February 12, 2025 • 34 mins
Quick WHIP: Antartica drilled through the ice to the bedrock // IN n OUT Burger moving its headquarters from OC to its original location. // Investigation finds more than 1,300 fire hydrants need maintenance across LA // Know where your fire hydrant is and check to see if it's on the list for non-working at cbsla.com and Rick Dees reporting on “The Talk”
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's k IF.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
I am six forty and you're listening to The Conway
Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 3 (00:08):
It is the Conway Show. All right, dig doong, everybody? Glad,
everybody is here. Another program. Gonna be raining tomorrow. We
won't hit you too much over the head, but it
is going to be really really wet tomorrow, up to
three inches. So that's a big deal. That's a big deal. Hey,
let's start with a whip around. Alright, you guys ready step.
Speaker 4 (00:30):
Foo, Yeah, I know.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Well we got to wake up, you know, and starting
on the quick whip here all right?
Speaker 4 (00:37):
In Antarctica.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Is everybody familiar with Antarctica?
Speaker 4 (00:41):
Yeah? South Pole area? Yeah, oh, South all right, we're good.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
South Pole home too many penguins in the In the summer,
it's about zero degrees and the winter gets down to
I don't know, I'm eighty below. Tourism is growing in Antarctica.
People are going down there to check out the penguins,
and there's a lot of cruise ships that fly through there.
They don't go as close as they probably want to.
(01:08):
I think they're respecting the you know, the the the
area and the wildlife down there. Okay, So they just
drilled through the ice where they found ground, all right,
So they drilled all the way through the ice and
they stopped where they found bedrock. How many feet did
(01:31):
they drill from the top of the Antarctic ice shell
ice sheet to they hit until they hit rock. We'll
do it in feet, steph, let's start with you. How
many feet do they drill through the ice, the ice
and come up with the ice core until they found bedrock?
Speaker 4 (01:53):
One hundred feet? One hundred feet okay? Felli? Oh, four
thousand feet or a thousand alright, Krozier.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
A mile and a half, one point five miles, alright, Angel, hmmm,
I'll go with.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
Three feet. Did you say what did you say? Three feet?
Is that right?
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Oh? You did?
Speaker 4 (02:23):
You did? Angel said three feet? Yes?
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Well, okay, alright, three feet all right, that's cool. The
actual answer is eight thousand, seven hundred and fifty feet.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
Krozer gets it.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Eight thousand, seven hundred and fifty feet of ice. Eight thousand,
seven hundred and fifty feet of ice.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
That's that's just over a mile and a half.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Yes, over, just over a mile and a half. You
got under a mile. Bellyon and Angel, three feet is
not right.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
I don't know what.
Speaker 5 (02:58):
That's well, yeah, I mean it's got to be three
feet deep somewhere out there.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Yeah, that's right, Yeah, three feet until they get to
the fourth foot. It's definitely three feet and then they
get to the fourth foot.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
But that's a lot.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
I would have never guessed that that that ice sheet
is over a mile and a half deep and thick.
And when they bring it up, they can look at
thousands of years of history, you know, when when the
planet went through an ice age, it went through volcanoes
and all that crap. I mean, it's really really cool too.
(03:30):
Eight seven and fifty feet of ice. That's the that's
the top of Big Bear. What did I say start?
What term did I use? Stepos? That they got you crazy?
Speaker 4 (03:51):
Jeez?
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Well, I just spell it out for me and then
put on the camera and I'll look at it now.
Speaker 6 (03:57):
I think you were just talking about the depth and
the thickness of the ice.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Oh okay, all right, man, since you watched The Office,
that's what she said.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
Okay, all right, But that's that's a lot of ice.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
You know, when you when you watch these programs where
you know the ice is melting and global warmings getting
all crazy. You think, like, oh man, there's probably like
nine inches of ice down there in Atarctica.
Speaker 5 (04:21):
No.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
No, eight seven and fifty feet.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
That's to the that's from San Bernardino, the base of
San Bernardino to the top of Snow Summit. That's eight thousand,
seven hundred and fifty feet or the base of Snow Summit,
something like that. Snow Summits involved, they're involved. I don't
know what where. What's the elevation of Snow Summit. Let's
(04:45):
let's look that up. I'm gonna look that up. Elevation
of Snow Summit. Yachay, that's pretty damn close.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
What is it? Eighty two hundred feet?
Speaker 7 (04:57):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (04:58):
Is that right? No, summit peak eighty two hundred Yay mountain.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
Eighty eight Okay, so the peak of the peak, the
very top of Snow Summit is still five hundred feet
shorter than the ice that is frozen in Antarctica. I
think we're in good shape, kids, I think we're in
good shape with the ice.
Speaker 6 (05:20):
Essentially, Big Bear Mountain is eighty eight hundred So that's
that's the comparison.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Okay, all right, Big Bear Mountain eighty eight hundred feet
of ice eight seven hundred and fifty feet that is wild,
and then they cut it up into sections. You know,
it's like a foot and a half or two feet,
and they cut this big ice core into sections, and
they can tell you know, the history of the planet,
when we had volcanoes, when we had you know, dinosaurs,
(05:47):
when we had aliens, when there was a seven eleven
that was built down there, And we can tell all
that crap from bringing.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
Up the ice. So it's a cool deal. It's a
cool deal. I don't know if you're interested or not,
but I was.
Speaker 6 (06:00):
Also waiting for the horror movie of what's released by
digging a hole that deep into Yeah, oh yeah, what
comes up?
Speaker 4 (06:05):
Yeah? Like remember the movie the Thing.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Yeah yeah, all of a sudden he comes out of
that hole like, ah tacks. Everybody rips, everybody's guts up.
A little bit of housekeeping here. Somebody got pissed people.
A couple of people got pissed that we sometimes put
out on social media, like advertising stuff, and people are like, no,
(06:30):
that's your social media, that's not iHeart social media, and
I write back, sweetie.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
They're a big part of why we have those numbers.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
Do you think if I was doing a podcast with
Krozier and Steph Fuje, Bellio and Angel. You think we'd
have three hundred thousand people listening and watching this thing
every day. No way, We'd have like nine people. Nine people.
So if you can't handle it, then I don't know,
then don't follow. I know Bellio hates when I say that,
(07:03):
But if you if you don't like it, then you know, right,
then don't do it.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
You know.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
It always amazed me when people say, you know, I
listened to show every day and I hate it, Like, really, well,
why do you why do you listen? I don't get it.
I really don't get it, but I guess maybe I
do the same thing. I watched MSNBC recently just to
see the level of depression going on there, and I
kind of enjoy that.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
Because it was four years of Hell.
Speaker 6 (07:26):
Well, you're talking about ads basically on on like social media.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
Social media already has ads. That's right. What do you
do that's past them? That's right?
Speaker 3 (07:34):
If you like them, you know, dive into it. If
you don't like it, then not screw it.
Speaker 6 (07:38):
But it's gonna help somebody who actually would like that product.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
That's right. I know that someone like you is endorsing.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
That's exactly right, Krozer. You and I are company men.
You're a voice of trust in right, Bubbo you and I? Hey,
are you gonna post pictures of the fence you made?
I think you should? Man, Yeah, yeah, I'll do that.
That's a beautiful fed got another section to finished today. Yeah,
that's a skill. You know, there's a lot of people.
There's nobody on the show that could do that. Stephus
should ever do that. I couldn't do it.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
I trust these There's no.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
Way I could do that, no way you could do it.
Stephish could never do that. There's no construction oriented, no
Stephush ever built a fence like a dog eared plank fence.
Speaker 4 (08:17):
I will happily pay someone who knows how to do it.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
There you go, there you go. Yeah, it's like, what
was it? Who's the guy on? Who was the guy
on Popeye? I'll gladly pay you Tuesday, Wimpy Wimpy for
a hamburger today.
Speaker 4 (08:34):
All right, rain is coming in.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
We'll talk about that periodically because we don't want to,
you know, hit you too much over the head.
Speaker 4 (08:41):
Although I have already mentioned it three times so but
it's gonna be horrible.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
It's gonna be more about three or more inches of
rain coming in and you got to be prepared for that.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
So we feel like we have to warn you and
so just live with it.
Speaker 8 (08:53):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
All right, we got this weather coming in, they said
the crows, you're gonna love this. The most severe weather
for the San Fernando Valley three to seven pm tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
They've knocked it.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
They've they've sort of condensed it and pinpointed it and reduced.
Speaker 4 (09:17):
It twelve hours from two to two two p two A.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Yeah, but they but the real severe crap when you
know when the storm is really racing through and it's leaving,
it's on its way out, that's when all the hard hit,
the hard hit stuff it comes down three to seven
pm in the valley. That's gonna be the major punch
that we get. So we'll be on the air. Yeah, yeah,
(09:39):
you'll do guide people through all these puddles and pools
and hopefully no landslides though. Yeah. Anyway, we'll keep you
on top of that. In and Out Burger everybody's favorite,
I go to the one in Burbank. There's always a
line out to the street. I know it's thirty minutes
to wait, and I gladly wait. I never get upset.
(10:02):
Occasionally somebody cuts in front of me. That's irritating, but
I don't lose my mind over it. I figure, Okay,
it's another thirty seconds, and that guy's an a hole.
I'm not gonna lose my life over thirty seconds quicker
to get a burger.
Speaker 4 (10:17):
That's not how I'm going out. But other than that,
I like to uh my wife.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
My daughter jumps in the car with me, and I
take that thirty minutes to find out what's going on
in her life, and I shut the radio off and
I just pepper her with questions. What's going on, how's work,
how's school, what's going on?
Speaker 4 (10:37):
Out of your mom? What's going out with your friends?
Bat o bai barek? And she at the by the end,
she's like, God almighty, this is brutal.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
Here.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
It's just out and out with this guy, this guy
with the questions for thirty minutes.
Speaker 4 (10:51):
But I love it.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
It gives me an opportunity to catch up with my
sweet daughter.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
So I enjoyed it all. Right, let's find out what
In and Out's doing.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
They're moving on from they're moving off from their headquarters.
Speaker 9 (11:03):
But now they're moving its headquarters out of Orange County.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
What the hell where they going?
Speaker 5 (11:09):
That's food chain returning to its roots in the San
Gabriel Valley. According to a news release, In and Out
will leave its Irvine offices in favor of new headquarters
in Baldwin Park, that's where the chain was founded in
nineteen forty eight. In addition, the company says it is
establishing an Eastern Territory office in Nashville, Tennessee.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
Ooh, they're moving east, moving east with this in and Out.
Speaker 5 (11:32):
In and Out is expected to open restaurants there by
the end of the year. Baldwoom Park moved, due to
be completed by the end of twenty twenty nine.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
You know, it sounds like she has those you know,
you ever seeing these grandma bracelets where she has like
forty metal bracelets on any of your grandmothers ever? Do
then where they had like forty little tiny thin metal bracelets.
My grandmother had like forty of them, and man, you
could hear her come in from a mile away.
Speaker 4 (11:57):
I don't know what that deal was, but it sounds yeah,
it sounds like she has these bracelets up.
Speaker 5 (12:02):
That's where the chain was founded in nineteen forty eight.
In addition, the company says it is establishing an Eastern Turk.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
Yeah, it's got all those bracelets banging around and.
Speaker 6 (12:11):
I bet they never got cleaned, so they were probably
incredibly filthy.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
Oh it was the worst. And you know, as you
get older, your skin sort of just deteriorates and flies off,
and it's said, nightmare.
Speaker 4 (12:24):
It really is not fun to get old. It sucks.
And then and that's why old.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
People's houses are dusty all the time. It's not dust,
it's skin. It's skin flying off them. Yeah, and it's everywhere.
You know, you going to somebody who got their first
apartment in their you know, in their twenties, and they're
you know, all they're all loached up and you know
they're they're not dry. There's never you can't find a
dust or anywhere. But man, when you're in your eighties,
(12:52):
you can't see. It's like you know, hitting a pillow
at the sun rays coming in through the window. You know,
you hit a pillow and you're a kid, and all
that just went everywhere. And that's what it's like with
old people. Man, they just the skin's flying off there,
just flying me.
Speaker 4 (13:07):
Let's go back to something you said, loached up. Yeah,
loach lotion short for lotion. Okay, I like that.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
Yeah, Hey, I get loche, get the loche. Everybody shortens everything,
you know, instead of merchandise, it's merged, so loche. I
wonder if anyone will eventually steal that, you know, where
they put that on a bottle. It's probably already out there.
Who knows, but that's wild in and out. Nobody ever
(13:38):
leaves Orange County when they move their headquarters Orange County.
Orange County is great. Orange County loves big business. Big
business loves Orange County. Taco bells down there. I think
Coke and PEPSI got a big platform down there. Some
of these other fast food places, you know, some of
the car dealerships. I know Hyundai's in Orange County. I
(13:59):
know that four It has a big office there in
Orange County. And the reason why is Orange County treats
the CEO, the CFO. They treat all these people right.
The cops work down there. The cops don't let people
come down, you know and steal other crap and harass them.
So I'm surprised that In and Out is moving out
of Orange County. That's really shocking to me. However, I'll
(14:22):
still be going to In and Out, it doesn't matter
where they operate from. But I do like that they're
going back to their roots, you know, I will give
In and Out a break. They're going back to the
Inland Empire and where they first started.
Speaker 4 (14:35):
So maybe it's cheaper, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
And I think In and Out is very conscious about
not raising their prices. I don't know about other fast
food places. They seem to, you know, run up the
score every once in a while, but In and Out
seems like it's still a good deal. You know, when
you go there and you get a burger, fries and
a coke, it's always good. They always have my order right.
(14:59):
I've never won had my order done incorrectly at In
and Out, not once, and they check it. Like when
you order, the guy repeat it back to you. Then
you get to the first window, the guy repeats it
back to you, and then you get to the third
window and the guy repeats it back.
Speaker 4 (15:14):
To you, and you know, the look in the bag
to make sure it's in there. Yeah. I like that.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
It's they're very efficient. Yeah, and they got it. It's
like a beehive. They've got thirty people working there and
back then. I've never seen anybody run into each other.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
You know, we run it.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
There's five people one two, three, four five, one two
five people on the show.
Speaker 4 (15:31):
We're consumpty. I run into.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
Bellio once a week when she's coming out out of
by the studio, or I'm going into Aramix. I bet
you know I'm run into her. But there's thirty people
working and out. I've never seen two people collade, never
seen them, never seen once. I don't know how they
do it. Something's going on with that in and out.
All right, we got to take break. The big storm
is coming in tonight and all day tomorrow, so please
(15:53):
be aware of that. It's going to be huge, three
or more inches of rain. That's a lot, and we're
gonna have a lot of news on it tonight and tomorrow.
We're gonna let you know where the flooding is, where
the mudslines are, what's going on, where where the where
to stay away from, what freeways are flooding. I think Angel,
(16:14):
you've always said this. The rule of thumb when it
rains is to stay out of the fast lane.
Speaker 4 (16:19):
Is that true?
Speaker 3 (16:20):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (16:21):
I like to stay out of the fast lane because
you know a lot of water collects there just with
the way that the roads are designed, because they've got
the what do you call it, the gutters?
Speaker 3 (16:30):
Yeah, yep, yeah, I always filled with crap. They never
really taking those out. All right, stay out of the
fast lane. Let me go on the fast lane so
I can buzz around tomorrow without being in traffic.
Speaker 8 (16:41):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 9 (16:48):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
Yes, rain's coming in. We'll have all the details for
you throughout the day. But the big heavy rain tomorrow
in the San Fernando Valley three to seven pm.
Speaker 4 (16:56):
And give me a lot, Give me a lot. Would
you would think you would think.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
That the fire that we had in the Palisades Malibu
eating fire area, that immediately after those fires, somebody would
have said, hey, let's get on this these fire hydrants. Man,
this is a bad look where we have world class
city and there's nothing coming out of the fire hydrants.
(17:24):
So they did an investigation on the fire hydrants. Let's
find out how many of them are dry or in
need of repair.
Speaker 10 (17:32):
We found problems with several fire hydrants in the Palisades area,
but now tonight we're learning there may be in a
bigger issue involving thirteen hundred and fifty fire hydrants across
the entire city. That's right, thirteen hundred and fifty. Firefighters
inspect hydrants every year in Los Angeles and then report
them to LEDWP for a repair. But some of those
(17:52):
that were flagged nearly a year ago were still sitting
broken during the Palisades fire.
Speaker 4 (17:58):
And we've discovered that.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
How about that you live in the Palisades, you make
a lot of money, You pay a lot in property tax,
you know, forty fifty thousand dollars a year in property tax,
and the city of LA doesn't give a red sass
about you. They want your money. They take your money.
They don't spend it in your community. They take it
from the Palisades and they spread it around LA. They
(18:21):
take from the rich and give to the poor. That's
what they do in the Palisades. They take your money
out of the Palisades and they give to the rest
of the city. And then when you needed help, they
weren't there for you.
Speaker 10 (18:33):
We're still sitting broken during the Palisades fire, and we've
discovered that that problem may now be city wide and
may have been going on for years.
Speaker 4 (18:43):
Oh is that right?
Speaker 3 (18:45):
Well that makes sense. You know, the city of Los
Angeles does not know how to operate itself, and so
that makes sense that it's been going on for years.
I'd be surprised if it wasn't going on for years.
Speaker 4 (18:55):
May now be city wide and may have been going
on for years. Years.
Speaker 10 (19:02):
After weeks of windfield flames, firefighters bravely running unfused, and
Angelino's evacuating, billowing out of homes and businesses.
Speaker 4 (19:14):
And after all of the initial questions o citizen's and
apology about the initially missing mayor, do you think you
should have been visiting Ghana while this was unfolding? The
underfunded fire budget.
Speaker 10 (19:26):
Are you getting the support you need from the city
council in the city and.
Speaker 4 (19:29):
The Palisades water supply suddenly running.
Speaker 10 (19:32):
Dry, with the three tanks that DWE supplies in that
area running out. Now new questions surrounding the very symbol
of fire safety and whether some of these fire plugs
were providing a false sense of security. Did you believe
there was a problem there before the fire.
Speaker 4 (19:50):
And the water system window. You can see how it melted.
Momb Sanders now knows how his family was hit.
Speaker 10 (19:57):
You can see the fire damage of the windows, and
what he saw he'll never forget. And just the amount
of white billowing smokes just consain. So we packed up
and went and just by the time we got down Temiscal,
you could see the flames coming over the hill. He
came back days later to find his home sin but
still standing.
Speaker 4 (20:15):
Fact that the house survived just a huge blessing.
Speaker 10 (20:19):
But his block on Muskegon Avenue was struck. Yeah, it
was struck radically the ground.
Speaker 4 (20:24):
That was the house right up there. There was a
fence back there that melted.
Speaker 10 (20:28):
Hard to see and then hard to hear from a
firefighter who, he says, told him and neighbors that this
is where they ran out of water.
Speaker 4 (20:37):
Never would have dawned on me that the palisades.
Speaker 10 (20:40):
Could burn, and it never dawned on him that this
fire hydrant here to provide that water was actually known
to have an issue. That's just inexcusable that to say
we know there's a failure, we know this fire hydrant isn't.
Speaker 4 (20:54):
Working, and what did they do about it anything. We're
just gonna leave it. Records We've wait one. We're just
going to leave it. We're just going to leave it.
We're just going to leave it.
Speaker 10 (21:05):
Records we've obtained from LAFD show that his hydrant number
four zero zero zero age was inspected by the Los
Angeles Fire Department and listed as needs repair all the
way back on February twenty ninth of twenty twenty four,
nearly an entire year before.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
An entire year that fire hydrant needed repair, an entire
year before the fire.
Speaker 9 (21:28):
Critical that they get those hydrants repaired immediately. It shouldn't
take one day, let.
Speaker 4 (21:33):
Alone one year.
Speaker 10 (21:34):
Retired Battalion chief Rick Crawford says he saw these inspections
happen like clockwork every year during his thirty three years
with LAFD. And how critical are they that each and
every one of those hydrants works well.
Speaker 4 (21:48):
Hydrants is the lifeline, lifeblood of firefighting. Each one is
tested every single year, absolutely correct.
Speaker 10 (21:56):
And when you submit the list, when the Fire Department
gives the list to law up Ryan, they expect those
hydrants fixed almost immediately, don't they?
Speaker 4 (22:04):
Yes, yes, they wanted to fixed that day or the
next day. So yes, the expectation is they were going
to be repaired.
Speaker 9 (22:10):
It is one of those just big factors that you
have to have those repaired in a timely fashion.
Speaker 10 (22:17):
Last year of firefighters say they inspected sixty five, nine
hundred and seventy nine hydrants then submitted this list we've
obtained from August fifth to LADWP for action. The fire
Department says about thirteen hundred and fifty of those needed
further inspection or repairs. In the Palisades alone, eleven city
hydrants were marked for repair before the fire. All but
(22:40):
one of those was in or immediately adjacent to the
fire zone, like this homeowners hydrant. We asked the LADWP
chief executive officer, you're going to walk away, who's also
the chief engineer of the system.
Speaker 4 (22:55):
Excuse me, you're in my way, sir about all of
this as the fire was still burning.
Speaker 10 (23:00):
You believe there was a problem there Before the fire.
Speaker 7 (23:02):
We had no notifications of any fire hydrants not working
prior to the event.
Speaker 4 (23:07):
You don't have any outstanding swayed.
Speaker 7 (23:08):
What no notifications of any fire hydrants not working prior
to the event?
Speaker 4 (23:14):
Is that right?
Speaker 3 (23:15):
So somebody is not talking to somebody at city hall
if there's thirteen hundred fire hydrants that need repair or maintenance,
and then the people at city hall are like, no,
we never got that.
Speaker 7 (23:29):
We had no notifications of any fire hydrants not working
prior to the event.
Speaker 4 (23:34):
You don't have any outstanding service orders. I'm a single
hydrant in Metteran, not that we know, in.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
Fact, not that we know, not that we know. Oh
my god, man, is that dangerous.
Speaker 10 (23:45):
In fact, her staff says, LAFD submitted zero hydrants for
repairs in twenty twenty four. But we now know from
lafd's records that, in addition to this hydrant flag for
repair because one of its two outlets, it's four inch
out wasn't working, there was yet another hydrant that her
crew checked after we asked. And here too there was
(24:07):
a problem after it had been previously flagged by LAFD
nearly a year ago. One of its two outlets, it's
two and a half inch outlet, was also dry while
it stood standing in front of these now burned out homes.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
This is unbelievable, this report, right, It makes you want
to pull your hair out, and it also puts you
in fear in the future of you know, your kids,
your wife, your husband, whoever was rolling around your house,
that even if fire does break out, that the hydrants
might not be working.
Speaker 4 (24:40):
How could that possibly happen?
Speaker 6 (24:41):
Well, that is a good question, and we are checking
into that right now.
Speaker 10 (24:45):
Is it possible there are nearly thirteen hundred fire agents
right now then across the entire city.
Speaker 6 (24:50):
I mean that we have to see because I'm hearing
conflicting stories, but we will get to the bottom.
Speaker 10 (24:56):
Moments. We talked to one homeowner whose home was singed
near one of the broke in fire hydrants.
Speaker 4 (25:02):
This is unacceptable.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
Yes, that's right, She's exactly right. Maripas is a one hundred
percent right.
Speaker 4 (25:08):
Yes, this is unacceptable.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
Yes, she should go to the Oh no, she is
mayor sorry, she's the top chief. She runs the town,
runs La, and she's got to do something about this.
Speaker 4 (25:21):
This is unacceptable, which is why we have to get
to the bottom of it, and we were going.
Speaker 6 (25:27):
To do that.
Speaker 4 (25:28):
You have to get to the bottom of it.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
You run the joint, God Almighty, I'm so glad I
moved out of La. I saw the writing on the
wall about twenty years ago. Let me see two thousand
and nine. So yeah, almost twenty years ago, about seventeen
and sixteen years ago, I knew it was. It was
over the services. They're just not there in the city
of La. So I split went to Burbank. Krozier doesn't
(25:52):
live in La Neither is stepf Ouge, nor Angel nor Bellio.
We saw the writing on the wall and we said enough,
and I think a lot of people are going to
say the same thing.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
Enough.
Speaker 8 (26:04):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 4 (26:10):
Let's finish up here.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
Then Steve Krieger, retired captain with La County Fire, is
going to come on. We'll talk more about these hydrants.
But the hydrants, there's thirteen hundred of them in the
City of La that need repair or are not working.
Speaker 4 (26:24):
And that's a lot. That's a lot. Well again, one
is a lot. Well again.
Speaker 10 (26:30):
LEDWP says the fire department reported zero hydrants needed repair.
But the fire Department says it sent them the list
asking for thirteen hundred and fifty repairs and inspections last year.
We look closely at that spreadsheet ourselves, and there are
some inconsistencies that the Fire Department did not fully explain.
LEDWP says that they also have zero requests for repairs
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in twenty twenty three, only three hundred and seventy five
in twenty twenty two, and only five.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
You know, it's an e fing blame game in city hall.
And meanwhile, homes in Altadena, Arcadia, Pasadena in the eating fire,
and then in Palisades and Malibu are burning down while
everybody's blaming each other at city Hall.
Speaker 4 (27:12):
Isn't that fun?
Speaker 10 (27:13):
Only five in twenty twenty one. The Fire Department says,
zero hydrants needing service or a low number any year
is extremely unlikely. So where are the broken hydrants that
they flagged last year? The thirteen hundred and fifty, Well,
the sad truth is, no one knows whether those are
(27:34):
Oh my god, no one knows.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
It's twenty twenty five. Where are the fire hydrants that
need repair?
Speaker 4 (27:41):
No one knows. No one knows.
Speaker 10 (27:44):
No one knows whether those are working or not. The
mayor doesn't know. We're still trying to figure it out.
So you could have one of these hydrants in front
of your house that needed repair that is still not repaired.
The ones that we checked spot checked those were still broken.
Just don't know about the rest of them.
Speaker 3 (28:02):
Okay, I wonder if you can pop one open and
see if it's working. There's the pressure too much?
Speaker 4 (28:05):
I don't know. They say they're going to look into it.
In the meantime.
Speaker 6 (28:09):
If I'm a resident and I want to know about
the fire hydrants, and question like if there's one near me,
right one of my house, what do I do?
Speaker 4 (28:17):
What we all want to know? Right? You have a
hydran in front of your house? You think you're pretty safe?
Speaker 3 (28:21):
By the way, was Pat Harvey sitting in the parking
lot when she was recording.
Speaker 4 (28:24):
This about the fire hydrants? And question like her microphone
was in the parking lot?
Speaker 7 (28:29):
Do I.
Speaker 4 (28:32):
Love Pat Harvey? What do you saying? Be nice?
Speaker 3 (28:35):
She's one of the greatest. I'm not blaming her, I'm
blaming the guy. We at the know the mic on
what we all want to know?
Speaker 4 (28:39):
Right?
Speaker 10 (28:40):
You have a hydrant in front of your house, you
think you're pretty safe. We created an interactive map and
you can go to it on k.
Speaker 3 (28:46):
I regret that I think I'm the biggest Pat Harvey
fan in radio. I think I am Who else talks
about Pat Harvey? Nobody nobody I do. I'm friends with
Pat Harvey. I be Pat Harvey's House.
Speaker 10 (29:02):
Dot com and you can look up your address, go
down and see if it's.
Speaker 3 (29:06):
Let's get this is a serious what Okay, let me
just finish up here. This is this is serious, this
is serious information. Then we get to Steve.
Speaker 10 (29:15):
We created an interactive map and you can go to
it on keklnews dot com and you can look up
your address, go down and see if it's one of
the hydrants in question.
Speaker 4 (29:24):
We just don't know.
Speaker 3 (29:25):
Kcalnews dot com, kcolnews dot com. All right, Steve Kreeger
retire to LA County Captain La County Fire Steve, welcome
to the program.
Speaker 4 (29:35):
Hi you bub I'm doing good. Dig dong dig dong
with you? Dude.
Speaker 3 (29:39):
Hey, what's going on with these hydrants? How often do
you guys check them? With LA County? And what's the
process if one is broken? How to get it repaired?
Speaker 1 (29:47):
Okay? With La County, every fire station goes out in
their district and checks each fire hydrant once a year.
They put a cap on the hydrant, a brass chap
with a little quarterage hole in it, and turn on
and make sure that there's water coming out of it.
You don't want to do any more than that because
you'll stir up debris and stuff that's collects in the
pipes and then people will get brown water in their
(30:10):
houses when you do that. So check them, make sure
there's water, check the threads, put caps on them, and
make sure that there's no cap Do we have to
carry a bunch of plastic caps, So let's put them
on it and then move to the next one. We
have a record. But in La County different from La
City is you have multiple water companies throughout La County.
So in one area you may be deal with Sangarroo
(30:32):
Valley Water Company and another area's suburban water. So you have
a list in the computers. Now we used to have
those index cards, but a computer list every hydrant. You
check it. You have a checklist, and if there's any
problems that they need paint, the threads are damaged, there
ain't they issue at all. You send off to that
water company and about a month later you do a
follow up, say hey, if you check this, or you
(30:54):
go out and check those hydrants and problems and you
stay after that water company. And the private water companies
are really good about it. That's a huge liability.
Speaker 4 (31:02):
Sure, hey, but let me ask you a question. What
is the pressure in these fire hydrants.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
Well, it's the same as whatever's in your house, so
it's it's or it could be higher. So normally you
don't want more than like eighty pounds. I know what
Dean Sharp's talked about that the pressure you don't want
to have higher than eighty pounds. Now you have areas
that are higher than eighty pounds, you have to have
a pressure regulator on your house.
Speaker 4 (31:25):
Right, that's what I have.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
Have much higher, it will have the pressure. What's going
into that pressure regulation you have? You could have one
hundred pounds pressure in some areas because you have a
hilltop water tank. There's I know those areas in Malibu,
and they paint the top of the hydrant red. They
call them the redheads because they're they have extra high pressure.
(31:48):
And sometimes you have to actually put a regulator on
those hydrants because the pressure is too high, because you're
getting unregulated pressure. But normally, you know, fifty to eighty
pounds would be all right.
Speaker 3 (32:01):
And so what about when did I mean you're you've
been in the fire game for a while. I remember
when I was probably I don't know, maybe in my
teens where they started putting those blue reflectors in the
road to to identify where the fire hydrants are. Are
those fairly new like with the last thirty forty fifty years?
Speaker 1 (32:19):
Well, yeah, probably the last four years. I helped write
an article about that in a fire magazine back in
the seventies and they found that originally were using orange markers,
and they said, no, that we need something different. We
found the blue was the ones you can see from
the furthest distance away, right, But we put those out
to the problem is then when the streets get resurfaced,
(32:42):
they'd always get replaced. So I know in La County
they would. If if the Elie County public Works resurface
the street, then they actually will go out and put
in the new markers.
Speaker 4 (32:51):
All right, one more quick question.
Speaker 3 (32:52):
We got about thirty seconds, so don't give me a
long answer or I'll hang up on you, buddy. If
they have when a fire hydrant he gets run into
buy a car, why do the does the fire department
have to look for twenty minutes for the shut off
alve Why aren't those uniform?
Speaker 1 (33:07):
They are somewhat uniform, but sometimes they're covered over with alspald.
If they're out in the street, you have to dig
around looking for him. And we carried the rants to
shut him up, but sometimes they're very hard to find.
Speaker 3 (33:19):
Buddy, you're the best. Thanks for coming on ding dong
to your family too. Thanks Tim, You're the best, buddy,
all right, Thanks Steve frieger Man. That guy's always available.
You know if I text him at two thirty in
the morning when I was doing overnights here and the
guy picks up the phone on one ring, goes, Hey,
how can I help you? How great is that he's
a font? That guy's still working. That guy works harder
(33:42):
in the fire department now that he's not in.
Speaker 4 (33:43):
It than what he was in it.
Speaker 3 (33:45):
Hey, I think I don't know, Maybe that's an insult.
Speaker 4 (33:48):
I don't know. I love that Jilly retired before he
actually started working.
Speaker 3 (33:53):
I'm a big Steve Kreeger fan. I'm gonna get my
I'm gonna get a Steve Kreeger's shirt. I'm wearing a
Steve Briger Crieger's Creaker's shirt. Live clothing, Yeah, Creaker's Kreager's clothing.
All right, we're live, I guess I don't know. That
was a horrible hour, but what the hell, We'll try
to do better.
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Speaker 3 (00:08):
It is the Conway Show. All right, dig doong, everybody? Glad,
everybody is here. Another program. Gonna be raining tomorrow. We
won't hit you too much over the head, but it
is going to be really really wet tomorrow, up to
three inches. So that's a big deal. That's a big deal. Hey,
let's start with a whip around. Alright, you guys ready step.
Speaker 4 (00:30):
Foo, Yeah, I know.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Well we got to wake up, you know, and starting
on the quick whip here all right?
Speaker 4 (00:37):
In Antarctica.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Is everybody familiar with Antarctica?
Speaker 4 (00:41):
Yeah? South Pole area? Yeah, oh, South all right, we're good.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
South Pole home too many penguins in the In the summer,
it's about zero degrees and the winter gets down to
I don't know, I'm eighty below. Tourism is growing in Antarctica.
People are going down there to check out the penguins,
and there's a lot of cruise ships that fly through there.
They don't go as close as they probably want to.
(01:08):
I think they're respecting the you know, the the the
area and the wildlife down there. Okay, So they just
drilled through the ice where they found ground, all right,
So they drilled all the way through the ice and
they stopped where they found bedrock. How many feet did
(01:31):
they drill from the top of the Antarctic ice shell
ice sheet to they hit until they hit rock. We'll
do it in feet, steph, let's start with you. How
many feet do they drill through the ice, the ice
and come up with the ice core until they found bedrock?
Speaker 4 (01:53):
One hundred feet? One hundred feet okay? Felli? Oh, four
thousand feet or a thousand alright, Krozier.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
A mile and a half, one point five miles, alright, Angel, hmmm,
I'll go with.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
Three feet. Did you say what did you say? Three feet?
Is that right?
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Oh? You did?
Speaker 4 (02:23):
You did? Angel said three feet? Yes?
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Well, okay, alright, three feet all right, that's cool. The
actual answer is eight thousand, seven hundred and fifty feet.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
Krozer gets it.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Eight thousand, seven hundred and fifty feet of ice. Eight thousand,
seven hundred and fifty feet of ice.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
That's that's just over a mile and a half.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Yes, over, just over a mile and a half. You
got under a mile. Bellyon and Angel, three feet is
not right.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
I don't know what.
Speaker 5 (02:58):
That's well, yeah, I mean it's got to be three
feet deep somewhere out there.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Yeah, that's right, Yeah, three feet until they get to
the fourth foot. It's definitely three feet and then they
get to the fourth foot.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
But that's a lot.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
I would have never guessed that that that ice sheet
is over a mile and a half deep and thick.
And when they bring it up, they can look at
thousands of years of history, you know, when when the
planet went through an ice age, it went through volcanoes
and all that crap. I mean, it's really really cool too.
(03:30):
Eight seven and fifty feet of ice. That's the that's
the top of Big Bear. What did I say start?
What term did I use? Stepos? That they got you crazy?
Speaker 4 (03:51):
Jeez?
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Well, I just spell it out for me and then
put on the camera and I'll look at it now.
Speaker 6 (03:57):
I think you were just talking about the depth and
the thickness of the ice.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Oh okay, all right, man, since you watched The Office,
that's what she said.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
Okay, all right, But that's that's a lot of ice.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
You know, when you when you watch these programs where
you know the ice is melting and global warmings getting
all crazy. You think, like, oh man, there's probably like
nine inches of ice down there in Atarctica.
Speaker 5 (04:21):
No.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
No, eight seven and fifty feet.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
That's to the that's from San Bernardino, the base of
San Bernardino to the top of Snow Summit. That's eight thousand,
seven hundred and fifty feet or the base of Snow Summit,
something like that. Snow Summits involved, they're involved. I don't
know what where. What's the elevation of Snow Summit. Let's
(04:45):
let's look that up. I'm gonna look that up. Elevation
of Snow Summit. Yachay, that's pretty damn close.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
What is it? Eighty two hundred feet?
Speaker 7 (04:57):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (04:58):
Is that right? No, summit peak eighty two hundred Yay mountain.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
Eighty eight Okay, so the peak of the peak, the
very top of Snow Summit is still five hundred feet
shorter than the ice that is frozen in Antarctica. I
think we're in good shape, kids, I think we're in
good shape with the ice.
Speaker 6 (05:20):
Essentially, Big Bear Mountain is eighty eight hundred So that's
that's the comparison.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Okay, all right, Big Bear Mountain eighty eight hundred feet
of ice eight seven hundred and fifty feet that is wild,
and then they cut it up into sections. You know,
it's like a foot and a half or two feet,
and they cut this big ice core into sections, and
they can tell you know, the history of the planet,
when we had volcanoes, when we had you know, dinosaurs,
(05:47):
when we had aliens, when there was a seven eleven
that was built down there, And we can tell all
that crap from bringing.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
Up the ice. So it's a cool deal. It's a
cool deal. I don't know if you're interested or not,
but I was.
Speaker 6 (06:00):
Also waiting for the horror movie of what's released by
digging a hole that deep into Yeah, oh yeah, what
comes up?
Speaker 4 (06:05):
Yeah? Like remember the movie the Thing.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Yeah yeah, all of a sudden he comes out of
that hole like, ah tacks. Everybody rips, everybody's guts up.
A little bit of housekeeping here. Somebody got pissed people.
A couple of people got pissed that we sometimes put
out on social media, like advertising stuff, and people are like, no,
(06:30):
that's your social media, that's not iHeart social media, and
I write back, sweetie.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
They're a big part of why we have those numbers.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
Do you think if I was doing a podcast with
Krozier and Steph Fuje, Bellio and Angel. You think we'd
have three hundred thousand people listening and watching this thing
every day. No way, We'd have like nine people. Nine people.
So if you can't handle it, then I don't know,
then don't follow. I know Bellio hates when I say that,
(07:03):
But if you if you don't like it, then you know, right,
then don't do it.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
You know.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
It always amazed me when people say, you know, I
listened to show every day and I hate it, Like, really, well,
why do you why do you listen? I don't get it.
I really don't get it, but I guess maybe I
do the same thing. I watched MSNBC recently just to
see the level of depression going on there, and I
kind of enjoy that.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
Because it was four years of Hell.
Speaker 6 (07:26):
Well, you're talking about ads basically on on like social media.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
Social media already has ads. That's right. What do you
do that's past them? That's right?
Speaker 3 (07:34):
If you like them, you know, dive into it. If
you don't like it, then not screw it.
Speaker 6 (07:38):
But it's gonna help somebody who actually would like that product.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
That's right. I know that someone like you is endorsing.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
That's exactly right, Krozer. You and I are company men.
You're a voice of trust in right, Bubbo you and I? Hey,
are you gonna post pictures of the fence you made?
I think you should? Man, Yeah, yeah, I'll do that.
That's a beautiful fed got another section to finished today. Yeah,
that's a skill. You know, there's a lot of people.
There's nobody on the show that could do that. Stephus
should ever do that. I couldn't do it.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
I trust these There's no.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
Way I could do that, no way you could do it.
Stephish could never do that. There's no construction oriented, no
Stephush ever built a fence like a dog eared plank fence.
Speaker 4 (08:17):
I will happily pay someone who knows how to do it.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
There you go, there you go. Yeah, it's like, what
was it? Who's the guy on? Who was the guy
on Popeye? I'll gladly pay you Tuesday, Wimpy Wimpy for
a hamburger today.
Speaker 4 (08:34):
All right, rain is coming in.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
We'll talk about that periodically because we don't want to,
you know, hit you too much over the head.
Speaker 4 (08:41):
Although I have already mentioned it three times so but
it's gonna be horrible.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
It's gonna be more about three or more inches of
rain coming in and you got to be prepared for that.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
So we feel like we have to warn you and
so just live with it.
Speaker 8 (08:53):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
All right, we got this weather coming in, they said
the crows, you're gonna love this. The most severe weather
for the San Fernando Valley three to seven pm tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
They've knocked it.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
They've they've sort of condensed it and pinpointed it and reduced.
Speaker 4 (09:17):
It twelve hours from two to two two p two A.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Yeah, but they but the real severe crap when you
know when the storm is really racing through and it's leaving,
it's on its way out, that's when all the hard hit,
the hard hit stuff it comes down three to seven
pm in the valley. That's gonna be the major punch
that we get. So we'll be on the air. Yeah, yeah,
(09:39):
you'll do guide people through all these puddles and pools
and hopefully no landslides though. Yeah. Anyway, we'll keep you
on top of that. In and Out Burger everybody's favorite,
I go to the one in Burbank. There's always a
line out to the street. I know it's thirty minutes
to wait, and I gladly wait. I never get upset.
(10:02):
Occasionally somebody cuts in front of me. That's irritating, but
I don't lose my mind over it. I figure, Okay,
it's another thirty seconds, and that guy's an a hole.
I'm not gonna lose my life over thirty seconds quicker
to get a burger.
Speaker 4 (10:17):
That's not how I'm going out. But other than that,
I like to uh my wife.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
My daughter jumps in the car with me, and I
take that thirty minutes to find out what's going on
in her life, and I shut the radio off and
I just pepper her with questions. What's going on, how's work,
how's school, what's going on?
Speaker 4 (10:37):
Out of your mom? What's going out with your friends?
Bat o bai barek? And she at the by the end,
she's like, God almighty, this is brutal.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
Here.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
It's just out and out with this guy, this guy
with the questions for thirty minutes.
Speaker 4 (10:51):
But I love it.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
It gives me an opportunity to catch up with my
sweet daughter.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
So I enjoyed it all. Right, let's find out what
In and Out's doing.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
They're moving on from they're moving off from their headquarters.
Speaker 9 (11:03):
But now they're moving its headquarters out of Orange County.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
What the hell where they going?
Speaker 5 (11:09):
That's food chain returning to its roots in the San
Gabriel Valley. According to a news release, In and Out
will leave its Irvine offices in favor of new headquarters
in Baldwin Park, that's where the chain was founded in
nineteen forty eight. In addition, the company says it is
establishing an Eastern Territory office in Nashville, Tennessee.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
Ooh, they're moving east, moving east with this in and Out.
Speaker 5 (11:32):
In and Out is expected to open restaurants there by
the end of the year. Baldwoom Park moved, due to
be completed by the end of twenty twenty nine.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
You know, it sounds like she has those you know,
you ever seeing these grandma bracelets where she has like
forty metal bracelets on any of your grandmothers ever? Do
then where they had like forty little tiny thin metal bracelets.
My grandmother had like forty of them, and man, you
could hear her come in from a mile away.
Speaker 4 (11:57):
I don't know what that deal was, but it sounds yeah,
it sounds like she has these bracelets up.
Speaker 5 (12:02):
That's where the chain was founded in nineteen forty eight.
In addition, the company says it is establishing an Eastern Turk.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
Yeah, it's got all those bracelets banging around and.
Speaker 6 (12:11):
I bet they never got cleaned, so they were probably
incredibly filthy.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
Oh it was the worst. And you know, as you
get older, your skin sort of just deteriorates and flies off,
and it's said, nightmare.
Speaker 4 (12:24):
It really is not fun to get old. It sucks.
And then and that's why old.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
People's houses are dusty all the time. It's not dust,
it's skin. It's skin flying off them. Yeah, and it's everywhere.
You know, you going to somebody who got their first
apartment in their you know, in their twenties, and they're
you know, all they're all loached up and you know
they're they're not dry. There's never you can't find a
dust or anywhere. But man, when you're in your eighties,
(12:52):
you can't see. It's like you know, hitting a pillow
at the sun rays coming in through the window. You know,
you hit a pillow and you're a kid, and all
that just went everywhere. And that's what it's like with
old people. Man, they just the skin's flying off there,
just flying me.
Speaker 4 (13:07):
Let's go back to something you said, loached up. Yeah,
loach lotion short for lotion. Okay, I like that.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
Yeah, Hey, I get loche, get the loche. Everybody shortens everything,
you know, instead of merchandise, it's merged, so loche. I
wonder if anyone will eventually steal that, you know, where
they put that on a bottle. It's probably already out there.
Who knows, but that's wild in and out. Nobody ever
(13:38):
leaves Orange County when they move their headquarters Orange County.
Orange County is great. Orange County loves big business. Big
business loves Orange County. Taco bells down there. I think
Coke and PEPSI got a big platform down there. Some
of these other fast food places, you know, some of
the car dealerships. I know Hyundai's in Orange County. I
(13:59):
know that four It has a big office there in
Orange County. And the reason why is Orange County treats
the CEO, the CFO. They treat all these people right.
The cops work down there. The cops don't let people
come down, you know and steal other crap and harass them.
So I'm surprised that In and Out is moving out
of Orange County. That's really shocking to me. However, I'll
(14:22):
still be going to In and Out, it doesn't matter
where they operate from. But I do like that they're
going back to their roots, you know, I will give
In and Out a break. They're going back to the
Inland Empire and where they first started.
Speaker 4 (14:35):
So maybe it's cheaper, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
And I think In and Out is very conscious about
not raising their prices. I don't know about other fast
food places. They seem to, you know, run up the
score every once in a while, but In and Out
seems like it's still a good deal. You know, when
you go there and you get a burger, fries and
a coke, it's always good. They always have my order right.
(14:59):
I've never won had my order done incorrectly at In
and Out, not once, and they check it. Like when
you order, the guy repeat it back to you. Then
you get to the first window, the guy repeats it
back to you, and then you get to the third
window and the guy repeats it back.
Speaker 4 (15:14):
To you, and you know, the look in the bag
to make sure it's in there. Yeah. I like that.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
It's they're very efficient. Yeah, and they got it. It's
like a beehive. They've got thirty people working there and
back then. I've never seen anybody run into each other.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
You know, we run it.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
There's five people one two, three, four five, one two
five people on the show.
Speaker 4 (15:31):
We're consumpty. I run into.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
Bellio once a week when she's coming out out of
by the studio, or I'm going into Aramix. I bet
you know I'm run into her. But there's thirty people
working and out. I've never seen two people collade, never
seen them, never seen once. I don't know how they
do it. Something's going on with that in and out.
All right, we got to take break. The big storm
is coming in tonight and all day tomorrow, so please
(15:53):
be aware of that. It's going to be huge, three
or more inches of rain. That's a lot, and we're
gonna have a lot of news on it tonight and tomorrow.
We're gonna let you know where the flooding is, where
the mudslines are, what's going on, where where the where
to stay away from, what freeways are flooding. I think Angel,
(16:14):
you've always said this. The rule of thumb when it
rains is to stay out of the fast lane.
Speaker 4 (16:19):
Is that true?
Speaker 3 (16:20):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (16:21):
I like to stay out of the fast lane because
you know a lot of water collects there just with
the way that the roads are designed, because they've got
the what do you call it, the gutters?
Speaker 3 (16:30):
Yeah, yep, yeah, I always filled with crap. They never
really taking those out. All right, stay out of the
fast lane. Let me go on the fast lane so
I can buzz around tomorrow without being in traffic.
Speaker 8 (16:41):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 9 (16:48):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
Yes, rain's coming in. We'll have all the details for
you throughout the day. But the big heavy rain tomorrow
in the San Fernando Valley three to seven pm.
Speaker 4 (16:56):
And give me a lot, Give me a lot. Would
you would think you would think.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
That the fire that we had in the Palisades Malibu
eating fire area, that immediately after those fires, somebody would
have said, hey, let's get on this these fire hydrants. Man,
this is a bad look where we have world class
city and there's nothing coming out of the fire hydrants.
(17:24):
So they did an investigation on the fire hydrants. Let's
find out how many of them are dry or in
need of repair.
Speaker 10 (17:32):
We found problems with several fire hydrants in the Palisades area,
but now tonight we're learning there may be in a
bigger issue involving thirteen hundred and fifty fire hydrants across
the entire city. That's right, thirteen hundred and fifty. Firefighters
inspect hydrants every year in Los Angeles and then report
them to LEDWP for a repair. But some of those
(17:52):
that were flagged nearly a year ago were still sitting
broken during the Palisades fire.
Speaker 4 (17:58):
And we've discovered that.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
How about that you live in the Palisades, you make
a lot of money, You pay a lot in property tax,
you know, forty fifty thousand dollars a year in property tax,
and the city of LA doesn't give a red sass
about you. They want your money. They take your money.
They don't spend it in your community. They take it
from the Palisades and they spread it around LA. They
(18:21):
take from the rich and give to the poor. That's
what they do in the Palisades. They take your money
out of the Palisades and they give to the rest
of the city. And then when you needed help, they
weren't there for you.
Speaker 10 (18:33):
We're still sitting broken during the Palisades fire, and we've
discovered that that problem may now be city wide and
may have been going on for years.
Speaker 4 (18:43):
Oh is that right?
Speaker 3 (18:45):
Well that makes sense. You know, the city of Los
Angeles does not know how to operate itself, and so
that makes sense that it's been going on for years.
I'd be surprised if it wasn't going on for years.
Speaker 4 (18:55):
May now be city wide and may have been going
on for years. Years.
Speaker 10 (19:02):
After weeks of windfield flames, firefighters bravely running unfused, and
Angelino's evacuating, billowing out of homes and businesses.
Speaker 4 (19:14):
And after all of the initial questions o citizen's and
apology about the initially missing mayor, do you think you
should have been visiting Ghana while this was unfolding? The
underfunded fire budget.
Speaker 10 (19:26):
Are you getting the support you need from the city
council in the city and.
Speaker 4 (19:29):
The Palisades water supply suddenly running.
Speaker 10 (19:32):
Dry, with the three tanks that DWE supplies in that
area running out. Now new questions surrounding the very symbol
of fire safety and whether some of these fire plugs
were providing a false sense of security. Did you believe
there was a problem there before the fire.
Speaker 4 (19:50):
And the water system window. You can see how it melted.
Momb Sanders now knows how his family was hit.
Speaker 10 (19:57):
You can see the fire damage of the windows, and
what he saw he'll never forget. And just the amount
of white billowing smokes just consain. So we packed up
and went and just by the time we got down Temiscal,
you could see the flames coming over the hill. He
came back days later to find his home sin but
still standing.
Speaker 4 (20:15):
Fact that the house survived just a huge blessing.
Speaker 10 (20:19):
But his block on Muskegon Avenue was struck. Yeah, it
was struck radically the ground.
Speaker 4 (20:24):
That was the house right up there. There was a
fence back there that melted.
Speaker 10 (20:28):
Hard to see and then hard to hear from a
firefighter who, he says, told him and neighbors that this
is where they ran out of water.
Speaker 4 (20:37):
Never would have dawned on me that the palisades.
Speaker 10 (20:40):
Could burn, and it never dawned on him that this
fire hydrant here to provide that water was actually known
to have an issue. That's just inexcusable that to say
we know there's a failure, we know this fire hydrant isn't.
Speaker 4 (20:54):
Working, and what did they do about it anything. We're
just gonna leave it. Records We've wait one. We're just
going to leave it. We're just going to leave it.
We're just going to leave it.
Speaker 10 (21:05):
Records we've obtained from LAFD show that his hydrant number
four zero zero zero age was inspected by the Los
Angeles Fire Department and listed as needs repair all the
way back on February twenty ninth of twenty twenty four,
nearly an entire year before.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
An entire year that fire hydrant needed repair, an entire
year before the fire.
Speaker 9 (21:28):
Critical that they get those hydrants repaired immediately. It shouldn't
take one day, let.
Speaker 4 (21:33):
Alone one year.
Speaker 10 (21:34):
Retired Battalion chief Rick Crawford says he saw these inspections
happen like clockwork every year during his thirty three years
with LAFD. And how critical are they that each and
every one of those hydrants works well.
Speaker 4 (21:48):
Hydrants is the lifeline, lifeblood of firefighting. Each one is
tested every single year, absolutely correct.
Speaker 10 (21:56):
And when you submit the list, when the Fire Department
gives the list to law up Ryan, they expect those
hydrants fixed almost immediately, don't they?
Speaker 4 (22:04):
Yes, yes, they wanted to fixed that day or the
next day. So yes, the expectation is they were going
to be repaired.
Speaker 9 (22:10):
It is one of those just big factors that you
have to have those repaired in a timely fashion.
Speaker 10 (22:17):
Last year of firefighters say they inspected sixty five, nine
hundred and seventy nine hydrants then submitted this list we've
obtained from August fifth to LADWP for action. The fire
Department says about thirteen hundred and fifty of those needed
further inspection or repairs. In the Palisades alone, eleven city
hydrants were marked for repair before the fire. All but
(22:40):
one of those was in or immediately adjacent to the
fire zone, like this homeowners hydrant. We asked the LADWP
chief executive officer, you're going to walk away, who's also
the chief engineer of the system.
Speaker 4 (22:55):
Excuse me, you're in my way, sir about all of
this as the fire was still burning.
Speaker 10 (23:00):
You believe there was a problem there Before the fire.
Speaker 7 (23:02):
We had no notifications of any fire hydrants not working
prior to the event.
Speaker 4 (23:07):
You don't have any outstanding swayed.
Speaker 7 (23:08):
What no notifications of any fire hydrants not working prior
to the event?
Speaker 4 (23:14):
Is that right?
Speaker 3 (23:15):
So somebody is not talking to somebody at city hall
if there's thirteen hundred fire hydrants that need repair or maintenance,
and then the people at city hall are like, no,
we never got that.
Speaker 7 (23:29):
We had no notifications of any fire hydrants not working
prior to the event.
Speaker 4 (23:34):
You don't have any outstanding service orders. I'm a single
hydrant in Metteran, not that we know, in.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
Fact, not that we know, not that we know. Oh
my god, man, is that dangerous.
Speaker 10 (23:45):
In fact, her staff says, LAFD submitted zero hydrants for
repairs in twenty twenty four. But we now know from
lafd's records that, in addition to this hydrant flag for
repair because one of its two outlets, it's four inch
out wasn't working, there was yet another hydrant that her
crew checked after we asked. And here too there was
(24:07):
a problem after it had been previously flagged by LAFD
nearly a year ago. One of its two outlets, it's
two and a half inch outlet, was also dry while
it stood standing in front of these now burned out homes.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
This is unbelievable, this report, right, It makes you want
to pull your hair out, and it also puts you
in fear in the future of you know, your kids,
your wife, your husband, whoever was rolling around your house,
that even if fire does break out, that the hydrants
might not be working.
Speaker 4 (24:40):
How could that possibly happen?
Speaker 6 (24:41):
Well, that is a good question, and we are checking
into that right now.
Speaker 10 (24:45):
Is it possible there are nearly thirteen hundred fire agents
right now then across the entire city.
Speaker 6 (24:50):
I mean that we have to see because I'm hearing
conflicting stories, but we will get to the bottom.
Speaker 10 (24:56):
Moments. We talked to one homeowner whose home was singed
near one of the broke in fire hydrants.
Speaker 4 (25:02):
This is unacceptable.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
Yes, that's right, She's exactly right. Maripas is a one hundred
percent right.
Speaker 4 (25:08):
Yes, this is unacceptable.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
Yes, she should go to the Oh no, she is
mayor sorry, she's the top chief. She runs the town,
runs La, and she's got to do something about this.
Speaker 4 (25:21):
This is unacceptable, which is why we have to get
to the bottom of it, and we were going.
Speaker 6 (25:27):
To do that.
Speaker 4 (25:28):
You have to get to the bottom of it.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
You run the joint, God Almighty, I'm so glad I
moved out of La. I saw the writing on the
wall about twenty years ago. Let me see two thousand
and nine. So yeah, almost twenty years ago, about seventeen
and sixteen years ago, I knew it was. It was
over the services. They're just not there in the city
of La. So I split went to Burbank. Krozier doesn't
(25:52):
live in La Neither is stepf Ouge, nor Angel nor Bellio.
We saw the writing on the wall and we said enough,
and I think a lot of people are going to
say the same thing.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
Enough.
Speaker 8 (26:04):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 4 (26:10):
Let's finish up here.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
Then Steve Krieger, retired captain with La County Fire, is
going to come on. We'll talk more about these hydrants.
But the hydrants, there's thirteen hundred of them in the
City of La that need repair or are not working.
Speaker 4 (26:24):
And that's a lot. That's a lot. Well again, one
is a lot. Well again.
Speaker 10 (26:30):
LEDWP says the fire department reported zero hydrants needed repair.
But the fire Department says it sent them the list
asking for thirteen hundred and fifty repairs and inspections last year.
We look closely at that spreadsheet ourselves, and there are
some inconsistencies that the Fire Department did not fully explain.
LEDWP says that they also have zero requests for repairs
(26:53):
in twenty twenty three, only three hundred and seventy five
in twenty twenty two, and only five.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
You know, it's an e fing blame game in city hall.
And meanwhile, homes in Altadena, Arcadia, Pasadena in the eating fire,
and then in Palisades and Malibu are burning down while
everybody's blaming each other at city Hall.
Speaker 4 (27:12):
Isn't that fun?
Speaker 10 (27:13):
Only five in twenty twenty one. The Fire Department says,
zero hydrants needing service or a low number any year
is extremely unlikely. So where are the broken hydrants that
they flagged last year? The thirteen hundred and fifty, Well,
the sad truth is, no one knows whether those are
(27:34):
Oh my god, no one knows.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
It's twenty twenty five. Where are the fire hydrants that
need repair?
Speaker 4 (27:41):
No one knows. No one knows.
Speaker 10 (27:44):
No one knows whether those are working or not. The
mayor doesn't know. We're still trying to figure it out.
So you could have one of these hydrants in front
of your house that needed repair that is still not repaired.
The ones that we checked spot checked those were still broken.
Just don't know about the rest of them.
Speaker 3 (28:02):
Okay, I wonder if you can pop one open and
see if it's working. There's the pressure too much?
Speaker 4 (28:05):
I don't know. They say they're going to look into it.
In the meantime.
Speaker 6 (28:09):
If I'm a resident and I want to know about
the fire hydrants, and question like if there's one near me,
right one of my house, what do I do?
Speaker 4 (28:17):
What we all want to know? Right? You have a
hydran in front of your house? You think you're pretty safe?
Speaker 3 (28:21):
By the way, was Pat Harvey sitting in the parking
lot when she was recording.
Speaker 4 (28:24):
This about the fire hydrants? And question like her microphone
was in the parking lot?
Speaker 7 (28:29):
Do I.
Speaker 4 (28:32):
Love Pat Harvey? What do you saying? Be nice?
Speaker 3 (28:35):
She's one of the greatest. I'm not blaming her, I'm
blaming the guy. We at the know the mic on
what we all want to know?
Speaker 4 (28:39):
Right?
Speaker 10 (28:40):
You have a hydrant in front of your house, you
think you're pretty safe. We created an interactive map and
you can go to it on k.
Speaker 3 (28:46):
I regret that I think I'm the biggest Pat Harvey
fan in radio. I think I am Who else talks
about Pat Harvey? Nobody nobody I do. I'm friends with
Pat Harvey. I be Pat Harvey's House.
Speaker 10 (29:02):
Dot com and you can look up your address, go
down and see if it's.
Speaker 3 (29:06):
Let's get this is a serious what Okay, let me
just finish up here. This is this is serious, this
is serious information. Then we get to Steve.
Speaker 10 (29:15):
We created an interactive map and you can go to
it on keklnews dot com and you can look up
your address, go down and see if it's one of
the hydrants in question.
Speaker 4 (29:24):
We just don't know.
Speaker 3 (29:25):
Kcalnews dot com, kcolnews dot com. All right, Steve Kreeger
retire to LA County Captain La County Fire Steve, welcome
to the program.
Speaker 4 (29:35):
Hi you bub I'm doing good. Dig dong dig dong
with you? Dude.
Speaker 3 (29:39):
Hey, what's going on with these hydrants? How often do
you guys check them? With LA County? And what's the
process if one is broken? How to get it repaired?
Speaker 1 (29:47):
Okay? With La County, every fire station goes out in
their district and checks each fire hydrant once a year.
They put a cap on the hydrant, a brass chap
with a little quarterage hole in it, and turn on
and make sure that there's water coming out of it.
You don't want to do any more than that because
you'll stir up debris and stuff that's collects in the
pipes and then people will get brown water in their
(30:10):
houses when you do that. So check them, make sure
there's water, check the threads, put caps on them, and
make sure that there's no cap Do we have to
carry a bunch of plastic caps, So let's put them
on it and then move to the next one. We
have a record. But in La County different from La
City is you have multiple water companies throughout La County.
So in one area you may be deal with Sangarroo
(30:32):
Valley Water Company and another area's suburban water. So you have
a list in the computers. Now we used to have
those index cards, but a computer list every hydrant. You
check it. You have a checklist, and if there's any
problems that they need paint, the threads are damaged, there
ain't they issue at all. You send off to that
water company and about a month later you do a
follow up, say hey, if you check this, or you
(30:54):
go out and check those hydrants and problems and you
stay after that water company. And the private water companies
are really good about it. That's a huge liability.
Speaker 4 (31:02):
Sure, hey, but let me ask you a question. What
is the pressure in these fire hydrants.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
Well, it's the same as whatever's in your house, so
it's it's or it could be higher. So normally you
don't want more than like eighty pounds. I know what
Dean Sharp's talked about that the pressure you don't want
to have higher than eighty pounds. Now you have areas
that are higher than eighty pounds, you have to have
a pressure regulator on your house.
Speaker 4 (31:25):
Right, that's what I have.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
Have much higher, it will have the pressure. What's going
into that pressure regulation you have? You could have one
hundred pounds pressure in some areas because you have a
hilltop water tank. There's I know those areas in Malibu,
and they paint the top of the hydrant red. They
call them the redheads because they're they have extra high pressure.
(31:48):
And sometimes you have to actually put a regulator on
those hydrants because the pressure is too high, because you're
getting unregulated pressure. But normally, you know, fifty to eighty
pounds would be all right.
Speaker 3 (32:01):
And so what about when did I mean you're you've
been in the fire game for a while. I remember
when I was probably I don't know, maybe in my
teens where they started putting those blue reflectors in the
road to to identify where the fire hydrants are. Are
those fairly new like with the last thirty forty fifty years?
Speaker 1 (32:19):
Well, yeah, probably the last four years. I helped write
an article about that in a fire magazine back in
the seventies and they found that originally were using orange markers,
and they said, no, that we need something different. We
found the blue was the ones you can see from
the furthest distance away, right, But we put those out
to the problem is then when the streets get resurfaced,
(32:42):
they'd always get replaced. So I know in La County
they would. If if the Elie County public Works resurface
the street, then they actually will go out and put
in the new markers.
Speaker 4 (32:51):
All right, one more quick question.
Speaker 3 (32:52):
We got about thirty seconds, so don't give me a
long answer or I'll hang up on you, buddy. If
they have when a fire hydrant he gets run into
buy a car, why do the does the fire department
have to look for twenty minutes for the shut off
alve Why aren't those uniform?
Speaker 1 (33:07):
They are somewhat uniform, but sometimes they're covered over with alspald.
If they're out in the street, you have to dig
around looking for him. And we carried the rants to
shut him up, but sometimes they're very hard to find.
Speaker 3 (33:19):
Buddy, you're the best. Thanks for coming on ding dong
to your family too. Thanks Tim, You're the best, buddy,
all right, Thanks Steve frieger Man. That guy's always available.
You know if I text him at two thirty in
the morning when I was doing overnights here and the
guy picks up the phone on one ring, goes, Hey,
how can I help you? How great is that he's
a font? That guy's still working. That guy works harder
(33:42):
in the fire department now that he's not in.
Speaker 4 (33:43):
It than what he was in it.
Speaker 3 (33:45):
Hey, I think I don't know, Maybe that's an insult.
Speaker 4 (33:48):
I don't know. I love that Jilly retired before he
actually started working.
Speaker 3 (33:53):
I'm a big Steve Kreeger fan. I'm gonna get my
I'm gonna get a Steve Kreeger's shirt. I'm wearing a
Steve Briger Crieger's Creaker's shirt. Live clothing, Yeah, Creaker's Kreager's clothing.
All right, we're live, I guess I don't know. That
was a horrible hour, but what the hell, We'll try
to do better.
Speaker 2 (34:14):
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