1 00:00:00,960 --> 00:00:02,040 Speaker 1: I Am six forty. 2 00:00:02,120 --> 00:00:05,279 Speaker 2: You're listening to the John Cobelt Podcast on the iHeartRadio 3 00:00:05,320 --> 00:00:08,959 Speaker 2: app John Cobelt Show. Can't I Am six forty live 4 00:00:09,080 --> 00:00:13,320 Speaker 2: everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. And we are on today 5 00:00:13,480 --> 00:00:15,880 Speaker 2: from one n till four every day and if you 6 00:00:15,920 --> 00:00:17,160 Speaker 2: miss anything, that's what. 7 00:00:17,079 --> 00:00:18,040 Speaker 1: The podcast is for. 8 00:00:18,200 --> 00:00:20,720 Speaker 2: After four o'clock it gets posted John Cobelt Show on 9 00:00:20,800 --> 00:00:23,880 Speaker 2: demand and then you could listen to or you could 10 00:00:23,880 --> 00:00:26,040 Speaker 2: listen to it all over again, whatever you want. But 11 00:00:26,120 --> 00:00:29,320 Speaker 2: I'm telling you enough is enough. There has to be 12 00:00:29,360 --> 00:00:33,360 Speaker 2: a wholesale change. There should be mass resignations, starting with 13 00:00:33,479 --> 00:00:36,559 Speaker 2: Karen Bass and a whole lot of other people in 14 00:00:36,600 --> 00:00:39,800 Speaker 2: this city Hall and on the city council. Can you 15 00:00:40,159 --> 00:00:42,639 Speaker 2: sheep back from Ghana yet that the plane land? I'd 16 00:00:42,640 --> 00:00:45,000 Speaker 2: heard the plane was supposed to land earlier, like an 17 00:00:45,040 --> 00:00:45,800 Speaker 2: hour or two ago. 18 00:00:46,280 --> 00:00:49,080 Speaker 3: Let me check, yes, anything, let me see. 19 00:00:49,159 --> 00:00:52,040 Speaker 2: You're not gonna believe this stuff. You are not going 20 00:00:52,120 --> 00:00:54,560 Speaker 2: to believe this stuff. How many days warning did we 21 00:00:54,680 --> 00:00:59,280 Speaker 2: have about this this firestorm, about the red flag warning 22 00:01:00,520 --> 00:01:08,919 Speaker 2: high wind warning, potential for catastrophic devastating a deadly wind 23 00:01:08,959 --> 00:01:11,480 Speaker 2: and fire. I mean it was several days, wasn't it? 24 00:01:12,760 --> 00:01:16,560 Speaker 3: Yes, and you've known about it for several days, right. 25 00:01:16,959 --> 00:01:21,760 Speaker 2: And Karen Bass decided instead to go to Ghana and 26 00:01:21,959 --> 00:01:26,920 Speaker 2: stay in Ghana as the windstorm was approaching and developing. 27 00:01:27,440 --> 00:01:32,000 Speaker 2: And it was only after the fires blew up and 28 00:01:32,120 --> 00:01:38,600 Speaker 2: Pacific Palisades got almost entirely consumed by this windstorm and 29 00:01:38,640 --> 00:01:41,160 Speaker 2: this firestorm that she decided to go back on a 30 00:01:41,200 --> 00:01:46,560 Speaker 2: plane and come here Ghana. You know where Ghana is 31 00:01:47,080 --> 00:01:50,160 Speaker 2: in West Africa. Why would she go to West Africa? 32 00:01:50,600 --> 00:01:53,680 Speaker 2: What possible reason would there be to go to West 33 00:01:53,720 --> 00:01:59,880 Speaker 2: Africa and stay there when everybody knew a bad windstorm 34 00:02:00,120 --> 00:02:03,040 Speaker 2: was coming and we had extreme fire danger. I mean 35 00:02:03,200 --> 00:02:06,240 Speaker 2: the word extreme was used all over the place. Life threatening, 36 00:02:06,400 --> 00:02:10,279 Speaker 2: life threatening, extreme fire, extreme wind one hundred. 37 00:02:10,000 --> 00:02:10,800 Speaker 1: Miles an hour. 38 00:02:12,240 --> 00:02:18,239 Speaker 2: And she's in Ghana, seriously and she doesn't come back immediately. 39 00:02:20,919 --> 00:02:21,880 Speaker 1: Why was she there? 40 00:02:23,240 --> 00:02:31,920 Speaker 2: Because on Tuesday they were inaugurating a president, John Dromani Mohamma, 41 00:02:34,800 --> 00:02:41,480 Speaker 2: and that's more important. Meantime, the fire department in Pacific 42 00:02:41,520 --> 00:02:44,160 Speaker 2: Palisades runs out of water. 43 00:02:45,840 --> 00:02:47,040 Speaker 1: No, I'm not making this up. 44 00:02:48,880 --> 00:02:55,080 Speaker 2: The fire hydrants went dry by three in the morning, 45 00:02:56,280 --> 00:02:58,600 Speaker 2: according to the La Times, And who knows what's true. 46 00:02:58,639 --> 00:03:00,240 Speaker 1: There by three in the morning. 47 00:03:01,800 --> 00:03:06,480 Speaker 2: This morning, all the hydrants in the Palisades area nothing 48 00:03:07,280 --> 00:03:11,440 Speaker 2: dust coming out. Two of them had run out earlier 49 00:03:11,440 --> 00:03:14,919 Speaker 2: in the evening. So if you were watching the TV 50 00:03:15,000 --> 00:03:17,519 Speaker 2: news last night, and I guess we probably all spent 51 00:03:17,639 --> 00:03:20,240 Speaker 2: hours watching it, except for Deverrek because she had no power. 52 00:03:20,639 --> 00:03:23,440 Speaker 4: Oh wait, by the way, yeah, Karen Bass is back. 53 00:03:23,520 --> 00:03:26,640 Speaker 4: She just tweeted a video for talking with Governor Newsom 54 00:03:26,880 --> 00:03:29,000 Speaker 4: and she just got off her phone with Biden. 55 00:03:29,600 --> 00:03:31,680 Speaker 1: Oh well that'll help. Wow. 56 00:03:32,040 --> 00:03:34,280 Speaker 2: I wish we had a recording of that. What a 57 00:03:34,320 --> 00:03:38,000 Speaker 2: meeting of the geniuses? Huh Biden, knews them and Karen Bass. 58 00:03:38,440 --> 00:03:40,160 Speaker 3: Wow, Biden and Newsom. 59 00:03:40,360 --> 00:03:44,360 Speaker 4: They were they held a news conference although their microphones 60 00:03:44,360 --> 00:03:47,720 Speaker 4: were not on this morning. They were in Santa Monica 61 00:03:47,800 --> 00:03:51,520 Speaker 4: being updated on the fire. But you couldn't hear what Yeah. 62 00:03:51,680 --> 00:03:55,360 Speaker 2: So you couldn't hear Biden mumbling now, And I mean, 63 00:03:55,560 --> 00:03:59,640 Speaker 2: I'm astonishing this. Any of these geniuses, in their meetings 64 00:03:59,800 --> 00:04:02,280 Speaker 2: have to come up with a way to supply the 65 00:04:02,440 --> 00:04:06,200 Speaker 2: LA Fire Department with water in the Pacific Palisades. Any 66 00:04:06,240 --> 00:04:08,440 Speaker 2: of them know what to do to fix that problem. 67 00:04:08,520 --> 00:04:12,800 Speaker 2: I've never heard of a major city fire department running 68 00:04:12,840 --> 00:04:16,120 Speaker 2: out of water when they knew a huge fire event 69 00:04:16,320 --> 00:04:20,400 Speaker 2: is coming. And it's not the firefighter's fault on the scene. 70 00:04:21,080 --> 00:04:23,560 Speaker 2: They all showed up, they're ready to do their duty. 71 00:04:23,920 --> 00:04:27,039 Speaker 2: They turn on the hydrants and the hydrants go dry. 72 00:04:27,440 --> 00:04:32,640 Speaker 2: Why how could that possibly happen? How in God's name 73 00:04:32,839 --> 00:04:37,279 Speaker 2: could that happen? And normally, I guess you'd contact the 74 00:04:37,320 --> 00:04:42,320 Speaker 2: mayor and the mayor is, oh, in Ghana, Okay, well 75 00:04:42,360 --> 00:04:50,520 Speaker 2: that helps. You have a thousand buildings burned in the Palisades, 76 00:04:50,760 --> 00:04:57,520 Speaker 2: a thousand, thousands of people displaced, total flattened, devastation, and 77 00:04:57,560 --> 00:05:03,600 Speaker 2: the mayor is in Ghana because the president's getting inaugurated. 78 00:05:06,400 --> 00:05:09,200 Speaker 2: Is she gonna be in Washington when the US president 79 00:05:09,760 --> 00:05:16,800 Speaker 2: gets inaugurated? Probably not because it's the wrong party, but Ghana. 80 00:05:16,920 --> 00:05:20,240 Speaker 2: She's there, ready to salute, ready to bow, ready to 81 00:05:20,320 --> 00:05:21,280 Speaker 2: do whatever it is. 82 00:05:22,240 --> 00:05:22,960 Speaker 1: Who would go there? 83 00:05:22,960 --> 00:05:25,120 Speaker 2: Why would you want to go there? What would be 84 00:05:25,120 --> 00:05:33,039 Speaker 2: the point of that? I mean, I'm astonished. Water What 85 00:05:33,200 --> 00:05:36,279 Speaker 2: they don't have? What we have the freaking Pacific Ocean 86 00:05:36,920 --> 00:05:40,160 Speaker 2: less than a mile from the fire, and we're out 87 00:05:40,200 --> 00:05:43,479 Speaker 2: of water. How can that be? We had two of 88 00:05:43,480 --> 00:05:50,520 Speaker 2: the rainiest seasons in history. There's no water. This is 89 00:05:50,640 --> 00:05:57,480 Speaker 2: obviously a massive problem by these idiot incompetent politicians and 90 00:05:57,600 --> 00:06:01,159 Speaker 2: bureaucrats in management. We're gonna talk to Rick Caruso coming 91 00:06:01,240 --> 00:06:04,880 Speaker 2: up after one thirty, because he was all over television 92 00:06:04,960 --> 00:06:07,520 Speaker 2: last night on all the channels talking about. 93 00:06:08,160 --> 00:06:11,520 Speaker 1: Uh, the the the the mismanagement. This is. 94 00:06:11,600 --> 00:06:13,960 Speaker 2: This is an infrastructure issue. I don't know who's been 95 00:06:14,000 --> 00:06:16,440 Speaker 2: running well, I know who's been running the city. We've 96 00:06:16,440 --> 00:06:19,120 Speaker 2: had We had nearly ten years of Garcetti and now 97 00:06:19,160 --> 00:06:23,120 Speaker 2: we've had several years of bass. And now you can't 98 00:06:23,680 --> 00:06:26,640 Speaker 2: do this many stupid things for this long without all 99 00:06:26,680 --> 00:06:32,080 Speaker 2: cut it all, cut it all coming together. It's it's 100 00:06:32,120 --> 00:06:37,720 Speaker 2: a perfect storm of its own perverse nature. There's no 101 00:06:37,800 --> 00:06:40,640 Speaker 2: excuse for this. It's intolerable. I don't want to hear 102 00:06:40,640 --> 00:06:49,040 Speaker 2: everybody's reasons. I've never heard of this these areas. Every 103 00:06:49,120 --> 00:06:54,799 Speaker 2: year a hilly area burns. They call it the urban 104 00:06:54,880 --> 00:07:01,880 Speaker 2: wildlife interface. You have natural wild lands, and then humans 105 00:07:01,960 --> 00:07:04,479 Speaker 2: build up as much as they can into the wild 106 00:07:04,560 --> 00:07:08,320 Speaker 2: lands because it's all beautiful and pretty, which is great, 107 00:07:08,640 --> 00:07:12,600 Speaker 2: except you need a water infrastructure, among other things, so 108 00:07:12,640 --> 00:07:16,520 Speaker 2: that when the inevitable fires happen, you can put them 109 00:07:16,560 --> 00:07:20,800 Speaker 2: out now to some extent. Obviously, you can't control an 110 00:07:20,800 --> 00:07:23,880 Speaker 2: overwhelming fire with eighty mile an hour wins or one 111 00:07:23,920 --> 00:07:27,880 Speaker 2: hundred mile an hour wins. But you can't possibly read 112 00:07:27,920 --> 00:07:32,119 Speaker 2: out of water. That's just not possible if you're running 113 00:07:32,160 --> 00:07:36,239 Speaker 2: your city properly. But maybe you've made decades of stupid 114 00:07:36,240 --> 00:07:43,120 Speaker 2: decisions and now you have an incredibly idiotic administration and 115 00:07:43,160 --> 00:07:44,320 Speaker 2: the mayor goes to Ghana. 116 00:07:44,880 --> 00:07:46,080 Speaker 1: I mean, you know what she had to do. 117 00:07:46,360 --> 00:07:48,840 Speaker 2: Oh, by the way, I heard while she was in 118 00:07:48,880 --> 00:07:55,600 Speaker 2: Ghana though, her office sent out twenty three tweets. Twenty 119 00:07:55,920 --> 00:08:01,160 Speaker 2: three tweets from Ghana. Well that's hands on management and huh. 120 00:08:01,280 --> 00:08:04,760 Speaker 2: That is putting on the old fire uniform and the 121 00:08:04,800 --> 00:08:07,560 Speaker 2: hard hat and jumping on the truck high oversee the 122 00:08:07,760 --> 00:08:10,160 Speaker 2: uh to oversee the operation. 123 00:08:10,800 --> 00:08:15,120 Speaker 4: She's just announced that aircraft returned to dropping water on 124 00:08:15,200 --> 00:08:17,520 Speaker 4: the wildfires after being grounded by the winds. 125 00:08:17,920 --> 00:08:22,679 Speaker 2: So we should Yeah, Laura, whatever dope writes those tweets 126 00:08:22,680 --> 00:08:26,280 Speaker 2: for her. None of these people write, write their own messages. 127 00:08:28,720 --> 00:08:33,959 Speaker 2: Uh let me okay, let me uh play with you 128 00:08:34,920 --> 00:08:38,520 Speaker 2: what the deputy chief of staff said when we come back. 129 00:08:38,920 --> 00:08:44,120 Speaker 2: Selene Cordero had a press conference eight o'clock in the morning, 130 00:08:44,679 --> 00:08:49,760 Speaker 2: and uh, the reporters shockingly, they really were questioning over 131 00:08:49,840 --> 00:08:53,679 Speaker 2: why bass was in Ghana. We'll play that, see what 132 00:08:53,720 --> 00:08:56,720 Speaker 2: that's about when we come back, Rick Caruso after one thirty. 133 00:08:57,160 --> 00:08:58,520 Speaker 2: We're only getting started. 134 00:09:00,000 --> 00:09:04,480 Speaker 5: Listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM six forty. 135 00:09:06,080 --> 00:09:09,040 Speaker 2: When stuff like this happens, that's all you can rely 136 00:09:09,120 --> 00:09:12,160 Speaker 2: on is AM radio. The FM signals. They hit a 137 00:09:12,200 --> 00:09:15,079 Speaker 2: mountain and they stopped dead, and if you're on the 138 00:09:15,080 --> 00:09:17,080 Speaker 2: wrong side of the mountain, there's no FM coming in. 139 00:09:17,920 --> 00:09:20,959 Speaker 2: So yeah, it should it's that federal law should have 140 00:09:21,000 --> 00:09:25,160 Speaker 2: passed by Now who do we have to buy off? 141 00:09:26,960 --> 00:09:30,040 Speaker 2: It's John Cobelt Show, KFI AM six forty live everywhere 142 00:09:30,040 --> 00:09:32,360 Speaker 2: on the iHeartRadio app. We're on from one until four 143 00:09:32,480 --> 00:09:35,720 Speaker 2: after four o'clock John Cobelt Show on demand here on 144 00:09:35,760 --> 00:09:39,480 Speaker 2: the iHeart app. Rick Caruso coming on in just a 145 00:09:39,480 --> 00:09:44,040 Speaker 2: few minutes on the phone to talk about this. All 146 00:09:44,080 --> 00:09:48,960 Speaker 2: the fires, especially Palisades, a thousand structures destroyed and the 147 00:09:48,960 --> 00:09:52,840 Speaker 2: fire department ran out of water because the boobs who 148 00:09:52,960 --> 00:09:56,480 Speaker 2: run the city all these years, and our mayor who 149 00:09:56,840 --> 00:10:00,600 Speaker 2: didn't show up for this disaster she was busy Ghana 150 00:10:01,679 --> 00:10:08,359 Speaker 2: celebrating the inauguration of the President of Ghana. Some reporters 151 00:10:08,400 --> 00:10:12,440 Speaker 2: went after this issue. There was an eight am press conference. 152 00:10:12,800 --> 00:10:16,839 Speaker 2: This is from the question and answer portion Seline Cordero, 153 00:10:17,120 --> 00:10:23,200 Speaker 2: Deputy chief of Staff to Karen Bass. She tried to 154 00:10:23,240 --> 00:10:26,840 Speaker 2: explain how Karen Bass could do her job running this 155 00:10:26,960 --> 00:10:28,560 Speaker 2: disaster while in Ghana. 156 00:10:28,600 --> 00:10:31,320 Speaker 6: Good morning, everybody, Selene Cordero, Deputy chief of Staff to 157 00:10:31,360 --> 00:10:33,840 Speaker 6: Mayor Bass. I just wanted to step forward and address 158 00:10:33,880 --> 00:10:36,320 Speaker 6: the question about the mayor. The mayor will be on 159 00:10:36,360 --> 00:10:39,960 Speaker 6: the ground shortly, very shortly this morning and engage. But 160 00:10:40,040 --> 00:10:42,559 Speaker 6: I want to assure the community in the city, our 161 00:10:42,600 --> 00:10:46,320 Speaker 6: mayor has been actively engaged one hundred percent of the 162 00:10:46,400 --> 00:10:51,239 Speaker 6: time the entire last twenty four hours throughout this unfortunate 163 00:10:51,280 --> 00:10:54,040 Speaker 6: and fortunate event in crisis. The mayor has been in 164 00:10:54,080 --> 00:10:58,040 Speaker 6: constant communication with our chief of Police, our fire chief, 165 00:10:58,240 --> 00:11:03,560 Speaker 6: our council president, our law enforcement partners, our supervisor, Supervisor Barber, 166 00:11:03,600 --> 00:11:06,360 Speaker 6: thank you, and our county partners. So I just want 167 00:11:06,400 --> 00:11:08,920 Speaker 6: to stress she has had one hundred percent access the 168 00:11:09,040 --> 00:11:12,160 Speaker 6: entire time that she's been traveling and been actively involved 169 00:11:12,160 --> 00:11:13,240 Speaker 6: in the decision making. 170 00:11:13,480 --> 00:11:13,880 Speaker 1: So thank you. 171 00:11:13,960 --> 00:11:15,800 Speaker 6: Very much to all up here, and the mayor looks 172 00:11:15,800 --> 00:11:17,959 Speaker 6: forward to meeting you very shortly this morning. 173 00:11:18,320 --> 00:11:21,640 Speaker 2: Really, there's an eight hour time difference between here and Ghana. 174 00:11:22,280 --> 00:11:27,280 Speaker 2: So how sharp and alert was she? Was she working 175 00:11:27,320 --> 00:11:30,880 Speaker 2: through the middle of the night by her body clock? 176 00:11:31,840 --> 00:11:38,480 Speaker 1: Really? Was she? Was she awake during was she we 177 00:11:38,520 --> 00:11:40,120 Speaker 1: awake during all the fire hours? 178 00:11:40,960 --> 00:11:43,760 Speaker 2: Then if she's on the phone with all those officials 179 00:11:44,240 --> 00:11:48,000 Speaker 2: that Seline Cordero listed, how come there wasn't a water 180 00:11:48,120 --> 00:11:51,640 Speaker 2: supply for the fire department in the Palisades? Did the 181 00:11:51,679 --> 00:11:55,880 Speaker 2: water supply come up with all our meetings? Was there 182 00:11:56,120 --> 00:11:59,480 Speaker 2: those twenty three tweets? I didn't read any of them 183 00:12:00,320 --> 00:12:02,920 Speaker 2: or mention that, hey, we don't have enough water to 184 00:12:02,920 --> 00:12:05,400 Speaker 2: put out the fire. People are just going to have 185 00:12:05,480 --> 00:12:09,920 Speaker 2: to retreat to shelters or hotels and watch their homes 186 00:12:10,000 --> 00:12:14,120 Speaker 2: burn on live television and watch as the firemen are 187 00:12:14,160 --> 00:12:18,640 Speaker 2: forced to stand around either doing nothing or in some cases. 188 00:12:18,679 --> 00:12:21,880 Speaker 2: And I saw this with my own eyes, and I'm 189 00:12:21,920 --> 00:12:24,000 Speaker 2: going to emphasize this. I saw this with my own 190 00:12:24,040 --> 00:12:29,000 Speaker 2: eyes because I know these political these lying political hacks, 191 00:12:29,520 --> 00:12:32,439 Speaker 2: are going to try to rewrite history. Often, I saw 192 00:12:33,280 --> 00:12:37,320 Speaker 2: no firefighters in front of these homes. I saw a 193 00:12:37,360 --> 00:12:42,000 Speaker 2: school burn and nobody was there because they didn't have 194 00:12:42,040 --> 00:12:47,400 Speaker 2: water or there wasn't enough personnel. And why would there 195 00:12:47,440 --> 00:12:52,080 Speaker 2: not be enough personnel? We'll get to that, but it 196 00:12:52,120 --> 00:12:59,200 Speaker 2: looks like guess who the mayor from Ghana apparently cut 197 00:13:00,240 --> 00:13:03,360 Speaker 2: anywhere from seventeen to twenty three million dollars out of 198 00:13:03,360 --> 00:13:08,320 Speaker 2: the budget for the fire department. Yeah, you know why, 199 00:13:09,120 --> 00:13:14,040 Speaker 2: because the homeless budget is larger than the fire department budget. 200 00:13:14,240 --> 00:13:15,360 Speaker 1: Just learn that today too. 201 00:13:18,000 --> 00:13:20,920 Speaker 2: It takes some kind of disaster before everyone in the 202 00:13:20,960 --> 00:13:22,320 Speaker 2: media starts doing their job. 203 00:13:22,400 --> 00:13:24,839 Speaker 1: And oh, look at that. We spend more money on. 204 00:13:24,840 --> 00:13:29,000 Speaker 2: The homeless who start a lot of the fires, than 205 00:13:29,040 --> 00:13:34,000 Speaker 2: we do on the fire department. By the way, what 206 00:13:34,280 --> 00:13:38,040 Speaker 2: started this fire up in the Palisades. 207 00:13:38,600 --> 00:13:39,400 Speaker 1: They don't know yet. 208 00:13:45,360 --> 00:13:49,520 Speaker 2: And if it turns out to be a vagrant, some 209 00:13:49,600 --> 00:13:53,120 Speaker 2: kind of filthy vagrant living up in the weeds, are 210 00:13:53,160 --> 00:13:54,680 Speaker 2: they going to tell us or are they going to lie? 211 00:13:56,240 --> 00:13:58,440 Speaker 2: And is the news media going to amplify the lie 212 00:13:58,559 --> 00:14:00,240 Speaker 2: just like they did for the last four year years 213 00:14:00,240 --> 00:14:05,280 Speaker 2: about Joe Biden, Like who are we supposed to believe? 214 00:14:06,040 --> 00:14:08,560 Speaker 2: When they finally come out with the real story as 215 00:14:08,600 --> 00:14:13,640 Speaker 2: to what started the fire. I have no idea, but 216 00:14:13,840 --> 00:14:19,120 Speaker 2: I know for a fact that they cover these situations 217 00:14:19,200 --> 00:14:23,640 Speaker 2: up because they don't want to stigmatize or feed into stereotypes. 218 00:14:26,000 --> 00:14:28,520 Speaker 2: So we'll be on the alert. We'll see if we 219 00:14:28,560 --> 00:14:35,600 Speaker 2: can find the truth. Here's here's a clip of LA 220 00:14:35,640 --> 00:14:38,880 Speaker 2: County Fire Chief Anthony Moron questioned from an La Times 221 00:14:38,880 --> 00:14:41,560 Speaker 2: report of Grace twoy if the crews were prepared and 222 00:14:41,600 --> 00:14:45,080 Speaker 2: had enough resources to fight fires of this magnitude got 223 00:14:45,080 --> 00:14:45,760 Speaker 2: to no. 224 00:14:46,080 --> 00:14:49,640 Speaker 7: La County and all twenty nine fire departments in our 225 00:14:49,720 --> 00:14:54,560 Speaker 7: county are not prepared for this type of widespread disaster. 226 00:14:55,360 --> 00:14:58,760 Speaker 7: There are not enough firefighters in La County to address 227 00:14:58,920 --> 00:15:04,560 Speaker 7: four separate fires of this magnitude. We were prepared. We 228 00:15:04,680 --> 00:15:09,840 Speaker 7: did get state preposition resources that came from northern California 229 00:15:09,880 --> 00:15:12,560 Speaker 7: that were up in the Santa Clarita Valley. We did 230 00:15:12,640 --> 00:15:16,520 Speaker 7: hire additional firefighters from the La County Fire Department and 231 00:15:16,640 --> 00:15:20,760 Speaker 7: prepositioned them in the Santa Monica Mountains. The La County 232 00:15:20,760 --> 00:15:26,720 Speaker 7: Fire Department was prepared for one or two major brush fires, 233 00:15:26,760 --> 00:15:31,960 Speaker 7: but not four, especially given these sustained winds and low humidities. 234 00:15:32,440 --> 00:15:35,640 Speaker 7: Like our director of Emergency Management said, this is not 235 00:15:36,200 --> 00:15:41,160 Speaker 7: a normal red flag blurt. People were calling for help. 236 00:15:41,240 --> 00:15:43,440 Speaker 7: We tried to get them the help that they needed. 237 00:15:44,040 --> 00:15:47,240 Speaker 7: La County right now, like the La City Fire Department 238 00:15:47,920 --> 00:15:52,720 Speaker 7: is prioritizing life safety, but we were also engaging in 239 00:15:52,840 --> 00:15:58,520 Speaker 7: structured defense, perimeter control, and aerial operations. Remember that the 240 00:15:58,680 --> 00:16:03,760 Speaker 7: La County Fire Department has thirteen aerial assets available to it. 241 00:16:04,400 --> 00:16:07,120 Speaker 7: In addition to our agency owned helicopters. We have our 242 00:16:07,160 --> 00:16:11,000 Speaker 7: two col four fifteen super Scoopers and our CH forty seven, 243 00:16:11,320 --> 00:16:15,160 Speaker 7: which is part of the three County QRF. So we're 244 00:16:15,200 --> 00:16:19,320 Speaker 7: prepared to keep fighting the fight. Like I said earlier, 245 00:16:19,600 --> 00:16:24,360 Speaker 7: I've requested additional resources not only from northern California, but 246 00:16:24,440 --> 00:16:28,680 Speaker 7: from out of state. We did that last night yesterday. 247 00:16:29,680 --> 00:16:33,000 Speaker 7: So we're doing the very best we can. But no, 248 00:16:33,440 --> 00:16:37,400 Speaker 7: we don't have enough fire personnel in La County between 249 00:16:37,440 --> 00:16:39,200 Speaker 7: all of the departments to handle this. 250 00:16:40,440 --> 00:16:46,000 Speaker 2: And is that because of they didn't allocate enough money? 251 00:16:46,880 --> 00:16:48,600 Speaker 2: How much is it that they don't How much of 252 00:16:48,600 --> 00:16:50,760 Speaker 2: this story is they don't allocate enough money. I know 253 00:16:50,800 --> 00:16:54,720 Speaker 2: in the City of La Karen Bass cut in one 254 00:16:54,800 --> 00:16:59,760 Speaker 2: report seventeen million, another report twenty three million dollars cut 255 00:17:00,320 --> 00:17:02,200 Speaker 2: money from the La city budget. 256 00:17:04,280 --> 00:17:06,680 Speaker 1: So what's the story with the county? Now? 257 00:17:06,720 --> 00:17:09,639 Speaker 2: I know the county and the city are spending billions 258 00:17:09,680 --> 00:17:13,919 Speaker 2: of dollars on homelessness, and they're spending huge amounts of 259 00:17:13,920 --> 00:17:19,480 Speaker 2: money on illegal aliens. So the idea that we don't 260 00:17:19,480 --> 00:17:23,720 Speaker 2: have the resources is garbage. You should spend every last 261 00:17:23,800 --> 00:17:28,439 Speaker 2: dollar on police and fire, and you should arrest the 262 00:17:28,480 --> 00:17:31,920 Speaker 2: homeless people and deport the illegal aliens. We shouldn't be 263 00:17:31,960 --> 00:17:35,080 Speaker 2: spending billions of dollars on those two categories. We should 264 00:17:35,160 --> 00:17:37,439 Speaker 2: be spending the billions of dollars on the fire and 265 00:17:37,480 --> 00:17:41,840 Speaker 2: the police to protect us. Anybody think otherwise? I'd love 266 00:17:41,880 --> 00:17:46,760 Speaker 2: to hear that explanation. All right, when we come back, 267 00:17:46,840 --> 00:17:49,480 Speaker 2: Rick Caruso is going to come on, and then after Rick, 268 00:17:49,560 --> 00:17:52,200 Speaker 2: we're gonna play a clip about the fire hydrants. We're 269 00:17:52,240 --> 00:17:54,480 Speaker 2: going to talk to about the hydrants to Rick, and 270 00:17:54,800 --> 00:17:59,480 Speaker 2: also a clip from this morning's press conference with the 271 00:17:59,640 --> 00:18:04,440 Speaker 2: lad WP chief Genice Kees and the la. 272 00:18:04,520 --> 00:18:06,840 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, isn't she the one making some godly amount 273 00:18:06,840 --> 00:18:07,240 Speaker 1: of money? 274 00:18:08,080 --> 00:18:08,199 Speaker 8: Oh? 275 00:18:08,240 --> 00:18:09,320 Speaker 1: I got to look up her salary. 276 00:18:09,400 --> 00:18:13,920 Speaker 2: She's making some kind of record, unbelievable head smacking salary. 277 00:18:14,040 --> 00:18:16,800 Speaker 3: My power is still out. It's been out since seven? 278 00:18:16,920 --> 00:18:19,920 Speaker 4: Still, yes, And you know what when we called last 279 00:18:20,000 --> 00:18:22,280 Speaker 4: night and I actually actually just texted my husband to 280 00:18:22,280 --> 00:18:25,639 Speaker 4: see if he's called DWP to get an update, you 281 00:18:25,680 --> 00:18:29,200 Speaker 4: can hardly. It's a bad connection. It sounds so horrible. 282 00:18:30,480 --> 00:18:33,960 Speaker 4: And they have no new information. 283 00:18:33,480 --> 00:18:34,119 Speaker 1: They have no answer. 284 00:18:34,240 --> 00:18:36,160 Speaker 3: No, yeah, no, my power has been out since seven 285 00:18:36,280 --> 00:18:36,720 Speaker 3: last night. 286 00:18:38,400 --> 00:18:39,560 Speaker 1: Uh so you have no idea. 287 00:18:39,920 --> 00:18:44,159 Speaker 2: If you know a pole fell over, the wires are 288 00:18:44,200 --> 00:18:45,920 Speaker 2: lying on the ground. Maybe the wires fell on the 289 00:18:45,920 --> 00:18:47,520 Speaker 2: ground and started another wildfire. 290 00:18:47,720 --> 00:18:48,399 Speaker 1: You have no idea. 291 00:18:48,400 --> 00:18:50,800 Speaker 3: I have no idea. Will tell you, They will tell me. 292 00:18:51,400 --> 00:18:53,240 Speaker 1: Well, we're gonna talking to Rick Carus. 293 00:18:53,280 --> 00:18:56,080 Speaker 2: I'm coming up after Debora's news, and then we're also 294 00:18:56,080 --> 00:18:58,520 Speaker 2: going to play a clip of Genie KEINONEZ and I'm 295 00:18:58,520 --> 00:19:00,000 Speaker 2: going to find out what that salary. 296 00:19:00,200 --> 00:19:03,120 Speaker 4: Oh, Michael Monks just sent me a message. Seven hundred 297 00:19:03,160 --> 00:19:04,199 Speaker 4: fifty thousand dollars. 298 00:19:04,200 --> 00:19:08,399 Speaker 2: She makes seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars, Yes, seven 299 00:19:08,560 --> 00:19:09,160 Speaker 2: hundred and. 300 00:19:09,040 --> 00:19:10,720 Speaker 1: Fifty thousand dollars. 301 00:19:10,840 --> 00:19:15,639 Speaker 2: Yes, And there was no water to put out the 302 00:19:15,720 --> 00:19:20,440 Speaker 2: Palisades fire. How much water could you buy for seven 303 00:19:20,520 --> 00:19:23,480 Speaker 2: hundred and fifty thousand dollars? You know what they all 304 00:19:23,520 --> 00:19:26,720 Speaker 2: got to go. Head's got a roll, Head's on a stick. 305 00:19:27,880 --> 00:19:32,200 Speaker 5: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM 306 00:19:32,240 --> 00:19:34,600 Speaker 5: six forty. 307 00:19:33,600 --> 00:19:38,040 Speaker 2: Continuing our coverage of these massive fires over southern California. 308 00:19:38,520 --> 00:19:42,639 Speaker 2: Pacific Palisades really has been devastated, and we're going to 309 00:19:42,720 --> 00:19:45,720 Speaker 2: talk now with Rick Caruso. You're well aware of him. 310 00:19:45,840 --> 00:19:50,360 Speaker 2: The developer ran for mayor last time around owns Palisades village, 311 00:19:50,920 --> 00:19:54,719 Speaker 2: and his village and his family suffered quite a bit 312 00:19:54,760 --> 00:19:58,120 Speaker 2: of loss in these fires, and he has spoken out. 313 00:19:58,160 --> 00:20:01,880 Speaker 2: He was all over television last night about the fire, 314 00:20:01,920 --> 00:20:05,320 Speaker 2: hydrants running drive, the water supply running out for the 315 00:20:05,359 --> 00:20:08,560 Speaker 2: fire department here in La. Let's get Rick on Rick. 316 00:20:08,760 --> 00:20:11,919 Speaker 1: Welcome, Hey John, how are you? 317 00:20:12,640 --> 00:20:15,280 Speaker 2: I'm fine, Ben, how are you? I understand a couple 318 00:20:15,320 --> 00:20:17,160 Speaker 2: of family members may have lost their homes. 319 00:20:18,960 --> 00:20:22,239 Speaker 9: Yeah, we love My daughter lost her home and we 320 00:20:22,320 --> 00:20:25,880 Speaker 9: lost another home. But you know, we're all together and 321 00:20:26,440 --> 00:20:31,360 Speaker 9: we evacuated our home also, But we're all together and 322 00:20:31,480 --> 00:20:35,320 Speaker 9: we're going to get through it and trying to work 323 00:20:35,480 --> 00:20:38,200 Speaker 9: very hard to support the neighborhood and the community up there. 324 00:20:38,240 --> 00:20:41,440 Speaker 9: The devastation, as you talked about, John, it's just it's 325 00:20:41,480 --> 00:20:44,040 Speaker 9: mind blowing. You can't even get your head around it. 326 00:20:44,280 --> 00:20:46,120 Speaker 10: Entire neighborhoods have been wiped. 327 00:20:45,800 --> 00:20:49,160 Speaker 9: Out, and so my heart really goes out to people 328 00:20:49,160 --> 00:20:51,919 Speaker 9: who have lost so much, because, as you know, you 329 00:20:52,040 --> 00:20:54,680 Speaker 9: lose a home, it's not the structure, it's the memories 330 00:20:54,720 --> 00:20:57,919 Speaker 9: and all the things that make life dear. And so 331 00:20:58,040 --> 00:21:03,240 Speaker 9: many small businesses up there is gone, and the fire 332 00:21:03,320 --> 00:21:04,200 Speaker 9: is still, you. 333 00:21:04,160 --> 00:21:04,919 Speaker 10: Know, raging on. 334 00:21:05,080 --> 00:21:07,880 Speaker 9: And uh. But we're going to do everything we can 335 00:21:07,920 --> 00:21:11,919 Speaker 9: do to support, you know, our brave Angelinos and rebuild 336 00:21:12,000 --> 00:21:14,840 Speaker 9: and certainly support our first responders that are fighting a 337 00:21:14,840 --> 00:21:17,680 Speaker 9: good fight. But I think a lot of tough questions 338 00:21:17,720 --> 00:21:18,600 Speaker 9: need to be asked. 339 00:21:19,200 --> 00:21:21,640 Speaker 2: By three in the morning on Wednesday, all the fire 340 00:21:21,760 --> 00:21:25,080 Speaker 2: hydrants and the Palisades area went dry. They ran out 341 00:21:25,080 --> 00:21:29,800 Speaker 2: of water. Nobody understands this. Uh, this is I mean 342 00:21:29,960 --> 00:21:32,399 Speaker 2: we all saw on TV last night, is that homes 343 00:21:32,400 --> 00:21:36,040 Speaker 2: are burning and the firefighters had had had no water 344 00:21:36,160 --> 00:21:39,040 Speaker 2: to put out the blazes. I mean, what you used 345 00:21:39,080 --> 00:21:41,720 Speaker 2: to be a commissioner with the DWP, you got an 346 00:21:41,720 --> 00:21:43,640 Speaker 2: idea specifically what went on here. 347 00:21:45,640 --> 00:21:49,680 Speaker 9: Well, actually the fight, the Heighten stopped working long before 348 00:21:49,800 --> 00:21:52,000 Speaker 9: three o'clock. I think it was about eleven o'clock and 349 00:21:52,320 --> 00:21:56,760 Speaker 9: even earlier the firefighters had been complaining to our people 350 00:21:56,800 --> 00:22:00,280 Speaker 9: about water pressure and then no water. And it's an 351 00:22:00,320 --> 00:22:03,760 Speaker 9: incredible thing to think about, John, this is the second 352 00:22:03,800 --> 00:22:06,919 Speaker 9: largest city in the United States and we don't have 353 00:22:08,200 --> 00:22:12,280 Speaker 9: hydrants at work. We had a warning of this. I 354 00:22:12,280 --> 00:22:15,560 Speaker 9: think we've got a big failure of leadership on this. 355 00:22:15,760 --> 00:22:19,560 Speaker 9: How you cannot be prepared for this now? Certainly it's devastating. 356 00:22:19,560 --> 00:22:23,160 Speaker 9: The winds are terrible. You could have probably never prevented 357 00:22:23,200 --> 00:22:25,399 Speaker 9: all of the damage, but you could have mitigated it. 358 00:22:26,440 --> 00:22:28,760 Speaker 9: And I think it goes back to there's been no 359 00:22:28,880 --> 00:22:33,800 Speaker 9: brush management program. The hills that are controlled by the 360 00:22:33,800 --> 00:22:37,080 Speaker 9: city and the state and the county. You know, those 361 00:22:37,160 --> 00:22:42,000 Speaker 9: haven't been managed. There's been no control burns for decades. 362 00:22:42,040 --> 00:22:45,000 Speaker 9: So you had this enormous amount of fuel and this 363 00:22:45,119 --> 00:22:46,240 Speaker 9: fire just took off. 364 00:22:47,600 --> 00:22:48,560 Speaker 1: Is there a reason for that? 365 00:22:48,640 --> 00:22:50,000 Speaker 9: We've got a lot of tough questions. 366 00:22:50,240 --> 00:22:52,200 Speaker 1: Why wouldn't they do the controlled burns? 367 00:22:53,960 --> 00:22:56,880 Speaker 9: You know, I raised it five years ago. If you remember, 368 00:22:56,920 --> 00:22:59,040 Speaker 9: we had the fire in Brentwood along the four or 369 00:22:59,040 --> 00:23:02,080 Speaker 9: five and thank god it stopped and didn't travel more 370 00:23:02,119 --> 00:23:05,320 Speaker 9: to the west. And I was told the city does 371 00:23:05,400 --> 00:23:08,760 Speaker 9: not have the resources to do it. But all of 372 00:23:08,840 --> 00:23:11,119 Speaker 9: us are old enough we can remember there used to 373 00:23:11,160 --> 00:23:16,720 Speaker 9: be control burns and that hasn't happened. So, you know, 374 00:23:17,080 --> 00:23:19,119 Speaker 9: we've got a lot of challenges in the city, and 375 00:23:20,440 --> 00:23:22,199 Speaker 9: I think at the top of it, we've got to 376 00:23:22,280 --> 00:23:25,800 Speaker 9: ask the questions. You know, who's running in the city. 377 00:23:27,080 --> 00:23:30,640 Speaker 9: Are they capable of making good decisions? And it's not 378 00:23:30,800 --> 00:23:33,399 Speaker 9: just about now, it's about for the last few years. 379 00:23:35,200 --> 00:23:37,479 Speaker 2: But what do you think happened with the water supply? 380 00:23:38,880 --> 00:23:41,119 Speaker 2: I mean, I know it's an extraordinary event, but we 381 00:23:41,240 --> 00:23:43,520 Speaker 2: have those extraordinary events every so often. 382 00:23:44,720 --> 00:23:47,240 Speaker 9: Yeah, well, this isn't the first time the Palisades has 383 00:23:47,280 --> 00:23:50,159 Speaker 9: burnt down either, so it's not like we didn't have 384 00:23:51,840 --> 00:23:55,760 Speaker 9: fair historical warning that this may happen again. It happened 385 00:23:55,800 --> 00:23:59,080 Speaker 9: in the sixties. But what I was told is at 386 00:23:59,080 --> 00:24:01,160 Speaker 9: the reservoirs. 387 00:24:00,600 --> 00:24:02,280 Speaker 10: The hydrants there. 388 00:24:03,760 --> 00:24:07,040 Speaker 9: Are fed by the reservoirs and it's a gravity flow, 389 00:24:07,240 --> 00:24:11,120 Speaker 9: and they didn't manage the water in the reservoirs properly, 390 00:24:11,280 --> 00:24:15,960 Speaker 9: so it depleted and weren't refilling them up quickly enough. 391 00:24:16,119 --> 00:24:19,399 Speaker 9: So from what I can see, I could be wrong, 392 00:24:19,440 --> 00:24:21,080 Speaker 9: But for what I can see is there is just 393 00:24:21,680 --> 00:24:25,560 Speaker 9: complete lack of proper management of this, and I think 394 00:24:25,560 --> 00:24:29,919 Speaker 9: it's negligence. I think the city is, unfortunately, is going 395 00:24:29,960 --> 00:24:33,119 Speaker 9: to be in a very libeless situation for the billions 396 00:24:33,119 --> 00:24:38,920 Speaker 9: of dollars of losses in the Palisades. But well, we 397 00:24:39,040 --> 00:24:41,960 Speaker 9: got to really start focusing on in the next days 398 00:24:42,000 --> 00:24:44,760 Speaker 9: and weeks. We've got to hunker down. We've got to 399 00:24:44,800 --> 00:24:49,440 Speaker 9: support people that don't have the financial means, lost their homes, 400 00:24:49,600 --> 00:24:52,879 Speaker 9: lost their businesses. We've got to get people back on 401 00:24:52,920 --> 00:24:55,199 Speaker 9: their feet, and then we've got to start rebuilding in 402 00:24:55,280 --> 00:24:59,760 Speaker 9: this city. I pray to God cuts all the red tape, 403 00:25:00,359 --> 00:25:04,400 Speaker 9: gets behind people and helps people rebuild. And let's get 404 00:25:04,440 --> 00:25:06,679 Speaker 9: out of the business of making life difficult in this 405 00:25:06,760 --> 00:25:11,400 Speaker 9: city and let's support support these families because not everybody's 406 00:25:11,400 --> 00:25:14,920 Speaker 9: wealthy in the Palisades, and most of the businesses of 407 00:25:14,960 --> 00:25:19,120 Speaker 9: the Palisades are small, independent businesses that just don't have resources. 408 00:25:20,280 --> 00:25:22,520 Speaker 2: Yeah, if it's the same people that didn't have a 409 00:25:22,560 --> 00:25:25,960 Speaker 2: brush clearing program for all these years or decades and 410 00:25:26,320 --> 00:25:30,560 Speaker 2: didn't have the water system working properly, you're going to 411 00:25:31,320 --> 00:25:34,680 Speaker 2: I don't know what to expect to try to help 412 00:25:34,760 --> 00:25:39,600 Speaker 2: rebuild the people's lives. It's the same people running LA. 413 00:25:41,440 --> 00:25:47,280 Speaker 9: Well, I mean, that's unfortunately, that's a problem, and I 414 00:25:47,720 --> 00:25:50,480 Speaker 9: hope this city starts really thinking. 415 00:25:50,200 --> 00:25:51,719 Speaker 10: About who they're electing an office. 416 00:25:51,720 --> 00:25:53,880 Speaker 9: And it's not about me. When I ran, I ran, 417 00:25:53,960 --> 00:25:56,240 Speaker 9: I did my best and I launched and that's the 418 00:25:56,280 --> 00:25:59,679 Speaker 9: way the system works. And I fully accept that. But 419 00:25:59,760 --> 00:26:04,880 Speaker 9: going forward, leadership matters, and we've got to be electing 420 00:26:04,920 --> 00:26:11,280 Speaker 9: people that actually are qualified and capable to make good 421 00:26:11,320 --> 00:26:15,399 Speaker 9: decisions and put the priority of saving lives making our 422 00:26:15,440 --> 00:26:18,800 Speaker 9: lives safe. The fact that our mayor and city council 423 00:26:18,960 --> 00:26:22,600 Speaker 9: cut the budget of the fire department two months ago 424 00:26:24,200 --> 00:26:28,720 Speaker 9: is absolutely unacceptable. And here's what we've got to show 425 00:26:28,760 --> 00:26:29,880 Speaker 9: for why. 426 00:26:30,760 --> 00:26:32,080 Speaker 1: I mean, I saw that story. 427 00:26:32,160 --> 00:26:34,920 Speaker 2: Why would they cut the fire department of all places, 428 00:26:36,160 --> 00:26:36,600 Speaker 2: because they. 429 00:26:36,680 --> 00:26:40,240 Speaker 9: Completely mismanaged the finances of the city. The city has a. 430 00:26:40,200 --> 00:26:41,960 Speaker 10: Deficit of half a billion dollars. 431 00:26:42,400 --> 00:26:46,119 Speaker 9: They gave a whole bunch of people raises. We've got 432 00:26:46,600 --> 00:26:49,520 Speaker 9: fire stations and I talked about this when I was 433 00:26:49,600 --> 00:26:51,920 Speaker 9: running for mayor. We have fire stations throughout the city 434 00:26:51,920 --> 00:26:54,959 Speaker 9: that are closed because they don't even have the resources 435 00:26:54,960 --> 00:27:01,880 Speaker 9: to open. The mismanagement is that the highest level, and 436 00:27:02,840 --> 00:27:05,359 Speaker 9: it really did, and it still does today. It looks 437 00:27:05,400 --> 00:27:08,199 Speaker 9: like a third world city out there. It's still burning. 438 00:27:10,440 --> 00:27:14,080 Speaker 2: I know, it's overwhelming. What's burning? And you talk about 439 00:27:14,119 --> 00:27:17,360 Speaker 2: a third world Look, I mean, there's so much garbage 440 00:27:17,440 --> 00:27:20,920 Speaker 2: lying around the city. I'm sure you've seen. It's appalling. 441 00:27:21,000 --> 00:27:23,199 Speaker 2: Every time you stop at a traffic light or you 442 00:27:23,240 --> 00:27:27,359 Speaker 2: stop near a freeway on ramp and you just see 443 00:27:27,720 --> 00:27:30,360 Speaker 2: mounds of garbage. It looks like nobody's picked it up 444 00:27:30,600 --> 00:27:33,760 Speaker 2: in weeks or months. And I always look out and say, well, 445 00:27:33,760 --> 00:27:36,119 Speaker 2: what are the city workers doing all day? What is 446 00:27:36,119 --> 00:27:39,359 Speaker 2: the city management doing all day? Because the place looks 447 00:27:39,359 --> 00:27:40,480 Speaker 2: filthy much of the time. 448 00:27:42,040 --> 00:27:44,240 Speaker 9: And you got to demand more, Johnny, We got to 449 00:27:44,240 --> 00:27:46,840 Speaker 9: demand more. The residents got to demand more. They deserve it. 450 00:27:46,840 --> 00:27:47,919 Speaker 9: They'd pay a lot of taxes. 451 00:27:47,960 --> 00:27:48,960 Speaker 10: We don't be a lot of taxes. 452 00:27:49,040 --> 00:27:52,040 Speaker 9: Yeah, very expensive to live in the city. It should 453 00:27:52,040 --> 00:27:55,520 Speaker 9: be clean, should be safe, it should be a happy, 454 00:27:55,560 --> 00:28:00,879 Speaker 9: wonderful place. They have a business and we're just not there. Well, 455 00:28:00,720 --> 00:28:03,200 Speaker 9: we got to change it, and and we're going to 456 00:28:03,280 --> 00:28:05,679 Speaker 9: change it by rebuilding the Palisades and some of these 457 00:28:05,720 --> 00:28:09,360 Speaker 9: other communities in a way that will be everlasting. 458 00:28:11,320 --> 00:28:12,760 Speaker 2: Well, I know you're going to be a big part 459 00:28:12,800 --> 00:28:17,040 Speaker 2: of it are our sympathies for the losses you and 460 00:28:17,080 --> 00:28:19,919 Speaker 2: your family have suffered. And uh, you're right, we just 461 00:28:19,920 --> 00:28:22,600 Speaker 2: got to move forward and start rebuilding. But we needed, 462 00:28:22,680 --> 00:28:24,879 Speaker 2: we need a complete changeover. 463 00:28:26,040 --> 00:28:28,119 Speaker 9: Yes we do. But we're going to lean in heavily. 464 00:28:28,200 --> 00:28:29,480 Speaker 9: The Crusoe family is going to. 465 00:28:29,520 --> 00:28:30,159 Speaker 10: Lean in heavily. 466 00:28:30,200 --> 00:28:33,440 Speaker 9: And I know you and your family are great Angelano's 467 00:28:33,440 --> 00:28:36,240 Speaker 9: and we'll do the same. And we're a strong city. 468 00:28:36,280 --> 00:28:37,320 Speaker 10: So we're going to bring it back. 469 00:28:37,560 --> 00:28:40,960 Speaker 9: And Uh, that Palacease community is such a dear, wonderful 470 00:28:41,320 --> 00:28:42,360 Speaker 9: that's beautiful town. 471 00:28:43,080 --> 00:28:45,960 Speaker 2: Oh that's a beautiful town. I mean I've lived right 472 00:28:46,000 --> 00:28:49,560 Speaker 2: next door and we're there all the time. And places 473 00:28:49,560 --> 00:28:53,440 Speaker 2: that we've gone to for years have been destroyed. I 474 00:28:53,560 --> 00:28:56,560 Speaker 2: was just there yesterday yesterday morning. 475 00:28:58,160 --> 00:28:59,120 Speaker 10: Yeah, we were. 476 00:28:59,160 --> 00:29:02,440 Speaker 2: We did we did hike and pertare a canyon and 477 00:29:02,560 --> 00:29:05,480 Speaker 2: all the blocks that we drove up and down yesterday morning, 478 00:29:05,600 --> 00:29:08,440 Speaker 2: all the homes are destroyed. Twenty four hours later. It's 479 00:29:08,520 --> 00:29:09,680 Speaker 2: it's it's overwhelming. 480 00:29:11,000 --> 00:29:13,640 Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, it is overwhelming. 481 00:29:13,680 --> 00:29:15,680 Speaker 10: It's going to take a massive us it's to rebuild. 482 00:29:16,400 --> 00:29:19,760 Speaker 2: All right, Rick, we'll talk again soon, all right, talked 483 00:29:19,760 --> 00:29:23,600 Speaker 2: to you later, Yeah, Rick, Caruso. Thanks, all right, bye, 484 00:29:24,000 --> 00:29:28,320 Speaker 2: we will continue John Cobelt Show KFI AM six forty. 485 00:29:29,280 --> 00:29:33,640 Speaker 5: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM 486 00:29:33,640 --> 00:29:34,200 Speaker 5: six forty. 487 00:29:35,160 --> 00:29:40,160 Speaker 2: We just finished speaking with Rick Caruso, the developer, and uh, 488 00:29:40,720 --> 00:29:43,680 Speaker 2: you know, part of his shopping center in the Palisades 489 00:29:43,800 --> 00:29:48,440 Speaker 2: was damaged by fire, and his his family had I 490 00:29:48,480 --> 00:29:51,600 Speaker 2: think the daughter had one home destroyed and his son 491 00:29:51,760 --> 00:29:55,320 Speaker 2: had another home I think damaged. I'm not sure how badly, 492 00:29:55,360 --> 00:29:57,160 Speaker 2: but you know he's right in the thick of it 493 00:29:57,640 --> 00:30:00,720 Speaker 2: and in the Palisades, and he used to be on 494 00:30:00,760 --> 00:30:04,840 Speaker 2: the Water Board Commission or the Department of Water and 495 00:30:04,960 --> 00:30:09,240 Speaker 2: Power Commission, And I want to play for you. As 496 00:30:09,320 --> 00:30:16,560 Speaker 2: part of this morning's press conference the LADWP head Genice 497 00:30:16,640 --> 00:30:22,000 Speaker 2: Quinones and the LA Fire Department Chief Kristin Crowley. LA 498 00:30:22,080 --> 00:30:26,200 Speaker 2: Times reporter David Zaneiser asked about the water being shut 499 00:30:26,240 --> 00:30:29,239 Speaker 2: off in some hydrants in the Palisades and if the 500 00:30:29,280 --> 00:30:31,280 Speaker 2: whole system needs to be overhauled. 501 00:30:31,320 --> 00:30:34,200 Speaker 8: Listen to this, so, Chief, please correct me if I'm wrong, 502 00:30:34,240 --> 00:30:37,800 Speaker 8: But we were trying to keep water at all altitudes 503 00:30:37,840 --> 00:30:40,800 Speaker 8: on the Palisades, and I think about three in the morning, 504 00:30:40,920 --> 00:30:46,360 Speaker 8: dusk when the hydrants went dry off the Brainwood area. 505 00:30:46,800 --> 00:30:48,920 Speaker 8: We are able to push water on the on that 506 00:30:49,840 --> 00:30:52,160 Speaker 8: on that trunk line on the east side of that, 507 00:30:53,360 --> 00:30:56,160 Speaker 8: and we have some water on higher elevations sixteen to 508 00:30:56,160 --> 00:30:58,680 Speaker 8: eighteen thousand, But at three thousand, all of the at 509 00:30:58,680 --> 00:31:02,200 Speaker 8: three am, all of the fire hydrants when dry, and 510 00:31:02,280 --> 00:31:05,960 Speaker 8: the palisades. To your question of climate resiliency and how 511 00:31:05,960 --> 00:31:09,680 Speaker 8: do we need to update the system, I would say 512 00:31:09,760 --> 00:31:12,000 Speaker 8: that that is true. We were talking with the county 513 00:31:12,000 --> 00:31:15,600 Speaker 8: supervisor and Mark on how are we going to change 514 00:31:15,640 --> 00:31:19,040 Speaker 8: the way we operate our water systems for events like this. 515 00:31:19,040 --> 00:31:21,640 Speaker 8: This is an unprecedented event. I think the twenty eleven 516 00:31:21,960 --> 00:31:25,000 Speaker 8: winds was significant from a power Irish perspective, but the 517 00:31:25,040 --> 00:31:28,200 Speaker 8: fires have really increased. 518 00:31:27,640 --> 00:31:33,920 Speaker 2: The second hold on. Now they're going to reevaluate the 519 00:31:33,960 --> 00:31:38,480 Speaker 2: water system. Now they're going to after all the hydrants 520 00:31:38,760 --> 00:31:43,720 Speaker 2: go dry and a thousand structures burn in the palis age. 521 00:31:44,000 --> 00:31:47,280 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, you know that's something that we got to discuss. Yeah, 522 00:31:47,320 --> 00:31:50,480 Speaker 2: we might have to reevaluate. What do you this should 523 00:31:50,480 --> 00:31:55,400 Speaker 2: have been done years ago? You just found out now 524 00:31:55,680 --> 00:32:00,760 Speaker 2: you don't have enough water for not even one day's 525 00:32:00,760 --> 00:32:05,440 Speaker 2: worth fire coverage. That fire was first reported at ten 526 00:32:05,560 --> 00:32:11,720 Speaker 2: thirty in the morning. Now eighteen let's call it seventeen 527 00:32:11,760 --> 00:32:17,920 Speaker 2: hours later the water runs out. And it's not like 528 00:32:17,960 --> 00:32:20,400 Speaker 2: they haven't had fires in the hills before. We've all 529 00:32:20,440 --> 00:32:23,320 Speaker 2: seen what happens in the hills. You know exactly how 530 00:32:23,320 --> 00:32:27,240 Speaker 2: many structures you have. You know that the Santa Ana wins. 531 00:32:28,160 --> 00:32:30,640 Speaker 2: Everybody knows they can go up forty sixty eighty, one 532 00:32:30,680 --> 00:32:35,160 Speaker 2: hundred miles an hour. This is all historically has gone 533 00:32:35,200 --> 00:32:37,880 Speaker 2: on since La was settled. We've been aware of this. 534 00:32:40,480 --> 00:32:44,960 Speaker 2: Don't they have all the latest computer technology, computer analysis 535 00:32:45,080 --> 00:32:49,440 Speaker 2: AI technology. Don't they know exactly what could happen if 536 00:32:49,520 --> 00:32:51,360 Speaker 2: you have sixty. 537 00:32:51,080 --> 00:32:54,000 Speaker 1: Eighty mile an hour winds that. 538 00:32:56,040 --> 00:33:01,800 Speaker 2: A fire suddenly takes off, What it could do and 539 00:33:01,920 --> 00:33:04,160 Speaker 2: how much what are you gonna need? Of course they 540 00:33:04,200 --> 00:33:10,560 Speaker 2: could calculate that, unless they're doing it on a handheld calculator. 541 00:33:10,680 --> 00:33:12,680 Speaker 2: They don't have the money for the computer technology and 542 00:33:12,720 --> 00:33:16,080 Speaker 2: the analysis. They should have it, right, and then you 543 00:33:16,280 --> 00:33:20,160 Speaker 2: have enough water stored and enough order transported. And now 544 00:33:20,240 --> 00:33:21,920 Speaker 2: she's going, well, yeah, we have to look at it. 545 00:33:22,440 --> 00:33:24,280 Speaker 2: You have to look at it again. She should be 546 00:33:24,360 --> 00:33:30,480 Speaker 2: fired too. She should go with Karen Bass Colossal mismanagement, 547 00:33:30,560 --> 00:33:34,320 Speaker 2: colossal mistake. And by the way, ye know, but she's 548 00:33:34,400 --> 00:33:37,680 Speaker 2: making this lady is making seven hundred and fifty thousand 549 00:33:37,720 --> 00:33:42,840 Speaker 2: dollars a year. When she got hired in twenty twenty three, 550 00:33:45,200 --> 00:33:50,080 Speaker 2: she was hired with a three hundred thousand dollars increase 551 00:33:50,280 --> 00:33:55,680 Speaker 2: over the previous general manager, Marty Adams. Marty Adams made 552 00:33:56,200 --> 00:34:03,240 Speaker 2: four hundred forty seven thousand dollars. This canon is lady 553 00:34:03,360 --> 00:34:06,520 Speaker 2: is making seven hundred and fifty one thousand, three hundred 554 00:34:06,600 --> 00:34:10,440 Speaker 2: thousand dollars more. The first big test of her tenure 555 00:34:11,040 --> 00:34:13,520 Speaker 2: get water to the Palisades for the big fire. 556 00:34:13,960 --> 00:34:14,880 Speaker 1: They run out. 557 00:34:17,520 --> 00:34:21,879 Speaker 2: And her response says, yeah, we gotta look at that, Yeah, 558 00:34:21,920 --> 00:34:27,239 Speaker 2: we gotta look at that. What is wrong with these well, 559 00:34:27,360 --> 00:34:31,920 Speaker 2: listen to them, Listen to them. What do you think 560 00:34:32,080 --> 00:34:43,680 Speaker 2: is wrong? Double digit IQs, that's what's wrong? Room temperature 561 00:34:43,719 --> 00:34:46,280 Speaker 2: IQs in some cases. 562 00:34:46,880 --> 00:34:48,560 Speaker 1: Never never. 563 00:34:50,080 --> 00:34:53,680 Speaker 2: Underestimate the damage that low IQ people can do when 564 00:34:53,719 --> 00:35:01,680 Speaker 2: they get into powerful government positions. It's it, you know, 565 00:35:01,800 --> 00:35:04,960 Speaker 2: And next hour I got I gotta get into the 566 00:35:05,040 --> 00:35:08,440 Speaker 2: disparity between the amount of money that is spent on 567 00:35:08,600 --> 00:35:11,320 Speaker 2: homelessness versus the amount of money that they spend on 568 00:35:11,400 --> 00:35:19,160 Speaker 2: the Los Angeles Fire Department. It's a big difference. And 569 00:35:19,560 --> 00:35:23,160 Speaker 2: Jennie Kine, is you work on that new water supply idea. 570 00:35:23,760 --> 00:35:27,320 Speaker 2: That's a good one. Glad you noticed. We're gonna have 571 00:35:27,360 --> 00:35:29,640 Speaker 2: Michael Monks on next. He's gonna have all the latest 572 00:35:29,680 --> 00:35:32,600 Speaker 2: details about the many fires that are blown up all 573 00:35:32,640 --> 00:35:34,959 Speaker 2: over the place, and we're gonna keep on this case. 574 00:35:35,120 --> 00:35:37,440 Speaker 2: Today is the day enough is enough. We have to 575 00:35:37,600 --> 00:35:40,759 Speaker 2: stop putting up with Karen Bass and stop putting up 576 00:35:40,800 --> 00:35:43,400 Speaker 2: with Genie Knonas and all the rest of these clowns. 577 00:35:43,760 --> 00:35:44,480 Speaker 1: They're terrible. 578 00:35:44,600 --> 00:35:48,719 Speaker 2: They're costing people lives, people's lives, They're costing billions of 579 00:35:48,719 --> 00:35:54,640 Speaker 2: dollars worth of property. Debor Mark Lyveen the KFI twenty 580 00:35:54,680 --> 00:35:57,000 Speaker 2: four our newsroom. Hey, you've been listening to the John 581 00:35:57,080 --> 00:35:59,680 Speaker 2: Cobalt Show podcast. You can always hear the show live 582 00:36:00,080 --> 00:36:02,879 Speaker 2: KFI Am six forty from one to four pm every 583 00:36:02,960 --> 00:36:05,840 Speaker 2: Monday through Friday, and of course anytime on demand on 584 00:36:05,920 --> 00:36:07,120 Speaker 2: the iHeartRadio app.