January 30, 2025 • 33 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Michael Very Show is on the air. Look, Mike, we're
not going in there like that, like what hey.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
Look, all our lives we've been bad boys all right,
now it's time to be good men.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Who in the hell want to sing that song? Good man,
good man? What you're gonna do? Well, blain me if
you're singing a song like you meant it, Git a
catch home.
Speaker 4 (00:33):
You shut down the FBI headquarters building and open it
up the next day as the Museum of the Deep State.
And you send those seven thousand agents in the headquarters
building down range to chase down rapists, to chase down murderers,
to chase down drug traffickers, and let the cops be
cops on the streets across America. You keep a small
contingent in Washington, DC.
Speaker 5 (00:52):
Boice, Dang boys, what's he gonna do?
Speaker 2 (00:55):
What's he gonna do?
Speaker 5 (00:56):
Well boys, stand boys, stag boys, what's it going to do?
What's he going to do?
Speaker 4 (01:03):
You get rid of half of the legion of lawyers
and special counsels that exist within the FBI to do
one thing, to corrupt and obstruct government oversight from constitutionally
applicable committees in Congress.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
It's bad what's he gonna do? What's he gonna do
when they come for you? Bad voice, bad boys? What's
to do? What's going to do when they employ?
Speaker 4 (01:25):
And another aspect of it, real quick is one of
the biggest institutions in the FBI that has been troubled
and politicizing weaponize has been their intel component. We have
an intel agency. I don't need it to be redone
within the walls of the FBI. We've shown when we've
given them that power what they do to it. They
unluckily surveil a president as candidate.
Speaker 5 (01:42):
Badoice, what's going to do?
Speaker 2 (01:46):
The bad voice, bad boys? What's he going to do
when they come for you?
Speaker 5 (01:52):
Bad voice, bad points? What's going to do when they
come for you?
Speaker 1 (01:58):
For many years, I was saying, one of the seventy
two vaccines mandated for children has ever been safety tested
in free licensing, plaice, the controlled trials.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
And I want what bad boys people, what's it going
to do? What's it on that do when.
Speaker 6 (02:13):
They come for you?
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Bad boys, bad boys? What's it? What's he going to do.
Speaker 6 (02:18):
When they come for you?
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Bad boys, bad boys? What's he going wats he going
do when they.
Speaker 6 (02:24):
Come for you?
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Bad boys? Bad boys? What's he going?
Speaker 5 (02:28):
What's he going to do?
Speaker 1 (02:31):
And in many cases, NIH is wearing the royals. We
got all of these new vaccine in seventy two shots
sixteen vaccines and now even more because we're doing the
HVV vaccine. And that year nineteen eighty nine, we saw
an explosion in chronic disease and American children the neurological
disease has suddenly exploded in nineteen eighty nine, eighty D
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eighty HD, sleep disorders, a languish delays as autism, to
red syndrome, tics, narcolepsy. These are all things that I
never heard of. Autism went from one in ten thousand
of my generation according to the CDC data, one in
every thirty four kids today.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
As I'm sure you are.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
Aware, there was a terrible crash last night Washington, d
C at Reagan Airport. American Airlines Flight fifty four thirty
two was landing CRJ seven hundred. It was operated by
PSA Airlines, So I believe it actually is what they
would call an American Eagle. The legacy carriers, the large carriers,
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will charter with smaller providers on these regional hubs, and
the reason they do it is the money is to
be made by flying from Dallas to Atlanta or Dallas
to Chicago, and not Dallas to Tyler or Dallas to Lafayette.
So they hire these smaller carriers, these regional operators, to
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get the people as hubs to the big airports where
they from which they make the money on the bigger planes.
Nothing wrong with that. We'll we've all been on one
of those puddle jumpers. It's bigger than a puddle jumper.
The American Airlines flight was inbound to Runway thirty three
on what they call a short final, which is the
last stage of landing.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
I don't know these things.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
I'm simply cross referencing a bunch of things I read
and people I talked to as the basics to set
the stage for what happened. It's about one hundred I'm sorry,
it's about four hundred feet in altitude.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Enter into this scene.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
We've just created an Army Blackhawk training flight PAT twenty
five PAT twenty five helicopter that is flying perpendicular at
cross purposes. They're entering an intersection, if you will, to
the flight of the American Airlines plane along the Potomac River.
We're coming into Washington, DC at Reagan Airport. For years
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people have said Reagan Airport is not amenable to this
kind of cross traffic. You've got too many things going on.
You need to move this traffic out. And I don't
know if BWI the Baltimore Airport, which if you've flown
Southwest Airlines, you fly to Baltimore and then you come in.
It takes you a little less than an hour to
get in. The Potomac River is the designated helicopter flight path.
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It's a flight corridor. So the the Blackhawk travels along
the river. That's how it that's its road. It keeps
an eyeball down on that river to follow it. So
the American Airlines flight is on what's known as VFR,
which is visual flight rules, so they're on their instrument panel.
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They're coming in and they have priority. Now, what I've
read consistently is that the most mobile craft that's going
to be the helo in this case, has the responsibility
to get out of the way of the fixed wing craft.
That's the big, clunky airplane that can't move easily.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
A helicopter can so as I understand it. And this
where it gets crazy.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
The role of the helicopter is to eyeball and other
craft with whom it could be intersecting. It already sounds dangerous,
doesn't it, And to communicate with the air traffic controller.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Just before the crash.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
We've now all heard the traffic from the air traffic
controller from the tower asking the Blackhawk to confirm that
they have the other aircraft in sight. Now, what I
don't want to say the consensus, but what seems to
be the most widely held view is that the plane
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that they had in sight was not the plane into
which they crashed. It was another plane that you could
see off at a little bit of a distance. I
believe there were three individuals on the black Hawk, And
I read a long piece by a flight instructor who
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trained and conducted and carried out these missions, and he
said it's the responsibility of the crew to keep an
eye on these sorts of things. But to understand, you're
in an urban environment with a lot of lights, you
can't see, well, you're moving fast. They're moving fast. Okay,
that's not to make an excuse us to try to
explain what the heck is going on in these situations.
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It's also apparently the case that the lighting is very,
very difficult to pick up. But I guess the first
takeaway in a situation like this is in the era
in which we live. From the clock shot to election integrity,
to Joe Biden's that hit the sharpest he's ever been,
to Hunter Biden's the most respected guy I've ever met.
(08:08):
The first question is are we being told the truth?
And I'm not one to jump to the conclusion that
we are, but I do at least have a good
feeling this was just errors, which we'll get to, rather
than a terror attack.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Bro Han to Michael Barry Show fifty six years ago.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
In nineteen sixty nine, the Beatles stage their famous rooftop
concert on the roof of Apple Records in London. After
performing a few songs including Get Back and Don't Let
Me Down, the pop post shut him down as a
large crowd gathered for this seemingly impromptu free speech that
left the audience below befuddled.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Why do we know? Because it was fortunately well filmed,
It was the lead.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
It was the Beatles' last public.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Performance on the subject of the crash.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
Yesterday, my immediate concern was terror attack and it being
a black Hawk, and early reports confirmed there was a
risk of this. Who would be on it? President Trump
wouldn't be on it, but you just never know. Surely JD.
(09:27):
Vance wasn't on it, But you just don't know. The
loss of life is important no matter who it is.
But it sure seemed in early reviews that this could
have been a terror attack. I don't break news or
opine on news as it's happening, because you don't have
all the information and you don't know what's being hidden
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from you. But I will tell you from the folks
with whom I speak, who have a lot of knowledge
of what could have happened, would have happened, has happened
in the past, does happen every.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Every day, they strongly believe.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
This was error and not terror, And I guess there's
some comfort in that. I guess not if one of
the sixty passengers on the American Airlines flight was a
family of mine, nor the individuals on the black Hawk,
that's what that's what went through them on I did
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read this morning that it hasn't been since two thousand
and nine that we've had a commercial airline carrying passengers
for fee crash because remember Amazon had a delivery plane
crash sixteen years It's not to say I expect them
every year, but there is a lot of cross traffic,
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there are a lot of planes in the air, and
it is still the case that airline traffic is incredibly safe.
And in this case, by all accounts, it does not
appear that it's going to be the error of the airline,
but rather the Blackhawk, whose responsibility it was to avoid
such a collision. I am not rooting for a DEI error,
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but I will tell you I'm looking for it, and
I wouldn't be shocked before time deported illegal alien Savage
for Francisco or Apesa has now pled guilty to murdering
five of his Cleveland neighbors, including this is locally Cleveland, Texas,
a nine year old boy back in two thousand and nine.
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S Sinno District attorney says financial constraints affected their decision
to offer a deal because taxpayers were forced to foot
the illegal alien's attorney bill. The district attorney also says
the victim's family signed off on the deal.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
The story from ABC thirteen.
Speaker 7 (11:50):
It's a plea deal prosecutors offered him only because the
victim's family signed off on it, and only when they
considered just how much a death penalty murder trial would
cost them. They project it would have wiped out their
yearly budget. Words of encouragement shouted in Spanish to a
shackled Francisco Orto Pezza as he left the courthouse. We
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won because they wanted to kill you. A woman tells him, well,
Ordepezza no longer faces the death penalty. Is guilty plea
means he will spend the rest of his life in prison,
no parole, no appeals.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
He will be in prison until he dies. It is
a death sentence of its own, just a hell dying
in prison.
Speaker 7 (12:27):
It was April twenty twenty three when Ortopez has stormed
today his neighbor's home near Cleveland and opened fire, killing
five of them, including a nine year old boy.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
The victims had asked Ortopaz had.
Speaker 7 (12:37):
To stop firing his gun so that he wouldn't awake
a sleeping baby. This offense, attorney suggesting today the client
had been provoked and there was a lot of evidence
that suggested there was a lot of taunting from one
side towards our client, but we're not saying that he's
anybody's a right to go through their.
Speaker 6 (12:55):
House and do it.
Speaker 7 (12:56):
Orto Pezza, a Mexican citizen, had been deported four times
between two nine at twenty sixteen, will now get to
remain in the country, but under circumstances he probably never envisioned.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
He knows you'll never get out.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
He will never live a life like the one he
lived when he was in the free world.
Speaker 7 (13:12):
Yet any kind of life. It's more than his victims
were offered. Prosecutors say budget constraints essentially tied their hands,
forcing them to take the death penalty off the table.
The cost of court deported attorneys for a single death
penalty trial, they say, quadruple their annual budget.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
I have to be a good steward so I can
get as much justice to as many families as possible.
It's very frustrating. Some of you remember this case because
this is the guy that went on the run. Remember
he went on the run, and uh he was on
the loose, and there was quite a bit of public attention.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
On this guy.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
It also revealed something to our community that there are
pockets of elle aliens all around. This one was in
San Jacino County, where you've got individuals like this on
the loose.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
He's been deported four times. Wow, just wow. The idea.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
That an illegal alien comes here, murders people, and then
we're paying for his criminal defense. I want to hear
that fat bitch Selena Gomez cry for the five people
who were murdered by him. Boo who Francisco. I like
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to see him strung up in front of the entire community. Rama,
would you come with me? I'll sit out there and
I'll bring a sandwich. You'll play the music, not your soul.
You're not gonna have capain bull. You mean like you'll
program the music? Okay? What would you program for the
public execution of this four time deportee who killed five people?
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What comes to mind when a bullet hits the bone?
Speaker 2 (15:08):
What are you thinking? Oh? Here we go, he's already
got it hurt. Okay, how what the hell's good?
Speaker 3 (15:21):
But I prefer it be a slow and circuitous route, scenic,
if you will.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
I want him to think about it before he gets there.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
You know, this case, in cases like this, need to
be talked about constantly as we undertake these deportations. I'm
tired of illegal aliens, all being portrayed as sweet, sweet,
wonderful people. If nine out of ten are and the
tenth is doing this, they all got to go.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
You broke the law to get here.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
The cost to you, the tax by I saw in
one of these on CNN this woman said, well, when
these white women realize they don't have blueberries for their smoothies.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
That want them back? Are you kidding me?
Speaker 3 (16:04):
We got some hero Houston firefighters who went to California
and fought the fires.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
There'll be our guest coming up.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
Michael Berry Show continued, My gang on, my my mom,
and I can have them what I got and I
can put them down from they're spoken song.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
I've always I've always loved this song.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
Had we had a firefighter went into burning building died.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
I was on the city council. So you go and
you're seated right next to the family.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
And the funeral was at Grace on forty five, where
a lot of the big funerals are, and they start
playing this at the end, the bunch of pictures of him,
one of them with his leg hiked up like he's
a dog piano on a fire hydrant. He and his
wife run back. You gets a fun, loving guy, and
this song took on a whole new media and I'm
just sitting there holding back everything I can is widow
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is reseats over man.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
The pride I.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
Felt when the news broke that the Wildland Fire Group
of the Houston Fire Department was headed to California, because
as wacky as their politics are, there are victims there
who didn't choose that nonsense, and I just.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
Swelled with pride.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
Justin Huttleston is a wildland fire coordinator for the Houston
Fire Department. Chris Mixon is a fourteen year member of
the Houston Fire Department. Was that oh fellas, sir, are
y'all on the firefighters calendar?
Speaker 6 (17:46):
No, sir, I don't think any of the wild Thing
group guys are privileged enough to be in that group there.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
Chris Mixon, fourteen year member of the Houston Fire Department,
is a qualified tree faller.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
What does that mean?
Speaker 6 (18:03):
It means I can cut trees down, anything, any debris
in the road, anything standing dead becomes a hazard to
the citizens. That's what we can do. We can go
and take her in the situation and and like hurricanes, tornadoes,
any any type of emergency, so.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
You are trained in where to cut and how it falls.
Speaker 6 (18:23):
Yes, sir, absolutely, we can. As a team, we can
take care of all that. And well, if we'll do is,
we'll talk it over and get a safety plan and
then commenced to cutting and clearing roads. So fire trusts
can make egress for patient care and everything else.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
What made you want to learn to do that?
Speaker 6 (18:44):
Because I cannot sit behind a desk.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
It says Chris Mixon is a qualified tree faller and
engine boss.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
Do you remind your wife? Are you married, Mary? Remind
her that you're an engine boss.
Speaker 6 (19:03):
Daily?
Speaker 3 (19:04):
It would be a lot more impressive if you were
on the firefighters calendar.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
But engine boss will do it, says you.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
Oversee the Houston Fire Department wild land groups, saw crew.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
How many people we have on the saw crew?
Speaker 6 (19:20):
We got? I believe it's like thirty to thirty two
ish on a saw crew.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
Y'all must be a little extra stipend at the end
of the month for this.
Speaker 6 (19:29):
Unfortunately we do not, But we love the job we
do and want to change anything about it.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
So I'm told reading and talking to a lot of
people related to the California fires, and I'm not asking
you to make a political statement. I'm asking you, talking
about firefighting and fire prevention and fire mitigation, that if
you do more control burns and if you burn that underbrush,
you make a fire much less able to spread, and
if you don't, the longer it sits, it becomes a
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tentre box.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
A Is that true? And are y'all involved in that here?
Speaker 6 (20:03):
Michael, this is justin I'll take that question and so
to answer it, Yes, using control burn as a tactic
is fuel reduction is absolutely something that will reduce a
wildfire and the event one would start and placed in
California where they do control burns, you can see that
here locally through the while theyn group working with Fire
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department in the Parks Department in coordination together we do
control burns on city park property around the areas the
kind of reduced that risk in the event that a
wild fire would occur.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
How did you decide you would take that one?
Speaker 6 (20:40):
Uh So I oversee the prescribed fire process.
Speaker 3 (20:45):
I'm not asking you to make a political statement. You're
there to serve, okay, but are there times that you've
seen that you say, God, leave what We're gonna fight
this everything we can. But that's a situation where I
would have liked to have seen a control burn ahead
of time. We could have probably reduced we could have mitigated.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
Some of this.
Speaker 6 (21:07):
Yeah, there are times that I look at fuel loading
over times. You know, I see it just here in Texas,
not only in California. We see the same thing in
the Urn state where we get season after season where
we don't burn or don't reduce the fuel. You know,
trees continue to grow every year and that debridge the
falls and collects and every time it's not managed, it's
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only kind of a matter of time. We are kind
of a saying that we don't say all the time,
is it's not it's something burns. But when I mean,
we just have to be prepared for that.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
Well, I will tell you I grew up out in
the country in Orange technically outside of Orange, and pine
needles everywhere. These are the sorts of things that every
redneck I grew up with new, understood and implemented because
you did not want those sorts of things. And there
are prevention techniques that you know better than I do,
But I know these these are all plant workers, and
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they understood these things very clearly. You have to actively
work these types of areas and then you know, it
depends a lot on rainfall and the like to keep
these sorts of horrifying things from happen. How did the
call come down for you, fellows to go to California?
Speaker 6 (22:18):
Yeah, so part of the Texas Interstate Fire Mutual Aid system.
It's an in state system that we actually are part of.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
Right now.
Speaker 6 (22:26):
The truck that actually got back on Monday has already
headed to Fort Stockton for a fire assignment again. And
basically it's a statewide mutual aid program that whenever there's
a risk or a need, the local agency can request
those resources and if they're not available locally, they'll put
it out you know, within the state. And then in
the case of a national event like that, in the
event that California gets kind of to the linded capacity
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for they'll reach out to the bigger states for that support.
And so we're able to do that. We've done it
three or four times over the last couple of years. Now.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
How many of y'all went out there?
Speaker 6 (23:00):
So this last time for the Palisades fire outside of
La we sent four people on one engine.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
Okay, and when you arrived, how was it different than
you had expected based on what you saw on TV.
Speaker 6 (23:15):
Well, so when we arrived, at first they got to
get everybody in, see who's there, and then they'll start
piecing everything together that they need. But it was like
a gigantic bomb went off. There was houses everywhere that
were I mean you could even tell our houses besides
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the chimney being standing just is complete chaos. When we
weren't there when the initial fire happened. So we saw
some videos from some of the firemen and the way
the embers were coming just straight into their face and everything.
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The wind was a huge factor in that fire that
happened Palisades.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
So but I mean, I'm not suggesting you look forward
to it. I'm not making light of that. But when
you become a firefighter, my guess is you want to
get into a moment like this where I mean, this is.
Speaker 6 (24:13):
Absolutely that's what we look forward to. I mean, being
a fireman, it's well, like I said earlier, we can't
sit at a desk. We got to be outside doing
stuff and that's something all of us were. Definitely we're
there to help, obviously, and that's what our main objective
is to help people. But we love doing this.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
Yeah, of course you do. Yeah, no, it's there's nothing,
Thank god you do, because I don't.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
I don't.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
I'm just wondering if all of y'all were in there
fighting fires, who was back at the station cooking.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
I'm just kidding. I have a nephew is a firefighter,
and I know a lot of firefighters. Hold On.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
Justin Huddleson and Chris Mixon, they are with the wild
Land They are with the Wildline Wildland Fire Group of
the Houston Fire Department, and they represented us well in
California fighting the Palisade Plums fight.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
We'll talk to him coming the.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
Lake lac Aberry shift.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
Cleaning up the ladder.
Speaker 5 (25:11):
The firefighter goos wrong by wrong.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
Coordinates.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
The Wildland Fire Group or the Houston Fire Department that
goes around the country fighting fires. They went to Los
Angeles to fight these massive forest fires recently just got back.
He and Chris Mixon were among that group. Chris Mixon
is an engineer operator on Station eights in downtown Houston.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
That's a nice station.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
When I was on city Council when that was redone,
It's it's the Rolls Roycel stations. I'll tell you that
he's a qualified tree faller and engine boss, engine boss ramon.
That's a bit. See, that's the problem. You get promoted
from there to like captain or whatever. You go, Nah,
I think I'll stay at boss. You know, it's a
lot of captains. Don't sound like that. You know, that
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doesn't sound like a guy that that that does that much.
Justin how did the call come in? Who makes that call?
What's the process by which they go, Hey, can Houston
send anybody?
Speaker 7 (26:14):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (26:15):
Yeah, it comes down from the state to the TM
texasvis Emergency Management and the Texas A and for Service
coordinate the TIPPUS program, which is the firebuch A system
in the state, and so that the call comes, you know,
from California when they get to the point of needing
those resources, and it goes up you know, through the
through the chain and then comes back down. In the
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case of this one, it's the state to state contacts.
So the governor and the Emergency Management director for California
reach out to Texas and really just have a conversation
about what they need and what we have to offer.
Speaker 3 (26:45):
How long can that be out in the fire? How
long can you be actively in the fire? I'm guessing
there's kind of some you know, like for probus to
shut off valve.
Speaker 6 (26:55):
We do, so we do. Two weeks is the total
kind of deployment timeline for the guys to go out.
And while they're out, they'll run operational periods. And usually
when we go to California, it's twenty four on, twenty
four off. You're on every other day for two weeks.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
But how long can you actually be out there in
the smoke and in the fire.
Speaker 6 (27:14):
Twenty four hours when you're when you're on the fire line,
you're on the fire line.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
So if you got a pee, one of you, you
just pee. You just peel on yourself, not on yourself.
Speaker 3 (27:24):
But yeah, no, I was serious because you know, like
little kids when they're learning to ski, they don't want
it's so much trouble.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
They it just just go the ski start, Just tell
just go right there. Your mom will clean it up later.
So are you being hydrated during all that process?
Speaker 6 (27:42):
Yes, sir, so they during morning briefing, we'll go out
and get our Califired does an excellent job, or California.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
In general does an excellent.
Speaker 6 (27:50):
Job doing this, so give us. Essentially, it's a five
pound mel bag for the whole day and they got
cases of water. They're the way they on their IMT
team out there is phenomenal in every aspect of it,
because I mean they're so used to these fires that
anything and everything you need as far as hydration, food,
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and really they got anything. They can get it to
you or you can find it in the staging area
for the briefing and so we'll get a five pounds
sack per man and majority of it we don't eat,
but it's there for you. So you're you're fed in,
you got good hydration throughout the twenty four hour period
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you're online.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
Are you just whipped at the end of the day
doing this? Absolutely? Yeah. How much weight you think you're
losing a day doing that?
Speaker 6 (28:43):
Well, when you're hiking up the mountain plucking hose off,
your heart's racing and everything, and it's, uh, yeah, you
get whipped pretty good. I don't know, wait wise, I
mean I did lose about six.
Speaker 3 (28:58):
Pounds, which one of the two of you, Justin and Chris,
could stand to lose more weight.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
May Oh that's the.
Speaker 6 (29:09):
Man.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
I was so proud to see that you guys were
going out there and when they said y'all were available
for a conversation.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
I jumped on it because I really do. I mean,
you made you made our community look good.
Speaker 3 (29:23):
This is the sort of thing I hate Karen bass,
I hate Gavin Newsom, I hate bad politics, I hate
things that harm people.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
I hate the smug Hollywood celebrities.
Speaker 3 (29:33):
But I love my fellow Americans, and I love the
concept of the fact.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
That people like y'all are true.
Speaker 3 (29:40):
Servants of the community and willing to go to battle
and do what it takes to to help little old
ladies and little children and everybody. I just I really
do believe that it is christ like, it is biblical.
It no greater love hath any man and laid on
his life for a friend, and the dangers that you're
willing to undertake you don't have to.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
I think it's I really do. It is noble and decent.
Speaker 3 (30:03):
In fact, I got messages from my buddy Matt Brice
that owns Federal American Grill, that says, I want to
feed those guys and their wives, And I said, well
what if they don't have wives? And he's there, these
are firefighters, not cops, and he's and then my buddy,
my buddy Russell Levara at Gringo said, whatever you want
to do for them, let me know. So I know,
I know we're going to be feeding you at a minimum.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
If you'll take us up on that. I won't.
Speaker 3 (30:27):
I won't let munyos know that. Y'all accepted that, so
you won't have to file any report or anything.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
But I really do.
Speaker 3 (30:34):
The main reason I want to have you on was
to thank you guys for this. I think it's just
incredible and you make me proud.
Speaker 6 (30:41):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (30:41):
But also I think people should understand that there are
a lot of good people out there like you guys.
I know you don't want to be complimented. It's weird,
but it's true, dad gum, and it's true. And back
at the station, I know, Chris, you go back to
Eight's justin what's your station?
Speaker 6 (30:57):
A daughtor also at the special operations here here at
two night in the belt Way on the administration's staff.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
Oh my god.
Speaker 3 (31:05):
You didn't want to have to tell that, did you.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
This? Yeah, I know what that means.
Speaker 3 (31:14):
That's that's not a regular guy anymore, moaning he's all
he's gotten uppitty. Well, I know y'all are going to
have trouble when you go back, guys are going to
give you grief over the questions. But I also know
you're happy to be back safe and sound, and you've
got to be incredibly proud of this. I mean, it's
okay to take a victory. You got to be very
proud of of things like this.
Speaker 6 (31:36):
We have a really great group and a really supporting
command staff, bire department behind us.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
For sure. That had to be Justin who said.
Speaker 6 (31:45):
That, Hey, I agree with what he said our commands.
That was phenomenal. They've really taken us under their wing
and just kind of let us. They believed in us
and put us to work, and the outcome I think
is great so far. And but yeah, what you're saying
going back to the station, I'm already receiving messages all
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the time and I'm waiting for the heckling to happen at.
Speaker 2 (32:11):
The whole course.
Speaker 3 (32:11):
They're firefighters, I get it. I mean, you guys are brutal.
It's gallows humor of the worst lever you know. I
can't even imagine what y'all are going to go back to.
I mean, I had to give you a little bit
of grief. Do you expect we will be sending out
more guys. It sounded like we sent another shift when
y'all came back.
Speaker 6 (32:33):
Yes, sir, we yesterday we got requested and activated and
they hit the road yesterday afternoon and they are fulling
into Fort Stockton in West Texas for a fireweather event
that's passing through West Texas this weekend.
Speaker 3 (32:47):
How many days a year on average would you guess
that we've got our guys somewhere in the country helping
communities as they would help us for these types of fires.
Speaker 6 (33:00):
To take the days and go to weeks and I
would just roughly say anywhere from into twenty weeks of
the year more activated on fire response, and that's you know,
I could even increase it and just inside and outside
the city. And we do just as much work inside
the city on fires and storms as much as we
do outside the city on fire assignments.
Speaker 3 (33:21):
I'm glad you do because I don't want to do it,
but we all sure need it, and hope we never
need you, but you're there when we do.
Speaker 2 (33:27):
Hey, thank you guys. Hold on for seke. I want
to talk to you all fair one second
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Michael Very Show is on the air. Look, Mike, we're
not going in there like that, like what hey.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
Look, all our lives we've been bad boys all right,
now it's time to be good men.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Who in the hell want to sing that song? Good man,
good man? What you're gonna do? Well, blain me if
you're singing a song like you meant it, Git a
catch home.
Speaker 4 (00:33):
You shut down the FBI headquarters building and open it
up the next day as the Museum of the Deep State.
And you send those seven thousand agents in the headquarters
building down range to chase down rapists, to chase down murderers,
to chase down drug traffickers, and let the cops be
cops on the streets across America. You keep a small
contingent in Washington, DC.
Speaker 5 (00:52):
Boice, Dang boys, what's he gonna do?
Speaker 2 (00:55):
What's he gonna do?
Speaker 5 (00:56):
Well boys, stand boys, stag boys, what's it going to do?
What's he going to do?
Speaker 4 (01:03):
You get rid of half of the legion of lawyers
and special counsels that exist within the FBI to do
one thing, to corrupt and obstruct government oversight from constitutionally
applicable committees in Congress.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
It's bad what's he gonna do? What's he gonna do
when they come for you? Bad voice, bad boys? What's
to do? What's going to do when they employ?
Speaker 4 (01:25):
And another aspect of it, real quick is one of
the biggest institutions in the FBI that has been troubled
and politicizing weaponize has been their intel component. We have
an intel agency. I don't need it to be redone
within the walls of the FBI. We've shown when we've
given them that power what they do to it. They
unluckily surveil a president as candidate.
Speaker 5 (01:42):
Badoice, what's going to do?
Speaker 2 (01:46):
The bad voice, bad boys? What's he going to do
when they come for you?
Speaker 5 (01:52):
Bad voice, bad points? What's going to do when they
come for you?
Speaker 1 (01:58):
For many years, I was saying, one of the seventy
two vaccines mandated for children has ever been safety tested
in free licensing, plaice, the controlled trials.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
And I want what bad boys people, what's it going
to do? What's it on that do when.
Speaker 6 (02:13):
They come for you?
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Bad boys, bad boys? What's it? What's he going to do.
Speaker 6 (02:18):
When they come for you?
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Bad boys, bad boys? What's he going wats he going
do when they.
Speaker 6 (02:24):
Come for you?
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Bad boys? Bad boys? What's he going?
Speaker 5 (02:28):
What's he going to do?
Speaker 1 (02:31):
And in many cases, NIH is wearing the royals. We
got all of these new vaccine in seventy two shots
sixteen vaccines and now even more because we're doing the
HVV vaccine. And that year nineteen eighty nine, we saw
an explosion in chronic disease and American children the neurological
disease has suddenly exploded in nineteen eighty nine, eighty D
(02:53):
eighty HD, sleep disorders, a languish delays as autism, to
red syndrome, tics, narcolepsy. These are all things that I
never heard of. Autism went from one in ten thousand
of my generation according to the CDC data, one in
every thirty four kids today.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
As I'm sure you are.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
Aware, there was a terrible crash last night Washington, d
C at Reagan Airport. American Airlines Flight fifty four thirty
two was landing CRJ seven hundred. It was operated by
PSA Airlines, So I believe it actually is what they
would call an American Eagle. The legacy carriers, the large carriers,
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will charter with smaller providers on these regional hubs, and
the reason they do it is the money is to
be made by flying from Dallas to Atlanta or Dallas
to Chicago, and not Dallas to Tyler or Dallas to Lafayette.
So they hire these smaller carriers, these regional operators, to
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get the people as hubs to the big airports where
they from which they make the money on the bigger planes.
Nothing wrong with that. We'll we've all been on one
of those puddle jumpers. It's bigger than a puddle jumper.
The American Airlines flight was inbound to Runway thirty three
on what they call a short final, which is the
last stage of landing.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
I don't know these things.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
I'm simply cross referencing a bunch of things I read
and people I talked to as the basics to set
the stage for what happened. It's about one hundred I'm sorry,
it's about four hundred feet in altitude.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Enter into this scene.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
We've just created an Army Blackhawk training flight PAT twenty
five PAT twenty five helicopter that is flying perpendicular at
cross purposes. They're entering an intersection, if you will, to
the flight of the American Airlines plane along the Potomac River.
We're coming into Washington, DC at Reagan Airport. For years
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people have said Reagan Airport is not amenable to this
kind of cross traffic. You've got too many things going on.
You need to move this traffic out. And I don't
know if BWI the Baltimore Airport, which if you've flown
Southwest Airlines, you fly to Baltimore and then you come in.
It takes you a little less than an hour to
get in. The Potomac River is the designated helicopter flight path.
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It's a flight corridor. So the the Blackhawk travels along
the river. That's how it that's its road. It keeps
an eyeball down on that river to follow it. So
the American Airlines flight is on what's known as VFR,
which is visual flight rules, so they're on their instrument panel.
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They're coming in and they have priority. Now, what I've
read consistently is that the most mobile craft that's going
to be the helo in this case, has the responsibility
to get out of the way of the fixed wing craft.
That's the big, clunky airplane that can't move easily.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
A helicopter can so as I understand it. And this
where it gets crazy.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
The role of the helicopter is to eyeball and other
craft with whom it could be intersecting. It already sounds dangerous,
doesn't it, And to communicate with the air traffic controller.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Just before the crash.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
We've now all heard the traffic from the air traffic
controller from the tower asking the Blackhawk to confirm that
they have the other aircraft in sight. Now, what I
don't want to say the consensus, but what seems to
be the most widely held view is that the plane
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that they had in sight was not the plane into
which they crashed. It was another plane that you could
see off at a little bit of a distance. I
believe there were three individuals on the black Hawk, And
I read a long piece by a flight instructor who
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trained and conducted and carried out these missions, and he
said it's the responsibility of the crew to keep an
eye on these sorts of things. But to understand, you're
in an urban environment with a lot of lights, you
can't see, well, you're moving fast. They're moving fast. Okay,
that's not to make an excuse us to try to
explain what the heck is going on in these situations.
(07:46):
It's also apparently the case that the lighting is very,
very difficult to pick up. But I guess the first
takeaway in a situation like this is in the era
in which we live. From the clock shot to election integrity,
to Joe Biden's that hit the sharpest he's ever been,
to Hunter Biden's the most respected guy I've ever met.
(08:08):
The first question is are we being told the truth?
And I'm not one to jump to the conclusion that
we are, but I do at least have a good
feeling this was just errors, which we'll get to, rather
than a terror attack.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Bro Han to Michael Barry Show fifty six years ago.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
In nineteen sixty nine, the Beatles stage their famous rooftop
concert on the roof of Apple Records in London. After
performing a few songs including Get Back and Don't Let
Me Down, the pop post shut him down as a
large crowd gathered for this seemingly impromptu free speech that
left the audience below befuddled.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Why do we know? Because it was fortunately well filmed,
It was the lead.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
It was the Beatles' last public.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Performance on the subject of the crash.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
Yesterday, my immediate concern was terror attack and it being
a black Hawk, and early reports confirmed there was a
risk of this. Who would be on it? President Trump
wouldn't be on it, but you just never know. Surely JD.
(09:27):
Vance wasn't on it, But you just don't know. The
loss of life is important no matter who it is.
But it sure seemed in early reviews that this could
have been a terror attack. I don't break news or
opine on news as it's happening, because you don't have
all the information and you don't know what's being hidden
(09:49):
from you. But I will tell you from the folks
with whom I speak, who have a lot of knowledge
of what could have happened, would have happened, has happened
in the past, does happen every.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Every day, they strongly believe.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
This was error and not terror, And I guess there's
some comfort in that. I guess not if one of
the sixty passengers on the American Airlines flight was a
family of mine, nor the individuals on the black Hawk,
that's what that's what went through them on I did
(10:26):
read this morning that it hasn't been since two thousand
and nine that we've had a commercial airline carrying passengers
for fee crash because remember Amazon had a delivery plane
crash sixteen years It's not to say I expect them
every year, but there is a lot of cross traffic,
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there are a lot of planes in the air, and
it is still the case that airline traffic is incredibly safe.
And in this case, by all accounts, it does not
appear that it's going to be the error of the airline,
but rather the Blackhawk, whose responsibility it was to avoid
such a collision. I am not rooting for a DEI error,
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but I will tell you I'm looking for it, and
I wouldn't be shocked before time deported illegal alien Savage
for Francisco or Apesa has now pled guilty to murdering
five of his Cleveland neighbors, including this is locally Cleveland, Texas,
a nine year old boy back in two thousand and nine.
(11:34):
S Sinno District attorney says financial constraints affected their decision
to offer a deal because taxpayers were forced to foot
the illegal alien's attorney bill. The district attorney also says
the victim's family signed off on the deal.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
The story from ABC thirteen.
Speaker 7 (11:50):
It's a plea deal prosecutors offered him only because the
victim's family signed off on it, and only when they
considered just how much a death penalty murder trial would
cost them. They project it would have wiped out their
yearly budget. Words of encouragement shouted in Spanish to a
shackled Francisco Orto Pezza as he left the courthouse. We
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won because they wanted to kill you. A woman tells him, well,
Ordepezza no longer faces the death penalty. Is guilty plea
means he will spend the rest of his life in prison,
no parole, no appeals.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
He will be in prison until he dies. It is
a death sentence of its own, just a hell dying
in prison.
Speaker 7 (12:27):
It was April twenty twenty three when Ortopez has stormed
today his neighbor's home near Cleveland and opened fire, killing
five of them, including a nine year old boy.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
The victims had asked Ortopaz had.
Speaker 7 (12:37):
To stop firing his gun so that he wouldn't awake
a sleeping baby. This offense, attorney suggesting today the client
had been provoked and there was a lot of evidence
that suggested there was a lot of taunting from one
side towards our client, but we're not saying that he's
anybody's a right to go through their.
Speaker 6 (12:55):
House and do it.
Speaker 7 (12:56):
Orto Pezza, a Mexican citizen, had been deported four times
between two nine at twenty sixteen, will now get to
remain in the country, but under circumstances he probably never envisioned.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
He knows you'll never get out.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
He will never live a life like the one he
lived when he was in the free world.
Speaker 7 (13:12):
Yet any kind of life. It's more than his victims
were offered. Prosecutors say budget constraints essentially tied their hands,
forcing them to take the death penalty off the table.
The cost of court deported attorneys for a single death
penalty trial, they say, quadruple their annual budget.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
I have to be a good steward so I can
get as much justice to as many families as possible.
It's very frustrating. Some of you remember this case because
this is the guy that went on the run. Remember
he went on the run, and uh he was on
the loose, and there was quite a bit of public attention.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
On this guy.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
It also revealed something to our community that there are
pockets of elle aliens all around. This one was in
San Jacino County, where you've got individuals like this on
the loose.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
He's been deported four times. Wow, just wow. The idea.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
That an illegal alien comes here, murders people, and then
we're paying for his criminal defense. I want to hear
that fat bitch Selena Gomez cry for the five people
who were murdered by him. Boo who Francisco. I like
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to see him strung up in front of the entire community. Rama,
would you come with me? I'll sit out there and
I'll bring a sandwich. You'll play the music, not your soul.
You're not gonna have capain bull. You mean like you'll
program the music? Okay? What would you program for the
public execution of this four time deportee who killed five people?
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What comes to mind when a bullet hits the bone?
Speaker 2 (15:08):
What are you thinking? Oh? Here we go, he's already
got it hurt. Okay, how what the hell's good?
Speaker 3 (15:21):
But I prefer it be a slow and circuitous route, scenic,
if you will.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
I want him to think about it before he gets there.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
You know, this case, in cases like this, need to
be talked about constantly as we undertake these deportations. I'm
tired of illegal aliens, all being portrayed as sweet, sweet,
wonderful people. If nine out of ten are and the
tenth is doing this, they all got to go.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
You broke the law to get here.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
The cost to you, the tax by I saw in
one of these on CNN this woman said, well, when
these white women realize they don't have blueberries for their smoothies.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
That want them back? Are you kidding me?
Speaker 3 (16:04):
We got some hero Houston firefighters who went to California
and fought the fires.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
There'll be our guest coming up.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
Michael Berry Show continued, My gang on, my my mom,
and I can have them what I got and I
can put them down from they're spoken song.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
I've always I've always loved this song.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
Had we had a firefighter went into burning building died.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
I was on the city council. So you go and
you're seated right next to the family.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
And the funeral was at Grace on forty five, where
a lot of the big funerals are, and they start
playing this at the end, the bunch of pictures of him,
one of them with his leg hiked up like he's
a dog piano on a fire hydrant. He and his
wife run back. You gets a fun, loving guy, and
this song took on a whole new media and I'm
just sitting there holding back everything I can is widow
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is reseats over man.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
The pride I.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
Felt when the news broke that the Wildland Fire Group
of the Houston Fire Department was headed to California, because
as wacky as their politics are, there are victims there
who didn't choose that nonsense, and I just.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
Swelled with pride.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
Justin Huttleston is a wildland fire coordinator for the Houston
Fire Department. Chris Mixon is a fourteen year member of
the Houston Fire Department. Was that oh fellas, sir, are
y'all on the firefighters calendar?
Speaker 6 (17:46):
No, sir, I don't think any of the wild Thing
group guys are privileged enough to be in that group there.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
Chris Mixon, fourteen year member of the Houston Fire Department,
is a qualified tree faller.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
What does that mean?
Speaker 6 (18:03):
It means I can cut trees down, anything, any debris
in the road, anything standing dead becomes a hazard to
the citizens. That's what we can do. We can go
and take her in the situation and and like hurricanes, tornadoes,
any any type of emergency, so.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
You are trained in where to cut and how it falls.
Speaker 6 (18:23):
Yes, sir, absolutely, we can. As a team, we can
take care of all that. And well, if we'll do is,
we'll talk it over and get a safety plan and
then commenced to cutting and clearing roads. So fire trusts
can make egress for patient care and everything else.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
What made you want to learn to do that?
Speaker 6 (18:44):
Because I cannot sit behind a desk.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
It says Chris Mixon is a qualified tree faller and
engine boss.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
Do you remind your wife? Are you married, Mary? Remind
her that you're an engine boss.
Speaker 6 (19:03):
Daily?
Speaker 3 (19:04):
It would be a lot more impressive if you were
on the firefighters calendar.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
But engine boss will do it, says you.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
Oversee the Houston Fire Department wild land groups, saw crew.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
How many people we have on the saw crew?
Speaker 6 (19:20):
We got? I believe it's like thirty to thirty two
ish on a saw crew.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
Y'all must be a little extra stipend at the end
of the month for this.
Speaker 6 (19:29):
Unfortunately we do not, But we love the job we
do and want to change anything about it.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
So I'm told reading and talking to a lot of
people related to the California fires, and I'm not asking
you to make a political statement. I'm asking you, talking
about firefighting and fire prevention and fire mitigation, that if
you do more control burns and if you burn that underbrush,
you make a fire much less able to spread, and
if you don't, the longer it sits, it becomes a
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tentre box.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
A Is that true? And are y'all involved in that here?
Speaker 6 (20:03):
Michael, this is justin I'll take that question and so
to answer it, Yes, using control burn as a tactic
is fuel reduction is absolutely something that will reduce a
wildfire and the event one would start and placed in
California where they do control burns, you can see that
here locally through the while theyn group working with Fire
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department in the Parks Department in coordination together we do
control burns on city park property around the areas the
kind of reduced that risk in the event that a
wild fire would occur.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
How did you decide you would take that one?
Speaker 6 (20:40):
Uh So I oversee the prescribed fire process.
Speaker 3 (20:45):
I'm not asking you to make a political statement. You're
there to serve, okay, but are there times that you've
seen that you say, God, leave what We're gonna fight
this everything we can. But that's a situation where I
would have liked to have seen a control burn ahead
of time. We could have probably reduced we could have mitigated.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
Some of this.
Speaker 6 (21:07):
Yeah, there are times that I look at fuel loading
over times. You know, I see it just here in Texas,
not only in California. We see the same thing in
the Urn state where we get season after season where
we don't burn or don't reduce the fuel. You know,
trees continue to grow every year and that debridge the
falls and collects and every time it's not managed, it's
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only kind of a matter of time. We are kind
of a saying that we don't say all the time,
is it's not it's something burns. But when I mean,
we just have to be prepared for that.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
Well, I will tell you I grew up out in
the country in Orange technically outside of Orange, and pine
needles everywhere. These are the sorts of things that every
redneck I grew up with new, understood and implemented because
you did not want those sorts of things. And there
are prevention techniques that you know better than I do,
But I know these these are all plant workers, and
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they understood these things very clearly. You have to actively
work these types of areas and then you know, it
depends a lot on rainfall and the like to keep
these sorts of horrifying things from happen. How did the
call come down for you, fellows to go to California?
Speaker 6 (22:18):
Yeah, so part of the Texas Interstate Fire Mutual Aid system.
It's an in state system that we actually are part of.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
Right now.
Speaker 6 (22:26):
The truck that actually got back on Monday has already
headed to Fort Stockton for a fire assignment again. And
basically it's a statewide mutual aid program that whenever there's
a risk or a need, the local agency can request
those resources and if they're not available locally, they'll put
it out you know, within the state. And then in
the case of a national event like that, in the
event that California gets kind of to the linded capacity
(22:50):
for they'll reach out to the bigger states for that support.
And so we're able to do that. We've done it
three or four times over the last couple of years. Now.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
How many of y'all went out there?
Speaker 6 (23:00):
So this last time for the Palisades fire outside of
La we sent four people on one engine.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
Okay, and when you arrived, how was it different than
you had expected based on what you saw on TV.
Speaker 6 (23:15):
Well, so when we arrived, at first they got to
get everybody in, see who's there, and then they'll start
piecing everything together that they need. But it was like
a gigantic bomb went off. There was houses everywhere that
were I mean you could even tell our houses besides
(23:35):
the chimney being standing just is complete chaos. When we
weren't there when the initial fire happened. So we saw
some videos from some of the firemen and the way
the embers were coming just straight into their face and everything.
(23:56):
The wind was a huge factor in that fire that
happened Palisades.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
So but I mean, I'm not suggesting you look forward
to it. I'm not making light of that. But when
you become a firefighter, my guess is you want to
get into a moment like this where I mean, this is.
Speaker 6 (24:13):
Absolutely that's what we look forward to. I mean, being
a fireman, it's well, like I said earlier, we can't
sit at a desk. We got to be outside doing
stuff and that's something all of us were. Definitely we're
there to help, obviously, and that's what our main objective
is to help people. But we love doing this.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
Yeah, of course you do. Yeah, no, it's there's nothing,
Thank god you do, because I don't.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
I don't.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
I'm just wondering if all of y'all were in there
fighting fires, who was back at the station cooking.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
I'm just kidding. I have a nephew is a firefighter,
and I know a lot of firefighters. Hold On.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
Justin Huddleson and Chris Mixon, they are with the wild
Land They are with the Wildline Wildland Fire Group of
the Houston Fire Department, and they represented us well in
California fighting the Palisade Plums fight.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
We'll talk to him coming the.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
Lake lac Aberry shift.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
Cleaning up the ladder.
Speaker 5 (25:11):
The firefighter goos wrong by wrong.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
Coordinates.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
The Wildland Fire Group or the Houston Fire Department that
goes around the country fighting fires. They went to Los
Angeles to fight these massive forest fires recently just got back.
He and Chris Mixon were among that group. Chris Mixon
is an engineer operator on Station eights in downtown Houston.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
That's a nice station.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
When I was on city Council when that was redone,
It's it's the Rolls Roycel stations. I'll tell you that
he's a qualified tree faller and engine boss, engine boss ramon.
That's a bit. See, that's the problem. You get promoted
from there to like captain or whatever. You go, Nah,
I think I'll stay at boss. You know, it's a
lot of captains. Don't sound like that. You know, that
(26:02):
doesn't sound like a guy that that that does that much.
Justin how did the call come in? Who makes that call?
What's the process by which they go, Hey, can Houston
send anybody?
Speaker 7 (26:14):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (26:15):
Yeah, it comes down from the state to the TM
texasvis Emergency Management and the Texas A and for Service
coordinate the TIPPUS program, which is the firebuch A system
in the state, and so that the call comes, you know,
from California when they get to the point of needing
those resources, and it goes up you know, through the
through the chain and then comes back down. In the
(26:35):
case of this one, it's the state to state contacts.
So the governor and the Emergency Management director for California
reach out to Texas and really just have a conversation
about what they need and what we have to offer.
Speaker 3 (26:45):
How long can that be out in the fire? How
long can you be actively in the fire? I'm guessing
there's kind of some you know, like for probus to
shut off valve.
Speaker 6 (26:55):
We do, so we do. Two weeks is the total
kind of deployment timeline for the guys to go out.
And while they're out, they'll run operational periods. And usually
when we go to California, it's twenty four on, twenty
four off. You're on every other day for two weeks.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
But how long can you actually be out there in
the smoke and in the fire.
Speaker 6 (27:14):
Twenty four hours when you're when you're on the fire line,
you're on the fire line.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
So if you got a pee, one of you, you
just pee. You just peel on yourself, not on yourself.
Speaker 3 (27:24):
But yeah, no, I was serious because you know, like
little kids when they're learning to ski, they don't want
it's so much trouble.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
They it just just go the ski start, Just tell
just go right there. Your mom will clean it up later.
So are you being hydrated during all that process?
Speaker 6 (27:42):
Yes, sir, so they during morning briefing, we'll go out
and get our Califired does an excellent job, or California.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
In general does an excellent.
Speaker 6 (27:50):
Job doing this, so give us. Essentially, it's a five
pound mel bag for the whole day and they got
cases of water. They're the way they on their IMT
team out there is phenomenal in every aspect of it,
because I mean they're so used to these fires that
anything and everything you need as far as hydration, food,
(28:12):
and really they got anything. They can get it to
you or you can find it in the staging area
for the briefing and so we'll get a five pounds
sack per man and majority of it we don't eat,
but it's there for you. So you're you're fed in,
you got good hydration throughout the twenty four hour period
(28:32):
you're online.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
Are you just whipped at the end of the day
doing this? Absolutely? Yeah. How much weight you think you're
losing a day doing that?
Speaker 6 (28:43):
Well, when you're hiking up the mountain plucking hose off,
your heart's racing and everything, and it's, uh, yeah, you
get whipped pretty good. I don't know, wait wise, I
mean I did lose about six.
Speaker 3 (28:58):
Pounds, which one of the two of you, Justin and Chris,
could stand to lose more weight.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
May Oh that's the.
Speaker 6 (29:09):
Man.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
I was so proud to see that you guys were
going out there and when they said y'all were available
for a conversation.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
I jumped on it because I really do. I mean,
you made you made our community look good.
Speaker 3 (29:23):
This is the sort of thing I hate Karen bass,
I hate Gavin Newsom, I hate bad politics, I hate
things that harm people.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
I hate the smug Hollywood celebrities.
Speaker 3 (29:33):
But I love my fellow Americans, and I love the
concept of the fact.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
That people like y'all are true.
Speaker 3 (29:40):
Servants of the community and willing to go to battle
and do what it takes to to help little old
ladies and little children and everybody. I just I really
do believe that it is christ like, it is biblical.
It no greater love hath any man and laid on
his life for a friend, and the dangers that you're
willing to undertake you don't have to.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
I think it's I really do. It is noble and decent.
Speaker 3 (30:03):
In fact, I got messages from my buddy Matt Brice
that owns Federal American Grill, that says, I want to
feed those guys and their wives, And I said, well
what if they don't have wives? And he's there, these
are firefighters, not cops, and he's and then my buddy,
my buddy Russell Levara at Gringo said, whatever you want
to do for them, let me know. So I know,
I know we're going to be feeding you at a minimum.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
If you'll take us up on that. I won't.
Speaker 3 (30:27):
I won't let munyos know that. Y'all accepted that, so
you won't have to file any report or anything.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
But I really do.
Speaker 3 (30:34):
The main reason I want to have you on was
to thank you guys for this. I think it's just
incredible and you make me proud.
Speaker 6 (30:41):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (30:41):
But also I think people should understand that there are
a lot of good people out there like you guys.
I know you don't want to be complimented. It's weird,
but it's true, dad gum, and it's true. And back
at the station, I know, Chris, you go back to
Eight's justin what's your station?
Speaker 6 (30:57):
A daughtor also at the special operations here here at
two night in the belt Way on the administration's staff.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
Oh my god.
Speaker 3 (31:05):
You didn't want to have to tell that, did you.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
This? Yeah, I know what that means.
Speaker 3 (31:14):
That's that's not a regular guy anymore, moaning he's all
he's gotten uppitty. Well, I know y'all are going to
have trouble when you go back, guys are going to
give you grief over the questions. But I also know
you're happy to be back safe and sound, and you've
got to be incredibly proud of this. I mean, it's
okay to take a victory. You got to be very
proud of of things like this.
Speaker 6 (31:36):
We have a really great group and a really supporting
command staff, bire department behind us.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
For sure. That had to be Justin who said.
Speaker 6 (31:45):
That, Hey, I agree with what he said our commands.
That was phenomenal. They've really taken us under their wing
and just kind of let us. They believed in us
and put us to work, and the outcome I think
is great so far. And but yeah, what you're saying
going back to the station, I'm already receiving messages all
(32:07):
the time and I'm waiting for the heckling to happen at.
Speaker 2 (32:11):
The whole course.
Speaker 3 (32:11):
They're firefighters, I get it. I mean, you guys are brutal.
It's gallows humor of the worst lever you know. I
can't even imagine what y'all are going to go back to.
I mean, I had to give you a little bit
of grief. Do you expect we will be sending out
more guys. It sounded like we sent another shift when
y'all came back.
Speaker 6 (32:33):
Yes, sir, we yesterday we got requested and activated and
they hit the road yesterday afternoon and they are fulling
into Fort Stockton in West Texas for a fireweather event
that's passing through West Texas this weekend.
Speaker 3 (32:47):
How many days a year on average would you guess
that we've got our guys somewhere in the country helping
communities as they would help us for these types of fires.
Speaker 6 (33:00):
To take the days and go to weeks and I
would just roughly say anywhere from into twenty weeks of
the year more activated on fire response, and that's you know,
I could even increase it and just inside and outside
the city. And we do just as much work inside
the city on fires and storms as much as we
do outside the city on fire assignments.
Speaker 3 (33:21):
I'm glad you do because I don't want to do it,
but we all sure need it, and hope we never
need you, but you're there when we do.
Speaker 2 (33:27):
Hey, thank you guys. Hold on for seke. I want
to talk to you all fair one second
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