January 13, 2025 • 29 mins
Gary and Shannon are out this week so Neil Saavedra and FOX 11’s Marla Tellez fill in. Neil and Marla have the latest on the Palisades Fire and the Eaton Fire. Swamp Watch.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI
AM six forty the Gary and Shannon Show on demand
on the iHeartRadio app. It's the Gary and Shannon Show,
marlateaz Nil.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Savadra in without Gary and Shannon.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
Yeah, so it's us exact same show, but without them
and none of the Gary and Shannon.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
You love.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
Yeah, I know, sorry, something like that. Just bringing you
up a little bit of the numbers at a glance. Here,
Palisades fire knocking on the door of twenty four thousand
acres fourteen percent containment, Unfortunately, eight deaths. You've got over
five thousand structures burned, the eat and fire in the
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San Gabriel Valley fourteen thousand and change acres thirty three
percent containment. You have approximately seven thousand structures. Now keep
in mind structures doesn't mean all homes. They can be
out structures in the like as well. But still it's
damage and believed to be damaged or destroys destroyed. Often
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those structures can be cars as well. You know what,
You bring up a great point. So this was pretty
stunning to me.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
On Saturday morning for their press or Elie County or
CalFire official wanted to really differentiate and explain what structures were.
So yes, any vehicle, RV, outbuilding, shed, literally any structure
is considered a structure, so obviously not just a home.
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But the thing that was really that struck me is
in the Palisades because collectively, between Palisades and Eton, there
are more than twelve thousand structures. I know a lot
of numbers, folks, but with the Palisades fire, more than
fifty three hundred structures for that one.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Again, think what the structures could mean.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
But he said four hundred and twenty six were homes,
which means the vast majority are not homes. But when
you look at the pictures, I would think that the
home number would be higher.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
It's still again, I mean.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Well, think about how many houses are on a block.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
And you think about the small community that is specific Palisades,
about twenty three thousand people call it home.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
So how many homes is that.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Right the time they were built? Ours is an old
home built in nineteen twelve. We're in Old LA and
they're on about I think it's something like fifty feet
wide by one hundred and fifty deep or something. I mean,
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they're bigger yards than they are now necessary, maybe, but
they're kind of stacked next to each other as well.
And I don't even know if I have one hundred
on my block, maybe fifty.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
Right, So the four hundred and twenty six is a
massive amount of homes to be lost. I just was
thinking it would be more. Again, not to diminish, zero diminishing,
but it.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Does go to show you the numbers of what we're
seeing the loss of property, certainly. And then in the
eaten fire, sixteen deaths so far, five firefighter injuries. As
a matter of fact, the first injury I believe was
a younger firefighter maybe twenty six.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Twenty five year old female.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Yet they hit her.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Head or fell and had I'm told that she's going
to have a full recovery. But that was the first
one I think we had heard about the firefighters.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
She had sustained a serious head injury. How that happened,
I'm not sure, but yes, fully recover. And then we
also learned of the other one you mentioned was a
firefighter who fell three stories oh through a roof.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
So were those were two separate ones.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Yes, they came out and they didn't have they didn't
associate anything with it.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
So I assumed it was one and the same.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
No, so two separate incidents with LAFD and that one
who fell three stories taking the hospital with pretty serious injuries,
stable condition, expected to make a full recovery, Thank goodness.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Hurst fire in the Silmar area, of course, that was
one of the early ones as well, just under eight
hundred acres ninety five percent contained. Kenneth fire in West
Hills one hundred percent contained, which is good news, and
that topped at one thousand and fifty two acres. Some
schools are affected in as far as not opening in
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the severely impacted areas, but most LA schools are opened
and back to some normal seat today.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Yeah, Superintendent Alberta.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
Carvallo coming out yesterday and saying LAUSD by and large
is back in class except for a list of these
that are in the most impacted areas, the ones that
are still in the mandatory evacuation zone.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
So they've made great.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
Progress there and again we're in that reprieve window, which
feels so good. No real huge active flames out there,
but we're worried about tomorrow when the winds pick up
to forty to seventy miles plus per hour.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Yeah, and those gusts, I mean may not be sustained,
but they're there.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
They don't need to be sustained to cause significant damage.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
No, it's like, you know, how many minutes is sustained?
Because how you see some of those trees? And I know,
you know Conway was on this and about the the
fact that we have palm trees everywhere?
Speaker 2 (05:46):
What was this point I missing?
Speaker 1 (05:47):
I guess that they're like Roman candles and they need
to be cut down. Oh yeah, to do that to
southern California, cut down all the I mean, listen.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
We're sitting in the KFI studio in Burbank and I
look out the window and I can, Yeah, palm trees everywhere,
literally everywhere.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
Yeah, a pretty gargange.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
I think you could probably start more fires with the
chainsaws that you took them down with, But I know
that they do when they burn, it's spectacular. I mean,
they get those fronds going and they get whipped in
the in the winds. But nil Sevadra Marloteaz filling in
for Gary and Shannon today, A lot going on still
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with the fires. It's not over. And that's not you know, sensationalism.
The reality is we're in a bit of a lull
as far as the wind goes, and with that comes
a bit of a reprieve for the firefighters to do
what they do best and attack the fires head on.
But there are some wind, there's the wind. Event is
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not over. It has just died down for a bit,
and we're keeping you posted on all of that as
we switch. If the needs are there for us to
switch programming, we will, and if so, then I will
probably see you again tonight at three am or tomorrow
morning at three am, as the case may be. But
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Marlon and I are happy to be with you now
making sure you get every bit of information you need.
If there's something you need from us, hit us up
on social media. Marla you can find her at.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
I'm Everywhere at Marla Tees it's t E L l
ea zy And you can also hit us up on
the talk back as well.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
And you can find me at Fork Reporter on Instagram
and X.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
I will tell you this.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
I've been posting some pictures and then also restaurants and
people that are helping out. So if you join me
at fork Reporter on Instagram, that's where I've been posting stuff.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Mostly people want to help. They want to do what
they can.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Amen.
Speaker 4 (07:49):
And someone who does want to help you when it
comes to protecting your home.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
That is mister Dean Sharp.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
Of course you know him here at KFI as a
show called Home with Dean Dean Sharp.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
The house whisper longest name. I think I got it right.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
Breath Dean. No, you're just saying Dean. It's always with
the law.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
It's a long name. But I feel like you're compensating
for something. Oh, come on, you're The name of your
show is the is the Oh, what's that car? The
rest of it is just a subtitle. Is that it's
home Home, You're what's the It's the hummer of show names.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
I'd like busted as chop Dean.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
I'm glad I get to talk to you because you
and I just talked.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
Yes we can, we'll turn off nails. I listened to
your show yesterday and it's all about how to fire
hard in your home. It was incredibly helpful, informative. One
of the things we've been hearing from people is, you know,
right now, we know it's not scorching hot outside, but
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nonetheless we are in southern California. Ye can I run
my AC when the air quality is as bad as
it is.
Speaker 5 (09:06):
That is an excellent question and it's something that yes,
a lot of people have been asking this about.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
The answer is very simple. Yes.
Speaker 5 (09:14):
In fact, please do run your AC and or your
furnace your HVAC system. And here is the very simple
reason why your air conditioning system, your heating and air
conditioning system in your home, is a closed system. It
is not taking air from the outside and putting it
into your home. It is recirculating and filtering air that's
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already in your house. So if there is poor air
quality outside, then to close up, you know, make sure
the doors and windows are closed. If there's smoke outside,
then you set your well, you just turn on the AC.
And if you've got a healthy filter, and this is
the critical thing I'm always getting on people for changing
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out their filters. Make sure you've got a nice clean
filter in your system. But it will actually help take
smoke particulates out of the air. As you run the AC,
or as you run the heater, or if it's not
about heating or cooling, you can just set it to
fan setting, so you're simply recirculating air, but you're still
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pushing air through the interior filter and it's cleaning up
smoke particulates out of your air.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
You know, Dean, you mentioned the filters, which is important,
and most systems would have a hepafilter, I believe probably
at this point. But during times like this, and I've
noticed this at our home as well, we keep many filters,
backup filters on hand for times like this when the
air is so bad that that filter will get used
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much more quickly than it would normally, and so changing
it out is going to be imperative as well.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
Yeah, it's a good idea too.
Speaker 5 (10:56):
It's always a good idea to have a couple of
backup filters on hand. And anyway, I encourage people get
on a regular filter subscription if you can't remember to
get to the store and buy a filter. There are
so many places like filter buy dot com. It's just
one of a ton of online filter services where you
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input the size and the thickness of the filter that
you need, you select the level quality of air filtering
that you need, and it's a subscription service and they
simply show up on your doorstep at the interval that
you should be changing out your filter. And when they
show up change it out, pop it in. You don't
have to worry about it.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
I've noticed that neighbors, if they're doing construction, or if
you're having construction done on your own home, that that
goes through filters as well. So I can imagine only
what the smoke and these particulates are doing.
Speaker 5 (11:48):
Now, yeah, now, one thing, just one thing on the
filter subject, Just to do my due diligence for everybody.
If you've got an older AC unit, an older system,
I want you to actually be a little bit careful
of jumping up automatically to the superfiltration HEPA clears everything
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out of the air kind of thing. And I'll tell
you why. Some older systems are not designed to have
that much filtration in them. So, first of all, number one,
the filter on your air conditioning system is for the
air conditioner, it's not for you. So number two, the
more heavily that a filter does its filtering, the less
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airflow it allows through it. And sometimes that can put
undue strain on an older unit. When it comes to
smoke particulates, we're not talking about allergenic micro micron particles,
and so a hepafilter isn't even required in order to
clear smoke out of the system so that you're not
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breathing in the particulates. So I want you to have
as much filtration as you want. I just don't want
you to prematurely pressure your system if it's an old,
older system.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
What classifies an older system.
Speaker 5 (13:03):
An older system might be let's say, fifteen plus years old.
You'll want to check the manufacturer's specifications for the maximum
filter filtration that that system should have, and my advice
would be not to exceed it if you want that
thing to last as long as possible.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
Yesterday you talked about, you know, emberproofing your gutters and
fire safe windows. A lot of this can be expensive,
but you literally broke it down basically, if you can
afford this, you can do this and this and one
of the things that by the way, you kept teasing
and teasing and teasing, and it was beautiful because it
kept me going through your show until you finally got
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to fire Gel.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
And I loved that.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
Conversation about fire Gel. Can you explain to people who
didn't hear yesterday how this could be a game changer?
Speaker 5 (13:55):
Yeah, everybody is looking for the silver bullet of like,
how can I get what can I do to my
house so that if I have to evacuate, I know
it's not going to burn down. And the sad answer
to that, unfortunately, is there is no silver bullet to that.
All of these things help, they don't guarantee. But of
all the products that I have seen, as opposed to
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you going out and buying a fire hose and staying
when the evacuation order has been issued, and you stay
in the thought that you're going to stay and with
a garden hose defend your house against a forty foot tall,
fifteen hundred degree wall of flame, which is by the way,
not at all a good idea. Here is something that
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you can really practically do. It doesn't take much time
to disperse it and then you can get on your way,
and that is to have a supply of fire gel
on hand. Fire gel a is a gelatinous chemical, non
toxic chemical that will store in one and five gallon containers.
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You can store in your garage, you can store it anywhere.
It's completely safe because guess what the whole point is,
it's non flammable. And then it hooks up to a
device kind of like a spray reservoir that you would
like when you spray like miracle grow fertilizer on your
roses and something like that. You know, you hook it
up to your garden hose, and the garden hose a
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combination of water and the gel mixed together and they
spray out and it becomes a foamy substance, a sticky,
foamy substance. And what you literally do is you would
let's say the evacuation order has come in. Uh, You're
going to take fifteen minutes. You're going to set this
up and you're gonna spray down the side of your house,
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the windows, the edge of the roof, the eaves, patio, furniture,
plants that are too close to the house. You can
literally spray this foam down on anything. And the nice
thing about it given normal conditions. Now in heavy winds,
it may not last quite this long, but normal conditions
you could expect that gel to cling and hold for
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you know, anywhere, but from twelve to twenty four hours,
even under windy conditions. And as we know, the fire
line moves very fast, and so it's a great way
to throw up an extra layer of fireproofing on the house.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
Dean, we appreciate you we're up against the clock, brother,
but we appreciate the information. Really good stuff. My friend
be safe, all right, guess Dean Sharp from home with
Dean Sharp the house whisper. We're here with you today
going through the fires and all the stories on the periphery,
from the politics of it to the air safety and quality,
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so many things that are affecting life. Yeah, and obviously
the fires and the people that are affected immediately by
the fires have their entire lives turned upside down. I
said this the other day that we know people die,
we know things get destroyed. There's people die every single day,
but if a plane crashes with two hundred people, it's
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the immediacy of so much life going at once, right,
It just and you look at Yes, there's property damage,
houses go on fire, buildings go on fire. But to
see everything, it's such a large swath of an urban
area go up so quickly and destroy so many life simultaneously.
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It is breathtaking. It it's hard not to be moved
by that.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
And not just one not just one fire. It was
a Palisades fire.
Speaker 4 (17:34):
It'll be seven days tomorrow morning at ten thirty since
that one broke out. And then I should have looked
this up, but I believe because we were on the
air with it, of course, that it was.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
The Eton fire started that night.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
Yeah, around six thirty ish, I.
Speaker 4 (17:51):
Think, and we got word of, you know, an eruption
of flames in the Alsadena area. Pretty soon we had
the name Eaten, and then we had reporters shift from
Palisades to Eton. And then when we took that first
live shot of Eton, I mean, it looked like hell
on earth.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
The winds, the.
Speaker 4 (18:10):
Livestock literally without people, just horses trotting away in you know,
floods of embers.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
It was.
Speaker 4 (18:19):
And then of course the pictures you've probably seen them
of the senior facility that had to be evacuated.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
That was heartbreaking, Oh my gosh. An ambulant being rolled
in wheelchairs across the you know, the streets, and the
with the drama behind them of the winds and the
fire and the embers. And if I remember correctly, I
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think one of at least one of the facilities where
they were moving from was completely destroyed.
Speaker 4 (18:53):
I believe that's is it, two Palm? I think so, yes,
I think it, Yes, you are, yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
And so it was one of those things where you're
you know, everything was your living life truly in the moment,
because nobody knows where you're going to, you know, and
thinking about that as we've talked with people, uh and
we were talking with councilwomen park.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
The reality is probably our car.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
And an accident is the biggest thing we're kind of
equipped to on the normal Okay, you exchange information, make
sure everybody's okay, move off the side of the road.
There's really no nothing in our lives that prepares you.
What do you do if you lose your house?
Speaker 2 (19:40):
Yeah, where do you start?
Speaker 3 (19:41):
Yeah? Yeah, you're sure it's going to be a nightmare.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
All of these things And now you're talking about infrastructure
for that entire town, for both of these towns is gone.
You're talking about water pipes. One of the reasons why
they're concerned about the water is some of the plastics
or some of the composites in some of the piping
leach into the water and just and melt and collapse.
Speaker 4 (20:05):
Okay, As I was saying, Fox eleven reporter Gigi Grassiet
on Friday broke the story that literally went viral quickly,
and she had LAFD Chief Kristin Crowley on the air
live on Fox eleven and for the first time, Kristin
Crowley basically said we were failed by the city, the
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fund defunding, of the cuts that were made, the budget
cuts that were made to my department hindered our firefight response.
And then the infighting began, if you will, between Mayor
Bass and Chief Crowley. They now came out on Saturday
morning a day later that said that we're on the
same page, but the Chief did say that she stands
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by her statements and on the line with us is
Gig Gigi Graciete.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 4 (20:55):
I know you've just finished a very long day at
Fox eleven and more fire coverage.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
Thanks how much you're being here.
Speaker 6 (21:01):
Thank you, Marlon and Neil, thank you for having me.
Speaker 4 (21:04):
I just want to get your thoughts on what you
I mean, the story you broke a pretty incredible and then,
b what did you make of when you saw on
Saturday them next to each other at the press conference
saying we're on the same page.
Speaker 6 (21:20):
Well, they're understandably trying to present an united front. And
as a matter of fact, now the press conferences, the
updates on the fires with all the city and the
county officials are basically called one voice. We're all standing
together as one in this firefight, which you know they should,
and that's that's all fine. I thought it was very
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interesting obviously Friday nights and very stressful moments when we
heard the mayor had summoned the Los Angeles City Fire
Chief into her office. Neither of them made the schedules
of five point thirty press conference. It was actually scheduled
for four and then pushed back, and then neither of
them appear at that briefing. So to have been a
fly on the wall, I'm sure would have been very interesting.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
When they say that they're on the same page, I
feel like there's a big, fat asterisk next to it,
and that they're basically saying when it comes to the
safety of the community.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
But the underlying message to me when I see the.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
Chief that it still looks like she's smiling through gritted
teeth a little bit. Have you seen the two of
them together, Have you had any other observations of the
contact that they've had since the closed door meeting.
Speaker 6 (22:39):
You know, I just saw them for the first time
together that this press briefing, and you know, you could sense,
I sense that that obviously there's some kind of tension here.
I think the most important things that came out of
the interview with the Chief of Los Angeles City Fire
Kristin Crowley, is she spoke her truth. And one of
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the most notable things is and she has the receipts
to prove it. She in December. I mean, she has
memos dating back to twenty twenty three expressing concerns about
the underfunding the understaffing of the Los Angeles City Fire Department.
I mean, she just rolls off numbers. I believe it's
we have less firefighters and fire stations now that we
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had ten twenty thirty years ago. And obviously our population
has grown, but we have less firefighters. I mean, Los
Angeles is a unique city because we're up a lot
against a lot of unique elements. One of them, you know,
we have earthquakes, and it's not if we're going to
have an earthquake another big one, but when we're going
to have another. And these are our first responders. We've
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had multiple riots and protests that have turned violent. Our
first responders have been there. We have the sat infamous
Santa Ana wins and these fires. It is our first
responders that are there yet it seems that we now
have less than we have the four And in a
memo dated in early December to the Board of Fire Commissioners,
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the chief clearly expressed her concern that these cuts would
hamper the ability of the Lacity fire to respond to
a major emergency such as a wildfire earthquake, and then
she listed several other things.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
It doesn't see than that now as far as receipts,
which I love the term. It's like she's got it
to back it up. It doesn't seem like you get
more clear than looking back on that.
Speaker 6 (24:32):
And what's interesting, Marla and Neil is that just hours
after our interview. Our interview aired live sixteen minutes of
this on Fox eleven, the Lacity Controller Kennith Mahea, posted
eleven messages on the site formerly known as Twitter, and
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one of the messages read, we didn't want to get
into the city's budget and finances during these times, but
to see city officials come out and ignore the fire
chief's warnings impacts of the department's budget cuts made us
want to jump in. And he seemed very frustrated in
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those eleven messages and seemed to speak out in support
of the chiefs and what he has been saving. Like
the chief said, Marla, I've been sounding the warning bell,
you know, for since twenty twenty three that you can't
keep this is not sustainable. You cannot keep cutting us.
They have fire stations, I'm told that have let's say
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four bays for equipment, but that particular fire station now
services so many people in our population. They need to
have eight trucks there. So they're in the in the
parking lot. They have ambulances in the parking lot, sometimes
in the street because they don't have room for them,
because they haven't been able to build a new firehouse
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in that particular neighborhood.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
Yeah, it perfect.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
It's you know, listening to you, Gigi, it sounds it's
not like, hey, we don't want our budget cut. This
sounds like like very specific concerns it needs. Oh yeah,
we're prior.
Speaker 3 (26:10):
Now.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
I do have a quick question, you know, when it
comes to law enforcement with the LAPD, I can rattle
off it's about ten thousand personnel that we need. We
need ten thousand cops roughly.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
We need that, but we don't have that.
Speaker 3 (26:24):
No, but that's roughly that's the number.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
In my head, as someone who lives here, I couldn't
tell you what the number should be for the fire department?
Speaker 3 (26:33):
What are what are there? Where?
Speaker 4 (26:34):
Is?
Speaker 6 (26:35):
Like?
Speaker 3 (26:35):
I don't have that number in my head?
Speaker 1 (26:36):
What would be a normal number for us to have
here in Los Angeles?
Speaker 6 (26:43):
You know, the fire chief tell me those numbers, and
to be honest, they escape me right now. But sure
there is that. One of those memos was about there
is an international national organization rather that measures the minimum
requirements per population for having firefighters. And they determined that
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the city of Los Angeles means one point eight firefighters
per x amount of the population. And I say X
because I don't have the figure. It's here with me
right now, Los Angeles City. Yes, there's a mathematical equation
that this organization that determines for safety means and to
meet the means of the population, Los Angeles City means
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one point eight firefighters per x population. Los Angeles City
came in zero point nine. Wow. Basically half of the
firefighters that are needed to properly service the city are
not here. And then there are a million other concerns.
You know, the sound in as reservoir, the fire hydrants,
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DWP and on and on it goes.
Speaker 4 (27:51):
Yeah, I mean, there was a lot of revelations in
your sixteen minute interview live on Fox eleven on Friday,
which you can find on our website Fox La dot com.
By the way, Gigi, running out of time, but I
just want to make get your thoughts on this, U
and that is, you know, with all this happening, and
in the backdrop, of course, then there's the firefighters with
LAFD that are doing backbreaking, life threatening work to save
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the homes in the palis As area all over southern California,
La County in particular. Right now, what does this do
for cohesion within the department While this is happening at the.
Speaker 6 (28:27):
Top, the firefighters that I have spoken to from La
City Fire, both active duty and retired, have to me
expressed their support for the chief. They are proud of her,
and they feel that she spoke out in their defense
and in the defense of the residents of Los Angeles.
(28:48):
Obviously haven't spoken to all of them, but they all
the ones, and I've spoken to several. They are very
proud of her and they tell me they support her.
Speaker 4 (28:58):
Well, Gigi, you have done just a tremendous work on
the fire lines themselves and then obviously breaking this news
for the station on Friday. If you want to check
out Gigi, tell people where they can find you.
Speaker 6 (29:12):
I am on all the social media Sidegi Grascia. Just
a simple name, complicated smelling bit, simple name and you
can always find me on Fox La and Fox elevenues.
Thank you, Marla, Thank you, Neil, thank you very much for.
Speaker 3 (29:24):
All that you're doing. Great great story and great information.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
Neil Savedra Marlatte is in for Gary and Shannon today.
Speaker 3 (29:31):
We'll be back with more.
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Speaker 2 (00:10):
Savadra in without Gary and Shannon.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
Yeah, so it's us exact same show, but without them
and none of the Gary and Shannon.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
You love.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
Yeah, I know, sorry, something like that. Just bringing you
up a little bit of the numbers at a glance. Here,
Palisades fire knocking on the door of twenty four thousand
acres fourteen percent containment, Unfortunately, eight deaths. You've got over
five thousand structures burned, the eat and fire in the
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San Gabriel Valley fourteen thousand and change acres thirty three
percent containment. You have approximately seven thousand structures. Now keep
in mind structures doesn't mean all homes. They can be
out structures in the like as well. But still it's
damage and believed to be damaged or destroys destroyed. Often
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those structures can be cars as well. You know what,
You bring up a great point. So this was pretty
stunning to me.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
On Saturday morning for their press or Elie County or
CalFire official wanted to really differentiate and explain what structures were.
So yes, any vehicle, RV, outbuilding, shed, literally any structure
is considered a structure, so obviously not just a home.
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But the thing that was really that struck me is
in the Palisades because collectively, between Palisades and Eton, there
are more than twelve thousand structures. I know a lot
of numbers, folks, but with the Palisades fire, more than
fifty three hundred structures for that one.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Again, think what the structures could mean.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
But he said four hundred and twenty six were homes,
which means the vast majority are not homes. But when
you look at the pictures, I would think that the
home number would be higher.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
It's still again, I mean.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Well, think about how many houses are on a block.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
And you think about the small community that is specific Palisades,
about twenty three thousand people call it home.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
So how many homes is that.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Right the time they were built? Ours is an old
home built in nineteen twelve. We're in Old LA and
they're on about I think it's something like fifty feet
wide by one hundred and fifty deep or something. I mean,
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they're bigger yards than they are now necessary, maybe, but
they're kind of stacked next to each other as well.
And I don't even know if I have one hundred
on my block, maybe fifty.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
Right, So the four hundred and twenty six is a
massive amount of homes to be lost. I just was
thinking it would be more. Again, not to diminish, zero diminishing,
but it.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Does go to show you the numbers of what we're
seeing the loss of property, certainly. And then in the
eaten fire, sixteen deaths so far, five firefighter injuries. As
a matter of fact, the first injury I believe was
a younger firefighter maybe twenty six.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Twenty five year old female.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Yet they hit her.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Head or fell and had I'm told that she's going
to have a full recovery. But that was the first
one I think we had heard about the firefighters.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
She had sustained a serious head injury. How that happened,
I'm not sure, but yes, fully recover. And then we
also learned of the other one you mentioned was a
firefighter who fell three stories oh through a roof.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
So were those were two separate ones.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Yes, they came out and they didn't have they didn't
associate anything with it.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
So I assumed it was one and the same.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
No, so two separate incidents with LAFD and that one
who fell three stories taking the hospital with pretty serious injuries,
stable condition, expected to make a full recovery, Thank goodness.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Hurst fire in the Silmar area, of course, that was
one of the early ones as well, just under eight
hundred acres ninety five percent contained. Kenneth fire in West
Hills one hundred percent contained, which is good news, and
that topped at one thousand and fifty two acres. Some
schools are affected in as far as not opening in
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the severely impacted areas, but most LA schools are opened
and back to some normal seat today.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Yeah, Superintendent Alberta.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
Carvallo coming out yesterday and saying LAUSD by and large
is back in class except for a list of these
that are in the most impacted areas, the ones that
are still in the mandatory evacuation zone.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
So they've made great.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
Progress there and again we're in that reprieve window, which
feels so good. No real huge active flames out there,
but we're worried about tomorrow when the winds pick up
to forty to seventy miles plus per hour.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Yeah, and those gusts, I mean may not be sustained,
but they're there.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
They don't need to be sustained to cause significant damage.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
No, it's like, you know, how many minutes is sustained?
Because how you see some of those trees? And I know,
you know Conway was on this and about the the
fact that we have palm trees everywhere?
Speaker 2 (05:46):
What was this point I missing?
Speaker 1 (05:47):
I guess that they're like Roman candles and they need
to be cut down. Oh yeah, to do that to
southern California, cut down all the I mean, listen.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
We're sitting in the KFI studio in Burbank and I
look out the window and I can, Yeah, palm trees everywhere,
literally everywhere.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
Yeah, a pretty gargange.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
I think you could probably start more fires with the
chainsaws that you took them down with, But I know
that they do when they burn, it's spectacular. I mean,
they get those fronds going and they get whipped in
the in the winds. But nil Sevadra Marloteaz filling in
for Gary and Shannon today, A lot going on still
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with the fires. It's not over. And that's not you know, sensationalism.
The reality is we're in a bit of a lull
as far as the wind goes, and with that comes
a bit of a reprieve for the firefighters to do
what they do best and attack the fires head on.
But there are some wind, there's the wind. Event is
(06:50):
not over. It has just died down for a bit,
and we're keeping you posted on all of that as
we switch. If the needs are there for us to
switch programming, we will, and if so, then I will
probably see you again tonight at three am or tomorrow
morning at three am, as the case may be. But
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Marlon and I are happy to be with you now
making sure you get every bit of information you need.
If there's something you need from us, hit us up
on social media. Marla you can find her at.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
I'm Everywhere at Marla Tees it's t E L l
ea zy And you can also hit us up on
the talk back as well.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
And you can find me at Fork Reporter on Instagram
and X.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
I will tell you this.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
I've been posting some pictures and then also restaurants and
people that are helping out. So if you join me
at fork Reporter on Instagram, that's where I've been posting stuff.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Mostly people want to help. They want to do what
they can.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Amen.
Speaker 4 (07:49):
And someone who does want to help you when it
comes to protecting your home.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
That is mister Dean Sharp.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
Of course you know him here at KFI as a
show called Home with Dean Dean Sharp.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
The house whisper longest name. I think I got it right.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
Breath Dean. No, you're just saying Dean. It's always with
the law.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
It's a long name. But I feel like you're compensating
for something. Oh, come on, you're The name of your
show is the is the Oh, what's that car? The
rest of it is just a subtitle. Is that it's
home Home, You're what's the It's the hummer of show names.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
I'd like busted as chop Dean.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
I'm glad I get to talk to you because you
and I just talked.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
Yes we can, we'll turn off nails. I listened to
your show yesterday and it's all about how to fire
hard in your home. It was incredibly helpful, informative. One
of the things we've been hearing from people is, you know,
right now, we know it's not scorching hot outside, but
(08:58):
nonetheless we are in southern California. Ye can I run
my AC when the air quality is as bad as
it is.
Speaker 5 (09:06):
That is an excellent question and it's something that yes,
a lot of people have been asking this about.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
The answer is very simple. Yes.
Speaker 5 (09:14):
In fact, please do run your AC and or your
furnace your HVAC system. And here is the very simple
reason why your air conditioning system, your heating and air
conditioning system in your home, is a closed system. It
is not taking air from the outside and putting it
into your home. It is recirculating and filtering air that's
(09:36):
already in your house. So if there is poor air
quality outside, then to close up, you know, make sure
the doors and windows are closed. If there's smoke outside,
then you set your well, you just turn on the AC.
And if you've got a healthy filter, and this is
the critical thing I'm always getting on people for changing
(09:57):
out their filters. Make sure you've got a nice clean
filter in your system. But it will actually help take
smoke particulates out of the air. As you run the AC,
or as you run the heater, or if it's not
about heating or cooling, you can just set it to
fan setting, so you're simply recirculating air, but you're still
(10:17):
pushing air through the interior filter and it's cleaning up
smoke particulates out of your air.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
You know, Dean, you mentioned the filters, which is important,
and most systems would have a hepafilter, I believe probably
at this point. But during times like this, and I've
noticed this at our home as well, we keep many filters,
backup filters on hand for times like this when the
air is so bad that that filter will get used
(10:47):
much more quickly than it would normally, and so changing
it out is going to be imperative as well.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
Yeah, it's a good idea too.
Speaker 5 (10:56):
It's always a good idea to have a couple of
backup filters on hand. And anyway, I encourage people get
on a regular filter subscription if you can't remember to
get to the store and buy a filter. There are
so many places like filter buy dot com. It's just
one of a ton of online filter services where you
(11:17):
input the size and the thickness of the filter that
you need, you select the level quality of air filtering
that you need, and it's a subscription service and they
simply show up on your doorstep at the interval that
you should be changing out your filter. And when they
show up change it out, pop it in. You don't
have to worry about it.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
I've noticed that neighbors, if they're doing construction, or if
you're having construction done on your own home, that that
goes through filters as well. So I can imagine only
what the smoke and these particulates are doing.
Speaker 5 (11:48):
Now, yeah, now, one thing, just one thing on the
filter subject, Just to do my due diligence for everybody.
If you've got an older AC unit, an older system,
I want you to actually be a little bit careful
of jumping up automatically to the superfiltration HEPA clears everything
(12:08):
out of the air kind of thing. And I'll tell
you why. Some older systems are not designed to have
that much filtration in them. So, first of all, number one,
the filter on your air conditioning system is for the
air conditioner, it's not for you. So number two, the
more heavily that a filter does its filtering, the less
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airflow it allows through it. And sometimes that can put
undue strain on an older unit. When it comes to
smoke particulates, we're not talking about allergenic micro micron particles,
and so a hepafilter isn't even required in order to
clear smoke out of the system so that you're not
(12:51):
breathing in the particulates. So I want you to have
as much filtration as you want. I just don't want
you to prematurely pressure your system if it's an old,
older system.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
What classifies an older system.
Speaker 5 (13:03):
An older system might be let's say, fifteen plus years old.
You'll want to check the manufacturer's specifications for the maximum
filter filtration that that system should have, and my advice
would be not to exceed it if you want that
thing to last as long as possible.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
Yesterday you talked about, you know, emberproofing your gutters and
fire safe windows. A lot of this can be expensive,
but you literally broke it down basically, if you can
afford this, you can do this and this and one
of the things that by the way, you kept teasing
and teasing and teasing, and it was beautiful because it
kept me going through your show until you finally got
(13:44):
to fire Gel.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
And I loved that.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
Conversation about fire Gel. Can you explain to people who
didn't hear yesterday how this could be a game changer?
Speaker 5 (13:55):
Yeah, everybody is looking for the silver bullet of like,
how can I get what can I do to my
house so that if I have to evacuate, I know
it's not going to burn down. And the sad answer
to that, unfortunately, is there is no silver bullet to that.
All of these things help, they don't guarantee. But of
all the products that I have seen, as opposed to
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you going out and buying a fire hose and staying
when the evacuation order has been issued, and you stay
in the thought that you're going to stay and with
a garden hose defend your house against a forty foot tall,
fifteen hundred degree wall of flame, which is by the way,
not at all a good idea. Here is something that
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you can really practically do. It doesn't take much time
to disperse it and then you can get on your way,
and that is to have a supply of fire gel
on hand. Fire gel a is a gelatinous chemical, non
toxic chemical that will store in one and five gallon containers.
(14:59):
You can store in your garage, you can store it anywhere.
It's completely safe because guess what the whole point is,
it's non flammable. And then it hooks up to a
device kind of like a spray reservoir that you would
like when you spray like miracle grow fertilizer on your
roses and something like that. You know, you hook it
up to your garden hose, and the garden hose a
(15:21):
combination of water and the gel mixed together and they
spray out and it becomes a foamy substance, a sticky,
foamy substance. And what you literally do is you would
let's say the evacuation order has come in. Uh, You're
going to take fifteen minutes. You're going to set this
up and you're gonna spray down the side of your house,
(15:41):
the windows, the edge of the roof, the eaves, patio, furniture,
plants that are too close to the house. You can
literally spray this foam down on anything. And the nice
thing about it given normal conditions. Now in heavy winds,
it may not last quite this long, but normal conditions
you could expect that gel to cling and hold for
(16:02):
you know, anywhere, but from twelve to twenty four hours,
even under windy conditions. And as we know, the fire
line moves very fast, and so it's a great way
to throw up an extra layer of fireproofing on the house.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
Dean, we appreciate you we're up against the clock, brother,
but we appreciate the information. Really good stuff. My friend
be safe, all right, guess Dean Sharp from home with
Dean Sharp the house whisper. We're here with you today
going through the fires and all the stories on the periphery,
from the politics of it to the air safety and quality,
(16:43):
so many things that are affecting life. Yeah, and obviously
the fires and the people that are affected immediately by
the fires have their entire lives turned upside down. I
said this the other day that we know people die,
we know things get destroyed. There's people die every single day,
but if a plane crashes with two hundred people, it's
(17:05):
the immediacy of so much life going at once, right,
It just and you look at Yes, there's property damage,
houses go on fire, buildings go on fire. But to
see everything, it's such a large swath of an urban
area go up so quickly and destroy so many life simultaneously.
(17:27):
It is breathtaking. It it's hard not to be moved
by that.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
And not just one not just one fire. It was
a Palisades fire.
Speaker 4 (17:34):
It'll be seven days tomorrow morning at ten thirty since
that one broke out. And then I should have looked
this up, but I believe because we were on the
air with it, of course, that it was.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
The Eton fire started that night.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
Yeah, around six thirty ish, I.
Speaker 4 (17:51):
Think, and we got word of, you know, an eruption
of flames in the Alsadena area. Pretty soon we had
the name Eaten, and then we had reporters shift from
Palisades to Eton. And then when we took that first
live shot of Eton, I mean, it looked like hell
on earth.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
The winds, the.
Speaker 4 (18:10):
Livestock literally without people, just horses trotting away in you know,
floods of embers.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
It was.
Speaker 4 (18:19):
And then of course the pictures you've probably seen them
of the senior facility that had to be evacuated.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
That was heartbreaking, Oh my gosh. An ambulant being rolled
in wheelchairs across the you know, the streets, and the
with the drama behind them of the winds and the
fire and the embers. And if I remember correctly, I
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think one of at least one of the facilities where
they were moving from was completely destroyed.
Speaker 4 (18:53):
I believe that's is it, two Palm? I think so, yes,
I think it, Yes, you are, yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
And so it was one of those things where you're
you know, everything was your living life truly in the moment,
because nobody knows where you're going to, you know, and
thinking about that as we've talked with people, uh and
we were talking with councilwomen park.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
The reality is probably our car.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
And an accident is the biggest thing we're kind of
equipped to on the normal Okay, you exchange information, make
sure everybody's okay, move off the side of the road.
There's really no nothing in our lives that prepares you.
What do you do if you lose your house?
Speaker 2 (19:40):
Yeah, where do you start?
Speaker 3 (19:41):
Yeah? Yeah, you're sure it's going to be a nightmare.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
All of these things And now you're talking about infrastructure
for that entire town, for both of these towns is gone.
You're talking about water pipes. One of the reasons why
they're concerned about the water is some of the plastics
or some of the composites in some of the piping
leach into the water and just and melt and collapse.
Speaker 4 (20:05):
Okay, As I was saying, Fox eleven reporter Gigi Grassiet
on Friday broke the story that literally went viral quickly,
and she had LAFD Chief Kristin Crowley on the air
live on Fox eleven and for the first time, Kristin
Crowley basically said we were failed by the city, the
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fund defunding, of the cuts that were made, the budget
cuts that were made to my department hindered our firefight response.
And then the infighting began, if you will, between Mayor
Bass and Chief Crowley. They now came out on Saturday
morning a day later that said that we're on the
same page, but the Chief did say that she stands
(20:51):
by her statements and on the line with us is
Gig Gigi Graciete.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 4 (20:55):
I know you've just finished a very long day at
Fox eleven and more fire coverage.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
Thanks how much you're being here.
Speaker 6 (21:01):
Thank you, Marlon and Neil, thank you for having me.
Speaker 4 (21:04):
I just want to get your thoughts on what you
I mean, the story you broke a pretty incredible and then,
b what did you make of when you saw on
Saturday them next to each other at the press conference
saying we're on the same page.
Speaker 6 (21:20):
Well, they're understandably trying to present an united front. And
as a matter of fact, now the press conferences, the
updates on the fires with all the city and the
county officials are basically called one voice. We're all standing
together as one in this firefight, which you know they should,
and that's that's all fine. I thought it was very
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interesting obviously Friday nights and very stressful moments when we
heard the mayor had summoned the Los Angeles City Fire
Chief into her office. Neither of them made the schedules
of five point thirty press conference. It was actually scheduled
for four and then pushed back, and then neither of
them appear at that briefing. So to have been a
fly on the wall, I'm sure would have been very interesting.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
When they say that they're on the same page, I
feel like there's a big, fat asterisk next to it,
and that they're basically saying when it comes to the
safety of the community.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
But the underlying message to me when I see the.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
Chief that it still looks like she's smiling through gritted
teeth a little bit. Have you seen the two of
them together, Have you had any other observations of the
contact that they've had since the closed door meeting.
Speaker 6 (22:39):
You know, I just saw them for the first time
together that this press briefing, and you know, you could sense,
I sense that that obviously there's some kind of tension here.
I think the most important things that came out of
the interview with the Chief of Los Angeles City Fire
Kristin Crowley, is she spoke her truth. And one of
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the most notable things is and she has the receipts
to prove it. She in December. I mean, she has
memos dating back to twenty twenty three expressing concerns about
the underfunding the understaffing of the Los Angeles City Fire Department.
I mean, she just rolls off numbers. I believe it's
we have less firefighters and fire stations now that we
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had ten twenty thirty years ago. And obviously our population
has grown, but we have less firefighters. I mean, Los
Angeles is a unique city because we're up a lot
against a lot of unique elements. One of them, you know,
we have earthquakes, and it's not if we're going to
have an earthquake another big one, but when we're going
to have another. And these are our first responders. We've
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had multiple riots and protests that have turned violent. Our
first responders have been there. We have the sat infamous
Santa Ana wins and these fires. It is our first
responders that are there yet it seems that we now
have less than we have the four And in a
memo dated in early December to the Board of Fire Commissioners,
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the chief clearly expressed her concern that these cuts would
hamper the ability of the Lacity fire to respond to
a major emergency such as a wildfire earthquake, and then
she listed several other things.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
It doesn't see than that now as far as receipts,
which I love the term. It's like she's got it
to back it up. It doesn't seem like you get
more clear than looking back on that.
Speaker 6 (24:32):
And what's interesting, Marla and Neil is that just hours
after our interview. Our interview aired live sixteen minutes of
this on Fox eleven, the Lacity Controller Kennith Mahea, posted
eleven messages on the site formerly known as Twitter, and
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one of the messages read, we didn't want to get
into the city's budget and finances during these times, but
to see city officials come out and ignore the fire
chief's warnings impacts of the department's budget cuts made us
want to jump in. And he seemed very frustrated in
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those eleven messages and seemed to speak out in support
of the chiefs and what he has been saving. Like
the chief said, Marla, I've been sounding the warning bell,
you know, for since twenty twenty three that you can't
keep this is not sustainable. You cannot keep cutting us.
They have fire stations, I'm told that have let's say
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four bays for equipment, but that particular fire station now
services so many people in our population. They need to
have eight trucks there. So they're in the in the
parking lot. They have ambulances in the parking lot, sometimes
in the street because they don't have room for them,
because they haven't been able to build a new firehouse
(25:57):
in that particular neighborhood.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
Yeah, it perfect.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
It's you know, listening to you, Gigi, it sounds it's
not like, hey, we don't want our budget cut. This
sounds like like very specific concerns it needs. Oh yeah,
we're prior.
Speaker 3 (26:10):
Now.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
I do have a quick question, you know, when it
comes to law enforcement with the LAPD, I can rattle
off it's about ten thousand personnel that we need. We
need ten thousand cops roughly.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
We need that, but we don't have that.
Speaker 3 (26:24):
No, but that's roughly that's the number.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
In my head, as someone who lives here, I couldn't
tell you what the number should be for the fire department?
Speaker 3 (26:33):
What are what are there? Where?
Speaker 4 (26:34):
Is?
Speaker 6 (26:35):
Like?
Speaker 3 (26:35):
I don't have that number in my head?
Speaker 1 (26:36):
What would be a normal number for us to have
here in Los Angeles?
Speaker 6 (26:43):
You know, the fire chief tell me those numbers, and
to be honest, they escape me right now. But sure
there is that. One of those memos was about there
is an international national organization rather that measures the minimum
requirements per population for having firefighters. And they determined that
(27:05):
the city of Los Angeles means one point eight firefighters
per x amount of the population. And I say X
because I don't have the figure. It's here with me
right now, Los Angeles City. Yes, there's a mathematical equation
that this organization that determines for safety means and to
meet the means of the population, Los Angeles City means
(27:29):
one point eight firefighters per x population. Los Angeles City
came in zero point nine. Wow. Basically half of the
firefighters that are needed to properly service the city are
not here. And then there are a million other concerns.
You know, the sound in as reservoir, the fire hydrants,
(27:49):
DWP and on and on it goes.
Speaker 4 (27:51):
Yeah, I mean, there was a lot of revelations in
your sixteen minute interview live on Fox eleven on Friday,
which you can find on our website Fox La dot com.
By the way, Gigi, running out of time, but I
just want to make get your thoughts on this, U
and that is, you know, with all this happening, and
in the backdrop, of course, then there's the firefighters with
LAFD that are doing backbreaking, life threatening work to save
(28:17):
the homes in the palis As area all over southern California,
La County in particular. Right now, what does this do
for cohesion within the department While this is happening at the.
Speaker 6 (28:27):
Top, the firefighters that I have spoken to from La
City Fire, both active duty and retired, have to me
expressed their support for the chief. They are proud of her,
and they feel that she spoke out in their defense
and in the defense of the residents of Los Angeles.
(28:48):
Obviously haven't spoken to all of them, but they all
the ones, and I've spoken to several. They are very
proud of her and they tell me they support her.
Speaker 4 (28:58):
Well, Gigi, you have done just a tremendous work on
the fire lines themselves and then obviously breaking this news
for the station on Friday. If you want to check
out Gigi, tell people where they can find you.
Speaker 6 (29:12):
I am on all the social media Sidegi Grascia. Just
a simple name, complicated smelling bit, simple name and you
can always find me on Fox La and Fox elevenues.
Thank you, Marla, Thank you, Neil, thank you very much for.
Speaker 3 (29:24):
All that you're doing. Great great story and great information.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
Neil Savedra Marlatte is in for Gary and Shannon today.
Speaker 3 (29:31):
We'll be back with more.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
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Speaker 3 (29:38):
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