July 12, 2025 • 35 mins
Live and Local News! Vice President JD Vance expected to visit Orange County this weekend. Judge orders Trump administration to halt indiscriminate immigration stops, arrests in California. LA mayor signs executive order supporting immigrants amid federal raids. Farmworkers detained, tear gas deployed at protesters in Ventura County immigration raid. Texas floods: Death toll rises to 120 as rescue operations start to shift to recovery phase. Interview with Aaron AC Christensen (Animal Advocacy Network) to discuss pet rescue during Texas floods.
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Saturdays with Tiffany. I'm Tiffany Hobbes. Thank you so much
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On this beautiful, beautiful Saturday, we have a lot to
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get into. I hope you're doing well. But before we
get into kind of more of the stories that we're planned,
there are a few big stories that we are continuing
to watch, including a sad story coming out of around
a city which isn't too far from us here. A
body of a toddler approximate age three to four years
old was found early this morning in a parking lot
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and there's no details, but of course authorities have been
on the scene investigating and trying to figure out what happened.
A body of a Toddler was found in Panorama City
in a parking lot, and they have no leads thus far.
As soon as anything breaks, I'll make sure to share
that with you. President Trump has announced a thirty percent
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tariff on Mexico and the EU starting August first. If
that does in fact go into effect, we can kiss
all of our cheap food and goods goodbye, because things
are going to shoot up in price, as has been threatened.
But now it seems to be closer to a reality,
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that thirty percent tariff on Mexico and the European Union,
which would go into effect on August first. And as
you been hearing in our KFI twenty four hour newsroom,
Vice President JD. Vance is in southern California. He is
taking advantage of our beautiful weather, taking advantage of all
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that we have to offer. If you happen to see
the cavalcade, the motorcade for Vice President Vance and his
huge crew, and it is a huge crew he's traveling with,
then make sure you let us know hit that talk back,
especially if you're out in Anaheim or you're at Disneyland.
Perhaps you're listening on the iHeart app while you're waiting
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in one of those two hour Saturday lines. Make sure
you go to the Haunted Mansion by the way, because
they're going to close it down for about a week
coming in August, and you got to make sure you
get to that before JD. Vance does, or else you
won't be able to get to it at all with
his thirty person crew. But if you're in line there
at Disneyland and you know, you find yourself seeing.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
A massive people walk by, maybe.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Hit the iHeart app and that talkback feature and let
us know what's going on.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
And for sure, President Vice President JD. Vance is not
standing in line.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
I'm sure he is enjoying the privileges and perks of
being a vice president at Disneyland on a Saturday in July.
Those of us who know no horrible time to go,
but not if you're the vice president. So definitely going
to keep you up to date on all of the
stories throughout the show. And I'll come back to Vice
President Vance in a moment as well again. Five thirty
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Aaron ac Christiansen, friend of the show and the owner
and founder of Animal Advocacy Network, a huge advocacy organization.
He's in Texas responding to these floods, these deadly, deadly floods,
and leading rescue efforts to rescue and recover animals impacted
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by those floods. We're going to find out what he's
seeing out there on the ground. At five point thirty
when he calls in six o'clock, We're going to look
at the six months since the Eton and Palisades fire.
Some good developments, some developments that are frustrating people. I'll
have all of the details for you. Six thirty scammers
gonna scam two crazy stories that hopefully will caution you
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from falling victim to these scams that are impacting the
Southland for sure. And at six point fifty, all you
need to know about the new TSA rollback of taking
your shoes off, you don't have to. I'll tell you why,
and I'll also let you know what the TSA is
saying you should know so you don't get yourself into
any pickle.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
So what's up with Vice President JD.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Vance.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
What's he doing in southern California? Let's find out.
Speaker 5 (04:43):
This is video of the Vice President's motor kate arriving
a couple of hours ago. The roads all sealed up,
some of the back roads into the Grand Californian Hotel
and Resort that is where the Vice President and his
family are staying. We say that because of all the
extreme tight security in that area. Of course, it's part
of the downtown Disney area runs over to the park,
and that's where this large group of protesters started walking
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down Kotela trying to get into that area. But when
you obviously look at all the type security, they won't
be getting anywhere close to that. But they are still
hoping that their message and their chance will be heard
by some of the people in the administration as we
come back out live.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
So Vice President Vance is in southern California. He is
at Disneyland. He was expected to possibly visit Disneyland. Well
it's been confirmed. He's there. He's enjoying himself. But not
everyone is happy with Vice President Vance being in the state,
let alone at Disneyland in Orange County. And some of
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those people who are not happy include the many protesters
that have parked themselves outside of the Disneyland properties since yesterday,
if not Thursday as well, in anticipation of Vice President
Vance coming to California, letting their voices be heard, letting
everyone who can hear them know that they don't want
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Vice President Vance in their city. Also not too happy.
Orange County Supervisor Vicente Sarmiento, who actually said that he
is frustrated.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Over the visit.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
He said, quote to the extent that I'm offended by
the visit because so many families are being terrorized by
the policies of the federal government. He went on his
personal social media This is Supervisor Vicente Sarmiento sharing on
x that he felt that Vice President Vance was quote
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not welcome and that if Vice President Vans had a
change of heart, quote, we'd embrace him.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Someone who's willing to kind of be a bit more impartial.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
Orange County Supervisor Don Wagner, who offered a more balanced response,
saying that he understands Supervisor Sarmiento's concerns but encourages dialogue
rather than division, went on to say, quote, I do
think it's an opportunity for us, instead of casting stones,
to cast a wider net. We've had questions about ice
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operations in Santa Ana. This could be a chance to
engage rather than stay away. When we come back, we're
going to continue the conversation about ice in California and
a new federal ruling that came down just yesterday halting
a lot of what ICE is doing in California and
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what could potentially come of that as our mayor and
others are banding together to support immigrants amid these ICE raids.
All of that and more right here on Saturdays with
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If I Am six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Tiffany Hobbs here with you. It's Saturday with Tiffany until
seven o'clock. And we were just talking about Vice President JD.
Vance visiting southern California. He's at Disneyland. No personal accounts
yet of sightings of Vice President Vance and his massive
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thirty person plus entourage.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
He travels deep.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
Would hate to be behind them in line for something
you're already waiting two hours on a July Saturday, July
Saturday at Disneyland. Can you imagine but President Vice I
keep saying, President Vice President Vance. His visit comes one
day after a major legal victory for our own Governor
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Newsom Mayor Bass and other leaders of California cities who
have again banned it together to really express their contempt
for what ICE is doing in southern California, in California
at large, given how in discriminate they say these immigration
stops are. So let's hear what a judge decided to
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do on Friday that has now ordered the Trump administration
to halt in discriminate immigration stops.
Speaker 6 (09:10):
Federal immigration raids are getting larger and bolder, but it's
not deterring protesters. This is what happened on Thursday at
this cannabis farm in Camarillo, just north of La As
workers were being detained inside, agents fired what appeared to
be tear gas and tossed smoke bombs to disperse the crowd.
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They were met by some throwing rocks and, according to
the FBI, what appears to be a man firing a
gun at officers. It's the latest in a series of
high profile raids around the country in recent weeks that
has sparked clashes, with tensions reaching a boiling point and
rising fear, especially in Latino communities right now. This was
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LA Mayor Karen Bass after agents swarmed LA's MacArthur Park
this week.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
Frankly, it is outrageous and an American that we have
federal armed vehicles in our parks when nothing is going.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
On in the parks.
Speaker 6 (10:08):
As for the Raids and Camillo and another nearby cannabis farm,
the Department of Homeland Security claims it entered with search warrants,
rescued at least ten migrant children from potential exploitation, and
arrested what it described as two hundred illegal aliens, while
more than five hundred rioters attempted to disrupt operations. The
standoff lasted for hours well into the night. Several workers
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hid in the farm, emerging including Jesus Jennifer Martinez is
his niece.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
They're just here working, Libby, They're just here tearing families
apartent r writing.
Speaker 6 (10:42):
We also met Ruby Hnez, who says several of her
relatives worked here.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
An at was taken, a mom was taken. It can
be a citizen, not a US citizen, doesn't matter.
Speaker 4 (10:52):
Hey, everybody, Yeah.
Speaker 6 (10:54):
Now you just heard from Ruby there. She says she's
wondering what happened to the plan to focus on deporting
violent criminals. She says she feels like anyone with brown
skin is a target now, and she told me that
she in fact was pulled over by an ICE agent
the other day while she was taking her child to
school and had to prove that she was a US citizen.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
So this filing in the US District Court by Judge
maame E Frempong asked to block the what they consider
what is being considered as unconstitutional tactics in these immigration raids.
Advocates are accusing immigration officials and ICE of detaining people
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purely based on prejudice, based on racial profiling and according
to someone's race or color, and carrying out warrantless arrests,
also denying detainees' access to legal counsel at the holding
facility in Downtown, LA, which also has been the subject
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of the ongoing protests in downtown. Judge Frimpong issued a
separate order barring the government from restricting attorney access at
that detention facility. Now the judges orders are in tandem
with Mayor Karen Bass signing an executive order the same
day affirming that Los Angeles supports its immigrant population. And
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this is all, of course, because of this major crackdown
on immigrants by the Trump administration. She went on to
say Mayor Bass in a post on X that quote,
under my new executive order, I am submitting a request
under the Freedom of Information Act about when and where
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enforcement activities have taken place in Los Angeles, the identities
of individuals and reason they were arrested or detained. We
will also be requesting information exposing how much these raids
cost taxpayers nation wide. Federal and local actions that have
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been spurred on by this massive ICE presence in Los
Angeles really come on the heels of what happened at
MacArthur Park earlier in the week when there was a
huge presence of ICE officials in the park, and of
course what happened just a few days ago at that
major marijuana farm in Medora County. At this farm, dozens
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of farm workers were detained and these ICE agents deployed
tear gas at protesters in which was called and what
ended up being a very volatile situation. At the time,
it was said that tens of people were lined up
and would be detained. Now that number has come out
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about one hundred and fifty people were suspected of being
illegal immigrants and they were in fact detained.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Now this immigration rate. This made news nationwide, news.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
Absolutely and really spurred this federal order and Mayor Bass's
executive order both taking place on Friday. The raid took
place around eleven am at the Glass House marijuana farm.
It's right there in Camarillo on Laguna Road, and footage
from many different outlets because there was just a huge
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media presence. This thing got out of control so fast.
But the footage showed what was a large federal law
enforcement presence in the fields, in the nearby fields nearest
to this marijuana farm, with witnesses saying that workers were
being detained, tensions rows, Things really blossomed, bloom got out
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of hand very quickly, and the operation escalated by afternoon
when Ice and Border Protection agents began firing teargas at
the crowd.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
The scene continued to escalate.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
Media was still there, police were there, and tear gas
continued to be deployed at the protesters, so much so
that there was practically chaos and paramedics were requested to
the scene to treat multiple injuries. One person has died
as a result of this immigration rate at the marijuana
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farm at glass House, So this is a continues to
be it will continue to be for the foreseeable future
a fluid situation, but for now there is a temporary
pause in what border control and immigration enforcement can in
fact do to what extent in the state of California,
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and we're looking at closely what will happen in southern
California as this seems to have been I would say
the center point of all of the ice conversation shifting
gears at five point thirty, just after the break, We're
going to have my friend Ac Christiansen come on. He's
from the Animal Advocacy Network and he left LA As
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he does, he travels all around the country to rescue
and help with recovery efforts in major disasters, and he
is now.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
In Texas in the flood zone.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
That flood that happened in the early morning of July
fourth has produced at this point one hundred and twenty deaths.
The death toll has risen to one hundred and twenty
and at least one hundred and seventy three people remain
missing at this time. So they're not really looking authorities
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are saying they're not really looking into rescue as much
as they are recovery in this current phase and a
lot of conversations not being had necessarily about the animal
life that's there.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
Well, Aaron's going to tell us.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
Ac is going to tell us what he sees right
there on the ground in Texas, and perhaps what we
can do to support his efforts and the recovery in
that zone in Texas. Will continue the conversation on the
other side of the break. It's Saturdays with Tiffany KFI
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Six forty Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. Tiffany Hobbs
here with you. It's Saturdays with Tiffany, and we're about
to talk to a buddy of mine who is really
being generous with his time because what he's doing and
what we're going to talk to him about requires so
much attention and so much effort. So the fact that
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we're getting a bit of his time to talk about
what he's doing is just again a testament to that generosity.
But before we get into that, we're still watching here
in the KFI twenty four hour newsroom and right here
on this show a few big stories that broke today
and over the last i'd say day in the Southland
and around the country, including the sad story that does
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not necessarily have a lot of information yet, but there's
a body of a toddler that was found early this
morning in a parking lot in Panorama City, and local
outlets covered it this morning. Some of the neighborhood reporting
apps did in fact talk about it, but there's been
nothing really said about this story, and I find that
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especially problematic. It's a child estimated to be three to
four years old and who was found deceased in this
parking lot in Panorama City. So if we get any
details about that, I'll make sure to share it with you.
President Trump has announced a thirty percent tariff on Mexico
and the European Union to take effect August first. You
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know what that means, more money for things that we've
grown accustomed to not spending a lot of money on.
That will take effect August first. And Vice President JD.
Vance isn't talking tariffs. He's talking Disneyland. He's here in
the Southland visiting Disneyland today. We'll see if Vice President
Vance meets with any local leadership and about what so
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I'll make sure I'll keep you up to date on
that as well. Shifting to what's happening in Texas because
it is absolutely ongoing. I'm looking at CNN right now
and one of the main stories is how FEMA is
there in Texas dealing with disaster relief. Now, this situation,
this flood that happened in the early morning of July fourth,
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caused at least one hundred and twenty deaths at this time,
they are expecting that to increase as one hundred and
seventy three people remain missing, and authorities are saying that
they're shifting from rescue to a recovery. There's a realization
there that it's been a week and a day July twelfth,
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this happened July fourth, and that prospects for finding survivors
are growing thinner and weaker as the day goes on.
This is a fluid situation, and someone who is accustomed
to involving them in disaster relief like this is my
friend Aaron ac Christiansen of the Animal Advocacy Network. He
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is he knows something a thing or two about disaster
relief and rescue and recovery. Almost twenty years to the day.
In fact, he got involved in New Orleans during the
floods caused by Hurricane Katrina, and now a week and
a day after what happened in Texas, he's devastating and
deadly floods. AC is there on the ground in Texas
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lending his efforts with his partnerships to help with the
recovery and rescue efforts for animals, and I imagine anyone
else you might come across AC. I know you're not discriminating.
Thank you so much for giving us your time, and again,
thank you so much for what you're doing out there.
Speaker 4 (20:50):
Absolutely, Tiffany, thank you.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
You're welcome. You're welcome.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
Let me ask you, did you get a call to
come to Texas or did you just take it upon
yourself to just try out there and get it done.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
I know your attitude is very much get it done.
But what spurred us?
Speaker 4 (21:05):
You know, regardless of me being deployed by the ACCA
or any other organization, I would have been out here
regardless to assist. I mean, it's it's it's a rural area,
it's Texas, so you know, my my passion, my heart
is livestock and equine. But because of the fires, I've
switched that in the last six months to domestics, you know, dogs,
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cats and birds, gerbils and all that good stuff. But
I reached out to the ASPCA because I'm I'm a
response partner down in southern California. I reached out and
I said, are you guys deployed to Texas? And they
said no, they have not called us yet. And that
was very, very very concerning to me. So I called
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some of my larger donors and some former rescue partners
and said, hey, I need to go to Texas. I
linked up with a Austin based organization called That's Alive.
They actually have a rescue here in Kerrville, Texas, and
they said, you know, I believe it's tech co Cares.
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It's the trailer. We have all the food, all the creates,
everything we need. What we need is something that you've
become very familiar with. Unfortunately, is after care. We need
help with the cadavers, we need help with cremation. Things
are piling up, animals are piling up, and we have
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no idea what to do with them. And I said, well,
I think become quite the expert. After the multiple fires
I've worked, I will find a cremation partner locally, work
out whatever magic I can work out, and I'll be there.
So I called some friends. Called my good friend who's
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the director and founder of Hounds and Heroes who actually
places you know, they train and place dogs with veterans.
Bonnie Joel Laughlin. She's a former Dallas Cowboy's cheerleader. She
was the first female scout for the Lakers. So she's
she's she's a big name, huge animal advocate, and I'm
gonna meet you there, she said, I'm gonna meet you there.
I'm gonna meet you on the ground. Unfortunately, she got
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held up last night, so she she her and her
team will arrive tomorrow. I already got started, of course,
you know that. So we've driven down, We've driven down
to the river to see just you know, just kind
of get a get a feel what's going on. We
drove by literally the only animal it's not a sanctuary,
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it's a it's a no kill shelter, literally the only
the only no kill shelter in the in the hill
country town. Right. Yeah, I mean, I guess what twenty
six seven thou people normally, but this this hit during
their peak tourist season with all the obviously we've we've
heard about the camp, but there's there's multiple there's multiple
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high end r V parks. Also, we're people come and
stay by the river and all those people most r
V ers have bugs. They've lost all of them. Oh no,
within the first two or three days. I mean, I
I'm scared to go to the location. There's there's a
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there's literally a pile of pets because they don't know
what to do with them.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
So you're you're visually seeing uh unfortunately this like you
described it as being a pile of deceased animals kind
of in these in these impacted zones. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (24:36):
And then on top of that is is you know,
the livestock due to the flooding, they're they're fencing has
been knocked down. And I became after Woodley in Paradise,
that being became quite the you know, the uh, the
city slicker. And so we'll be helping after after I
don't I haven't had. I haven't found a cremation partner
yet here in in the hill country of Texas or
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within you know, San Antonio. So I'm more on that still,
but I do have my aftercare kit, so we will
be unfortunately bagging well, like you said, it's a recovery mission.
At this point, it's been over a week. Fire and
water is just not forgiving, you know, after three to
five days unfortunately, Ace.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
Can we keep you over for one more segment? I
have so many questions, and I'm sure our listeners do too,
and I just want to make sure that we have
ample time to get to these next questions.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
Can you hang on with us? I'm your Tiffany fantastic.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
We're talking to Aaron ac Christiansen of the Animal Advocacy Network.
He is in Texas helping with the recovery efforts after
this major flood on the Guadalupe River, and you just
heard there is It is devastating. We've learned a lot
about the loss of human life, but the loss of
animal life, whether live stock or pets, horses, everything in between,
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that hasn't been discussed. But we're talking about it today
with Ac as he's right there on the ground in
the zone, and we'll continue the conversation when we come
back from the break. It's Saturdays with Tiffany right here
on KFI AM six forty Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio.
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App you're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
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All right, KFI AM six forty live everywhere on the
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Tiffany Hobbs here with you.
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It's Saturdays with Tiffany and we are talking to Aaron
ac Christiansen of Animal Advocacy Network and many other things
that he involves himself with many other groups and efforts,
including being on the ground right there in Texas in
Kerr County assisting with the rescue and recovery of the
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animals there, who have not been talked about nearly as much,
of course as the loss of human life. And we
understand why, and these animals deserve to be discussed as well,
and Aaron Ac is there helping with these efforts. Continuing
the conversation, ac Uh, let me ask you really quick,
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what do you take when it comes to a recovery
effort like this when you're planning just quickly?
Speaker 4 (27:09):
What? What? What?
Speaker 1 (27:10):
What do you pack?
Speaker 2 (27:11):
What do you take for an effort like this?
Speaker 4 (27:14):
Well, I get that question. A lot of people are like,
why don't you just fly? But unfortunately I have a
sixteen foot enclosed trailer that is equipped with you know, shovels,
and nets and catch poles and obviously all the I
have cremation bags, I have crates carriers, and then I
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have a ton of donations from groups in southern California,
so it makes it kind of hard to fly. Plus,
I like having I have a fully loaded suburban twenty
five hundred that was a former paramedic supervisor vehicle, so
of course it's equipped with lights and sirens and the
whole nine. So it's it's kind of nice having that
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instead of like renting a vehicle and having to jump
through hoop to go through barricades and all that stuff.
Speaker 3 (28:06):
Understood, what were your first impressions when you got to
Kerr County and made it behind the lines of the
blood zone.
Speaker 4 (28:15):
All right, let me just say something. I was asked
by a captain of the Texas State Troopers to kind
of address this when I told them what I was
doing today, much like the LA fires, there was a
drone incident today that hit a helicopter which grounded the
helicopter for for who knows how long. Plus we talked
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to multiple people at gas stations saying they got turned
away Texas whenever there's an incident that they've got the
biggest hearts in the world. Just I mean, I see
it all over the country when there when there's when
there's a minatural disaster, everybody wants to help. Unfortunately, this
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is a crime scene. So they're asking people just please
please please please stay away, Just stay away. I know
you want to help, but there's other ways to help.
I mean, they're literally coming into Kerr County. There's a
three hour line of search and rescue individuals from across
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the nation waiting to get in and their search and rescue.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
You know, let me ask you this really quick. Ac.
Speaker 3 (29:23):
We're talking to Aaron ac Christians and Zarin Texas doing
recovery and rescue efforts. You said it was a crime
scene as much as you can say given the information
that you've received and what you've been authorized to share,
calling it a crime scene suggests that there was a
crime that occurred. Can you shed any light on the
way in which perhaps their local leadership is taking.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
Aim what's going on?
Speaker 4 (29:49):
Yeah, I just know two plus two is four and
where my hub is is so a lot of people
don't know that I'm a barbecue chef. I try to
keep the two roles separate. So I linked up with
an organization that feeds during disasters, because one of the
biggest things that people want is a hot meal after disasters,
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after they've lost everything. So I've linked up this time
with Chef David Olsen of Live Fire Republic. His hub
is at a livestock feed store. It is a double
L feed and then back forty trailers they literally cleared.
I mean it's probably a full acre parking lot for
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us to set up. We've got barbecue trailers, we've got
a dozen barbecue pits, we've got a dozen barbecue pit
masters from across the country, a bunch from Texas. Obviously.
We fed probably sixteen hundred people yesterday, over one thousand today,
mostly first responders, but a lot of community members also.
With that said, because of the location where my hub is,
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I've seen the ATF, I've seen federal agents. I've seen
everybody come through here, which tells me there's not necessarily
that that a crime was committed, but the fact that
people were people you know, died. They want civilians to
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stay away from the river. I mean, it's there's there's
there's a lot of organizations. There's a couple of veterans organizations,
true GRIT who is a huge veteran organization. They're clearing
the debris a mile at a time down the river,
and they're the ones that are literally finding the bodies
in vehicles, in in in rubble. So if a bunch
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of civilians that want to help come down with their
pickup trucks and their shovels and and all that kind
of stuff, they're they're going to get in the way.
They're not trained, they don't know what they're doing. They mean, well,
but they're going to impede on progress, which you know,
timesticking unfortunately, and we're told that there's another storm coming
through possibly this evening.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
Oh timing. Oh man.
Speaker 4 (32:10):
Yeah, So when we when we hit text Line, which
is the border between New Mexico and Texas, we were
in a storm for over four hours. So, I mean,
it's it's storm season, it's it's it's happenings. Yeah, So
it's I mean, it's in it's Yeah, it's an impossible situation,
an impossible timeline. But every organization that had I guess, uh,
(32:37):
extra personnel is here from across I mean what I've
seen as far as Nebraska. I mean Mexico's here. I
mean all over the country, all over the country. I
know Colorado sent out a bunch, California has sent out
search and rescue crews, so they have the people, have faith,
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everything for the people is being done. I'm here for
the animals because unfortunately they have Texas has an amazing
animal control but this this is just overwhelmed, overwhelming. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
it overwhelmed their them. And in Curville there is literally
only one no kill shelter.
Speaker 3 (33:19):
Okay, Well, in about thirty forty five seconds or so,
can you tell us what do you need? How can
we best support you, How can we reach you, How
can we best support the efforts there on the ground
in Texas.
Speaker 4 (33:31):
Okay, Like I said, we have all the crates and
blankets and toys and treats and foods and stuff for
all these displaced people. We need monetary donations. So, whether
it's directly to K E r R Underscore Pets, which
is the no kill shelter here, or to my organization
or Pounds and Heroes, we need monetary donations because I
(33:55):
have a feeling we'll probably get a discount at the cremate. Sorry,
but I don't think it's going to be free. There's
also lots of vet needs. The animals that they are
finding alive are injured obviously due to the flooding and
you know, getting caught into brie piles and all that,
being forced over bombed wire fences. There's there's all kinds
(34:15):
of injuries. So we're gonna need We're gonna have lots
of vet needs. We're gonna have a lot of transport
needs because obviously there's not gonna be enough fosters here
in in Kirk County for the animals that they're finding,
So the local animal control is doing as much as
they can at their shelter. I know they sent a
bunch of their animals to different cities, but that's that's temporary.
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So eventually these animals are gonna have to We're gonna
have to find fosters best friends. Is is literally that.
I know they've had three point planeloads go out of state,
but that's you know, that's super expensive. It all cost money.
So monetary donations is really the most important thing right
now for the for the pets.
Speaker 3 (34:58):
AC take care of yourself. What you're doing out there
is not for the week. I can't imagine what you're seeing.
I hope you are taking care of yourself as well,
because that is a huge effort and a lot of
emotional a big emotional pool, a lot going on. Thank
you so much for coming on with.
Speaker 4 (35:15):
Us, all right, Thank you, Tiffany, Thank you for your time.
Speaker 2 (35:19):
Of course, you always have our support.
Speaker 3 (35:20):
Right here, that's Aaron ac Christiansen of Animal Advocacy Network
right there. He's from LA but he's out there doing
what he does best in Texas in the flood zone.
Left southern California to give his efforts to that area
as only he can do. When we come back, we're
talking six months out from the Palisades and eating fires.
What's happened, what's good, what's not so good. We're going
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to take a deeper dive right here. Saturdays with Tiffany
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On this beautiful, beautiful Saturday, we have a lot to
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get into. I hope you're doing well. But before we
get into kind of more of the stories that we're planned,
there are a few big stories that we are continuing
to watch, including a sad story coming out of around
a city which isn't too far from us here. A
body of a toddler approximate age three to four years
old was found early this morning in a parking lot
(01:10):
and there's no details, but of course authorities have been
on the scene investigating and trying to figure out what happened.
A body of a Toddler was found in Panorama City
in a parking lot, and they have no leads thus far.
As soon as anything breaks, I'll make sure to share
that with you. President Trump has announced a thirty percent
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tariff on Mexico and the EU starting August first. If
that does in fact go into effect, we can kiss
all of our cheap food and goods goodbye, because things
are going to shoot up in price, as has been threatened.
But now it seems to be closer to a reality,
(01:52):
that thirty percent tariff on Mexico and the European Union,
which would go into effect on August first. And as
you been hearing in our KFI twenty four hour newsroom,
Vice President JD. Vance is in southern California. He is
taking advantage of our beautiful weather, taking advantage of all
(02:13):
that we have to offer. If you happen to see
the cavalcade, the motorcade for Vice President Vance and his
huge crew, and it is a huge crew he's traveling with,
then make sure you let us know hit that talk back,
especially if you're out in Anaheim or you're at Disneyland.
Perhaps you're listening on the iHeart app while you're waiting
(02:34):
in one of those two hour Saturday lines. Make sure
you go to the Haunted Mansion by the way, because
they're going to close it down for about a week
coming in August, and you got to make sure you
get to that before JD. Vance does, or else you
won't be able to get to it at all with
his thirty person crew. But if you're in line there
at Disneyland and you know, you find yourself seeing.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
A massive people walk by, maybe.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Hit the iHeart app and that talkback feature and let
us know what's going on.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
And for sure, President Vice President JD. Vance is not
standing in line.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
I'm sure he is enjoying the privileges and perks of
being a vice president at Disneyland on a Saturday in July.
Those of us who know no horrible time to go,
but not if you're the vice president. So definitely going
to keep you up to date on all of the
stories throughout the show. And I'll come back to Vice
President Vance in a moment as well again. Five thirty
(03:30):
Aaron ac Christiansen, friend of the show and the owner
and founder of Animal Advocacy Network, a huge advocacy organization.
He's in Texas responding to these floods, these deadly, deadly floods,
and leading rescue efforts to rescue and recover animals impacted
(03:51):
by those floods. We're going to find out what he's
seeing out there on the ground. At five point thirty
when he calls in six o'clock, We're going to look
at the six months since the Eton and Palisades fire.
Some good developments, some developments that are frustrating people. I'll
have all of the details for you. Six thirty scammers
gonna scam two crazy stories that hopefully will caution you
(04:16):
from falling victim to these scams that are impacting the
Southland for sure. And at six point fifty, all you
need to know about the new TSA rollback of taking
your shoes off, you don't have to. I'll tell you why,
and I'll also let you know what the TSA is
saying you should know so you don't get yourself into
any pickle.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
So what's up with Vice President JD.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Vance.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
What's he doing in southern California? Let's find out.
Speaker 5 (04:43):
This is video of the Vice President's motor kate arriving
a couple of hours ago. The roads all sealed up,
some of the back roads into the Grand Californian Hotel
and Resort that is where the Vice President and his
family are staying. We say that because of all the
extreme tight security in that area. Of course, it's part
of the downtown Disney area runs over to the park,
and that's where this large group of protesters started walking
(05:05):
down Kotela trying to get into that area. But when
you obviously look at all the type security, they won't
be getting anywhere close to that. But they are still
hoping that their message and their chance will be heard
by some of the people in the administration as we
come back out live.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
So Vice President Vance is in southern California. He is
at Disneyland. He was expected to possibly visit Disneyland. Well
it's been confirmed. He's there. He's enjoying himself. But not
everyone is happy with Vice President Vance being in the state,
let alone at Disneyland in Orange County. And some of
(05:40):
those people who are not happy include the many protesters
that have parked themselves outside of the Disneyland properties since yesterday,
if not Thursday as well, in anticipation of Vice President
Vance coming to California, letting their voices be heard, letting
everyone who can hear them know that they don't want
(06:01):
Vice President Vance in their city. Also not too happy.
Orange County Supervisor Vicente Sarmiento, who actually said that he
is frustrated.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Over the visit.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
He said, quote to the extent that I'm offended by
the visit because so many families are being terrorized by
the policies of the federal government. He went on his
personal social media This is Supervisor Vicente Sarmiento sharing on
x that he felt that Vice President Vance was quote
(06:38):
not welcome and that if Vice President Vans had a
change of heart, quote, we'd embrace him.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Someone who's willing to kind of be a bit more impartial.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
Orange County Supervisor Don Wagner, who offered a more balanced response,
saying that he understands Supervisor Sarmiento's concerns but encourages dialogue
rather than division, went on to say, quote, I do
think it's an opportunity for us, instead of casting stones,
to cast a wider net. We've had questions about ice
(07:08):
operations in Santa Ana. This could be a chance to
engage rather than stay away. When we come back, we're
going to continue the conversation about ice in California and
a new federal ruling that came down just yesterday halting
a lot of what ICE is doing in California and
(07:30):
what could potentially come of that as our mayor and
others are banding together to support immigrants amid these ICE raids.
All of that and more right here on Saturdays with
Tiffany kf I Am six forty Live everywhere on the
iHeartRadio app.
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You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
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If I Am six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Tiffany Hobbs here with you. It's Saturday with Tiffany until
seven o'clock. And we were just talking about Vice President JD.
Vance visiting southern California. He's at Disneyland. No personal accounts
yet of sightings of Vice President Vance and his massive
(08:14):
thirty person plus entourage.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
He travels deep.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
Would hate to be behind them in line for something
you're already waiting two hours on a July Saturday, July
Saturday at Disneyland. Can you imagine but President Vice I
keep saying, President Vice President Vance. His visit comes one
day after a major legal victory for our own Governor
(08:39):
Newsom Mayor Bass and other leaders of California cities who
have again banned it together to really express their contempt
for what ICE is doing in southern California, in California
at large, given how in discriminate they say these immigration
stops are. So let's hear what a judge decided to
(09:02):
do on Friday that has now ordered the Trump administration
to halt in discriminate immigration stops.
Speaker 6 (09:10):
Federal immigration raids are getting larger and bolder, but it's
not deterring protesters. This is what happened on Thursday at
this cannabis farm in Camarillo, just north of La As
workers were being detained inside, agents fired what appeared to
be tear gas and tossed smoke bombs to disperse the crowd.
(09:31):
They were met by some throwing rocks and, according to
the FBI, what appears to be a man firing a
gun at officers. It's the latest in a series of
high profile raids around the country in recent weeks that
has sparked clashes, with tensions reaching a boiling point and
rising fear, especially in Latino communities right now. This was
(09:52):
LA Mayor Karen Bass after agents swarmed LA's MacArthur Park
this week.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
Frankly, it is outrageous and an American that we have
federal armed vehicles in our parks when nothing is going.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
On in the parks.
Speaker 6 (10:08):
As for the Raids and Camillo and another nearby cannabis farm,
the Department of Homeland Security claims it entered with search warrants,
rescued at least ten migrant children from potential exploitation, and
arrested what it described as two hundred illegal aliens, while
more than five hundred rioters attempted to disrupt operations. The
standoff lasted for hours well into the night. Several workers
(10:31):
hid in the farm, emerging including Jesus Jennifer Martinez is
his niece.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
They're just here working, Libby, They're just here tearing families
apartent r writing.
Speaker 6 (10:42):
We also met Ruby Hnez, who says several of her
relatives worked here.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
An at was taken, a mom was taken. It can
be a citizen, not a US citizen, doesn't matter.
Speaker 4 (10:52):
Hey, everybody, Yeah.
Speaker 6 (10:54):
Now you just heard from Ruby there. She says she's
wondering what happened to the plan to focus on deporting
violent criminals. She says she feels like anyone with brown
skin is a target now, and she told me that
she in fact was pulled over by an ICE agent
the other day while she was taking her child to
school and had to prove that she was a US citizen.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
So this filing in the US District Court by Judge
maame E Frempong asked to block the what they consider
what is being considered as unconstitutional tactics in these immigration raids.
Advocates are accusing immigration officials and ICE of detaining people
(11:32):
purely based on prejudice, based on racial profiling and according
to someone's race or color, and carrying out warrantless arrests,
also denying detainees' access to legal counsel at the holding
facility in Downtown, LA, which also has been the subject
(11:54):
of the ongoing protests in downtown. Judge Frimpong issued a
separate order barring the government from restricting attorney access at
that detention facility. Now the judges orders are in tandem
with Mayor Karen Bass signing an executive order the same
day affirming that Los Angeles supports its immigrant population. And
(12:19):
this is all, of course, because of this major crackdown
on immigrants by the Trump administration. She went on to
say Mayor Bass in a post on X that quote,
under my new executive order, I am submitting a request
under the Freedom of Information Act about when and where
(12:40):
enforcement activities have taken place in Los Angeles, the identities
of individuals and reason they were arrested or detained. We
will also be requesting information exposing how much these raids
cost taxpayers nation wide. Federal and local actions that have
(13:01):
been spurred on by this massive ICE presence in Los
Angeles really come on the heels of what happened at
MacArthur Park earlier in the week when there was a
huge presence of ICE officials in the park, and of
course what happened just a few days ago at that
major marijuana farm in Medora County. At this farm, dozens
(13:26):
of farm workers were detained and these ICE agents deployed
tear gas at protesters in which was called and what
ended up being a very volatile situation. At the time,
it was said that tens of people were lined up
and would be detained. Now that number has come out
(13:47):
about one hundred and fifty people were suspected of being
illegal immigrants and they were in fact detained.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Now this immigration rate. This made news nationwide, news.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
Absolutely and really spurred this federal order and Mayor Bass's
executive order both taking place on Friday. The raid took
place around eleven am at the Glass House marijuana farm.
It's right there in Camarillo on Laguna Road, and footage
from many different outlets because there was just a huge
(14:22):
media presence. This thing got out of control so fast.
But the footage showed what was a large federal law
enforcement presence in the fields, in the nearby fields nearest
to this marijuana farm, with witnesses saying that workers were
being detained, tensions rows, Things really blossomed, bloom got out
(14:45):
of hand very quickly, and the operation escalated by afternoon
when Ice and Border Protection agents began firing teargas at
the crowd.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
The scene continued to escalate.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
Media was still there, police were there, and tear gas
continued to be deployed at the protesters, so much so
that there was practically chaos and paramedics were requested to
the scene to treat multiple injuries. One person has died
as a result of this immigration rate at the marijuana
(15:19):
farm at glass House, So this is a continues to
be it will continue to be for the foreseeable future
a fluid situation, but for now there is a temporary
pause in what border control and immigration enforcement can in
fact do to what extent in the state of California,
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and we're looking at closely what will happen in southern
California as this seems to have been I would say
the center point of all of the ice conversation shifting
gears at five point thirty, just after the break, We're
going to have my friend Ac Christiansen come on. He's
from the Animal Advocacy Network and he left LA As
(16:03):
he does, he travels all around the country to rescue
and help with recovery efforts in major disasters, and he
is now.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
In Texas in the flood zone.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
That flood that happened in the early morning of July
fourth has produced at this point one hundred and twenty deaths.
The death toll has risen to one hundred and twenty
and at least one hundred and seventy three people remain
missing at this time. So they're not really looking authorities
(16:35):
are saying they're not really looking into rescue as much
as they are recovery in this current phase and a
lot of conversations not being had necessarily about the animal
life that's there.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
Well, Aaron's going to tell us.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
Ac is going to tell us what he sees right
there on the ground in Texas, and perhaps what we
can do to support his efforts and the recovery in
that zone in Texas. Will continue the conversation on the
other side of the break. It's Saturdays with Tiffany KFI
AM six forty Live Everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
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You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand KFI AM.
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Six forty Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. Tiffany Hobbs
here with you. It's Saturdays with Tiffany, and we're about
to talk to a buddy of mine who is really
being generous with his time because what he's doing and
what we're going to talk to him about requires so
much attention and so much effort. So the fact that
(17:34):
we're getting a bit of his time to talk about
what he's doing is just again a testament to that generosity.
But before we get into that, we're still watching here
in the KFI twenty four hour newsroom and right here
on this show a few big stories that broke today
and over the last i'd say day in the Southland
and around the country, including the sad story that does
(17:57):
not necessarily have a lot of information yet, but there's
a body of a toddler that was found early this
morning in a parking lot in Panorama City, and local
outlets covered it this morning. Some of the neighborhood reporting
apps did in fact talk about it, but there's been
nothing really said about this story, and I find that
(18:19):
especially problematic. It's a child estimated to be three to
four years old and who was found deceased in this
parking lot in Panorama City. So if we get any
details about that, I'll make sure to share it with you.
President Trump has announced a thirty percent tariff on Mexico
and the European Union to take effect August first. You
(18:39):
know what that means, more money for things that we've
grown accustomed to not spending a lot of money on.
That will take effect August first. And Vice President JD.
Vance isn't talking tariffs. He's talking Disneyland. He's here in
the Southland visiting Disneyland today. We'll see if Vice President
Vance meets with any local leadership and about what so
(19:01):
I'll make sure I'll keep you up to date on
that as well. Shifting to what's happening in Texas because
it is absolutely ongoing. I'm looking at CNN right now
and one of the main stories is how FEMA is
there in Texas dealing with disaster relief. Now, this situation,
this flood that happened in the early morning of July fourth,
(19:24):
caused at least one hundred and twenty deaths at this time,
they are expecting that to increase as one hundred and
seventy three people remain missing, and authorities are saying that
they're shifting from rescue to a recovery. There's a realization
there that it's been a week and a day July twelfth,
(19:46):
this happened July fourth, and that prospects for finding survivors
are growing thinner and weaker as the day goes on.
This is a fluid situation, and someone who is accustomed
to involving them in disaster relief like this is my
friend Aaron ac Christiansen of the Animal Advocacy Network. He
(20:08):
is he knows something a thing or two about disaster
relief and rescue and recovery. Almost twenty years to the day.
In fact, he got involved in New Orleans during the
floods caused by Hurricane Katrina, and now a week and
a day after what happened in Texas, he's devastating and
deadly floods. AC is there on the ground in Texas
(20:31):
lending his efforts with his partnerships to help with the
recovery and rescue efforts for animals, and I imagine anyone
else you might come across AC. I know you're not discriminating.
Thank you so much for giving us your time, and again,
thank you so much for what you're doing out there.
Speaker 4 (20:50):
Absolutely, Tiffany, thank you.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
You're welcome. You're welcome.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
Let me ask you, did you get a call to
come to Texas or did you just take it upon
yourself to just try out there and get it done.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
I know your attitude is very much get it done.
But what spurred us?
Speaker 4 (21:05):
You know, regardless of me being deployed by the ACCA
or any other organization, I would have been out here
regardless to assist. I mean, it's it's it's a rural area,
it's Texas, so you know, my my passion, my heart
is livestock and equine. But because of the fires, I've
switched that in the last six months to domestics, you know, dogs,
(21:27):
cats and birds, gerbils and all that good stuff. But
I reached out to the ASPCA because I'm I'm a
response partner down in southern California. I reached out and
I said, are you guys deployed to Texas? And they
said no, they have not called us yet. And that
was very, very very concerning to me. So I called
(21:48):
some of my larger donors and some former rescue partners
and said, hey, I need to go to Texas. I
linked up with a Austin based organization called That's Alive.
They actually have a rescue here in Kerrville, Texas, and
they said, you know, I believe it's tech co Cares.
(22:10):
It's the trailer. We have all the food, all the creates,
everything we need. What we need is something that you've
become very familiar with. Unfortunately, is after care. We need
help with the cadavers, we need help with cremation. Things
are piling up, animals are piling up, and we have
(22:30):
no idea what to do with them. And I said, well,
I think become quite the expert. After the multiple fires
I've worked, I will find a cremation partner locally, work
out whatever magic I can work out, and I'll be there.
So I called some friends. Called my good friend who's
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the director and founder of Hounds and Heroes who actually
places you know, they train and place dogs with veterans.
Bonnie Joel Laughlin. She's a former Dallas Cowboy's cheerleader. She
was the first female scout for the Lakers. So she's
she's she's a big name, huge animal advocate, and I'm
gonna meet you there, she said, I'm gonna meet you there.
I'm gonna meet you on the ground. Unfortunately, she got
(23:13):
held up last night, so she she her and her
team will arrive tomorrow. I already got started, of course,
you know that. So we've driven down, We've driven down
to the river to see just you know, just kind
of get a get a feel what's going on. We
drove by literally the only animal it's not a sanctuary,
(23:34):
it's a it's a no kill shelter, literally the only
the only no kill shelter in the in the hill
country town. Right. Yeah, I mean, I guess what twenty
six seven thou people normally, but this this hit during
their peak tourist season with all the obviously we've we've
heard about the camp, but there's there's multiple there's multiple
(23:58):
high end r V parks. Also, we're people come and
stay by the river and all those people most r
V ers have bugs. They've lost all of them. Oh no,
within the first two or three days. I mean, I
I'm scared to go to the location. There's there's a
(24:19):
there's literally a pile of pets because they don't know
what to do with them.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
So you're you're visually seeing uh unfortunately this like you
described it as being a pile of deceased animals kind
of in these in these impacted zones. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (24:36):
And then on top of that is is you know,
the livestock due to the flooding, they're they're fencing has
been knocked down. And I became after Woodley in Paradise,
that being became quite the you know, the uh, the
city slicker. And so we'll be helping after after I
don't I haven't had. I haven't found a cremation partner
yet here in in the hill country of Texas or
(24:57):
within you know, San Antonio. So I'm more on that still,
but I do have my aftercare kit, so we will
be unfortunately bagging well, like you said, it's a recovery mission.
At this point, it's been over a week. Fire and
water is just not forgiving, you know, after three to
five days unfortunately, Ace.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
Can we keep you over for one more segment? I
have so many questions, and I'm sure our listeners do too,
and I just want to make sure that we have
ample time to get to these next questions.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
Can you hang on with us? I'm your Tiffany fantastic.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
We're talking to Aaron ac Christiansen of the Animal Advocacy Network.
He is in Texas helping with the recovery efforts after
this major flood on the Guadalupe River, and you just
heard there is It is devastating. We've learned a lot
about the loss of human life, but the loss of
animal life, whether live stock or pets, horses, everything in between,
(25:55):
that hasn't been discussed. But we're talking about it today
with Ac as he's right there on the ground in
the zone, and we'll continue the conversation when we come
back from the break. It's Saturdays with Tiffany right here
on KFI AM six forty Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio.
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App you're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
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It's Saturdays with Tiffany and we are talking to Aaron
ac Christiansen of Animal Advocacy Network and many other things
that he involves himself with many other groups and efforts,
including being on the ground right there in Texas in
Kerr County assisting with the rescue and recovery of the
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animals there, who have not been talked about nearly as much,
of course as the loss of human life. And we
understand why, and these animals deserve to be discussed as well,
and Aaron Ac is there helping with these efforts. Continuing
the conversation, ac Uh, let me ask you really quick,
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what do you take when it comes to a recovery
effort like this when you're planning just quickly?
Speaker 4 (27:09):
What? What? What?
Speaker 1 (27:10):
What do you pack?
Speaker 2 (27:11):
What do you take for an effort like this?
Speaker 4 (27:14):
Well, I get that question. A lot of people are like,
why don't you just fly? But unfortunately I have a
sixteen foot enclosed trailer that is equipped with you know, shovels,
and nets and catch poles and obviously all the I
have cremation bags, I have crates carriers, and then I
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have a ton of donations from groups in southern California,
so it makes it kind of hard to fly. Plus,
I like having I have a fully loaded suburban twenty
five hundred that was a former paramedic supervisor vehicle, so
of course it's equipped with lights and sirens and the
whole nine. So it's it's kind of nice having that
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instead of like renting a vehicle and having to jump
through hoop to go through barricades and all that stuff.
Speaker 3 (28:06):
Understood, what were your first impressions when you got to
Kerr County and made it behind the lines of the
blood zone.
Speaker 4 (28:15):
All right, let me just say something. I was asked
by a captain of the Texas State Troopers to kind
of address this when I told them what I was
doing today, much like the LA fires, there was a
drone incident today that hit a helicopter which grounded the
helicopter for for who knows how long. Plus we talked
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to multiple people at gas stations saying they got turned
away Texas whenever there's an incident that they've got the
biggest hearts in the world. Just I mean, I see
it all over the country when there when there's when
there's a minatural disaster, everybody wants to help. Unfortunately, this
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is a crime scene. So they're asking people just please
please please please stay away, Just stay away. I know
you want to help, but there's other ways to help.
I mean, they're literally coming into Kerr County. There's a
three hour line of search and rescue individuals from across
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the nation waiting to get in and their search and rescue.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
You know, let me ask you this really quick. Ac.
Speaker 3 (29:23):
We're talking to Aaron ac Christians and Zarin Texas doing
recovery and rescue efforts. You said it was a crime
scene as much as you can say given the information
that you've received and what you've been authorized to share,
calling it a crime scene suggests that there was a
crime that occurred. Can you shed any light on the
way in which perhaps their local leadership is taking.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
Aim what's going on?
Speaker 4 (29:49):
Yeah, I just know two plus two is four and
where my hub is is so a lot of people
don't know that I'm a barbecue chef. I try to
keep the two roles separate. So I linked up with
an organization that feeds during disasters, because one of the
biggest things that people want is a hot meal after disasters,
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after they've lost everything. So I've linked up this time
with Chef David Olsen of Live Fire Republic. His hub
is at a livestock feed store. It is a double
L feed and then back forty trailers they literally cleared.
I mean it's probably a full acre parking lot for
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us to set up. We've got barbecue trailers, we've got
a dozen barbecue pits, we've got a dozen barbecue pit
masters from across the country, a bunch from Texas. Obviously.
We fed probably sixteen hundred people yesterday, over one thousand today,
mostly first responders, but a lot of community members also.
With that said, because of the location where my hub is,
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I've seen the ATF, I've seen federal agents. I've seen
everybody come through here, which tells me there's not necessarily
that that a crime was committed, but the fact that
people were people you know, died. They want civilians to
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stay away from the river. I mean, it's there's there's
there's a lot of organizations. There's a couple of veterans organizations,
true GRIT who is a huge veteran organization. They're clearing
the debris a mile at a time down the river,
and they're the ones that are literally finding the bodies
in vehicles, in in in rubble. So if a bunch
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of civilians that want to help come down with their
pickup trucks and their shovels and and all that kind
of stuff, they're they're going to get in the way.
They're not trained, they don't know what they're doing. They mean, well,
but they're going to impede on progress, which you know,
timesticking unfortunately, and we're told that there's another storm coming
through possibly this evening.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
Oh timing. Oh man.
Speaker 4 (32:10):
Yeah, So when we when we hit text Line, which
is the border between New Mexico and Texas, we were
in a storm for over four hours. So, I mean,
it's it's storm season, it's it's it's happenings. Yeah, So
it's I mean, it's in it's Yeah, it's an impossible situation,
an impossible timeline. But every organization that had I guess, uh,
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extra personnel is here from across I mean what I've
seen as far as Nebraska. I mean Mexico's here. I
mean all over the country, all over the country. I
know Colorado sent out a bunch, California has sent out
search and rescue crews, so they have the people, have faith,
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everything for the people is being done. I'm here for
the animals because unfortunately they have Texas has an amazing
animal control but this this is just overwhelmed, overwhelming. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
it overwhelmed their them. And in Curville there is literally
only one no kill shelter.
Speaker 3 (33:19):
Okay, Well, in about thirty forty five seconds or so,
can you tell us what do you need? How can
we best support you, How can we reach you, How
can we best support the efforts there on the ground
in Texas.
Speaker 4 (33:31):
Okay, Like I said, we have all the crates and
blankets and toys and treats and foods and stuff for
all these displaced people. We need monetary donations. So, whether
it's directly to K E r R Underscore Pets, which
is the no kill shelter here, or to my organization
or Pounds and Heroes, we need monetary donations because I
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have a feeling we'll probably get a discount at the cremate. Sorry,
but I don't think it's going to be free. There's
also lots of vet needs. The animals that they are
finding alive are injured obviously due to the flooding and
you know, getting caught into brie piles and all that,
being forced over bombed wire fences. There's there's all kinds
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of injuries. So we're gonna need We're gonna have lots
of vet needs. We're gonna have a lot of transport
needs because obviously there's not gonna be enough fosters here
in in Kirk County for the animals that they're finding,
So the local animal control is doing as much as
they can at their shelter. I know they sent a
bunch of their animals to different cities, but that's that's temporary.
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So eventually these animals are gonna have to We're gonna
have to find fosters best friends. Is is literally that.
I know they've had three point planeloads go out of state,
but that's you know, that's super expensive. It all cost money.
So monetary donations is really the most important thing right
now for the for the pets.
Speaker 3 (34:58):
AC take care of yourself. What you're doing out there
is not for the week. I can't imagine what you're seeing.
I hope you are taking care of yourself as well,
because that is a huge effort and a lot of
emotional a big emotional pool, a lot going on. Thank
you so much for coming on with.
Speaker 4 (35:15):
Us, all right, Thank you, Tiffany, Thank you for your time.
Speaker 2 (35:19):
Of course, you always have our support.
Speaker 3 (35:20):
Right here, that's Aaron ac Christiansen of Animal Advocacy Network
right there. He's from LA but he's out there doing
what he does best in Texas in the flood zone.
Left southern California to give his efforts to that area
as only he can do. When we come back, we're
talking six months out from the Palisades and eating fires.
What's happened, what's good, what's not so good. We're going
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to take a deeper dive right here. Saturdays with Tiffany
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