025 • 31 mins
Firefighters face numerous health risks, including increased cancer rates, cardiovascular disease, mental health issues, respiratory problems, and hearing loss, often stemming from exposure to hazardous materials, smoke, and the stressful nature of their work. Home invasion in Woodland Hills, leaving elderly couple traumatized, bound with wires and held hostage. // US Postal worker robbed in Valley Village. USPS offers $150,000 reward for arrest of 3 suspected robbers #USPS // Guest: Michael Monks, LA city council exploring LAFD funding initiatives. The city council advanced an effort for potential funding to build more fire stations and repair existing facilities. // Palisades Permits ONLY 4 permits have been issued. Low number of permits issued for rebuilding homes after Palisades Fire is 'concerning' Councilwoman Traci Parks
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's KFI AM six forty and you're listening to the
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got three hours, three full hours and anytime. We've got
doctor Ray Kashery coming on. That guy's great at six o'clock,
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Doctor Ray pulmonologist out of Saint John's in Orange.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
And so we're going to delay.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
We promoted at five o'clock. These poor firefighters who are
risking their lives every single day on your behalf, not
making much money. Hopefully they can get to you know,
their retirement age without you know, falling or becoming extremely
physically in physical pain. And hopefully they can get the
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retirement and enjoy that because they deserve it.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
They deserve it.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
But now firefighters their blood has highlight levels of lead
and mercury after battling the LA fires. So doctor Ray
ascherry at six o'clock. If you have a firefighter in
your family, you know of one, maybe you are one.
You want to get back here at six o'clock so
you get two hours to screw around, you know, Pet
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the Dalmination cook for the other firefighters. I don't know
what the other activities are. Oh, I washed the fire truck.
I've seen that a lot. Those fire trucks are always
being washed, always in great shape. And so get back
here at six and turn the radio onto the firehouse
at six o'clock. If you fought fires in you know
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in the beginning of January, January seventh, if you fought fires,
you're going to want to hear doctor Ray k Ascherry
today at six pm. So spread the word around social media.
If you're a firefighter, you got to be back here
at six o'clock, six bells an hour and fifty one
minutes now. So thing doing all right? We got another
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home invasion in Woodland Hills. That's happened yesterday, I believe,
or or maybe late Sunday night. But man, this is
the second time in Woodland Hills, and people are tired
of this, tired of the home invasions.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
It's happening a lot.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
It happens all the time, and I don't this time
an old elderly couple tied up.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Such a scary incident out here in Woodland Hills. Police
are now searching for three suspects accused of tying up
an elderly couple at a home right behind me with
zip ties?
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Who does this?
Speaker 1 (02:32):
The elderly couple's not going to kill you or go
after you. Who puts these zip ties on an elderly couple?
I'll tell you who. I'll tell you who. Kids that
didn't have grandparents. I guarantee you the three kids that
did that did not or were not close to their grandparents,
because if you were close to your grandparent, grandmother, or grandfather,
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you would never do this ever.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
Before taking off with their belongings, and.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Then they stole their crap, I guess I got away
with a safe.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
Detectives say the suspects shocked a husband and wife as
they slept, leaving them traumatized. The husband spoke describing the
terrifying moment.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
They were bound with wires.
Speaker 5 (03:12):
Yer like a cold wore and h and the same
thing on the ankles. There we finally got hold of
the police.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
After they left.
Speaker 5 (03:28):
They did a lot of damage.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
I'm so sorry.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
The home invaders then chased his wife into the laundry room,
leaving her terrified. The couple was held hostage for hours
before the suspects took off with their safe.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
There you go, how did they know they had a
safe with their safe? They're safe, man, you gotta be careful.
You gotta be really careful when you go to a store.
You know, you go to Walmart, Target, I don't know
where else they sell safes. Maybe at the safe store,
gun store, or but if you buy a safe, man,
(04:03):
I think that people are keeping an.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
Eye on you.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
You know, when you bring a safe into your house
and somebody sees that, they're like, oh, that guy's got valuables.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
So I don't know how you buy a safe.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
If you buy it on Amazon, then they you know,
people still see that safe coming into the house. I
don't know how you get a safe in the house
where nobody can see it and keep your valuables in it.
I think once you buy a safe, you tell everybody
you got either a lot of jewelry or a lot
of money, and you got to be very careful when
you buy a safe.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
They're safe.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Yeah, they're safe. It's not safe.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
What was inside remains a mystery.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Neighbor Seth Klein says this community wants answers.
Speaker 6 (04:43):
Clearly, they knew that the couple was elderly and probably
use that to their advantage because they knew it wouldn't
be they wouldn't have to.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
And you know, and some elderly have a lot of money.
You know, they may not believe in the banking system.
Maybe they get screwed over to buy the banking system,
so they keep cash on hand.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
A lot of people do that.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
A lot of people keep like, you know, fifty or
one hundred thousand dollars cash on hand just in case
the s hits the fan. They've got a couple of bucks,
you know, if there's a big earthquake and you can't
get to an ATM or you know, there's some kind
of I don't know, identities stolen from you and they
take a lot of your cash. A lot of people
have cash on them, a lot of and that's what
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these people want. They want cash.
Speaker 6 (05:23):
How the physical altercation maybe with them and they could
just kind of do it, but you know, it's unnerving
for sure.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
LAPD Tepenga Division detectives now looking for three suspects, but
details are still sketchy. Two of them were wearing all black,
while the third had on a silver tracksuit. It's not
clear if the home has security cameras, but neighbors are
on high alert.
Speaker 6 (05:48):
We already have alarms, we have cameras. I would lock
all the doors.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
We have a dog. God, we're all prisoners. Huh.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
I do the same thing at night. I lock all
the doors, I put the all arm on. We've got
a dog, and I don't even have anything. I want
to put a sign out front of the house. There's
no expensive watches in here. There's no not a lot
of money I think I may have between my wife
and I. We might have I don't know, two hundred
bucks cash. There's no no jewelry, no watches, no expensive art,
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no high end computers.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
There's nothing. I mean, just look at your wardrobe. Yeah, right, exactly.
Speaker 5 (06:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
You know I should do is I should put a
copy of my blow up, a copy of my Coal's
credit card and put it on the front lawn and go,
this is me.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
I got.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
I got a Col's, I got a Walmart, I got
a Target. You know, if you want my Walmart stuff
from last night? I bought a hose and I bought
two packages of paper towels last night at Target. Do
you ever do this, belly home? You go to Target, right, Yes,
you go to Target and you're going to buy paper towels, right,
and you only need like I don't know, one package.
And then they say, if you spend fifty dollars, you
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get a fifteen dollars target card. And then you're like, oh,
maybe I'll buy these and those passup deal, right, But
then you're then you're with a calculator. You're trying to
get as close as you can to fifty bucks to
get the fifteen dollars credit card or or or you
know what is it called a gift card that you're
gonna eventually lose or not or not remember to use anyway?
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Remember it makes it crazy, makes it crazy?
Speaker 4 (07:16):
Or on high alert?
Speaker 1 (07:16):
All right, everyone's on high alert. We are living in prison.
We are living behind bars, behind heavy screens with security
cameras around. We're in prison because people can't behave We
all now have made little prisons in the in the valley,
and we all have a little you know, it should
be welcome. Hey, you want to come over my prison
to watch the game instead of my house. Hey, we're
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having people over at the prison. You want to come buy? Yeah,
come on buy. We'll let you in the prison.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
We already have alarms. Okay, he's got alarms that's what
they have in prison. We have cameras prison. I would
lock all the doors prison. We have a dog prison ish,
I don't.
Speaker 6 (07:56):
You know, it's hard to say what else you really
can do?
Speaker 1 (07:59):
And I know you've done everything and they still get in.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
This marks the second home invasion in Woodland Hills this month.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Do you hear that? People in Woodland Hills? Do you
hear that?
Speaker 3 (08:07):
This marks the second home invasion in Woodland Hills this month?
Speaker 2 (08:11):
That's not good.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
Nearly three weeks ago, just a few miles away from here,
a suspect broke into a home, handcuffing three people and
locking them in a closet before he boarded the door
with plywood. Police haven't said how much was stolen and
only have a limited description. The suspect was wearing a
face mask, a white shirt and black shoes.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Not enough to go on and.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
Today police are investigating if these.
Speaker 4 (08:36):
Two home invasions.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
Now In the most recent case, we know that the
elderly couple is home tonight. I tried speaking to them,
but understandably they are just way too emotional and distraught.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Yeah, how about sleeping in that house? Now? You think
they're getting a good night's sleep.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
You don't think they wake up every ten minutes sweating,
having nightmares. It's ruined their house, their safety. They don't
never be the same. They probably have to move the same.
And we live in you know, prisonville, that's what we are.
Bellio's prison is an Irvine steph oushe where's your prison,
Stephusan Torrents Hawthorne, Hawthorn, Hawthorne prison. Uh, Heather Berger, where's
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your prison in the Glendale? Oh, Glendale prison? Okay, that's
kind of cool.
Speaker 7 (09:15):
It's actually kind of it's it's a nice but interesting prison. Okay,
maybe I won't say anything else.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
And Angel, where'd you set up shop? Where's your prison?
You're in Orange County?
Speaker 4 (09:25):
Right, Yeah, in Leso Viejo.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
Leiso Viejo. You got a nice prison.
Speaker 6 (09:30):
I love it?
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Yeah? Yeah, thing go wrong with you? Yeah? Okay, all right,
Angel Martinez.
Speaker 8 (09:38):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
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Speaker 2 (09:45):
It is the Conway Show.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Doctor Ray KUSCHERI will come on with us at six
o'clock and talk about these poor firefighters who now have
high levels of lead and mercury after battling the La fires.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
They he will come on at six o'clock.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
We originally thought five, but he can't make it all six,
so scratch five, put in six. Okay, more bad news
for the San Fernando Valley. We had just heard of
the home invasion in Woodland Hills, the second one this month.
That's bad news. And now we got a US Postal
worker robbed. Robbed in Valley Village, fairly nice area of
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the San Fernando Valley.
Speaker 9 (10:24):
This surveillance video being released by the US Postal Inspection
Service showing two men with dark hoodies and masks approaching
a letter carrier and then taking off in a white
getaway car got the car being described as a Honda
four door sedan, appearing to have custom rims. The US
Postal Inspection Service says this robbery happened in Valley Village
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on March twentieth.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
All right, Valley Village, North Hollywood. All right, it's not real.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
I mean, if you live in a valley village, it
probably says North Hollywood when you get your mail. They
tried to take the stink off of North Hollywood by
calling a valley village, but it's still North Hollywood.
Speaker 10 (11:03):
Sorry.
Speaker 11 (11:04):
From the video, we can see that they didn't carry
away any packages or mail, so the mail was safe
for that day, but we aren't clear on what they
actually did take. That part is still under investigation.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
What do they take?
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Then, Well, you're going to rob a mail carrier? How
much money does he have on him? A guy, you
know driving the mail around twenty bucks, thirty maybe fifty
and in small bills.
Speaker 9 (11:27):
Postal inspectors say there was also a third person in
the getaway car.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Okay, there's three people involved in this crime. Three guys, right,
we'll just call them guys. Three people, and they're robbing
a postal worker. They didn't take the mail. They just
took whatever jewelry, maybe had a watch on, maybe it's wallet,
and they probably got fifty bucks. So they're going to
split that up three ways. Fifty bucks robbing a postal worker.
Speaker 9 (11:55):
They believe this valley village robbery is connected to two
other attempted robs of a letter carrier in the San
Fernando Valley.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Here we go, nobody's safe, not even the guys with
the blue shorts on driving the mail around all day.
Speaker 9 (12:08):
From the same day involving a similar car. What happened
in Sherman Oaks and the other in Tarzana.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
Here we go fairly safe areas of the San Fernando Valley,
Sherman Oaks, Tarzana Woodland Hills with the home invasion, and
in North Hollywood a fairly safe you know that part
of North Hollywood Valley Village, fairly safe area, and the
letter carriers are getting robbed.
Speaker 9 (12:34):
What happened in Sherman Oaks and the other in Tarzana.
Speaker 11 (12:38):
Happened within a short span of time, within about three hours.
This doesn't happen often, and so the fact that it
happened three times in one day, we really take it seriously,
and that's why we're so diligent about trying to get
the word out.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Yeah, there might be a connection there.
Speaker 11 (12:54):
I'm with them to find out who may have been
behind this.
Speaker 9 (12:57):
The letter carrier that was robbed was not armed. At
the US Postal Service SUSPECS does have a hotline that
you can call with more information or video in connection
to this case and in Valley Village. Camilla Rambaldi NBC
four News.
Speaker 12 (13:10):
All right, all right, the USPS is offering one hundred
and fifty thousand dollars rewards.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
Oh that's great.
Speaker 4 (13:16):
Rest of the three suspects.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
That's good news.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
Let's drop a dime on these guys and you could
get one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. You know, let
me take it a second here. I know we only
got a minute to take a break here. I if
I were you and you're in the robbing game, I'm
not going to judge you.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
Well, that's not true.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
I probably will, but I would not f with government employees,
especially the Postal Service. They've got a lot of money
behind them. Everybody likes their postman or postwoman or post person,
and they're gonna put one hundred and fifty grand up
to try to find you. And you probably didn't even
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rob that much. You didn't kill anybody. One hundred and
fifty thousand dollars. That's going to shake some odd you know,
some information out of people, you know, and I have
a feeling you're gonna be behind bars pretty quickly. You
screw around with the Feds and they'll nail you.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
You know, Try to.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
Screw around your taxes, try to screw the US government
out of money that they think you owe them, and
you will find your whole life turned upside down. Do
not mess with federal employees, these postal workers, it's it
never works out. It never works out. They have too
much protection. The government will go after you with both fists,
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both guns, and you will have your life will be
screwed up permanently. You know, these are not just guys
walking around delivering mail. These are part of the federal
government of the United States of America and they take
this very seriously. So if you got to get your
robbing game on, I wouldn't. I wouldn't look at postal workers.
They are really protected by the government and they they'll
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come down.
Speaker 7 (15:00):
I love my mail man. He's so nice, like he'll
always if I have a package, he'll knock them on
the door, ring the doorbell.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Yes, Mike, you have a We have the same thing.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
We have a great experience with the mail great, great
experience with the guys. And don't do it. Don't do it.
I'm telling you. I'm telling you not to do it.
You're gonna screw your life up. You'll spend decades behind
bars when you do crap like that.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
Decades.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
It's not worth it. And what does the guy have
on it? Loose change, maybe a pocket watch?
Speaker 2 (15:30):
Who knows? Oh, dumb people up coupons. Dumb, dumb, dumb. Yeah, down,
he's out there a lot of dumb people.
Speaker 8 (15:37):
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Speaker 2 (15:43):
You got Monks, Michael Monks is with us?
Speaker 1 (15:45):
How you bumm? I'm good, always going to be with you.
Oh nice to hear you, buddy. I listen to every Saturday.
I'm usually buzzing around. Listen to the program.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
Appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
You've got a information here on exploring with the LA
F Fire Department l a FD on funding and they
is how to fund them?
Speaker 10 (16:02):
Think about it? What do we want more firehouses? When
do you want them?
Speaker 2 (16:05):
Now? Problem? How much money does la have right now?
Not much?
Speaker 10 (16:10):
You know, that's one of those situations where you put
your card in the ATM and you fear what the
balance is going to show. So the city can't just
pay for all of the firehouses they now realize they need.
And how many more do you think they need? They're
gonna find out. But it could be dozens, right, it
could be dozens. They haven't built firehouses in some time, really, yeah,
And so they've got to figure out how to come
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up with money and the way to do that is
to come to the voters possibly in a couple of years,
will actually be next year, twenty twenty six.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
How fast we move through time. How they going to
do it.
Speaker 10 (16:40):
They'll come and they'll ask it a vote, and if
you vote, they'll put out a bond. This is possible,
they'll put out a bond or maybe a sales tax,
and all of that money will be used solely for
the infrastructure.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Tracy Park, who.
Speaker 10 (16:51):
Represents the Palisades on the city council, you know, the
Palisades just went through hell, She says. Look, we've had
population booms in Palisades World War Two, the seventies, the nineties,
the two thousands, and we still have the same number
of firehouses too that we had in World War Two,
and no additional firefighters in that area.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
That's got to change.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
So I again, Michael bunches with us from KFI the
newsroom down the hall here. So if they put on
a sales tax, it'll just be for people living in
the city of Los Angeles.
Speaker 10 (17:22):
Yeah, it would be a city sales tax, much like
the homeless sales tax that the county wide people in
the county are paying here soon, starting April first, they
have the authority to do this sort of thing, but
they don't know exactly how they're going to do it.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
They don't know how much they need.
Speaker 10 (17:35):
Basically, what the city council voted on today was why
don't we take a look? So they're going to do
an analysis and they will figure out how many firehouses
they might need. Here's the thing, though, when we hear
somebody like councilmen Park say, hey, we haven't had any
new fire stations or firefighters added.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
To the palisades.
Speaker 10 (17:51):
This type of bond that they're talking about only allows
for the construction of the firehouses. It doesn't necessarily fund
more all so it can be used for capital projects.
But this is a broke city that will have to
figure out how to add numerous employees if they're able
to staff those new stations.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
Right, So if they raise the sales tax, I think
it's going to be ten and a half percent anyway,
So what do they think it's going to go up
to thirteen percent?
Speaker 2 (18:17):
All the stuff they're going to have to evaluate.
Speaker 10 (18:19):
They don't know how much money they need, they don't
know how many fire stations they need, and then beyond that,
they won't know what type of infrastructure to support it.
Staffing wise, they're gonna need. So this is a bit
of a mission that city staff has been directed to
go on. But I mean there's not just the Palisades
that's the best example right now because of what they
just went through. I mean, we had councilmen Monic Rodriguez
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talk about her own district and how areas like Silmar
have not been very well served by infrastructure there in
quite some time. It's all over the city. Lincoln Heights
Council unisses Hernandez says, the firehouse in Lincoln Heights is
so old that the kitchen they use used to be
where the horses stayed when that's how they were responding
to fires.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
Oh that's great. So it's bad all over the city.
They got to fix it.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
So when do people say they've had enough enough with
how much their taxes going on, taxes, homeless crime, no firefighters,
cops you know, are are at an all time low.
When do people say the city of Los Angeles is
not a great place to live?
Speaker 10 (19:25):
You know, I think we've even talked about this before.
If you were paying for something that we all see
as a problem, homelessness, for example, we all see it
as a problem and then we say, yeah, well we
should do something about this together. We know it sucks.
It's nobody's fault necessarily, it's a collapse all around. Are
there results that I can see that confirm that this
money is working? That's the difference, and you can't see that.
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And I think once you start to add all of
these things up, you're not seeing the results.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
And you might think of moving to the beautiful world.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
Of Burbank maybe, yeah, or Glendale or somewhere. You know,
Orange County is beautiful as well. But I think that
you know, if if you move into a city that
spends more on homeless than they do on firefighters, I
think that's a red flag.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
That's exactly right.
Speaker 10 (20:08):
A lot of this money that the city gets has
been spent on homelessness. We've got word that maybe five percent,
ten percent fewer homeless people in the count this year.
That's a good result. But how many billions have been
spent in the past year? Is that enough? How many
homeless people per dollar? You know, how much are we
getting for that investment? Is that enough of a result?
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And are you seeing it? You were just in downtown
Elwhere did you see a difference. No, not exactly, but
you know you remember this. I think you were here
when this came out that they put they built a
condominium complex for homeless people, and every condo came in
at six hundred and eighty it was there. That's just
to build it, it's exactly. And now this is a
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place where these folks are also going to be getting services.
So it's a very expensive operation, many millions of dollars
to build it. There's another to come, right, they're building
a second tower right down there. This isn't my neighborhood.
And yes, six hundred thousand dollars per unit is a lot,
and they are lovely. It's a lovely building. It looks
like anything else you would see in that area.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
Right.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
But you can build a home, you can build a
literally a single family home for that kind of money.
Speaker 10 (21:15):
Exactly when you think about what people are moving from,
how high are the standards. We've got that story out
of the City of Industry today where the RV park
where RVs that were for sale have been broken into
and are now occupied by squatters. I mean, that's the
type of thing that maybe they should be looking in
to build. You want people to have dignity, you want
people to feel like their lives can get better. We've
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talked about this too. A lot of them will never
be paid, they'll never work again.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
I just don't know, you know, how this city has
balls to, you know, to allow all these homes to
be burned to the ground. And we're going to do
a story here in a bit that there's only been
four permits that have been issued in the Pacific Palisades.
Four and then they want more taxes, they want more fees,
they want more money, and then they mismanage it.
Speaker 10 (22:01):
I went to I observed a meeting just yesterday that
was in Westchester, but it was about the Palisades rebuild
and Councilmen Park chaired this meeting. This is a special
ad hoc committee overseeing the rebuilding and the recovery of
the fires. And the city is hired a consultant out
of Illinois to come in and oversee it as well. Right,
(22:21):
and it's been two months. These folks had no answers,
they had done nothing, And Councilwoman Park was beside herself.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
Yeah, I can imagine, right, it's all a scam. LA
is a big scam. It's everybody's in on it. Everybody
knows it's going to ice work if nobody says anything,
and all the money just goes down a rat hole
and we just keep talking about it like, oh, it's
gonna come back one day.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
It's not.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
And when the and when the Olympics come here, it's
gonna be there's gonna be a big magnifying glass on
how crappy that city is.
Speaker 10 (22:49):
Yeah, they're gonna I've seen this written before, but you're
gonna have track and field events where you're gonna have
numerous firings, you know, numerous shots going off in the air,
and people will know when to start or when to start.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
It's going to be unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
Buddy, thanks for coming away up Plus Saturday Night seven
to nine pm Michael Monk's Reports.
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Speaker 8 (23:09):
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AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
Well, when the fires happen, about a week afterwards, you know,
everyone was talking about how we got to need to
rebuild quickly, got to get Palisades back together, got to
get Alta Dina back together.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
The eating fire area. You got to move quickly.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
We've got to relax the permits, relax the environmental studies,
get people back into their homes, back up on their feet,
and do it as quickly as possible, because we don't
want to sit around for five years looking at burned
out carcasses of homes and then.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
We sat on this show.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
Look Out, you're gonna start dealing with the City of
Los Angeles in Pacific Palisades and they are going to
drag their feet and make it very difficult for you
to rebuild. Turns out that's true. I think there were
fourteen thousand homes that burn to the ground. Okay, well
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we're two months that happened January seventh, February March. We're
two and a half months after the fires. Four permits
have been issued, four not five, four four total permits.
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It's unbelievable.
Speaker 13 (24:36):
We want to get going the Palisades rebuilding residents. At
this City Council Committee hearing held on the West Side,
we're here to discuss how to move forward.
Speaker 8 (24:44):
Yep.
Speaker 10 (24:45):
The blessing here is that we have been given an
opportunity to show the world how you do disaster relief
and rebuilding effectively.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
How's that going?
Speaker 13 (24:55):
But the Department of Building in Safety told the committee
so far it has approved just four. Council member Tracy Park,
who represents the Polisades, says that's not acceptable.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
Okay, four permits in two and a half months, So
that's one permit for every three weeks. Yeah, about every
three weeks. Let me see eight, nine, ten divided by
four two and a half. All right, so two and
a half weeks per permit. And what did they say?
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There were fourteen thousand homes burned. That's going to be
nine years, ten years.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
Or longer.
Speaker 14 (25:33):
You know, when I hear in a committee meeting like
we had today that only four permits have been issued
and we're on d seventy five post fire, that is
concerning to me. And I don't think it is necessarily
a lack of interest in rebuilding, right. I suspect it
is indicative of systemic issues that we need to continue
to focus on.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
Yes, yes, yes, yes, and they're going to you know, look,
there are certain aspects of building a house you can't
overlook and you can't bypass the safety of it, you know,
the engineering of the house that has to be solid.
But there are a lot of things that you know
that come along with building new homes that are ridiculous.
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On where you put your air conditioner, you know, you
can't have gas, you can't have woodburning stove. You can't
have mean, I'm sorry, a gas stove in a lot
of these places. The wood burning fireplace, you have to
have five feet on the side of your house so
the firefighters can get by. There's a lot of added
additional nightmares and headaches to permitting a house.
Speaker 13 (26:36):
Mayor Karen Bess hired a private consulting from to oversee
the recovery effort. The contract with Haggardy Consulting is ten
million dollars and some council members say that raises questions.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
Wow, ten million dollars for consultants.
Speaker 13 (26:53):
The contract with Haggardy Consulting is ten million dollars.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
Hagardy just for the consultants ten millionllion dollars is.
Speaker 13 (27:01):
Ten million dollars and some council members say that raises questions.
Speaker 12 (27:05):
We have city departments who know how to do this recovery,
who have been involved in recovery efforts of the past.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
I'd say I'll bet you dollars to donuts you follow
that ten million dollar check and somebody has some kind
of connection to Haggardy company who's doing the consulting. Somebody
has a connection to it. That's where the ten million
dollars went for a city that's broke. They're paying ten
million dollars just for a consultant for consulting company.
Speaker 12 (27:34):
And yet they can't be afforded the opportunity to hire
the personnel that they need. But we can give a
ten million dollar contract to an outside agency to help
write a report for us. For me, just is it's obscene.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
When do the people in La? When do you say enough?
When do you say enough? There's not enough fire stations,
there's not enough firefighters, there's not enough cops. There's too
many homeless people. There's a lot of crime. The streets
are fed up, the water mains break all the time.
When do you say you've had it? Is it leaving
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the city of La, or do you guys all get
together who live in the city of La and say
we've had it?
Speaker 2 (28:16):
What is the tipping point? And why have we not
reached it?
Speaker 1 (28:20):
You would think after all those homes and Pacific coalece
Aades burned down, that the wealthy people live around there
would get really pissed off and make changes.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
Doesn't sound like they are.
Speaker 13 (28:31):
Some worry the city is in such a delicate financial
situation it could make the recovery efforts and even dealing
with routine city services that much more difficulty. The city
is facing a budget deficit of one billion dollars next year,
and all.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
The water mains have to be replaced because they were
all built one hundred to one hundred and twenty years
ago and they're only supposed to last sixty or seventy,
maybe eighty years. That's why they all break. Occasionally. You
see that you need just driving home, and then the
street are flooded. Because the infrastructure of Los Angeles is deteriorating,
It's falling apart, along with almost every aspect of La
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you drive through. The roads are falling apart, the water mains,
the cops don't have enough cops, firemen don't have enough
firemen or fire stations. The city's falling apart. And you
know who they blame for it. People who talk about it,
like me, John Colebelt, got a lot of email, get
a lot of people on social media. You know, La
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is a beautiful place to live. Why do you keep
running it down? It's not it's going in the toilet.
And if you live in LA, you got to speak
up and turn it around or else you're going to
lose your property value and your kids are going to suffer.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
The schools are going to get horrible, the neighborhoods are
going to get horrible.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
The city has a billion dollars in debt right now,
a billion dollars in their budget that they don't have.
What is enough enough?
Speaker 14 (29:57):
The loss of business and tax revenue is going to
impact us. I mean, we are looking at hundreds of
billions of dollars in economic losses overall here. And I
don't think there is any real easy way to sugarcoat this.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
It's a mess in Westchester.
Speaker 13 (30:12):
On Cardinals scroung ABC seven, I witness.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
Me, all right.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
Well, as the stomach turns, you know, there's not a
new self opera about La. As the stomach turns, and
we just move on. We'll tell you about it every day.
But I don't see the people in LA pissed off
enough yet, not yet. You're getting close. You're just not
there yet, all right, We're live. Don't forget doctor Ray
Ascherry coming on today. If you're a firefighter, bad news,
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high levels of lead and mercury after battling the LA
Fire fires, and doctor Ray Cascherry will come on today
and talk about it at six oh five. So if
you have a firefighter in the family, you know one
to neighbor, maybe you're in a fire station, turn the
radio on at six pm. There's gonna be a big,
big deal for firefighters in Los Angeles.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
It's gone my show. We're live on KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. Now you
can always hear us live on KFI AM six forty
four to seven pm Monday through Friday, and anytime on
demand on the iHeartRadio app.
It's KFI AM six forty and you're listening to the
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It is the Conway Show at seven o'clock. So we
got three hours, three full hours and anytime. We've got
doctor Ray Kashery coming on. That guy's great at six o'clock,
(00:23):
Doctor Ray pulmonologist out of Saint John's in Orange.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
And so we're going to delay.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
We promoted at five o'clock. These poor firefighters who are
risking their lives every single day on your behalf, not
making much money. Hopefully they can get to you know,
their retirement age without you know, falling or becoming extremely
physically in physical pain. And hopefully they can get the
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retirement and enjoy that because they deserve it.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
They deserve it.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
But now firefighters their blood has highlight levels of lead
and mercury after battling the LA fires. So doctor Ray
ascherry at six o'clock. If you have a firefighter in
your family, you know of one, maybe you are one.
You want to get back here at six o'clock so
you get two hours to screw around, you know, Pet
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the Dalmination cook for the other firefighters. I don't know
what the other activities are. Oh, I washed the fire truck.
I've seen that a lot. Those fire trucks are always
being washed, always in great shape. And so get back
here at six and turn the radio onto the firehouse
at six o'clock. If you fought fires in you know
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in the beginning of January, January seventh, if you fought fires,
you're going to want to hear doctor Ray k Ascherry
today at six pm. So spread the word around social media.
If you're a firefighter, you got to be back here
at six o'clock, six bells an hour and fifty one
minutes now. So thing doing all right? We got another
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home invasion in Woodland Hills. That's happened yesterday, I believe,
or or maybe late Sunday night. But man, this is
the second time in Woodland Hills, and people are tired
of this, tired of the home invasions.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
It's happening a lot.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
It happens all the time, and I don't this time
an old elderly couple tied up.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Such a scary incident out here in Woodland Hills. Police
are now searching for three suspects accused of tying up
an elderly couple at a home right behind me with
zip ties?
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Who does this?
Speaker 1 (02:32):
The elderly couple's not going to kill you or go
after you. Who puts these zip ties on an elderly couple?
I'll tell you who. I'll tell you who. Kids that
didn't have grandparents. I guarantee you the three kids that
did that did not or were not close to their grandparents,
because if you were close to your grandparent, grandmother, or grandfather,
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you would never do this ever.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
Before taking off with their belongings, and.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Then they stole their crap, I guess I got away
with a safe.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
Detectives say the suspects shocked a husband and wife as
they slept, leaving them traumatized. The husband spoke describing the
terrifying moment.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
They were bound with wires.
Speaker 5 (03:12):
Yer like a cold wore and h and the same
thing on the ankles. There we finally got hold of
the police.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
After they left.
Speaker 5 (03:28):
They did a lot of damage.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
I'm so sorry.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
The home invaders then chased his wife into the laundry room,
leaving her terrified. The couple was held hostage for hours
before the suspects took off with their safe.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
There you go, how did they know they had a
safe with their safe? They're safe, man, you gotta be careful.
You gotta be really careful when you go to a store.
You know, you go to Walmart, Target, I don't know
where else they sell safes. Maybe at the safe store,
gun store, or but if you buy a safe, man,
(04:03):
I think that people are keeping an.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
Eye on you.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
You know, when you bring a safe into your house
and somebody sees that, they're like, oh, that guy's got valuables.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
So I don't know how you buy a safe.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
If you buy it on Amazon, then they you know,
people still see that safe coming into the house. I
don't know how you get a safe in the house
where nobody can see it and keep your valuables in it.
I think once you buy a safe, you tell everybody
you got either a lot of jewelry or a lot
of money, and you got to be very careful when
you buy a safe.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
They're safe.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Yeah, they're safe. It's not safe.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
What was inside remains a mystery.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Neighbor Seth Klein says this community wants answers.
Speaker 6 (04:43):
Clearly, they knew that the couple was elderly and probably
use that to their advantage because they knew it wouldn't
be they wouldn't have to.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
And you know, and some elderly have a lot of money.
You know, they may not believe in the banking system.
Maybe they get screwed over to buy the banking system,
so they keep cash on hand.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
A lot of people do that.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
A lot of people keep like, you know, fifty or
one hundred thousand dollars cash on hand just in case
the s hits the fan. They've got a couple of bucks,
you know, if there's a big earthquake and you can't
get to an ATM or you know, there's some kind
of I don't know, identities stolen from you and they
take a lot of your cash. A lot of people
have cash on them, a lot of and that's what
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these people want. They want cash.
Speaker 6 (05:23):
How the physical altercation maybe with them and they could
just kind of do it, but you know, it's unnerving
for sure.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
LAPD Tepenga Division detectives now looking for three suspects, but
details are still sketchy. Two of them were wearing all black,
while the third had on a silver tracksuit. It's not
clear if the home has security cameras, but neighbors are
on high alert.
Speaker 6 (05:48):
We already have alarms, we have cameras. I would lock
all the doors.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
We have a dog. God, we're all prisoners. Huh.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
I do the same thing at night. I lock all
the doors, I put the all arm on. We've got
a dog, and I don't even have anything. I want
to put a sign out front of the house. There's
no expensive watches in here. There's no not a lot
of money I think I may have between my wife
and I. We might have I don't know, two hundred
bucks cash. There's no no jewelry, no watches, no expensive art,
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no high end computers.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
There's nothing. I mean, just look at your wardrobe. Yeah, right, exactly.
Speaker 5 (06:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
You know I should do is I should put a
copy of my blow up, a copy of my Coal's
credit card and put it on the front lawn and go,
this is me.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
I got.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
I got a Col's, I got a Walmart, I got
a Target. You know, if you want my Walmart stuff
from last night? I bought a hose and I bought
two packages of paper towels last night at Target. Do
you ever do this, belly home? You go to Target, right, Yes,
you go to Target and you're going to buy paper towels, right,
and you only need like I don't know, one package.
And then they say, if you spend fifty dollars, you
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get a fifteen dollars target card. And then you're like, oh,
maybe I'll buy these and those passup deal, right, But
then you're then you're with a calculator. You're trying to
get as close as you can to fifty bucks to
get the fifteen dollars credit card or or or you
know what is it called a gift card that you're
gonna eventually lose or not or not remember to use anyway?
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Remember it makes it crazy, makes it crazy?
Speaker 4 (07:16):
Or on high alert?
Speaker 1 (07:16):
All right, everyone's on high alert. We are living in prison.
We are living behind bars, behind heavy screens with security
cameras around. We're in prison because people can't behave We
all now have made little prisons in the in the valley,
and we all have a little you know, it should
be welcome. Hey, you want to come over my prison
to watch the game instead of my house. Hey, we're
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having people over at the prison. You want to come buy? Yeah,
come on buy. We'll let you in the prison.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
We already have alarms. Okay, he's got alarms that's what
they have in prison. We have cameras prison. I would
lock all the doors prison. We have a dog prison ish,
I don't.
Speaker 6 (07:56):
You know, it's hard to say what else you really
can do?
Speaker 1 (07:59):
And I know you've done everything and they still get in.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
This marks the second home invasion in Woodland Hills this month.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Do you hear that? People in Woodland Hills? Do you
hear that?
Speaker 3 (08:07):
This marks the second home invasion in Woodland Hills this month?
Speaker 2 (08:11):
That's not good.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
Nearly three weeks ago, just a few miles away from here,
a suspect broke into a home, handcuffing three people and
locking them in a closet before he boarded the door
with plywood. Police haven't said how much was stolen and
only have a limited description. The suspect was wearing a
face mask, a white shirt and black shoes.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Not enough to go on and.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
Today police are investigating if these.
Speaker 4 (08:36):
Two home invasions.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
Now In the most recent case, we know that the
elderly couple is home tonight. I tried speaking to them,
but understandably they are just way too emotional and distraught.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Yeah, how about sleeping in that house? Now? You think
they're getting a good night's sleep.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
You don't think they wake up every ten minutes sweating,
having nightmares. It's ruined their house, their safety. They don't
never be the same. They probably have to move the same.
And we live in you know, prisonville, that's what we are.
Bellio's prison is an Irvine steph oushe where's your prison,
Stephusan Torrents Hawthorne, Hawthorn, Hawthorne prison. Uh, Heather Berger, where's
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your prison in the Glendale? Oh, Glendale prison? Okay, that's
kind of cool.
Speaker 7 (09:15):
It's actually kind of it's it's a nice but interesting prison. Okay,
maybe I won't say anything else.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
And Angel, where'd you set up shop? Where's your prison?
You're in Orange County?
Speaker 4 (09:25):
Right, Yeah, in Leso Viejo.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
Leiso Viejo. You got a nice prison.
Speaker 6 (09:30):
I love it?
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Yeah? Yeah, thing go wrong with you? Yeah? Okay, all right,
Angel Martinez.
Speaker 8 (09:38):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
It is the Conway Show.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Doctor Ray KUSCHERI will come on with us at six
o'clock and talk about these poor firefighters who now have
high levels of lead and mercury after battling the La fires.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
They he will come on at six o'clock.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
We originally thought five, but he can't make it all six,
so scratch five, put in six. Okay, more bad news
for the San Fernando Valley. We had just heard of
the home invasion in Woodland Hills, the second one this month.
That's bad news. And now we got a US Postal
worker robbed. Robbed in Valley Village, fairly nice area of
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the San Fernando Valley.
Speaker 9 (10:24):
This surveillance video being released by the US Postal Inspection
Service showing two men with dark hoodies and masks approaching
a letter carrier and then taking off in a white
getaway car got the car being described as a Honda
four door sedan, appearing to have custom rims. The US
Postal Inspection Service says this robbery happened in Valley Village
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on March twentieth.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
All right, Valley Village, North Hollywood. All right, it's not real.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
I mean, if you live in a valley village, it
probably says North Hollywood when you get your mail. They
tried to take the stink off of North Hollywood by
calling a valley village, but it's still North Hollywood.
Speaker 10 (11:03):
Sorry.
Speaker 11 (11:04):
From the video, we can see that they didn't carry
away any packages or mail, so the mail was safe
for that day, but we aren't clear on what they
actually did take. That part is still under investigation.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
What do they take?
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Then, Well, you're going to rob a mail carrier? How
much money does he have on him? A guy, you
know driving the mail around twenty bucks, thirty maybe fifty
and in small bills.
Speaker 9 (11:27):
Postal inspectors say there was also a third person in
the getaway car.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Okay, there's three people involved in this crime. Three guys, right,
we'll just call them guys. Three people, and they're robbing
a postal worker. They didn't take the mail. They just
took whatever jewelry, maybe had a watch on, maybe it's wallet,
and they probably got fifty bucks. So they're going to
split that up three ways. Fifty bucks robbing a postal worker.
Speaker 9 (11:55):
They believe this valley village robbery is connected to two
other attempted robs of a letter carrier in the San
Fernando Valley.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Here we go, nobody's safe, not even the guys with
the blue shorts on driving the mail around all day.
Speaker 9 (12:08):
From the same day involving a similar car. What happened
in Sherman Oaks and the other in Tarzana.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
Here we go fairly safe areas of the San Fernando Valley,
Sherman Oaks, Tarzana Woodland Hills with the home invasion, and
in North Hollywood a fairly safe you know that part
of North Hollywood Valley Village, fairly safe area, and the
letter carriers are getting robbed.
Speaker 9 (12:34):
What happened in Sherman Oaks and the other in Tarzana.
Speaker 11 (12:38):
Happened within a short span of time, within about three hours.
This doesn't happen often, and so the fact that it
happened three times in one day, we really take it seriously,
and that's why we're so diligent about trying to get
the word out.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Yeah, there might be a connection there.
Speaker 11 (12:54):
I'm with them to find out who may have been
behind this.
Speaker 9 (12:57):
The letter carrier that was robbed was not armed. At
the US Postal Service SUSPECS does have a hotline that
you can call with more information or video in connection
to this case and in Valley Village. Camilla Rambaldi NBC
four News.
Speaker 12 (13:10):
All right, all right, the USPS is offering one hundred
and fifty thousand dollars rewards.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
Oh that's great.
Speaker 4 (13:16):
Rest of the three suspects.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
That's good news.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
Let's drop a dime on these guys and you could
get one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. You know, let
me take it a second here. I know we only
got a minute to take a break here. I if
I were you and you're in the robbing game, I'm
not going to judge you.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
Well, that's not true.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
I probably will, but I would not f with government employees,
especially the Postal Service. They've got a lot of money
behind them. Everybody likes their postman or postwoman or post person,
and they're gonna put one hundred and fifty grand up
to try to find you. And you probably didn't even
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rob that much. You didn't kill anybody. One hundred and
fifty thousand dollars. That's going to shake some odd you know,
some information out of people, you know, and I have
a feeling you're gonna be behind bars pretty quickly. You
screw around with the Feds and they'll nail you.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
You know, Try to.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
Screw around your taxes, try to screw the US government
out of money that they think you owe them, and
you will find your whole life turned upside down. Do
not mess with federal employees, these postal workers, it's it
never works out. It never works out. They have too
much protection. The government will go after you with both fists,
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both guns, and you will have your life will be
screwed up permanently. You know, these are not just guys
walking around delivering mail. These are part of the federal
government of the United States of America and they take
this very seriously. So if you got to get your
robbing game on, I wouldn't. I wouldn't look at postal workers.
They are really protected by the government and they they'll
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come down.
Speaker 7 (15:00):
I love my mail man. He's so nice, like he'll
always if I have a package, he'll knock them on
the door, ring the doorbell.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Yes, Mike, you have a We have the same thing.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
We have a great experience with the mail great, great
experience with the guys. And don't do it. Don't do it.
I'm telling you. I'm telling you not to do it.
You're gonna screw your life up. You'll spend decades behind
bars when you do crap like that.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
Decades.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
It's not worth it. And what does the guy have
on it? Loose change, maybe a pocket watch?
Speaker 2 (15:30):
Who knows? Oh, dumb people up coupons. Dumb, dumb, dumb. Yeah, down,
he's out there a lot of dumb people.
Speaker 8 (15:37):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
You got Monks, Michael Monks is with us?
Speaker 1 (15:45):
How you bumm? I'm good, always going to be with you.
Oh nice to hear you, buddy. I listen to every Saturday.
I'm usually buzzing around. Listen to the program.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
Appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
You've got a information here on exploring with the LA
F Fire Department l a FD on funding and they
is how to fund them?
Speaker 10 (16:02):
Think about it? What do we want more firehouses? When
do you want them?
Speaker 2 (16:05):
Now? Problem? How much money does la have right now?
Not much?
Speaker 10 (16:10):
You know, that's one of those situations where you put
your card in the ATM and you fear what the
balance is going to show. So the city can't just
pay for all of the firehouses they now realize they need.
And how many more do you think they need? They're
gonna find out. But it could be dozens, right, it
could be dozens. They haven't built firehouses in some time, really, yeah,
And so they've got to figure out how to come
(16:30):
up with money and the way to do that is
to come to the voters possibly in a couple of years,
will actually be next year, twenty twenty six.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
How fast we move through time. How they going to
do it.
Speaker 10 (16:40):
They'll come and they'll ask it a vote, and if
you vote, they'll put out a bond. This is possible,
they'll put out a bond or maybe a sales tax,
and all of that money will be used solely for
the infrastructure.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Tracy Park, who.
Speaker 10 (16:51):
Represents the Palisades on the city council, you know, the
Palisades just went through hell, She says. Look, we've had
population booms in Palisades World War Two, the seventies, the nineties,
the two thousands, and we still have the same number
of firehouses too that we had in World War Two,
and no additional firefighters in that area.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
That's got to change.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
So I again, Michael bunches with us from KFI the
newsroom down the hall here. So if they put on
a sales tax, it'll just be for people living in
the city of Los Angeles.
Speaker 10 (17:22):
Yeah, it would be a city sales tax, much like
the homeless sales tax that the county wide people in
the county are paying here soon, starting April first, they
have the authority to do this sort of thing, but
they don't know exactly how they're going to do it.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
They don't know how much they need.
Speaker 10 (17:35):
Basically, what the city council voted on today was why
don't we take a look? So they're going to do
an analysis and they will figure out how many firehouses
they might need. Here's the thing, though, when we hear
somebody like councilmen Park say, hey, we haven't had any
new fire stations or firefighters added.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
To the palisades.
Speaker 10 (17:51):
This type of bond that they're talking about only allows
for the construction of the firehouses. It doesn't necessarily fund
more all so it can be used for capital projects.
But this is a broke city that will have to
figure out how to add numerous employees if they're able
to staff those new stations.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
Right, So if they raise the sales tax, I think
it's going to be ten and a half percent anyway,
So what do they think it's going to go up
to thirteen percent?
Speaker 2 (18:17):
All the stuff they're going to have to evaluate.
Speaker 10 (18:19):
They don't know how much money they need, they don't
know how many fire stations they need, and then beyond that,
they won't know what type of infrastructure to support it.
Staffing wise, they're gonna need. So this is a bit
of a mission that city staff has been directed to
go on. But I mean there's not just the Palisades
that's the best example right now because of what they
just went through. I mean, we had councilmen Monic Rodriguez
(18:41):
talk about her own district and how areas like Silmar
have not been very well served by infrastructure there in
quite some time. It's all over the city. Lincoln Heights
Council unisses Hernandez says, the firehouse in Lincoln Heights is
so old that the kitchen they use used to be
where the horses stayed when that's how they were responding
to fires.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
Oh that's great. So it's bad all over the city.
They got to fix it.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
So when do people say they've had enough enough with
how much their taxes going on, taxes, homeless crime, no firefighters,
cops you know, are are at an all time low.
When do people say the city of Los Angeles is
not a great place to live?
Speaker 10 (19:25):
You know, I think we've even talked about this before.
If you were paying for something that we all see
as a problem, homelessness, for example, we all see it
as a problem and then we say, yeah, well we
should do something about this together. We know it sucks.
It's nobody's fault necessarily, it's a collapse all around. Are
there results that I can see that confirm that this
money is working? That's the difference, and you can't see that.
(19:47):
And I think once you start to add all of
these things up, you're not seeing the results.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
And you might think of moving to the beautiful world.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
Of Burbank maybe, yeah, or Glendale or somewhere. You know,
Orange County is beautiful as well. But I think that
you know, if if you move into a city that
spends more on homeless than they do on firefighters, I
think that's a red flag.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
That's exactly right.
Speaker 10 (20:08):
A lot of this money that the city gets has
been spent on homelessness. We've got word that maybe five percent,
ten percent fewer homeless people in the count this year.
That's a good result. But how many billions have been
spent in the past year? Is that enough? How many
homeless people per dollar? You know, how much are we
getting for that investment? Is that enough of a result?
(20:29):
And are you seeing it? You were just in downtown
Elwhere did you see a difference. No, not exactly, but
you know you remember this. I think you were here
when this came out that they put they built a
condominium complex for homeless people, and every condo came in
at six hundred and eighty it was there. That's just
to build it, it's exactly. And now this is a
(20:49):
place where these folks are also going to be getting services.
So it's a very expensive operation, many millions of dollars
to build it. There's another to come, right, they're building
a second tower right down there. This isn't my neighborhood.
And yes, six hundred thousand dollars per unit is a lot,
and they are lovely. It's a lovely building. It looks
like anything else you would see in that area.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
Right.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
But you can build a home, you can build a
literally a single family home for that kind of money.
Speaker 10 (21:15):
Exactly when you think about what people are moving from,
how high are the standards. We've got that story out
of the City of Industry today where the RV park
where RVs that were for sale have been broken into
and are now occupied by squatters. I mean, that's the
type of thing that maybe they should be looking in
to build. You want people to have dignity, you want
people to feel like their lives can get better. We've
(21:36):
talked about this too. A lot of them will never
be paid, they'll never work again.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
I just don't know, you know, how this city has
balls to, you know, to allow all these homes to
be burned to the ground. And we're going to do
a story here in a bit that there's only been
four permits that have been issued in the Pacific Palisades.
Four and then they want more taxes, they want more fees,
they want more money, and then they mismanage it.
Speaker 10 (22:01):
I went to I observed a meeting just yesterday that
was in Westchester, but it was about the Palisades rebuild
and Councilmen Park chaired this meeting. This is a special
ad hoc committee overseeing the rebuilding and the recovery of
the fires. And the city is hired a consultant out
of Illinois to come in and oversee it as well. Right,
(22:21):
and it's been two months. These folks had no answers,
they had done nothing, And Councilwoman Park was beside herself.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
Yeah, I can imagine, right, it's all a scam. LA
is a big scam. It's everybody's in on it. Everybody
knows it's going to ice work if nobody says anything,
and all the money just goes down a rat hole
and we just keep talking about it like, oh, it's
gonna come back one day.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
It's not.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
And when the and when the Olympics come here, it's
gonna be there's gonna be a big magnifying glass on
how crappy that city is.
Speaker 10 (22:49):
Yeah, they're gonna I've seen this written before, but you're
gonna have track and field events where you're gonna have
numerous firings, you know, numerous shots going off in the air,
and people will know when to start or when to start.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
It's going to be unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
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AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
Well, when the fires happen, about a week afterwards, you know,
everyone was talking about how we got to need to
rebuild quickly, got to get Palisades back together, got to
get Alta Dina back together.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
The eating fire area. You got to move quickly.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
We've got to relax the permits, relax the environmental studies,
get people back into their homes, back up on their feet,
and do it as quickly as possible, because we don't
want to sit around for five years looking at burned
out carcasses of homes and then.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
We sat on this show.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
Look Out, you're gonna start dealing with the City of
Los Angeles in Pacific Palisades and they are going to
drag their feet and make it very difficult for you
to rebuild. Turns out that's true. I think there were
fourteen thousand homes that burn to the ground. Okay, well
(24:11):
we're two months that happened January seventh, February March. We're
two and a half months after the fires. Four permits
have been issued, four not five, four four total permits.
(24:35):
It's unbelievable.
Speaker 13 (24:36):
We want to get going the Palisades rebuilding residents. At
this City Council Committee hearing held on the West Side,
we're here to discuss how to move forward.
Speaker 8 (24:44):
Yep.
Speaker 10 (24:45):
The blessing here is that we have been given an
opportunity to show the world how you do disaster relief
and rebuilding effectively.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
How's that going?
Speaker 13 (24:55):
But the Department of Building in Safety told the committee
so far it has approved just four. Council member Tracy Park,
who represents the Polisades, says that's not acceptable.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
Okay, four permits in two and a half months, So
that's one permit for every three weeks. Yeah, about every
three weeks. Let me see eight, nine, ten divided by
four two and a half. All right, so two and
a half weeks per permit. And what did they say?
(25:25):
There were fourteen thousand homes burned. That's going to be
nine years, ten years.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
Or longer.
Speaker 14 (25:33):
You know, when I hear in a committee meeting like
we had today that only four permits have been issued
and we're on d seventy five post fire, that is
concerning to me. And I don't think it is necessarily
a lack of interest in rebuilding, right. I suspect it
is indicative of systemic issues that we need to continue
to focus on.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
Yes, yes, yes, yes, and they're going to you know, look,
there are certain aspects of building a house you can't
overlook and you can't bypass the safety of it, you know,
the engineering of the house that has to be solid.
But there are a lot of things that you know
that come along with building new homes that are ridiculous.
(26:14):
On where you put your air conditioner, you know, you
can't have gas, you can't have woodburning stove. You can't
have mean, I'm sorry, a gas stove in a lot
of these places. The wood burning fireplace, you have to
have five feet on the side of your house so
the firefighters can get by. There's a lot of added
additional nightmares and headaches to permitting a house.
Speaker 13 (26:36):
Mayor Karen Bess hired a private consulting from to oversee
the recovery effort. The contract with Haggardy Consulting is ten
million dollars and some council members say that raises questions.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
Wow, ten million dollars for consultants.
Speaker 13 (26:53):
The contract with Haggardy Consulting is ten million dollars.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
Hagardy just for the consultants ten millionllion dollars is.
Speaker 13 (27:01):
Ten million dollars and some council members say that raises questions.
Speaker 12 (27:05):
We have city departments who know how to do this recovery,
who have been involved in recovery efforts of the past.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
I'd say I'll bet you dollars to donuts you follow
that ten million dollar check and somebody has some kind
of connection to Haggardy company who's doing the consulting. Somebody
has a connection to it. That's where the ten million
dollars went for a city that's broke. They're paying ten
million dollars just for a consultant for consulting company.
Speaker 12 (27:34):
And yet they can't be afforded the opportunity to hire
the personnel that they need. But we can give a
ten million dollar contract to an outside agency to help
write a report for us. For me, just is it's obscene.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
When do the people in La? When do you say enough?
When do you say enough? There's not enough fire stations,
there's not enough firefighters, there's not enough cops. There's too
many homeless people. There's a lot of crime. The streets
are fed up, the water mains break all the time.
When do you say you've had it? Is it leaving
(28:10):
the city of La, or do you guys all get
together who live in the city of La and say
we've had it?
Speaker 2 (28:16):
What is the tipping point? And why have we not
reached it?
Speaker 1 (28:20):
You would think after all those homes and Pacific coalece
Aades burned down, that the wealthy people live around there
would get really pissed off and make changes.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
Doesn't sound like they are.
Speaker 13 (28:31):
Some worry the city is in such a delicate financial
situation it could make the recovery efforts and even dealing
with routine city services that much more difficulty. The city
is facing a budget deficit of one billion dollars next year,
and all.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
The water mains have to be replaced because they were
all built one hundred to one hundred and twenty years
ago and they're only supposed to last sixty or seventy,
maybe eighty years. That's why they all break. Occasionally. You
see that you need just driving home, and then the
street are flooded. Because the infrastructure of Los Angeles is deteriorating,
It's falling apart, along with almost every aspect of La
(29:09):
you drive through. The roads are falling apart, the water mains,
the cops don't have enough cops, firemen don't have enough
firemen or fire stations. The city's falling apart. And you
know who they blame for it. People who talk about it,
like me, John Colebelt, got a lot of email, get
a lot of people on social media. You know, La
(29:30):
is a beautiful place to live. Why do you keep
running it down? It's not it's going in the toilet.
And if you live in LA, you got to speak
up and turn it around or else you're going to
lose your property value and your kids are going to suffer.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
The schools are going to get horrible, the neighborhoods are
going to get horrible.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
The city has a billion dollars in debt right now,
a billion dollars in their budget that they don't have.
What is enough enough?
Speaker 14 (29:57):
The loss of business and tax revenue is going to
impact us. I mean, we are looking at hundreds of
billions of dollars in economic losses overall here. And I
don't think there is any real easy way to sugarcoat this.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
It's a mess in Westchester.
Speaker 13 (30:12):
On Cardinals scroung ABC seven, I witness.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
Me, all right.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
Well, as the stomach turns, you know, there's not a
new self opera about La. As the stomach turns, and
we just move on. We'll tell you about it every day.
But I don't see the people in LA pissed off
enough yet, not yet. You're getting close. You're just not
there yet, all right, We're live. Don't forget doctor Ray
Ascherry coming on today. If you're a firefighter, bad news,
(30:36):
high levels of lead and mercury after battling the LA
Fire fires, and doctor Ray Cascherry will come on today
and talk about it at six oh five. So if
you have a firefighter in the family, you know one
to neighbor, maybe you're in a fire station, turn the
radio on at six pm. There's gonna be a big,
big deal for firefighters in Los Angeles.
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