Mayor Karen Bass and Councilman John Lee held an emergency press conference today addressing the widespread water outage crippling parts of the San Fernando Valley, including Porter Ranch and Granada Hills. Residents are scrambling for access to free water stations set up by the city. Meanwhile, United Airlines issued a surprise ground stop at several major airports, including LAX, causing travel chaos nationwide. What's behind the sudden halt in flights—and how long will L.A. go dry?
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's KFI Am sixty and you're listening to the Conway
Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. We've got a
balls up in the San Fernando Valley. That's the official
word that DWP is using. And they said this morning,
we apologize, apologize for the balls up.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Bob.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
We have water that you can't drink. You got to
boil your water if you have water in those areas.
And if you want free water, there are three areas
where you can go where three parts you can go
and line up for water. But they screwed up. They
went to replace a i think a valve, an old
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trunk line twenty four feet below the surface of the
ground twenty four feet and they went to turn the
valve on and the valve was like, nope, we're going
I'll give you twenty percent and that's it. And the
pump doesn't operate on twenty percent water. You know, like
like for instance, if you have belly across, you know
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how some pump is. You know, there's old pumps you
plug in for water sure and you know if it
gets down to the bottom, it doesn't pump any more water.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
It needs to have a certain amount of water.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Yeah, it's got a little float that's attached to it,
and once that float hits a certain level down then
it won't do work anymore.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Right, That's what's going on here where you know, they
can't get enough water into the system to pump it
into all of the you know, the surrounding businesses and
they and the homes and the hotels, and so they've
shut the water off for about a billion customers, a.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
Billion and regional partners. We are hoping to water service
with an emergency.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Repair, bas Mayor Karen bass I believe, yes.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
We are hoping to restore water service with an emergency
repair much quicker than the permanent.
Speaker 5 (01:46):
Fix will take.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
Make no mistake, this is an emergency repair. The timeline
is dynamic and we will keep you posted. I want
to again thank the expert DWP workers, which I want
to again thank the expert DWP workers.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Are there any out there? I thought those are the
guys that put in the bad valve? You think of
those guys? Is that what I'm here?
Speaker 4 (02:12):
I want to again thank the expert DWP workers.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
For having water shut off to ninety eight hundred people who.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
Have been working tirelessly on this issue.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
I know, it's hot for them, I get it. But
somebody messed up, somebody messed up, or they bought a
bad valve.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
That's possible. That's possible as well.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
In terms of immediate response to help those impact it.
This morning, the city opened three water distribution centers. More
than eleven thousand cases of free water have already been distributed,
and staff are on site to continue providing free bottled
water to residents. We have activated the Emergency Operations Center
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to coordinate the city's response, and in anticipation of ongoing
high temperatures, we have pre deployed firefighters, fire trucks, water tankers,
and fire helicopters.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Man, they they really got spooked by those fires in January.
Now it's at the Marines are here, the air Force.
You know, we got a two Coast Guard cutters coming in,
three aircraft carriers, nine hundred soldiers.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
It's a water valve.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
But man, did this city, you know, the people run
this city got real spooked.
Speaker 6 (03:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (03:27):
Can we get those two thousand National Guard members back
in here. Maybe we can put them to use there.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Yeah, right, maybe they can drive around their hum v's
and throw water at people.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
That's possible.
Speaker 7 (03:36):
We haves like this frore you go.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
We have pre deployed firefighters, fire trucks, water tankers, and
fire helicopters to make sure any emergency is quickly handled.
Public works and infrastructure are the backbone of our city.
You saw it when we repaired the freeway. You're seeing
it here. I want Angelinos to know that we will
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always do whatever it takes so that their daily lives
are not disrupted.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
I don't know if anybody believe that. Do people believe this?
Speaker 4 (04:11):
I want Angelinos to know that we will always do
whatever it takes so that their daily lives are not disrupted.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
I'm going to stay on high alert on that one.
I'm going to stay on high alert that that's not
always true.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
Residents should visit LADWP dot com for information about where
to receive assistance. To conclude, I want Angelinos and Porto
Ranch and Granada Hills to know that city crews are
working around the clock on this issue. Late last night,
the councilman and I made it very clear to our
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general managers that this needed to be fixed immediately and
that in the meantime we will do all we can
to support families that are impacted. That includes our seniors
and those who have disability. He's living in the area.
More information will be available soon and we will provide
it when we have it. And with that, I'd like
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to introduce the councilman from the area, Councilman John Lee.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Okay, all right, before we get to John Lee, let
me tell you what's affected here, because this is a wide,
wide area. This is not a small area. This is
bring them map closer. Hold on, there we go. Okay,
it is Porter Ranch all the way out.
Speaker 8 (05:32):
Man.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
It goes all the way north to the five Freeway,
all the way to the five Freeway and down around
the mountain side through Granada Hills, through Porter Ranch. And
I can't tell where the west end of this is.
I'm trying to get a bigger picture.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Oh, here we go.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Okay, the west end of this is. The area affected
is Rinaldi Avenue to the south. It looks like Balboa
to the east, and then it goes out. It looks
like it goes out to De Soto to the west
and the foothills to the north. So it's the hills
up in the north DeSoto, which is a huge area.
Desota to Balboa, massive area and nobody has water there,
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but that's Porter Valley country Club is in that area,
all the homes surrounding that area, and you've got Porter Ranch,
you've got Granada Hills all that area from the Foothills
De Soto on the west, Balboa and the five Freeway
on the north east, and then the one eighteen Freeway.
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The one eighteen Freeway is this is the southern end
of that water shortage or water outage. Okay, Now let's
hear from the councilman and see if he has anything
to add about nine billion people being out of water.
Speaker 6 (06:49):
Good afternoon everyone. At first, I just want to thank
the Mayor d Top and all the emergency first line
crews for everything they've been doing, all the hard work
they've been doing around the clock. As the Mayor mentioned,
as the council member who represents Granada Hills and Port
of Ranch, I want to acknowledge just we understand the
seriousness and how disruptive this situation is for our community.
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Since this issue began issue, my office has been in
constant contact with Department of Water and Power and the
Mayor's office and our emergency response teams to ensure that
our community's needs are being met, especially for and.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
It would be real refreshing if this councilman came out
and the mayor came out and said, hey, gang, you know,
we're going to have a quick press conference here.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Just want to let you know. The city's falling apart.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
We've got old trunk lines, we've got the DWP that
are putting in these crappy valves. We don't know whether
the guy who made the valve was wrong or it
was installed wrong. But this is going to be a
nightmare for today, Tomorrow, Friday, and maybe till monday. So
we afked up. We're sorry, but the city's falling apart,
and here's a good example of it. Would you love
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to hear that guy come out and be honest the
city's falling apart and we have no control over it.
That would be great. But now they thank each other,
they pat each other on the back. Oh, you guys
are so great over DWP. Oh the mayor is great. Oh,
the council's great. Everybody's great. But nobody has any.
Speaker 6 (08:16):
Water, especially for our most vulnerable residence.
Speaker 5 (08:19):
The mayor is revisiting using the term angelina.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Oh I noticed that yes, yes, yes, yes, and they're
barely Angelino's out there.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
I mean, they're very close to Saugustin's out.
Speaker 6 (08:29):
There, especially for our most vulnerable residents and critical facilities.
Last night, Mayor Bass and I, as you mentioned, alongside
Los Angeles Fire Department leadership, coordinated to ensure a strong
proactive response to developing to this developing situation. In preparation,
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we have strategically pre deployed water tenders at local fire
stations to ensure that our first responders have the resources
they need should emergency calls arise. Additionally, I instructed LAPD
to increase patrols in the high fire severity zones throughout
the district.
Speaker 5 (09:09):
So you know, in light of this.
Speaker 6 (09:10):
Incident, it's essential that we stay ahead of any potential threats.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Yeah, you know what, there these people are just praying
that there's not a fire out there. They are praying
to God that there is no fire from DeSoto to
Balboa one to eighteen to those foothills because if there is,
guess what also isn't working the hydrants, the fire hydrants
they're not working as well, So they are not going
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to have an easy night sleep tonight.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
All right, we'll pick up more at this.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
This is a big, huge catastrophe in the Northwest Valley.
Welcome to Los Angeles, everybody. Hope you enjoy it.
Speaker 9 (09:51):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Can we continue with this.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Water outage in the North Sand Fernando Valley and it is.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
It's not good. It's not good.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
The water's out for a lot of people, thousands and
thousands of people from the one eighteen south that's the
south border to the Foothills Granada Hills area, you know,
Porter Ranch, and then from DeSoto to Balboa, all the
way up to the five Freeway. Okay, what does it mean?
No showers, no pool water. Sorry, I know a lot
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of people in pools there. You can't top it off.
There's no drinking water, there's no water for the dogs,
there's no water for the lawn, there's no water for anything.
And the fire hydrants are dry dry, So this could
be a potential catastrophe. I think everybody who lives in
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that neighborhood has to be on call tonight. If you
see a weirdo running around your neighborhood causing damage or
potentially you know, lighting fires, you've got to be proactive
because there are lunatics that live in southern California. The
valley has its share as well, and they they're everywhere.
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But you got to be proactive. I know the cops
are going to be out tonight, fire will be out tonight,
dwp'll be there. But you also have to make sure
you can't rely on anybody in this town. You have
to make sure you're driving up and down your streets
and you announced that if you see anything suspicious, you
make your voice heard tonight because this is gonna be
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an ugly situation for the next couple of days. They
may not get water until Monday. They're looking at Friday,
which would be great, but they also said maybe Monday,
maybe Monday, which is horrible.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
All right, let's get back to this.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
There's an extremely important, huge story in southern California, and
it just so happens happening right now in the North
San Fernando Valley without water. Are this the councilman, remember
talking about the water outage.
Speaker 6 (12:05):
Let me make this perfectly clear, and the attempt to
take advantage of this emergency will not be tolerated. We
are prepared and we will hold those people accountable. As
you've already heard, LADWP has established water distribution sites at
Holly Burnson Park in port A Ranch, O'melvanie Park in
Granada Hills, and at the intersection at Tampa and says Non.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
Okay, do you hear where you can get free water?
Free water? And I don't think they're going to limit you.
I think you can pull up and get as much
as you like. But here's where. Here are the three
areas and the three places you can get water tonight
to bathe, the drink and you give it to your dog.
Speaker 6 (12:43):
At Holly Burnson Park in port A Ranch, O'melvanie Park
in Granada Hills, and at the intersection at Tampa and
says Non. These are open today until seven pm to
get water seven pm.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
They should be open twenty four hours seven pm. Where
are people going that? There's hundreds of cars in line
right now. You're gonna give everybody water in an hour
and a half. It's not gonna happen, and they're gonna
be pissed. I'd stay open later if I were them,
I'd stay open until I don't know, maybe until the
emergency's over.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
How about that?
Speaker 6 (13:14):
Additionally, additionally, separate church in Port of Ranch is also
opening its doors to impacted residents to also offer water
and restrooms. If you or someone you know needs water,
I totally blew it.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
It's not just the fire hydrants. It's not just the
drinking water or water for your lawn.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
It's the toilets. No water for the toilets. This could
be grim by tonight. I think we all have to go.
If you live in that area, everyone's got to go
into the If it's yellow, let it mellow. If it's brown,
figure it out. I think that's the saying, isn't it
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Figure it the hell out?
Speaker 6 (14:04):
Yeah, Please don't wait to go now, or reach out
to my office and.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
We will do Was he talking about going to the bathroom?
What was it?
Speaker 6 (14:11):
If you are someone you know needs water, please don't
wait to go now, or reach out to my office
and we will do everything we can to assist. And
I just want to make sure everyone knows as.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
This okay, while we're watching this disaster, there's been a
complete groundstop of United flights. United flights have been grounded
and we're getting a picture of Los Angeles International Bellio's
on this case. We don't know if it's national, international,
or locally, but United Airlines if you're flying out of
lax On United Airlines, or perhaps if it's national, if
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you're going out of Burbank or Orange County. United Airlines
has a full stop right now. So if you're on
your way to the airport and you're unaware of this,
now you are. And another reason to keep.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
It on KFI. We've got two big stories going on.
We came back.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
We'll finish both of them, or we'll keep you updated
on both of them. The water outage up in Porta
Ranch Grenat Hills area, the North Valley from DeSoto to
Balboa to the Foothills to the one eighteen freeway. That's
a big story, and then a minor story unless you're
taking a flight, then it's a major one. An outage
of United Airlines and we came back. We'll tell you
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how big that is. Lots going on on a very
hot day in southern California. You need to keep it
on KFI.
Speaker 9 (15:30):
You're listening to Tim conwaytun you're on demand from KFI
Am sixty.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
Well, we've got the water outage up in the Northern Valley.
We'll get back to that, but we also have a
big story nationally here it's coming out of San Francisco,
but it affects everybody. United Airlines flights have been grounded
across the country today this evening because of a technology issue.
Somebody's computer went down. Flights out of San Francisco International
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in California halted. Also, it affects Houston, Texas, Denver, in Colorado, Chicago,
Ronald Reagan, everything due to technology issue. They're holding United
Airlines mainline flights at their departure airports, and we expect
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additional flight delays this evening as we work through this issue.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
Let's a quote from the company.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Quote safety is our top priority, and we work with
our customers to get them to their destination.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
Close quote.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
The company is also relying on to relying to users
or relining replying to users, I should say on social
media complaining about delays, so it says we're sorry for
any inconvenience caused. We are aware of the system error,
and our teams are working to restore things and have
you on your way. They apologize for the disruption, but
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it's a national maybe international, So if you're going to
you know Lai or Burbank, Long Beach, Orange County, Ontario,
and you're flying United. Chances are you ain't going anywhere
all right. Back to the water outage in the North Valley.
This is not good. This is not good at all.
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This could be a catastrophe and we're trying to avoid
one by letting everybody know keep your eyes open for weirdos.
This The press conference happened about half hour ago. Half
hour ago, and there's more information to get to you.
Speaker 6 (17:32):
I'm going to like to introduce our CEO and Chief Engineer,
Jennie Can Good afternoon.
Speaker 8 (17:39):
Thank you, council Member Lee, thank you and your boss
and all the city departments for your leadership and the
support during this incident response.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
I think this is one of the spokespeople for LEDWP.
Speaker 8 (17:51):
I also want to recognize our crews and our labor
partners and thank them for all their hard work. We
have been in this incident since yesterday afternoon and we
are working around the clock to make the repairs as
fast and as safely as possible. We know that putting
our customers first is our highest priority, is your highest priority,
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and we're taking this very seriously.
Speaker 5 (18:14):
So what are we doing now?
Speaker 2 (18:16):
That's the big question.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
That's the ten million, sixty four thousand dollars question.
Speaker 5 (18:21):
So what are we doing now?
Speaker 2 (18:22):
That's right, let's find out.
Speaker 5 (18:24):
So what are we doing now?
Speaker 8 (18:25):
We have crews are multiple locations and are working very
quickly and safely and looking at technology to make repairs
as fast as possible to move water into the part
of our system that has been impacted. We are taking
multiple ap process. Number one, we have a contractor on
site that is going to connect thousands of feet of
hosts and high velocity pumps, working with our crews to
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move water from a nearby metropolitan water district supply into
the fifty.
Speaker 5 (18:54):
Four inch truck lines supply in the area.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
Okay, that may or may not work, but they're trying
to skirt around the pipe that's broken right now, or
you know, the valve that's broken, and so they're going
to try to put thousands of feet or thousands of
yards of major hoses, not like the ones you use
at your house, but major hoses to try to get
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water around that so they can get it back to
you your toilets, your showers, your fire hydrants, your sink,
your pool, your bathtub, and your lawn. And that may
or may not work.
Speaker 8 (19:30):
There are on site and work has begun and they
expect to start pumping around six to seven pm this evening.
If they are successful, we may be able to restore
water service in the next twenty forty.
Speaker 5 (19:41):
Forty eight hours to the whole area.
Speaker 8 (19:43):
At the same time, our crews are working to remove
the valve that fail to restore water flow to the tank.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Okay, And there should be an investigation on why that
valve failed, whether it was improperly installed or it was
a it was a bad valve from the you know,
Southern California Valve company where they bought that from.
Speaker 8 (20:02):
The location of the valve is twenty four feet deep
and the repairs are very complex. They have been working
since last night and this morning. They found two oil pipelines,
active pipelines.
Speaker 5 (20:14):
A gas line, and lash boulders.
Speaker 8 (20:17):
That have complicated excavation efforts.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
Oh, what a nightmare. You got two active oil lines,
a gas line, and boulders surrounding this valve that they're
trying to replace.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
What a nightmare.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
And those guys are working out there, it's one hundred
degrees one hundred degrees and you got to be careful
of the two oil pipelines that are flying through there,
and I don't know why those aren't shut down. The
gas line that's pumping through there, and boulders and all
you need is one spark in good night, So God
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pray for these people that everybody's okay out there.
Speaker 8 (20:54):
Because we cannot use heavy equipment until those lines are clear.
We're working with the owners of those lines to clear
the pipeline so we can continue the excavation.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
Okay, So we're going to try to shut down the
oil lines, the two oil lines and the gas line
before they can bring in heavy equipment.
Speaker 8 (21:10):
Once the lines are clear, it will take us about
fourteen to sixteen hours to get the area shore up
so that we can start repairs. Because of the complexity
of this evolution, the permanent repairs to the pipeline could
extend over the weekend. We have a tremendous amount of resources.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
That's not a good sign.
Speaker 5 (21:30):
Extend over the weekend.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
It could extend over the weekend.
Speaker 5 (21:34):
Could extend over the weekend that.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
Usually means Monday.
Speaker 8 (21:38):
We have a tremendous amount of resources committed to this response,
and as one of the largest water utilities in the nation,
we have in house capabilities and can expedite this work
because we don't have to contract the workout, so we're
performing our own trenching, excavation and repairs and that it's
allowing us to move faster. Now, important message affected immediately.
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For the customers located within the affected areas, we need
you to boil your water.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
This is very important. If you're in that area from
the one eighteen freeway north to the five Balboa on
the east and the Soto on the west, you have
to boil your water before you use it. It's very
important for.
Speaker 8 (22:21):
The customers located within the affected areas, we need you
to boil your water. After we lost pressure, we can
introduce contaminants into our distribution system. So even if you
have water in this zone, we ask you to boil
the water. If you're going to use it to drink,
cook make ice, prepare food, or brush your teeth. Please
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do that until we tell you it's safe to do so.
Speaker 5 (22:44):
We are working with water.
Speaker 8 (22:46):
Quality teams to ensure that we bring the water quality
in the system as fast as possible and we can
lift the boil water notice.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
So this also means if you have a tank a
water tank heater water heater that that has to be
emptied before you use that as hot water because that
doesn't get the boiling temperature. And if you have an
ice maker, you got to empty out all your ice
because you don't know if that ice was made after
the water was contaminated.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
So you got a lot of work ahead of you.
And it's going to be a.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
Long couple days, long couple days, and we're going to
give you as much information as we can.
Speaker 9 (23:24):
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AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
We have a potential catastrophe in the Northern Valley and
it could happen. We hope it doesn't. But there's no
water to any part of that community. We're not hills
out there, port a ranch and it's Desto to Balboa,
the one eighteen to the foothills.
Speaker 7 (23:48):
A billion people.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
Yeah, with nine billion, it's up to nine billion people.
Now Bellio just had a great observation. Of course, it's
like to give her a credit for them. How about
all the restaurants that are in that area. Ooh, you
know they can't stay open?
Speaker 10 (24:03):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (24:03):
Are they going to be supplied with water as well?
Speaker 2 (24:05):
Probably?
Speaker 10 (24:06):
Not?
Speaker 1 (24:06):
Yeah, you know, but also other businesses, cleaners, you know,
any any business actually that most businesses use water.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
And not even to mention like what you had said
before about in homes, but bathrooms toilets.
Speaker 7 (24:18):
Yes, so even if they can't.
Speaker 3 (24:20):
Cook people, just people and going into the office to
work bathrooms.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
And what's going to scare the hell out of most
people are those fire the dry hydrants tonight until those
hydrants can be you know, filled again with water and reactivated.
A lot of sleepless nights.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
I guess I was maybe you can clarify from what
you had played earlier from the LEDWP rep was saying
that that there will be some water that is available,
but it needs to be boiled to be used anything
like that. So everybody will still have some access to water,
or there's certain areas that will have some access to water,
but that water will need to be boiled because that
would play a big difference in things.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
Yeah, from what I understand is there's no water available now,
but because that that valve was only pumping twenty percent
and they had to shut it down, that there was
some contaminants that got into that line, and so whenever
that line starts activated, again and you get your first
initial hit of water.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
I think that still has to be boiled.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
So so nobody has any water right now, right, No,
But at some point when this valve or whatever gets fixed,
the initial part of however long that time is going
to be, is going to be contaminated.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
Water right there, and the hose lines that they're going
to try to, you know, reroute the water around this
broken valve. Those those aren't I imagine those aren't approved
for you know, water that's safe to drink that those have.
Those have to be pumped out as well and cleaned
out as well. I would be careful with your water.
I'd boil everything, oh my god. Yeah, but you know,
but this is one of those cases Krozier where if
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you have a hundred gallon tank water heater, you have
one hundred gallons worth of good water you can use.
Oh yeah, right, you can take that out a hose
pigott on most of these tanks, I think all of them,
and you can. I'm with a key with you know,
you can open that up or with a wrench or
a screwdriver, you can open that up and use that water,
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you know, because I'm untouched.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
Yeah, and shut the you.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
Know, obviously shut the heater off, the heating element off,
and you have one hundred gallons worth of water that
you can use, you know, while the disaster is going on.
But we also have breaking news coming out of United
Airlines real quick, and then we'll get back to the water.
We've got a lot going on here. You gotta stay
with us. We got too much going on at breaking
new United Airlines.
Speaker 11 (26:33):
We have breaking news right now as we look live
at lax. United Airlines across the country on a ground stop.
That means no aircraft are going to be taking off
until they deal with a computer issue. The issue has
to do with their weight and balance computer system. There's
something wrong with the technology. It's not working, and that
is a critical system that determines whether an aircraft has
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been properly loaded and balanced. An aircraft that is out
of balance and or improperly loaded is in real tries
and in real danger. They're not going to let them
take off until that happens. Until that's taken care of,
any aircraft that are in the air will stay in
the air and continue to their destinations. Regional carriers operated
by United are not affected. But these planes that you
see right now, probably not going anywhere until they get
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that computer system fixed.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
Okay, that's an important part of this story. Regional airlines
that are not United.
Speaker 11 (27:21):
Any aircraft that are in the air, will stay in
the air and continue to their destination.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
Okay, that's important. If you're in the air, you're fine.
If you're listening to you know, you're on United Airlines
right now, and you're in the air, you're fine.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
You're fine.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
It's the flights that haven't taken off yet, and the
regional airlines are not affected.
Speaker 11 (27:37):
Regional carriers operated by United are not affected. But these
planes that you see right now probably not going anywhere
until they get that computer system fixed.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
There you go.
Speaker 7 (27:45):
Yeah, United is saying kind of like what you said.
I guess it's the same thing.
Speaker 3 (27:48):
They specifically said they're holding United mainline flights. I guess
that's the same thing as what they're saying is like
if it's one of their smaller, you know, regional flights
that's not affected.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
But well, I think they when they say re regenal,
I think they, you know, because all these airlines have
deals with other airlines right now, like if you book
a ticket on American Airlines to Denver or to Portland.
You might be on Alaska Airlines, yeah, and so they're unaffected.
But if your plane says United on it, I think
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you're affected by yes, exactly. Yeah, and that's and I
don't know when they're going to fix that, but that's
going to be a long night for United passengers as well.
You might be spending the night at the airport. All right,
when we come back. What we could start now, this
is the press or that they had with the LA
Fire Department and the LA Police Department with that big
water outage in the northern part of the San Fernando
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Valley and.
Speaker 5 (28:41):
Now LAFD chief running Villanova.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
All right, here's the chief, the chief of the Fire Department.
Speaker 10 (28:48):
Good afternoon all your Los Angeles City Fire Department has
taken proactive measures to ensure public safety response to the
disrupted water supplay affecting Porter Ranch and Granada Hill communities.
Kystmeistic Water System also supplies our fire hydrants to maintain
firefighting readiness, We've pre deployed additional resources strategically positioned in
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the affected areas of Porter Ranch and Granada Hills. Two
three engine task forces totaling six engines, each carrying five
hundred gallons of water, two two LAFD water tenders, one
additional water tender from LA Park Rangers, and five water
tenders from DWT. We also have additional resources if needed
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as far as our air resources. We have relay operations
to shuttle water in if need be. We have helitagers
on a contract. We have our five water dropping helicopters.
That heavy tanker drops twenty six hundred gallons of water.
We have operations of relay cycling from pools, so we're
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ready and prepared. I also want to thank Mayor Bass,
Council Member Lee, other city leaders for their collaboration and
swift action towards this matter.
Speaker 5 (30:04):
Simply put, we are.
Speaker 10 (30:06):
Committed to protecting lives and property and remain fully prepared
to respond to any emergency during this disruption. Thank you.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
Okay, welcome back.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
We'll hear from the LA Police Department and the long
night that they're going to have patrolling that area and
looking for burglars, arsonists and other weirdos that LA has
to offer. And there's a lot of us. There's a
lot of weirdos. A lot of people in LA are
odd and you want to keep them out of that
area because the fire hydrants aren't working, and the toilets
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and the sinks and the ice makers, all of it's out,
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It's KFI Am sixty and you're listening to the Conway
Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. We've got a
balls up in the San Fernando Valley. That's the official
word that DWP is using. And they said this morning,
we apologize, apologize for the balls up.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Bob.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
We have water that you can't drink. You got to
boil your water if you have water in those areas.
And if you want free water, there are three areas
where you can go where three parts you can go
and line up for water. But they screwed up. They
went to replace a i think a valve, an old
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trunk line twenty four feet below the surface of the
ground twenty four feet and they went to turn the
valve on and the valve was like, nope, we're going
I'll give you twenty percent and that's it. And the
pump doesn't operate on twenty percent water. You know, like
like for instance, if you have belly across, you know
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how some pump is. You know, there's old pumps you
plug in for water sure and you know if it
gets down to the bottom, it doesn't pump any more water.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
It needs to have a certain amount of water.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Yeah, it's got a little float that's attached to it,
and once that float hits a certain level down then
it won't do work anymore.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Right, That's what's going on here where you know, they
can't get enough water into the system to pump it
into all of the you know, the surrounding businesses and
they and the homes and the hotels, and so they've
shut the water off for about a billion customers, a.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
Billion and regional partners. We are hoping to water service
with an emergency.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Repair, bas Mayor Karen bass I believe, yes.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
We are hoping to restore water service with an emergency
repair much quicker than the permanent.
Speaker 5 (01:46):
Fix will take.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
Make no mistake, this is an emergency repair. The timeline
is dynamic and we will keep you posted. I want
to again thank the expert DWP workers, which I want
to again thank the expert DWP workers.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Are there any out there? I thought those are the
guys that put in the bad valve? You think of
those guys? Is that what I'm here?
Speaker 4 (02:12):
I want to again thank the expert DWP workers.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
For having water shut off to ninety eight hundred people who.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
Have been working tirelessly on this issue.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
I know, it's hot for them, I get it. But
somebody messed up, somebody messed up, or they bought a
bad valve.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
That's possible. That's possible as well.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
In terms of immediate response to help those impact it.
This morning, the city opened three water distribution centers. More
than eleven thousand cases of free water have already been distributed,
and staff are on site to continue providing free bottled
water to residents. We have activated the Emergency Operations Center
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to coordinate the city's response, and in anticipation of ongoing
high temperatures, we have pre deployed firefighters, fire trucks, water tankers,
and fire helicopters.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Man, they they really got spooked by those fires in January.
Now it's at the Marines are here, the air Force.
You know, we got a two Coast Guard cutters coming in,
three aircraft carriers, nine hundred soldiers.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
It's a water valve.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
But man, did this city, you know, the people run
this city got real spooked.
Speaker 6 (03:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (03:27):
Can we get those two thousand National Guard members back
in here. Maybe we can put them to use there.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Yeah, right, maybe they can drive around their hum v's
and throw water at people.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
That's possible.
Speaker 7 (03:36):
We haves like this frore you go.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
We have pre deployed firefighters, fire trucks, water tankers, and
fire helicopters to make sure any emergency is quickly handled.
Public works and infrastructure are the backbone of our city.
You saw it when we repaired the freeway. You're seeing
it here. I want Angelinos to know that we will
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always do whatever it takes so that their daily lives
are not disrupted.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
I don't know if anybody believe that. Do people believe this?
Speaker 4 (04:11):
I want Angelinos to know that we will always do
whatever it takes so that their daily lives are not disrupted.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
I'm going to stay on high alert on that one.
I'm going to stay on high alert that that's not
always true.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
Residents should visit LADWP dot com for information about where
to receive assistance. To conclude, I want Angelinos and Porto
Ranch and Granada Hills to know that city crews are
working around the clock on this issue. Late last night,
the councilman and I made it very clear to our
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general managers that this needed to be fixed immediately and
that in the meantime we will do all we can
to support families that are impacted. That includes our seniors
and those who have disability. He's living in the area.
More information will be available soon and we will provide
it when we have it. And with that, I'd like
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to introduce the councilman from the area, Councilman John Lee.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Okay, all right, before we get to John Lee, let
me tell you what's affected here, because this is a wide,
wide area. This is not a small area. This is
bring them map closer. Hold on, there we go. Okay,
it is Porter Ranch all the way out.
Speaker 8 (05:32):
Man.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
It goes all the way north to the five Freeway,
all the way to the five Freeway and down around
the mountain side through Granada Hills, through Porter Ranch. And
I can't tell where the west end of this is.
I'm trying to get a bigger picture.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Oh, here we go.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Okay, the west end of this is. The area affected
is Rinaldi Avenue to the south. It looks like Balboa
to the east, and then it goes out. It looks
like it goes out to De Soto to the west
and the foothills to the north. So it's the hills
up in the north DeSoto, which is a huge area.
Desota to Balboa, massive area and nobody has water there,
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but that's Porter Valley country Club is in that area,
all the homes surrounding that area, and you've got Porter Ranch,
you've got Granada Hills all that area from the Foothills
De Soto on the west, Balboa and the five Freeway
on the north east, and then the one eighteen Freeway.
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The one eighteen Freeway is this is the southern end
of that water shortage or water outage. Okay, Now let's
hear from the councilman and see if he has anything
to add about nine billion people being out of water.
Speaker 6 (06:49):
Good afternoon everyone. At first, I just want to thank
the Mayor d Top and all the emergency first line
crews for everything they've been doing, all the hard work
they've been doing around the clock. As the Mayor mentioned,
as the council member who represents Granada Hills and Port
of Ranch, I want to acknowledge just we understand the
seriousness and how disruptive this situation is for our community.
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Since this issue began issue, my office has been in
constant contact with Department of Water and Power and the
Mayor's office and our emergency response teams to ensure that
our community's needs are being met, especially for and.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
It would be real refreshing if this councilman came out
and the mayor came out and said, hey, gang, you know,
we're going to have a quick press conference here.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Just want to let you know. The city's falling apart.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
We've got old trunk lines, we've got the DWP that
are putting in these crappy valves. We don't know whether
the guy who made the valve was wrong or it
was installed wrong. But this is going to be a
nightmare for today, Tomorrow, Friday, and maybe till monday. So
we afked up. We're sorry, but the city's falling apart,
and here's a good example of it. Would you love
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to hear that guy come out and be honest the
city's falling apart and we have no control over it.
That would be great. But now they thank each other,
they pat each other on the back. Oh, you guys
are so great over DWP. Oh the mayor is great. Oh,
the council's great. Everybody's great. But nobody has any.
Speaker 6 (08:16):
Water, especially for our most vulnerable residence.
Speaker 5 (08:19):
The mayor is revisiting using the term angelina.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Oh I noticed that yes, yes, yes, yes, and they're
barely Angelino's out there.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
I mean, they're very close to Saugustin's out.
Speaker 6 (08:29):
There, especially for our most vulnerable residents and critical facilities.
Last night, Mayor Bass and I, as you mentioned, alongside
Los Angeles Fire Department leadership, coordinated to ensure a strong
proactive response to developing to this developing situation. In preparation,
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we have strategically pre deployed water tenders at local fire
stations to ensure that our first responders have the resources
they need should emergency calls arise. Additionally, I instructed LAPD
to increase patrols in the high fire severity zones throughout
the district.
Speaker 5 (09:09):
So you know, in light of this.
Speaker 6 (09:10):
Incident, it's essential that we stay ahead of any potential threats.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Yeah, you know what, there these people are just praying
that there's not a fire out there. They are praying
to God that there is no fire from DeSoto to
Balboa one to eighteen to those foothills because if there is,
guess what also isn't working the hydrants, the fire hydrants
they're not working as well, So they are not going
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to have an easy night sleep tonight.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
All right, we'll pick up more at this.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
This is a big, huge catastrophe in the Northwest Valley.
Welcome to Los Angeles, everybody. Hope you enjoy it.
Speaker 9 (09:51):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Can we continue with this.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Water outage in the North Sand Fernando Valley and it is.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
It's not good. It's not good.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
The water's out for a lot of people, thousands and
thousands of people from the one eighteen south that's the
south border to the Foothills Granada Hills area, you know,
Porter Ranch, and then from DeSoto to Balboa, all the
way up to the five Freeway. Okay, what does it mean?
No showers, no pool water. Sorry, I know a lot
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of people in pools there. You can't top it off.
There's no drinking water, there's no water for the dogs,
there's no water for the lawn, there's no water for anything.
And the fire hydrants are dry dry, So this could
be a potential catastrophe. I think everybody who lives in
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that neighborhood has to be on call tonight. If you
see a weirdo running around your neighborhood causing damage or
potentially you know, lighting fires, you've got to be proactive
because there are lunatics that live in southern California. The
valley has its share as well, and they they're everywhere.
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But you got to be proactive. I know the cops
are going to be out tonight, fire will be out tonight,
dwp'll be there. But you also have to make sure
you can't rely on anybody in this town. You have
to make sure you're driving up and down your streets
and you announced that if you see anything suspicious, you
make your voice heard tonight because this is gonna be
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an ugly situation for the next couple of days. They
may not get water until Monday. They're looking at Friday,
which would be great, but they also said maybe Monday,
maybe Monday, which is horrible.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
All right, let's get back to this.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
There's an extremely important, huge story in southern California, and
it just so happens happening right now in the North
San Fernando Valley without water. Are this the councilman, remember
talking about the water outage.
Speaker 6 (12:05):
Let me make this perfectly clear, and the attempt to
take advantage of this emergency will not be tolerated. We
are prepared and we will hold those people accountable. As
you've already heard, LADWP has established water distribution sites at
Holly Burnson Park in port A Ranch, O'melvanie Park in
Granada Hills, and at the intersection at Tampa and says Non.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
Okay, do you hear where you can get free water?
Free water? And I don't think they're going to limit you.
I think you can pull up and get as much
as you like. But here's where. Here are the three
areas and the three places you can get water tonight
to bathe, the drink and you give it to your dog.
Speaker 6 (12:43):
At Holly Burnson Park in port A Ranch, O'melvanie Park
in Granada Hills, and at the intersection at Tampa and
says Non. These are open today until seven pm to
get water seven pm.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
They should be open twenty four hours seven pm. Where
are people going that? There's hundreds of cars in line
right now. You're gonna give everybody water in an hour
and a half. It's not gonna happen, and they're gonna
be pissed. I'd stay open later if I were them,
I'd stay open until I don't know, maybe until the
emergency's over.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
How about that?
Speaker 6 (13:14):
Additionally, additionally, separate church in Port of Ranch is also
opening its doors to impacted residents to also offer water
and restrooms. If you or someone you know needs water,
I totally blew it.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
It's not just the fire hydrants. It's not just the
drinking water or water for your lawn.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
It's the toilets. No water for the toilets. This could
be grim by tonight. I think we all have to go.
If you live in that area, everyone's got to go
into the If it's yellow, let it mellow. If it's brown,
figure it out. I think that's the saying, isn't it
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Figure it the hell out?
Speaker 6 (14:04):
Yeah, Please don't wait to go now, or reach out
to my office and.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
We will do Was he talking about going to the bathroom?
What was it?
Speaker 6 (14:11):
If you are someone you know needs water, please don't
wait to go now, or reach out to my office
and we will do everything we can to assist. And
I just want to make sure everyone knows as.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
This okay, while we're watching this disaster, there's been a
complete groundstop of United flights. United flights have been grounded
and we're getting a picture of Los Angeles International Bellio's
on this case. We don't know if it's national, international,
or locally, but United Airlines if you're flying out of
lax On United Airlines, or perhaps if it's national, if
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you're going out of Burbank or Orange County. United Airlines
has a full stop right now. So if you're on
your way to the airport and you're unaware of this,
now you are. And another reason to keep.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
It on KFI. We've got two big stories going on.
We came back.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
We'll finish both of them, or we'll keep you updated
on both of them. The water outage up in Porta
Ranch Grenat Hills area, the North Valley from DeSoto to
Balboa to the Foothills to the one eighteen freeway. That's
a big story, and then a minor story unless you're
taking a flight, then it's a major one. An outage
of United Airlines and we came back. We'll tell you
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how big that is. Lots going on on a very
hot day in southern California. You need to keep it
on KFI.
Speaker 9 (15:30):
You're listening to Tim conwaytun you're on demand from KFI
Am sixty.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
Well, we've got the water outage up in the Northern Valley.
We'll get back to that, but we also have a
big story nationally here it's coming out of San Francisco,
but it affects everybody. United Airlines flights have been grounded
across the country today this evening because of a technology issue.
Somebody's computer went down. Flights out of San Francisco International
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in California halted. Also, it affects Houston, Texas, Denver, in Colorado, Chicago,
Ronald Reagan, everything due to technology issue. They're holding United
Airlines mainline flights at their departure airports, and we expect
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additional flight delays this evening as we work through this issue.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
Let's a quote from the company.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Quote safety is our top priority, and we work with
our customers to get them to their destination.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
Close quote.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
The company is also relying on to relying to users
or relining replying to users, I should say on social
media complaining about delays, so it says we're sorry for
any inconvenience caused. We are aware of the system error,
and our teams are working to restore things and have
you on your way. They apologize for the disruption, but
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it's a national maybe international, So if you're going to
you know Lai or Burbank, Long Beach, Orange County, Ontario,
and you're flying United. Chances are you ain't going anywhere
all right. Back to the water outage in the North Valley.
This is not good. This is not good at all.
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This could be a catastrophe and we're trying to avoid
one by letting everybody know keep your eyes open for weirdos.
This The press conference happened about half hour ago. Half
hour ago, and there's more information to get to you.
Speaker 6 (17:32):
I'm going to like to introduce our CEO and Chief Engineer,
Jennie Can Good afternoon.
Speaker 8 (17:39):
Thank you, council Member Lee, thank you and your boss
and all the city departments for your leadership and the
support during this incident response.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
I think this is one of the spokespeople for LEDWP.
Speaker 8 (17:51):
I also want to recognize our crews and our labor
partners and thank them for all their hard work. We
have been in this incident since yesterday afternoon and we
are working around the clock to make the repairs as
fast and as safely as possible. We know that putting
our customers first is our highest priority, is your highest priority,
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and we're taking this very seriously.
Speaker 5 (18:14):
So what are we doing now?
Speaker 2 (18:16):
That's the big question.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
That's the ten million, sixty four thousand dollars question.
Speaker 5 (18:21):
So what are we doing now?
Speaker 2 (18:22):
That's right, let's find out.
Speaker 5 (18:24):
So what are we doing now?
Speaker 8 (18:25):
We have crews are multiple locations and are working very
quickly and safely and looking at technology to make repairs
as fast as possible to move water into the part
of our system that has been impacted. We are taking
multiple ap process. Number one, we have a contractor on
site that is going to connect thousands of feet of
hosts and high velocity pumps, working with our crews to
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move water from a nearby metropolitan water district supply into
the fifty.
Speaker 5 (18:54):
Four inch truck lines supply in the area.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
Okay, that may or may not work, but they're trying
to skirt around the pipe that's broken right now, or
you know, the valve that's broken, and so they're going
to try to put thousands of feet or thousands of
yards of major hoses, not like the ones you use
at your house, but major hoses to try to get
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water around that so they can get it back to
you your toilets, your showers, your fire hydrants, your sink,
your pool, your bathtub, and your lawn. And that may
or may not work.
Speaker 8 (19:30):
There are on site and work has begun and they
expect to start pumping around six to seven pm this evening.
If they are successful, we may be able to restore
water service in the next twenty forty.
Speaker 5 (19:41):
Forty eight hours to the whole area.
Speaker 8 (19:43):
At the same time, our crews are working to remove
the valve that fail to restore water flow to the tank.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Okay, And there should be an investigation on why that
valve failed, whether it was improperly installed or it was
a it was a bad valve from the you know,
Southern California Valve company where they bought that from.
Speaker 8 (20:02):
The location of the valve is twenty four feet deep
and the repairs are very complex. They have been working
since last night and this morning. They found two oil pipelines,
active pipelines.
Speaker 5 (20:14):
A gas line, and lash boulders.
Speaker 8 (20:17):
That have complicated excavation efforts.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
Oh, what a nightmare. You got two active oil lines,
a gas line, and boulders surrounding this valve that they're
trying to replace.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
What a nightmare.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
And those guys are working out there, it's one hundred
degrees one hundred degrees and you got to be careful
of the two oil pipelines that are flying through there,
and I don't know why those aren't shut down. The
gas line that's pumping through there, and boulders and all
you need is one spark in good night, So God
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pray for these people that everybody's okay out there.
Speaker 8 (20:54):
Because we cannot use heavy equipment until those lines are clear.
We're working with the owners of those lines to clear
the pipeline so we can continue the excavation.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
Okay, So we're going to try to shut down the
oil lines, the two oil lines and the gas line
before they can bring in heavy equipment.
Speaker 8 (21:10):
Once the lines are clear, it will take us about
fourteen to sixteen hours to get the area shore up
so that we can start repairs. Because of the complexity
of this evolution, the permanent repairs to the pipeline could
extend over the weekend. We have a tremendous amount of resources.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
That's not a good sign.
Speaker 5 (21:30):
Extend over the weekend.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
It could extend over the weekend.
Speaker 5 (21:34):
Could extend over the weekend that.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
Usually means Monday.
Speaker 8 (21:38):
We have a tremendous amount of resources committed to this response,
and as one of the largest water utilities in the nation,
we have in house capabilities and can expedite this work
because we don't have to contract the workout, so we're
performing our own trenching, excavation and repairs and that it's
allowing us to move faster. Now, important message affected immediately.
(22:02):
For the customers located within the affected areas, we need
you to boil your water.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
This is very important. If you're in that area from
the one eighteen freeway north to the five Balboa on
the east and the Soto on the west, you have
to boil your water before you use it. It's very
important for.
Speaker 8 (22:21):
The customers located within the affected areas, we need you
to boil your water. After we lost pressure, we can
introduce contaminants into our distribution system. So even if you
have water in this zone, we ask you to boil
the water. If you're going to use it to drink,
cook make ice, prepare food, or brush your teeth. Please
(22:41):
do that until we tell you it's safe to do so.
Speaker 5 (22:44):
We are working with water.
Speaker 8 (22:46):
Quality teams to ensure that we bring the water quality
in the system as fast as possible and we can
lift the boil water notice.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
So this also means if you have a tank a
water tank heater water heater that that has to be
emptied before you use that as hot water because that
doesn't get the boiling temperature. And if you have an
ice maker, you got to empty out all your ice
because you don't know if that ice was made after
the water was contaminated.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
So you got a lot of work ahead of you.
And it's going to be a.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
Long couple days, long couple days, and we're going to
give you as much information as we can.
Speaker 9 (23:24):
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Speaker 1 (23:30):
We have a potential catastrophe in the Northern Valley and
it could happen. We hope it doesn't. But there's no
water to any part of that community. We're not hills
out there, port a ranch and it's Desto to Balboa,
the one eighteen to the foothills.
Speaker 7 (23:48):
A billion people.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
Yeah, with nine billion, it's up to nine billion people.
Now Bellio just had a great observation. Of course, it's
like to give her a credit for them. How about
all the restaurants that are in that area. Ooh, you
know they can't stay open?
Speaker 10 (24:03):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (24:03):
Are they going to be supplied with water as well?
Speaker 2 (24:05):
Probably?
Speaker 10 (24:06):
Not?
Speaker 1 (24:06):
Yeah, you know, but also other businesses, cleaners, you know,
any any business actually that most businesses use water.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
And not even to mention like what you had said
before about in homes, but bathrooms toilets.
Speaker 7 (24:18):
Yes, so even if they can't.
Speaker 3 (24:20):
Cook people, just people and going into the office to
work bathrooms.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
And what's going to scare the hell out of most
people are those fire the dry hydrants tonight until those
hydrants can be you know, filled again with water and reactivated.
A lot of sleepless nights.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
I guess I was maybe you can clarify from what
you had played earlier from the LEDWP rep was saying
that that there will be some water that is available,
but it needs to be boiled to be used anything
like that. So everybody will still have some access to water,
or there's certain areas that will have some access to water,
but that water will need to be boiled because that
would play a big difference in things.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
Yeah, from what I understand is there's no water available now,
but because that that valve was only pumping twenty percent
and they had to shut it down, that there was
some contaminants that got into that line, and so whenever
that line starts activated, again and you get your first
initial hit of water.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
I think that still has to be boiled.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
So so nobody has any water right now, right, No,
But at some point when this valve or whatever gets fixed,
the initial part of however long that time is going
to be, is going to be contaminated.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
Water right there, and the hose lines that they're going
to try to, you know, reroute the water around this
broken valve. Those those aren't I imagine those aren't approved
for you know, water that's safe to drink that those have.
Those have to be pumped out as well and cleaned
out as well. I would be careful with your water.
I'd boil everything, oh my god. Yeah, but you know,
but this is one of those cases Krozier where if
(25:51):
you have a hundred gallon tank water heater, you have
one hundred gallons worth of good water you can use.
Oh yeah, right, you can take that out a hose
pigott on most of these tanks, I think all of them,
and you can. I'm with a key with you know,
you can open that up or with a wrench or
a screwdriver, you can open that up and use that water,
(26:12):
you know, because I'm untouched.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
Yeah, and shut the you.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
Know, obviously shut the heater off, the heating element off,
and you have one hundred gallons worth of water that
you can use, you know, while the disaster is going on.
But we also have breaking news coming out of United
Airlines real quick, and then we'll get back to the water.
We've got a lot going on here. You gotta stay
with us. We got too much going on at breaking
new United Airlines.
Speaker 11 (26:33):
We have breaking news right now as we look live
at lax. United Airlines across the country on a ground stop.
That means no aircraft are going to be taking off
until they deal with a computer issue. The issue has
to do with their weight and balance computer system. There's
something wrong with the technology. It's not working, and that
is a critical system that determines whether an aircraft has
(26:54):
been properly loaded and balanced. An aircraft that is out
of balance and or improperly loaded is in real tries
and in real danger. They're not going to let them
take off until that happens. Until that's taken care of,
any aircraft that are in the air will stay in
the air and continue to their destinations. Regional carriers operated
by United are not affected. But these planes that you
see right now, probably not going anywhere until they get
(27:15):
that computer system fixed.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
Okay, that's an important part of this story. Regional airlines
that are not United.
Speaker 11 (27:21):
Any aircraft that are in the air, will stay in
the air and continue to their destination.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
Okay, that's important. If you're in the air, you're fine.
If you're listening to you know, you're on United Airlines
right now, and you're in the air, you're fine.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
You're fine.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
It's the flights that haven't taken off yet, and the
regional airlines are not affected.
Speaker 11 (27:37):
Regional carriers operated by United are not affected. But these
planes that you see right now probably not going anywhere
until they get that computer system fixed.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
There you go.
Speaker 7 (27:45):
Yeah, United is saying kind of like what you said.
I guess it's the same thing.
Speaker 3 (27:48):
They specifically said they're holding United mainline flights. I guess
that's the same thing as what they're saying is like
if it's one of their smaller, you know, regional flights
that's not affected.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
But well, I think they when they say re regenal,
I think they, you know, because all these airlines have
deals with other airlines right now, like if you book
a ticket on American Airlines to Denver or to Portland.
You might be on Alaska Airlines, yeah, and so they're unaffected.
But if your plane says United on it, I think
(28:19):
you're affected by yes, exactly. Yeah, and that's and I
don't know when they're going to fix that, but that's
going to be a long night for United passengers as well.
You might be spending the night at the airport. All right,
when we come back. What we could start now, this
is the press or that they had with the LA
Fire Department and the LA Police Department with that big
water outage in the northern part of the San Fernando
(28:40):
Valley and.
Speaker 5 (28:41):
Now LAFD chief running Villanova.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
All right, here's the chief, the chief of the Fire Department.
Speaker 10 (28:48):
Good afternoon all your Los Angeles City Fire Department has
taken proactive measures to ensure public safety response to the
disrupted water supplay affecting Porter Ranch and Granada Hill communities.
Kystmeistic Water System also supplies our fire hydrants to maintain
firefighting readiness, We've pre deployed additional resources strategically positioned in
(29:11):
the affected areas of Porter Ranch and Granada Hills. Two
three engine task forces totaling six engines, each carrying five
hundred gallons of water, two two LAFD water tenders, one
additional water tender from LA Park Rangers, and five water
tenders from DWT. We also have additional resources if needed
(29:35):
as far as our air resources. We have relay operations
to shuttle water in if need be. We have helitagers
on a contract. We have our five water dropping helicopters.
That heavy tanker drops twenty six hundred gallons of water.
We have operations of relay cycling from pools, so we're
(29:55):
ready and prepared. I also want to thank Mayor Bass,
Council Member Lee, other city leaders for their collaboration and
swift action towards this matter.
Speaker 5 (30:04):
Simply put, we are.
Speaker 10 (30:06):
Committed to protecting lives and property and remain fully prepared
to respond to any emergency during this disruption. Thank you.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
Okay, welcome back.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
We'll hear from the LA Police Department and the long
night that they're going to have patrolling that area and
looking for burglars, arsonists and other weirdos that LA has
to offer. And there's a lot of us. There's a
lot of weirdos. A lot of people in LA are
odd and you want to keep them out of that
area because the fire hydrants aren't working, and the toilets
(30:38):
and the sinks and the ice makers, all of it's out,
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