January 10, 2025 • 30 mins
The Daily Mail is reporting that Mayor Bass has fired Fire Chief Crowley. The presser that was supposed to occur was just LAPD, as Mayor Bass has fired the LAFD Chief. // ABC is reporting that the story about Mayor Bass firing Chief Crowley is untrue, we are waiting for a final verdict. Although it is confirmed that the Mayor and Chief did meet this afternoon. And tracking the Palisades fire. // Breaking news on the Palisades fire and tracking any potential movement. // Tracking the fires and how to process insurance claims from Insurance
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's kf I Am six forty and you're listening to
the Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. Big
big story going on here. The Daily Mail is reporting
that Mayor bass is.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Fired in power a couple of others.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
The chief of the fire Chief, Kristen Crowley. That's what
the Daily Mail. Let's go to channel four here. Let
me pull this up here. I can do it here.
See what's going on here with Deeric Glender in case it's.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Somebody that we'd want to talk to, But no, we
have not seen the mayor, have not seen the fire chief.
Speaker 4 (00:32):
Point in time, as you were all waiting for this
press conference that was initially supposed to begin at four
then at five point thirty, at what particular point in
time did you guys realize that there was going to
be no fire chief and no Mayor of Los Angeles present.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
That's unusual.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
Well, I think that really developed in the last half hour.
We got wind through our contacts and Robert Kavasis as well,
that there was this meeting that was going to happen
at City Hall. We went over there. We're able to
stake out the hallway outside the Mayor's office. We saw
the chief. We saw a number of other fire officials arriving.
We knew something was brewing. I think that's pretty clear
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at this point. But the expectation was the meeting would
resolve and then this briefing would take place as planned.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Okay, this is very unusual that the press briefing that
was supposed to include LA Fire Department LAPD Chief Jim McDonald,
Mayor Bass, Kristin Crawley, the head of the chief of
the Fire Department, and Krozer and I were like, wait minute,
there's just Chief McDonald there. Where is everybody else? Well,
according to the Daily Mail, LA Fire chief is dismissed
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by Mayor Karen Bass after lashing out over the department
cuts as deadly blazes devastate the city of Los Angeles.
Speaker 5 (01:41):
We're looking to get confirmation on that from some source
other than Daily Mail, but that's the only one right now.
What you were saying before, that press conference early today
was supposed to take place at four, then they moved
it to five point thirty. And as you said, just
Chief McDonald was the only one there this time.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Mayor Bass, you know, she was putting on a smiley face.
She was putting on happy face. She was trying to
get through it. She was asked a lot of very
tough questions. She's been up all all week. She's been
in Africa. She flew back on a Navy or an
air Force transport jet. She's been He's had no sleep.
And then LA Fire Chief Kristin Crowley comes out and says, hey,
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we're not being funded properly. And I think the mayor
had had it, had it And according to the Daily Mail,
nobody else is reporting this yet. We're still trying to
get as Grocier said the second confirmation, but the LA
Fire chief has been dismissed by Mayor Karen Bass after
lashing out of her department cuts as deadly blazes devastate
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the city of Los Angeles. LA Fire Department Chief Kristin
Crowley was fired by Mayor Karen Bass on Friday afternoon.
A source totally Daily Mail Kristin was summoned to Bass's
office this afternoon about four pm. That's exactly when they
were supposed to have They're supposed to have the press
conference at five pm.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Was it five pm? Crozier four thirty?
Speaker 5 (03:03):
Initially four and then they were five.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
Thirty, okay, and then she came back from that meeting,
hugged her staff goodbye, and left. She said she was fired.
The alleged booting follows Crowley lashing out against the mayor's
cuts to her department in an interview with local Fox
TV station around noon on Friday. Quote my message is
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that the fire Department needs to be properly funded, the
chief said, quote unquote, it's not they did they fail you?
According to Jiji gragiet I asked her, did they fail you,
and she said, yes, they failed us. The Fire department
did not immediately respond to the request for comment. Tensions
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were already boiling at a boiling point between Bass and
Crowley even before the disastrous fires broke out on Tuesday.
The mayor pushed through budget cuts of seventeen points six
million dollars through a recent council vote, prompting Chief Crowley
to write a memo on December fourth warning that the
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slash severely limited the department's capacity to prepare and train
for and respond to a large scale emergency, including wildfires.
So this is breaking news. I don't see it anywhere else.
I evidently after the meeting and again Mayor Bass and
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Chief Crowley were not at that press conference. Both of
them should have been there. They were the principal speakers,
both of them. The mayor is one, Kristen Crowley's two,
Jim McDonald's probably three, and the first, the A and
the B were missing from that press conference. So we're
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trying to get a second source here, and so far
everyone is still quoting the Daily Mail, but Fox News
is not on it, Politico is not on it. LA
the AP News, that's not in their story their lead
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story either. LA Americ Karen Bass faces critical leadership as
questions to merge about wildfire.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
What is that? Angel?
Speaker 6 (05:21):
NBC for Los Angeles tweeted out happening right now? LA
chief is meeting with Mayor Bass following the Chief's remarks
over budget cuts to la FD And she was on
with Robert Kervassik. Is that how I pronounce his last name?
And she made very similar comments to him.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Yeah, we played those earlier.
Speaker 6 (05:40):
Yeah, oh okay, yeah, I was watching it. But they
haven't gone as far as saying that she's been dismissed,
but it's hinting towards that from what they just sent out.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
I think, right, all right, let's go back to this
fire coming over the ridge of the San Fernando Valley
coming towards Encino and Tarzana.
Speaker 7 (05:56):
To descend from the Tapuri flight restriction. That is the
area that is in place for those water dropping aircraft,
and we do still see multiple aircraft making water drops
up here in this area where we've been looking, where
we see the most intense flames, there aren't any structures.
What I did notice that though, was that there were
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some sort of shipping containers up at the very top
that had caught fire. It's unclear what those were for,
but there are a couple of fire trucks up there
and just trying to get water on them, but unclear
again what they were for. But no actual structures in
terms of buildings that could possibly be threatened. Those are
still going to be on the Pacific Palisades Pacific Palisade
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side of the fire. We are hearing about a possible
structure threat to a home on Old Ranch Road. Again,
that's just north of the Ribiera Country Club, in an
area of homes that has already burned, So maybe a
whole net was already on fire and it's just flaring
up right now. But again it's on the other side
of the fire, so at this point we can't see it. Fortunately,
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again we do see multiple water dropping aircraft and they're
going to be out here throughout the night. There's a
Shinooka going through the shot. Right at this point, I
would say that the fire is holding well at the
very top of the ridge, continuing to mold that towards
the Pacific Ocean, continuing to move towards the west. But
we're showing you here though, are homes on the valley
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side of the fire. It's obviously very nerve wrecking to
see how close some of these homes are to the flames.
But again, at this point we don't anticipate that these
flames will jump the ridge. But again, if you are
in this Tarzana area essentially right off of Maholland Drive
where it meets with the end of a Seata boulevard,
if you are getting nervous about what you're saying, because
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honestly I'm getting nervous, if seeing it from this angle,
you can start getting your go back ready, go back ready,
just in case the flames were to jump to the
north side of the mountains. But again, at this point,
sticking to the Santa Monica Mountains and continuing to push
towards the Ocean Atlanta.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
You've been covering this part of the fire here for
the last twenty twenty five minutes.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Have you seen any difference?
Speaker 4 (08:07):
How would you characterize what you're seeing al versus when
we started.
Speaker 7 (08:11):
When we first launched to the Pacific Palisades fire, the
winds were actually pretty calm. At the time. The plume
was huge. It was visible from everywhere in the San
Fernando Valley. It still is, but now it appears to
be laying down a little bit. When we first launched it,
it was shooting straight up end of the year, telling
me that the winds were relatively calm, But now there
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does appear to be a little shift in the wind
where it's essentially laying down, almost laying back down on itself,
towards towards the east, so actually closer towards the four
or five Freeway. I know Melissa mentioned that before, and
let me move over. I want to show you where
the four or five is in proximity to where the
fire is now, so that right there is going to
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be the four or five A little bit difficult to see,
but it is as you make your way through the
Supulbta Pass. So that's the four or five and here's
the nearest flames. So the fire does appear to be
pushing the smoke at least towards the FOURAL five Freeway
if it continues trekking in that direction.
Speaker 8 (09:16):
I wouldn't.
Speaker 7 (09:18):
Put it out of the thought that possibly the FOURAL
five Freeway could get shut down through the area if
the visibility becomes a concern. But again, at this point
it's a little bit closer to like Mandeville Canyon area.
But again, at this point, as far as we know,
no additional structures have caught fire, but structures are again
threatened on the Pacific Palisade side of the fire Billiana.
Speaker 9 (09:40):
Last time we were worried about it burning up to
the foural fire.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
All right, we have a new evacuation LA City Emergency Alert,
LA Fire Department evacuation warning for Palisades fire. People in
the northeast of the Palisades fire in the area of Sepulvida,
Sapphire to Mulholland Escalon to Acting or Action Road and
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High Valley should prepare to evacuate due to rapidly moving
wildfire and so that's the latest out of La City
emergency alerts. But they have got to stop this fire
from coming over this ridge into Tarzana. This could be
a catastrophe if it comes over the ridge and starts
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to burn in through Tarzana and Encino. A lot of
people nervous in Tarzana. At the end of Heracieda, there
a lot of new homes in the last thirty forty
years or less, yeah, thirty or forty years built up
there behind Bramart country Club, multi million dollar homes. A
lot of athletes live up there, actors, actresses, Hollywood people,
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and business people have made quite a few bucks because
every one of those homes up there is a mansion.
All those new homes up there are huge, and there
are ungated communities.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
There's a lot of people go up there to hike.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
You take your dog up there, you take your mountain
bike up there, and there's a lot of trails up there.
At the end of Receieda Boulevard, you can clearly see
that fire if you are at the top of the
ridge there at receipt Of Boulevard. If you take Rasida
all the way south, it dead ends right there near
Mahollan right near the dirt road, and if you look then,
if you look north, you can see the entire San
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Fernando Valley on a clear day. It's spectacular. If you've
been up there, you know what I'm talking about. It's
a fantastic view. You can see the whole thing. Well, now,
there's a fire at the top of that ridge and
they're trying to keep it on the south side of
that ridge. There are probably forty or fifty fire engines
up there lined up ready to attack this thing. There's
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fas check up there, and their goal is to keep
this fire. I know it looks like a volcano, it
looks like an inferno, but they have a tremendous goal
here and hopefully they are successful at keeping this fire
on the south side of that mountain. Got to do this,
They've got to pull this off. That's a big story
we're working on. And then according to the Daily Mail,
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and again it's a single source, Crozier.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Have you seen it anywhere else?
Speaker 5 (12:11):
I've been looking. I've been looking.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
I've not seen it anywhere else that The mayor has
dismissed Kristin Crawley, the chief of the La Fire Department.
Nobody else is reporting it other than the Daily Mail,
the Daily Mail, which is not in the United States,
which I believe is in Great Britain, isn't it cross?
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Indeed, how are they reporting it?
Speaker 1 (12:32):
And nobody in the United States is nobody in LA
So I very skeptical.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
But they've been right on a lot of these things.
You know.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
It's like a TMZ. They've been right on a lot
of stuff as well. All Right, we have a lot
of major stories going on here. We've got to take
a quick prick break and we'll come back. We're live
keeping on this fire, the Palisades fire coming up on
the ridge where Mulholland is in the San Fernando Valley.
You can see it. In tarzan you can see it,
and seeing you can see it the rest's the valley.
Get prepared to get out if you're an Encino or Tarzana,
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especially in the hill.
Speaker 10 (13:06):
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AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
We're watching the fire come up over the hills the
mountains in Tarzana and in Sino. Hopefully LA Fire Department
can stop it in its tracks right there and it
not it's not coming to the San Fernando Valley. It
is not welcome in the San Fernando Valley. There's a
news story out there that the LA Fire Department chief
was fired from the Daily Mail. Now ABC is reporting
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that that story is wrong, but the Daily Mail still
has that story on their homepage.
Speaker 5 (13:41):
So until we hear from somebody's voice specifically, I guess
the story is. Mayor Bass's office denies the story.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
Oh okay, but you know, I think Mayor Bass may
not have come to that press conference because she was
losing her voice. If you heard her in previous press conferences,
she could barely speak, and so I think she's lost
her voice.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
I think that's the reasons she didn't show up.
Speaker 5 (14:01):
It would say that, wouldn't they though they should, Yeah,
they should.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
Yeah, that she's not well and she's you know, been traveling.
Should have said that at the beginning of his thing.
I didn't hear anything like that from him. Yeah, that's
just my guess. Yeah, you know, but she didn't.
Speaker 8 (14:14):
Guess.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
She didn't sound great, she had a little horror. She's
had a really rough week, really rough. Uh So, anyway,
So ABC is reporting that that story is not true.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
And I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
Well, let's let's uh, let's listen to what's going on here,
and then we're also keeping an eye on the fire
coming up over perhaps over Tarzana and Insino, LA Fire
department doing a hell of a job keeping that fire
south of maulhalland south of that ridge. All right, here's
the story. ABC's John Haskell with David.
Speaker 11 (14:51):
We have been telling you about all the attention being
placed on this alleged meeting between the mayor and fire
chief Christiane.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
Well, by the way, this just all also came in.
If you're in Brentwood and you received in an evacuation
order in Brentwood, that was an error. That was an error.
Good lord. That's according to ABC, and I believe NBC.
I know ABC said it was an error. So if
you got an evacuation notice on your phone from brentwood's
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an error.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
But who knows.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
I mean, you may get one in you know, ten
or fifteen minutes from now, or twenty minutes from now,
so we have to keep our evacuation notifications on. But
according to Chris Christy, that was delivered and sent out
by error. Okay, let's get back to the story here
with the mayor and the chief.
Speaker 11 (15:40):
Don't know Archie what was discussed, but we do have
Josh Haskell joining us on the phone right now. He
has been investigating this. Josh, what could you tell us?
Speaker 12 (15:49):
Yeah, David and Colleen, this is a fast moving story. Obviously,
it's been an extraordinary week for the city and for
both our Chief Crowley and Mayor Bass. What we do know,
according to the Mayor's office, is that the mayor and
the chief met at some point this afternoon, and that,
according to the Mayor's office, the priority remains fighting these
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fires and protecting Angelino's. There is a report out there
that is false that the fire chief was somehow dismissed
by the mayor. The Mayor's office telling me that that
is not true. But here is what we do know.
There was a press conference this morning, as there has
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been every single day. I was at the one yesterday.
Chief Crowley was there, Mayor Baths was there, many other officials.
I do not believe that Chief Crowley was at the
one this morning, but she did give some interviews this afternoon,
and in some of those interviews she was critical of
Mayor Bass, and she basically said that some of the
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cuts that Mayor Bass had in her budget had quote
severely limited the department's capacity to prepare, for, train for
and respond to large scale emergencies. And then following those comments,
they had this meeting. So that's kind of where things stand.
It does not appear that they are on great terms.
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But as all reporters do when a story like this
starts to develop, I've thought about two things in the
last ten minutes. Number One, what a terrible time to
lose a fire chief of a department in the middle
of an emergency if that were to happen again at this.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
Point, that's true, and that's also why it doesn't make
sense for this to have happened today.
Speaker 12 (17:35):
We do not were being pushed away that Chief Crowley
of the LAFD has resigned or been dismissed, so number one,
that that would obviously be a complicated situation. And the
other thing is I've been thinking about their relationship and
I remember the last time I've been with them many.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Okay, all right?
Speaker 1 (17:52):
According to Daily Mail, though they still have not taken
this story down. I'm looking at it right now, and
the homepage of the Daily Mail has the story about
a seventy five thousand dollars a year. Water chief was
aware of the empty reservoir and broken fire hydrants months
before the fires, and then literally two stories down, the
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exclusive La fire chief has been dismissed by Mayor Karen Bass.
According to a source, that story has three hundred and
ten comments, and that story is staying and continues to
stay on the homepage of the Daily Mail.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
All right, we're watching this fire.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
Hopefully the LAFD LA County can keep this fire south
of Tarzana and south of Encino. If you're in the valley,
you can see the flames. I know it has you
on edge, but these guys have a plan up there.
A lot of fox check has been put down, a
lot of water put down, and they're trying to keep
this fire out of the San Fernando Valley.
Speaker 10 (18:49):
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Speaker 2 (18:56):
Let's get right to this Fox eleven story.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
They're talking about the mayor dismissing the fire chief.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
They're saying it's not true. Let me see.
Speaker 9 (19:05):
Let's I don't like to get criticized Publiclytia. She felt
she had to go public with this today. She went
public with her truths. That is her truth. We'll leave
it to the accountants and the controller and everybody. But
it's a complicated issue. If she's my dogs, they're all
barking because because they're.
Speaker 12 (19:25):
Deeps over the fire situation.
Speaker 9 (19:26):
But we'll leave it to the controllers to determine. You know,
some people say she said it was seventeen million, and
ultimately it turns out that ten million was absorbed by
cutting positions and then seven million. They're very complicated issues
for anyone to understand. But Alex and Lala, we did
review a table full of memos dating back to twenty
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twenty three. Well, she's been expressing her concerns that the department,
that Los Angeles City Fire Department is not keeping up
with the City of Los Angeles' needs.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
Yeah, no, they're They're right. They need to update the
LA Fire Department. They're going to get a boatload of
money after this, a lot of money. According to The
Daily Mail. The Daily Mail has still not pulled that
story off of their website. If you go to The
Daily Mail and you click on their homepage, there's a
there's a huge story about LA's fire hydrants. That's the
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first story, and then underneath it says exclusive La fire
Chief has been dismissed by Mayor Karen Bass. According to
a source, they have not pulled that story, which is
unusual Crozier. You know, you'd think once it's debunked by
a lot of local news stories here, they would immediately
take it down.
Speaker 5 (20:41):
Yeah, if they were first to jump on it, they
should be first kicked down.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
Right, And what's the process then?
Speaker 1 (20:47):
Do they issue an apology and a correction or and
doesn't it don't you lose a little bit of faith
when when somebody does that.
Speaker 5 (20:55):
Well, the Daily Mail is already considered a British tabloid.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
Oh I see, I see, okay, all right, I don't know.
I thought it was like one of their premier newspapers.
Speaker 5 (21:03):
Well, I mean, what do you mean by premiere?
Speaker 2 (21:05):
Like it is it equivalent of New York Times Lay Times?
Speaker 5 (21:08):
I don't think so.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
No, No, okay, I'm like the New York Post.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
I see, okay, all right, Well, maybe it's the Weekly Mail. Maybe,
you know, the Daily is too rough for them. They
should do a weekly stories, all right. Red flag warning
coming in fraud tonight, Red flag warning again?
Speaker 2 (21:25):
Can you believe this. We're gonna have.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
Some more wind tomorrow and then next Monday and Tuesday
we're looking at another wind event. So it looks like
the LA Fire Department, who still has their chief according
to ABC and NBC, it looks like they are holding
this fire on that ridge, These brave young men and
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brave young women holding that fire on that ridge south
of Tarzana, south of Encino and north of Pacific Palisades.
So hopefully they can they can stop that there. And
and I and I They've got it. They've got to
stop it there. They just have to. All right, let
me play something for you here before we get out
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of here, because because a lot of people are going
to deal with insurance, A lot of people are going
to say, hey, what's going on with insurance? I got
to call my insurance agent, and and and.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
I and I want to know you know who to contact.
What's going on? Will the will the the government help
me with my insurance? Come to you?
Speaker 1 (22:30):
Cancel my policy? Let's find out some more information.
Speaker 13 (22:33):
Right here before I begin, I want to publicly thank
the insurance commissioners from across the nation and the international
Insurance Supervisors who have offered assistance and supporting and support
during this difficult time. My heart goes out to my
fellow Angelino's and to the firefighters currently battling these places.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
Okay, let me take a quick break here. I didn't
know we had another break here. There's so much going on.
We're still watching this fire possibly coming over the ridge
in Tarzana. Keep an eye on that as well, and
then we'll come back and talk and let you listen
to something about the insurance. Who do you call if
they canceled your insurance? Is there any recourse? There's a
lot going on in Los Angeles right now. We're trying
to cover all of it.
Speaker 10 (23:12):
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AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
Just got a text from a buddy of mine, a
friend of mine, Lisa, who works at CarMax and Canoga Park,
and they can see clearly see that fire coming over
the ridge towards Tarzana. So sleepless night for a lot
of people here in southern California. It's been one hell
of a week. A lot of people are thinking about insurance.
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Is your insurance good? What if they canceled you? A
couple months ago. What are your recourses? What are you
supposed to do? What can you do? Let me play
this for you. Lots of those questions will be answered
right here.
Speaker 13 (23:50):
Before I begin, I want to publicly thank the insurance
commissioners from across the nation and the international insurance supervisors
who have offered assistance and supporting and support during this
difficult time. My heart goes out to my fellow Angelino's
and to the firefighters currently battling these places.
Speaker 8 (24:07):
Maybe be clear my top priority.
Speaker 13 (24:09):
Is to protect all affected people during this crisis and
assist in their insurance recovery. My primary concern at this
very moment is to ensure that wildfire survivors receive the
insurance benefits to which they are entitled to as soon
as possible. I understand that this may be new and
the extent of the calamity here in southern California and
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compounded by the insurance and financial stresses that.
Speaker 8 (24:35):
These wildfires have caused.
Speaker 13 (24:37):
However, at the Department of Insurance, we have been confronting
wildfires and other natural disasters throughout our entire state for
a very long time, making us unfortunately response experts. Now
is the time for you to focus on your family
and and your health. The last thing you should be
worrying about is your insurance. Here's what I've done to
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protect our wildfire victims today. I am using my moratorium
power to stop all non renewals and cancelations. Last night,
I issued a bulletin to protect homeowners affected by the
Palisades and Eaten fires from non renewals and cancelations by
your insurance companies for one year under a moratorium law
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that I wrote while I was serving in the State Senate.
This covers you even if your home wasn't destroyed or
damaged in the wildfire. You can visit insurance dot CA
dot gov to look up your zip code if you
are near these wildfires and obtain that protection. I'm also
calling on insurance companies to suspend any pending non renewals
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and cancelations that homeowners received before these fires started. This
means that if you've received the non renewal from your
homeowner's insurance between October ninth and January seventh, essentially ninety days,
your insurance company should do the right thing and retain
you as a valued policy holder. I call upon all
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property insurance companies to pause these non renewals and cancelations
and provide essential stability for our communities, allowing consumers to
focus on what's important at the moment, their safety and recovery.
In my notice, I also urged insurers to extend the
payment grace period beyond the existing sixty days for policy
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holders in areas directly affected by the wildfires, enabling Angelinos
to pay their home insurance premiums amidst these the challenges
that they are currently facing.
Speaker 8 (26:40):
And if your.
Speaker 13 (26:40):
Policy was not renewed, or if you don't have coverage,
please call us at one eight hundred nine two seven
four to three five seven. We can help you find
additional solutions. I have also directed my department's enforcement team
to protect Angelinos from frausters targeting wildfire survivors. To assist
with the ongoing evacuation efforts, my department has moved quickly
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to host an insurance support workshop on January eighteenth and
nineteenth at Santa Monica College, followed by another event the
following weekend at Pasadena City College. We will have experts
from our staff and representatives from insurance companies available so
homeowners can obtain answers and take the action they need
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in one convenient location again, call us at one eight
hundred ninet two seven four three five seven to schedule
a one on one appointment with our experts related to health.
I've issued an additional notice to all California House insurers
directing them to submit emergency plans to my department. These
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plans must detail how they're going to ensure that consumers
can continue to access essential medical care and obtain their
medications in the wake of these disasters. I've been in
constant communication with our county leaders, Governor, the legislative leaders,
and our congressional delegation to identify best ways to expedite
our recovery, reduce wildfire risk, and build a more climate
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resilient state and communities.
Speaker 8 (28:13):
Making homes and.
Speaker 13 (28:14):
Communities safer from wildfires needs to be a top priority
for our state. Looking forward, I'm going to ask the
Governor and the state legislature to support my proposal to
provide consumers with home heartening grants.
Speaker 8 (28:27):
We need to put money in people's hands.
Speaker 13 (28:30):
This measure is critical to protecting homes and improving long
term resilience against wildfire risk. We are also going to
be introducing legislation to include businesses in our moratorium law.
Businesses are an important consumer of insurance and the financial
backbone of many communities, and they also need this vital protection.
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Newly elected insurance reforms are now in effect to make
insurance rates more stable and predictable. My Sustainable Insurance strategy
mandates that insurance companies expand and maintain coverage in high
wildfire areas if they are going to use forward looking
catastrophic models and incorporate the reinsurance costs in the rate
making which my department just finalized in December. Why is
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this important for our residents? It ensures that Californians and
wildfire prone areas retain access to insurance and brings competition
back into the market and ultimately lowering the cost. Without
these measures, insurance companies may continue on renewals, leaving communities
at greater risk of under insurance and.
Speaker 8 (29:34):
Total loss of coverage.
Speaker 13 (29:36):
Even with these devastating wildfires. I want to be clear,
I am confident that these reforms will keep us on
track to modernizing our insurance market, encourage insurers to return
and expand in California, and protect the solvency of our market.
Well remain the largest insurance market in the nation force
in the world. Our goals to ensure they remain financially
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solvent and can under the claim that will stabilize our
insurance market in the long run. Now, let me just
quickly address issues surrounding the Insurer of last Resort, which
we call the Fair Plan. It has become clear that
reforms are necessary as the coverage maximums have not changed
in thirty years. I recognize that for some Californians the
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coverage events, even the ones that we've already implemented, are
still very low. Under my strategy, we have also ensured
the creation of a stronger, more sustainable fare plan with
the long term financial strategy to withstand the challenging fires
we are experiencing.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
Today, we're live on KFI AM six forty
It's kf I Am six forty and you're listening to
the Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. Big
big story going on here. The Daily Mail is reporting
that Mayor bass is.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Fired in power a couple of others.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
The chief of the fire Chief, Kristen Crowley. That's what
the Daily Mail. Let's go to channel four here. Let
me pull this up here. I can do it here.
See what's going on here with Deeric Glender in case it's.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Somebody that we'd want to talk to, But no, we
have not seen the mayor, have not seen the fire chief.
Speaker 4 (00:32):
Point in time, as you were all waiting for this
press conference that was initially supposed to begin at four
then at five point thirty, at what particular point in
time did you guys realize that there was going to
be no fire chief and no Mayor of Los Angeles present.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
That's unusual.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
Well, I think that really developed in the last half hour.
We got wind through our contacts and Robert Kavasis as well,
that there was this meeting that was going to happen
at City Hall. We went over there. We're able to
stake out the hallway outside the Mayor's office. We saw
the chief. We saw a number of other fire officials arriving.
We knew something was brewing. I think that's pretty clear
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at this point. But the expectation was the meeting would
resolve and then this briefing would take place as planned.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Okay, this is very unusual that the press briefing that
was supposed to include LA Fire Department LAPD Chief Jim McDonald,
Mayor Bass, Kristin Crawley, the head of the chief of
the Fire Department, and Krozer and I were like, wait minute,
there's just Chief McDonald there. Where is everybody else? Well,
according to the Daily Mail, LA Fire chief is dismissed
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by Mayor Karen Bass after lashing out over the department
cuts as deadly blazes devastate the city of Los Angeles.
Speaker 5 (01:41):
We're looking to get confirmation on that from some source
other than Daily Mail, but that's the only one right now.
What you were saying before, that press conference early today
was supposed to take place at four, then they moved
it to five point thirty. And as you said, just
Chief McDonald was the only one there this time.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Mayor Bass, you know, she was putting on a smiley face.
She was putting on happy face. She was trying to
get through it. She was asked a lot of very
tough questions. She's been up all all week. She's been
in Africa. She flew back on a Navy or an
air Force transport jet. She's been He's had no sleep.
And then LA Fire Chief Kristin Crowley comes out and says, hey,
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we're not being funded properly. And I think the mayor
had had it, had it And according to the Daily Mail,
nobody else is reporting this yet. We're still trying to
get as Grocier said the second confirmation, but the LA
Fire chief has been dismissed by Mayor Karen Bass after
lashing out of her department cuts as deadly blazes devastate
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the city of Los Angeles. LA Fire Department Chief Kristin
Crowley was fired by Mayor Karen Bass on Friday afternoon.
A source totally Daily Mail Kristin was summoned to Bass's
office this afternoon about four pm. That's exactly when they
were supposed to have They're supposed to have the press
conference at five pm.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Was it five pm? Crozier four thirty?
Speaker 5 (03:03):
Initially four and then they were five.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
Thirty, okay, and then she came back from that meeting,
hugged her staff goodbye, and left. She said she was fired.
The alleged booting follows Crowley lashing out against the mayor's
cuts to her department in an interview with local Fox
TV station around noon on Friday. Quote my message is
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that the fire Department needs to be properly funded, the
chief said, quote unquote, it's not they did they fail you?
According to Jiji gragiet I asked her, did they fail you,
and she said, yes, they failed us. The Fire department
did not immediately respond to the request for comment. Tensions
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were already boiling at a boiling point between Bass and
Crowley even before the disastrous fires broke out on Tuesday.
The mayor pushed through budget cuts of seventeen points six
million dollars through a recent council vote, prompting Chief Crowley
to write a memo on December fourth warning that the
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slash severely limited the department's capacity to prepare and train
for and respond to a large scale emergency, including wildfires.
So this is breaking news. I don't see it anywhere else.
I evidently after the meeting and again Mayor Bass and
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Chief Crowley were not at that press conference. Both of
them should have been there. They were the principal speakers,
both of them. The mayor is one, Kristen Crowley's two,
Jim McDonald's probably three, and the first, the A and
the B were missing from that press conference. So we're
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trying to get a second source here, and so far
everyone is still quoting the Daily Mail, but Fox News
is not on it, Politico is not on it. LA
the AP News, that's not in their story their lead
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story either. LA Americ Karen Bass faces critical leadership as
questions to merge about wildfire.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
What is that? Angel?
Speaker 6 (05:21):
NBC for Los Angeles tweeted out happening right now? LA
chief is meeting with Mayor Bass following the Chief's remarks
over budget cuts to la FD And she was on
with Robert Kervassik. Is that how I pronounce his last name?
And she made very similar comments to him.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Yeah, we played those earlier.
Speaker 6 (05:40):
Yeah, oh okay, yeah, I was watching it. But they
haven't gone as far as saying that she's been dismissed,
but it's hinting towards that from what they just sent out.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
I think, right, all right, let's go back to this
fire coming over the ridge of the San Fernando Valley
coming towards Encino and Tarzana.
Speaker 7 (05:56):
To descend from the Tapuri flight restriction. That is the
area that is in place for those water dropping aircraft,
and we do still see multiple aircraft making water drops
up here in this area where we've been looking, where
we see the most intense flames, there aren't any structures.
What I did notice that though, was that there were
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some sort of shipping containers up at the very top
that had caught fire. It's unclear what those were for,
but there are a couple of fire trucks up there
and just trying to get water on them, but unclear
again what they were for. But no actual structures in
terms of buildings that could possibly be threatened. Those are
still going to be on the Pacific Palisades Pacific Palisade
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side of the fire. We are hearing about a possible
structure threat to a home on Old Ranch Road. Again,
that's just north of the Ribiera Country Club, in an
area of homes that has already burned, So maybe a
whole net was already on fire and it's just flaring
up right now. But again it's on the other side
of the fire, so at this point we can't see it. Fortunately,
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again we do see multiple water dropping aircraft and they're
going to be out here throughout the night. There's a
Shinooka going through the shot. Right at this point, I
would say that the fire is holding well at the
very top of the ridge, continuing to mold that towards
the Pacific Ocean, continuing to move towards the west. But
we're showing you here though, are homes on the valley
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side of the fire. It's obviously very nerve wrecking to
see how close some of these homes are to the flames.
But again, at this point we don't anticipate that these
flames will jump the ridge. But again, if you are
in this Tarzana area essentially right off of Maholland Drive
where it meets with the end of a Seata boulevard,
if you are getting nervous about what you're saying, because
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honestly I'm getting nervous, if seeing it from this angle,
you can start getting your go back ready, go back ready,
just in case the flames were to jump to the
north side of the mountains. But again, at this point,
sticking to the Santa Monica Mountains and continuing to push
towards the Ocean Atlanta.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
You've been covering this part of the fire here for
the last twenty twenty five minutes.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Have you seen any difference?
Speaker 4 (08:07):
How would you characterize what you're seeing al versus when
we started.
Speaker 7 (08:11):
When we first launched to the Pacific Palisades fire, the
winds were actually pretty calm. At the time. The plume
was huge. It was visible from everywhere in the San
Fernando Valley. It still is, but now it appears to
be laying down a little bit. When we first launched it,
it was shooting straight up end of the year, telling
me that the winds were relatively calm, But now there
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does appear to be a little shift in the wind
where it's essentially laying down, almost laying back down on itself,
towards towards the east, so actually closer towards the four
or five Freeway. I know Melissa mentioned that before, and
let me move over. I want to show you where
the four or five is in proximity to where the
fire is now, so that right there is going to
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be the four or five A little bit difficult to see,
but it is as you make your way through the
Supulbta Pass. So that's the four or five and here's
the nearest flames. So the fire does appear to be
pushing the smoke at least towards the FOURAL five Freeway
if it continues trekking in that direction.
Speaker 8 (09:16):
I wouldn't.
Speaker 7 (09:18):
Put it out of the thought that possibly the FOURAL
five Freeway could get shut down through the area if
the visibility becomes a concern. But again, at this point
it's a little bit closer to like Mandeville Canyon area.
But again, at this point, as far as we know,
no additional structures have caught fire, but structures are again
threatened on the Pacific Palisade side of the fire Billiana.
Speaker 9 (09:40):
Last time we were worried about it burning up to
the foural fire.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
All right, we have a new evacuation LA City Emergency Alert,
LA Fire Department evacuation warning for Palisades fire. People in
the northeast of the Palisades fire in the area of Sepulvida,
Sapphire to Mulholland Escalon to Acting or Action Road and
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High Valley should prepare to evacuate due to rapidly moving
wildfire and so that's the latest out of La City
emergency alerts. But they have got to stop this fire
from coming over this ridge into Tarzana. This could be
a catastrophe if it comes over the ridge and starts
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to burn in through Tarzana and Encino. A lot of
people nervous in Tarzana. At the end of Heracieda, there
a lot of new homes in the last thirty forty
years or less, yeah, thirty or forty years built up
there behind Bramart country Club, multi million dollar homes. A
lot of athletes live up there, actors, actresses, Hollywood people,
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and business people have made quite a few bucks because
every one of those homes up there is a mansion.
All those new homes up there are huge, and there
are ungated communities.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
There's a lot of people go up there to hike.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
You take your dog up there, you take your mountain
bike up there, and there's a lot of trails up there.
At the end of Receieda Boulevard, you can clearly see
that fire if you are at the top of the
ridge there at receipt Of Boulevard. If you take Rasida
all the way south, it dead ends right there near
Mahollan right near the dirt road, and if you look then,
if you look north, you can see the entire San
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Fernando Valley on a clear day. It's spectacular. If you've
been up there, you know what I'm talking about. It's
a fantastic view. You can see the whole thing. Well, now,
there's a fire at the top of that ridge and
they're trying to keep it on the south side of
that ridge. There are probably forty or fifty fire engines
up there lined up ready to attack this thing. There's
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fas check up there, and their goal is to keep
this fire. I know it looks like a volcano, it
looks like an inferno, but they have a tremendous goal
here and hopefully they are successful at keeping this fire
on the south side of that mountain. Got to do this,
They've got to pull this off. That's a big story
we're working on. And then according to the Daily Mail,
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and again it's a single source, Crozier.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Have you seen it anywhere else?
Speaker 5 (12:11):
I've been looking. I've been looking.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
I've not seen it anywhere else that The mayor has
dismissed Kristin Crawley, the chief of the La Fire Department.
Nobody else is reporting it other than the Daily Mail,
the Daily Mail, which is not in the United States,
which I believe is in Great Britain, isn't it cross?
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Indeed, how are they reporting it?
Speaker 1 (12:32):
And nobody in the United States is nobody in LA
So I very skeptical.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
But they've been right on a lot of these things.
You know.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
It's like a TMZ. They've been right on a lot
of stuff as well. All Right, we have a lot
of major stories going on here. We've got to take
a quick prick break and we'll come back. We're live
keeping on this fire, the Palisades fire coming up on
the ridge where Mulholland is in the San Fernando Valley.
You can see it. In tarzan you can see it,
and seeing you can see it the rest's the valley.
Get prepared to get out if you're an Encino or Tarzana,
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especially in the hill.
Speaker 10 (13:06):
You're listening to Tim conwayjun you're on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
We're watching the fire come up over the hills the
mountains in Tarzana and in Sino. Hopefully LA Fire Department
can stop it in its tracks right there and it
not it's not coming to the San Fernando Valley. It
is not welcome in the San Fernando Valley. There's a
news story out there that the LA Fire Department chief
was fired from the Daily Mail. Now ABC is reporting
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that that story is wrong, but the Daily Mail still
has that story on their homepage.
Speaker 5 (13:41):
So until we hear from somebody's voice specifically, I guess
the story is. Mayor Bass's office denies the story.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
Oh okay, but you know, I think Mayor Bass may
not have come to that press conference because she was
losing her voice. If you heard her in previous press conferences,
she could barely speak, and so I think she's lost
her voice.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
I think that's the reasons she didn't show up.
Speaker 5 (14:01):
It would say that, wouldn't they though they should, Yeah,
they should.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
Yeah, that she's not well and she's you know, been traveling.
Should have said that at the beginning of his thing.
I didn't hear anything like that from him. Yeah, that's
just my guess. Yeah, you know, but she didn't.
Speaker 8 (14:14):
Guess.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
She didn't sound great, she had a little horror. She's
had a really rough week, really rough. Uh So, anyway,
So ABC is reporting that that story is not true.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
And I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
Well, let's let's uh, let's listen to what's going on here,
and then we're also keeping an eye on the fire
coming up over perhaps over Tarzana and Insino, LA Fire
department doing a hell of a job keeping that fire
south of maulhalland south of that ridge. All right, here's
the story. ABC's John Haskell with David.
Speaker 11 (14:51):
We have been telling you about all the attention being
placed on this alleged meeting between the mayor and fire
chief Christiane.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
Well, by the way, this just all also came in.
If you're in Brentwood and you received in an evacuation
order in Brentwood, that was an error. That was an error.
Good lord. That's according to ABC, and I believe NBC.
I know ABC said it was an error. So if
you got an evacuation notice on your phone from brentwood's
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an error.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
But who knows.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
I mean, you may get one in you know, ten
or fifteen minutes from now, or twenty minutes from now,
so we have to keep our evacuation notifications on. But
according to Chris Christy, that was delivered and sent out
by error. Okay, let's get back to the story here
with the mayor and the chief.
Speaker 11 (15:40):
Don't know Archie what was discussed, but we do have
Josh Haskell joining us on the phone right now. He
has been investigating this. Josh, what could you tell us?
Speaker 12 (15:49):
Yeah, David and Colleen, this is a fast moving story. Obviously,
it's been an extraordinary week for the city and for
both our Chief Crowley and Mayor Bass. What we do know,
according to the Mayor's office, is that the mayor and
the chief met at some point this afternoon, and that,
according to the Mayor's office, the priority remains fighting these
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fires and protecting Angelino's. There is a report out there
that is false that the fire chief was somehow dismissed
by the mayor. The Mayor's office telling me that that
is not true. But here is what we do know.
There was a press conference this morning, as there has
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been every single day. I was at the one yesterday.
Chief Crowley was there, Mayor Baths was there, many other officials.
I do not believe that Chief Crowley was at the
one this morning, but she did give some interviews this afternoon,
and in some of those interviews she was critical of
Mayor Bass, and she basically said that some of the
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cuts that Mayor Bass had in her budget had quote
severely limited the department's capacity to prepare, for, train for
and respond to large scale emergencies. And then following those comments,
they had this meeting. So that's kind of where things stand.
It does not appear that they are on great terms.
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But as all reporters do when a story like this
starts to develop, I've thought about two things in the
last ten minutes. Number One, what a terrible time to
lose a fire chief of a department in the middle
of an emergency if that were to happen again at this.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
Point, that's true, and that's also why it doesn't make
sense for this to have happened today.
Speaker 12 (17:35):
We do not were being pushed away that Chief Crowley
of the LAFD has resigned or been dismissed, so number one,
that that would obviously be a complicated situation. And the
other thing is I've been thinking about their relationship and
I remember the last time I've been with them many.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Okay, all right?
Speaker 1 (17:52):
According to Daily Mail, though they still have not taken
this story down. I'm looking at it right now, and
the homepage of the Daily Mail has the story about
a seventy five thousand dollars a year. Water chief was
aware of the empty reservoir and broken fire hydrants months
before the fires, and then literally two stories down, the
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exclusive La fire chief has been dismissed by Mayor Karen Bass.
According to a source, that story has three hundred and
ten comments, and that story is staying and continues to
stay on the homepage of the Daily Mail.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
All right, we're watching this fire.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
Hopefully the LAFD LA County can keep this fire south
of Tarzana and south of Encino. If you're in the valley,
you can see the flames. I know it has you
on edge, but these guys have a plan up there.
A lot of fox check has been put down, a
lot of water put down, and they're trying to keep
this fire out of the San Fernando Valley.
Speaker 10 (18:49):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty comic show.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
Let's get right to this Fox eleven story.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
They're talking about the mayor dismissing the fire chief.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
They're saying it's not true. Let me see.
Speaker 9 (19:05):
Let's I don't like to get criticized Publiclytia. She felt
she had to go public with this today. She went
public with her truths. That is her truth. We'll leave
it to the accountants and the controller and everybody. But
it's a complicated issue. If she's my dogs, they're all
barking because because they're.
Speaker 12 (19:25):
Deeps over the fire situation.
Speaker 9 (19:26):
But we'll leave it to the controllers to determine. You know,
some people say she said it was seventeen million, and
ultimately it turns out that ten million was absorbed by
cutting positions and then seven million. They're very complicated issues
for anyone to understand. But Alex and Lala, we did
review a table full of memos dating back to twenty
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twenty three. Well, she's been expressing her concerns that the department,
that Los Angeles City Fire Department is not keeping up
with the City of Los Angeles' needs.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
Yeah, no, they're They're right. They need to update the
LA Fire Department. They're going to get a boatload of
money after this, a lot of money. According to The
Daily Mail. The Daily Mail has still not pulled that
story off of their website. If you go to The
Daily Mail and you click on their homepage, there's a
there's a huge story about LA's fire hydrants. That's the
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first story, and then underneath it says exclusive La fire
Chief has been dismissed by Mayor Karen Bass. According to
a source, they have not pulled that story, which is
unusual Crozier. You know, you'd think once it's debunked by
a lot of local news stories here, they would immediately
take it down.
Speaker 5 (20:41):
Yeah, if they were first to jump on it, they
should be first kicked down.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
Right, And what's the process then?
Speaker 1 (20:47):
Do they issue an apology and a correction or and
doesn't it don't you lose a little bit of faith
when when somebody does that.
Speaker 5 (20:55):
Well, the Daily Mail is already considered a British tabloid.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
Oh I see, I see, okay, all right, I don't know.
I thought it was like one of their premier newspapers.
Speaker 5 (21:03):
Well, I mean, what do you mean by premiere?
Speaker 2 (21:05):
Like it is it equivalent of New York Times Lay Times?
Speaker 5 (21:08):
I don't think so.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
No, No, okay, I'm like the New York Post.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
I see, okay, all right, Well, maybe it's the Weekly Mail. Maybe,
you know, the Daily is too rough for them. They
should do a weekly stories, all right. Red flag warning
coming in fraud tonight, Red flag warning again?
Speaker 2 (21:25):
Can you believe this. We're gonna have.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
Some more wind tomorrow and then next Monday and Tuesday
we're looking at another wind event. So it looks like
the LA Fire Department, who still has their chief according
to ABC and NBC, it looks like they are holding
this fire on that ridge, These brave young men and
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brave young women holding that fire on that ridge south
of Tarzana, south of Encino and north of Pacific Palisades.
So hopefully they can they can stop that there. And
and I and I They've got it. They've got to
stop it there. They just have to. All right, let
me play something for you here before we get out
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of here, because because a lot of people are going
to deal with insurance, A lot of people are going
to say, hey, what's going on with insurance? I got
to call my insurance agent, and and and.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
I and I want to know you know who to contact.
What's going on? Will the will the the government help
me with my insurance? Come to you?
Speaker 1 (22:30):
Cancel my policy? Let's find out some more information.
Speaker 13 (22:33):
Right here before I begin, I want to publicly thank
the insurance commissioners from across the nation and the international
Insurance Supervisors who have offered assistance and supporting and support
during this difficult time. My heart goes out to my
fellow Angelino's and to the firefighters currently battling these places.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
Okay, let me take a quick break here. I didn't
know we had another break here. There's so much going on.
We're still watching this fire possibly coming over the ridge
in Tarzana. Keep an eye on that as well, and
then we'll come back and talk and let you listen
to something about the insurance. Who do you call if
they canceled your insurance? Is there any recourse? There's a
lot going on in Los Angeles right now. We're trying
to cover all of it.
Speaker 10 (23:12):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
Just got a text from a buddy of mine, a
friend of mine, Lisa, who works at CarMax and Canoga Park,
and they can see clearly see that fire coming over
the ridge towards Tarzana. So sleepless night for a lot
of people here in southern California. It's been one hell
of a week. A lot of people are thinking about insurance.
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Is your insurance good? What if they canceled you? A
couple months ago. What are your recourses? What are you
supposed to do? What can you do? Let me play
this for you. Lots of those questions will be answered
right here.
Speaker 13 (23:50):
Before I begin, I want to publicly thank the insurance
commissioners from across the nation and the international insurance supervisors
who have offered assistance and supporting and support during this
difficult time. My heart goes out to my fellow Angelino's
and to the firefighters currently battling these places.
Speaker 8 (24:07):
Maybe be clear my top priority.
Speaker 13 (24:09):
Is to protect all affected people during this crisis and
assist in their insurance recovery. My primary concern at this
very moment is to ensure that wildfire survivors receive the
insurance benefits to which they are entitled to as soon
as possible. I understand that this may be new and
the extent of the calamity here in southern California and
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compounded by the insurance and financial stresses that.
Speaker 8 (24:35):
These wildfires have caused.
Speaker 13 (24:37):
However, at the Department of Insurance, we have been confronting
wildfires and other natural disasters throughout our entire state for
a very long time, making us unfortunately response experts. Now
is the time for you to focus on your family
and and your health. The last thing you should be
worrying about is your insurance. Here's what I've done to
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protect our wildfire victims today. I am using my moratorium
power to stop all non renewals and cancelations. Last night,
I issued a bulletin to protect homeowners affected by the
Palisades and Eaten fires from non renewals and cancelations by
your insurance companies for one year under a moratorium law
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that I wrote while I was serving in the State Senate.
This covers you even if your home wasn't destroyed or
damaged in the wildfire. You can visit insurance dot CA
dot gov to look up your zip code if you
are near these wildfires and obtain that protection. I'm also
calling on insurance companies to suspend any pending non renewals
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and cancelations that homeowners received before these fires started. This
means that if you've received the non renewal from your
homeowner's insurance between October ninth and January seventh, essentially ninety days,
your insurance company should do the right thing and retain
you as a valued policy holder. I call upon all
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property insurance companies to pause these non renewals and cancelations
and provide essential stability for our communities, allowing consumers to
focus on what's important at the moment, their safety and recovery.
In my notice, I also urged insurers to extend the
payment grace period beyond the existing sixty days for policy
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holders in areas directly affected by the wildfires, enabling Angelinos
to pay their home insurance premiums amidst these the challenges
that they are currently facing.
Speaker 8 (26:40):
And if your.
Speaker 13 (26:40):
Policy was not renewed, or if you don't have coverage,
please call us at one eight hundred nine two seven
four to three five seven. We can help you find
additional solutions. I have also directed my department's enforcement team
to protect Angelinos from frausters targeting wildfire survivors. To assist
with the ongoing evacuation efforts, my department has moved quickly
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to host an insurance support workshop on January eighteenth and
nineteenth at Santa Monica College, followed by another event the
following weekend at Pasadena City College. We will have experts
from our staff and representatives from insurance companies available so
homeowners can obtain answers and take the action they need
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in one convenient location again, call us at one eight
hundred ninet two seven four three five seven to schedule
a one on one appointment with our experts related to health.
I've issued an additional notice to all California House insurers
directing them to submit emergency plans to my department. These
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plans must detail how they're going to ensure that consumers
can continue to access essential medical care and obtain their
medications in the wake of these disasters. I've been in
constant communication with our county leaders, Governor, the legislative leaders,
and our congressional delegation to identify best ways to expedite
our recovery, reduce wildfire risk, and build a more climate
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resilient state and communities.
Speaker 8 (28:13):
Making homes and.
Speaker 13 (28:14):
Communities safer from wildfires needs to be a top priority
for our state. Looking forward, I'm going to ask the
Governor and the state legislature to support my proposal to
provide consumers with home heartening grants.
Speaker 8 (28:27):
We need to put money in people's hands.
Speaker 13 (28:30):
This measure is critical to protecting homes and improving long
term resilience against wildfire risk. We are also going to
be introducing legislation to include businesses in our moratorium law.
Businesses are an important consumer of insurance and the financial
backbone of many communities, and they also need this vital protection.
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Newly elected insurance reforms are now in effect to make
insurance rates more stable and predictable. My Sustainable Insurance strategy
mandates that insurance companies expand and maintain coverage in high
wildfire areas if they are going to use forward looking
catastrophic models and incorporate the reinsurance costs in the rate
making which my department just finalized in December. Why is
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this important for our residents? It ensures that Californians and
wildfire prone areas retain access to insurance and brings competition
back into the market and ultimately lowering the cost. Without
these measures, insurance companies may continue on renewals, leaving communities
at greater risk of under insurance and.
Speaker 8 (29:34):
Total loss of coverage.
Speaker 13 (29:36):
Even with these devastating wildfires. I want to be clear,
I am confident that these reforms will keep us on
track to modernizing our insurance market, encourage insurers to return
and expand in California, and protect the solvency of our market.
Well remain the largest insurance market in the nation force
in the world. Our goals to ensure they remain financially
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solvent and can under the claim that will stabilize our
insurance market in the long run. Now, let me just
quickly address issues surrounding the Insurer of last Resort, which
we call the Fair Plan. It has become clear that
reforms are necessary as the coverage maximums have not changed
in thirty years. I recognize that for some Californians the
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coverage events, even the ones that we've already implemented, are
still very low. Under my strategy, we have also ensured
the creation of a stronger, more sustainable fare plan with
the long term financial strategy to withstand the challenging fires
we are experiencing.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
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