July 25, 2025 • 39 mins
Disneyland offering Anaheim discount on parking passes. Burbank Butt-Sniffing Bandit caught again. LASD Sheriff Luna Press conference update on the explosion that killed 3 LASD Deputies. One grenade is missing from LASD facility // LASD presser – two grenades confiscated in Santa Monica, one exploded – they have been searching for the other one // What could’ve happened to that other grenade? Celebrating Crozier’s birthday, he has never had a physical. What is the fastest growing city in America? Princeton Texas // West Corona Fire near 91-Freeway. Possibly due to Homeless encampment. 91 EB traffic impacted. #greenFire
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's KFI AM six forty and you're listening to the
Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. We are
going to break in whatever doing if when the press
conference starts with the La Sheriff to burn, I think
it is Sheriff Luna that will be speaking, So keep
it on KFI. If there's any more new information that
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comes out of the Sheriff's department, we will carry that
press conference live moments from now.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Yeah, Luna and reps from the Bureau of Alcohol to
back on firearms and explosives.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
So all right, maybe there's some new details taken lay
on us. Now, if you live in Anaheim, it's been
a rough month. There's been a lot of burglaries, a
lot of crime, people breaking into jewelry stores, lots of
street takeovers, and just a lot of mischief makers in Anaheim.
So Disneyland is offering people who live in Anaheim a
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little break from all of that action. And if you
live in Anaheim, it says so on your license or
on your I don't know your cable bill, your natural
gas bill, and you can prove you live in Anaheim,
you are going to get a discount at Disneyland.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
It's not uncommon to hear Anaheim residents refer to Disneyland
as my park. Deeply discounted tickets are now being offered
to people with Anaheim address on their driver's license. Instead
of one hundred dollars or two hundred to get into
the happiest place on Earth, each ticket is seventy bucks.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
If that is a sweet deal. Now, I hope nobody
abuses it. You know, don't use it. Don't go get
a fake license saying you live in Anaheim, or don't
use your aunt who lives in Anaheim to get tickets
and then sell them online. Please, let's try to behave
for one promotion in southern California. Please, if you live
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in Anaheim, let's behave.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
Is seventy bucks. Seventy bucks to get in.
Speaker 5 (01:58):
It's incredible to me because I have family members that
don't have annual passes that would love to go to Disneyland,
and this will wow.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Where are those scumbags in life where they don't have
annual passes? What if they've done with their money? Got
them mighty? I mean even embarrassed to mention on KFI
either's people out there without annual passes at Disneyland.
Speaker 5 (02:20):
Woo family members that don't have annual passes that would
love to go to Disneyland.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
And this I'm one of them.
Speaker 5 (02:26):
And this will afford them an opportunity.
Speaker 6 (02:29):
To enjoy it.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
To qualify, adults must live in Anaheim.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
Okay, you're the qualifications. Let's listen carefully.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
It's not going to be tough, but you've got to
make sure that you take advantage of this if you
live in Anaheim.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Qualify Adults must live in Anaheim and bring a California
driver's license to enter Disneyland or California Adventure.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Okay, so they're not going to take gas bills, natural
gas bills. You have to have a driver's license that
says Anaheim to get in.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
The seventy dollars ticket is for a single park visit. Anaheim.
Residents can buy a maximum of eight tickets per day.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Oh my god, here's where it's going to get messy.
They're going to buy eight and they're going on eBay
for ninety bucks, a hundred bucks.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
Someone's gonna make some money.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
They must be used between August fourth and September twenty fifth.
It's a bonus for kids still out of school for
summer break. Anaheim spokesman Mike Lister says this July at
the park has been different compared to past years.
Speaker 7 (03:28):
Exchange rates versus the dollar, or international or global issues.
We're not seeing the busiest summer that we may typically see.
But the good side of that is is people get
to come and enjoy the park this beautiful summer weather
and it just may not be that peak crowd.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
The discounted price means Anaheim resident Amanda Kara Chrure will
be buying tickets to treat her nephew to another fun
experience at Disneyland.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
This is great. This is gonna be a great end
of summer treat for your kids or grandkids.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
I'm assuming because it's like just to like help the residents,
you know, make it more.
Speaker 4 (04:04):
Affordable easier for us to just go to the park.
And it's great. She nailed it. She nailed it. That's
exactly what they're doing.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
Another thing that people need to know is that tickets
can't be bought on site, only through Disneyland vacations, So
you need to make a phone call to make that purchase.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
And I wonder if they're going to make you show
your license, which they should when you go to get
in the park, so we know that you didn't buy
those tickets and then sell them on eBay.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Once you do that, the next step is to go
online and get a park reservation in Anaheim. Michelle je
Le take out now.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Okay, if you live in Anaheim, it is going to
be a beautiful end of summer for you. You can go
to Disneyland for seventy dollars seventy bucks. That is a
deep discount, so please go take advantage of that and
enjoy it at least one day. You're going to have
no worries once you get into Disneyland. It seems like
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every the entire world is left behind all your troubles,
you know, whether it's alimony, whether you you know you're
tough time paying rent, you got a child that's you know, struggling.
Maybe mom and dad are getting old and they're breaking down,
and you can leave it all behind for one day
at Disneyland. If you live in Anaheim, you are going
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to get in for fifty I'm sorry, seventy dollars.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
Now.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
If you live in Burbank, well, we've got a different
story for you. In Anaheim. Discounts to get into Disneyland
in Burbank. Guys going around sniffing women's butts.
Speaker 8 (05:40):
Brazen Burbank butt sniffing bandit back at it. Burbank police
say the same crouching creeper they first encountered in twenty
twenty one has been arrested again. This video is from
a similar case we reported on back in twenty twenty three.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
He's done it before, He's done it again and the
Bourbank cops arrested again in my shopping center in Burbank.
I think it's the Nordstrom's rack in Burbank where the
guy would be pretending to tie his shoe and then
breaking out the sniffer.
Speaker 8 (06:10):
Burbank police identify the man as Calice Crowder. Detectives say
they responded Tuesday to a report of a suspicious person
loitering in the women's department in nordstrom rack in the
Burbank Empire Center. When they got there, the man was
already gone, but he was soon spotted inside.
Speaker 9 (06:24):
The nearby Walmart.
Speaker 8 (06:25):
Police say they watched him on Walmart's surveillance cameras as
he entered the women's clothing section.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
Oh boy, I wonder if there's a difference I wonder
if you get if you're blindfolded, if you can tell
the difference between sniffing some woman's crack at Nordstrum or Walmart.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
Like the difference between Mexican coke and regular code and.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Maybe that maybe, But I wonder, if you're blindfolded, if
you could definitely nail, if you could get ten out
of ten like Ah, Nordstrom, whow oh oh Walmart for sure,
got almighty. I need to take a little bit of
break here, Walmart, we get a hit of that again?
Speaker 4 (07:14):
I hit nord Streams.
Speaker 10 (07:16):
Can I get one more hit before?
Speaker 4 (07:19):
No, you gotta move on. Okay, let me get a
quick one. That's nice.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Oh no, Panda Express, No, oh Walmart? Okay, Target. Oh,
that guy's arrested. I don't know what his deal is.
All right, let's get to the press conference here, let's
pull it up. The Prince conference is starting with Sheriff Luna.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
Here we go.
Speaker 11 (07:42):
Joshua, Kelly eckln Victor Limis, and Bill Osborne. As we
continue to grieve as a department with this profound loss.
Our unwavering support remains with their families, and it's been
a long week for them and our entire Los Angeles
County Sheriff's Department. During this incredibly difficult time, Sheriff's Homicide
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Bureau investigators, in coordination with our federal partners, have been
working tirelessly around the clock.
Speaker 12 (08:17):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
Am six forty.
Speaker 11 (08:24):
To gather in process evidence, interview, interview law enforcement personnel
and community members, execute sir to warrants, and pursue every
possible lead in this ongoing investigation. And I'm going to
just take a quick pause because my goal in coming
up here is to make sure that I update you
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on the most current information. There's a lot of information
that we're still in the middle of gathering. So by
no stretch of the imagination is anything I'm going to
provide here a conclusion to a lot that has been
going on. So at this time, we know that the
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day before Friday's explosion, Sheriff's Arson Explosive Explosive Detailed Detectives
had responded to a request for assistance from the Santa
Monica Police Department at a residential complex located in the
eight hundred block of Bay Street in the city of
Santa Monica. A resident had reported finding what appeared to
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be two hand grenade type devices inside a tenant storage
unit in the building underground parking garage. Santa Monica Police
Department officers responded and the Sheriff's Arson Explosive Detailed Detectives arrived,
did their investigation at least our preliminary investigation, next raid
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the devices and believed that they were both in The
devices were nonetheless transported by the Arson Explosives Detailed Detectives
to be destroyed and rendered safe. From the start of
this investigation, our department reached out to the Los Angeles
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Police Department's Bomb Squad for their assistance as you saw
them arrive last Friday and immediately summons the La County
Fire Department, which they were very helpful to us when
they first arrived. The other thing that I made sure
that occurred is that I called the Federal Bureau of
Investigation and I also called the ATF the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco,
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Firearms and Explosives to assist us with this investigation. Additionally,
the District Attorney's Office and the US Attorney's Office have
been extremely supportive of all of our investigative efforts. The
ATF investigators assumed the lead on the post blast investigation
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and their National response team responded from the East Coast
to assist us in trying to determine the origin and
cause of this explosion. Today we received an update on
the ATF's post blast explosion investigation, and based on the
ATF's expertise and the combination of physical evidence and debris
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recovered at the scene, they have determined that one of
the two grenades taken in a custody detonated on Friday,
and one of the grenades is unaccounted for at this time.
Out of an abundance for caution or of caution, an
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extensive church search of the entire training facility perimeter was conducted.
This included X rain all Special Enforcement Bureau vehicles, a
grid search from the blast site and surrounding areas, and
a thorough inspection of evidence lockers, the gym office spaces
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and surrounding shrubbery.
Speaker 9 (12:14):
You get the drift.
Speaker 11 (12:15):
We have looked at everything out there that we possibly could.
Since Friday, we have restricted public access on the Sheriff's
Road from Eastern Avenue to Roland's Drive, using patrol deputies
at stationary posts for twenty four to seven. Therefore, nobody
from the public has had access to this area that
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I just described. We conducted a thorough search to locate
the second device, but we haven't found it yet. In
addition to conducting the post blast investigation, the ATF will
be assuming full control into investigating the whereabouts of this
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other device that is missing. Sheriff's homicide detectives will continue
their investigation into the deaths of our three hero detectives.
Our entire department has been collectively working on supporting those
who are grieving. We have assigned a laison to each
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of the families and are continuing to support our own
personnel at the Special Enforcement Bureau, Homicide Bureau and those
who knew are fallen detectives. I have directed mandatory psychological
visits for all involved personnel, including those of the Special
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Enforcement Bureau, are Arson and Explosive Detail and all those
When I say first responders, I'm not going to get
into graphic details, but if you can imagine those first deputies,
detectives and other personnel that responded to the scene when
this first happened, to see their co workers in the
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condition that they found them, it was an absolute horrible site.
I've also called for an independent after action review of
the policies, practices, and equipment as it relates to our
Arson Explosives Detail. Since this tragic incident, all future explosive devices,
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inert or not will be treated as if they are
all live and will be disposed of accordingly. And I
just want to that's one change. But again, I know
there's going to be a lot of very good questions.
There are a lot of things. We're going to turn
this upside down. We're going to look at everything we
could why, because we need to know what happened. We
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owe it to the families, and for God's sake, I
never want this to happen again, not only in our department,
but there'll be lessons learned for other departments across the
country and literally the world. At this time, our Arson
Explosive Detail is not responding to calls for service, but
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our Special Enforcement Squad is now fully operational as of yesterday.
I cannot tell you how grateful I am to Chief
Jim McDonell in the Los Angeles Police Department, who came
in from the very beginning to assist us, and they've
been assisting us over the last week with our bomb
callouts and our SWAT callouts, So again I can't thank
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them enough for doing all that.
Speaker 9 (15:33):
Now just switching gears on all of you.
Speaker 11 (15:36):
If anyone in our community encounters what they believe to
be an explosive device, please do not touch it, I repeat,
do not touch it, and immediately contact nine to one
to one or your local law enforcement agency so we
can come and deal with it. If anyone has any
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inform about this case, please contact the Sheriff's Homicide Bureau
at three two three eight nine zero five to five
zero zero, or the ATF at one eight eight eight
ATF Tips, which is basically eight eight eight two eight
three eight four seven seven, or if you if you
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prefer to provide information anonymously, please as always called crime
Stoppers by dialing eight hundred two two two tips which
is eight four seven seven. I am there's only two
speakers a day. I am the first. I am very
proud to introduce my partner, the LA Division Special Agent
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in Charge, Kenny Cooper, and I can't thank him and
his men and women who have spent the last week
with us, working their tails off, who responded from the
East Coast to help us figure route exactly what happened,
and with that.
Speaker 9 (17:03):
I will turn it over to him now.
Speaker 13 (17:05):
Thank you, sir, Good afternoon.
Speaker 14 (17:15):
My name is Kenny Cooper, the Special Agent in charge
of the ATF LA Field Division on behalf of our agency.
We expend extend our deepest condolences to the family, friends,
and colleagues of Detective Detective Ecklund, Limas and Osborne. After
a tragic explosion claimed their lives last Friday. We quickly
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activated ATF's National Response team, who flew in from all
over the country and seventy two hours the ATFS National
Response Team, along with our federal, state, and local partners,
conducted dozens of interviews, extensive vote post blast examination of
the blast scene, and in addition, a number of search
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warrants were written and served to collect additional evidence. To
support this investigation, we brought in more than a dozen
explosive detection canines, a large team of ATF certified explosive specialists,
our ATF Special Agent bomb technicians, as well as special
agents working with a homicide detectives of La County Sheriff's Department.
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We've meticulously examined a radius of over four hundred feet
from the blast seat multiple times over the last three days.
These are just a few of the many steps that
we've taken over this last week. Our investigation shows that
the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department took two grenades into custody
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from the Santa Monica storage unit, believing them to be inert.
One of the grenades detonated at the Biscaloose Training Center,
fatally injuring the three detectives. The investigation is ongoing to
the status of the second. We encourage everyone who may
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have any information.
Speaker 9 (19:07):
About these devices or.
Speaker 14 (19:10):
At this investigation at all, to contact the Los Angeles
Sheriff's Department or through the ATF, and we want to
emphasize the general public how dangerous these devices are.
Speaker 9 (19:21):
If you find anything.
Speaker 14 (19:22):
That looks like a grenade or a explosive device, or
is just an unknown object, please contact the law enforcement.
Speaker 13 (19:32):
We want to ensure a community that the public.
Speaker 14 (19:35):
Safety, as our utmost priority ATF, stands shoulder and shoulder
with the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department in these difficult times.
We are working diligently to find the answers for the
victims loved ones. So at this point it won't open
to any questions guess the.
Speaker 15 (19:58):
Particular exactly when sexual dealing with at the time what
type of military would get the stuff?
Speaker 11 (20:04):
Precisely in my briefing this morning, UH with the ATF,
they gave us some indication, but it's all preliminary and
UH and we didn't say this earlier or maybe I
missed it, is that the ATF will be conducting their
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thorough investigation and we are hoping that we can or
they're telling us maybe about forty five days because all
their findings right now are preliminary, which includes the specific
ordinance that we are dealing with other than it to
tell you it was a grenade, a military style gurnad war.
Speaker 15 (20:46):
Are we talking to the anomia or we're talking both
what we talked with deuces or were talking in.
Speaker 9 (20:51):
For the sections. Uh.
Speaker 11 (20:53):
In forty five days, when their final report comes out,
all that information will be in there that.
Speaker 15 (20:59):
They took devices before they did anything related to the
rendisafe used to give you guys clues to what they have.
Speaker 9 (21:06):
Yes, they are, and the ATF is reviewing them now.
Speaker 15 (21:09):
Before they attempted to do the RSP. I'm sorry they
attempted to do the render save procedure and that or
they we have photographed showing what they were.
Speaker 11 (21:21):
Uh, Pete, you're getting into specific details, and I respect
your job, but my job is to make sure that
when I put out information that it is completely accurate.
Because I see all these TV cameras and when I'm
looking at are the families of my deputies who died,
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who lost their lives. So I want to make sure
that when we put out the information, it's going to
be one hundred percent accurate.
Speaker 9 (21:47):
And that's what we're going to have to wait for
the report. Thank you the.
Speaker 15 (21:51):
Information that you have from the scene, plus all the
searches you've done. Why don't do any potential suspects of
someone who we have had this material in their position prior.
Speaker 13 (22:01):
To the bond text picure?
Speaker 4 (22:02):
Yeah, okay.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
That is the press conference with with well the sheriff.
Luna was the main speaker, and then they also had
Kenny Cooper, he's the ATF special agent, and I thought
there was gonna be a lot more new information there.
I think the only thing we really found out that
was new was there were two hand grenades. One of
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them exploded and they don't know where the second one
is they have no idea where it is.
Speaker 4 (22:28):
I don't know how that happens.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
If one is, if they're both with you and then
one explodes, did the other one just sort of, you know,
get away and it's you know, thrown into a bush
or under a car somewhere, or I don't know, was
so big they may both exploded. Maybe it just did
blew it up, and yeah maybe yeah, but I think
they would have known that, you know, a secondary explosion.
Speaker 4 (22:50):
But I think yeah, it.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
Maybe it was just destroyed without exploding, I mean, if
they were if it was a nerd in some way.
Speaker 13 (22:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
But also the thing that I think we all sort
of realize, and we heard that from Sheriff Luna, that
all explosives will be treated as live from the Sheriff's department.
But also if you have an explosive an old hand
grenade that Greg grandpa had around using it as a paperweight,
don't touch it. Don't touch it. They could go off,
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you know. And I don't know how old that hand grenade,
what it was is probably seventy fifty, sixty, seventy eighty
years old, and it's still exploded. But they're still looking
for evidence the day before, the San Monica Police Department
that was at the eight hundred block of Bay Street
said that there were two hand grenades in a storage unit,
and so the La Sheriff's Department got out there and
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I think they got both of them, and now one
of them is missing. So they thought that they destroyed
it or rendered it safe. It turned out not to
be the case. The ATF is out on the case.
The FBI is there as well. The ATF is the alcohol, tobacco,
and firearms, and I don't know how that's all one agency.
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I think firearms is a lot more important than alcohol
and tobacco, but I'm not in that part of the government.
But one of the two grenades went off again, one
is missing and they're searching for it. So that's all
we know, and we're going to take a small break
here and if there's any more information coming out, we
will have that for you. But it looks like the
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main reason for that press conference is to let people
know the ATF is out here, the FBI is out there,
the Shriff's unit is out there. One of those grenades
exploded and the other one is missing, So please if
you see anything that resembles at hand grenade in a
storage unit out in that Marine Delray apartment area.
Speaker 4 (24:43):
Call the cops. Do not touch it. Don't touch it.
Speaker 12 (24:48):
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Am sixty.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
We said a press conference with Sheriff Luna. It's still
going on on the TV stations and channel two, four, five, seven,
nine eleven, but there didn't seem to be a lot
of new information other than they're missing one of the
hand grenades, and the ATF and the FBI are out here.
Speaker 4 (25:18):
And missing grenade thing is crazy. Yeah, that is odd.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
That is really I mean, was the missing grenade in
the possession of the Sheriff's department and then it's missing, right.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
I thought that that's what the implication was, is that
they had two grenades.
Speaker 4 (25:32):
Yeah, but they wouldn't have left one there.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
But if you have two grenades sitting next to each other,
one goes off, the other one certainly goes off, and
if not, then it was inert anyway, which is a
term that you don't here often outside of you know,
hand grenades. But it is it is odd that that
second one is missing.
Speaker 4 (25:51):
So if we have.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
That's really the only real big thing that we could
we could take out of this.
Speaker 4 (25:55):
I don't remember anything else coming out of this, you know.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
Yeah, he I mean, did we have confirmation that it
was grenades?
Speaker 4 (26:02):
First of all? Oh, I don't think we did. I
think that's yeah. I think we that had been the
word and talking.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
But yeah, but it was always fifty to fifty pipe
bomb or grenade. Yeah, and it turns out it was
a hand grenade. But for that hand grenade to have
been built probably one hundred years ago, it's possible, maybe
maybe it was seventy sixty, seventy years ago, and for
it to be that dangerous still is a is a
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really good warning.
Speaker 4 (26:29):
They're just now wrapping up in it. Yeah, And ABC
took it late for some reason.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
They did because I had that because I only have
two TVs in here, and ABC was one of them
and the other one's National and seven. I had it
on an ABC and it wasn't on it. That's why
when you started playing, I was like, oh they did start.
Speaker 13 (26:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
ABC came in late, but I don't know what happened
there by Channel two, four, five, U, nine, eleven, they
were all on that.
Speaker 4 (26:54):
And it is as sad. It's been one week and
I imagine that.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
You know, the family is going through obviously a tremendous
morning period of the loss of their dad and the
sixteen kids that have been left behind.
Speaker 4 (27:08):
So very very very said.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
Any more information comes out of that, though, we'll have
it for you immediately. On a lighter note, we are
during the commercial break, celebrated Michael Kroszer's birthday. Michael Krozer
turning fifty eight seven, fifty seven, young man, fifty seven
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years old. And it's never had a physical no still
no physical. Wow, man, man, I like the gambler. Everything's good,
Everything's good.
Speaker 4 (27:43):
It's the gambler in you.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
Not a physical, not a single physical in fifty seven years.
Speaker 4 (27:49):
I love man.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
You'd be at the front of the line at San
Anita or Vegas.
Speaker 4 (27:54):
That is that is a true gambler. Man.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
May not be gambling with the money, but everything else
is on the table.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
Well, I'm off next week because it's Jen's first actual
week off for summer vacation teaching. Oh wow, it's going
to be spent all staycation, homeworking.
Speaker 4 (28:11):
And all that stuff.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
So so by the time I come back, I might
be really feeling my age.
Speaker 4 (28:15):
Nice.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
You're like me, though I'd rather stay home during vacation,
just work in the house.
Speaker 4 (28:20):
That's really It's all about building equity.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
That's right, all right, the fastest growing city.
Speaker 4 (28:26):
Do we have time? I think we do.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
Let's try to slide this in the fastest growing city.
Everybody wants to know, you know, where's the new hot
place to move or live?
Speaker 16 (28:36):
D O Caldwell is still the first one through the
door every morning at the pawnshop he owns in Princeton, Texas.
Speaker 4 (28:43):
We got a lot of guitars.
Speaker 16 (28:44):
At eighty two years old. He knows a little bit
about what people want. What was it like when you
put this building up here?
Speaker 9 (28:52):
It was nothing around it.
Speaker 16 (28:53):
When Caldwell's family settled here in the nineteen sixties, fewer
than one thousand people lived in Princeton.
Speaker 13 (28:59):
Do you remember at all?
Speaker 6 (29:01):
The l why your family moved here?
Speaker 17 (29:04):
Then was building houses, and I was the best cartoner around.
Speaker 16 (29:08):
Farmers saw fertile ground to grow their cantalopes and onions.
Caldwell saw an opportunity for another type of growth. He
started buying land and opening businesses.
Speaker 6 (29:19):
Why did you do that?
Speaker 17 (29:21):
I really believed it would grow and I figured that
the cheaper type inexpensive home would come to Princeton.
Speaker 4 (29:28):
This guy owns most of Princeton.
Speaker 16 (29:31):
Not even Caldwell saw them coming like this rose of
homes now phil Princeton's old farm fields, just thirty miles
north of Dallas. Seventeen thousand people lived here in twenty twenty.
In just three years, the population jumped to twenty eight
thousand and hit the thirty seven thousand mark last year,
topping the Census Bureau's list of the fastest growing cities
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in the country.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
Princeton, Texas it was like Irvine was forty years ago.
Speaker 16 (30:00):
Crystal Alexander is one of thousands who just moved in.
Speaker 6 (30:04):
You've never been a homeowner.
Speaker 4 (30:05):
Before, No, this is my first time, and it is.
Speaker 9 (30:12):
Exhilarating.
Speaker 16 (30:14):
Kriston was not on her list of places to live.
But in a county where the median sales price for
a home is nearly four hundred and seventy five thousand dollars,
homes in Princeton's cell were just about three hundred thousand.
Speaker 6 (30:26):
It was something that I knew I could afford, and
the homes were actually really nice.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
Yeah, so it's a community of almost one hundred percent
brand new home and big homes, h new schools, new apartments,
new stores. It's a new city, Princeton, Texas. If you're
thinking of moving out of California, you may want to
give Princeton, Texas a look.
Speaker 18 (30:46):
Growth comes with growing paints and homes went up so
fast last year Princeton had to put a temporary stop
to any more building just to make sure there were
enough sewer lines and water lines and roads for everyone
who was moving in.
Speaker 6 (31:00):
Eugene Escobar Junior is Princeton's mayor.
Speaker 16 (31:02):
What do you think your biggest challenges are right now?
Speaker 4 (31:04):
Johnathan?
Speaker 19 (31:05):
We're still about five years probably behind. We're having to
literally figure out everything and WeDo everything over because the
measurement is everything we had in place cannot handle where
we are now.
Speaker 16 (31:14):
Another thirteen thousand home units are already approved and waiting
to be built.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
Wow, the other thirteen thousand homes being built? Man oh Man, Princeton, Texas.
Speaker 6 (31:25):
Who could have ever seen it coming?
Speaker 17 (31:26):
I still got one of the forest trucks.
Speaker 6 (31:28):
I started with, Well, dl Caldwell for one.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
We were all talking and that made a comment after
who ever thought this about Princeton?
Speaker 9 (31:37):
Darius a noise in me?
Speaker 13 (31:39):
I do, well, You're right.
Speaker 16 (31:42):
The once tiny town of Princeton is expected to grow
to one hundred thousand people within the next five years.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
That's the size of Burbank. I mean, going from seventeen
thousand people in twenty twenty to one hundred thousand people
the next few years. That's incredible, but also a nice
community to go out where everything's brand new and you
and you can afford it. If you own a house
in southern California, you can certainly afford a house in Princeton.
Speaker 4 (32:04):
So think about it. Princeton, Texas.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
That is almost exactly the same distance going north from
Dallas as University of North Texas is is. And that's
where my daughter Sidney went. Oh was that Risemester. It's yeah,
about thirty forty miles north of Dallas. Looks beautiful, looks sensation.
Speaker 4 (32:20):
Wide open space.
Speaker 12 (32:21):
Man, you're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
It is the Conway Show. We have not forgotten about
the people in Corona. You have a huge audience out
there in Corona, the Inland Empires and Berndina Riverside huge.
They love KFI and so got to super serve that audience.
There's a fire in Corona. Let's find out what's going
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on with Gabe Santos. Yeah, because that fire is right
near the freeway and they think that that fire was
starting to buy a homeless guy.
Speaker 19 (33:01):
It was actually south of the seventy one Freeway in
the far west corner of Corona, and you could see
there that smoke all the way up in the canyons
burning up against this neighborhood in Corona. The fire started
near the ninety one to seventy one interchange, about a
mile south of that fire a couple days ago, and
we've seen it kind of blow up to about five acres.
Now it's staying to this canyon just south of Palisades
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Drive and between Palisades.
Speaker 4 (33:23):
Drive and the neighborhood.
Speaker 19 (33:24):
Once again, this is in continued spotting along this canyon
up to five acres now. Fire crews taking no chances
with this one because there is that threat of fire
burning close to these homes on Braemar Lane, Highland View Drive,
and Summit View Court as well as Meridian Circle. So
because there's still active flames in this canyon, fire crews
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taking no chances.
Speaker 9 (33:46):
Once again.
Speaker 19 (33:46):
They have six tankers on the way to this. Four
cocktors in route, some of them already on scene. You
could see some of that pink along the hillsides because
they've already made some fire retardant drops, And that appears
to be making a difference here from when we first
got on scene about thirty minutes ago. We did see
a lot more active smoke, a lot more active flames,
even the neighbors in their backyards with garden hoses trying
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to wet down some of the brush behind their homes.
So all of that appears to be making a difference.
But again, fire Cruise taking no chances here. This fire
still burning pretty actively here in the Corona area, in
the far west part of the city of carabin Or
seven games onto safe C seven, I would have stated,
all right, this.
Speaker 4 (34:25):
Is long the ninety one freeway.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
That's why we bring in our own Angel Martinez. Yeah, Angel,
how are you hey? I know you've been talking about
this fire all day. What are we talking about with Corona?
This is off the ninety one. Is this related to
the fire that's been burning all week out there?
Speaker 10 (34:44):
Well, it's in the same vicinity, but it's at a
different location. So this is the one that was burning
earlier this week was along the seventy one, maybe three
miles or so inland from the ninety one freeway. This
one is burning along the ninety one at the seventy
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one in that southwest area, and they've also it's affecting
travel on the ninety one eastbound. They've shut down the
two right lanes there between Green River and Surface Club,
which is seventy one is right in between both of
those points. And you know, there's a bunch of trees
and bushes as you can imagine, a lot of palm
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trees in the area. I know you love the palm tree.
Oh yeah, and also some railroad tracks, so it's getting
pretty close to that. It's probably not only affecting traffic
on the freeway, it could also be affecting you know,
freight lines that are using those railroad tracks and power
lines are very close by as well.
Speaker 1 (35:46):
So the Euclid fire, I think that's what they called
it on the seventy one that burned earlier this week,
and that's the they call us, I guess the Chino
Valley Freeway, but that was that was burning earlier. This
freeway is not far I mean, as the crow flies,
it might be a mile or two or maybe less.
Speaker 10 (36:07):
Yeah, I mean the ninety one miles away from Butterfield.
Speaker 1 (36:13):
Ranch, right exactly. But they're calling this the Green Fire,
I believe. And it's along all these homes there, and
you can see people in the backyard, you know, spraying
the brush with the garden hose. And they always say
not to do that. You know, it's not gonna make difference,
don't do that, and yet everybody always does because they
feel like they.
Speaker 4 (36:32):
Have to do something. They got to do something.
Speaker 8 (36:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (36:34):
Right, So again, what freeways are closed or what lanes?
Speaker 10 (36:37):
Well, all the freeways are open right now, but on
the ninety one eastbound at the seventy one, well it's
between Green River and Surface Club, that's where the two
right lanes are currently shut down. So that's also going
to affect the connector from the ninety one east to
the seventy one north. That connector is shut down currently.
Speaker 1 (36:56):
All right, Angel, thank you, you got it. Martinez, everybody,
all right, any updates on that fire, we'll have that
for you. It seems like it's under control. They're bringing
a lot of what Stephfush calls air assets to the fire.
Speaker 4 (37:12):
So as soon as.
Speaker 1 (37:15):
Those arrive, it's gonna they'll make quick work of it,
and you will no longer be in danger. But there
are a lot of beautiful homes up there, up in
the hills there along the ninety one, And you get
freaked out when you see smoke or you smell it,
because we all saw what happened early January of this
year where thousands of homes got completely wiped out. So
I do understand the panic. I do get it. We'll
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give you updates all afternoon on that and if anything changes,
you'll hear about it right here on KFI AM sixty.
We celebrated Crozier's birthday and that's always a cool deal.
And then over the weekend we will remind you again,
this is gonna be the best late July weather you've had,
(38:00):
maybe or your entire life. It's going to only reach
into the mid to high seventies in most areas. Now,
if you get into the high desert low desert, yeah,
it's going to be ninety in the high desert, one
hundred in the low desert. But for people in the
San Fernando Valley along the coast Seami Valley, I think
stretching all the way into you know Santa Clarita area.
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It's going to be spectacular this weekend. You know, weather
that you will not experience in the summer, but maybe
once in a lifetime. I don't remember ever in my
life it being, you know, seventy seven degrees in July
in the San Fernando Valley.
Speaker 4 (38:37):
Never, not once. And I'm a weather hound. I read
about the weather, I talk about the weather. I watch weather. Hey,
you do love it, love the weather.
Speaker 1 (38:47):
And this is gonna be a great weekend. So get
on out there and enjoy yourself this weekend. Conway Show.
We're live on KIM six to forty Conway Show on
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It's KFI AM six forty and you're listening to the
Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. We are
going to break in whatever doing if when the press
conference starts with the La Sheriff to burn, I think
it is Sheriff Luna that will be speaking, So keep
it on KFI. If there's any more new information that
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comes out of the Sheriff's department, we will carry that
press conference live moments from now.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Yeah, Luna and reps from the Bureau of Alcohol to
back on firearms and explosives.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
So all right, maybe there's some new details taken lay
on us. Now, if you live in Anaheim, it's been
a rough month. There's been a lot of burglaries, a
lot of crime, people breaking into jewelry stores, lots of
street takeovers, and just a lot of mischief makers in Anaheim.
So Disneyland is offering people who live in Anaheim a
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little break from all of that action. And if you
live in Anaheim, it says so on your license or
on your I don't know your cable bill, your natural
gas bill, and you can prove you live in Anaheim,
you are going to get a discount at Disneyland.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
It's not uncommon to hear Anaheim residents refer to Disneyland
as my park. Deeply discounted tickets are now being offered
to people with Anaheim address on their driver's license. Instead
of one hundred dollars or two hundred to get into
the happiest place on Earth, each ticket is seventy bucks.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
If that is a sweet deal. Now, I hope nobody
abuses it. You know, don't use it. Don't go get
a fake license saying you live in Anaheim, or don't
use your aunt who lives in Anaheim to get tickets
and then sell them online. Please, let's try to behave
for one promotion in southern California. Please, if you live
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in Anaheim, let's behave.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
Is seventy bucks. Seventy bucks to get in.
Speaker 5 (01:58):
It's incredible to me because I have family members that
don't have annual passes that would love to go to Disneyland,
and this will wow.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Where are those scumbags in life where they don't have
annual passes? What if they've done with their money? Got
them mighty? I mean even embarrassed to mention on KFI
either's people out there without annual passes at Disneyland.
Speaker 5 (02:20):
Woo family members that don't have annual passes that would
love to go to Disneyland.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
And this I'm one of them.
Speaker 5 (02:26):
And this will afford them an opportunity.
Speaker 6 (02:29):
To enjoy it.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
To qualify, adults must live in Anaheim.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
Okay, you're the qualifications. Let's listen carefully.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
It's not going to be tough, but you've got to
make sure that you take advantage of this if you
live in Anaheim.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Qualify Adults must live in Anaheim and bring a California
driver's license to enter Disneyland or California Adventure.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Okay, so they're not going to take gas bills, natural
gas bills. You have to have a driver's license that
says Anaheim to get in.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
The seventy dollars ticket is for a single park visit. Anaheim.
Residents can buy a maximum of eight tickets per day.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Oh my god, here's where it's going to get messy.
They're going to buy eight and they're going on eBay
for ninety bucks, a hundred bucks.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
Someone's gonna make some money.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
They must be used between August fourth and September twenty fifth.
It's a bonus for kids still out of school for
summer break. Anaheim spokesman Mike Lister says this July at
the park has been different compared to past years.
Speaker 7 (03:28):
Exchange rates versus the dollar, or international or global issues.
We're not seeing the busiest summer that we may typically see.
But the good side of that is is people get
to come and enjoy the park this beautiful summer weather
and it just may not be that peak crowd.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
The discounted price means Anaheim resident Amanda Kara Chrure will
be buying tickets to treat her nephew to another fun
experience at Disneyland.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
This is great. This is gonna be a great end
of summer treat for your kids or grandkids.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
I'm assuming because it's like just to like help the residents,
you know, make it more.
Speaker 4 (04:04):
Affordable easier for us to just go to the park.
And it's great. She nailed it. She nailed it. That's
exactly what they're doing.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
Another thing that people need to know is that tickets
can't be bought on site, only through Disneyland vacations, So
you need to make a phone call to make that purchase.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
And I wonder if they're going to make you show
your license, which they should when you go to get
in the park, so we know that you didn't buy
those tickets and then sell them on eBay.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Once you do that, the next step is to go
online and get a park reservation in Anaheim. Michelle je
Le take out now.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Okay, if you live in Anaheim, it is going to
be a beautiful end of summer for you. You can go
to Disneyland for seventy dollars seventy bucks. That is a
deep discount, so please go take advantage of that and
enjoy it at least one day. You're going to have
no worries once you get into Disneyland. It seems like
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every the entire world is left behind all your troubles,
you know, whether it's alimony, whether you you know you're
tough time paying rent, you got a child that's you know, struggling.
Maybe mom and dad are getting old and they're breaking down,
and you can leave it all behind for one day
at Disneyland. If you live in Anaheim, you are going
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to get in for fifty I'm sorry, seventy dollars.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
Now.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
If you live in Burbank, well, we've got a different
story for you. In Anaheim. Discounts to get into Disneyland
in Burbank. Guys going around sniffing women's butts.
Speaker 8 (05:40):
Brazen Burbank butt sniffing bandit back at it. Burbank police
say the same crouching creeper they first encountered in twenty
twenty one has been arrested again. This video is from
a similar case we reported on back in twenty twenty three.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
He's done it before, He's done it again and the
Bourbank cops arrested again in my shopping center in Burbank.
I think it's the Nordstrom's rack in Burbank where the
guy would be pretending to tie his shoe and then
breaking out the sniffer.
Speaker 8 (06:10):
Burbank police identify the man as Calice Crowder. Detectives say
they responded Tuesday to a report of a suspicious person
loitering in the women's department in nordstrom rack in the
Burbank Empire Center. When they got there, the man was
already gone, but he was soon spotted inside.
Speaker 9 (06:24):
The nearby Walmart.
Speaker 8 (06:25):
Police say they watched him on Walmart's surveillance cameras as
he entered the women's clothing section.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
Oh boy, I wonder if there's a difference I wonder
if you get if you're blindfolded, if you can tell
the difference between sniffing some woman's crack at Nordstrum or Walmart.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
Like the difference between Mexican coke and regular code and.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Maybe that maybe, But I wonder, if you're blindfolded, if
you could definitely nail, if you could get ten out
of ten like Ah, Nordstrom, whow oh oh Walmart for sure,
got almighty. I need to take a little bit of
break here, Walmart, we get a hit of that again?
Speaker 4 (07:14):
I hit nord Streams.
Speaker 10 (07:16):
Can I get one more hit before?
Speaker 4 (07:19):
No, you gotta move on. Okay, let me get a
quick one. That's nice.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Oh no, Panda Express, No, oh Walmart? Okay, Target. Oh,
that guy's arrested. I don't know what his deal is.
All right, let's get to the press conference here, let's
pull it up. The Prince conference is starting with Sheriff Luna.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
Here we go.
Speaker 11 (07:42):
Joshua, Kelly eckln Victor Limis, and Bill Osborne. As we
continue to grieve as a department with this profound loss.
Our unwavering support remains with their families, and it's been
a long week for them and our entire Los Angeles
County Sheriff's Department. During this incredibly difficult time, Sheriff's Homicide
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Bureau investigators, in coordination with our federal partners, have been
working tirelessly around the clock.
Speaker 12 (08:17):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
Am six forty.
Speaker 11 (08:24):
To gather in process evidence, interview, interview law enforcement personnel
and community members, execute sir to warrants, and pursue every
possible lead in this ongoing investigation. And I'm going to
just take a quick pause because my goal in coming
up here is to make sure that I update you
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on the most current information. There's a lot of information
that we're still in the middle of gathering. So by
no stretch of the imagination is anything I'm going to
provide here a conclusion to a lot that has been
going on. So at this time, we know that the
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day before Friday's explosion, Sheriff's Arson Explosive Explosive Detailed Detectives
had responded to a request for assistance from the Santa
Monica Police Department at a residential complex located in the
eight hundred block of Bay Street in the city of
Santa Monica. A resident had reported finding what appeared to
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be two hand grenade type devices inside a tenant storage
unit in the building underground parking garage. Santa Monica Police
Department officers responded and the Sheriff's Arson Explosive Detailed Detectives arrived,
did their investigation at least our preliminary investigation, next raid
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the devices and believed that they were both in The
devices were nonetheless transported by the Arson Explosives Detailed Detectives
to be destroyed and rendered safe. From the start of
this investigation, our department reached out to the Los Angeles
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Police Department's Bomb Squad for their assistance as you saw
them arrive last Friday and immediately summons the La County
Fire Department, which they were very helpful to us when
they first arrived. The other thing that I made sure
that occurred is that I called the Federal Bureau of
Investigation and I also called the ATF the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco,
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Firearms and Explosives to assist us with this investigation. Additionally,
the District Attorney's Office and the US Attorney's Office have
been extremely supportive of all of our investigative efforts. The
ATF investigators assumed the lead on the post blast investigation
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and their National response team responded from the East Coast
to assist us in trying to determine the origin and
cause of this explosion. Today we received an update on
the ATF's post blast explosion investigation, and based on the
ATF's expertise and the combination of physical evidence and debris
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recovered at the scene, they have determined that one of
the two grenades taken in a custody detonated on Friday,
and one of the grenades is unaccounted for at this time.
Out of an abundance for caution or of caution, an
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extensive church search of the entire training facility perimeter was conducted.
This included X rain all Special Enforcement Bureau vehicles, a
grid search from the blast site and surrounding areas, and
a thorough inspection of evidence lockers, the gym office spaces
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and surrounding shrubbery.
Speaker 9 (12:14):
You get the drift.
Speaker 11 (12:15):
We have looked at everything out there that we possibly could.
Since Friday, we have restricted public access on the Sheriff's
Road from Eastern Avenue to Roland's Drive, using patrol deputies
at stationary posts for twenty four to seven. Therefore, nobody
from the public has had access to this area that
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I just described. We conducted a thorough search to locate
the second device, but we haven't found it yet. In
addition to conducting the post blast investigation, the ATF will
be assuming full control into investigating the whereabouts of this
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other device that is missing. Sheriff's homicide detectives will continue
their investigation into the deaths of our three hero detectives.
Our entire department has been collectively working on supporting those
who are grieving. We have assigned a laison to each
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of the families and are continuing to support our own
personnel at the Special Enforcement Bureau, Homicide Bureau and those
who knew are fallen detectives. I have directed mandatory psychological
visits for all involved personnel, including those of the Special
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Enforcement Bureau, are Arson and Explosive Detail and all those
When I say first responders, I'm not going to get
into graphic details, but if you can imagine those first deputies,
detectives and other personnel that responded to the scene when
this first happened, to see their co workers in the
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condition that they found them, it was an absolute horrible site.
I've also called for an independent after action review of
the policies, practices, and equipment as it relates to our
Arson Explosives Detail. Since this tragic incident, all future explosive devices,
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inert or not will be treated as if they are
all live and will be disposed of accordingly. And I
just want to that's one change. But again, I know
there's going to be a lot of very good questions.
There are a lot of things. We're going to turn
this upside down. We're going to look at everything we
could why, because we need to know what happened. We
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owe it to the families, and for God's sake, I
never want this to happen again, not only in our department,
but there'll be lessons learned for other departments across the
country and literally the world. At this time, our Arson
Explosive Detail is not responding to calls for service, but
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our Special Enforcement Squad is now fully operational as of yesterday.
I cannot tell you how grateful I am to Chief
Jim McDonell in the Los Angeles Police Department, who came
in from the very beginning to assist us, and they've
been assisting us over the last week with our bomb
callouts and our SWAT callouts, So again I can't thank
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them enough for doing all that.
Speaker 9 (15:33):
Now just switching gears on all of you.
Speaker 11 (15:36):
If anyone in our community encounters what they believe to
be an explosive device, please do not touch it, I repeat,
do not touch it, and immediately contact nine to one
to one or your local law enforcement agency so we
can come and deal with it. If anyone has any
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inform about this case, please contact the Sheriff's Homicide Bureau
at three two three eight nine zero five to five
zero zero, or the ATF at one eight eight eight
ATF Tips, which is basically eight eight eight two eight
three eight four seven seven, or if you if you
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prefer to provide information anonymously, please as always called crime
Stoppers by dialing eight hundred two two two tips which
is eight four seven seven. I am there's only two
speakers a day. I am the first. I am very
proud to introduce my partner, the LA Division Special Agent
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in Charge, Kenny Cooper, and I can't thank him and
his men and women who have spent the last week
with us, working their tails off, who responded from the
East Coast to help us figure route exactly what happened,
and with that.
Speaker 9 (17:03):
I will turn it over to him now.
Speaker 13 (17:05):
Thank you, sir, Good afternoon.
Speaker 14 (17:15):
My name is Kenny Cooper, the Special Agent in charge
of the ATF LA Field Division on behalf of our agency.
We expend extend our deepest condolences to the family, friends,
and colleagues of Detective Detective Ecklund, Limas and Osborne. After
a tragic explosion claimed their lives last Friday. We quickly
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activated ATF's National Response team, who flew in from all
over the country and seventy two hours the ATFS National
Response Team, along with our federal, state, and local partners,
conducted dozens of interviews, extensive vote post blast examination of
the blast scene, and in addition, a number of search
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warrants were written and served to collect additional evidence. To
support this investigation, we brought in more than a dozen
explosive detection canines, a large team of ATF certified explosive specialists,
our ATF Special Agent bomb technicians, as well as special
agents working with a homicide detectives of La County Sheriff's Department.
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We've meticulously examined a radius of over four hundred feet
from the blast seat multiple times over the last three days.
These are just a few of the many steps that
we've taken over this last week. Our investigation shows that
the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department took two grenades into custody
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from the Santa Monica storage unit, believing them to be inert.
One of the grenades detonated at the Biscaloose Training Center,
fatally injuring the three detectives. The investigation is ongoing to
the status of the second. We encourage everyone who may
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have any information.
Speaker 9 (19:07):
About these devices or.
Speaker 14 (19:10):
At this investigation at all, to contact the Los Angeles
Sheriff's Department or through the ATF, and we want to
emphasize the general public how dangerous these devices are.
Speaker 9 (19:21):
If you find anything.
Speaker 14 (19:22):
That looks like a grenade or a explosive device, or
is just an unknown object, please contact the law enforcement.
Speaker 13 (19:32):
We want to ensure a community that the public.
Speaker 14 (19:35):
Safety, as our utmost priority ATF, stands shoulder and shoulder
with the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department in these difficult times.
We are working diligently to find the answers for the
victims loved ones. So at this point it won't open
to any questions guess the.
Speaker 15 (19:58):
Particular exactly when sexual dealing with at the time what
type of military would get the stuff?
Speaker 11 (20:04):
Precisely in my briefing this morning, UH with the ATF,
they gave us some indication, but it's all preliminary and
UH and we didn't say this earlier or maybe I
missed it, is that the ATF will be conducting their
(20:25):
thorough investigation and we are hoping that we can or
they're telling us maybe about forty five days because all
their findings right now are preliminary, which includes the specific
ordinance that we are dealing with other than it to
tell you it was a grenade, a military style gurnad war.
Speaker 15 (20:46):
Are we talking to the anomia or we're talking both
what we talked with deuces or were talking in.
Speaker 9 (20:51):
For the sections. Uh.
Speaker 11 (20:53):
In forty five days, when their final report comes out,
all that information will be in there that.
Speaker 15 (20:59):
They took devices before they did anything related to the
rendisafe used to give you guys clues to what they have.
Speaker 9 (21:06):
Yes, they are, and the ATF is reviewing them now.
Speaker 15 (21:09):
Before they attempted to do the RSP. I'm sorry they
attempted to do the render save procedure and that or
they we have photographed showing what they were.
Speaker 11 (21:21):
Uh, Pete, you're getting into specific details, and I respect
your job, but my job is to make sure that
when I put out information that it is completely accurate.
Because I see all these TV cameras and when I'm
looking at are the families of my deputies who died,
(21:41):
who lost their lives. So I want to make sure
that when we put out the information, it's going to
be one hundred percent accurate.
Speaker 9 (21:47):
And that's what we're going to have to wait for
the report. Thank you the.
Speaker 15 (21:51):
Information that you have from the scene, plus all the
searches you've done. Why don't do any potential suspects of
someone who we have had this material in their position prior.
Speaker 13 (22:01):
To the bond text picure?
Speaker 4 (22:02):
Yeah, okay.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
That is the press conference with with well the sheriff.
Luna was the main speaker, and then they also had
Kenny Cooper, he's the ATF special agent, and I thought
there was gonna be a lot more new information there.
I think the only thing we really found out that
was new was there were two hand grenades. One of
(22:23):
them exploded and they don't know where the second one
is they have no idea where it is.
Speaker 4 (22:28):
I don't know how that happens.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
If one is, if they're both with you and then
one explodes, did the other one just sort of, you know,
get away and it's you know, thrown into a bush
or under a car somewhere, or I don't know, was
so big they may both exploded. Maybe it just did
blew it up, and yeah maybe yeah, but I think
they would have known that, you know, a secondary explosion.
Speaker 4 (22:50):
But I think yeah, it.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
Maybe it was just destroyed without exploding, I mean, if
they were if it was a nerd in some way.
Speaker 13 (22:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
But also the thing that I think we all sort
of realize, and we heard that from Sheriff Luna, that
all explosives will be treated as live from the Sheriff's department.
But also if you have an explosive an old hand
grenade that Greg grandpa had around using it as a paperweight,
don't touch it. Don't touch it. They could go off,
(23:19):
you know. And I don't know how old that hand grenade,
what it was is probably seventy fifty, sixty, seventy eighty
years old, and it's still exploded. But they're still looking
for evidence the day before, the San Monica Police Department
that was at the eight hundred block of Bay Street
said that there were two hand grenades in a storage unit,
and so the La Sheriff's Department got out there and
(23:40):
I think they got both of them, and now one
of them is missing. So they thought that they destroyed
it or rendered it safe. It turned out not to
be the case. The ATF is out on the case.
The FBI is there as well. The ATF is the alcohol, tobacco,
and firearms, and I don't know how that's all one agency.
(24:01):
I think firearms is a lot more important than alcohol
and tobacco, but I'm not in that part of the government.
But one of the two grenades went off again, one
is missing and they're searching for it. So that's all
we know, and we're going to take a small break
here and if there's any more information coming out, we
will have that for you. But it looks like the
(24:22):
main reason for that press conference is to let people
know the ATF is out here, the FBI is out there,
the Shriff's unit is out there. One of those grenades
exploded and the other one is missing, So please if
you see anything that resembles at hand grenade in a
storage unit out in that Marine Delray apartment area.
Speaker 4 (24:43):
Call the cops. Do not touch it. Don't touch it.
Speaker 12 (24:48):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
Am sixty.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
We said a press conference with Sheriff Luna. It's still
going on on the TV stations and channel two, four, five, seven,
nine eleven, but there didn't seem to be a lot
of new information other than they're missing one of the
hand grenades, and the ATF and the FBI are out here.
Speaker 4 (25:18):
And missing grenade thing is crazy. Yeah, that is odd.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
That is really I mean, was the missing grenade in
the possession of the Sheriff's department and then it's missing, right.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
I thought that that's what the implication was, is that
they had two grenades.
Speaker 4 (25:32):
Yeah, but they wouldn't have left one there.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
But if you have two grenades sitting next to each other,
one goes off, the other one certainly goes off, and
if not, then it was inert anyway, which is a
term that you don't here often outside of you know,
hand grenades. But it is it is odd that that
second one is missing.
Speaker 4 (25:51):
So if we have.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
That's really the only real big thing that we could
we could take out of this.
Speaker 4 (25:55):
I don't remember anything else coming out of this, you know.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
Yeah, he I mean, did we have confirmation that it
was grenades?
Speaker 4 (26:02):
First of all? Oh, I don't think we did. I
think that's yeah. I think we that had been the
word and talking.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
But yeah, but it was always fifty to fifty pipe
bomb or grenade. Yeah, and it turns out it was
a hand grenade. But for that hand grenade to have
been built probably one hundred years ago, it's possible, maybe
maybe it was seventy sixty, seventy years ago, and for
it to be that dangerous still is a is a
(26:28):
really good warning.
Speaker 4 (26:29):
They're just now wrapping up in it. Yeah, And ABC
took it late for some reason.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
They did because I had that because I only have
two TVs in here, and ABC was one of them
and the other one's National and seven. I had it
on an ABC and it wasn't on it. That's why
when you started playing, I was like, oh they did start.
Speaker 13 (26:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
ABC came in late, but I don't know what happened
there by Channel two, four, five, U, nine, eleven, they
were all on that.
Speaker 4 (26:54):
And it is as sad. It's been one week and
I imagine that.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
You know, the family is going through obviously a tremendous
morning period of the loss of their dad and the
sixteen kids that have been left behind.
Speaker 4 (27:08):
So very very very said.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
Any more information comes out of that, though, we'll have
it for you immediately. On a lighter note, we are
during the commercial break, celebrated Michael Kroszer's birthday. Michael Krozer
turning fifty eight seven, fifty seven, young man, fifty seven
(27:32):
years old. And it's never had a physical no still
no physical. Wow, man, man, I like the gambler. Everything's good,
Everything's good.
Speaker 4 (27:43):
It's the gambler in you.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
Not a physical, not a single physical in fifty seven years.
Speaker 4 (27:49):
I love man.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
You'd be at the front of the line at San
Anita or Vegas.
Speaker 4 (27:54):
That is that is a true gambler. Man.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
May not be gambling with the money, but everything else
is on the table.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
Well, I'm off next week because it's Jen's first actual
week off for summer vacation teaching. Oh wow, it's going
to be spent all staycation, homeworking.
Speaker 4 (28:11):
And all that stuff.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
So so by the time I come back, I might
be really feeling my age.
Speaker 4 (28:15):
Nice.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
You're like me, though I'd rather stay home during vacation,
just work in the house.
Speaker 4 (28:20):
That's really It's all about building equity.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
That's right, all right, the fastest growing city.
Speaker 4 (28:26):
Do we have time? I think we do.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
Let's try to slide this in the fastest growing city.
Everybody wants to know, you know, where's the new hot
place to move or live?
Speaker 16 (28:36):
D O Caldwell is still the first one through the
door every morning at the pawnshop he owns in Princeton, Texas.
Speaker 4 (28:43):
We got a lot of guitars.
Speaker 16 (28:44):
At eighty two years old. He knows a little bit
about what people want. What was it like when you
put this building up here?
Speaker 9 (28:52):
It was nothing around it.
Speaker 16 (28:53):
When Caldwell's family settled here in the nineteen sixties, fewer
than one thousand people lived in Princeton.
Speaker 13 (28:59):
Do you remember at all?
Speaker 6 (29:01):
The l why your family moved here?
Speaker 17 (29:04):
Then was building houses, and I was the best cartoner around.
Speaker 16 (29:08):
Farmers saw fertile ground to grow their cantalopes and onions.
Caldwell saw an opportunity for another type of growth. He
started buying land and opening businesses.
Speaker 6 (29:19):
Why did you do that?
Speaker 17 (29:21):
I really believed it would grow and I figured that
the cheaper type inexpensive home would come to Princeton.
Speaker 4 (29:28):
This guy owns most of Princeton.
Speaker 16 (29:31):
Not even Caldwell saw them coming like this rose of
homes now phil Princeton's old farm fields, just thirty miles
north of Dallas. Seventeen thousand people lived here in twenty twenty.
In just three years, the population jumped to twenty eight
thousand and hit the thirty seven thousand mark last year,
topping the Census Bureau's list of the fastest growing cities
(29:54):
in the country.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
Princeton, Texas it was like Irvine was forty years ago.
Speaker 16 (30:00):
Crystal Alexander is one of thousands who just moved in.
Speaker 6 (30:04):
You've never been a homeowner.
Speaker 4 (30:05):
Before, No, this is my first time, and it is.
Speaker 9 (30:12):
Exhilarating.
Speaker 16 (30:14):
Kriston was not on her list of places to live.
But in a county where the median sales price for
a home is nearly four hundred and seventy five thousand dollars,
homes in Princeton's cell were just about three hundred thousand.
Speaker 6 (30:26):
It was something that I knew I could afford, and
the homes were actually really nice.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
Yeah, so it's a community of almost one hundred percent
brand new home and big homes, h new schools, new apartments,
new stores. It's a new city, Princeton, Texas. If you're
thinking of moving out of California, you may want to
give Princeton, Texas a look.
Speaker 18 (30:46):
Growth comes with growing paints and homes went up so
fast last year Princeton had to put a temporary stop
to any more building just to make sure there were
enough sewer lines and water lines and roads for everyone
who was moving in.
Speaker 6 (31:00):
Eugene Escobar Junior is Princeton's mayor.
Speaker 16 (31:02):
What do you think your biggest challenges are right now?
Speaker 4 (31:04):
Johnathan?
Speaker 19 (31:05):
We're still about five years probably behind. We're having to
literally figure out everything and WeDo everything over because the
measurement is everything we had in place cannot handle where
we are now.
Speaker 16 (31:14):
Another thirteen thousand home units are already approved and waiting
to be built.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
Wow, the other thirteen thousand homes being built? Man oh Man, Princeton, Texas.
Speaker 6 (31:25):
Who could have ever seen it coming?
Speaker 17 (31:26):
I still got one of the forest trucks.
Speaker 6 (31:28):
I started with, Well, dl Caldwell for one.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
We were all talking and that made a comment after
who ever thought this about Princeton?
Speaker 9 (31:37):
Darius a noise in me?
Speaker 13 (31:39):
I do, well, You're right.
Speaker 16 (31:42):
The once tiny town of Princeton is expected to grow
to one hundred thousand people within the next five years.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
That's the size of Burbank. I mean, going from seventeen
thousand people in twenty twenty to one hundred thousand people
the next few years. That's incredible, but also a nice
community to go out where everything's brand new and you
and you can afford it. If you own a house
in southern California, you can certainly afford a house in Princeton.
Speaker 4 (32:04):
So think about it. Princeton, Texas.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
That is almost exactly the same distance going north from
Dallas as University of North Texas is is. And that's
where my daughter Sidney went. Oh was that Risemester. It's yeah,
about thirty forty miles north of Dallas. Looks beautiful, looks sensation.
Speaker 4 (32:20):
Wide open space.
Speaker 12 (32:21):
Man, you're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
It is the Conway Show. We have not forgotten about
the people in Corona. You have a huge audience out
there in Corona, the Inland Empires and Berndina Riverside huge.
They love KFI and so got to super serve that audience.
There's a fire in Corona. Let's find out what's going
(32:51):
on with Gabe Santos. Yeah, because that fire is right
near the freeway and they think that that fire was
starting to buy a homeless guy.
Speaker 19 (33:01):
It was actually south of the seventy one Freeway in
the far west corner of Corona, and you could see
there that smoke all the way up in the canyons
burning up against this neighborhood in Corona. The fire started
near the ninety one to seventy one interchange, about a
mile south of that fire a couple days ago, and
we've seen it kind of blow up to about five acres.
Now it's staying to this canyon just south of Palisades
(33:21):
Drive and between Palisades.
Speaker 4 (33:23):
Drive and the neighborhood.
Speaker 19 (33:24):
Once again, this is in continued spotting along this canyon
up to five acres now. Fire crews taking no chances
with this one because there is that threat of fire
burning close to these homes on Braemar Lane, Highland View Drive,
and Summit View Court as well as Meridian Circle. So
because there's still active flames in this canyon, fire crews
(33:45):
taking no chances.
Speaker 9 (33:46):
Once again.
Speaker 19 (33:46):
They have six tankers on the way to this. Four
cocktors in route, some of them already on scene. You
could see some of that pink along the hillsides because
they've already made some fire retardant drops, And that appears
to be making a difference here from when we first
got on scene about thirty minutes ago. We did see
a lot more active smoke, a lot more active flames,
even the neighbors in their backyards with garden hoses trying
(34:08):
to wet down some of the brush behind their homes.
So all of that appears to be making a difference.
But again, fire Cruise taking no chances here. This fire
still burning pretty actively here in the Corona area, in
the far west part of the city of carabin Or
seven games onto safe C seven, I would have stated,
all right, this.
Speaker 4 (34:25):
Is long the ninety one freeway.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
That's why we bring in our own Angel Martinez. Yeah, Angel,
how are you hey? I know you've been talking about
this fire all day. What are we talking about with Corona?
This is off the ninety one. Is this related to
the fire that's been burning all week out there?
Speaker 10 (34:44):
Well, it's in the same vicinity, but it's at a
different location. So this is the one that was burning
earlier this week was along the seventy one, maybe three
miles or so inland from the ninety one freeway. This
one is burning along the ninety one at the seventy
(35:04):
one in that southwest area, and they've also it's affecting
travel on the ninety one eastbound. They've shut down the
two right lanes there between Green River and Surface Club,
which is seventy one is right in between both of
those points. And you know, there's a bunch of trees
and bushes as you can imagine, a lot of palm
(35:27):
trees in the area. I know you love the palm tree.
Oh yeah, and also some railroad tracks, so it's getting
pretty close to that. It's probably not only affecting traffic
on the freeway, it could also be affecting you know,
freight lines that are using those railroad tracks and power
lines are very close by as well.
Speaker 1 (35:46):
So the Euclid fire, I think that's what they called
it on the seventy one that burned earlier this week,
and that's the they call us, I guess the Chino
Valley Freeway, but that was that was burning earlier. This
freeway is not far I mean, as the crow flies,
it might be a mile or two or maybe less.
Speaker 10 (36:07):
Yeah, I mean the ninety one miles away from Butterfield.
Speaker 1 (36:13):
Ranch, right exactly. But they're calling this the Green Fire,
I believe. And it's along all these homes there, and
you can see people in the backyard, you know, spraying
the brush with the garden hose. And they always say
not to do that. You know, it's not gonna make difference,
don't do that, and yet everybody always does because they
feel like they.
Speaker 4 (36:32):
Have to do something. They got to do something.
Speaker 8 (36:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (36:34):
Right, So again, what freeways are closed or what lanes?
Speaker 10 (36:37):
Well, all the freeways are open right now, but on
the ninety one eastbound at the seventy one, well it's
between Green River and Surface Club, that's where the two
right lanes are currently shut down. So that's also going
to affect the connector from the ninety one east to
the seventy one north. That connector is shut down currently.
Speaker 1 (36:56):
All right, Angel, thank you, you got it. Martinez, everybody,
all right, any updates on that fire, we'll have that
for you. It seems like it's under control. They're bringing
a lot of what Stephfush calls air assets to the fire.
Speaker 4 (37:12):
So as soon as.
Speaker 1 (37:15):
Those arrive, it's gonna they'll make quick work of it,
and you will no longer be in danger. But there
are a lot of beautiful homes up there, up in
the hills there along the ninety one, And you get
freaked out when you see smoke or you smell it,
because we all saw what happened early January of this
year where thousands of homes got completely wiped out. So
I do understand the panic. I do get it. We'll
(37:38):
give you updates all afternoon on that and if anything changes,
you'll hear about it right here on KFI AM sixty.
We celebrated Crozier's birthday and that's always a cool deal.
And then over the weekend we will remind you again,
this is gonna be the best late July weather you've had,
(38:00):
maybe or your entire life. It's going to only reach
into the mid to high seventies in most areas. Now,
if you get into the high desert low desert, yeah,
it's going to be ninety in the high desert, one
hundred in the low desert. But for people in the
San Fernando Valley along the coast Seami Valley, I think
stretching all the way into you know Santa Clarita area.
(38:20):
It's going to be spectacular this weekend. You know, weather
that you will not experience in the summer, but maybe
once in a lifetime. I don't remember ever in my
life it being, you know, seventy seven degrees in July
in the San Fernando Valley.
Speaker 4 (38:37):
Never, not once. And I'm a weather hound. I read
about the weather, I talk about the weather. I watch weather. Hey,
you do love it, love the weather.
Speaker 1 (38:47):
And this is gonna be a great weekend. So get
on out there and enjoy yourself this weekend. Conway Show.
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