October 3, 2025 • 33 mins
Andy Riesmeyer kicks off the show with news about a theft of a Rolex at Equinox Gym in the Valley! Andy also talks to two community organizers, Shawna Dawson and Lauren Randolph, who both lost their homes during the Eaton wildfires last January. They talk about the Altadena Report and their reaction to its contents. They want accountability. Also, pilot Mike Daniel is on the phone to chat from Huntington Beach about the Pacific Airshow, that won’t have any military this year due to the government shutdown.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:03):
By me, Andy Reespire. This is Later with Moe Kelly.
I am in for mister mo Kelly. I'll be with
you all the way to ten o'clock tonight. Would love
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if you're a fan. If you don't like me, that's
a struggle.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
I get it.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
We've got a lot on the show tonight. Just talking
to Conway about the Pacific Air Show at Huntington Beach.
That is going to be exciting. Big airplane people love
the planes. Will tell you about what to expect. We're
actually gonna talk to one of the pilots. Of course,
there's no military jets there due to the government shutdown,
but the short takeoff in landing planes the stall planes
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now listen, you usually don't want a plane that's called
a stallplane, right, That's like the number one thing you
don't want in an aircraft is stalling. But we are
going to talk to one of the pilots of those
planes tell us about what to expect they land on
the beach. I think great time down there in Huntington Beach.
Beautiful day today, It's going to beautiful this weekend. Like
I said, we will have that just in a little bit.
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Plus a woman who lives in Altadena, Shanna Dawson. She
lost her home in the Eaten fire. She'll join us
also to talk about her reaction to this report that
the Board of Supervisors spent two million dollars on two
million dollars of our money and the people in Altadena
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don't like the report. The bard of Supervisors slam the report.
On Tuesday, We're going to get a reaction and see
what the community members are thinking about with that. Plus
a new dating app. You know those dating apps out there?
What a hell that is? It's going to actually ask
you if you want to receive nudes? Now, how fun
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is that? Good stuff? But before we get into that,
something is afoot in the valley. Bad news in the valley.
The studio city Equinox better not lock up your watch,
will you go to pump some irons, as they say.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
According to the LAPD, this isn't just happening at gyms,
but also at parks, yoga studios, essentially anywhere where people
have their guard down. And the victim in this case,
he says, he took off his watch. You put it
inside the locker.
Speaker 5 (02:31):
When he came back, it was gone. I put my
watch inside the locker.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
Darius Hicks is referring to his twenty thousand dollars rolex
he believes was stolen from this Equinox gym in Studio City.
Speaker 5 (02:43):
Took a shower and steamed. I came back maybe about
fifteen minutes or so.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Did she call it?
Speaker 2 (02:47):
It is Alino Bovian, who I think is a great reporter,
but I think she's pronouncing equinox equinox.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
Like erewon the pricey piece of jewelry. It was inside
a locker which was locked. He says. It was on
September eighteenth, and still no clues as to who could
have taken it. What's worse, the watchet sentimental value, a
reminder of his best friend who passed away at a
young age.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
That's terrible.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
I also got to say something about this so believe
it or not. And I know this is going to
sound out of touch. I am a member of this Equinox.
I did not know why I signed up for this,
but I worked for a company many years ago where
I got a really good deal on it. And I'm
hoping that no one from Equinox finds out I don't
work for that company anymore because I think I'm still
grandfathered in on that deal. But I'm sure had they
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known that I changed I changed careers, I probably wouldn't
qualify for this. But I've got a lot of thoughts
on this, and when we listened to the rest of
the story, I'll tell you what I think.
Speaker 5 (03:48):
Starting in real estate together and doing quite a free
real estate deals, and then we bought these matching reluxes
as a celebratory thing. Quite maybe about three years later.
He passed away at the age of thirty.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
Six, and while police have not yet confirmed this case
is linked to others, law enforcement has caution before the
locker rooms across LA from the Valley to the West Side,
have become hotspots for theft.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
Wow, I don't get this.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
When you go to the Equinox, and again when you
look at me I understand why you think I don't
go to the gym a lot. I'm on the same
one hundred percent. But when you go to the gym here,
you open up the locker, you put your stuff in there,
and then you close it. And then there's a keypad
and it's like a magnetic lock, and it's pretty secure.
And if you lose or forget the keypad or the
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number or whatever on the keypad, you've got to go
ask a manager, who will then walk over with a clipboard.
He'll ask you what's in the locker. You have to
tell him what's in the locker. He makes a note
of it with the clipboard, and I think he actually
takes the license, takes down your license.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
This is very strange.
Speaker 6 (04:55):
After the suspects call and enter gymnasium and they go
through the locker's see locks that are cut and broken,
real easy versus the ones there are a solid great
locks that there's no way they we're able to touch
those items.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
The department says the best don't put your own locks.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
That's not how that works. I don't know what's going
on here. I think only the manager has access to those.
You need a special key to get in there does
it make a lot of sense, and says the best
advice is to invest in a strong, sturdy lock or
just leave your valuables at home.
Speaker 7 (05:28):
Yeah, I don't want watches very much anymore so. I
think in the last couple of years people used to
wear watches all the time. Wow, Like, I'm so proud
of not wearing a watch.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
Have you ever heard.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Somebody so so smug about not wearing a watch?
Speaker 3 (05:41):
It's so over, it's so last year.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
Listen our watches very much anymore, or just leave your
valuables at home.
Speaker 7 (05:47):
I don't want watches very much anymore so. I think
in the last couple of years people used to wear
watches all the time.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Well, but get with the program. Misobovian mari a short
sleeve shirt or something. I'm not wearing a watch right now.
Speaker 4 (05:59):
In response to the theft, Equinox says we take the
security of our members property very seriously and our assisting
law enforcement following a recent incident. As for Hicks, he
posted the devastating incident on his social media only to
realize he isn't alone.
Speaker 5 (06:14):
There isn't any recourse when you're going to these gyms,
when you're going out grocery shopping, just on your everyday errands.
Be vigilant because people are wowed and it's insane that
you can't go to the gym without being robbed.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
All right, I think that the setup there was something
like Aleno Bovian talked to Jim Gohers to see if
they had any insight onto what went down there, And
I asked, who is Jim goers Lionel Richie is in
hot water? I guess kind of. We're going to get
to that in a little bit. Plus dating app that
asks if you want to see nudes? What a world
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we're living in? So much news here today on this
Thursday in Los Angeles.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Nadi Esmeyer in for mister mo Kelly. Let's go out
to Altadena. There's some news that broke just earlier today
about the Eaton fire, or at least the moments leading
up to it. An investigation by NPR that's an up
and coming radio station, found issues with cal Edison power
lines the morning before the Eton fire destroyed part of Altadena.
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So this would have been hours because if you remember,
back on January seventh, the fire started in the Palisades
that morning and then didn't. We didn't see a lot
of smoke or at least a lot of activity happening
in Altadena until much later in the afternoon. But distribution
lines are basically the lines that go into individual houses
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from the power company, and they were failing as early
as eleven AM, and at least one was linked to
a fire, and like I said, hours before the fire
actually broke out at Eaton Canyon. Firefighters responded during the
morning in the afternoon and all those soaks how Edison
could have shut off power to most of the circuits
in the area, they didn't. It is the latest investigation
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in the last week about the fires. A two million
dollar report commissioned by the Board of Supervisors found failures
at the county level, but did not put the blame
squarely on any department or any person Immediately, the reaction
from the community was negative. On Tuesday, the county criticized
their own report, saying it was full of gaping holes
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and didn't answer the question why did evacuation alerts come
so late for so many I'm sure you remember nineteen
people died in the Eton fire. Eighteen of those were
in West Altadena who that community didn't receive those emergency
alerts to evacuate until way farther into the morning. Many
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people who live in Altadena are also frustrated by this report,
including Seanna Dawson, who runs the community group on social
media account Beautiful Altadena. She joins us with Lauren Randolph,
who also lost a home in Altadena during the fire.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
Good evening to both of you. Thank you for being here,
thanks for having us on tonight.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
So I want to ask your initial reaction from the
fire report on Thursday was publicized Seana, pretty well in
the Los Angeles Times, in another media, you were really
displeased with it. When Tuesday rolled around, the Bord of
Supervisors took a look at that and sort of echoed
what you were saying in that the report really didn't
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go very far, or at least didn't give the people
in Altadena what they were hoping for.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
What were you guys looking for in this report?
Speaker 8 (09:46):
You know, I'll kick it off by just saying, I
think what Alcadina was looking for is some form of accountability,
right what was promised by the county with that this
report would bring some clear, fact based review how the alert,
warnings and evacuations were handled specifically in West Albadina, which
is a historically black community and where we saw the
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majority all but one of the nineteen documented depths. And
I say documented because we still have neighbors who are missing.
We've lost neighbors since the fire, the suicides and to
other complications, so that depth toll is not representative. But
what we got instead was carefully inconveniently worded pr spin
tiptoying around the county's midsteps, no assigning of responsibility anywhere.
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In particular, if anyone seen a spider man, name of
everyone pointing at the other spider man, that's it, that's right.
We shared that actually on our social media account. And
so you know, this is what brought community members and
community organizers together. So Lauren and I separate of our
representations with our organizations. Myself a beautiful Albadina, Lauren as
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an altogether block cabin captain, both of us total low
survivors west of Lake. You're also part of an organization
called alpadin inso for accountability, and so we brought together.
We ended up bringing together a couple hundred of our
neighbors in very short notice. In Albadina to have a
press conference to communicate loud and clear how unsatisfactory this
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is for a community that needs some form of justice
and the true accountability, and clearly we were heard.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Yeah, yeah, And I think that you must at least
feel good to hear Supervisor Barker or Barger Rather and
a few of the other board of supervisors say yeah,
this didn't go far enough, and how upsetting is that.
It almost feels like it must be insult to injury
to look at this and say, there's two million dollars
that were spent on this study that ostensibly could have
gone to helping rebuild, and we have less answers than
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we could have ever expected.
Speaker 8 (11:55):
Right, I'm gonna let Lauren take that.
Speaker 9 (11:58):
Yeah, I I feel the same way. I mean a
lot of what came out of in a Crystal report
where things we already knew, right, We knew we were
under staffed, we knew we weren't prepared. We didn't need
a two million dollar report to tell us that we
needed the report to tell us why the nine to
one one calls in West Altadena were unanswered, and why
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evacuation didn't come through sooner, and why we didn't get
those alerts sooner, and why there wasn't a better, more
coordinated do you effort other than community members.
Speaker 7 (12:28):
Do you have any.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Indication why there was so little uh findings, I guess,
or I mean it was a sense of this was
an independent report that was paid for by the county.
But does it feel like there was some of CYA
action happening?
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Yeah?
Speaker 9 (12:46):
Yeah, I think definitely. It feels like it was kind
of a performative report rather than rather than a report
that really dove into investigating. I think the first page
of the reports is this is not an investigation and
it's not to lay blame, and if we're paying this
much for report, it should be an investigation to understand
what went wrongs and how to do better next time
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so that this doesn't happen again anywhere in La County.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
I think it's obvious when you look at the photos
of the aftermath of this now almost ten months later,
and how devastating it was, but even now, how little
it feels like has been done.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
You just say, like, what is happening right now? I mean,
what's your sense?
Speaker 2 (13:32):
I mean, at least in the community about the sentiment
of how the rebuilding process has been going at a
county level.
Speaker 9 (13:42):
I think it's not doing Shawna. I don't know if
you've started the process, but I have talked to a
lot of neighbors who have started, and it's just it
seems like red tape and disconnect. You know, the process
is supposed to be quicker to get permitting and rebuild,
and there's no consistency in how long anybody's plans get
turned around. And then every day there's a new report
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on soil or air. So you start to rebuild and
you start to make a decision, and then you gain
more information that is being let out and investigated, so
it makes it really difficult to push forward. And then
on top of that, you at the Christopher Court and
a lack of clear understanding of what happened that night
to fix it, and it's hard to move forward.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Do you have any indication, Shana, sort of what goes
what happens next year? I mean I almost want to say,
like I get the urge to say, Okay, well you
didn't fix the situation. Who's your boss that I can
talk to, which I know is.
Speaker 8 (14:41):
Like probably, but well I'm not going to I'm not
going to use the euphemism that we tend to the
last year because it's you know, it would undermine what
we stake care. But the bottom line is, you know,
our organizations, you know our coalition of organizations, are very
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clear in our demand and it is that Attorney General
but Rob Bosa conduct a true independent investigation with the
pen of power, because that is the only way that
we are going to get what we need. That report
is a report, it's not an investigation. It's not actionable.
We've had reports like this in the past. There was
one after the Right we had one after the Wolsey fire.
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None of half the things that motions were passed and
promises were made to implement were not implemented. If they
had been, you and I would not be having this compensation.
Well so cashun say, ultimately we need a real investigation
with the pena power that agencies cannot dodge. I think
it's critical to understand that that report was not only
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full of errors and inaccuracies, and just it's observed some
of the passages are absurd that we have time tonight
to cover them if you do these in air. But
the biggest you know hole to me is the fact
that entire swaths of data are missing. The Eli County
Sheriff Sheriff Luna effectively right now, in candem with OEM
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and Eli County Fire heads up emergency response, the Eli
Sheriff's Department did not provide any data for this report.
They declined to do that. And the only way it's
going to happen is if our Attorney General compelled them
to do it. So that is what our organization and
ultimately our community and the tens of thousands of Altadenas
that we represent, are asking for.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
Can you stick with us through a break here.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
We'll be right back after just a couple of minutes here,
and we want to hear more sort of about what
you and your community group, not only what you want,
but also what you think can happen to help the
community move forward, but also what maybe will will give you,
guys an indication of if there will be any accountability
here going forward, because obviously no one wants this to
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happen again. This is something that you know as a
person who doesn't live in that neighborhood but still is
obviously very aware of it. I don't know that I've
heard a lot of accountability and a lot of things
that have changed. So let's talk about that just after
the break, but now check it in.
Speaker 8 (17:07):
Who's Next? And then it just happened us. Who do
you think is next?
Speaker 3 (17:10):
Well?
Speaker 2 (17:10):
Well, well said, So we'll continue this conversation with Shauna
and Lauren about the Altadena fires and the unfortunately disappointing
report here from the Board of Supervisors at the county level.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
Yeah, I'm Andy Reesmeyer in formo Kelly tonight. We're talking
about the Eton fire. Of course, that's one of two
devastating fires that took place earlier this year in Los
Angeles or at least a La County. We had more
than six thousand structures burn in Altadena, and I've remember
so well after the fires the phrase that you saw
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all over social media, and you would see it in
real life if you if you drove through Alta Dina
afterwards when we were covering it, the words were Altadena
is not for sale and the essence was to preserve
these neighborhoods where families have lived for generations. But I imagine
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that insurance money, the loss of use money, is what
they call it. That's what you spend while you wait
around to rebuild. Only lasts so long, and so now
we come up here on ten months and what has
been done. We have a report from the county that
the county themselves was dissatisfied with community members are upset,
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they're worried. There is no plan joining us right now.
Lauren Randolph and SHAWNA. Dawson and Lauren both community organizers.
Shauna runs the Beautiful Altadena Instagram social media account, and
the two of you both lost homes in this fire.
So this is so personal to you, and I'm so sorry,
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and I just my heart goes out to you because
to think about losing your home is one thing, but
then to think about I don't know how long it
will be until I can build it back, must be
really terrible.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
Shanna.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
This NPR report that just came out earlier today disclosed
a lot of details that were not in this report
from the county.
Speaker 8 (19:24):
Good good, I would have to say, I think it
was a bombshell for a lot of people who must
have been reading that today, But for those of us
who live in the community. I know Lauren and I
have exchanged our own personal stories as we both know
people who reported fires earlier.
Speaker 9 (19:38):
In the day.
Speaker 8 (19:40):
This is not a surprise. It's just another omission in
this lackluster, two million dollar piece of paper. Right, there's
one hundred pages that we got for this. But you know,
there were fires reported as early as three and four
pm in Altadena, started by downed electrical lines, reported to
nine one one reported to the fire department, reported to
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see and still power was not cut. One of the
other fallacies in that report is that there was no
cell signal. This is why they couldn't track. This could
be another cause for why there was no evacuation warning.
All of that is very patently untrue because power was
still on in many areas, and people had clear phone signals,
for example, to call their loved ones and tell them
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to get out when no warning came.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
Well, at what point do you think it right?
Speaker 2 (20:31):
I mean, people's lives were lost in these parts of town,
and even if you had been way outside of the
evacuation zone, you knew how wonky that evacuation warning system was.
I mean people were getting those evacuation warnings in Calabasas,
in northern parts of Los Angeles County that were nowhere
near the fire evacuation zones.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
At what point?
Speaker 2 (20:54):
And I've asked that this is a real question, This
is not a leading question, But does this verge on
crit at some point?
Speaker 8 (21:03):
It makes you wonder, right, It really does make you
wonder between see and everyone else who is culpable here,
who who does pay the ultimate price for this other
than our community? And I say our community because outside
of all these lives that have been lost, and the
nine thousand homes and structures that have been lost, and
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the thousands of our neighbors who have been displaced, and
to your point, you know, and they'll never be able
to come back, right between insurance running out or being
under insured or completely uninsured, or being renters, or being
elders who can't possibly get through rebuild, or people with
young families who cannot spend the next five years doing this,
pick something right. The fabric of our community is forever changed,
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and you know it'll be the topic I think, frankly
of another show, in another conversation. But with some of
the legislation, including SB nine and eighty seven eighty two,
you know, we're looking at our community in the rebuild
being forever changed. Beyond the challenges beyond all the broken
homises around permits and suspension of s benignded here are
are CSD and that's a lot of that's a lot
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of numbers and letters.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
But you know there, I think the sentiment is is
big issues, is right?
Speaker 3 (22:11):
Yeah, we have big issues.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
And as you said before, if there is no accountability,
and I'm assuming you know, one of the things that
they said in the original report was like, well, we
don't want to blame any this isn't about blaming people.
But I also hear from the community saying I don't
think that you guys are trying to uh tar and
feather people in the town square. I'm assuming no, and
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correct me if I'm wrong that you just want to
make sure that there's accountability so this doesn't happen again.
Because as we said before, those conditions, uh though they
were absurd, you know, certainly can happen again.
Speaker 8 (22:47):
Yeah, but they weren't unprecedented. Sorry, I would please go ahead, Lauren.
Speaker 9 (22:52):
Yeah, I mean the same thing. I mean, I grew
up in southern California that Santa Ana wins has been
something my entire life that we that we've known about
high fire, earthquakes, Right, these.
Speaker 10 (23:03):
Were all.
Speaker 9 (23:05):
Things. These are all environmental factors that we've known about,
and especially I think coming out of the loosely fire
in the twenty eighteen report and thinking there would be
reforms to make us safer, and seeing how far away
we were from enacting everything that needed to be does
warrant accountability. Yes, we're not trying to roll heads in
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the street and we're not shouting to fire everybody, but
we want to understand who made these decisions, Who didn't
make these good decisions right? Who made the decision that
when there were nine to one one calls coming in
from actual people seeing flames and fire and Altabina decided
to ignore that and not evacuate those residents earlier? I
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think it is important to know who was making these
calls because it doesn't add up. And there should be
accountability in any other job, right, if a doctor messages
up or something, there's accountability most of the time.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
Well said, we will leave it at that. Thank you
both of you for making time for me. I know
you did John Cobbolt earlier, so I'm sure you're tired,
but I really appreciate it. And please stay in touch
and please let us know how it goes. It's people
like you who are going to make it so that
this doesn't happen again, because obviously, left to their own devices,
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they'll put out a report that doesn't really give us
any plan or pathway forward. So, Lauren and Shauna, I'm
so sorry about your losses, and I'm sorry about the
continual pain that this community is going through. I think
that it's a tragedy. And I just don't understand how
a place that is so proud California, Los Angeles, so
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proud of how big our government is, how much money
we pay, how many elected officials we have, and how
much we trust or some trust in the local government
that they cannot get it together to help these people.
That's the whole point I think of government is to
make sure that your people are safe and they they're
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able to have a quality of life.
Speaker 7 (25:10):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
And so I'm s.
Speaker 8 (25:12):
Property for those times you would think you would think,
but I would think, here we are all right, Well,
thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
Yes, there they go.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
You can find her Shauna at Beautiful Altadena on Instagram
and follow along. Of course, with all of the rebuilding there.
They're really doing just the most important stuff that you
could be doing.
Speaker 7 (25:33):
And.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
The energy that you would have to have to continue
to fight over and over and over again for this
many months, and I'm sure we're not even close to
being done with this fight.
Speaker 3 (25:44):
I really appreciate you.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
You're listening to KFI AM six on demand.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
And from my mouth to your ears, yuck. I mean
any reason my'n from O Kelly on this evening later
with mo Kelly, your normally scheduled host is taking some
I guess well needed time off, well deserved time off,
and now I think he'll be back on Monday.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
But here's the deal.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
This weekend, as you might know, is of course the
Pacific Air Show Down in Huntington beach Man. It's cool
and yes, sure, the government shutdown means that we don't
have some of the military jets that you're used to
see in but and I have this on pretty good authority,
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the Canadian forces are bringing their snowbirds, they got their
parachute display teams from the UK. The Royal Air Force
they're still working, they're still clocking in and out. They
got the Royal Air Force is bringing a big ol
C seventeen and then a couple people are bringing their
private fighter jets their former military jets, so there's still
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going to be awesome things to see. Red Bull flyers
will be there and you got to check out. This
is very exciting Mike Daniel and the cheshire Cat. It's
called a stuff all aircraft s t o L which
we're gonna find out what that means right now with
Mike Daniel, who's joining us now. Sir, I hope we're
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not cutting into your uh your pilot.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
Rest, No, what's up?
Speaker 10 (27:13):
And Andy, thanks for having me. I am sitting I
think at the corner of Magnolia and Slater, just battling
Huntington Beach stoplights. All good, you know that just got off,
just just got off the beach, had a few practice
landings and demos with a couple, a couple of individuals
who had a time of their lives. And yeah, I'm
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just heading across back across down.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
So this cheshure Cat is the name of your plane.
And it is a small single engine aircraft. And I
don't know if it's a you call it an experimental
plane perhaps, And it's these big knobby tires that look
like they're like the the big inflat look like they're inflatable.
They almost look like you could like eat it like
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a doughnut, and you are sto l stall means short
takeoff and landing. You're going to be taking off and
landing that plane on the beach at the Pacific Air Show.
Speaker 10 (28:09):
That's right. So there you're in, You're you're hitting you know,
right right right on the nail. The plane is a
bush plane. It's meant to land off airport in the dirt,
in the woods, on the beach, in the grass, that
type of stuff. That's the type of flying we do. So,
you know, backcountry aircraft. A lot of people will familiarize,
you know, bush flying with Alaska bush pilots things like that.
(28:31):
But but there's a huge community of bush pilots across
kind of the country down here in the lower forty
eight and yeah, we get, you know, the best opportunity
to come in and land on the beach, which is
almost unheard of in all of the state of California
and many other, uh, you know, coastal areas. I don't
even want to very great.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
Yeah, I don't even want to think what the Coastal
Commission thinks about this, you know, I don't even want
to think about the insurance I don't want to have
anything to do with that. I just know that it
looks awesome and that thing must be so fun to
flo I'm sure it doesn't weigh more than a thimble.
Speaker 10 (29:03):
Yep, it's twelve hundred pounds at home, dirt bike in
the sky. So if you can think about what that
might mean, they're they're basically a toy, you know, big
boy toy if you want to call it. Yeah, just
a very very capable plane, very easy and friendly. I
mean it's a lot of people say they are very
difficult to fly. I mean I fly it. I've become
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very accustomed to it.
Speaker 4 (29:24):
Captain.
Speaker 3 (29:26):
So you know how long it takes?
Speaker 2 (29:28):
How long it takes to go up and down the
beach there with all those red lights which everybody sat in.
It's like thirty minutes to get from Seal Beach all
the way down to Long Beach, through Sunset Beach or whatever,
all the way all the way to the end when
you're in that aircraft. And I know it's not an
F sixteen, but how long does it take you to
get that little stretch?
Speaker 4 (29:47):
Yeah?
Speaker 10 (29:47):
So the stretch, oh gosh, I'm going about you know, well,
let's put it this way, I can be flying just
about the same rate ass as the traffic is going
along the road. But the nice thing about my air
it does have a decent cruise speed, so I can cruise,
you know, comfortably at about one hundred and twenty miles
an hour. And I actually live in the Lake Tahoe area.
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I'm from Trucky, California. Hey, love truck love coming down here.
Love Trucky, great place, and I fly so to fly
direct Trucky down here to Huntington takes me about three
hours on the nose, So if you were driving, you know,
I don't know what it is, seven eight hours, so
it's it's it's not an overly fast aircraft, but you
definitely get from point A to point b a luckily.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
Yes, sir, And I bet it's beautiful flying up there
in the Eastern Sierra.
Speaker 10 (30:33):
It's gorgeous. And the type of flying we do is
low and slow, so we're you know, we're not very
high off the ground, and you get just the most
incredible views all the way down. Flew the three ninety
five down here this time, and it was just I mean,
it's it's I'm so grateful to be able to do
this and see the world from just up above.
Speaker 3 (30:50):
Is this your full time gig?
Speaker 10 (30:52):
No, not at all. I am one hundred percent of
recreational pilot cool. So I actually my background is in
design and marketing. But I've actually about seven eight years ago,
i quit drinking and needed a new awesome hobby. I
have a big background in the skateboard world, and I've
been beat up pretty good from that and wanted to
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sort of take that same level of adrenaline and rush
and sort of you know, I don't even call it
like kind of that that that lifestyle, yeah, and take
it into something next and backcountry flying I really gravitated
to and just really latched onto it and dove in
full board, got my pilot's license, and I used to
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see the guys driving around with big bubbly tires and
coming back dirty, and I'd say, where are those guys
coming from? Doing? That's what I want to be, right right,
And that's what I got. Got into the tailwheel aircraft
in the back country.
Speaker 3 (31:47):
That's amazing.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
Captain Mike, thank you so much for being with us.
You're going to be at the Pacific Air Show. When
will you be flying? If people want to come and
check you out.
Speaker 10 (31:56):
So here's what's going on with my plane. I actually
imparked on static to display my plane has a sweepstakes
along with it. I have a QR code on the
side of the plane. You scan the code, you point
your phone at the Cheshure cat which is on the
side graphic. It's right by the front entrance. You can't
miss it, and that brings up a little augmented reality experience.
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The cat comes to life through the lens of your
phone and it'll bring up a call to action to
enter a sweepstakes to fly off the beach with me
on Sunday. Wow, that's what my plane. That's what my
plane will be doing all weekend. Luke Chappella. Many of
you may or may not know if you follow any
of the aviation world famous Red Bull pilot, he the
guy who landed on the helipad in Dubai. He'll be
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the one flying the beach demonstrations. He's got a yellow
carbon cub that will be flying around during the show.
So that's pretty good one actually flying. My plane will
just be sitting on the beach, but enter to win.
Maybe somebody listening to the show right now, I'll get
a chance to play out let us hope.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
So the Pacific Air Show down in Huntington Beach all
weekend tickets are still available of ours. I know the
military jets aren't there, but there's a lot of fun.
Captain Mike, thank you so much for colling. We'll take
a look at trying to get a little, a little
jump seat ride with you out there on the beach.
Appreciate you save me safe flying this weekend. My friend,
This is KFI a M six forty.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
KFI a M six forty on demand
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
By me, Andy Reespire. This is Later with Moe Kelly.
I am in for mister mo Kelly. I'll be with
you all the way to ten o'clock tonight. Would love
to hear from you at Andy KTLA if you've got
some thoughts. Of course, you can normally see me Monday,
Tuesday and when else Thursday on the KTLA Morning News
and then on the weekend show. I'm here on the
(00:24):
weekends as well. You can access me in a lot
of ways. It's a lot of meat, which is great
if you're a fan. If you don't like me, that's
a struggle.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
I get it.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
We've got a lot on the show tonight. Just talking
to Conway about the Pacific Air Show at Huntington Beach.
That is going to be exciting. Big airplane people love
the planes. Will tell you about what to expect. We're
actually gonna talk to one of the pilots. Of course,
there's no military jets there due to the government shutdown,
but the short takeoff in landing planes the stall planes
(00:56):
now listen, you usually don't want a plane that's called
a stallplane, right, That's like the number one thing you
don't want in an aircraft is stalling. But we are
going to talk to one of the pilots of those
planes tell us about what to expect they land on
the beach. I think great time down there in Huntington Beach.
Beautiful day today, It's going to beautiful this weekend. Like
I said, we will have that just in a little bit.
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Plus a woman who lives in Altadena, Shanna Dawson. She
lost her home in the Eaten fire. She'll join us
also to talk about her reaction to this report that
the Board of Supervisors spent two million dollars on two
million dollars of our money and the people in Altadena
(01:39):
don't like the report. The bard of Supervisors slam the report.
On Tuesday, We're going to get a reaction and see
what the community members are thinking about with that. Plus
a new dating app. You know those dating apps out there?
What a hell that is? It's going to actually ask
you if you want to receive nudes? Now, how fun
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is that? Good stuff? But before we get into that,
something is afoot in the valley. Bad news in the valley.
The studio city Equinox better not lock up your watch,
will you go to pump some irons, as they say.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
According to the LAPD, this isn't just happening at gyms,
but also at parks, yoga studios, essentially anywhere where people
have their guard down. And the victim in this case,
he says, he took off his watch. You put it
inside the locker.
Speaker 5 (02:31):
When he came back, it was gone. I put my
watch inside the locker.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
Darius Hicks is referring to his twenty thousand dollars rolex
he believes was stolen from this Equinox gym in Studio City.
Speaker 5 (02:43):
Took a shower and steamed. I came back maybe about
fifteen minutes or so.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Did she call it?
Speaker 2 (02:47):
It is Alino Bovian, who I think is a great reporter,
but I think she's pronouncing equinox equinox.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
Like erewon the pricey piece of jewelry. It was inside
a locker which was locked. He says. It was on
September eighteenth, and still no clues as to who could
have taken it. What's worse, the watchet sentimental value, a
reminder of his best friend who passed away at a
young age.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
That's terrible.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
I also got to say something about this so believe
it or not. And I know this is going to
sound out of touch. I am a member of this Equinox.
I did not know why I signed up for this,
but I worked for a company many years ago where
I got a really good deal on it. And I'm
hoping that no one from Equinox finds out I don't
work for that company anymore because I think I'm still
grandfathered in on that deal. But I'm sure had they
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known that I changed I changed careers, I probably wouldn't
qualify for this. But I've got a lot of thoughts
on this, and when we listened to the rest of
the story, I'll tell you what I think.
Speaker 5 (03:48):
Starting in real estate together and doing quite a free
real estate deals, and then we bought these matching reluxes
as a celebratory thing. Quite maybe about three years later.
He passed away at the age of thirty.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
Six, and while police have not yet confirmed this case
is linked to others, law enforcement has caution before the
locker rooms across LA from the Valley to the West Side,
have become hotspots for theft.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
Wow, I don't get this.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
When you go to the Equinox, and again when you
look at me I understand why you think I don't
go to the gym a lot. I'm on the same
one hundred percent. But when you go to the gym here,
you open up the locker, you put your stuff in there,
and then you close it. And then there's a keypad
and it's like a magnetic lock, and it's pretty secure.
And if you lose or forget the keypad or the
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number or whatever on the keypad, you've got to go
ask a manager, who will then walk over with a clipboard.
He'll ask you what's in the locker. You have to
tell him what's in the locker. He makes a note
of it with the clipboard, and I think he actually
takes the license, takes down your license.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
This is very strange.
Speaker 6 (04:55):
After the suspects call and enter gymnasium and they go
through the locker's see locks that are cut and broken,
real easy versus the ones there are a solid great
locks that there's no way they we're able to touch
those items.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
The department says the best don't put your own locks.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
That's not how that works. I don't know what's going
on here. I think only the manager has access to those.
You need a special key to get in there does
it make a lot of sense, and says the best
advice is to invest in a strong, sturdy lock or
just leave your valuables at home.
Speaker 7 (05:28):
Yeah, I don't want watches very much anymore so. I
think in the last couple of years people used to
wear watches all the time. Wow, Like, I'm so proud
of not wearing a watch.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
Have you ever heard.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Somebody so so smug about not wearing a watch?
Speaker 3 (05:41):
It's so over, it's so last year.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
Listen our watches very much anymore, or just leave your
valuables at home.
Speaker 7 (05:47):
I don't want watches very much anymore so. I think
in the last couple of years people used to wear
watches all the time.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Well, but get with the program. Misobovian mari a short
sleeve shirt or something. I'm not wearing a watch right now.
Speaker 4 (05:59):
In response to the theft, Equinox says we take the
security of our members property very seriously and our assisting
law enforcement following a recent incident. As for Hicks, he
posted the devastating incident on his social media only to
realize he isn't alone.
Speaker 5 (06:14):
There isn't any recourse when you're going to these gyms,
when you're going out grocery shopping, just on your everyday errands.
Be vigilant because people are wowed and it's insane that
you can't go to the gym without being robbed.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
All right, I think that the setup there was something
like Aleno Bovian talked to Jim Gohers to see if
they had any insight onto what went down there, And
I asked, who is Jim goers Lionel Richie is in
hot water? I guess kind of. We're going to get
to that in a little bit. Plus dating app that
asks if you want to see nudes? What a world
(06:52):
we're living in? So much news here today on this
Thursday in Los Angeles.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Nadi Esmeyer in for mister mo Kelly. Let's go out
to Altadena. There's some news that broke just earlier today
about the Eaton fire, or at least the moments leading
up to it. An investigation by NPR that's an up
and coming radio station, found issues with cal Edison power
lines the morning before the Eton fire destroyed part of Altadena.
(07:22):
So this would have been hours because if you remember,
back on January seventh, the fire started in the Palisades
that morning and then didn't. We didn't see a lot
of smoke or at least a lot of activity happening
in Altadena until much later in the afternoon. But distribution
lines are basically the lines that go into individual houses
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from the power company, and they were failing as early
as eleven AM, and at least one was linked to
a fire, and like I said, hours before the fire
actually broke out at Eaton Canyon. Firefighters responded during the
morning in the afternoon and all those soaks how Edison
could have shut off power to most of the circuits
in the area, they didn't. It is the latest investigation
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in the last week about the fires. A two million
dollar report commissioned by the Board of Supervisors found failures
at the county level, but did not put the blame
squarely on any department or any person Immediately, the reaction
from the community was negative. On Tuesday, the county criticized
their own report, saying it was full of gaping holes
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and didn't answer the question why did evacuation alerts come
so late for so many I'm sure you remember nineteen
people died in the Eton fire. Eighteen of those were
in West Altadena who that community didn't receive those emergency
alerts to evacuate until way farther into the morning. Many
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people who live in Altadena are also frustrated by this report,
including Seanna Dawson, who runs the community group on social
media account Beautiful Altadena. She joins us with Lauren Randolph,
who also lost a home in Altadena during the fire.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
Good evening to both of you. Thank you for being here,
thanks for having us on tonight.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
So I want to ask your initial reaction from the
fire report on Thursday was publicized Seana, pretty well in
the Los Angeles Times, in another media, you were really
displeased with it. When Tuesday rolled around, the Bord of
Supervisors took a look at that and sort of echoed
what you were saying in that the report really didn't
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go very far, or at least didn't give the people
in Altadena what they were hoping for.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
What were you guys looking for in this report?
Speaker 8 (09:46):
You know, I'll kick it off by just saying, I
think what Alcadina was looking for is some form of accountability,
right what was promised by the county with that this
report would bring some clear, fact based review how the alert,
warnings and evacuations were handled specifically in West Albadina, which
is a historically black community and where we saw the
(10:08):
majority all but one of the nineteen documented depths. And
I say documented because we still have neighbors who are missing.
We've lost neighbors since the fire, the suicides and to
other complications, so that depth toll is not representative. But
what we got instead was carefully inconveniently worded pr spin
tiptoying around the county's midsteps, no assigning of responsibility anywhere.
(10:33):
In particular, if anyone seen a spider man, name of
everyone pointing at the other spider man, that's it, that's right.
We shared that actually on our social media account. And
so you know, this is what brought community members and
community organizers together. So Lauren and I separate of our
representations with our organizations. Myself a beautiful Albadina, Lauren as
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an altogether block cabin captain, both of us total low
survivors west of Lake. You're also part of an organization
called alpadin inso for accountability, and so we brought together.
We ended up bringing together a couple hundred of our
neighbors in very short notice. In Albadina to have a
press conference to communicate loud and clear how unsatisfactory this
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is for a community that needs some form of justice
and the true accountability, and clearly we were heard.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Yeah, yeah, And I think that you must at least
feel good to hear Supervisor Barker or Barger Rather and
a few of the other board of supervisors say yeah,
this didn't go far enough, and how upsetting is that.
It almost feels like it must be insult to injury
to look at this and say, there's two million dollars
that were spent on this study that ostensibly could have
gone to helping rebuild, and we have less answers than
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we could have ever expected.
Speaker 8 (11:55):
Right, I'm gonna let Lauren take that.
Speaker 9 (11:58):
Yeah, I I feel the same way. I mean a
lot of what came out of in a Crystal report
where things we already knew, right, We knew we were
under staffed, we knew we weren't prepared. We didn't need
a two million dollar report to tell us that we
needed the report to tell us why the nine to
one one calls in West Altadena were unanswered, and why
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evacuation didn't come through sooner, and why we didn't get
those alerts sooner, and why there wasn't a better, more
coordinated do you effort other than community members.
Speaker 7 (12:28):
Do you have any.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Indication why there was so little uh findings, I guess,
or I mean it was a sense of this was
an independent report that was paid for by the county.
But does it feel like there was some of CYA
action happening?
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Yeah?
Speaker 9 (12:46):
Yeah, I think definitely. It feels like it was kind
of a performative report rather than rather than a report
that really dove into investigating. I think the first page
of the reports is this is not an investigation and
it's not to lay blame, and if we're paying this
much for report, it should be an investigation to understand
what went wrongs and how to do better next time
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so that this doesn't happen again anywhere in La County.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
I think it's obvious when you look at the photos
of the aftermath of this now almost ten months later,
and how devastating it was, but even now, how little
it feels like has been done.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
You just say, like, what is happening right now? I mean,
what's your sense?
Speaker 2 (13:32):
I mean, at least in the community about the sentiment
of how the rebuilding process has been going at a
county level.
Speaker 9 (13:42):
I think it's not doing Shawna. I don't know if
you've started the process, but I have talked to a
lot of neighbors who have started, and it's just it
seems like red tape and disconnect. You know, the process
is supposed to be quicker to get permitting and rebuild,
and there's no consistency in how long anybody's plans get
turned around. And then every day there's a new report
(14:05):
on soil or air. So you start to rebuild and
you start to make a decision, and then you gain
more information that is being let out and investigated, so
it makes it really difficult to push forward. And then
on top of that, you at the Christopher Court and
a lack of clear understanding of what happened that night
to fix it, and it's hard to move forward.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Do you have any indication, Shana, sort of what goes
what happens next year? I mean I almost want to say,
like I get the urge to say, Okay, well you
didn't fix the situation. Who's your boss that I can
talk to, which I know is.
Speaker 8 (14:41):
Like probably, but well I'm not going to I'm not
going to use the euphemism that we tend to the
last year because it's you know, it would undermine what
we stake care. But the bottom line is, you know,
our organizations, you know our coalition of organizations, are very
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clear in our demand and it is that Attorney General
but Rob Bosa conduct a true independent investigation with the
pen of power, because that is the only way that
we are going to get what we need. That report
is a report, it's not an investigation. It's not actionable.
We've had reports like this in the past. There was
one after the Right we had one after the Wolsey fire.
(15:23):
None of half the things that motions were passed and
promises were made to implement were not implemented. If they
had been, you and I would not be having this compensation.
Well so cashun say, ultimately we need a real investigation
with the pena power that agencies cannot dodge. I think
it's critical to understand that that report was not only
(15:44):
full of errors and inaccuracies, and just it's observed some
of the passages are absurd that we have time tonight
to cover them if you do these in air. But
the biggest you know hole to me is the fact
that entire swaths of data are missing. The Eli County
Sheriff Sheriff Luna effectively right now, in candem with OEM
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and Eli County Fire heads up emergency response, the Eli
Sheriff's Department did not provide any data for this report.
They declined to do that. And the only way it's
going to happen is if our Attorney General compelled them
to do it. So that is what our organization and
ultimately our community and the tens of thousands of Altadenas
that we represent, are asking for.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
Can you stick with us through a break here.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
We'll be right back after just a couple of minutes here,
and we want to hear more sort of about what
you and your community group, not only what you want,
but also what you think can happen to help the
community move forward, but also what maybe will will give you,
guys an indication of if there will be any accountability
here going forward, because obviously no one wants this to
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happen again. This is something that you know as a
person who doesn't live in that neighborhood but still is
obviously very aware of it. I don't know that I've
heard a lot of accountability and a lot of things
that have changed. So let's talk about that just after
the break, but now check it in.
Speaker 8 (17:07):
Who's Next? And then it just happened us. Who do
you think is next?
Speaker 3 (17:10):
Well?
Speaker 2 (17:10):
Well, well said, So we'll continue this conversation with Shauna
and Lauren about the Altadena fires and the unfortunately disappointing
report here from the Board of Supervisors at the county level.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
Yeah, I'm Andy Reesmeyer in formo Kelly tonight. We're talking
about the Eton fire. Of course, that's one of two
devastating fires that took place earlier this year in Los
Angeles or at least a La County. We had more
than six thousand structures burn in Altadena, and I've remember
so well after the fires the phrase that you saw
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all over social media, and you would see it in
real life if you if you drove through Alta Dina
afterwards when we were covering it, the words were Altadena
is not for sale and the essence was to preserve
these neighborhoods where families have lived for generations. But I imagine
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that insurance money, the loss of use money, is what
they call it. That's what you spend while you wait
around to rebuild. Only lasts so long, and so now
we come up here on ten months and what has
been done. We have a report from the county that
the county themselves was dissatisfied with community members are upset,
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they're worried. There is no plan joining us right now.
Lauren Randolph and SHAWNA. Dawson and Lauren both community organizers.
Shauna runs the Beautiful Altadena Instagram social media account, and
the two of you both lost homes in this fire.
So this is so personal to you, and I'm so sorry,
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and I just my heart goes out to you because
to think about losing your home is one thing, but
then to think about I don't know how long it
will be until I can build it back, must be
really terrible.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
Shanna.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
This NPR report that just came out earlier today disclosed
a lot of details that were not in this report
from the county.
Speaker 8 (19:24):
Good good, I would have to say, I think it
was a bombshell for a lot of people who must
have been reading that today, But for those of us
who live in the community. I know Lauren and I
have exchanged our own personal stories as we both know
people who reported fires earlier.
Speaker 9 (19:38):
In the day.
Speaker 8 (19:40):
This is not a surprise. It's just another omission in
this lackluster, two million dollar piece of paper. Right, there's
one hundred pages that we got for this. But you know,
there were fires reported as early as three and four
pm in Altadena, started by downed electrical lines, reported to
nine one one reported to the fire department, reported to
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see and still power was not cut. One of the
other fallacies in that report is that there was no
cell signal. This is why they couldn't track. This could
be another cause for why there was no evacuation warning.
All of that is very patently untrue because power was
still on in many areas, and people had clear phone signals,
for example, to call their loved ones and tell them
(20:24):
to get out when no warning came.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
Well, at what point do you think it right?
Speaker 2 (20:31):
I mean, people's lives were lost in these parts of town,
and even if you had been way outside of the
evacuation zone, you knew how wonky that evacuation warning system was.
I mean people were getting those evacuation warnings in Calabasas,
in northern parts of Los Angeles County that were nowhere
near the fire evacuation zones.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
At what point?
Speaker 2 (20:54):
And I've asked that this is a real question, This
is not a leading question, But does this verge on
crit at some point?
Speaker 8 (21:03):
It makes you wonder, right, It really does make you
wonder between see and everyone else who is culpable here,
who who does pay the ultimate price for this other
than our community? And I say our community because outside
of all these lives that have been lost, and the
nine thousand homes and structures that have been lost, and
(21:23):
the thousands of our neighbors who have been displaced, and
to your point, you know, and they'll never be able
to come back, right between insurance running out or being
under insured or completely uninsured, or being renters, or being
elders who can't possibly get through rebuild, or people with
young families who cannot spend the next five years doing this,
pick something right. The fabric of our community is forever changed,
(21:45):
and you know it'll be the topic I think, frankly
of another show, in another conversation. But with some of
the legislation, including SB nine and eighty seven eighty two,
you know, we're looking at our community in the rebuild
being forever changed. Beyond the challenges beyond all the broken
homises around permits and suspension of s benignded here are
are CSD and that's a lot of that's a lot
(22:06):
of numbers and letters.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
But you know there, I think the sentiment is is
big issues, is right?
Speaker 3 (22:11):
Yeah, we have big issues.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
And as you said before, if there is no accountability,
and I'm assuming you know, one of the things that
they said in the original report was like, well, we
don't want to blame any this isn't about blaming people.
But I also hear from the community saying I don't
think that you guys are trying to uh tar and
feather people in the town square. I'm assuming no, and
(22:32):
correct me if I'm wrong that you just want to
make sure that there's accountability so this doesn't happen again.
Because as we said before, those conditions, uh though they
were absurd, you know, certainly can happen again.
Speaker 8 (22:47):
Yeah, but they weren't unprecedented. Sorry, I would please go ahead, Lauren.
Speaker 9 (22:52):
Yeah, I mean the same thing. I mean, I grew
up in southern California that Santa Ana wins has been
something my entire life that we that we've known about
high fire, earthquakes, Right, these.
Speaker 10 (23:03):
Were all.
Speaker 9 (23:05):
Things. These are all environmental factors that we've known about,
and especially I think coming out of the loosely fire
in the twenty eighteen report and thinking there would be
reforms to make us safer, and seeing how far away
we were from enacting everything that needed to be does
warrant accountability. Yes, we're not trying to roll heads in
(23:28):
the street and we're not shouting to fire everybody, but
we want to understand who made these decisions, Who didn't
make these good decisions right? Who made the decision that
when there were nine to one one calls coming in
from actual people seeing flames and fire and Altabina decided
to ignore that and not evacuate those residents earlier? I
(23:50):
think it is important to know who was making these
calls because it doesn't add up. And there should be
accountability in any other job, right, if a doctor messages
up or something, there's accountability most of the time.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
Well said, we will leave it at that. Thank you
both of you for making time for me. I know
you did John Cobbolt earlier, so I'm sure you're tired,
but I really appreciate it. And please stay in touch
and please let us know how it goes. It's people
like you who are going to make it so that
this doesn't happen again, because obviously, left to their own devices,
(24:24):
they'll put out a report that doesn't really give us
any plan or pathway forward. So, Lauren and Shauna, I'm
so sorry about your losses, and I'm sorry about the
continual pain that this community is going through. I think
that it's a tragedy. And I just don't understand how
a place that is so proud California, Los Angeles, so
(24:46):
proud of how big our government is, how much money
we pay, how many elected officials we have, and how
much we trust or some trust in the local government
that they cannot get it together to help these people.
That's the whole point I think of government is to
make sure that your people are safe and they they're
(25:08):
able to have a quality of life.
Speaker 7 (25:10):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
And so I'm s.
Speaker 8 (25:12):
Property for those times you would think you would think,
but I would think, here we are all right, Well,
thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
Yes, there they go.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
You can find her Shauna at Beautiful Altadena on Instagram
and follow along. Of course, with all of the rebuilding there.
They're really doing just the most important stuff that you
could be doing.
Speaker 7 (25:33):
And.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
The energy that you would have to have to continue
to fight over and over and over again for this
many months, and I'm sure we're not even close to
being done with this fight.
Speaker 3 (25:44):
I really appreciate you.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
You're listening to KFI AM six on demand.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
And from my mouth to your ears, yuck. I mean
any reason my'n from O Kelly on this evening later
with mo Kelly, your normally scheduled host is taking some
I guess well needed time off, well deserved time off,
and now I think he'll be back on Monday.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
But here's the deal.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
This weekend, as you might know, is of course the
Pacific Air Show Down in Huntington beach Man. It's cool
and yes, sure, the government shutdown means that we don't
have some of the military jets that you're used to
see in but and I have this on pretty good authority,
(26:26):
the Canadian forces are bringing their snowbirds, they got their
parachute display teams from the UK. The Royal Air Force
they're still working, they're still clocking in and out. They
got the Royal Air Force is bringing a big ol
C seventeen and then a couple people are bringing their
private fighter jets their former military jets, so there's still
(26:47):
going to be awesome things to see. Red Bull flyers
will be there and you got to check out. This
is very exciting Mike Daniel and the cheshire Cat. It's
called a stuff all aircraft s t o L which
we're gonna find out what that means right now with
Mike Daniel, who's joining us now. Sir, I hope we're
(27:08):
not cutting into your uh your pilot.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
Rest, No, what's up?
Speaker 10 (27:13):
And Andy, thanks for having me. I am sitting I
think at the corner of Magnolia and Slater, just battling
Huntington Beach stoplights. All good, you know that just got off,
just just got off the beach, had a few practice
landings and demos with a couple, a couple of individuals
who had a time of their lives. And yeah, I'm
(27:34):
just heading across back across down.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
So this cheshure Cat is the name of your plane.
And it is a small single engine aircraft. And I
don't know if it's a you call it an experimental
plane perhaps, And it's these big knobby tires that look
like they're like the the big inflat look like they're inflatable.
They almost look like you could like eat it like
(27:57):
a doughnut, and you are sto l stall means short
takeoff and landing. You're going to be taking off and
landing that plane on the beach at the Pacific Air Show.
Speaker 10 (28:09):
That's right. So there you're in, You're you're hitting you know,
right right right on the nail. The plane is a
bush plane. It's meant to land off airport in the dirt,
in the woods, on the beach, in the grass, that
type of stuff. That's the type of flying we do. So,
you know, backcountry aircraft. A lot of people will familiarize,
you know, bush flying with Alaska bush pilots things like that.
(28:31):
But but there's a huge community of bush pilots across
kind of the country down here in the lower forty
eight and yeah, we get, you know, the best opportunity
to come in and land on the beach, which is
almost unheard of in all of the state of California
and many other, uh, you know, coastal areas. I don't
even want to very great.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
Yeah, I don't even want to think what the Coastal
Commission thinks about this, you know, I don't even want
to think about the insurance I don't want to have
anything to do with that. I just know that it
looks awesome and that thing must be so fun to
flo I'm sure it doesn't weigh more than a thimble.
Speaker 10 (29:03):
Yep, it's twelve hundred pounds at home, dirt bike in
the sky. So if you can think about what that
might mean, they're they're basically a toy, you know, big
boy toy if you want to call it. Yeah, just
a very very capable plane, very easy and friendly. I
mean it's a lot of people say they are very
difficult to fly. I mean I fly it. I've become
(29:23):
very accustomed to it.
Speaker 4 (29:24):
Captain.
Speaker 3 (29:26):
So you know how long it takes?
Speaker 2 (29:28):
How long it takes to go up and down the
beach there with all those red lights which everybody sat in.
It's like thirty minutes to get from Seal Beach all
the way down to Long Beach, through Sunset Beach or whatever,
all the way all the way to the end when
you're in that aircraft. And I know it's not an
F sixteen, but how long does it take you to
get that little stretch?
Speaker 4 (29:47):
Yeah?
Speaker 10 (29:47):
So the stretch, oh gosh, I'm going about you know, well,
let's put it this way, I can be flying just
about the same rate ass as the traffic is going
along the road. But the nice thing about my air
it does have a decent cruise speed, so I can cruise,
you know, comfortably at about one hundred and twenty miles
an hour. And I actually live in the Lake Tahoe area.
(30:08):
I'm from Trucky, California. Hey, love truck love coming down here.
Love Trucky, great place, and I fly so to fly
direct Trucky down here to Huntington takes me about three
hours on the nose, So if you were driving, you know,
I don't know what it is, seven eight hours, so
it's it's it's not an overly fast aircraft, but you
definitely get from point A to point b a luckily.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
Yes, sir, And I bet it's beautiful flying up there
in the Eastern Sierra.
Speaker 10 (30:33):
It's gorgeous. And the type of flying we do is
low and slow, so we're you know, we're not very
high off the ground, and you get just the most
incredible views all the way down. Flew the three ninety
five down here this time, and it was just I mean,
it's it's I'm so grateful to be able to do
this and see the world from just up above.
Speaker 3 (30:50):
Is this your full time gig?
Speaker 10 (30:52):
No, not at all. I am one hundred percent of
recreational pilot cool. So I actually my background is in
design and marketing. But I've actually about seven eight years ago,
i quit drinking and needed a new awesome hobby. I
have a big background in the skateboard world, and I've
been beat up pretty good from that and wanted to
(31:14):
sort of take that same level of adrenaline and rush
and sort of you know, I don't even call it
like kind of that that that lifestyle, yeah, and take
it into something next and backcountry flying I really gravitated
to and just really latched onto it and dove in
full board, got my pilot's license, and I used to
(31:35):
see the guys driving around with big bubbly tires and
coming back dirty, and I'd say, where are those guys
coming from? Doing? That's what I want to be, right right,
And that's what I got. Got into the tailwheel aircraft
in the back country.
Speaker 3 (31:47):
That's amazing.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
Captain Mike, thank you so much for being with us.
You're going to be at the Pacific Air Show. When
will you be flying? If people want to come and
check you out.
Speaker 10 (31:56):
So here's what's going on with my plane. I actually
imparked on static to display my plane has a sweepstakes
along with it. I have a QR code on the
side of the plane. You scan the code, you point
your phone at the Cheshure cat which is on the
side graphic. It's right by the front entrance. You can't
miss it, and that brings up a little augmented reality experience.
(32:16):
The cat comes to life through the lens of your
phone and it'll bring up a call to action to
enter a sweepstakes to fly off the beach with me
on Sunday. Wow, that's what my plane. That's what my
plane will be doing all weekend. Luke Chappella. Many of
you may or may not know if you follow any
of the aviation world famous Red Bull pilot, he the
guy who landed on the helipad in Dubai. He'll be
(32:37):
the one flying the beach demonstrations. He's got a yellow
carbon cub that will be flying around during the show.
So that's pretty good one actually flying. My plane will
just be sitting on the beach, but enter to win.
Maybe somebody listening to the show right now, I'll get
a chance to play out let us hope.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
So the Pacific Air Show down in Huntington Beach all
weekend tickets are still available of ours. I know the
military jets aren't there, but there's a lot of fun.
Captain Mike, thank you so much for colling. We'll take
a look at trying to get a little, a little
jump seat ride with you out there on the beach.
Appreciate you save me safe flying this weekend. My friend,
This is KFI a M six forty.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
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