July 18, 2025 • 29 mins
It’s a somber start to Friday’s show as Tim Conway Jr. covers the devastating news of a tragic accidental explosion that has claimed the lives of three L.A. County Sheriff’s deputies — the worst departmental loss since 1857. KFI’s Michael Monks joins Tim to provide the latest updates on the heartbreaking incident, while Tim calls for political unity in the wake of the tragedy. Fox LA’s Elex Michaelson reports live from the scene as the procession for the fallen deputies is just about to be underway. Plus, Tim updates listeners on a sudden flash flood alert across L.A. as the city reels from a dark day.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's KFI AM six forty and you're listening to The
Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
It is The Conway Show. On a really, really depressing Friday.
We lost three beautiful, well trained professional deputies for the
LA Sheriff's Department. All three have passed away in an
explosion this morning, early this morning in the East Los
Angeles area. The LA Sheriff's Department has not had this
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loss this many guys or gals killed in a single
day since eighteen fifty seven. And a few history buffs
are out there, that is before Abraham Lincoln was president,
and that is an awful long time here with some
of the details. Who's been covering it all day long
is Michael Monks.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
How are you saying? I'm well.
Speaker 4 (00:51):
It has been a tough day here in Los Angeles.
Just a tragic story that emerged out of East LA
at this training facility where the Sheriff's Department keeps it's
Special Enforcement Bureau and the guys who specifically work on
this type of thing arson and explosives. Initially, when you
hear there was an explosion at a law enforcement training
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facility in this environment, your mind may drift to a
bad place, thinking, my goodness, there's a lot of bad
stuff happening, a lot of feelings and was this some
sort of attack? And it did quickly emerge that this
appeared to be some sort of tragic accident. We don't
know all the details yet. We did hear from Sheriff
Luna just before noon today. That's the last time they
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have spoken publicly on this. Here's a little bit of
what he had to say.
Speaker 5 (01:39):
We have and we will continue to honor federal judicial warrants.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
I'm sorry, stat that's the wrong sound.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
I didn't mean to send you that when that is
related to yesterday's press conference, and that is my mistake.
That was related to the immigration handover from the jails
that he talked about yesterday. What we heard from Sheriff
Luna was an emotional statement. He was nearing tears as
he talked about how difficult it was to talk to
the family members who.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
He had to tell that their loved ones are gone. Yeah,
I think I have that audio here. Let me play
a little of it here. I see what this is.
Speaker 5 (02:12):
This morning, shortly after seven thirty am, an explosion occurred
at our Special Enforcement Bureau Arson Explosives Detail facility located
in the one thousand block of Northeastern Avenue in East
Los Angeles, which is right behind this hill. Tragically, they
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were three sworn members who were fatally killed that were
assigned to our Arson Explosives Detail. No other department members
were injured or transported to any hospitals. This is unfortunately,
the largest loss of life for us as the La
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County Sheriff's Department since eighteen fifty seven. Between all three
sworn members, they had served our community proudly for seventy
four years. And that's amongst all three of them collectively
nineteen years, twenty two years, and thirty three years. And
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at this point we are not giving out their names.
One of the reasons it took me a while to
get out here. One of my priorities is the families
of our deputies, and I've met with several of them
this morning. There are still others who are on their way.
There are others who have not been notified. The last
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thing I want to do is them to turn on
the news and find out that way, So thank you
for respecting that. At this point, my second priority were
our employees. Our employees are hurting right now, members of
our Special Enforcement Bureau, other members of our Arson detailed
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as well Arson Explosives detail. In regards to the details
of what happened, I'm going to give you what I
have right now. There's a lot more that we don't
know than what we do know, but our intent is
to look at this from the very beginning and figure
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out what is it exactly that caused this tragic event. Currently,
our homicide detectives are unseen and they are investigating the
deaths that are being and we are being assisted by
the Federal Bureau of Investigation who are investigating the post
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blast portion of this incident. You have seen other vehicles
other than FBI. You've seen the ATF here. They will
be assisting the FBI as well. I am very grateful
to the bomb Squad of the Los Angeles Police Department,
and I mentioned Chief Jim McDonald standing behind me here.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
They immediately came out.
Speaker 5 (05:06):
To assist after this explosion occurred to render the devices safe,
and just so all of you know, they were just
rendered safe within the last minutes right before we walked
out here. So it was still an active scene. It
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wasn't stable and definitely a very active crime scene as
we go forward. At this time, we do not know
the cause of the explosion. However, this specific area has
been closed off due to the ongoing investigation. We believe
there is no threat to this community. Actually I could
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tell you there is no threat to this community. This
is an isolated incident and again no threats. We have
road closures Eastern Boulevard between Blatcherd Street and Lot of Drive.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
And again I do want to thank.
Speaker 5 (06:03):
All of our local partners, our local elected officials that
are here to help us get through this very difficult time.
We have our Psychological Services Bureau personnel on scene that
are assisting our employees at this moment, along with peer
counseling and chaplain services. And as I said earlier, I
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have met with two of the three families thus far,
and as you can imagine, those were extremely challenging conversations.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Yeah, you can hear his voice there at the end,
very emotional, and that was just before he said he
would start to take questions. So we did have to
take a moment to just take a breath after talking
about how challenging those conversations were. The memorials will begin
right away, Conway, right at about four thirty, a procession
is going to be held to transport the bodies of
these three LA County Sheriff's deputies who died in this
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explosion this morning in East Los Angeles. Will take them
to the Medical Examiner's office. So the plan is to
take them from this regional training center in East LA.
That procession will head west on Sheriff's Road, north on
Eastern Avenue, east on Ramona Road, west on the ten Freeway,
south on Soto Street, and west on Marengo Street. So
you may see them out there in the afternoon drive
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if you're in that direction. An LA County Board of
Supervisor's chair Catherine Barger, has directed that all county flags
be flown at half staff in their honor. These are veterans,
These are you know, nineteen years on the job, twenty
two years and thirty three years. And this is a
real huge blow to Sheriff's Department and all of the
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police people who give their lives every day. Their you know,
their their their Their safety is never secured there. You know,
they never guaranteed to go home at night to see
their families, and they do it, and they do it.
You know, ninety nine point nine percent do it beautifully,
they do it honorably, and they and these three have
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given the ultimate sacrifice. I heard two rumors. One it
might be a pipe bomb that they were cutting the
top up, the soft end of it off, and the
other one it could have been a hand gerdade.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
I think we're all anxious to get the official word
on what they were doing. What was this device that
they were transporting. As you just noted, these were not rookies.
Not only were these veteran members of the La County
Sheriff's Department, these are guys who specialize in handling that
type of material. Sheriff Luna said. You know, the word
elite gets thrown around a lot, but it does apply
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to these guys. That's why we are anxiously awaiting the
official update on what went wrong here.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Michael Monks is with us. That procession is going to
start in about fifteen minutes. We will carry that live
here on KFI. And I wonder, you know, in as
far as the District Attorney goes, whoever was in possession
of that material that went off and they had to
collect it from them and bring it to you know,
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the Sheriff's station to have it dismantled and rendered safe.
I wonder if they're going to be charged with three
counts of murder. We have to find out the circumstances.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
You heard the sheriff there say that this is such
a skilled team because they get lots of real world practice.
Eleven hundred calls a year. That's multiple times a day
on average, that you are called out because of some
suspicious package. Now they may not all turn out to
be active or potentially explosive, but they are called to many,
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many scenes over the course of the year, every single
day in fact, so where this came from, why somebody
may have had it in their possession before the sheriff's
got their hands on it. These are all details that
we want and need. The sheriff says, we can't do
that now, we don't even really know all of the details.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
And then we all have the humanity side. The you
know where they lived, how many kids they had, you know,
whether they're married, mom and dad. Maybe they've had a
history of law enforcement going back. Generally, we're gonna have
all that information for today. Can you stay with us?
Speaker 3 (10:02):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Sure, all right, Michael Monks is with us. That procession
will start at four thirty and about fifteen minutes from now.
Speaker 6 (10:08):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Monks on a personal and Michael Monks is with us
has been covering this all day beautifully. By the way,
where were you when you found out this happened? Because
this is a big deal. I found out when I
woke up instantly and I saw on one of the
three or four websites I go to for news it
said three deputies killed, but didn't say California or Los Angeles,
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and I was praying it was not Los Angeles and
was shocked when I you know, superficially, you look out
the window right now where we are here in Burbank,
and you see a beautiful Friday, And that's how it's
been all day outside of this tragedy. Of course, I'm
talking superficially, And so I've been filling in for an
hour all week on Gary and Shannon because Gary's away
and I'm filling in a shann And they do a
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podcast now for Saturdays, and think we recorded it this
morning and we were recording in the eight o'clock hour
when this came across. We'd wrap that up and suddenly
kick into high news gear. When what started as like.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
This is going to be an easy you know, we're
just going to gather the news that we can of
the day, coast out of here the way everybody else
does on a Friday at their workplace, and get out
of here and enjoy this day. But then this, this
came across fairly early in the workday and has obviously,
for rightful reasons, dominated our conversation here since.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
The reason why I ask is because you and I
you know, a mild connection. You know, we know some
of the deputies maybe interviewed the shaff for LAPD and
some of the officers there. But if your family, if
your mom or dad serves in the sheriff's department, and
you see the headline that three sheriffs were killed or
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three deputies were killed, you are now one hundred percent
on that story until you find out everything you can.
And that's why I think that the mental well being
of the kids who of police officers has been buried
for a long time. I think it has a tremendous
toll on those kids.
Speaker 4 (12:09):
My dad was a police officer, okay, and my mother
was a police dispatcher in Kentucky, in Covington, Kentucky.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
Oh so you know what, So you were a small
child and your dad would go off, yeah and work
all night, and you were wondering if he's coming home.
Speaker 4 (12:22):
And there were times where both of them would work
third shift. My brother and I would be at home
so the patrolling and mom would be working the dispatch line.
And there was an incident in nineteen ninety seven. So
I'm a senior in high school at this point, I think,
and a Covington officer, you know, Covington is connected to
Cincinnati by a bridge divided by the Ohio River, and
a Covington officer was pursuing a suspect on foot, and
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the suspect jumped over one of the railings and landed
on the walking path of the bridge, and the Covington
police officer trying to follow, but fell through the bridge
and into the river below and was ultimately lost. Oh
my god, And that call goes to the dispatch center.
Was a lengthy period where my mother, now I was
asleep during all this, where my mother did not know
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wish Comington officer.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
Toime, Oh my god, I get goosebumps.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
I tell you the kids, the wives and the husbands
of people who serve in that capacity. I think as again,
has been buried for long decades, if not centuries.
Speaker 4 (13:21):
You know, all of us, just by any twist of fate,
this could be our last day on earth. But there
are certain roles in our society where that is more
top of mind because of the nature of the work,
and this is one of them. And we're talking about
three guys who worked for the Sheriff's department for decades.
You add up, you know, it's almost seventy years between
thirty four years they have in this capacity, in that
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role of being experts not just in law enforcement, but
specifically in handling explosive devices and responding to those type
of calls. And to have it end like this is
just so shocking on your own property, on your own
La County Sheriff's departm and property. Probably a routine exercise
that we're going through. It's it's it's hard because again
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you think to the superficiality of today, a beautiful, beautiful
Friday here in southern California, and there are three families
that got the worst possible news.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
Today and that explosion must have been tremendous because those
guys are very well protected when they handle stuff like that.
I talked to a friend of mine who is a
retired deputy guy named Johnny Hansen. He was in the
bomb squad. He knows all three of these guys. The
one of the and we don't want to say the
name is yet, but the younger guy. He took him
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to the store to buy his first uniform when he
became a deputy with Dela Sheriff's Department. So it hits
these guys like a ton of bricks. It hits them
so hard, and it's and it's such a devastating time.
I wonder there's a lot of questions that come up.
You know, well, they have all three of the services
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at the same time. And does it help the other
two families when three families are going together and that
bond that they share, will that help them get over
it or does it hurt?
Speaker 3 (15:06):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (15:07):
They'll always remember, and you know, I mentioned that officer
back home who we lost in nineteen ninety seven. To
this day, every year, there is a blue ribbon tied
around a wreath that is placed on that spront on
the bridge because there are still active duty police officers
in that department who worked with them, and that's going
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to be the case here. If you think about a
twenty five year old sheriff's deputy that works with these guys,
he's got twenty twenty five years of work ahead of him.
He'll always remember this day.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
I would love to see and maybe this is asking
too much, but twenty years ago it had been a
slam dunk. I would love to see Governor Newsom there
sitting right next to Donald Trump, sitting next to Mike
you know, to Barack Obama and all these people from
all different walks of life, all different political views come
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in and sit in that front row to honor these guys.
It feels like that era is past. Yeah, I would,
It would go a long way if that could happen.
You know, I think a lot of people need that
right now. And it's just it's just, you know, it's
beyond words, the devastation that these three families are going through.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
We have to take a small break. Thank you, Monks.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
Michael Monks again Saturday seven and nine, and I'm sure
you'll be touching on this subject.
Speaker 4 (16:25):
We'll go over this again and all the other news
from the week.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
For sure, we'll have the procession.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
Alex Michael sim will come on with us, unless the
procession starts between now and four thirty five, and then
you'll be covering that on Channel eleven. But you're going
to see Channel two, four, five, seven, nine and eleven
and you're going to see that procession starting in about
three or four minutes if it's on time, roll through
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the streets of Los Angeles with taking these the bodies
of these three brave men who died this morning at
downtown Los Angeles to the Coroner's office.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
It's going to start.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
The bodies of the three are going to be who
died the explosion this morning, East Los Angeles.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
They're going to be taken.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
The procession will head west on the Sheriff's Road, north
on Eastern, east on Ramona, west on the tent So
they're going to get on the ten Freeway. So if
you're on the ten Freeway right now and it is
closed down for a while, you'll know for very good reason.
Then south on Soda Street and west on Moreno Street.
Speaker 6 (17:33):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
So devastating day here.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Three LA Sheriff's Department deputies were killed this morning, one
with nineteen years service, another one with twenty two, and
another one with thirty three years on the job. It's
the Sheriff's Enforcement Bureaum, and there are two stories that
are circular. It may have been a pipe bomb or
it may have been a hand grenade that they were
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trying to render save. It went off, and all three,
I believe, died immediately. And so it is an awful
day for Los Angeles. If you're driving around, there's just
a sort of a sadness and just a lot of
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a lot of feeling that, you know, three families are
going through the ultimate hurt and heartache right now, and
you can't imagine what they're going through. Alex Michael Sin
is with us from Channel eleven News. Elex, so, welcome
to the program. Sorry on such a horrible day like this,
But what are your feelings? Have you heard anything that
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we haven't heard?
Speaker 7 (18:51):
I have not, just a bit of a warning. We
are waiting in for the PRIs to begin where they
will go from from where east?
Speaker 3 (19:02):
All right, let me put him on.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Let's put Alex on hold. We'll get back to him.
He had a has a horrible connection. Maybe he's you know,
inside the studio there. Yeah, we're all waiting for the
procession to begin, and it will.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
It's it's scheduled.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
It was scheduled for four thirty, looks like it might
be closer to five, and a procession will be will
transport the bodies of three LA County Sheriff's deputies who
died in this explosion this morning in East Los Angeles
to the Medical Examiner's office. That's where they're going to
the Medical Examiner's office. I think I misspoke earlier from
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they're going from the Regional Training Center where they are,
and the procession will head west on Sheriff's Road, north
on Eastern east on Romona Road, and then they'll get
they'll be on the ten Freeway and they'll be on
the ten westbound south on Soto Street and then west
on Morango Street and they'll be going to the Medical
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Examiner's Office in East Los Angeles. So it's going to
be a fairly short percession. They'll stop traffic. I think
you'll see hundreds, maybe thousands of firemen, paramedics, first responders.
I imagine you'll see the public who supports the law
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enforcement here in California out on the streets or the overpasses,
and as soon as it begins, we'll carry that live
as well. So that's a story that we're working on.
We're also keeping an eye on the emergency alert system.
Speaker 3 (20:38):
They've warned us.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
The National Weather Service has issued a flash flood warning
for La County and I'm looking at it right now.
And if you look, if you're familiar with right Wood,
this storm, these two big cells are just north of
right Wood, between Palmdale and right Wood. It looks like
it is going to absolutely open up up there. So
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that's on the west end of that, and then on
the eastern end, it's east of Apple Valley where and
north of Big Bear Lake where there's going to be
a lot of rain there as well. And it's enough
rain to bring on the emergency alert system several times
during the days, so please be aware of that as well.
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All right, back with Alex Michaelson. Elex, A very sad day.
I imagine when something like this happens, everybody in the
newsroom stops what they're working on and just tries to
gather as much information as they can.
Speaker 7 (21:38):
Yeah, it is a sad day. I'm sorry for the
bad connection. I was sitting in our studio because we're
anticipating breaking in when this procession starts, and so I
may have to leave if that happens. But it is
a yeah. I mean, the sheriff said there are more
sheriff's deputies died today than any other day since eighteen
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fifty seven, which is really remarkable if you think about it.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
Well, I mean, if you say, you don't have to
be a history buff to know that that was before
Abraham Lincoln.
Speaker 7 (22:12):
Yeah, So, I mean it's that puts it into some
perspective of how rare something like this is and how
hard it is for this department too, even though it's
one of the largest departments in the world. You know,
it's still a family. And you could see it on
the faces of the deputies that were going in and
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out of that area today, and you will see it
on the faces of everybody that comes out. And I
sort of handed to law enforcement whenever there's a death
in that family, and everybody in law enforcement sees themselves
as kind of one big family. Everybody comes out and
it is so kind of beautiful the way that they
stand for their brothers and sisters and pay them respect,
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and the way that the community comes out too. Those
processions are always such an emotional thing, and we're about
to see one any minute.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
Now, you know.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
Speaking of that, that's actually a good point. You don't
get into the bomb squad or the you know, the
Sheriff's Enforcement Bureau without having to you know, network and
to and to make a lot of friends. And that's
what happens when you know, you go through training and
then you know, you socialize with the right people. They
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like you and they want you to work with that
with that unit because that unit might be together, you
might be with the same people for fifteen twenty years,
and they don't want somebody who stand offish and who
keeps themselves. So these are, in my opinion, in my
you know, untutored opinion, some of the most well liked
guys and gals in law enforcement.
Speaker 7 (23:46):
Yeah, and these guys have a tremendous amount of expertise
as well. So it's the big loss also just operationally
for the department when they need somebody and this sort
of thing. To not have to lose three different people
at this same time is awful.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
Yeah, it is terrible.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
And we're going to see the procession today and then
you start to wonder, you know, will the the service
include all three of them? Will there be three separate services?
And and if there is one big service. Uh, it's
not you know, unreasonable or impossible to think that it
would be something. Obviously the governor is going to be there,
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but maybe even the president and the vice president would
be out there as well, the head of the FBI.
And to get everybody you know, uh in the United
States who is in you know, top positions and authority
to all sit in the front row and pay respects
to these guys.
Speaker 7 (24:40):
That would be a nice thought.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
Uh.
Speaker 7 (24:42):
I wish we had better relations between the federal government
and California right now, but it would be nice if that,
if that happened.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
So the procession is going to start momentarily, and that's
going to go to the Medical Examiner's office. Is that
What is the reason for that? And why are they
why do they take people to there?
Speaker 7 (25:02):
That's the standard operating procedure. I mean, part of what
they do is they do an autopsy on their bodies
and so that's usually in these situations, that's what we've
seen over the years.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
Right, buddy, I know you've got to go. You got
to jump in and brought and cover this thing live.
We'll catch you next week. Really appreciate you coming on
and we'll talk to you next Friday.
Speaker 7 (25:28):
All right, thanks, thank you, sir.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
Appreciate it all right, Alex Michael said. You can hear
it in his voice as well. Always an upbeat guy,
you know, always doesn't take himself too seriously. And you
can hear the depression. You can certainly feel it here
at KFI, and when in talking to us Deefush and Krozier,
Bellio and and Angel, there's just something in the air
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that that really is is hard to you know, to explain,
and the sadness. And then you put yourself in the
position of the wives, of the mom and dads, the parents,
the children of course of these three deputies, and you
think of what they have to go through on what
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should have been a great Friday afternoon with the Orange
County Fair opening, del Mar opening. It should have been
a great summer afternoon where everybody who's in a great mood,
and something like this just knocks you off your feet.
We're live on KFI AM six forty. We'll bring that
procession to you soon it begins.
Speaker 6 (26:36):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
KFI AM six forty. It is The Conway Show. We're
waiting for the procession of these three brave men who
lost their lives this morning, three deputies from the La
Sheriff's Department. And as soon as that comes on TV,
you'll carry that for you live. But let me give
you a timeline of what happened today. This is basically
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a timeline of what happened from this morning up until
about three o'clock. Then we have another update for you here.
But if you're just tuning in and maybe just getting
off a plane, you landed, lax, you.
Speaker 3 (27:15):
Got your car.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
Three brave, beautiful La Sheriff's Department deputies were killed this
morning in an explosion. And I believe they said they're
part of the Sheriff's Enforcement Bureau.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
It happened very quickly.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
They have a lot of experience seventy four years combined
experience with these three deputies. Nineteen years for one of
the deputies, twenty two and thirty three for the other two.
There's two sort of rumors going around that I spoke
to some police officers today, one that it might be
a pipe bomb, that they were trying to cut the
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top off the soft end open, and another one it
might have been a hand grenade. It sounds like these
three deputies died instantly in this explosion. So here's the
timeline of what has happened here in southern California. As
a matter of fact, let me hold it. Let me
hold it until we come back, because it's about two
minutes long, and I don't want to cut it short.
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So we will come back and tell you the timeline
and also pick up the procession as well. But that
also may be something you'll want to see or participate in,
and you can.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
And when we can back, we'll give you the streets.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
It'll be on the ten Freeway and coming westbound on
the ten Freeway towards downtown downtown Los Angeles to the
Medical Examiner's office.
Speaker 3 (28:37):
So very sad day.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
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Speaker 2 (00:08):
It is The Conway Show. On a really, really depressing Friday.
We lost three beautiful, well trained professional deputies for the
LA Sheriff's Department. All three have passed away in an
explosion this morning, early this morning in the East Los
Angeles area. The LA Sheriff's Department has not had this
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loss this many guys or gals killed in a single
day since eighteen fifty seven. And a few history buffs
are out there, that is before Abraham Lincoln was president,
and that is an awful long time here with some
of the details. Who's been covering it all day long
is Michael Monks.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
How are you saying? I'm well.
Speaker 4 (00:51):
It has been a tough day here in Los Angeles.
Just a tragic story that emerged out of East LA
at this training facility where the Sheriff's Department keeps it's
Special Enforcement Bureau and the guys who specifically work on
this type of thing arson and explosives. Initially, when you
hear there was an explosion at a law enforcement training
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facility in this environment, your mind may drift to a
bad place, thinking, my goodness, there's a lot of bad
stuff happening, a lot of feelings and was this some
sort of attack? And it did quickly emerge that this
appeared to be some sort of tragic accident. We don't
know all the details yet. We did hear from Sheriff
Luna just before noon today. That's the last time they
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have spoken publicly on this. Here's a little bit of
what he had to say.
Speaker 5 (01:39):
We have and we will continue to honor federal judicial warrants.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
I'm sorry, stat that's the wrong sound.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
I didn't mean to send you that when that is
related to yesterday's press conference, and that is my mistake.
That was related to the immigration handover from the jails
that he talked about yesterday. What we heard from Sheriff
Luna was an emotional statement. He was nearing tears as
he talked about how difficult it was to talk to
the family members who.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
He had to tell that their loved ones are gone. Yeah,
I think I have that audio here. Let me play
a little of it here. I see what this is.
Speaker 5 (02:12):
This morning, shortly after seven thirty am, an explosion occurred
at our Special Enforcement Bureau Arson Explosives Detail facility located
in the one thousand block of Northeastern Avenue in East
Los Angeles, which is right behind this hill. Tragically, they
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were three sworn members who were fatally killed that were
assigned to our Arson Explosives Detail. No other department members
were injured or transported to any hospitals. This is unfortunately,
the largest loss of life for us as the La
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County Sheriff's Department since eighteen fifty seven. Between all three
sworn members, they had served our community proudly for seventy
four years. And that's amongst all three of them collectively
nineteen years, twenty two years, and thirty three years. And
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at this point we are not giving out their names.
One of the reasons it took me a while to
get out here. One of my priorities is the families
of our deputies, and I've met with several of them
this morning. There are still others who are on their way.
There are others who have not been notified. The last
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thing I want to do is them to turn on
the news and find out that way, So thank you
for respecting that. At this point, my second priority were
our employees. Our employees are hurting right now, members of
our Special Enforcement Bureau, other members of our Arson detailed
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as well Arson Explosives detail. In regards to the details
of what happened, I'm going to give you what I
have right now. There's a lot more that we don't
know than what we do know, but our intent is
to look at this from the very beginning and figure
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out what is it exactly that caused this tragic event. Currently,
our homicide detectives are unseen and they are investigating the
deaths that are being and we are being assisted by
the Federal Bureau of Investigation who are investigating the post
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blast portion of this incident. You have seen other vehicles
other than FBI. You've seen the ATF here. They will
be assisting the FBI as well. I am very grateful
to the bomb Squad of the Los Angeles Police Department,
and I mentioned Chief Jim McDonald standing behind me here.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
They immediately came out.
Speaker 5 (05:06):
To assist after this explosion occurred to render the devices safe,
and just so all of you know, they were just
rendered safe within the last minutes right before we walked
out here. So it was still an active scene. It
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wasn't stable and definitely a very active crime scene as
we go forward. At this time, we do not know
the cause of the explosion. However, this specific area has
been closed off due to the ongoing investigation. We believe
there is no threat to this community. Actually I could
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tell you there is no threat to this community. This
is an isolated incident and again no threats. We have
road closures Eastern Boulevard between Blatcherd Street and Lot of Drive.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
And again I do want to thank.
Speaker 5 (06:03):
All of our local partners, our local elected officials that
are here to help us get through this very difficult time.
We have our Psychological Services Bureau personnel on scene that
are assisting our employees at this moment, along with peer
counseling and chaplain services. And as I said earlier, I
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have met with two of the three families thus far,
and as you can imagine, those were extremely challenging conversations.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Yeah, you can hear his voice there at the end,
very emotional, and that was just before he said he
would start to take questions. So we did have to
take a moment to just take a breath after talking
about how challenging those conversations were. The memorials will begin
right away, Conway, right at about four thirty, a procession
is going to be held to transport the bodies of
these three LA County Sheriff's deputies who died in this
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explosion this morning in East Los Angeles. Will take them
to the Medical Examiner's office. So the plan is to
take them from this regional training center in East LA.
That procession will head west on Sheriff's Road, north on
Eastern Avenue, east on Ramona Road, west on the ten Freeway,
south on Soto Street, and west on Marengo Street. So
you may see them out there in the afternoon drive
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if you're in that direction. An LA County Board of
Supervisor's chair Catherine Barger, has directed that all county flags
be flown at half staff in their honor. These are veterans,
These are you know, nineteen years on the job, twenty
two years and thirty three years. And this is a
real huge blow to Sheriff's Department and all of the
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police people who give their lives every day. Their you know,
their their their Their safety is never secured there. You know,
they never guaranteed to go home at night to see
their families, and they do it, and they do it.
You know, ninety nine point nine percent do it beautifully,
they do it honorably, and they and these three have
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given the ultimate sacrifice. I heard two rumors. One it
might be a pipe bomb that they were cutting the
top up, the soft end of it off, and the
other one it could have been a hand gerdade.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
I think we're all anxious to get the official word
on what they were doing. What was this device that
they were transporting. As you just noted, these were not rookies.
Not only were these veteran members of the La County
Sheriff's Department, these are guys who specialize in handling that
type of material. Sheriff Luna said. You know, the word
elite gets thrown around a lot, but it does apply
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to these guys. That's why we are anxiously awaiting the
official update on what went wrong here.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Michael Monks is with us. That procession is going to
start in about fifteen minutes. We will carry that live
here on KFI. And I wonder, you know, in as
far as the District Attorney goes, whoever was in possession
of that material that went off and they had to
collect it from them and bring it to you know,
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the Sheriff's station to have it dismantled and rendered safe.
I wonder if they're going to be charged with three
counts of murder. We have to find out the circumstances.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
You heard the sheriff there say that this is such
a skilled team because they get lots of real world practice.
Eleven hundred calls a year. That's multiple times a day
on average, that you are called out because of some
suspicious package. Now they may not all turn out to
be active or potentially explosive, but they are called to many,
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many scenes over the course of the year, every single
day in fact, so where this came from, why somebody
may have had it in their possession before the sheriff's
got their hands on it. These are all details that
we want and need. The sheriff says, we can't do
that now, we don't even really know all of the details.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
And then we all have the humanity side. The you
know where they lived, how many kids they had, you know,
whether they're married, mom and dad. Maybe they've had a
history of law enforcement going back. Generally, we're gonna have
all that information for today. Can you stay with us?
Speaker 3 (10:02):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Sure, all right, Michael Monks is with us. That procession
will start at four thirty and about fifteen minutes from now.
Speaker 6 (10:08):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Monks on a personal and Michael Monks is with us
has been covering this all day beautifully. By the way,
where were you when you found out this happened? Because
this is a big deal. I found out when I
woke up instantly and I saw on one of the
three or four websites I go to for news it
said three deputies killed, but didn't say California or Los Angeles,
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and I was praying it was not Los Angeles and
was shocked when I you know, superficially, you look out
the window right now where we are here in Burbank,
and you see a beautiful Friday, And that's how it's
been all day outside of this tragedy. Of course, I'm
talking superficially, And so I've been filling in for an
hour all week on Gary and Shannon because Gary's away
and I'm filling in a shann And they do a
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podcast now for Saturdays, and think we recorded it this
morning and we were recording in the eight o'clock hour
when this came across. We'd wrap that up and suddenly
kick into high news gear. When what started as like.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
This is going to be an easy you know, we're
just going to gather the news that we can of
the day, coast out of here the way everybody else
does on a Friday at their workplace, and get out
of here and enjoy this day. But then this, this
came across fairly early in the workday and has obviously,
for rightful reasons, dominated our conversation here since.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
The reason why I ask is because you and I
you know, a mild connection. You know, we know some
of the deputies maybe interviewed the shaff for LAPD and
some of the officers there. But if your family, if
your mom or dad serves in the sheriff's department, and
you see the headline that three sheriffs were killed or
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three deputies were killed, you are now one hundred percent
on that story until you find out everything you can.
And that's why I think that the mental well being
of the kids who of police officers has been buried
for a long time. I think it has a tremendous
toll on those kids.
Speaker 4 (12:09):
My dad was a police officer, okay, and my mother
was a police dispatcher in Kentucky, in Covington, Kentucky.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
Oh so you know what, So you were a small
child and your dad would go off, yeah and work
all night, and you were wondering if he's coming home.
Speaker 4 (12:22):
And there were times where both of them would work
third shift. My brother and I would be at home
so the patrolling and mom would be working the dispatch line.
And there was an incident in nineteen ninety seven. So
I'm a senior in high school at this point, I think,
and a Covington officer, you know, Covington is connected to
Cincinnati by a bridge divided by the Ohio River, and
a Covington officer was pursuing a suspect on foot, and
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the suspect jumped over one of the railings and landed
on the walking path of the bridge, and the Covington
police officer trying to follow, but fell through the bridge
and into the river below and was ultimately lost. Oh
my god, And that call goes to the dispatch center.
Was a lengthy period where my mother, now I was
asleep during all this, where my mother did not know
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wish Comington officer.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
Toime, Oh my god, I get goosebumps.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
I tell you the kids, the wives and the husbands
of people who serve in that capacity. I think as again,
has been buried for long decades, if not centuries.
Speaker 4 (13:21):
You know, all of us, just by any twist of fate,
this could be our last day on earth. But there
are certain roles in our society where that is more
top of mind because of the nature of the work,
and this is one of them. And we're talking about
three guys who worked for the Sheriff's department for decades.
You add up, you know, it's almost seventy years between
thirty four years they have in this capacity, in that
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role of being experts not just in law enforcement, but
specifically in handling explosive devices and responding to those type
of calls. And to have it end like this is
just so shocking on your own property, on your own
La County Sheriff's departm and property. Probably a routine exercise
that we're going through. It's it's it's hard because again
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you think to the superficiality of today, a beautiful, beautiful
Friday here in southern California, and there are three families
that got the worst possible news.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
Today and that explosion must have been tremendous because those
guys are very well protected when they handle stuff like that.
I talked to a friend of mine who is a
retired deputy guy named Johnny Hansen. He was in the
bomb squad. He knows all three of these guys. The
one of the and we don't want to say the
name is yet, but the younger guy. He took him
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to the store to buy his first uniform when he
became a deputy with Dela Sheriff's Department. So it hits
these guys like a ton of bricks. It hits them
so hard, and it's and it's such a devastating time.
I wonder there's a lot of questions that come up.
You know, well, they have all three of the services
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at the same time. And does it help the other
two families when three families are going together and that
bond that they share, will that help them get over
it or does it hurt?
Speaker 3 (15:06):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (15:07):
They'll always remember, and you know, I mentioned that officer
back home who we lost in nineteen ninety seven. To
this day, every year, there is a blue ribbon tied
around a wreath that is placed on that spront on
the bridge because there are still active duty police officers
in that department who worked with them, and that's going
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to be the case here. If you think about a
twenty five year old sheriff's deputy that works with these guys,
he's got twenty twenty five years of work ahead of him.
He'll always remember this day.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
I would love to see and maybe this is asking
too much, but twenty years ago it had been a
slam dunk. I would love to see Governor Newsom there
sitting right next to Donald Trump, sitting next to Mike
you know, to Barack Obama and all these people from
all different walks of life, all different political views come
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in and sit in that front row to honor these guys.
It feels like that era is past. Yeah, I would,
It would go a long way if that could happen.
You know, I think a lot of people need that
right now. And it's just it's just, you know, it's
beyond words, the devastation that these three families are going through.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
We have to take a small break. Thank you, Monks.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
Michael Monks again Saturday seven and nine, and I'm sure
you'll be touching on this subject.
Speaker 4 (16:25):
We'll go over this again and all the other news
from the week.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
For sure, we'll have the procession.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
Alex Michael sim will come on with us, unless the
procession starts between now and four thirty five, and then
you'll be covering that on Channel eleven. But you're going
to see Channel two, four, five, seven, nine and eleven
and you're going to see that procession starting in about
three or four minutes if it's on time, roll through
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the streets of Los Angeles with taking these the bodies
of these three brave men who died this morning at
downtown Los Angeles to the Coroner's office.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
It's going to start.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
The bodies of the three are going to be who
died the explosion this morning, East Los Angeles.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
They're going to be taken.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
The procession will head west on the Sheriff's Road, north
on Eastern, east on Ramona, west on the tent So
they're going to get on the ten Freeway. So if
you're on the ten Freeway right now and it is
closed down for a while, you'll know for very good reason.
Then south on Soda Street and west on Moreno Street.
Speaker 6 (17:33):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
So devastating day here.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Three LA Sheriff's Department deputies were killed this morning, one
with nineteen years service, another one with twenty two, and
another one with thirty three years on the job. It's
the Sheriff's Enforcement Bureaum, and there are two stories that
are circular. It may have been a pipe bomb or
it may have been a hand grenade that they were
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trying to render save. It went off, and all three,
I believe, died immediately. And so it is an awful
day for Los Angeles. If you're driving around, there's just
a sort of a sadness and just a lot of
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a lot of feeling that, you know, three families are
going through the ultimate hurt and heartache right now, and
you can't imagine what they're going through. Alex Michael Sin
is with us from Channel eleven News. Elex, so, welcome
to the program. Sorry on such a horrible day like this,
But what are your feelings? Have you heard anything that
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we haven't heard?
Speaker 7 (18:51):
I have not, just a bit of a warning. We
are waiting in for the PRIs to begin where they
will go from from where east?
Speaker 3 (19:02):
All right, let me put him on.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Let's put Alex on hold. We'll get back to him.
He had a has a horrible connection. Maybe he's you know,
inside the studio there. Yeah, we're all waiting for the
procession to begin, and it will.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
It's it's scheduled.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
It was scheduled for four thirty, looks like it might
be closer to five, and a procession will be will
transport the bodies of three LA County Sheriff's deputies who
died in this explosion this morning in East Los Angeles
to the Medical Examiner's office. That's where they're going to
the Medical Examiner's office. I think I misspoke earlier from
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they're going from the Regional Training Center where they are,
and the procession will head west on Sheriff's Road, north
on Eastern east on Romona Road, and then they'll get
they'll be on the ten Freeway and they'll be on
the ten westbound south on Soto Street and then west
on Morango Street and they'll be going to the Medical
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Examiner's Office in East Los Angeles. So it's going to
be a fairly short percession. They'll stop traffic. I think
you'll see hundreds, maybe thousands of firemen, paramedics, first responders.
I imagine you'll see the public who supports the law
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enforcement here in California out on the streets or the overpasses,
and as soon as it begins, we'll carry that live
as well. So that's a story that we're working on.
We're also keeping an eye on the emergency alert system.
Speaker 3 (20:38):
They've warned us.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
The National Weather Service has issued a flash flood warning
for La County and I'm looking at it right now.
And if you look, if you're familiar with right Wood,
this storm, these two big cells are just north of
right Wood, between Palmdale and right Wood. It looks like
it is going to absolutely open up up there. So
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that's on the west end of that, and then on
the eastern end, it's east of Apple Valley where and
north of Big Bear Lake where there's going to be
a lot of rain there as well. And it's enough
rain to bring on the emergency alert system several times
during the days, so please be aware of that as well.
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All right, back with Alex Michaelson. Elex, A very sad day.
I imagine when something like this happens, everybody in the
newsroom stops what they're working on and just tries to
gather as much information as they can.
Speaker 7 (21:38):
Yeah, it is a sad day. I'm sorry for the
bad connection. I was sitting in our studio because we're
anticipating breaking in when this procession starts, and so I
may have to leave if that happens. But it is
a yeah. I mean, the sheriff said there are more
sheriff's deputies died today than any other day since eighteen
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fifty seven, which is really remarkable if you think about it.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
Well, I mean, if you say, you don't have to
be a history buff to know that that was before
Abraham Lincoln.
Speaker 7 (22:12):
Yeah, So, I mean it's that puts it into some
perspective of how rare something like this is and how
hard it is for this department too, even though it's
one of the largest departments in the world. You know,
it's still a family. And you could see it on
the faces of the deputies that were going in and
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out of that area today, and you will see it
on the faces of everybody that comes out. And I
sort of handed to law enforcement whenever there's a death
in that family, and everybody in law enforcement sees themselves
as kind of one big family. Everybody comes out and
it is so kind of beautiful the way that they
stand for their brothers and sisters and pay them respect,
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and the way that the community comes out too. Those
processions are always such an emotional thing, and we're about
to see one any minute.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
Now, you know.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
Speaking of that, that's actually a good point. You don't
get into the bomb squad or the you know, the
Sheriff's Enforcement Bureau without having to you know, network and
to and to make a lot of friends. And that's
what happens when you know, you go through training and
then you know, you socialize with the right people. They
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like you and they want you to work with that
with that unit because that unit might be together, you
might be with the same people for fifteen twenty years,
and they don't want somebody who stand offish and who
keeps themselves. So these are, in my opinion, in my
you know, untutored opinion, some of the most well liked
guys and gals in law enforcement.
Speaker 7 (23:46):
Yeah, and these guys have a tremendous amount of expertise
as well. So it's the big loss also just operationally
for the department when they need somebody and this sort
of thing. To not have to lose three different people
at this same time is awful.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
Yeah, it is terrible.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
And we're going to see the procession today and then
you start to wonder, you know, will the the service
include all three of them? Will there be three separate services?
And and if there is one big service. Uh, it's
not you know, unreasonable or impossible to think that it
would be something. Obviously the governor is going to be there,
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but maybe even the president and the vice president would
be out there as well, the head of the FBI.
And to get everybody you know, uh in the United
States who is in you know, top positions and authority
to all sit in the front row and pay respects
to these guys.
Speaker 7 (24:40):
That would be a nice thought.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
Uh.
Speaker 7 (24:42):
I wish we had better relations between the federal government
and California right now, but it would be nice if that,
if that happened.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
So the procession is going to start momentarily, and that's
going to go to the Medical Examiner's office. Is that
What is the reason for that? And why are they
why do they take people to there?
Speaker 7 (25:02):
That's the standard operating procedure. I mean, part of what
they do is they do an autopsy on their bodies
and so that's usually in these situations, that's what we've
seen over the years.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
Right, buddy, I know you've got to go. You got
to jump in and brought and cover this thing live.
We'll catch you next week. Really appreciate you coming on
and we'll talk to you next Friday.
Speaker 7 (25:28):
All right, thanks, thank you, sir.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
Appreciate it all right, Alex Michael said. You can hear
it in his voice as well. Always an upbeat guy,
you know, always doesn't take himself too seriously. And you
can hear the depression. You can certainly feel it here
at KFI, and when in talking to us Deefush and Krozier,
Bellio and and Angel, there's just something in the air
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that that really is is hard to you know, to explain,
and the sadness. And then you put yourself in the
position of the wives, of the mom and dads, the parents,
the children of course of these three deputies, and you
think of what they have to go through on what
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should have been a great Friday afternoon with the Orange
County Fair opening, del Mar opening. It should have been
a great summer afternoon where everybody who's in a great mood,
and something like this just knocks you off your feet.
We're live on KFI AM six forty. We'll bring that
procession to you soon it begins.
Speaker 6 (26:36):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
KFI AM six forty. It is The Conway Show. We're
waiting for the procession of these three brave men who
lost their lives this morning, three deputies from the La
Sheriff's Department. And as soon as that comes on TV,
you'll carry that for you live. But let me give
you a timeline of what happened today. This is basically
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a timeline of what happened from this morning up until
about three o'clock. Then we have another update for you here.
But if you're just tuning in and maybe just getting
off a plane, you landed, lax, you.
Speaker 3 (27:15):
Got your car.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
Three brave, beautiful La Sheriff's Department deputies were killed this
morning in an explosion. And I believe they said they're
part of the Sheriff's Enforcement Bureau.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
It happened very quickly.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
They have a lot of experience seventy four years combined
experience with these three deputies. Nineteen years for one of
the deputies, twenty two and thirty three for the other two.
There's two sort of rumors going around that I spoke
to some police officers today, one that it might be
a pipe bomb, that they were trying to cut the
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top off the soft end open, and another one it
might have been a hand grenade. It sounds like these
three deputies died instantly in this explosion. So here's the
timeline of what has happened here in southern California. As
a matter of fact, let me hold it. Let me
hold it until we come back, because it's about two
minutes long, and I don't want to cut it short.
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So we will come back and tell you the timeline
and also pick up the procession as well. But that
also may be something you'll want to see or participate in,
and you can.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
And when we can back, we'll give you the streets.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
It'll be on the ten Freeway and coming westbound on
the ten Freeway towards downtown downtown Los Angeles to the
Medical Examiner's office.
Speaker 3 (28:37):
So very sad day.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
We'll give you all the details and continue to give
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