That's It for Newsom's Political Career!

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Help is on the way.

Speaker 2 (00:01):
Yeah, how about refilling the water reservoirs? Maybe that should
have been a priority there, Jackson. Now we had too
many people, you know, too much diversity on the plate
that we had that we had to handle. The gross
smiths management of this hydrant dry in the Palisades. Can
we just say inexcusable? Maybe I will learn later on

(00:25):
the site the science of fire fighting and the elevation
and the pumpage and the lines. Oh I got the
Department of Water and Power at LA who was appointed
by the mayor. I'm going to play that audio in
a minute. Actually makes Kamala Harris sound somewhat intelligent. And
you could tell the body language of the fire department
around her. Oh boy, that was some body language. But

(00:48):
no evacuation plan. Thousands of people trying to leave through
the same exits and it turned into gridlock. And he
had all the bulldozers and you had all the pandemonium
and the chaos. It's literally like a Brad Pitt into
the World movie kind of scenes. And when you think
about this, how did it start? I know, we have

(01:08):
six deaths right now, and that's what's focused on saving
people and saving people's homes and livelihood. But can we
start talking about this whacked out environmentalism, how it's actually
a national security risk. You don't have to send a
drone over and you know, drop a bomb down anymore.
You don't have to bomb a subway, you don't have

(01:29):
to put a dirty nuke, you don't have to put
you know, something into the water system. Go get some
flammables and a lighter and spend a few seconds and
there you go. You're off to the races. Now, can
we say any government can defend against people like that. No,
there's no government that can defend against somebody that wants

(01:49):
to do that. But you sure can take care of
the good earth that God gave us. We're told to
be good stewards, to have dominion over the earth. That
means that it's made for us, not the other way around.
We come first, clean it up. Mayor Karen Bass one

(02:10):
of the worst examples of any kind of elected official.
It was when it happened, I think this was now
two days ago, when she was coming back Sky News
from Australia. That's who it was. She was out on
the jetway down to a plane and she just was
a few feet away from him, staring just coldly, staring
ahead when he was asking questions, you have anything to

(02:31):
say to the people of California. But then she got
back and held a press conference. And if you're having
any issues there in Pasadena or and the Palisades, announced
jumped over to Malibu. You have any issues, all that
you need to do. I know the powers out and all,
but find some way to just go to the URL.

(02:52):
To the URL. Didn't give a website, didn't give a link,
didn't say here's where you go, here's a phone number
that you can call, here's a website to go to.
No go to Joe three oh three oh three, three
oh three oh three oh. It was one of those
moments when Joe Biden said that listen to the mayor.
Tell everybody that's in trouble right now the biggest fire
in history. To go to the URL.

Speaker 3 (03:13):
Build stronger than ever right now. If you need help,
emergency information, resources and shelter is available. All of this
can be found at URL Los Angeles. Together is how
we will get through this through the heroicism of our firefighters.

Speaker 4 (03:32):
Mm hmm.

Speaker 2 (03:33):
Go the URL.

Speaker 4 (03:34):
Stupid as a stupid doesch sir?

Speaker 2 (03:35):
I know, I know we shift fire fighting equipment to Ukraine.
In twenty twenty two, ABC seven LA declared, quote, all
over southern California, people are finding ways to help keep
Ukraine front and center. It's no different for the La
County Fire Department. And they had some surplus X or
supply sitting around and no better way to beat putin

(03:57):
than to make sure that the people of La are
not protected when a fire starts here. Yeah, this is uh,
this is gonna this is a game changer. As they say,
you got Hollywood extremely upset, and uh yeah, they see
the thing about it. They hadn't been They hadn't been
affected yet by the English language learner only in their

(04:19):
kids' schools. They haven't been affected yet with the cost
that it costs because eh, they're wealthy. Correct. Now, we
did have Hollywood and this is Dennis Quaid, actor talking
about our firefighters. And once you know they don't have
soot on their face or taking a break to get

(04:40):
a little rest before they go back in in battle,
we'll have to see if we can reach out and
maybe get some of these local firefighters that actor Dennis
Quaid mentioned here.

Speaker 5 (04:47):
We get started. I'd like to thank Anthony Marmalajo, James Contreras,
Mike Zimmerman, and John Klure from OE S five one
one three from Fresno who came down here to help
out with this fire. I can't say enough about the
firefighters who've been here. They've really made the difference. They're

(05:08):
the guys that are running in when everybody else is
running out, and they admit a difference right here on
my block.

Speaker 2 (05:15):
Now, I've talked to men people talked about all the
millions of people that have flooded over and could we
have terror cells these sleeper cells set up? Yes, yes,
if they're not here, they're stupid. Everything I've been told
my adult, whole childhood and adult life in America's we
got people that hate America that really want to hurt us.

(05:35):
That's why we put all those precautions in after nine
to eleven and developed Department of Homeland Security. But if
you are a terror cell here, why wouldn't you do
what just happened in La This this eco terrorism. Maybe
too soon to start jumping about who lit it, but
it's never too soon to ask is this an arsonist

(05:57):
that's moving around place to place to place? Listen to
this report and I love citizens reports. It was right
outside his car window. He went about to run up.
He probably thought somebody might kill him for trying to
report on what happened here on Pico Boulevard, right between
Santa Monica and Venice, right there the mar Vista area.
I lived there in the nineties. I know it very well.

(06:18):
I called nine to one one one night for a
gang shootout and they told me it was a fireworks
display at Venice High School. I was like, okay, good.

Speaker 6 (06:26):
We're at three zero two Pico and people are lighting fires.

Speaker 1 (06:30):
Now you can see that in lit a fire.

Speaker 6 (06:32):
These guys, not all the people there, but some of
those guys lit that fire, lighting fires. They're actually, uh,
the trees caught fire and then the palms are catching fire.

Speaker 1 (06:41):
So civilians are not lighting fires.

Speaker 6 (06:46):
Down in the so called you know, you know, flats
around Santa Monica Venice. So he's safe out there. Fire
department's been dispatched. We don't have enough water to put
this thing out.

Speaker 1 (07:00):
You're supposedly on the way.

Speaker 2 (07:02):
Yeah, not enough water. Well that's not true. There's enough water.
We're the LA News. I'm going to write into this
teleprompter so that this anchor will say that the guy
that ran for mayor, Rick Caruso, the billionaire real estate developer,
he was all over LA News talking about how the
failure of the city of the state and they had

(07:22):
to correct that. No, he's wrong, But listen to this,
the anchors reading the teleprompter and then they go out
to a reporter on the scene that's going to give
you the real reality.

Speaker 7 (07:34):
Former eler excuse me, former LA mayoral candidate and real
estate developer Rick Caruso Criticizing the city's response to the
windstorm and fires, he says officials should have been more prepared.

Speaker 4 (07:46):
Real issue to me is twofolds. We've had decades to
go remove the brush in these hills that spread so quickly.
And the second is you've got to have water. And
understanding is the reservoir was not refilled in time and
in a timely manner to keep the hydrants gone. So

(08:06):
that's a failure, whether I'm DWP's part or another city agency.
But this is basic stuff. This isn't high science there,
and it's all about leadership and management that we're seeing
a failure of and all of these residents are paying
the ultimate price for that.

Speaker 7 (08:24):
Despite what you have heard from Caruso. No, firefighters have
told us that they are running out of water.

Speaker 2 (08:30):
And let's go out to you, Gigi graciet she is
live in Pacific Palisades.

Speaker 8 (08:34):
I know your signal's not the best, but gigib can
you tell.

Speaker 9 (08:36):
Us well, firefighters have told me they have no water
on this block. And you may be able to make
out the Ember storm that we're in the middle of
right now, This house going to be a total loss.
They have no water to put on this fire that
are standing by because they're trying to stave the home
that is.

Speaker 1 (08:55):
Next to it.

Speaker 2 (08:56):
You heard the anchor. Yeah, Rick Caruso was wrong. Let's
go out and get the facts. Yes, firefighters are telling
us they have no water.

Speaker 4 (09:06):
Hmmm.

Speaker 2 (09:08):
Mayor Karen Bass was bragging just last month about building
a greener LA. Her quote she posted on Facebook, We're
building a greener LA. She said. They reached their water
conservation goal more than a year ahead as schedule. Well good,
they're conserving the water the fifty percent we let flow

(09:29):
out under the Golden Gate Bridge every year. They had
their LA Fire Department twenty twenty three through twenty twenty
six plan manual set up the word homeless appears eleven times,
the word diverse and diversity sixteen times.

Speaker 10 (09:45):
The water.

Speaker 2 (09:47):
Water only dripped out twice once twice two drips on
water in the report, and the word fire hydrant water hydrant.
The word hydrant does not appear at all. But yet
they are completely focused and the LA Fire Department, like
many other organizations in government, we're starting to see corporations

(10:07):
get away from the DEI. But when this new fire
chief came on the scene, boy, they were all excited.

Speaker 10 (10:14):
I think thought of her already busy schedule to tell
us about her vision for the department's future, one that
includes a three year strategic plan to increase diversity.

Speaker 11 (10:23):
People ask me, well, what number are you looking for us?
I'm not looking for a number.

Speaker 12 (10:26):
It's never enough.

Speaker 10 (10:27):
Out of thirty three hundred city firefighters, only one hundred
and fifteen are women. Right now, she's already looking at
ways to change that. She's quick to point out that
doing so has a greater purpose attracting the best and
brightest for the job.

Speaker 11 (10:40):
They feel included, they feel valued, and they feel part
of a cohesive team.

Speaker 2 (10:45):
M Hm, I tell you the last thing that I
want to know about somebody that's coming to save me
from a fire is when the door closes at night
and you're in your private bedroom, what kind of things
do you do?

Speaker 10 (11:00):
Also checks another box when it comes to inclusivity and
diversity at this department. She's a proud member of the LGBTQ.

Speaker 11 (11:08):
That just kind of opens the door of people that thought, Oh,
I didn't even know that that was an opportunity for me.

Speaker 1 (11:14):
Two steps and a rewinde exactly. I am super inspired.

Speaker 2 (11:20):
We're not inspired by the reaction of the officials down
in southern California at this point, but they now have
the staff thanks to DEI.

Speaker 11 (11:29):
So by creating this new bureau, our Diversity equin Inclusion Bureau, now.

Speaker 1 (11:34):
We actually have the staff to do the work.

Speaker 11 (11:37):
When it comes to doing a deep dive in regard
to how we do business, how we take care of
one another. In the fire stations.

Speaker 4 (11:43):
Our first responders and our firefighters who are trying to
battle this, there's no water palfit.

Speaker 11 (11:49):
And in our work environment.

Speaker 2 (11:51):
Yeah, your work environment. You should have been worried about
water in the Palisades. This is not to vilify the
firemen and fire women that are out there fighting this
put in their lives on the line for all of us.
It is the let's just call it the culture, the
culture that's gone on. You want to know about culture,

(12:14):
Let Adam Carolla tell you a little life story about
the culture.

Speaker 4 (12:19):
Geez.

Speaker 13 (12:19):
I want to talk about my white privilege so badly.
I graduated North hollomand high of the one point seven GPA.
I could not find a job. I walked to a
fire station in North Hollywood. I was nineteen. I was
living in the garage of my family home. My mom
was on welfare and food stamps. And I said, can
I get a job as a fireman? And they said no,

(12:41):
because you're not black, Hispanic or a woman.

Speaker 1 (12:44):
We'll see in about seven years.

Speaker 13 (12:46):
And I went to a construction site in Dug Ditches
and picked up garbage for the next seven years. I
got a letter in the mail sent to my father's
house saying, your time has come to do the written
exam for the LA Fire Department. And I took it.
And I was standing in line, and I had a
young woman of color standing behind me line, and I said,
just out of curiosity, when did you sign up to

(13:08):
become a fire man? Because I did it? Or a
person seven years ago, and she said Wednesday, that is
an example of my white privilege.

Speaker 2 (13:18):
He's a racist, it is l I agree with you.
There's the culture right there, Gavin Newsom, this is not
an oopsie or we're going to do better next time.
I agree with actor James Woods here that we need
a tribunal.

Speaker 12 (13:37):
If it is true that things were handled this way,
if it is true that Gavin Newsom is the absolute
blithering idiot that I believe he is in the way
he has handled fire management in this state again and
again and again and again. This isn't a wake up call.
This is the kind of thing they have tribunals for.
But they try people and say, you had an oath

(13:59):
of office to perform certain duties when you're the fire chief.
This isn't a social justice exercise that you're in charge of.
This is you getting water to areas that need water
because there are fires in one hundred mile an hour
winds burning houses to the ground.

Speaker 2 (14:19):
How would it go in a tribunal if the governor
of the state was asked about water and he said, ah,
that's the locals, and that's what Newsom said. I think
this right here, this low clip right here says everything
that we need to know.

Speaker 1 (14:34):
What is the situation with water?

Speaker 14 (14:35):
Obviously in the palisage ran out last night and the
hydrants I was started the firefighter in this block they
left because there were no water in the hydrants here.

Speaker 15 (14:42):
The local folks are trying to figure that out. I mean,
just when you have a system ver's not dissimilar to
what we've seen in other extraordinarily large scale fires, whether
it just be the complete overwhelm of the system. I mean,
those hydrants are typical for two or three fires, maybe
one fire. You have something at this scale. But again
that's going to be determined by the local.

Speaker 2 (15:01):
We're going to leave that up to the locals.

Speaker 12 (15:03):
Why because we can screw you, because we chose to
screw you.

Speaker 1 (15:10):
And that's exactly this is the Trevor carry Show on
the Valley. He's power talk.

Speaker 2 (15:16):
Trump knows about California, he knows about our water problem.
We have some California officials that have actually been standing
up and I'm so glad that Congressman Doug LaMalfa Republican
from here here, he is on the floor of Congress.

Speaker 16 (15:32):
California's on fire once again, only now instead of burning
up the Red Counties and the forested areas to the north.
It's devastating portions of Los Angele Angeles. Everybody's seeing it
on the news. Every year. We know the Santa Ana
winds are gonna blow.

Speaker 2 (15:49):
Every year.

Speaker 16 (15:49):
We know that there's going to be risk. So what
is our government? Was our governor doing to help stop
the risk? Virtually nothing other than showing up a press conferences,
even his arms around and having long practiced monologues about Oh,
it's someone else's fault this or that. So it's time
for the governor either bear down or get out of

(16:10):
the way, because California keeps suffering. My county's up north
car fire, Campfire, Dixie Fire one million acres, and now
it's hitting the constituents of southern California hard. Why does
this have to keep happening. Why is not anything being
done to really mitigate the issue of forest management, of

(16:31):
brush management and lower the risk. Why is the water
being cut off at the hydrants? Is it because he
won't allow us to build the water storage we need
for a growing population and a growing and for growing crops.
We need to build sites reservore. We need to raise
Shasta down, We need to not let all the water
keep rushing out to the Pacific Ocean through the delta
to supposedly save a smelt that doesn't exist. We need

(16:52):
to get cracking on this, Governor Newsom, either get at
it or get out of the way.

Speaker 2 (16:57):
Yes, indeed, Gonerson doug going off of there now. Governor
Newsom told us that with Trump out of the way,
he was at Trump boy, he came out here and
meddled in our water too much. And now that Trump's
gone and Biden came in, let's go listen to Governor
dipty doo satan face mask gagging grusome. Let's smell l
a burned governor here, talk about how much better it's

(17:19):
going to get with Joe Biden.

Speaker 17 (17:21):
That's what's different now is we are committed as a team,
as a partnership with the legislature and other state agencies,
including now the federal government. No longer a sparring partner,
but a working partner federal government where we're not addressing
headwinds but tailwinds in terms of the support a Memoran
of understanding, doubling our respective commitments to vegetation management and

(17:44):
forest management and prescribed burns, a support the Biden administration
with resources, not just rhetoric to help this collective cause
it's a different paradigm. It's a different framework.

Speaker 2 (17:56):
Yeah, everything's going to be better, a different paradigm, a
different frame.

Speaker 1 (18:00):
Work.

Speaker 2 (18:01):
Nice frame in there, Gavin, good job. Homes are being
looted now as well. Reports are coming out, you know what,
shoot on site. That's what I'm like when it comes
to looting. Another fire now, that called the Kenneth Fire
near Calabasas is at seven hundred and ninety one plus
acres and still burning. Are people going around? Is there

(18:21):
an arsonist going around again? I'm going to play this
audio from a citizen that just took it out his
window on Pico Boulevard right there between Santa Monica and Venice.

Speaker 6 (18:29):
We're at three zero two Pico and people are lighting fires.

Speaker 1 (18:33):
Now you can see that lit a fire.

Speaker 6 (18:35):
These guys, not all the people there, but some of
those guys lit that fire. And these guys are they're
actually the trees caught fire and then the palms are
catching fire.

Speaker 1 (18:44):
So civilians are now lighting.

Speaker 6 (18:46):
Fires down in the so called you know, you know,
flats around Santa Monica Venice. So he's safe out there,
fire Department's been dispatched.

Speaker 1 (18:59):
We don't have enough water to put this thing out,
but you're suppose on the way.

Speaker 2 (19:05):
Could it be eco terrorism? Could this be sleeper cells
lighting fires? Could it just be a manned maniac running
around lighting these these fires. Actor Zachary Levi, I didn't
know who he was. I didn't recognizing, but I guess
he's big on Shazam. He was an actor. He was
backing up what actor James Woods was talking about, like

(19:25):
a tribunal. He says, it's not an oop. See.

Speaker 14 (19:28):
This is just incredible mismanagement, incredibly poor leadership. I would
go so far as to saying that it's criminally negligent,
because I mean, Gavin Newsom has been either the governor
for five years or lieutenant governor prior to that for
eight nine years.

Speaker 1 (19:45):
Some of the worst fires we've ever.

Speaker 14 (19:46):
Had in California. Under that watch, he clearly knows that
the biggest problem that we suffer in California are these
fires and by the way, the mud slides that follow,
and for them to do essentially not just nothing, but
worse to nothing, when firefighter budgets are being cut, when
they are specifically intentionally not doing the work that could

(20:08):
be done to avoid these problems or to be able
to effectively serve them when they are happening.

Speaker 2 (20:16):
This is the Trevor Cherry Show on the Valley's Power Talk.
Order's funeral, but he's now been sent down. The cask
has made it down to Georgia. I think the director
Ryan Nigel has been following it quite a bit today
and he gave me a lot of information, so did
Agent Squires. My mom and dad too. Watch some of

(20:36):
the funeral and the body language, you know, it went
in order from Clinton, Bush to Obama to Trump and
then Kamala and Doug were, you know, the vice president
up there with Joe and Jill. Yeah, Joe, Biden and
Kamala didn't look like they were too happy to see
each other. I'm going to give you the TMZ report here.

(20:56):
I thought George Bush looked a lot older that I've
seen look recently. Wel Clinton looked okay, he looked kind
of kind of casual. Michelle Obama wasn't there, so Trump
had to get chill me with Barack at the funeral
and it's I don't know what they said. There's some
lip readers, maybe can can determine what happened. But Trump
was saying some stuff and Obama was smiling at some stuff.

(21:18):
There was some some some good interaction. I guess we
can call that there to see Trump and Obama having
a positive conversation. Yeah, both smiling at times. Trump even
got a laugh out of Barack Obama. I guess there
was a guy yesterday what caught with a machete or
something trying to get into the Capitol. It's say, nothing

(21:38):
happens normal any anymore. Nothing can't even have a funeral
of a former president without something happening like that. In
Woodland Hills, now evacuation order has gone out. The palis
Ages fires now burned, seventeen thousand acres, got a new
one started seven hundred plus acres. Don't know what but

(22:00):
starting these now. Of course the wind and all of that,
but it just starts to seem pretty strange how they're
even worried about Mount Wilson and all the TV and
radio towers up there as well. As it's getting closer
to that. Let's go, We're going to get an update here.
K cow La. Looks like Mayor Karen Bass's coming up
to the podium.

Speaker 3 (22:20):
Good afternoon everyone, and let me just thank all of
the leaders that are here with us today. I think
it is a perfect example of how we are speaking
with one voice. We will unify our city, we will
get through this crisis, and we will rebuild a better
Los Angeles. First and foremost, of course, my thoughts are
with the thousands of Angelinos impacted by these continuing fires.

(22:43):
There is a new fire, unfortunately in West Hills, pushing
into Ventura County, and we are expecting this fire to
rapidly spread due to high winds. This is a reminder
that this is a very dynamic situation that can change quickly.
The priority for all Angelinos remains stay safe and please

(23:04):
follow directions from the public safety officials. When you are
told to evacuate, please evacuate. When you don't evacuate, you
compromise the abilities of the first responders one to address
this crisis. You put yourself in danger, and you put
others in dangers. Again, we know that this is an

(23:25):
active situation. LAPD will be assisting with evacuations, and I
want to thank the firefighters from all over the state
and frankly from many other areas who have come to
respond to this unprecedented situation. Now for an update on
this most recent fire, I'd like to call Chief Crowley.

Speaker 11 (23:50):
Well, good evening everyone. I'm Christian Crowley, fire Chief of
Los Angeles City Fire Department. We are now actively engaged
in a new brush fire. We're calling it the Kenneth
Fire in the West Hills area of Los Angeles on
the border of Ventura County. This fire was over fifty
acres upon arrival, with the potential for rapid growth over

(24:12):
the next hour. Over sixty fire companies from the Los
Angeles City Fire Department, Eli County Fire Department, and Ventura
County Fire Department were initially dispatched to the specific incident.
Additional resources have been requested and are en route. The
fires started in the city of Los Angeles and burned

(24:33):
rapidly into the County of Ventura. Los Angeles County Fire
Department and Ventura County Fire Department are in unified command.
The LFD is now an assisting agency. There are currently
immediate evacuation orders in place south of Venowen, north of Burbank,

(24:53):
east of Valley Circle, and west of County Lane Road,
and evacuation warning is in place west of Valley Circle.
North of Sataquoi, east of Woodlake, and south of Burbank.
I will now be providing a quick update on the
Palisades Fire. Current acreage is nineteen thousand, nine hundred and

(25:13):
seventy eight. There are currently five three hundred and sixteen
structures that were damaged or destroyed, and unfortunately, our thoughts
and prayers go out to the families. We do have
a confirmed two fatalities that are now due to this incident. Closing,
I want to make sure that we thank the residents

(25:35):
of Los Angeles for remaining vigilant and this new fire
shows that we are absolutely not out of this extreme
weather event. I personally want to take and show I
should say my thanks and gratitude to all of our firefighters,
are first responders, and for their families for all the
sacrifices their relentless efforts in battling this historic fire, and

(26:00):
I should make that plural historic fires. Next up, we're
going to bring back the mayor.

Speaker 4 (26:06):
Ma'ah.

Speaker 3 (26:09):
Thank you Chief Crowley for your leadership and thank you
for that update. We'll have critical updates on the state
of this emergency, broadly including resources for Angelinos who have
been impacted. Again, the priority of all Angelino's remains to
stay safe and to follow directions from public safety officials.
I was at the command post for the Palisades fire

(26:31):
with Governor Newsom and other federal partners earlier today, and
we talked about strategies to provide relief. First, I just
got off the phone with President Biden, and right before
this press conference, I also spoke to Vice President Harris
earlier today. Earlier today, the President announced the federal government

(26:51):
would pay for one hundred percent of disaster response costs
from the wildfires in this area. This is a precedented
because usually it is not one hundred percent. As the
FEMA Administrator, Chris Wall will discuss, new resources are also
available for impacted Angelinos to recover from this emergency. So

(27:14):
thank you FEMA Administrator for being here today and for
your continued partnership on behalf of the White House. Second,
as you heard from the update from the County at
the Eaton fire posts, in coordination with the County of La,
we have requested the National Guard along with the sheriff,
and the county has implemented a curfew in all burn areas.

(27:38):
And actually, let me correct that and say that the
County is looking at a curveview, but has not implemented
it yet. In Los Angeles, we have had evacuation orders
in place in the Palisades and in Silmar. Those evacuation
orders have the force of a curfew, meaning you must
leave and you cannot come back into the area period

(28:01):
twenty four hours a day. We have to protect the area,
especially from those properties that remain I've joined the sheriff
in inviting the National Guard to take on non emergency
roles and provide us with resources to keep the burn
area secure so that our frontline firefighters and police officers

(28:22):
can focus on saving lives. So let me be clear,
there's going to be zero tolerance, zero tolerance for anybody
that would be I don't even know how to say this,
but that would dare to enter houses or looted property
or anything from the individuals or from structures that remain standing.

Speaker 1 (28:44):
I was with d A.

Speaker 3 (28:45):
Hawkman this morning and he made it very clear that
if anybody is involved in looting or any property damage,
that he is ready to prosecute to the full extent
of the law. So my team is in coordination with
the Adjutant General who heads the National Guard and I've
spoken with the governor with about the National Guard to

(29:07):
take on specifically non emergency roles to free up our
firefighters and officers to do the life saving work that
they do in the city, so that we are sure
to have enough resources to surge our first responder so
that they can focus on the life saving work.

Speaker 2 (29:24):
All right, that's Mayor Karen Bass press conference. Seeing the
video of this from the overhead helicopter shots near Calabasas.
There you see it raging fire in the mountains and
it's coming down the hillside and you see the subdivisions
there and just red lights all down the first street
that's the closest to the brush and the woods right there,

(29:45):
and you see the helicopters going over dropping the water
on the path that's not on fire yet, but those
homes could go up. This is just it's not going
to stop. It's day three. I don't know how many
days that we'll have. So I guess in California, you
could loot under nine hundred and fifty twice and if
you get caught looting the third time, then it would
be a felony under Prop thirty six. But it sounds

(30:06):
like they're gonna be a little more restrictive with California
law under this right, I bet we wish we had
some of that Ukraine money back. They may thought about
that yet rebuild. Think how much these are multi, multi, multi, multi,
multi multimillion dollar homes. I don't even know what the
price tag right now. Six have lost their lives. We
find out that two of the six, two of them

(30:29):
were a father and a son that lost their lives.
There was another one. It was a man that had
his water hose trying to protect his house. We'll come back.
I'll let you hear a little more from Orange County
what the chief down there says. And also a captain
with the fire department in LA.

Speaker 1 (30:45):
This is the Trevor Terry Show. Condom Valley's Power.

Speaker 2 (30:49):
Talk podcaster Michael Schellenberg. He kind of looked into the
future here a little bit.

Speaker 18 (30:56):
Over the next few weeks, you're going to hear Governor
Gavin Newsom, Mayor Karen Bass and the Democratic Party tell
you that there's nothing that could have been done to
prevent the catastrophic fires from ravaging Los Angeles. Those will
be lies. They could have prevented them. Governor Gavin Newsom,
cut the funding for preventing forest fires, and failed to
build sufficient water resources for fighting fires. Mayor Karen Bass

(31:19):
cut seventeen point five million in funding for the Los
Angeles Fire Department and then went to Ghana even though
she knew of the risk of catastrophic fires. Now, it's
true that California in general and Los Angeles in particular
are fiery places, and it's true that Santa Ana wins
made the fires worse. But Newsom and Bass have known
about those hazards for all of their careers and failed

(31:41):
to deal with them. The rank in competence, the lack
of leadership is shocking and scandalous. It's hard to overstate
how badly they screwed up water management. In particular, Los
Angeles firefighters haven't had the water they needed. Newsom hasn't
built the new water reservoirs that Los Angeles needed, and
Newsom even cut the budget for water infrastructure projects last year.

Speaker 2 (32:02):
Yeap, try bunal, try bunal, try bunal. What are we
going to hear in the future, Well, he just said that,
Well here, there's nothing we can really do about this.
Let's go listen to the Orange County Sheriff.

Speaker 1 (32:14):
You know, I'd say this.

Speaker 19 (32:15):
I mean, when the winds blow like they do, and
I think we've acknowledged that these are historic in terms
of velocity and duration. You know, there's no fire department
that is capable of having enough resources to battle one
of these fires and contain them themselves. And so we've
long realized that for decades, and we depend very much
on the mutual aid system. When there's a fire here

(32:36):
in Orange County, I reach out to Chief Crowley at
La City and Chief Baroni in La County, and they
send me resources what we cannot handle. Beyond that, we
go to the mutual aid system and we get those resources.
The challenge is we don't get them here fast enough.
And when the winds are blowing like we've all seen
and homes are being destroyed again, there's just there's very

(32:59):
little work to do, even if we'd had another thousand
fire engines.

Speaker 2 (33:03):
Well, I guess that might be reality of firefighters. But
he is saying, is really nothing that we can do.
Looks like sellin Berg's prediction already coming true. Okay, let's
go here. We got a La County Sheriff Luna coming
to the micro.

Speaker 8 (33:18):
Just a quick overview. We have close to five hundred
sheriff deputies working throughout the county, working on evacuations, working
on traffic control, both ingress and egress, and we are
also working what we call looter suppression. It's unfortunate that
we have to assign people to do that task, but

(33:40):
we have and we have made arrest behind that. In
regards to resources, on the way to this press conference,
our Northern Command made a request for one hundred more deputies,
or roughly one hundred more deputies. So we are in
the process from a mutual aid perspective of sending what

(34:02):
we have internally and then requesting resources from counties around
us as we are working. As you see and hear,
many different priorities because this event continues and we continue
to get new fires. The mayor mentioned it. Chief McDonald
mentioned it. I've been working with the state, the Office

(34:24):
of Emergency Services for the last several days in trying
to estimate the California National Guard and how they would
be utilized. We made the official request earlier today, and
I'm happy to report that they have been staged and

(34:45):
ready to go. They're going to be start, They're going
to get deployed to specific missions. The first missions will
be at the Palisades Fire, at the Eaton Fire. They
will be supporting the City of Los Angeles as well.
Mayor Bass and Chief McDonald made that request to us.
There are several other cities that have requested National Guard resources,

(35:09):
the city of Santa Monica, the City of Pasadena, the
City of Arcadia, and I'm sure as time goes on
there will be others.

Speaker 13 (35:16):
Insistent Trevor carry shown on The Valley's Power Talk