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We run it on Friday's eight 10 00:00:28,040 --> 00:00:31,360 Speaker 2: seven seven Moist eighty six, eight seven seven Moist eighty six. 11 00:00:31,880 --> 00:00:32,280 Speaker 1: Call in. 12 00:00:33,200 --> 00:00:36,680 Speaker 2: We'll record your rants and play them back at the 13 00:00:36,760 --> 00:00:38,559 Speaker 2: end of the week. You could also use the talkback 14 00:00:38,600 --> 00:00:40,199 Speaker 2: feature on the iHeartRadio app. 15 00:00:40,240 --> 00:00:44,040 Speaker 1: All right, let's get to business. Debra, welcome back. Hello. 16 00:00:44,120 --> 00:00:46,200 Speaker 2: People thought you had gotten picked up by the wind 17 00:00:46,200 --> 00:00:46,880 Speaker 2: and blow away. 18 00:00:47,159 --> 00:00:47,919 Speaker 3: I almost did. 19 00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:51,760 Speaker 2: John, this is you've had your own issues up in 20 00:00:51,800 --> 00:00:53,160 Speaker 2: the hills as well. 21 00:00:54,280 --> 00:00:55,120 Speaker 1: I want to start. 22 00:00:55,280 --> 00:00:57,320 Speaker 2: First of all, I'll tell you that Michael Schellenberger is 23 00:00:57,320 --> 00:00:59,360 Speaker 2: going to be on the phone with us in an hour. 24 00:00:59,440 --> 00:01:03,280 Speaker 2: Michael shell is one of the best writers out there 25 00:01:03,360 --> 00:01:08,600 Speaker 2: covering what's going on in uh civil with the decline 26 00:01:08,600 --> 00:01:11,679 Speaker 2: of our civilization and society. We've had him on a 27 00:01:11,760 --> 00:01:16,119 Speaker 2: number of times before, and he tells the truth. And 28 00:01:16,959 --> 00:01:22,240 Speaker 2: he's got a fascinating story today on his website, Public News. 29 00:01:23,440 --> 00:01:25,319 Speaker 2: I will get into a bit of it in the 30 00:01:25,360 --> 00:01:28,360 Speaker 2: next segment just to set it up, but you must 31 00:01:28,400 --> 00:01:32,080 Speaker 2: be here at two o'clock, all right. He has fascinating 32 00:01:32,120 --> 00:01:37,959 Speaker 2: information and a he's got a rational, logical, common sense 33 00:01:38,000 --> 00:01:41,200 Speaker 2: point of view and tells the truth about what's actually happening. 34 00:01:41,600 --> 00:01:45,640 Speaker 2: He is my favorite writer. And I read everything I pay. 35 00:01:46,920 --> 00:01:50,000 Speaker 2: I have a subscription. I don't like subscriptions. I try 36 00:01:50,000 --> 00:01:53,360 Speaker 2: not to subscribe to anything if possible, But for him, 37 00:01:54,320 --> 00:01:56,640 Speaker 2: I'd like to read everything because because and he's right, 38 00:01:56,720 --> 00:02:00,640 Speaker 2: he's absolutely right. I'm totally in sync with what he's 39 00:02:00,960 --> 00:02:08,840 Speaker 2: thinking and seeing. Let's start though with they. You may 40 00:02:08,880 --> 00:02:12,000 Speaker 2: have heard that the La Fire Chief, Kristin Crowley had 41 00:02:12,040 --> 00:02:16,400 Speaker 2: a memo telling Karen Bass that the fire department is 42 00:02:16,560 --> 00:02:21,560 Speaker 2: way underfunded. You know, there's been this dispute. Bass cut 43 00:02:21,600 --> 00:02:26,280 Speaker 2: the funding coming into this fiscal year, and then people said, well, 44 00:02:26,320 --> 00:02:29,960 Speaker 2: that's misleading because actually later on they added more money 45 00:02:29,960 --> 00:02:36,880 Speaker 2: and it went to salaries. Boy, are you missing the point? 46 00:02:37,360 --> 00:02:43,320 Speaker 2: The La Fire department is wildly, wildly catastrophically underfunded and 47 00:02:43,480 --> 00:02:49,200 Speaker 2: has been four years. And Kristin Crowley put out a 48 00:02:49,240 --> 00:02:53,320 Speaker 2: memo on this to Karen Bass. And this memo was 49 00:02:53,440 --> 00:02:56,200 Speaker 2: on a city website. The whole world could see it. 50 00:02:57,000 --> 00:03:01,840 Speaker 2: And then, after all the controversy last week, Karen Bass 51 00:03:02,320 --> 00:03:09,000 Speaker 2: had it erased from the internet. The memo disappeared, but 52 00:03:09,120 --> 00:03:13,480 Speaker 2: obviously there are still screenshots and records of it. I 53 00:03:13,480 --> 00:03:16,040 Speaker 2: got a new story on it from the Freebeacon dot 54 00:03:16,080 --> 00:03:23,160 Speaker 2: com and Crowley warned Bass in November that her department 55 00:03:23,480 --> 00:03:26,480 Speaker 2: had half as many firefighters as it needed. 56 00:03:26,840 --> 00:03:27,200 Speaker 1: Half. 57 00:03:30,440 --> 00:03:33,399 Speaker 2: While everyone's arguing over whether the budget was cut by 58 00:03:33,680 --> 00:03:37,600 Speaker 2: this percent or that percent, ten million dollars or twenty 59 00:03:37,600 --> 00:03:41,680 Speaker 2: million dollars or they added fifty million dollars, it doesn't matter. 60 00:03:42,400 --> 00:03:46,480 Speaker 2: It's half the size that it should be. When the 61 00:03:46,480 --> 00:03:51,880 Speaker 2: wildfire struck, Bass pulled Crowley's memo from its website. Why 62 00:03:51,920 --> 00:03:55,320 Speaker 2: would they do that because it's an indictment of Karen 63 00:03:55,360 --> 00:04:04,720 Speaker 2: Bass and are incredibly stupid policy. Here's what Crowley wrote. 64 00:04:04,840 --> 00:04:07,600 Speaker 2: She wrote it to the five City Commissioners, a five 65 00:04:07,640 --> 00:04:12,200 Speaker 2: person board appointed by Bass, and the messenger was supposed 66 00:04:12,200 --> 00:04:15,440 Speaker 2: to go to Bass and the city council. City Council 67 00:04:15,480 --> 00:04:19,520 Speaker 2: should be bull dozed and pushed into the sea. Crowley 68 00:04:19,560 --> 00:04:22,440 Speaker 2: said that the fire department size had not increased in 69 00:04:22,640 --> 00:04:28,920 Speaker 2: decades despite significant population growth. Crowley wrote, in many ways, 70 00:04:28,920 --> 00:04:32,520 Speaker 2: the current staffing and deployment model and the size of 71 00:04:32,560 --> 00:04:38,919 Speaker 2: the LAFD have not changed since the nineteen sixties. She 72 00:04:39,040 --> 00:04:45,640 Speaker 2: said a spike in emergency calls that's homeless fires, and 73 00:04:45,680 --> 00:04:50,080 Speaker 2: a shortage of fire stations were sixty two stations short 74 00:04:50,600 --> 00:04:53,840 Speaker 2: had led to longer response times. In twenty twenty two, 75 00:04:53,920 --> 00:04:57,520 Speaker 2: Crowley said, sixty one percent of the firefighters failed to 76 00:04:57,520 --> 00:05:00,920 Speaker 2: meet the four minute first response time. That is a 77 00:05:01,040 --> 00:05:04,200 Speaker 2: national firefighting standard. So you call, you have a fire. 78 00:05:05,480 --> 00:05:09,760 Speaker 2: Sixty percent of the time. Los Angeles Fire Department doesn't 79 00:05:09,760 --> 00:05:14,000 Speaker 2: meet the response standard. Listen to this, and this is 80 00:05:14,040 --> 00:05:18,039 Speaker 2: the whole nut of it. The National Fire Protection Association 81 00:05:18,440 --> 00:05:22,240 Speaker 2: recommends that cities like Los Angeles employ up to one 82 00:05:22,400 --> 00:05:28,680 Speaker 2: point eight firefighters per one thousand residents. Los Angeles, Crowley wrote, 83 00:05:29,080 --> 00:05:33,839 Speaker 2: has zero point nine firefighters per one thousand people. One 84 00:05:33,880 --> 00:05:38,640 Speaker 2: point eight to zero point nine. We have exactly half 85 00:05:40,320 --> 00:05:46,360 Speaker 2: the fire department that we should half, which means the 86 00:05:46,400 --> 00:05:52,880 Speaker 2: funding should be doubled. If they're spending eight hundred million, 87 00:05:53,240 --> 00:06:00,880 Speaker 2: it ought to be one point six billion. Well, Crowley's 88 00:06:00,880 --> 00:06:05,560 Speaker 2: memo disappeared from a city website. As of Thursday, The 89 00:06:05,560 --> 00:06:09,240 Speaker 2: New York Times referenced the memo but did not link 90 00:06:09,320 --> 00:06:14,279 Speaker 2: to it. Friday, the memo was still available at this link. 91 00:06:15,160 --> 00:06:20,640 Speaker 2: By Saturday, the memo was replaced with an error message. 92 00:06:20,880 --> 00:06:24,000 Speaker 2: You know, you get that four to four error message 93 00:06:24,320 --> 00:06:27,839 Speaker 2: sometimes if a website is no longer available. Yeah, that's 94 00:06:27,839 --> 00:06:30,880 Speaker 2: what happened. Bass had pulled it down, and all you 95 00:06:30,960 --> 00:06:33,320 Speaker 2: got was four to four. We are sorry, but the 96 00:06:33,360 --> 00:06:37,520 Speaker 2: page you requested was not found. Bass was covering it up. 97 00:06:38,000 --> 00:06:44,160 Speaker 2: Bass eliminated it, erased it because how is she going 98 00:06:44,200 --> 00:06:48,200 Speaker 2: to explain why we have a fire department half the 99 00:06:48,320 --> 00:06:53,320 Speaker 2: size of the national recommendation? How do you explain that. 100 00:06:53,480 --> 00:06:59,599 Speaker 2: Here's no explanation for it. It's just pure, absolute absurd incompetence. 101 00:07:01,480 --> 00:07:04,679 Speaker 2: Would if you were the mayor of Los Angeles, would 102 00:07:04,680 --> 00:07:06,520 Speaker 2: you have a fire department. 103 00:07:06,240 --> 00:07:08,200 Speaker 1: Half the size that it should be. 104 00:07:11,520 --> 00:07:14,840 Speaker 2: The population in the nineteen sixties was about two and 105 00:07:14,880 --> 00:07:21,920 Speaker 2: a half million. It's now four million. We're missing hundreds 106 00:07:21,920 --> 00:07:32,480 Speaker 2: and hundreds of firefighters, thousands, maybe and there's fourteen thousand 107 00:07:33,440 --> 00:07:36,120 Speaker 2: calls to the fire department every year to put out 108 00:07:36,160 --> 00:07:42,920 Speaker 2: homeless fires, bum fires, vagrants, mental patients, drug addicts. In fact, 109 00:07:42,960 --> 00:07:47,440 Speaker 2: I was reading today how somebody in that industry said, 110 00:07:47,920 --> 00:07:51,840 Speaker 2: you know, every drug affects the human mind differently. You 111 00:07:51,840 --> 00:07:55,160 Speaker 2: remember bath salts were really popular a few years ago 112 00:07:55,440 --> 00:07:59,800 Speaker 2: and people were eating other atticts faces. Remember that it 113 00:07:59,880 --> 00:08:02,440 Speaker 2: was going on Miami. They foind one guy high on 114 00:08:02,520 --> 00:08:06,840 Speaker 2: bath salts eating the face of another homeless guy. That's 115 00:08:06,880 --> 00:08:11,320 Speaker 2: what bath salts do. You what myth does to people's brains. 116 00:08:11,360 --> 00:08:14,440 Speaker 2: It makes them want to set fires. That's why we 117 00:08:14,520 --> 00:08:18,760 Speaker 2: have so many vagrant fires, is because they're all whacked 118 00:08:18,760 --> 00:08:21,560 Speaker 2: out on meth. And something about meth triggers this desire 119 00:08:21,600 --> 00:08:26,160 Speaker 2: to set fires. She have fourteen thousand fires a year, which, 120 00:08:26,200 --> 00:08:30,120 Speaker 2: of course, back in the nineteen sixties then are homeless 121 00:08:30,160 --> 00:08:35,400 Speaker 2: fires was probably something close to zero. In any event, 122 00:08:36,600 --> 00:08:41,319 Speaker 2: we have half of it. And Crowley said, we need 123 00:08:41,400 --> 00:08:45,640 Speaker 2: double the force here and Bass has erased the memo. 124 00:08:49,679 --> 00:08:54,040 Speaker 2: How can you possibly have this woman continuing to run 125 00:08:54,120 --> 00:08:59,000 Speaker 2: Los Angeles? I don't know why she was happy with 126 00:08:59,120 --> 00:09:01,920 Speaker 2: half a fired apartartment. I don't know what her ideology 127 00:09:02,080 --> 00:09:06,120 Speaker 2: is what culture belongs to, what the thought? And I 128 00:09:06,160 --> 00:09:08,840 Speaker 2: don't care. I don't think anybody should be arguing with 129 00:09:08,880 --> 00:09:13,000 Speaker 2: her anymore. I think everybody should demand that she leave, resign, 130 00:09:13,920 --> 00:09:19,560 Speaker 2: get out. Imagine you're told by the chief, the fire 131 00:09:19,600 --> 00:09:22,000 Speaker 2: department chief, hey, we only have half a department here, 132 00:09:22,520 --> 00:09:25,400 Speaker 2: and your first response is like, yeah, well we'll cut 133 00:09:25,400 --> 00:09:29,760 Speaker 2: the budget another seventeen percent. How's that? No wonder she 134 00:09:29,800 --> 00:09:35,000 Speaker 2: wanted a fire crowley last week. This is a gigantic, 135 00:09:36,360 --> 00:09:42,480 Speaker 2: huge embarrassment. The incompetence is overwhelming. Half a fire department. 136 00:09:44,240 --> 00:09:47,520 Speaker 2: We're only getting started here. When we come back. Wait 137 00:09:47,600 --> 00:09:48,800 Speaker 2: till you find out. 138 00:09:48,920 --> 00:09:50,439 Speaker 1: Who the guy was. 139 00:09:52,000 --> 00:09:56,000 Speaker 2: In city Hall? What a Bass's deputy mayors, who was 140 00:09:56,080 --> 00:09:59,680 Speaker 2: in charge of overseeing the fire department? Wait till you 141 00:09:59,720 --> 00:10:05,319 Speaker 2: hear who the guy was. You were not going to 142 00:10:05,360 --> 00:10:05,760 Speaker 2: believe this. 143 00:10:06,679 --> 00:10:11,000 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM 144 00:10:11,040 --> 00:10:11,560 Speaker 4: six forty. 145 00:10:13,160 --> 00:10:18,559 Speaker 2: I hate the progressive politics that has infected our lives. 146 00:10:18,840 --> 00:10:23,920 Speaker 2: I hate the politics. I cannot stand these progressive politicians. 147 00:10:24,760 --> 00:10:28,120 Speaker 2: There are a cancer on us. We're in stage four 148 00:10:28,160 --> 00:10:34,400 Speaker 2: here in Los Angeles, Stage four progressive cancer. We need 149 00:10:35,440 --> 00:10:40,280 Speaker 2: radical surgery and extreme chemotherapy and we need it now. 150 00:10:40,960 --> 00:10:43,240 Speaker 2: We can't go on like this, and it's got to 151 00:10:43,320 --> 00:10:46,760 Speaker 2: start with Bass and Newsome getting the hell out of California. 152 00:10:47,160 --> 00:10:50,280 Speaker 2: This is a freaking disaster and we all know it. 153 00:10:51,280 --> 00:10:54,720 Speaker 2: Let me tell you more. This is out of the 154 00:10:54,720 --> 00:10:57,760 Speaker 2: New York Post. Do you remember a few weeks ago 155 00:10:57,840 --> 00:11:01,800 Speaker 2: we told you the story about Brian Williams, the deputy mayor. 156 00:11:03,280 --> 00:11:10,160 Speaker 2: The LAPD said that Williams was likely the source of 157 00:11:10,200 --> 00:11:13,080 Speaker 2: a bomb threat that he made against city Hall. The 158 00:11:13,240 --> 00:11:18,640 Speaker 2: FBI raided his home and Williams was placed on administrative leave. 159 00:11:19,800 --> 00:11:21,079 Speaker 1: He's a deputy mayor. 160 00:11:21,880 --> 00:11:24,240 Speaker 2: I believe there are several deputy mayors, and they're each 161 00:11:24,320 --> 00:11:28,280 Speaker 2: given a different portfolio, a different area that they're supposed 162 00:11:28,320 --> 00:11:32,439 Speaker 2: to oversee. You're not going to believe this, but Brian Williams, 163 00:11:33,120 --> 00:11:35,520 Speaker 2: who they say called in a bomb threat, who was 164 00:11:35,640 --> 00:11:41,560 Speaker 2: raided by the FBI, his job included oversight of the 165 00:11:41,600 --> 00:11:49,199 Speaker 2: city's fire department. His job included oversight of the city's 166 00:11:49,240 --> 00:11:55,240 Speaker 2: fire department. So the guy who could push Christine Crowley 167 00:11:55,280 --> 00:11:58,600 Speaker 2: around is the guy they say who called in a 168 00:11:58,640 --> 00:12:04,080 Speaker 2: bomb threat. He oversaw the city's police department, the fire department, 169 00:12:04,280 --> 00:12:07,000 Speaker 2: the port of Los Angeles Police, the Los Angeles Where 170 00:12:07,160 --> 00:12:12,080 Speaker 2: World Airport Police, and the Emergency Management Department. You know, 171 00:12:12,120 --> 00:12:16,520 Speaker 2: the Emergency Management department, the one who's run by. That 172 00:12:16,600 --> 00:12:19,760 Speaker 2: guy seems to be bursting into tears every five minutes. Remember, 173 00:12:19,800 --> 00:12:22,320 Speaker 2: they sent out three phony alerts across the county to 174 00:12:22,360 --> 00:12:29,559 Speaker 2: evacuate because they have an fed up system, automatic system 175 00:12:29,640 --> 00:12:32,960 Speaker 2: that just randomly sends out evacuation notices to anybody with 176 00:12:33,000 --> 00:12:40,720 Speaker 2: a phone. The raid on William's house was three weeks 177 00:12:40,800 --> 00:12:50,240 Speaker 2: less than three weeks before the fire started. What why 178 00:12:50,600 --> 00:12:54,040 Speaker 2: was that guy? He's obviously if he did this, he's 179 00:12:54,080 --> 00:13:00,800 Speaker 2: a lunatic. He oversaw the fire department and then Christine 180 00:13:00,800 --> 00:13:02,800 Speaker 2: Crowley says, hey, you know, we only have half a 181 00:13:02,840 --> 00:13:12,960 Speaker 2: fire department. We need double what we've got. What are 182 00:13:13,000 --> 00:13:18,000 Speaker 2: we supposed to do here? What what are we supposed 183 00:13:18,040 --> 00:13:21,080 Speaker 2: to do When you have a mayor that ran off 184 00:13:21,120 --> 00:13:24,520 Speaker 2: to Ghana. You have the deputy mayor in charge of 185 00:13:24,559 --> 00:13:28,040 Speaker 2: the fire department, they say, called in bomb threats and 186 00:13:28,200 --> 00:13:33,040 Speaker 2: is on leave, and you have a fire chief who's 187 00:13:33,040 --> 00:13:37,080 Speaker 2: trying to tell these other two, hey, we're wildly understaffed here. 188 00:13:37,920 --> 00:13:41,240 Speaker 2: Something bad's going to happen, and nobody listens. What are 189 00:13:41,280 --> 00:13:44,280 Speaker 2: we supposed to What do you suggest we do? 190 00:13:44,280 --> 00:13:48,400 Speaker 1: Don't you think we need a new mayor? Like we 191 00:13:48,480 --> 00:13:49,760 Speaker 1: needed a new mayor. 192 00:13:50,080 --> 00:13:55,240 Speaker 2: On January sixth, the day before the fire started, like 193 00:13:55,440 --> 00:14:00,280 Speaker 2: I saw, somebody wrote this morning, we're we're going to 194 00:14:00,320 --> 00:14:03,160 Speaker 2: talk more about this, Michael Schellenberger, who's coming up after 195 00:14:03,160 --> 00:14:07,520 Speaker 2: two o'clock? What Why didn't they have drones flying over 196 00:14:07,640 --> 00:14:12,800 Speaker 2: all the fire prone areas because, as I said yesterday, 197 00:14:12,800 --> 00:14:16,120 Speaker 2: there's only a few cities that are really in very 198 00:14:16,160 --> 00:14:19,880 Speaker 2: high fire danger. On the south side of the Santa 199 00:14:19,880 --> 00:14:24,200 Speaker 2: Monica Mountains, it would be Pacific Palisades, and then Brentwood, 200 00:14:25,520 --> 00:14:29,680 Speaker 2: bell Air, Westwood, Beverly Hills, Hollywood Hills, and so on. 201 00:14:29,800 --> 00:14:34,080 Speaker 2: Right then on the other side of the mountain, Woodland Hills, Tarzanna, 202 00:14:34,200 --> 00:14:41,240 Speaker 2: and Sino Sherman Oaks, Studio City. Roughly many of the 203 00:14:41,360 --> 00:14:44,360 Speaker 2: areas in Los Angeles are not going to be harmed 204 00:14:44,400 --> 00:14:48,440 Speaker 2: by wildfires. Those areas highest risk. So wouldn't you have 205 00:14:48,520 --> 00:14:51,960 Speaker 2: drones patrolling looking for any wisps of smoke? Wouldn't you 206 00:14:52,000 --> 00:14:57,040 Speaker 2: have strike teams in all these areas instead? Nobody was 207 00:14:57,080 --> 00:14:58,560 Speaker 2: in the Palisades. Took an hour and a half of 208 00:14:58,600 --> 00:15:01,160 Speaker 2: the fire department to show up. They were busy at 209 00:15:01,160 --> 00:15:03,960 Speaker 2: other fires. Well they weren't wildfires. Gee, what do you 210 00:15:03,960 --> 00:15:06,320 Speaker 2: think you think? Maybe they were the vagrant fires, the 211 00:15:06,360 --> 00:15:07,360 Speaker 2: methadic fires. 212 00:15:07,680 --> 00:15:10,320 Speaker 1: I don't know. Nobody wants to explain any of this. 213 00:15:10,560 --> 00:15:11,320 Speaker 1: What were they doing? 214 00:15:11,960 --> 00:15:16,600 Speaker 2: Why didn't we have half the forest patrolling the foothills 215 00:15:16,800 --> 00:15:20,280 Speaker 2: on both sides of the mountain. You could see when 216 00:15:20,280 --> 00:15:23,240 Speaker 2: the firefighters are actually allowed to do their job, it 217 00:15:23,440 --> 00:15:28,200 Speaker 2: was spectacular. They saved the valley from being fired. Did 218 00:15:28,240 --> 00:15:30,000 Speaker 2: you see that stand off on Mahone Drive? 219 00:15:30,280 --> 00:15:34,040 Speaker 1: Yes, you saw it from your house. I did, and I. 220 00:15:33,920 --> 00:15:38,480 Speaker 2: Saw on my side them stop the fire at Mandeville 221 00:15:38,520 --> 00:15:42,440 Speaker 2: Canyon to keep Brentwood and bell Air and who knows 222 00:15:42,440 --> 00:15:45,160 Speaker 2: where else from burning. So when they're allowed to do 223 00:15:45,240 --> 00:15:48,240 Speaker 2: their job, they do it brilliantly. It's the management here, 224 00:15:48,280 --> 00:15:53,360 Speaker 2: it's the bureaucrats. It's the elected officials. It's Karen Bass 225 00:15:53,840 --> 00:15:59,040 Speaker 2: in Ghana, it's this Brian Williams calling in bomb threats. 226 00:16:01,160 --> 00:16:05,680 Speaker 2: It's nobody listening to a professional fire chief like Christine Crowley, 227 00:16:05,720 --> 00:16:07,720 Speaker 2: who I'm not saying is perfect either. I don't know 228 00:16:07,800 --> 00:16:10,400 Speaker 2: much about her, but at least she put on record 229 00:16:10,400 --> 00:16:12,560 Speaker 2: what was wrong, and she was one hundred percent right. Well, 230 00:16:12,600 --> 00:16:15,640 Speaker 2: of course Karen Bass wanted to fire her, of course, 231 00:16:15,880 --> 00:16:19,040 Speaker 2: because what happens in organizations, the people who tell the 232 00:16:19,040 --> 00:16:24,760 Speaker 2: truth get fired. The people who are incompetent and and 233 00:16:24,800 --> 00:16:34,000 Speaker 2: cover things up, they don't get fired. Michael Selberger is 234 00:16:34,040 --> 00:16:38,720 Speaker 2: going to come up with us after two o'clock. I mean, 235 00:16:38,840 --> 00:16:41,480 Speaker 2: I can't tell you how much suffering is going on 236 00:16:42,400 --> 00:16:46,080 Speaker 2: the Palisades and ow the Dina now thousands and thousands 237 00:16:46,080 --> 00:16:48,520 Speaker 2: of families, and you know, the shock is wearing off, 238 00:16:48,560 --> 00:16:50,920 Speaker 2: and now the depression sinks in, and where the hell 239 00:16:50,960 --> 00:16:56,240 Speaker 2: are all these people gonna go? And all the officials 240 00:16:56,280 --> 00:16:59,320 Speaker 2: are in hiding now, and we're all sitting around to 241 00:16:59,320 --> 00:17:01,440 Speaker 2: see what happens with the wind over the next two days. 242 00:17:01,440 --> 00:17:03,440 Speaker 2: If things are gonna get reignited. 243 00:17:03,680 --> 00:17:05,840 Speaker 1: Well that's the terrifying part. That's the thing. 244 00:17:05,840 --> 00:17:08,760 Speaker 3: I mean, you can't let your guard down because we're 245 00:17:08,760 --> 00:17:11,399 Speaker 3: gonna have these red flag warnings through tomorrow. 246 00:17:12,359 --> 00:17:20,959 Speaker 2: Yeah, and I checked. There's frequently Santana wins in January. 247 00:17:21,440 --> 00:17:25,200 Speaker 2: There have been major fires in southern California in January. 248 00:17:25,320 --> 00:17:28,760 Speaker 2: This always has been part of fire season. All this 249 00:17:29,080 --> 00:17:33,719 Speaker 2: nonsense is like, well, you know, this is not climate change. 250 00:17:34,320 --> 00:17:39,040 Speaker 2: There's always Santa Ana wins in January. There's always fires 251 00:17:39,040 --> 00:17:43,000 Speaker 2: in January. And by the way, somebody published a chart today. 252 00:17:43,160 --> 00:17:48,400 Speaker 2: There's always wet seasons followed by dry seasons, dry seasons 253 00:17:48,400 --> 00:17:51,320 Speaker 2: followed by wet seasons. It has always happened. I looked 254 00:17:51,320 --> 00:17:53,640 Speaker 2: at one hundred and fifty years worth of weather records. 255 00:17:53,880 --> 00:17:59,080 Speaker 2: Nothing's changed. The climate has not changed. It's the same pattern. 256 00:17:59,400 --> 00:18:02,400 Speaker 2: Very wet is very dry years. We don't have many 257 00:18:02,480 --> 00:18:07,439 Speaker 2: average years. It's propaganda to cover up their incompetence, to 258 00:18:07,440 --> 00:18:08,120 Speaker 2: make it seem. 259 00:18:08,200 --> 00:18:09,960 Speaker 1: Well, you know, there's nothing you can do about it. 260 00:18:10,000 --> 00:18:11,040 Speaker 1: You can't control it, you know. 261 00:18:11,760 --> 00:18:14,360 Speaker 2: And if it's really climate change, then why aren't they 262 00:18:14,440 --> 00:18:17,359 Speaker 2: putting out extraordinary efforts to protect us from it? 263 00:18:18,000 --> 00:18:20,399 Speaker 1: You know why? Because they really don't believe it themselves. 264 00:18:20,680 --> 00:18:25,239 Speaker 1: It's just rhetoric to distract everybody. I'm way late. 265 00:18:26,359 --> 00:18:30,679 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM 266 00:18:30,720 --> 00:18:31,280 Speaker 4: six forty. 267 00:18:32,000 --> 00:18:34,560 Speaker 2: You miss anything after four o'clock John Cobelt Show on 268 00:18:34,640 --> 00:18:38,040 Speaker 2: demand the podcast version don't miss next tour. Michael Sellenberger 269 00:18:38,240 --> 00:18:41,560 Speaker 2: coming on. He's a writer who is on top of 270 00:18:42,040 --> 00:18:47,879 Speaker 2: all the idiocy, all the progressive garbage, the weird religious 271 00:18:47,920 --> 00:18:51,360 Speaker 2: cult that has taken over state and local government and 272 00:18:52,200 --> 00:18:55,639 Speaker 2: created created the situation where a fire like this could 273 00:18:55,680 --> 00:19:02,880 Speaker 2: cause such horrific damage over five thousand homes destroyed. If 274 00:19:02,880 --> 00:19:06,680 Speaker 2: you hadn't been with us, I want you to actually 275 00:19:06,680 --> 00:19:08,720 Speaker 2: listen to everything you can that we do on the 276 00:19:08,720 --> 00:19:12,720 Speaker 2: show today, more so than usual, because we told you 277 00:19:12,840 --> 00:19:16,680 Speaker 2: how Karen Bass got a memo from the fire chief 278 00:19:16,720 --> 00:19:20,520 Speaker 2: Christine Crowley, that we only had We only had half 279 00:19:20,560 --> 00:19:24,640 Speaker 2: the fire department that we should. The National Fire Protection 280 00:19:25,000 --> 00:19:28,120 Speaker 2: Association says we should have one point eight firefighters per 281 00:19:28,240 --> 00:19:32,840 Speaker 2: one thousand residents, but Crowley told Bass we had half that, 282 00:19:33,080 --> 00:19:36,760 Speaker 2: zero point nine firefighters per thousand. And we also told 283 00:19:36,800 --> 00:19:40,080 Speaker 2: you that the deputy mayor in charge of overseeing the 284 00:19:40,080 --> 00:19:44,760 Speaker 2: fire department, Brian Williams, he is on leave, likely the 285 00:19:44,800 --> 00:19:47,760 Speaker 2: source of a bomb threat that he made against city 286 00:19:47,800 --> 00:19:50,880 Speaker 2: Hall and they busted him a few weeks ago. 287 00:19:51,800 --> 00:19:55,440 Speaker 1: So Bass was told we only have half a fire department. 288 00:19:55,920 --> 00:19:59,480 Speaker 2: Brian Williams was the deputy mayor that oversaw the fire 289 00:19:59,520 --> 00:20:05,280 Speaker 2: department and he's now being investigated for calling in a 290 00:20:05,280 --> 00:20:11,720 Speaker 2: bomb threat. Now we have this and This is from 291 00:20:12,000 --> 00:20:18,119 Speaker 2: multiple sources, The New York Post, the Wall Street Journal, 292 00:20:18,760 --> 00:20:22,600 Speaker 2: Los Angeles Times, Courthouse News Service. They all have different 293 00:20:22,640 --> 00:20:30,480 Speaker 2: pieces of this story. In twenty nineteen, LADWP Apartment of 294 00:20:30,480 --> 00:20:34,359 Speaker 2: Water and Power wanted to replace nearly one hundred year 295 00:20:34,400 --> 00:20:40,000 Speaker 2: old power line poles cutting through Topanga State Park, not 296 00:20:40,160 --> 00:20:44,439 Speaker 2: far from the Palisades. After a few days, you're not 297 00:20:44,480 --> 00:20:49,120 Speaker 2: going to believe this, they stopped the project because environmental 298 00:20:49,240 --> 00:20:51,120 Speaker 2: activists were outraged. 299 00:20:54,359 --> 00:20:55,000 Speaker 1: There were. 300 00:20:56,600 --> 00:21:02,560 Speaker 2: Plants. These plants were known as Bronton's milk vetch. We're 301 00:21:02,560 --> 00:21:05,639 Speaker 2: going to call them the milk vetch plants. They're on 302 00:21:05,680 --> 00:21:09,800 Speaker 2: the endangered species list. Apparently at one hundred and eighty 303 00:21:09,800 --> 00:21:13,879 Speaker 2: two milk vetch plants were trampled as they were trying 304 00:21:13,880 --> 00:21:18,239 Speaker 2: to replace the power line poles. The goal of the 305 00:21:18,280 --> 00:21:22,600 Speaker 2: project was to improve fire safety for the Pacific Palisades area. 306 00:21:23,040 --> 00:21:25,520 Speaker 2: They were going to replace the wooden poles with steel. 307 00:21:26,640 --> 00:21:29,720 Speaker 2: They were going to widen fire access lanes in the area. 308 00:21:30,240 --> 00:21:33,520 Speaker 2: They were going to install wind and fire resistant power 309 00:21:33,560 --> 00:21:39,119 Speaker 2: lines wind and fire resistant power lines. But in trying 310 00:21:39,200 --> 00:21:44,520 Speaker 2: to execute the project, they trampled on milk vetch plants. 311 00:21:46,920 --> 00:21:50,040 Speaker 2: This whole area was identified as having an elevated fire risk. 312 00:21:54,080 --> 00:21:57,560 Speaker 2: This project will help ensure power reliability and safety and 313 00:21:57,680 --> 00:22:02,080 Speaker 2: reduce wildlife threats, said ADWP at the time. These wooden 314 00:22:02,119 --> 00:22:06,640 Speaker 2: poles were installed between nineteen thirty three and nineteen fifty 315 00:22:06,720 --> 00:22:10,640 Speaker 2: five and now are past their useful service life. 316 00:22:10,760 --> 00:22:13,240 Speaker 1: Again. This is twenty nineteen. This happened. 317 00:22:14,560 --> 00:22:19,639 Speaker 2: But an amateur botanist hiking through the park saw that 318 00:22:19,760 --> 00:22:26,720 Speaker 2: the milkvetch plants had been harmed. It's a shrub with flowers. 319 00:22:26,840 --> 00:22:30,000 Speaker 2: There's only a few thousand remaining in the wild. This 320 00:22:30,080 --> 00:22:35,440 Speaker 2: botan has complained and the environmental groups got the project 321 00:22:35,440 --> 00:22:40,639 Speaker 2: completely halted. According to Courthouse News Service, So instead of 322 00:22:43,000 --> 00:22:51,440 Speaker 2: the fire protection procedure continuing, the city because the state 323 00:22:51,560 --> 00:22:54,879 Speaker 2: said the city had undertaken the work without proper permitting. 324 00:22:56,560 --> 00:23:00,920 Speaker 2: This is during the Newsomb administration. The city hadn't gotten 325 00:23:00,960 --> 00:23:04,240 Speaker 2: the right permits and the city had to pay two 326 00:23:04,280 --> 00:23:08,800 Speaker 2: million dollars in fines. They spend two million dollars of 327 00:23:08,880 --> 00:23:11,560 Speaker 2: your tax money in Los Angeles to pay the state 328 00:23:12,359 --> 00:23:20,240 Speaker 2: because milk vetch plants had been trampled. They were ordered 329 00:23:20,240 --> 00:23:23,840 Speaker 2: by the California Coastal Commission to reverse the whole project 330 00:23:24,119 --> 00:23:25,960 Speaker 2: and replant the milk vetch. 331 00:23:28,119 --> 00:23:29,439 Speaker 1: I can't believe I'm reading this. 332 00:23:30,280 --> 00:23:31,520 Speaker 3: I'm enjoyed hearing. 333 00:23:33,200 --> 00:23:35,280 Speaker 1: I can't believe I'm reading this. 334 00:23:35,440 --> 00:23:38,520 Speaker 2: I wouldn't believe it, except seriously, there's four or five 335 00:23:38,760 --> 00:23:42,480 Speaker 2: different news organizations all in on this one. So they 336 00:23:42,680 --> 00:23:47,160 Speaker 2: saved two hundred milk vetch plants. Now all of those 337 00:23:47,200 --> 00:23:49,720 Speaker 2: are probably gone because they got burned in the fire. 338 00:23:57,280 --> 00:24:00,920 Speaker 2: I even looked up and here's here's a story from 339 00:24:00,920 --> 00:24:06,479 Speaker 2: the LA Times from August one of twenty nineteen. Curves 340 00:24:06,480 --> 00:24:09,400 Speaker 2: for the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power recently 341 00:24:09,440 --> 00:24:14,119 Speaker 2: bulldozed hundreds of federally endangered plants into Panga State Park, 342 00:24:14,600 --> 00:24:19,359 Speaker 2: and both city and state authorities have launched investigations into 343 00:24:19,359 --> 00:24:24,280 Speaker 2: the DWP actions, again part of a wildfire prevention project 344 00:24:25,040 --> 00:24:28,760 Speaker 2: to replace two hundred aging wooden power poles with steel ones. 345 00:24:30,280 --> 00:24:34,800 Speaker 2: Stephanie Spicer, a spokeswoman for the city Water and Power agency, 346 00:24:35,920 --> 00:24:39,520 Speaker 2: in response to recent community concerns about protected plants, what 347 00:24:39,640 --> 00:24:40,800 Speaker 2: community concerns? 348 00:24:41,440 --> 00:24:43,880 Speaker 1: If you pull the people in Palisades, they'd. 349 00:24:43,640 --> 00:24:48,360 Speaker 2: Say, Hey, we need the fire resistant wires, we need 350 00:24:48,440 --> 00:24:52,119 Speaker 2: the steel poles, we need a wider access road. You 351 00:24:52,160 --> 00:24:55,640 Speaker 2: wouldn't find a soul in Pacific Palisades, voting to save 352 00:24:55,680 --> 00:24:56,800 Speaker 2: the milkvetch plant. 353 00:24:58,359 --> 00:24:58,960 Speaker 1: This is like. 354 00:24:59,040 --> 00:25:02,159 Speaker 2: Newsome dumk billions of gallons of water into the ocean 355 00:25:02,240 --> 00:25:06,280 Speaker 2: to save a freaking delta smelt. 356 00:25:06,400 --> 00:25:08,560 Speaker 1: This is crazy. This is a religious cult. 357 00:25:08,760 --> 00:25:14,119 Speaker 2: They're worshiping milkveitch plants and delta smelts. In the meantime, 358 00:25:14,800 --> 00:25:19,080 Speaker 2: there's no water to put out the fire that killed 359 00:25:19,080 --> 00:25:28,440 Speaker 2: the milk vetch plants. Here's more from the Alay Times 360 00:25:28,440 --> 00:25:32,160 Speaker 2: story from August to twenty nineteen. In a separate incident 361 00:25:32,200 --> 00:25:34,560 Speaker 2: this year, you know it's worded as if it's a crime, 362 00:25:35,320 --> 00:25:41,639 Speaker 2: the Los Angeles County Department of Public Works apparently encased 363 00:25:42,240 --> 00:25:48,159 Speaker 2: federally threatened red legged frogs in cement while making emergency 364 00:25:48,200 --> 00:25:51,560 Speaker 2: repairs to a culvert in nearby Leo Koreo State Park, 365 00:25:53,440 --> 00:25:56,000 Speaker 2: which is vulnerable to heavy debris flow because of last 366 00:25:56,080 --> 00:25:59,640 Speaker 2: year's wolves leave fire. So I guess they had a 367 00:25:59,680 --> 00:26:03,680 Speaker 2: debris they were trying to repair a colvert, and they 368 00:26:03,720 --> 00:26:05,680 Speaker 2: inadvertently sealed over. 369 00:26:05,560 --> 00:26:07,359 Speaker 1: These red legged frogs in cement. 370 00:26:07,560 --> 00:26:14,280 Speaker 2: Oh no, We're in the middle of an investigation into 371 00:26:14,320 --> 00:26:19,280 Speaker 2: a lot of troubling questions, says Andrew Willis, Enforcement supervisor 372 00:26:19,320 --> 00:26:21,200 Speaker 2: for the California Coastal Commission. 373 00:26:22,400 --> 00:26:23,960 Speaker 1: Oh, I bet you that guy has a house. 374 00:26:25,920 --> 00:26:29,480 Speaker 2: We're contenting all appropriate state and federal wildlife agencies because 375 00:26:29,480 --> 00:26:31,840 Speaker 2: they're gonna want to look at them closely. The red 376 00:26:31,920 --> 00:26:38,560 Speaker 2: legged frogs, this is what they do. They all investigate 377 00:26:38,600 --> 00:26:42,159 Speaker 2: each other every time a frog or a milkfitch plant 378 00:26:42,160 --> 00:26:47,080 Speaker 2: gets inadvertently killed. Meantime, there's no fire access roads, there 379 00:26:47,080 --> 00:26:52,280 Speaker 2: are no reinforced fire poles, there are no fire resistant 380 00:26:52,840 --> 00:26:54,040 Speaker 2: power lines erected. 381 00:27:02,359 --> 00:27:06,280 Speaker 3: We have one of those wooden power pools right by 382 00:27:06,320 --> 00:27:11,240 Speaker 3: our house, and DWP was replacing some of them in 383 00:27:11,280 --> 00:27:12,760 Speaker 3: the Woodland Hills area. 384 00:27:12,600 --> 00:27:13,119 Speaker 1: Not ours. 385 00:27:13,880 --> 00:27:16,520 Speaker 3: And remember when I told you that I stopped some 386 00:27:16,680 --> 00:27:19,800 Speaker 3: DWP workers probably six months ago, when I saw them 387 00:27:19,840 --> 00:27:21,720 Speaker 3: doing some work and I said, oh, are you burying 388 00:27:21,760 --> 00:27:23,760 Speaker 3: the power lines? And they said, oh no, no, no, no, 389 00:27:23,840 --> 00:27:25,840 Speaker 3: we're just going to be moving them. But no, it's 390 00:27:25,880 --> 00:27:27,640 Speaker 3: too expensive to bury them. 391 00:27:27,920 --> 00:27:29,359 Speaker 1: Yeah, too expensive. 392 00:27:29,640 --> 00:27:33,000 Speaker 3: Can I tell you how many branches of trees when 393 00:27:33,040 --> 00:27:35,240 Speaker 3: I was on my way to work that I saw 394 00:27:35,520 --> 00:27:39,080 Speaker 3: covering power lines this morning? Do you know how dangerous 395 00:27:39,119 --> 00:27:39,520 Speaker 3: that is? 396 00:27:40,240 --> 00:27:44,000 Speaker 2: That's the next wildfire. Yes, it's going to happen. They 397 00:27:44,040 --> 00:27:46,159 Speaker 2: don't do the maintenance they're supposed to do. Yeah, and 398 00:27:46,200 --> 00:27:49,840 Speaker 2: when they try to do the maintenance, some nutty here 399 00:27:49,920 --> 00:27:53,760 Speaker 2: In the twenty nineteenth story, DWP had been alerted to 400 00:27:53,800 --> 00:27:56,680 Speaker 2: the presence of the milk vetch plants on July seventh, 401 00:27:56,720 --> 00:28:01,520 Speaker 2: twenty nineteen, via an email sent by David Plunecki, an 402 00:28:01,600 --> 00:28:05,199 Speaker 2: amateur botanist and avid hiker, and they thanked him for 403 00:28:05,240 --> 00:28:09,560 Speaker 2: calling the issue to their attention. Plunecki then visited the 404 00:28:09,600 --> 00:28:12,159 Speaker 2: site and discovered the crews had removed all the vegetation 405 00:28:12,600 --> 00:28:15,680 Speaker 2: several acres for a new dirt fire road twenty four 406 00:28:15,760 --> 00:28:21,960 Speaker 2: feet wide. He was livid and remains angry, so he 407 00:28:22,000 --> 00:28:25,960 Speaker 2: complained in writing to Deborah Hank, a spokeswoman for LEDWP 408 00:28:26,080 --> 00:28:30,439 Speaker 2: and Pacific Palisades. She replied that a staff biologist was 409 00:28:30,960 --> 00:28:33,240 Speaker 2: preparing a report, so that, I mean. 410 00:28:33,160 --> 00:28:35,440 Speaker 1: Does this guy, David Plinikey, does he have a home. 411 00:28:39,160 --> 00:28:40,000 Speaker 1: This can't go on. 412 00:28:41,360 --> 00:28:45,840 Speaker 2: This is insanity. This is a weird death cult religion. 413 00:28:47,920 --> 00:28:51,160 Speaker 2: A milkwitch plant, a milkvetch plant. 414 00:28:53,760 --> 00:28:58,000 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobels on Demand from KFI. 415 00:28:57,760 --> 00:29:00,640 Speaker 1: A six on from until four. 416 00:29:00,800 --> 00:29:03,880 Speaker 2: After Debra's news at two Michael Sellenberger coming on the writer. 417 00:29:04,440 --> 00:29:09,680 Speaker 2: Public News is the name of his website, and he's 418 00:29:09,720 --> 00:29:12,320 Speaker 2: got a story. We're gonna talk about a lot of things, 419 00:29:12,320 --> 00:29:16,000 Speaker 2: but today's story was about a whistleblower. He has spent 420 00:29:16,080 --> 00:29:20,040 Speaker 2: forty years with one of the twenty nine fire departments 421 00:29:20,120 --> 00:29:25,120 Speaker 2: in La County and he describes in detail many many 422 00:29:25,200 --> 00:29:30,320 Speaker 2: years worth of failures by the local fire departments and 423 00:29:30,800 --> 00:29:35,560 Speaker 2: by city government here in Los Angeles and elsewhere. 424 00:29:36,160 --> 00:29:39,040 Speaker 1: And it is shocking and this is all this, all 425 00:29:39,360 --> 00:29:40,200 Speaker 1: this had to happen. 426 00:29:40,240 --> 00:29:43,080 Speaker 2: I'm sorry to say this tragedy was going to happen 427 00:29:43,920 --> 00:29:48,440 Speaker 2: because government is so badly run and badly managed, and 428 00:29:48,440 --> 00:29:54,960 Speaker 2: there's it's all kinds of weird religious cult nonsense like 429 00:29:55,000 --> 00:29:57,440 Speaker 2: the Milk saving the Milkfitch plan instead of building a 430 00:29:57,440 --> 00:29:59,600 Speaker 2: fire road and fire poles, like we just went through 431 00:29:59,720 --> 00:30:03,360 Speaker 2: last segment. I am told that there was a press conference, 432 00:30:03,400 --> 00:30:07,960 Speaker 2: Karen Bass spoke and there's a question from the CBS 433 00:30:08,000 --> 00:30:12,640 Speaker 2: News reporter Joseph Jonathan Vigliotti, play. 434 00:30:12,440 --> 00:30:16,680 Speaker 1: It looking back? Would you have taken that trip overseas? 435 00:30:16,840 --> 00:30:20,120 Speaker 5: You know I am going to focus today. 436 00:30:19,800 --> 00:30:21,800 Speaker 1: But please, if what we know. 437 00:30:23,520 --> 00:30:30,040 Speaker 2: So much, what did you finally say no, or was 438 00:30:30,080 --> 00:30:32,000 Speaker 2: she saying no, let me talk? 439 00:30:32,120 --> 00:30:36,520 Speaker 1: I'm not sure play that again looking back? Would you 440 00:30:36,600 --> 00:30:38,440 Speaker 1: have taken that trip overseas? 441 00:30:38,600 --> 00:30:42,040 Speaker 5: You know, I am going to focus today, but please 442 00:30:42,120 --> 00:30:47,000 Speaker 5: if what we no, no, no, she's saying no, like, 443 00:30:47,680 --> 00:30:49,360 Speaker 5: stop talking, stop pressing me on this. 444 00:30:49,960 --> 00:30:53,480 Speaker 2: That wasn't no. I wouldn't take the trip. What she 445 00:30:53,920 --> 00:30:58,280 Speaker 2: is just the worst, isn't she? I mean people died, 446 00:31:00,080 --> 00:31:05,200 Speaker 2: there's there's there's thousands of people, families without homes. They've 447 00:31:05,200 --> 00:31:08,160 Speaker 2: got nowhere to go. And she would admit that she 448 00:31:08,200 --> 00:31:11,080 Speaker 2: should have been here. In fact, what has she been 449 00:31:11,120 --> 00:31:15,320 Speaker 2: doing for the last two years. Yesterday we told you 450 00:31:15,360 --> 00:31:19,000 Speaker 2: they drained the reservoir eleven months ago and they never 451 00:31:19,080 --> 00:31:23,960 Speaker 2: filled it. Today we're telling you that Christine Crowley gave 452 00:31:24,000 --> 00:31:27,760 Speaker 2: her a membo memo in November which indicated we had 453 00:31:27,840 --> 00:31:31,640 Speaker 2: half the fire department that we should have based on 454 00:31:31,680 --> 00:31:36,520 Speaker 2: our population. Karen Bass erased that memo off the internet 455 00:31:36,600 --> 00:31:43,680 Speaker 2: after the fires started. So she went to Ghana. She 456 00:31:43,760 --> 00:31:49,000 Speaker 2: went to Africa. She will not admit that that was 457 00:31:49,040 --> 00:31:52,959 Speaker 2: a bad idea. She will not discuss the reservoir being 458 00:31:53,040 --> 00:31:57,480 Speaker 2: empty for eleven months. And now we have the story 459 00:31:57,600 --> 00:32:04,720 Speaker 2: about the milk vetch plant that was trampled north of 460 00:32:04,760 --> 00:32:08,440 Speaker 2: the Palisades when LADWP was trying to lay down a 461 00:32:08,480 --> 00:32:11,120 Speaker 2: fire road and put up new fire polls and fire 462 00:32:11,160 --> 00:32:19,120 Speaker 2: resistant wires, and instead a botanist complained about the milkvig 463 00:32:19,240 --> 00:32:24,600 Speaker 2: plants being trampled. The California Coastal Commission creates a case 464 00:32:24,600 --> 00:32:26,160 Speaker 2: out of it, and the city had to pay a 465 00:32:26,200 --> 00:32:33,240 Speaker 2: two million dollar fine to the state and wait to 466 00:32:33,440 --> 00:32:37,840 Speaker 2: hear about what Michael Schellenberger is uncovered with this forty 467 00:32:37,880 --> 00:32:40,160 Speaker 2: year veteran of one of the fire departments here in 468 00:32:40,240 --> 00:32:48,160 Speaker 2: La County, and he's explained in great detail what went 469 00:32:48,200 --> 00:32:51,280 Speaker 2: wrong in the city of Los Angeles here with the mayor, 470 00:32:51,640 --> 00:32:59,800 Speaker 2: the governor, the fire chiefs, everybody there have While everyone 471 00:32:59,880 --> 00:33:03,360 Speaker 2: is arguing over how much the budget was cut and 472 00:33:03,440 --> 00:33:05,920 Speaker 2: when was it cut and was it restored, that's not 473 00:33:06,000 --> 00:33:10,000 Speaker 2: the point. We have half the fire department that's necessary 474 00:33:10,000 --> 00:33:14,480 Speaker 2: for LA and they spend most of their time, well 475 00:33:14,560 --> 00:33:18,680 Speaker 2: half their time just answering homeless fire calls. 476 00:33:20,160 --> 00:33:26,440 Speaker 1: That's half the calls because Karen Bass. 477 00:33:27,800 --> 00:33:33,120 Speaker 2: Allows meth addicts and mental patients to roam the streets 478 00:33:33,240 --> 00:33:38,040 Speaker 2: start fires, eating up the fire department budget. And their manpower, 479 00:33:39,040 --> 00:33:44,160 Speaker 2: and there was nobody, nobody in no firefighters and Pacific 480 00:33:44,200 --> 00:33:46,880 Speaker 2: palisades for an hour and a half until the fire. 481 00:33:47,240 --> 00:33:51,320 Speaker 2: After the fire started. No, no, this can't go on. 482 00:33:51,440 --> 00:33:54,200 Speaker 2: This has got to stop. They've got to go. Everything's 483 00:33:54,240 --> 00:33:58,760 Speaker 2: got to be reorganized today now, this hour, she's got 484 00:33:58,760 --> 00:33:59,240 Speaker 2: to go. 485 00:34:00,240 --> 00:34:01,600 Speaker 1: Why would you keep. 486 00:34:01,400 --> 00:34:06,760 Speaker 2: Her and everybody else in city government and this idiot governor. 487 00:34:08,680 --> 00:34:10,000 Speaker 1: We're literally dying. 488 00:34:10,960 --> 00:34:14,480 Speaker 2: People are losing their homes by the thousands, people are 489 00:34:14,600 --> 00:34:17,160 Speaker 2: dying by the dozens. 490 00:34:18,120 --> 00:34:18,600 Speaker 1: This was. 491 00:34:22,760 --> 00:34:26,680 Speaker 2: We come back, Michael Schellenberger. He'll tell you more. Deborah 492 00:34:26,680 --> 00:34:28,839 Speaker 2: Mark live in the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Hey, 493 00:34:29,160 --> 00:34:31,680 Speaker 2: you've been listening to the John Cobalt Show podcast. 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