September 25, 2025 • 32 mins
The Dodgers dominated with an 8-0 shutout over the Diamondbacks, clinching their 12th NL West Division title in 13 years. Meanwhile, an after-action wildfire report revealed no single point of failure in L.A. County’s January evacuation efforts. Huntington Beach Police Chief Eric Parra highlighted low crime and homelessness rates, while also discussing plans for 90 acres of new development and restaurants in the city.
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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. Man, what
a great, great, beautiful fall day here in Southern California.
If you're born and raised in southern California, this reminds
you of being a kid in either elementary school or
junior high. Maybe you know a high school where it
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was just beautiful weather and everything seemed to be great.
In southern California, and the weather does make a difference.
That's why we're all here. That's why we all put
up with all the crap we do every single day.
It's because of the weather. If this was the same
weather as New York or Chicago, this place would be vacant.
But it's not. We're all here because of this the weather,
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and it's great outside. So if you haven't been outside
yet today, buzz on out and enjoy. We're gonna be
have the same weather for the next three days and
what else. And this is another reason why it's so great.
This is exactly the type of weather that we get
every single year around this time of year when the
Dodgers win their division.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
D D D D.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
D drs, the Dodgers have just clinched the National League West.
The Dodgers have just clinched the National League West. They're
going to the playoffs. They're gonna have to play a
wild card game. But they have just won their division
again today. If you watched it earlier, ate nothing against
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the Arizona team, and they beat them today two day
and which is great, great timing because they almost blew
last night's game. I was very nervous about last night's game.
I was watching it last night. I couldn't believe it's
like a replay of the night before. But this is
this is a great reason why today is a good
day to win because now they're gonna get on a plane.
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They're gonna be buzzed tomorrow, they're gonna be hungover, and
they don't have to beat Seattle at all. They can
be they can get swept by Seattle and it doesn't matter.
So this is a perfect time to do it in Arizona.
To do it against a rivalry like Arizona, that's great.
You know, uh, put one a shove one down their throat,
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that's terrific. But it's it's great to how the Dodgers
win again and they're gonna start the playoffs Tuesday at
Dodger Stadium. Tuesday at Dodger Stadium. So go get your tickets.
Sever you've got you got a ticket, guy, You got
a brother who has tickets, an aunt and uncle whatever,
you're gonna go buy him at the stadium. Make sure
you get in for that game on Tuesday, because there
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is an energy around that stadium for playoff games that
doesn't exist any other time of the year. And you
know what, you know what I mean. You know, when
you get into a playoff game, the stadium is decorated,
the energy is high, and the Dodgers need that energy
from the fans to push them all, you know, through
every single series. So go check it out Dodgers Stadium
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on Tuesday, Tuesday. All right, We've got some audio here
from some of the spectacular Dodgers, Blake Snell, Freddie Freeman,
Max Munsey, and Clayton Kershaw. And I'm gonna play. Let's
see who you play first? Here, Hold on, let me
see if I can raise the volume on this one. Okay,
all right, this is Clayton Kershaw first. Clayton Kershaw's retiring
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after this season, and so let's see what he has
to say about yet another He's on another team that
wins the division, that wins the National League West. I
should say the National League, National League West. We're a
champion LA Dodgers.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
It's really wet, Clayton, and congratulations.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
Thanks.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Hey, I don't know where to go from there with thanks.
This is David Vassy and Clayton Kershaw.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
Thanks.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Hey, I don't know where to go from there with thanks.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
See, well, what does this team mean to you?
Speaker 3 (03:49):
What does it mean to celebrate the NLS championship knowing
that this is your last season?
Speaker 5 (03:55):
You don't get this very often in your life, You
really don't. You gotta celebrate every single moment, and uh,
you never know, man, you just never know. And so
getting to celebrate something that's been very hard for us
to get to just special. And this is something special.
So we're gonna celebrate. It's gonna be a lot of fun,
and it's still cold, but it's still the best feeling
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of the world. So I'm gonna enjoy every second of it.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
I know you never want to make it about yourself,
but there's Max Mounsey. Every one of your teammates wants
you to feel the burn today.
Speaker 5 (04:28):
Oh, I can't wait. I love every second.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
We're all gonna feel the burn today.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
We're all they're talking about feeling the burn. Champagne in
the eyes. A lot of these newer guys were goggles
and that's just not right. You know, you should feel
the burn. You earn the burn to have your eyes
burnt out with champagne.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
We're all gonna feel the burn today.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
We're all gonna feel it.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
Are you ready for this October?
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Ready to be in this group?
Speaker 5 (04:49):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Snell Zilla's got a litose things, and that there were microphones.
This team seems to mean a lot to you, and
you seem to mean a lot to them.
Speaker 5 (05:01):
I love this team, man, I love every second of it.
I mean, this is the best part of baseball.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
And so I got some in the eye.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
I took one of the eye.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
This is great. This is David Vassa on a five seventy.
The Dodgers, just a little while ago, ire Or declared
National League West champions.
Speaker 5 (05:21):
It's the best part of baseball to get to celebrate
with people that have been in it with you for
every step of the way. And yeah, this one means marks.
This is my last time to do it. But it's
just the best.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
I need you to give Yama Motos some shine. It
feels like he's been the forgotten man in baseball this year.
Speaker 5 (05:37):
He's not forgotten on our team. He's he's been unbelievable today.
It was just another dominant performance. I know Skeen's had
a great year and he rightfully should win the Sillon,
but Yama's right there, if not more, and God, he's
on our team.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
Do you want your shirt back?
Speaker 1 (05:54):
No, I don't want my shirt back.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
I don't want goggles. I don't want a shirt. I
hardly want pants.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
Dave all right, why they're right there before it goes
any further. Congratulations there he is the man. Play a
Kurds shot.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Oh, this is great. The Dodger celebration continues at in Arizona,
and then they're flying tonight to Seattle. But they don't
have to win in Seattle, which is great. They can
all get rested for Tuesday. Here's Max Monsey, third baseman
for your Los Angeles Dodgers.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Everybody wants a piece of Max Monsey. These days, you
don't know what you have until it's gone. And thankfully
Max Monthly is back. You've been through a few of these, Max,
How special is this one?
Speaker 4 (06:37):
Yeah, I don't know. This one kind of means a lot.
This has been a tough year. We've we've gone through
a lot and then you know, not that long ago,
kursh anounced it's gonna be his last one, and so
this one feels a little bit sweeter. And you know,
I've been through a lot of these, but this one
feels really.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Special when you look at this group.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
You guys took everybody's best shot and here you are
at the top again. What does it say about the
adversity you felt personally this year and the group belt. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:08):
I mean, you know, when you're the defending champions, and
we saw this in twenty one, when you're the defending champions,
everyone wants to knock you off the horse. And you know,
and that's not saying that we're special, but it's just,
you know, that's the reality of it. And we definitely
got everyone's best shot this year, and it was not easy.
It was very challenging, but we found a way to
overcome a lot. We still have a long way to go,
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but you know, throughout the course of the season, there's
very few moments where you get a chance like this
to celebrate your accomplishments. And this is one of those
nights where it's like, hey, this is all about what
we've done. Usually we try to focus on what we're
doing today and moving forward, but tonight's one of those
nights where you think about what you've.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Done when you look ahead.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Though to October, the message from your manager was not
to lose the edge. Do you feel like playing next
Tuesday will help this team keep going and continuing to
play well?
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Yes, you know, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (08:01):
We we we haven't been in that since they've created
the new format, playoff format, we haven't been in this situation.
So I don't know how to answer that question. We
have a very tough series coming up against the Mariners.
They're a very good team, they got a very good pitching,
and then we got to go right into the wild
card and so you know, for us, you're kind of
staying right in the fire, and uh, sometimes there's an
advantage to doing that. You know, you're you're not you're
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not kind of relaxing.
Speaker 6 (08:24):
You're not.
Speaker 4 (08:25):
You know that's right, as Doc says, You're not losing
your edge, and so you know, we'll see how it
turns out, but it's a it's something that we haven't
dealt with.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
I like that you're not wearing goggles, Monsie.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
That's very kershaw s goggles for the week.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
That's great. Goggles are for the week. Goggles for the week.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
Oh, I love it.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
Max Monsey is nothing but strong.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
We'll send it back to you guys.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
That's excellent.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
You know.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
David Assay does Dodger Talk and a really drunk woman
called him up about two weeks ago and said, hey, David,
I listened to Conway all the time, and he I
love and you're on and my favorite player is Max
Monday woooooo. And he said, oh, you mean Max Mounsey
and she's like whatever. So we're gonna come back and
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listen to Blake Snell and also Freddie Freeman. Dodgers are
your National League West champion again this year.
Speaker 6 (09:20):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI AM.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Six forty Dodgers win. For the fourth straight season, The
Los Angeles Dodgers are ending the year on top of
the National League West. The Dodgers clinch today. If you
saw the game, they won eight to nothing over the
Arizona Diamondbacks on Thursday. That's today, So Los Angeles becomes
the latest team to clinch in the division. The win
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brings the Dodgers to ninety wins sixty nine losses. That
is awesome. Two home runs by Freddie Freeman, one home
run by Shoe a Otani, and now they go to
Seattle and play Seattle for three games, then come out
on Tuesday to start the wild card game. Michael Monks
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joins us here celebrating the Dodgers unbelievable year. I got
a quiz for you. Yeah, let's do Okay, the Dodgers
have clinched the National League West. The Rockies came in
last place. Are the Rockies fifteen games out of first,
eighteen games out of first, twenty games out of first,
or forty six games out of first.
Speaker 7 (10:27):
I believe they are having a historically bad season, maybe
just barely eclipse the worst season ever. So I'm gonna
go with the big number forty six. Yeah, you're correct,
forty three and one fifteen. They lost one hundred and
fifteen games and they have three left.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
To play or four left to play. Ye, unbelievable. So
before we get to the news, let me play Freddy
Freeman here, he had a big day and the Dodgers
beat Arizona to win the National League West.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
Freddy, what a season for you guys?
Speaker 7 (10:58):
What a game?
Speaker 3 (10:59):
Rightfully, So you capped it off on this great regular season.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
Yes, you knew that was happening.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
Yeah, as soon as we started talking, somebody was gonna
get you.
Speaker 5 (11:08):
Yeah, I mean, this is this is awesome.
Speaker 8 (11:10):
I mean every year that you'll be able to win
a division title, it's special. It's always the first step
in our goal. H This is always fun for me
to see all the first time or that to win
a division how excited they are. And you know, it's
been a long year with a lot of grinding going on,
and this was special.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
It took a different road and.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
You Miguel Rojas getting Freddy Freeman baptized a him the
turning twenty five, the NLS championship.
Speaker 5 (11:41):
How that field?
Speaker 3 (11:42):
Oh the burn is great, Freddy, That's what Kershaw says.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
Yeah, this is good.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
I mean, this is fun.
Speaker 8 (11:48):
It took a different route than we thought we're gonna take,
but in the end we.
Speaker 4 (11:52):
Were able to call the the goal.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
If you listen to music in the background, here, we're
gonna take.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
But in the end we were able to call the the.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
Goal pretty a few Ulter Omalley would have shut that off.
That when the pandom that's got music, all right, Michael Monks.
We're gonna sell Red Dodgers all day long here. But
Michael Monks, you've got some news, buddy. Yeah.
Speaker 7 (12:09):
We like when La is on fire athletically. We don't
like it so much when it is literally on fire
like it was back in January the devastating wildfires. The
La County Board of Supervisors commissioned a report to figure
out what went wrong? Yeah, uh, what exactly happened and
how did we do anything interesting? That turns out not great?
Turns out there they weren't great. And this is not
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the report that comes out and says, yes it was
those power lines, Yes it was a random firework. Yes
it was a homeless guy cigarette. We don't know the
origin of the fires yet. What this assessment was, which
by the way, was conducted by the consulting firm operated
by retired General Stanley McCrystal, So, I mean, this is
a serious organization that came into evaluate. They basically said
there were failures all around, especially related to communication, both
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to residents who were facing imminent danger and the agencies
that were with protecting those residents. So we're talking about
the evacuation orders. Some of those came late. Some of
those evacuation orders went to people like me who lived
nowhere near any of the fight exactly. So a lot
of us did. And that was an errant message in
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a time of crisis, which scared a lot of people. Meanwhile,
people who needed to be scared weren't getting their messages
in time. Some residents of Altadena said in this report
that they didn't get an evacuation order on their phone,
saved their lives. Eaten fire was in their neighborhood. Dam
It was also some problems with the various agencies communicating
with each other.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
They have outdated policies.
Speaker 7 (13:37):
No one knew wo was in charge often, so that
was a problem when it came to evacuating folks. Who
handles what road, who shuts what down? What road is closed,
what road is open. The county Board of Supervisors and
other county leaders had a press conferences afternoon about a
couple of hours ago. That wrapped up and they said
we're going to fix this. We're gonna get on it.
Right away, so this never happens again.
Speaker 8 (13:58):
Yea.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
So we had about fourteen give or take a couple
of hundred, about fourteen thousand homes burned, no water to
fight the fire, the evacuation orders came in late or never,
and people died. And the only person that was fired
was the chief of the LA Fire Department, who said,
we need more resources.
Speaker 7 (14:16):
And this report does say that there were some staffing
issues and there were some issues of resources, but it
does not specifically say the chief was right that your
budget was cut. It also doesn't criticize her for the
same thing that the mayor's criticized her for about those
thousand or so firefighters who might have been sent home
at one point for a shift change rather than just
keeping them on duty. It doesn't get into those types
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of weeds. This first report, and there will be other reports.
Oh this isn't the last. I didn't be an evaluation
of a lot of different things. This one evaluated the
communication and the evacuations and those just weren't handled well.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
And how many after action reports are they are they
looking for? Well, they might be doing a lot in
terms of legal discovery. I mean there's lawsuits out there
and in fact, folks need to probably be cautious in
what they s say about this. If you are in
a position of authority, how you react to this, what
you say about it, what you concede in this, because
there will be legal cases for a while. Is it
going to be the same group doing the after action report?
Speaker 7 (15:11):
No, but this group was also hired to do something
for the city as well as is a well respected group.
You know, you bring in a retired sure star general,
you're going to listen to what he has to say.
So right now, he says, get your act together on
your communication.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
How long is the Is the initial of the first
report a couple of pages?
Speaker 7 (15:27):
Oh no, no, it's long. It's it's many pages. We
got a good briefing of it. You can read the
whole thing on the county's website if you want to
check it out. And I know a lot of people
are interested about this, but this isn't going to answer
the key questions.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
This is obviously important.
Speaker 7 (15:40):
This is something that hopefully the government learns from and
if we ever face a disaster like that again, so
that people communicate better, so that evacuations are more orderly
and more expedient. But Again, this isn't answer the key
questions that so many of us want to know, what
was the origin of these fires and what was the
status of the infrastructure that maybe could have been better
equipped to fight this thing.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
So again, this report, this after action report on the fire,
is just the communications and how it broke down and
how people may have lost their lives because they were
not told to evacuate. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (16:14):
And what can the government and the various agencies associated
with it do to improve those outcomes? Next time? Fix
the communication systems and fix the communication between the agencies.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
Anybody's had on the chopping block over this? No, no,
why you know? That's what I mean. I think that's
the type of thing that would follow the report that
answers the questions that I just raised. Okay, so a
report comes out a lot to fix, and nobody is
going to get suspended, fired or reprimanded.
Speaker 7 (16:44):
As of this moment. The answer is not Jesus Christ,
what a city? What a city?
Speaker 5 (16:49):
You know?
Speaker 1 (16:49):
The one woman the fire chief that said we need
more people, we need more trucks, we need more water,
she gets thrown out. Everybody else gets to, you know,
eat their steak and their rice and their potatoes and
enjoy themselves.
Speaker 7 (17:03):
Dodgers fans are enjoying themselves today. You know, LA has
some things going on, right.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
Yeah, thank god the Dodgers have won, because I think
this report would have pissed off a lot of people, Okay,
because there are people, especially in Altadena, who died because
they didn't have the evacuation notices and you and I
got one. I got and people are getting from Chatsworth
down to San Pedro and they didn't live anywhere near
the fire.
Speaker 4 (17:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (17:25):
I was glad to know that if I ever need
the alert SYS, some of my phones in the system, right,
That's true. On the other hand, when you see what
we saw during and thankfully we saw from a media
observer distance. I mean I went down there, of course
to report from the scene, but to get an alert
like that in a time when people are running for
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their lives, it's scary, no matter.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
Where the hell are you.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
You know, my daughter was I was nineteen at the
time and I still nineteen, should be twenty next month.
But she got that alert the way we all did,
and she, you know, called me and said what do
I do? What do I do? And I said, well,
you're twelve miles from the fire. Relax and you'll be Okay,
that was a mistake. But it's hard to tell kids
like that that these are mistakes and then have them
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react properly to the next one.
Speaker 7 (18:12):
Yeah, we're not as we're not all as strong as
the kids at Pepperdine who just sit there and watch
the flames lap at those windows.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
Yeah, a lot of us are a lot more fun.
That was a scary time when that flame. The flames
came right up to their windows and they didn't flinch. Yeah,
they did that school something else. Yeah, those kids are
very special. Saturday night, seven to nine pm, I imagine
this will be part of your show. I'll talk about this.
Speaker 7 (18:33):
We'll also talk about a new report that an organization
in downtown Los Angeles is released on how they can
clean up that mess.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
All right, I saw that real quickly. I know you're
always on the homeless issue because you live downtown LA.
Over the last three years, five thousand people have been
you know, left the streets and gone into housing with
that inside Safe program. If if that's the case five
thousand every three years, which is about you know, seventeen
hundred a year, then that means it'll take thirty eight
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years just to take care of the people are homeless
right now, not without any more new homeless.
Speaker 7 (19:06):
No, that's you know, it's a math problem that's not
favorable to those of us who live down there. My
building is completely surrounded again by tents. So we can
put these numbers out, but visually you just see it.
You think that's not good. I see you moving to
the valley. You think I'm a valley. I think it's
too hot in the valley for me. I'm very sensitive
to that.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
You're moving, you're moving. You bring that new couch and
you're gonna get to get in the valant.
Speaker 4 (19:26):
All right.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
We'll see all right, monks. Every Saturday night, seven to
nine pm. Thank you about a right live on KFI.
Will come back with Chief Para from hunting the Beach
and we'll see what's going on in Huntington Beach.
Speaker 6 (19:37):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
And the Dodgers win the National League West, so congratulations
will have audio all day long. They're up on their
way to Seattle. In a few hours or so. They'll
play three games up there and then they'll start the
wild Card game on Tuesday at Dodger Stadium, so get
your tickets. One of my good friends in law enforcement,
we grew up together. He went into law enforcement. I
went into a stupid radio is Chief Para, How are you, sir?
Speaker 2 (20:05):
Wonderful?
Speaker 1 (20:05):
There you go, Huntington Beach Police Chief par Nice to
see it, man.
Speaker 9 (20:10):
It's always good to see you. And you know what,
it's better to see you now because you know what
happened last time. I'm gonna tell you. Listen, it's a story.
So I'm I'm a fool. Clearly. I had you come down.
I asked you to come down and meet me in
Huntington Beach at a restaurant for lunch.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
You came down.
Speaker 9 (20:24):
I had the idea that you lived in Orange County.
So we're talking. I'm like, hey, it's nice and got
an easy drive. You know, I'm coming from Burbank. I'm
a holy rap. So now it's nice that I return
the favor.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
I come up here. I'm happy to be here and
I am delighted to talk to you.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
You're the best, and I'm glad you brought your wife
Jeana with you as well. And also law enforcement of
course for fifteen years at La County, so that is terrific.
So she understands what you're going through. Of course, if
you ever dated or married somebody who wasn't in law enforcement,
I imagine every time you got home at night, you
would have to explain what you're going through.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
Yes, it's forbidden, have to marry it. You have to embreed.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
I think you do. I think you do. I told
my wife, I said, we got to embreed, and she's like,
what the hell's going on with you? So, Chief, a
lot of news coming out at Huntington Beach, and I
want to talk to you. Yesterday, the mayor of Santa
Monica came on with John Colebelt and they had an
hour discussion on how Santa Monica is not what it
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used to be. Yet you don't have those problems in
Huntington Beach. I noticed when I went down there for
the iHeart concert, and anytime I go down there, you're
kind enough to invite me every once in a while
to do the local wards there for a Huntingdon Beach
Police Department. I never see any homeless guys down there.
I don't see them on the beach in the parks
on the streets anywhere.
Speaker 9 (21:42):
So we're to the point now where we have if
there's one or two, my emails are blown up saying
I'm doing nothing. Really yes, and I actually consider that
to be great because our homeless population is one of
the only ones in Orange County that has decreased in
the last couple of years because we're very We're very aggressive,
but we're not aggressive in terms of not offering service.
(22:02):
We want to get them service, want to get them help,
want to get them off the streets. But we will
enforce laws right after that. If you don't want services,
we're going to force the law. And we have a
navigation center holds one hundred and seventy four people. We
just have a big system that works towards getting people
off the streets.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
What's the navigation sys.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
What is that?
Speaker 9 (22:20):
So it looks like a big tent for lack of
a better term, but it holds one hundred and seventy
four people in there, and we shelter them and house them,
and then the goal is they don't stay that long.
They should stay up to a year, and then they
move on to transitional housing or long term housing, permanent housing.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
And that's because of the law in California. You can't
pick them up unless you have a place to put them.
And that's the place to put them.
Speaker 9 (22:41):
Except that law that that changed, Oh did Yeah, so
the Supreme Court overruled that, so now you can do that.
But we've kept the shelter because it helps us. Otherwise
I'll have one hundred and seventy four people more or
less on the streets, so it looks better.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
Right.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
I love Huntington Beach. I saw recently there, and I'm
sure this is a pain in the ass for you.
But the guy who's hoarding and they can't use the sidewalk,
the guy who has the cars and the furniture on
his street, on his house and all that stuff, Man,
that does not really represent Huntington Beach. You would see
that more in the San Fernando Valley and he's really
out of place. But the guy must just be mentally gone.
Speaker 9 (23:18):
So you know, when you're talking about hoarding, you're really
talking about mental illness, right, And that's an epidemic pretty
much everywhere. It's ballooning because of a lot of drug use.
But hoarding in that circumstance, we just have code enforcement.
Code enforcement keeps going out, keeps going out. They get
administrative A warrants. Ultimately the judge will order that to
be cleaned up and will take care of it. But
if you're a neighbor, it can't be fast enough.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (23:38):
Right.
Speaker 9 (23:38):
We always are working with them to try to get
this done. And it's just terrible when you live next
to something like that, but they need services.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
You know, we got to take a break here. But
when I come back on it, I ask you about
how you know there are probably seven five, six, seven
hundred beach communities from San Diego on the south end,
you know, the Mexican California border to Oregon. You know,
there's all these different communities, and yet Huntington Beach was
able to thrive when all these other communities have been
(24:08):
destroyed by homelessness or drugs or crime. And you guys
have been able to build these beautiful hotels, keep the
beaches clean. Whenever there's an iHeart concert, it's usually in
Huntington Beach. There's a lot of people as conventions that
go down there, a lot of people with big meetings.
I know, the Huntington Beach Parade is in Huntington Beach
every year and that is spectacular. But I wonder when
we come back, how you were able to create almost
(24:31):
like a Hawaiian island there with all the other communities,
you know, not doing so well. We'll come back, we'll
talk about that, all right, to Comboy Show. We're live
on KFI AM six forty. Chief of Police from Huntington
Beach is with us and his lovely wife Gina. Chief
Para and his lovely wife Gina are going to have
steak I guess afterwards. All right, that's a good yeah right,
No vegetarians here, not here? All right, we're live on KFI.
Speaker 6 (24:54):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
Chief bar is with us and his lovely wife Gina.
I love Huntington Beach. I go down there every year
for the parade, for the Huntington Beach Fourth of July Parade,
and other times just to go hang out. But how
have you been able to keep Huntington Beach? And again,
it sounds like a commercial for Huntington Beach. But whenever
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I go down there, the parking's easy, the streets are
always clean, the cops are always visible. There's nobody misbehaving
and if they do, you guys step to them quick
and they're gone. But there's a lot of cities that
haven't perfected that. You know, a lot of cities are
run down by crime, especially on the beach, or drugs whatever.
How has Huntington Beach been able to stay this island
(25:43):
in the middle of a lot of craziness.
Speaker 9 (25:45):
God bless you for saying that, But it's true. Yeah, no,
it is true, and it is true for primarily one reason.
We have amazing community support. I've never seen a place
like this that has such community support. I walk down
the street, I don't care if I'm a civilian closer
in my uniform.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
Everybody's high high.
Speaker 9 (26:01):
I went to get a coffee today and you see
how'm addressed by civilian clothes. I was an hour in
that store just because people are coming up talking about issues,
getting some advice on how to solve some of the problems.
And we're all approachable. It's not just me, it's all
the cops, it's all the city council, it's all of
our directors. Everybody in that city is approachable, and they
have one cause. They want to make it the best
it can be.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
But that's where every city should be. People should have
pride in their city.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
They do, they have pride, but we require results.
Speaker 9 (26:29):
That's the thing. Just we don't just perform our job.
It's more than a job, it's a mission. And we
want people to be appreciative because we're trying our hardest
and we will get things done.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
We're not going to give excuses. We'll get things done right.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
This is one of the very few radio shows in
Los Angeles that didn't decide to crap all over the cops.
And I never have and I never will. But every
time I turn on TV news, almost always, unless it's
two guys that run into a house, you know, two
cops that run in the house and rescue a woman,
they'll do a piece on that. But almost every story
(27:02):
is negative on cops and the cops. Finally, you know,
eventually get tired of that.
Speaker 9 (27:08):
Yeah, But I don't think the positive stories sell that much.
We always put them out and I have more positive
stories than I can count, But I think the negative
sells because that's the unfortunate part of our society right now.
We need to all stop being negative. We need to
start realizing's right there's good things in the society, and
let's look at the glass half full.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
That's exactly right. That's my belly always says that about me.
I was a half full guide. You are, You are
all right. Huntington Beach is not fully developed. I know
there's a Hyatt there and there's the Hilton, both spectacular hotels.
It's like going to Hawaii for the weekend. But I
also noticed that there is a parcel that they've been
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talking about for ten to fifteen, maybe twenty years. It's
north of the piers, south of the wetlands. And you
said that that's close to being developed. Yeah, so the
property is going to start decommissioning some wells. That's a
big piece of property.
Speaker 9 (27:57):
It's ninety acres wow, which you're not gonna find it
acres anywhere that's up and down the coast. So obviously
there's a lot of things that have to occur, and
the council has to decide what they want to do
and decide the entitlements, and we have to have a
lot of public input because in our city development is
it's not frowned upon, but our citizens want to make
sure we don't lose Huntington Beach as it stands today.
(28:19):
They don't want to make it into La South. They
want to keep our flavor, they want to keep our
community feeling. So there'll be a lot of community meetings,
there'll be a lot of input from council, and council
will make some solid decisions on that. But ninety acres,
that's the greatest thing in the world.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
Yes, you know, I love. Also, a nice thing about
Huntington Beach is that, you know, every restaurant has to
be good because if not, there's one across the street
that's good, and people will go to.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
That, don't. I don't care where I go. They're good.
Speaker 9 (28:45):
Yeah, they're alternately, and that's that's very true because they
won't last, and we have so many great restaurants. I
encourage everybody to come down, especially next week the show.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
Yes, it's the Airshow. Yes, you got to get down there.
It's October third, four, than fifth, it's it. Bellio went
to it, I think two years ago and said it
was spectacular. I got to try to get down there
this year. But you might. You might have a million
people down there.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
Yes we will, there's no questions.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
A million people, and yet nobody's getting killed or or
you know or or you know fights, there's there's everyone
behaves down there. There's got to be something in the water.
Speaker 9 (29:21):
The air we have a really good security plan and
we work with the with the operator which was code
for very well there, and we last year I think
there was a there's at least a million people down
there over the three days. And last year was kind
of strange because it was cloud cover all right, you
just hear it.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
We had.
Speaker 9 (29:38):
Very low double digit arrests. I want to say it
was even less than that. If it was ten, i'd
be surprised. I don't remember off top of much great
with a million people for that many people with but
they come. They come to do one thing right, get together,
have fun, look at the air show, have some have
some nice food, and hit the road. It works out
great for us and it's all families and it's all good.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
So the air show. What's the best day to go?
It's Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Saturday the best day or Sunday,
they're all good days. Friday is probably the has the
less least amount of people. So I would recommend that
if you can get the day off or you know,
play hooky or something like that.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
I'm good.
Speaker 9 (30:13):
Saturday or Sunday are always great. But you know what,
for you, I don't care what day, just come down.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
Is it all hands on deck for with the cops,
you can't take the day off.
Speaker 9 (30:20):
So that's one of our days where nobody gets to
take the day off. I have every police officer available
that day unless they have a family emergency or something.
Do you bring cops in for the brink? Cops in
I have mutual aid from everywhere. Were Orange County Sheriffs.
We have Garden Grove, we have Anaheim, we have Sealed Beach,
we have Irvine. I mean, I could go on and on.
Everybody comes, but you know what, they come down there
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and they love it. It's not a burden for them.
But you're right, all of the pictures they get, all
of the good, good memories they have. It's just amazing.
Plus the hardest thing for me is to get them
to wash the crowds. I want to look at the
at the air right at the show.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
Last time I was down there, it was for the
the iHeart concert with Gwen Stefanis, and I'm walking around,
I see these five or six kids skateboarding, and they're
probably about fifteen or sixteen, you know, rug rats, And
they stopped and they took and the cop was talking
to them, and I walked by. I'm like, O, honestee,
these kids get arrested. And they were all laughing taking pictures.
(31:17):
He knew the guy. It was like a guy's brother
or something like that. And everybody was friendly and they
skateboarders went one way, the cop went the other way.
That's the way it should be in life.
Speaker 9 (31:25):
Yes, and we have an issue down there, like every
coastal city does about e bikes. People are so up
in arms about whae bikes with kids and they are
faster are dangerous. But what you're talking about now, I
just saw a young lady. She was probably thirteen rd
of the knee bike. She had a helmet on, so
I stopped to talk to her. I said, Hey, I'm
so glad you have a helmet on.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
Blah blah. That's right.
Speaker 9 (31:43):
This young lady talked to me for like fifteen minutes,
and I was like, holy small. So that's the youth
of the day, which we have in Huntington. It's the
future's bright.
Speaker 1 (31:50):
I think it's right, y. I think you're right. I
think you're absolutely right. Come back anytime. I know you
got to get to dinner. October third, fourth, and fifth.
I want to stand where the cops are doing all
the director.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
You're coming with me. Can you come down please?
Speaker 1 (32:03):
I look forward to all right, I'm gonna be there,
all right. I want to be on the mic directing
all these.
Speaker 2 (32:07):
Guys a day. You come down, we'll walk around.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
All right. You're the best, Gina. Very nice to see you.
Chief part Huntington Beach Police Department, Thank you, and you're
always welcome back here. And Huntington Beach is one of
the greatest places in the world. Yes, thanks for coming by.
We're live. Dodgers win. Don't forget the National League West
champion Dodgers. They're gonna play Seattle tomorrow, Saturday and Sunday,
(32:30):
and then they start the playoffs on Tuesday at Dodgers Stadium.
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It's KFI AM six forty and you're listening to the
Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. Man, what
a great, great, beautiful fall day here in Southern California.
If you're born and raised in southern California, this reminds
you of being a kid in either elementary school or
junior high. Maybe you know a high school where it
(00:21):
was just beautiful weather and everything seemed to be great.
In southern California, and the weather does make a difference.
That's why we're all here. That's why we all put
up with all the crap we do every single day.
It's because of the weather. If this was the same
weather as New York or Chicago, this place would be vacant.
But it's not. We're all here because of this the weather,
(00:42):
and it's great outside. So if you haven't been outside
yet today, buzz on out and enjoy. We're gonna be
have the same weather for the next three days and
what else. And this is another reason why it's so great.
This is exactly the type of weather that we get
every single year around this time of year when the
Dodgers win their division.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
D D D D.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
D drs, the Dodgers have just clinched the National League West.
The Dodgers have just clinched the National League West. They're
going to the playoffs. They're gonna have to play a
wild card game. But they have just won their division
again today. If you watched it earlier, ate nothing against
(01:34):
the Arizona team, and they beat them today two day
and which is great, great timing because they almost blew
last night's game. I was very nervous about last night's game.
I was watching it last night. I couldn't believe it's
like a replay of the night before. But this is
this is a great reason why today is a good
day to win because now they're gonna get on a plane.
(01:55):
They're gonna be buzzed tomorrow, they're gonna be hungover, and
they don't have to beat Seattle at all. They can
be they can get swept by Seattle and it doesn't matter.
So this is a perfect time to do it in Arizona.
To do it against a rivalry like Arizona, that's great.
You know, uh, put one a shove one down their throat,
(02:15):
that's terrific. But it's it's great to how the Dodgers
win again and they're gonna start the playoffs Tuesday at
Dodger Stadium. Tuesday at Dodger Stadium. So go get your tickets.
Sever you've got you got a ticket, guy, You got
a brother who has tickets, an aunt and uncle whatever,
you're gonna go buy him at the stadium. Make sure
you get in for that game on Tuesday, because there
(02:35):
is an energy around that stadium for playoff games that
doesn't exist any other time of the year. And you
know what, you know what I mean. You know, when
you get into a playoff game, the stadium is decorated,
the energy is high, and the Dodgers need that energy
from the fans to push them all, you know, through
every single series. So go check it out Dodgers Stadium
(02:57):
on Tuesday, Tuesday. All right, We've got some audio here
from some of the spectacular Dodgers, Blake Snell, Freddie Freeman,
Max Munsey, and Clayton Kershaw. And I'm gonna play. Let's
see who you play first? Here, Hold on, let me
see if I can raise the volume on this one. Okay,
all right, this is Clayton Kershaw first. Clayton Kershaw's retiring
(03:21):
after this season, and so let's see what he has
to say about yet another He's on another team that
wins the division, that wins the National League West. I
should say the National League, National League West. We're a
champion LA Dodgers.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
It's really wet, Clayton, and congratulations.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
Thanks.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Hey, I don't know where to go from there with thanks.
This is David Vassy and Clayton Kershaw.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
Thanks.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Hey, I don't know where to go from there with thanks.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
See, well, what does this team mean to you?
Speaker 3 (03:49):
What does it mean to celebrate the NLS championship knowing
that this is your last season?
Speaker 5 (03:55):
You don't get this very often in your life, You
really don't. You gotta celebrate every single moment, and uh,
you never know, man, you just never know. And so
getting to celebrate something that's been very hard for us
to get to just special. And this is something special.
So we're gonna celebrate. It's gonna be a lot of fun,
and it's still cold, but it's still the best feeling
(04:17):
of the world. So I'm gonna enjoy every second of it.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
I know you never want to make it about yourself,
but there's Max Mounsey. Every one of your teammates wants
you to feel the burn today.
Speaker 5 (04:28):
Oh, I can't wait. I love every second.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
We're all gonna feel the burn today.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
We're all they're talking about feeling the burn. Champagne in
the eyes. A lot of these newer guys were goggles
and that's just not right. You know, you should feel
the burn. You earn the burn to have your eyes
burnt out with champagne.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
We're all gonna feel the burn today.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
We're all gonna feel it.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
Are you ready for this October?
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Ready to be in this group?
Speaker 5 (04:49):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Snell Zilla's got a litose things, and that there were microphones.
This team seems to mean a lot to you, and
you seem to mean a lot to them.
Speaker 5 (05:01):
I love this team, man, I love every second of it.
I mean, this is the best part of baseball.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
And so I got some in the eye.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
I took one of the eye.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
This is great. This is David Vassa on a five seventy.
The Dodgers, just a little while ago, ire Or declared
National League West champions.
Speaker 5 (05:21):
It's the best part of baseball to get to celebrate
with people that have been in it with you for
every step of the way. And yeah, this one means marks.
This is my last time to do it. But it's
just the best.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
I need you to give Yama Motos some shine. It
feels like he's been the forgotten man in baseball this year.
Speaker 5 (05:37):
He's not forgotten on our team. He's he's been unbelievable today.
It was just another dominant performance. I know Skeen's had
a great year and he rightfully should win the Sillon,
but Yama's right there, if not more, and God, he's
on our team.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
Do you want your shirt back?
Speaker 1 (05:54):
No, I don't want my shirt back.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
I don't want goggles. I don't want a shirt. I
hardly want pants.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
Dave all right, why they're right there before it goes
any further. Congratulations there he is the man. Play a
Kurds shot.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Oh, this is great. The Dodger celebration continues at in Arizona,
and then they're flying tonight to Seattle. But they don't
have to win in Seattle, which is great. They can
all get rested for Tuesday. Here's Max Monsey, third baseman
for your Los Angeles Dodgers.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Everybody wants a piece of Max Monsey. These days, you
don't know what you have until it's gone. And thankfully
Max Monthly is back. You've been through a few of these, Max,
How special is this one?
Speaker 4 (06:37):
Yeah, I don't know. This one kind of means a lot.
This has been a tough year. We've we've gone through
a lot and then you know, not that long ago,
kursh anounced it's gonna be his last one, and so
this one feels a little bit sweeter. And you know,
I've been through a lot of these, but this one
feels really.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Special when you look at this group.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
You guys took everybody's best shot and here you are
at the top again. What does it say about the
adversity you felt personally this year and the group belt. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:08):
I mean, you know, when you're the defending champions, and
we saw this in twenty one, when you're the defending champions,
everyone wants to knock you off the horse. And you know,
and that's not saying that we're special, but it's just,
you know, that's the reality of it. And we definitely
got everyone's best shot this year, and it was not easy.
It was very challenging, but we found a way to
overcome a lot. We still have a long way to go,
(07:30):
but you know, throughout the course of the season, there's
very few moments where you get a chance like this
to celebrate your accomplishments. And this is one of those
nights where it's like, hey, this is all about what
we've done. Usually we try to focus on what we're
doing today and moving forward, but tonight's one of those
nights where you think about what you've.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Done when you look ahead.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Though to October, the message from your manager was not
to lose the edge. Do you feel like playing next
Tuesday will help this team keep going and continuing to
play well?
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Yes, you know, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (08:01):
We we we haven't been in that since they've created
the new format, playoff format, we haven't been in this situation.
So I don't know how to answer that question. We
have a very tough series coming up against the Mariners.
They're a very good team, they got a very good pitching,
and then we got to go right into the wild
card and so you know, for us, you're kind of
staying right in the fire, and uh, sometimes there's an
advantage to doing that. You know, you're you're not you're
(08:23):
not kind of relaxing.
Speaker 6 (08:24):
You're not.
Speaker 4 (08:25):
You know that's right, as Doc says, You're not losing
your edge, and so you know, we'll see how it
turns out, but it's a it's something that we haven't
dealt with.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
I like that you're not wearing goggles, Monsie.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
That's very kershaw s goggles for the week.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
That's great. Goggles are for the week. Goggles for the week.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
Oh, I love it.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
Max Monsey is nothing but strong.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
We'll send it back to you guys.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
That's excellent.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
You know.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
David Assay does Dodger Talk and a really drunk woman
called him up about two weeks ago and said, hey, David,
I listened to Conway all the time, and he I
love and you're on and my favorite player is Max
Monday woooooo. And he said, oh, you mean Max Mounsey
and she's like whatever. So we're gonna come back and
(09:10):
listen to Blake Snell and also Freddie Freeman. Dodgers are
your National League West champion again this year.
Speaker 6 (09:20):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI AM.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Six forty Dodgers win. For the fourth straight season, The
Los Angeles Dodgers are ending the year on top of
the National League West. The Dodgers clinch today. If you
saw the game, they won eight to nothing over the
Arizona Diamondbacks on Thursday. That's today, So Los Angeles becomes
the latest team to clinch in the division. The win
(09:45):
brings the Dodgers to ninety wins sixty nine losses. That
is awesome. Two home runs by Freddie Freeman, one home
run by Shoe a Otani, and now they go to
Seattle and play Seattle for three games, then come out
on Tuesday to start the wild card game. Michael Monks
(10:06):
joins us here celebrating the Dodgers unbelievable year. I got
a quiz for you. Yeah, let's do Okay, the Dodgers
have clinched the National League West. The Rockies came in
last place. Are the Rockies fifteen games out of first,
eighteen games out of first, twenty games out of first,
or forty six games out of first.
Speaker 7 (10:27):
I believe they are having a historically bad season, maybe
just barely eclipse the worst season ever. So I'm gonna
go with the big number forty six. Yeah, you're correct,
forty three and one fifteen. They lost one hundred and
fifteen games and they have three left.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
To play or four left to play. Ye, unbelievable. So
before we get to the news, let me play Freddy
Freeman here, he had a big day and the Dodgers
beat Arizona to win the National League West.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
Freddy, what a season for you guys?
Speaker 7 (10:58):
What a game?
Speaker 3 (10:59):
Rightfully, So you capped it off on this great regular season.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
Yes, you knew that was happening.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
Yeah, as soon as we started talking, somebody was gonna
get you.
Speaker 5 (11:08):
Yeah, I mean, this is this is awesome.
Speaker 8 (11:10):
I mean every year that you'll be able to win
a division title, it's special. It's always the first step
in our goal. H This is always fun for me
to see all the first time or that to win
a division how excited they are. And you know, it's
been a long year with a lot of grinding going on,
and this was special.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
It took a different road and.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
You Miguel Rojas getting Freddy Freeman baptized a him the
turning twenty five, the NLS championship.
Speaker 5 (11:41):
How that field?
Speaker 3 (11:42):
Oh the burn is great, Freddy, That's what Kershaw says.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
Yeah, this is good.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
I mean, this is fun.
Speaker 8 (11:48):
It took a different route than we thought we're gonna take,
but in the end we.
Speaker 4 (11:52):
Were able to call the the goal.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
If you listen to music in the background, here, we're
gonna take.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
But in the end we were able to call the the.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
Goal pretty a few Ulter Omalley would have shut that off.
That when the pandom that's got music, all right, Michael Monks.
We're gonna sell Red Dodgers all day long here. But
Michael Monks, you've got some news, buddy. Yeah.
Speaker 7 (12:09):
We like when La is on fire athletically. We don't
like it so much when it is literally on fire
like it was back in January the devastating wildfires. The
La County Board of Supervisors commissioned a report to figure
out what went wrong? Yeah, uh, what exactly happened and
how did we do anything interesting? That turns out not great?
Turns out there they weren't great. And this is not
(12:29):
the report that comes out and says, yes it was
those power lines, Yes it was a random firework. Yes
it was a homeless guy cigarette. We don't know the
origin of the fires yet. What this assessment was, which
by the way, was conducted by the consulting firm operated
by retired General Stanley McCrystal, So, I mean, this is
a serious organization that came into evaluate. They basically said
there were failures all around, especially related to communication, both
(12:54):
to residents who were facing imminent danger and the agencies
that were with protecting those residents. So we're talking about
the evacuation orders. Some of those came late. Some of
those evacuation orders went to people like me who lived
nowhere near any of the fight exactly. So a lot
of us did. And that was an errant message in
(13:17):
a time of crisis, which scared a lot of people. Meanwhile,
people who needed to be scared weren't getting their messages
in time. Some residents of Altadena said in this report
that they didn't get an evacuation order on their phone,
saved their lives. Eaten fire was in their neighborhood. Dam
It was also some problems with the various agencies communicating
with each other.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
They have outdated policies.
Speaker 7 (13:37):
No one knew wo was in charge often, so that
was a problem when it came to evacuating folks. Who
handles what road, who shuts what down? What road is closed,
what road is open. The county Board of Supervisors and
other county leaders had a press conferences afternoon about a
couple of hours ago. That wrapped up and they said
we're going to fix this. We're gonna get on it.
Right away, so this never happens again.
Speaker 8 (13:58):
Yea.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
So we had about fourteen give or take a couple
of hundred, about fourteen thousand homes burned, no water to
fight the fire, the evacuation orders came in late or never,
and people died. And the only person that was fired
was the chief of the LA Fire Department, who said,
we need more resources.
Speaker 7 (14:16):
And this report does say that there were some staffing
issues and there were some issues of resources, but it
does not specifically say the chief was right that your
budget was cut. It also doesn't criticize her for the
same thing that the mayor's criticized her for about those
thousand or so firefighters who might have been sent home
at one point for a shift change rather than just
keeping them on duty. It doesn't get into those types
(14:37):
of weeds. This first report, and there will be other reports.
Oh this isn't the last. I didn't be an evaluation
of a lot of different things. This one evaluated the
communication and the evacuations and those just weren't handled well.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
And how many after action reports are they are they
looking for? Well, they might be doing a lot in
terms of legal discovery. I mean there's lawsuits out there
and in fact, folks need to probably be cautious in
what they s say about this. If you are in
a position of authority, how you react to this, what
you say about it, what you concede in this, because
there will be legal cases for a while. Is it
going to be the same group doing the after action report?
Speaker 7 (15:11):
No, but this group was also hired to do something
for the city as well as is a well respected group.
You know, you bring in a retired sure star general,
you're going to listen to what he has to say.
So right now, he says, get your act together on
your communication.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
How long is the Is the initial of the first
report a couple of pages?
Speaker 7 (15:27):
Oh no, no, it's long. It's it's many pages. We
got a good briefing of it. You can read the
whole thing on the county's website if you want to
check it out. And I know a lot of people
are interested about this, but this isn't going to answer
the key questions.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
This is obviously important.
Speaker 7 (15:40):
This is something that hopefully the government learns from and
if we ever face a disaster like that again, so
that people communicate better, so that evacuations are more orderly
and more expedient. But Again, this isn't answer the key
questions that so many of us want to know, what
was the origin of these fires and what was the
status of the infrastructure that maybe could have been better
equipped to fight this thing.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
So again, this report, this after action report on the fire,
is just the communications and how it broke down and
how people may have lost their lives because they were
not told to evacuate. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (16:14):
And what can the government and the various agencies associated
with it do to improve those outcomes? Next time? Fix
the communication systems and fix the communication between the agencies.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
Anybody's had on the chopping block over this? No, no,
why you know? That's what I mean. I think that's
the type of thing that would follow the report that
answers the questions that I just raised. Okay, so a
report comes out a lot to fix, and nobody is
going to get suspended, fired or reprimanded.
Speaker 7 (16:44):
As of this moment. The answer is not Jesus Christ,
what a city? What a city?
Speaker 5 (16:49):
You know?
Speaker 1 (16:49):
The one woman the fire chief that said we need
more people, we need more trucks, we need more water,
she gets thrown out. Everybody else gets to, you know,
eat their steak and their rice and their potatoes and
enjoy themselves.
Speaker 7 (17:03):
Dodgers fans are enjoying themselves today. You know, LA has
some things going on, right.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
Yeah, thank god the Dodgers have won, because I think
this report would have pissed off a lot of people, Okay,
because there are people, especially in Altadena, who died because
they didn't have the evacuation notices and you and I
got one. I got and people are getting from Chatsworth
down to San Pedro and they didn't live anywhere near
the fire.
Speaker 4 (17:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (17:25):
I was glad to know that if I ever need
the alert SYS, some of my phones in the system, right,
That's true. On the other hand, when you see what
we saw during and thankfully we saw from a media
observer distance. I mean I went down there, of course
to report from the scene, but to get an alert
like that in a time when people are running for
(17:45):
their lives, it's scary, no matter.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
Where the hell are you.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
You know, my daughter was I was nineteen at the
time and I still nineteen, should be twenty next month.
But she got that alert the way we all did,
and she, you know, called me and said what do
I do? What do I do? And I said, well,
you're twelve miles from the fire. Relax and you'll be Okay,
that was a mistake. But it's hard to tell kids
like that that these are mistakes and then have them
(18:10):
react properly to the next one.
Speaker 7 (18:12):
Yeah, we're not as we're not all as strong as
the kids at Pepperdine who just sit there and watch
the flames lap at those windows.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
Yeah, a lot of us are a lot more fun.
That was a scary time when that flame. The flames
came right up to their windows and they didn't flinch. Yeah,
they did that school something else. Yeah, those kids are
very special. Saturday night, seven to nine pm, I imagine
this will be part of your show. I'll talk about this.
Speaker 7 (18:33):
We'll also talk about a new report that an organization
in downtown Los Angeles is released on how they can
clean up that mess.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
All right, I saw that real quickly. I know you're
always on the homeless issue because you live downtown LA.
Over the last three years, five thousand people have been
you know, left the streets and gone into housing with
that inside Safe program. If if that's the case five
thousand every three years, which is about you know, seventeen
hundred a year, then that means it'll take thirty eight
(19:01):
years just to take care of the people are homeless
right now, not without any more new homeless.
Speaker 7 (19:06):
No, that's you know, it's a math problem that's not
favorable to those of us who live down there. My
building is completely surrounded again by tents. So we can
put these numbers out, but visually you just see it.
You think that's not good. I see you moving to
the valley. You think I'm a valley. I think it's
too hot in the valley for me. I'm very sensitive
to that.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
You're moving, you're moving. You bring that new couch and
you're gonna get to get in the valant.
Speaker 4 (19:26):
All right.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
We'll see all right, monks. Every Saturday night, seven to
nine pm. Thank you about a right live on KFI.
Will come back with Chief Para from hunting the Beach
and we'll see what's going on in Huntington Beach.
Speaker 6 (19:37):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
And the Dodgers win the National League West, so congratulations
will have audio all day long. They're up on their
way to Seattle. In a few hours or so. They'll
play three games up there and then they'll start the
wild Card game on Tuesday at Dodger Stadium, so get
your tickets. One of my good friends in law enforcement,
we grew up together. He went into law enforcement. I
went into a stupid radio is Chief Para, How are you, sir?
Speaker 2 (20:05):
Wonderful?
Speaker 1 (20:05):
There you go, Huntington Beach Police Chief par Nice to
see it, man.
Speaker 9 (20:10):
It's always good to see you. And you know what,
it's better to see you now because you know what
happened last time. I'm gonna tell you. Listen, it's a story.
So I'm I'm a fool. Clearly. I had you come down.
I asked you to come down and meet me in
Huntington Beach at a restaurant for lunch.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
You came down.
Speaker 9 (20:24):
I had the idea that you lived in Orange County.
So we're talking. I'm like, hey, it's nice and got
an easy drive. You know, I'm coming from Burbank. I'm
a holy rap. So now it's nice that I return
the favor.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
I come up here. I'm happy to be here and
I am delighted to talk to you.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
You're the best, and I'm glad you brought your wife
Jeana with you as well. And also law enforcement of
course for fifteen years at La County, so that is terrific.
So she understands what you're going through. Of course, if
you ever dated or married somebody who wasn't in law enforcement,
I imagine every time you got home at night, you
would have to explain what you're going through.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
Yes, it's forbidden, have to marry it. You have to embreed.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
I think you do. I think you do. I told
my wife, I said, we got to embreed, and she's like,
what the hell's going on with you? So, Chief, a
lot of news coming out at Huntington Beach, and I
want to talk to you. Yesterday, the mayor of Santa
Monica came on with John Colebelt and they had an
hour discussion on how Santa Monica is not what it
(21:23):
used to be. Yet you don't have those problems in
Huntington Beach. I noticed when I went down there for
the iHeart concert, and anytime I go down there, you're
kind enough to invite me every once in a while
to do the local wards there for a Huntingdon Beach
Police Department. I never see any homeless guys down there.
I don't see them on the beach in the parks
on the streets anywhere.
Speaker 9 (21:42):
So we're to the point now where we have if
there's one or two, my emails are blown up saying
I'm doing nothing. Really yes, and I actually consider that
to be great because our homeless population is one of
the only ones in Orange County that has decreased in
the last couple of years because we're very We're very aggressive,
but we're not aggressive in terms of not offering service.
(22:02):
We want to get them service, want to get them help,
want to get them off the streets. But we will
enforce laws right after that. If you don't want services,
we're going to force the law. And we have a
navigation center holds one hundred and seventy four people. We
just have a big system that works towards getting people
off the streets.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
What's the navigation sys.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
What is that?
Speaker 9 (22:20):
So it looks like a big tent for lack of
a better term, but it holds one hundred and seventy
four people in there, and we shelter them and house them,
and then the goal is they don't stay that long.
They should stay up to a year, and then they
move on to transitional housing or long term housing, permanent housing.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
And that's because of the law in California. You can't
pick them up unless you have a place to put them.
And that's the place to put them.
Speaker 9 (22:41):
Except that law that that changed, Oh did Yeah, so
the Supreme Court overruled that, so now you can do that.
But we've kept the shelter because it helps us. Otherwise
I'll have one hundred and seventy four people more or
less on the streets, so it looks better.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
Right.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
I love Huntington Beach. I saw recently there, and I'm
sure this is a pain in the ass for you.
But the guy who's hoarding and they can't use the sidewalk,
the guy who has the cars and the furniture on
his street, on his house and all that stuff, Man,
that does not really represent Huntington Beach. You would see
that more in the San Fernando Valley and he's really
out of place. But the guy must just be mentally gone.
Speaker 9 (23:18):
So you know, when you're talking about hoarding, you're really
talking about mental illness, right, And that's an epidemic pretty
much everywhere. It's ballooning because of a lot of drug use.
But hoarding in that circumstance, we just have code enforcement.
Code enforcement keeps going out, keeps going out. They get
administrative A warrants. Ultimately the judge will order that to
be cleaned up and will take care of it. But
if you're a neighbor, it can't be fast enough.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (23:38):
Right.
Speaker 9 (23:38):
We always are working with them to try to get
this done. And it's just terrible when you live next
to something like that, but they need services.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
You know, we got to take a break here. But
when I come back on it, I ask you about
how you know there are probably seven five, six, seven
hundred beach communities from San Diego on the south end,
you know, the Mexican California border to Oregon. You know,
there's all these different communities, and yet Huntington Beach was
able to thrive when all these other communities have been
(24:08):
destroyed by homelessness or drugs or crime. And you guys
have been able to build these beautiful hotels, keep the
beaches clean. Whenever there's an iHeart concert, it's usually in
Huntington Beach. There's a lot of people as conventions that
go down there, a lot of people with big meetings.
I know, the Huntington Beach Parade is in Huntington Beach
every year and that is spectacular. But I wonder when
we come back, how you were able to create almost
(24:31):
like a Hawaiian island there with all the other communities,
you know, not doing so well. We'll come back, we'll
talk about that, all right, to Comboy Show. We're live
on KFI AM six forty. Chief of Police from Huntington
Beach is with us and his lovely wife Gina. Chief
Para and his lovely wife Gina are going to have
steak I guess afterwards. All right, that's a good yeah right,
No vegetarians here, not here? All right, we're live on KFI.
Speaker 6 (24:54):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
Chief bar is with us and his lovely wife Gina.
I love Huntington Beach. I go down there every year
for the parade, for the Huntington Beach Fourth of July Parade,
and other times just to go hang out. But how
have you been able to keep Huntington Beach? And again,
it sounds like a commercial for Huntington Beach. But whenever
(25:21):
I go down there, the parking's easy, the streets are
always clean, the cops are always visible. There's nobody misbehaving
and if they do, you guys step to them quick
and they're gone. But there's a lot of cities that
haven't perfected that. You know, a lot of cities are
run down by crime, especially on the beach, or drugs whatever.
How has Huntington Beach been able to stay this island
(25:43):
in the middle of a lot of craziness.
Speaker 9 (25:45):
God bless you for saying that, But it's true. Yeah, no,
it is true, and it is true for primarily one reason.
We have amazing community support. I've never seen a place
like this that has such community support. I walk down
the street, I don't care if I'm a civilian closer
in my uniform.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
Everybody's high high.
Speaker 9 (26:01):
I went to get a coffee today and you see
how'm addressed by civilian clothes. I was an hour in
that store just because people are coming up talking about issues,
getting some advice on how to solve some of the problems.
And we're all approachable. It's not just me, it's all
the cops, it's all the city council, it's all of
our directors. Everybody in that city is approachable, and they
have one cause. They want to make it the best
it can be.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
But that's where every city should be. People should have
pride in their city.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
They do, they have pride, but we require results.
Speaker 9 (26:29):
That's the thing. Just we don't just perform our job.
It's more than a job, it's a mission. And we
want people to be appreciative because we're trying our hardest
and we will get things done.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
We're not going to give excuses. We'll get things done right.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
This is one of the very few radio shows in
Los Angeles that didn't decide to crap all over the cops.
And I never have and I never will. But every
time I turn on TV news, almost always, unless it's
two guys that run into a house, you know, two
cops that run in the house and rescue a woman,
they'll do a piece on that. But almost every story
(27:02):
is negative on cops and the cops. Finally, you know,
eventually get tired of that.
Speaker 9 (27:08):
Yeah, But I don't think the positive stories sell that much.
We always put them out and I have more positive
stories than I can count, But I think the negative
sells because that's the unfortunate part of our society right now.
We need to all stop being negative. We need to
start realizing's right there's good things in the society, and
let's look at the glass half full.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
That's exactly right. That's my belly always says that about me.
I was a half full guide. You are, You are
all right. Huntington Beach is not fully developed. I know
there's a Hyatt there and there's the Hilton, both spectacular hotels.
It's like going to Hawaii for the weekend. But I
also noticed that there is a parcel that they've been
(27:44):
talking about for ten to fifteen, maybe twenty years. It's
north of the piers, south of the wetlands. And you
said that that's close to being developed. Yeah, so the
property is going to start decommissioning some wells. That's a
big piece of property.
Speaker 9 (27:57):
It's ninety acres wow, which you're not gonna find it
acres anywhere that's up and down the coast. So obviously
there's a lot of things that have to occur, and
the council has to decide what they want to do
and decide the entitlements, and we have to have a
lot of public input because in our city development is
it's not frowned upon, but our citizens want to make
sure we don't lose Huntington Beach as it stands today.
(28:19):
They don't want to make it into La South. They
want to keep our flavor, they want to keep our
community feeling. So there'll be a lot of community meetings,
there'll be a lot of input from council, and council
will make some solid decisions on that. But ninety acres,
that's the greatest thing in the world.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
Yes, you know, I love. Also, a nice thing about
Huntington Beach is that, you know, every restaurant has to
be good because if not, there's one across the street
that's good, and people will go to.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
That, don't. I don't care where I go. They're good.
Speaker 9 (28:45):
Yeah, they're alternately, and that's that's very true because they
won't last, and we have so many great restaurants. I
encourage everybody to come down, especially next week the show.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
Yes, it's the Airshow. Yes, you got to get down there.
It's October third, four, than fifth, it's it. Bellio went
to it, I think two years ago and said it
was spectacular. I got to try to get down there
this year. But you might. You might have a million
people down there.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
Yes we will, there's no questions.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
A million people, and yet nobody's getting killed or or
you know or or you know fights, there's there's everyone
behaves down there. There's got to be something in the water.
Speaker 9 (29:21):
The air we have a really good security plan and
we work with the with the operator which was code
for very well there, and we last year I think
there was a there's at least a million people down
there over the three days. And last year was kind
of strange because it was cloud cover all right, you
just hear it.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
We had.
Speaker 9 (29:38):
Very low double digit arrests. I want to say it
was even less than that. If it was ten, i'd
be surprised. I don't remember off top of much great
with a million people for that many people with but
they come. They come to do one thing right, get together,
have fun, look at the air show, have some have
some nice food, and hit the road. It works out
great for us and it's all families and it's all good.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
So the air show. What's the best day to go?
It's Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Saturday the best day or Sunday,
they're all good days. Friday is probably the has the
less least amount of people. So I would recommend that
if you can get the day off or you know,
play hooky or something like that.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
I'm good.
Speaker 9 (30:13):
Saturday or Sunday are always great. But you know what,
for you, I don't care what day, just come down.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
Is it all hands on deck for with the cops,
you can't take the day off.
Speaker 9 (30:20):
So that's one of our days where nobody gets to
take the day off. I have every police officer available
that day unless they have a family emergency or something.
Do you bring cops in for the brink? Cops in
I have mutual aid from everywhere. Were Orange County Sheriffs.
We have Garden Grove, we have Anaheim, we have Sealed Beach,
we have Irvine. I mean, I could go on and on.
Everybody comes, but you know what, they come down there
(30:42):
and they love it. It's not a burden for them.
But you're right, all of the pictures they get, all
of the good, good memories they have. It's just amazing.
Plus the hardest thing for me is to get them
to wash the crowds. I want to look at the
at the air right at the show.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
Last time I was down there, it was for the
the iHeart concert with Gwen Stefanis, and I'm walking around,
I see these five or six kids skateboarding, and they're
probably about fifteen or sixteen, you know, rug rats, And
they stopped and they took and the cop was talking
to them, and I walked by. I'm like, O, honestee,
these kids get arrested. And they were all laughing taking pictures.
(31:17):
He knew the guy. It was like a guy's brother
or something like that. And everybody was friendly and they
skateboarders went one way, the cop went the other way.
That's the way it should be in life.
Speaker 9 (31:25):
Yes, and we have an issue down there, like every
coastal city does about e bikes. People are so up
in arms about whae bikes with kids and they are
faster are dangerous. But what you're talking about now, I
just saw a young lady. She was probably thirteen rd
of the knee bike. She had a helmet on, so
I stopped to talk to her. I said, Hey, I'm
so glad you have a helmet on.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
Blah blah. That's right.
Speaker 9 (31:43):
This young lady talked to me for like fifteen minutes,
and I was like, holy small. So that's the youth
of the day, which we have in Huntington. It's the
future's bright.
Speaker 1 (31:50):
I think it's right, y. I think you're right. I
think you're absolutely right. Come back anytime. I know you
got to get to dinner. October third, fourth, and fifth.
I want to stand where the cops are doing all
the director.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
You're coming with me. Can you come down please?
Speaker 1 (32:03):
I look forward to all right, I'm gonna be there,
all right. I want to be on the mic directing
all these.
Speaker 2 (32:07):
Guys a day. You come down, we'll walk around.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
All right. You're the best, Gina. Very nice to see you.
Chief part Huntington Beach Police Department, Thank you, and you're
always welcome back here. And Huntington Beach is one of
the greatest places in the world. Yes, thanks for coming by.
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