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Speaker 1: Can't find AM six forty. You're listening to the John

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Speaker 1: Cobalt podcast on the iHeartRadio apps. All right, we're listening

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Speaker 1: to Nathan Hakman give the latest information on the wildfires

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Speaker 1: in Los Angeles and keep.

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Speaker 2: Us safe and secure during these tragic times. With over

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Speaker 2: two hundred thousand Angelino's cooperating with evacuation.

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Speaker 3: Orders in order to make sure that they get out.

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Speaker 2: Of harm's way, allow firefighters and first responders in law

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Speaker 2: enforcements do their business. There have been certain people that

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Speaker 2: we have given a warning to because we anticipated that

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Speaker 2: this was going to happen, and these are the criminals.

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Speaker 2: These are the people who are seeking to exploit this

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Speaker 2: tragedy for their own benefit. These are people who have

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Speaker 2: engaged in looting arson. We've also investigated price gouging, will

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Speaker 2: be investigating internet scams and the like. Today we're here

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Speaker 2: to announced that the promise that we made when we

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Speaker 3: As we announced.

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Speaker 2: Today the charges being filed on ten different individuals, nine

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Speaker 2: of them for looting in both the Palisades and the

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Speaker 2: not connected with the origination of the major fires, but

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Speaker 2: in arson that occurred in Azusa. These felony charges are

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Speaker 2: the result of a multi agency collaboration. There's been nothing

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Speaker 2: short of incredibly impressive to be able to bring these

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Speaker 2: Sheriff's Department, the Los Angeles Police Department, the Los Angeles

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Speaker 2: County Fire Arson Unit, the US Attorney's Office, the Federal

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Speaker 2: Bureau of Investigation, the Bureau of Alcohol, all tobacco, firearms

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Speaker 2: and explosives, the ATF, Los Angeles City Attorney's Office, and

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Speaker 2: all our related cities that you'll hear about that have

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Speaker 2: done incredible work under enormously stressful times in order to

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Speaker 2: bring these culprits to justice. I'll go through the various

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Speaker 2: charges that have been filed to date. The first set

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Speaker 2: of charges are against two individuals exculd ME three individuals,

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Speaker 2: Martrell Peoples, Damari Bell, and Travin Coleman. What two of

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Speaker 2: these individuals did is on the night of both January

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Speaker 2: eighth and the early morning hours of January ninth, they

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Speaker 2: in Mandeville Canyon. They have been charged with first degree

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Speaker 2: residential burglary. They've been charged with looting. They've been charged

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Speaker 3: And by the way, with.

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Speaker 2: Respect to the charges I'm going to announce, please know this,

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Speaker 2: the charges themselves are not evidence. Everyone that I'm going

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Speaker 2: beyond a reasonable doubt. I'm sure, excuse me, presumed innocent,

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Speaker 2: Thank you for the change. Presumed innocent until and aless

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Speaker 2: their guilt is proven beyond a reasonable doubt. So back

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Speaker 2: with mister Peeples and mister Bell. They went ahead and

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Speaker 2: committed these crimes. And when they committed these crimes, as

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Speaker 2: if you can play that as we're speaking, and the

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Speaker 2: LAPD through again such impressive investigation worked with various leads

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Speaker 2: committed to prior violent or serious felonies. This is his

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Speaker 3: They have been charged with.

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Speaker 2: Two counts of each of first degree residential burglary in

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Speaker 2: first degree residential burglary in connection with their crimes where

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Speaker 3: Award of the resident who lived there.

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Speaker 1: That was.

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Speaker 2: The police worked incredibly quickly in that situation, stopped these

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Speaker 2: incident in which Jose Harado Escobar has been charged.

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Speaker 3: We have that ready. This is an incident that occurred

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Speaker 2: Where mister Escobar has been charged with three different arson charges.

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Speaker 2: He is looking at nine years in state prison. This

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Speaker 3: Mister Escobar as well has.

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Speaker 2: Now he's been charged, but he has set for arraiment today.

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Speaker 2: So again with respect to all these charges, as I

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Speaker 3: But this shows the effectiveness of law enforcement.

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Speaker 2: So when I said, and I have been saying over

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Speaker 2: these crimes. The ten charges or ten different individuals that

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Speaker 2: the warning shot remains.

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Speaker 3: Do not go ahead and engage in looting, engage.

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Speaker 2: In internet scams, engage in price gouging, do not violate

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Speaker 2: of the people who have suffered from these various fires.

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Speaker 2: What I'd like to now do is introduce both Los

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Speaker 2: Police Department Deputy Chief Alan Hamilton provide further words.

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Speaker 4: Good afternoon. My name is Blake Chell, to be lak

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Speaker 4: e C. How you know. I just want to say

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Speaker 4: on behalf of the Los Angeles Police Department.

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Speaker 1: If you've followed this.

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Speaker 4: Whole incident all week, we've been standing together as a

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Speaker 4: regional team of the sheriff just took attorney. Thank you,

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Speaker 4: mister Hawkman, City attorney, Supervisors, city council members. Because the

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Speaker 4: only way we're going to have an impact and keep

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Speaker 4: operate as a team. And I will tell you in

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Speaker 4: the Palisades area and the fires that we've experienced in

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Speaker 4: Los Angeles, isn't it bad enough? We have forty thousand

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Speaker 4: then we get a handful of people that want to

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Speaker 4: enough that they have to worry about their properties and

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Speaker 1: But now we're gonna go trade out here. Nathan Hawkman

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Speaker 1: was just on and they're going after thieves and arsonists.

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Speaker 1: I know you couldn't see it, but they He had

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Speaker 1: some pretty frightening video of a gang of young men

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Speaker 1: looking home, and they were there to steal a lot.

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Speaker 1: And if you notice, several of the suspects, they already

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Speaker 1: have criminal records. They already had two felony strikes against them,

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Speaker 1: but of course they were let out. This is what

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Speaker 1: I'm saying, What do you think is going to happen?

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Speaker 1: If guys with felony strikes are let out, they're gonna

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Speaker 1: steal more stuff. Boy, this is dramatically different from the

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Speaker 1: that was really good to hear. So Nathan Hawkman was

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Speaker 1: and we'll we'll tell you more about that later on,

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Speaker 1: but we just wanted to have a taste that that,

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Speaker 1: you know, there's some people now who are taking over

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Speaker 1: Next is the mayor. We've we've Karen Bass has to

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Speaker 1: be forced to resign and and that that petition could

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Speaker 1: help here. This is one of the few times maybe

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Speaker 1: an online symbolic petition might have some some worth. We

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Speaker 1: the resignation of Mayor Karen Bass. Go to change dot org.

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Speaker 5: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI Am

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Speaker 5: six forty.

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Speaker 1: I want to play for you now. I spent most

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Speaker 1: Genie Kinone is the CEO of the LADWP and that

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Speaker 1: empty reservoir in the Palisades. One hundred and seventeen million

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Speaker 1: and so the water would get contaminated. They had to

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Speaker 1: a month, well eleven months after they closed the reservoir

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Speaker 1: in February of last year. Eleven months later it was

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Speaker 1: still closed. And there's no excuse for this. It should

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Speaker 1: have taken a month and you absolutely should should have

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Speaker 1: had it ready for the fire season. Okay, despite what

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Speaker 1: Newsom says, the fire season is not all year round.

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Speaker 1: The fire season starts in the fall when you have

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Speaker 1: Santa Ana wins. Santa Ana wins are very common in January.

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Speaker 1: We've had other major fires in January. All right, there's

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Speaker 1: no excuse for this. You certainly don't don't have it

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Speaker 1: closed for September, October, November, December, all right, and January.

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Speaker 1: You don't have that closed. You have the problem fixed

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Speaker 1: and you have the water available. And if you're afraid

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Speaker 1: the water's contaminated, contaminated water can water contaminated with bird

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Speaker 1: droppings can still put out a fire. I mean, I

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Speaker 1: cannot believe the quotes that I'm seeing in these news

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Speaker 1: articles from these seats, bone headed, blockheaded, lying bureaucrats and

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Speaker 1: political officials. Yes, would have had a huge effect. Yes,

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Speaker 1: it would have saved a lot of homes. Everybody knows

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Speaker 1: that this is how bad the lying and the gas

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Speaker 1: lightings become. They try to convince you that one hundred

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Speaker 1: and seventeen million gallons of water isn't going to put

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Speaker 1: out anybody's home. Oh, for goodness sake, stop it. I'd

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Speaker 1: like to dump one hundred and seventeen million gallons on

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Speaker 1: the offices of the DWP and then they can come

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Speaker 1: back and tell me it has no effect. The CEO

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Speaker 1: of the LEDWP Ganise Kenones, and I'm said this several

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Speaker 1: times already. I'm gonna keep saying it. She's got two jobs.

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Speaker 1: Make sure water gets transported, make sure power gets transported.

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Speaker 6: Yes. Yeah, and that's the number one thing that attracted

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Speaker 1: Do you believe that? Does it make your stomach sick?

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Speaker 1: I don't even know what that means. You deliver water

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Speaker 1: and she's looking through her equity lens. What does that

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Speaker 1: Pacific Palisades burning to the ground, arsonists running amok. You

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Speaker 1: Which way do you want to go? Here? This should

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Speaker 1: be it? Honestly, if you've looked for a progressive politician,

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Speaker 1: I said this last hour, one of us has to go,

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Speaker 1: on anymore. This is an absurd, absurd, stupid, embarrassing, destructive, horrible,

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Speaker 1: policies that God us here. She let a reservoir lie

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Speaker 1: big deal, fix it, I but you didn't fix it.

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Speaker 1: It's badly about equity.

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Speaker 6: Play that little thing again, the number one thing that

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Speaker 1: WO congratulation, Thank you for your service.

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Speaker 6: Thank you, thank you. It's important to me that everything

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Speaker 1: Are you going to write this?

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Speaker 6: Utility is serious about it, is authentic about it, and

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Speaker 1: Right the wrongs. What are the people of Palisades do?

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Speaker 1: They just wanted their firefighters to have water to put

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Speaker 1: can't be real? In the La Times says had DWP

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Speaker 1: so we had a big emergency. You should have kept

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Speaker 1: The hell The Times claims that utility design the system

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Speaker 1: The firemen kept telling people were out of water. The

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Speaker 1: who's that person? All this was going on, Well, Bass

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Speaker 1: her today? When she took the job to be mayor,

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Speaker 1: here's another bumbling idiot. Gavin Newsom went on Meet the Press. Boy.

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Speaker 1: He just he just loves sticking his face right into

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Speaker 1: to talk about the Palisades fire and about the reservoir

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Speaker 1: Meet the press. NBC reporter Jacob Soboroff.

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Speaker 7: We do know, though from reporting here locally, that that

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Speaker 8: And that's exactly what triggered my desire to get the

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Speaker 8: that was not a state system reservoir which the President

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Speaker 1: No, no, no, no, pivoted right to beating on Trump.

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Speaker 1: Trump's not the president, it's you, You're the governor. Notice

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Speaker 1: other words, it's Karen Bass's or it's Trump. It's Trump

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Speaker 1: Had nothing to do with Trump. That's doe with you.

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Speaker 1: Did you sit at your your prepositioning meetings and did

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Speaker 1: That was that? That? That's what he's about, simultaneously dumped

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Speaker 7: Over the course of the next several years, Los Angeles will

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Speaker 8: My humble position, And it's not just being naively optimistic.

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Speaker 8: in LA. We thank him for that. This is an

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Speaker 8: opportunity for him to shine, for this country, to shine,

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Speaker 8: for California and this community to shine. The opportunity with

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Speaker 8: all of that and all that opportunity and that pride

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Speaker 8: and spirit that comes from not just hosting those three

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Speaker 8: iconic games and venues, but also the opportunity, I think,

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Speaker 8: to rebuild at the same time. And that's why we're

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Speaker 8: already organizing a Marshall plan, and we already have a

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Speaker 8: team of looking and reimagining LA two point zero, and

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Speaker 8: we're making sure everyone's included, not just the folks on

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Speaker 8: the coast, people here that were ravaged by this disaster.

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Speaker 1: Boy, was that a load of sloppy, smelly diarrhea? Why

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Speaker 1: didn't you imagine filling up a reservoir? No different than

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Speaker 1: filling up a really, really big swimming pool. Why didn't

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Speaker 1: you fill up the reservoir? You're going to reimagine the

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Speaker 1: entire city, but you couldn't fill a reservoir. He imagines

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Speaker 1: a lot of things, doesn't he He imagined he's talking

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Speaker 1: to Joe Biden when he's not. He's imagining. He's calling

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Speaker 1: Joe Biden when he's not sober off beat the press,

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Speaker 1: NBC pushes Newsom to be more specific.

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Speaker 7: You just said you're organizing a Marshall plan for the

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Speaker 7: rebuilding of California.

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Speaker 8: What is that Marshall force just starting to lay out?

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Speaker 8: I mean, we're still fighting these fires. So we're already

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Speaker 8: talking to city leaders, We're already talking to civic leaders.

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Speaker 8: We're already talking to business leaders and nonprofits, We're talking

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Speaker 8: to labor leaders. We're starting to organize how we can

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Speaker 8: put together a collection of individuals on philanthropy for recovery,

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Speaker 8: how we can organize the region, how we can make

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Speaker 8: sure that we are seeking federal assistance for the Olympics

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Speaker 8: more broadly, but also federal assistance for the recovery efforts,

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Speaker 8: and how we can galvanize the community, string with folks

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Speaker 8: that community to really develop a mindset the scale we're

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Speaker 8: dealing with the scope of this tragedy and responding to

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Speaker 8: it at scale with efficiency executive order. I talked about

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Speaker 8: time value of delivering cogency, addressing building codes, addressing perform

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Speaker 8: and moving forward to rebuilding and being more.

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Speaker 1: I got a question, they're all talking about cutting red tape,

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Speaker 1: easing the permitting process. Why does it exist if you're

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Speaker 1: if you're going to get rid of all the red

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Speaker 1: tape and bureaucratic rules and the permitting issues and the

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Speaker 1: environmental investigations, why isn't it always like that? Apparently you

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Speaker 1: could rebuild thousands of homes without all those bureaucratic rules,

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Speaker 1: and he's confident everything's going to turn out fine. Well,

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Speaker 1: if everything's going to turn out fine, then why do

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Speaker 1: we have these rules. He's just announced we don't need

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Speaker 1: all the rules. We can rebuild thousands of homes in

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Speaker 1: the Pacific Palisades quickly if everybody just forgets all the regulations. Well,

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Speaker 1: he's completely confident that's going to work. So why do

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Speaker 1: they exist at all? Why have they ever existed? Doesn't

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Speaker 1: anybody think of that? If somebody tells you, hey, don't worry,

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Speaker 1: you're not going to have to deal with any of

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Speaker 1: these roadblocks anymore. Your applications to rebuild are going to

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Speaker 1: sail through, Well, how come on last week they couldn't

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Speaker 1: sail through last week? Me building a home is a

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Speaker 1: big problem, but this week it's not. Don't you have

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Speaker 1: all the Hey, look, if it's just they come up

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Speaker 1: with all these fake permits and fake reviews because they

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Speaker 1: want to charge you a lot of money. It's a

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Speaker 1: ransom you have to pay. Then, why don't you just

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Speaker 1: say up front? It's like, hey, you know, with them afia,

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Speaker 1: we're going to charge you a ransom. We're going to

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Speaker 1: demand a cut, a little extortion. Yeah, you're gonna pay

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Speaker 1: us one hundred thousand dollars to build your two million

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Speaker 1: dollar house. Okay, I guess that's the way life is.

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Speaker 1: But just say how much is that? How much? What

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Speaker 1: kind of a check do you want me to write? Well,

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Speaker 1: I go through years and years of regulations and reviews

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Speaker 1: and this and that and only stupid inspectors, only stupid

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Speaker 1: bureaucrats and all the paperwork, and you got to get

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Speaker 1: a lawyer. And they say in the end, Newsome is saying, hey,

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Speaker 1: you know what, all that stuff really doesn't matter. We

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Speaker 1: get approve the rebuild of five thousand homes in the Palisade,

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Speaker 1: snap of the fingers, executive order. They go, it's all good, Well,

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Speaker 1: what what's what's all this been about all these decades?

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Speaker 1: If it's just money you want, I'll pay you the money.

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Speaker 1: But could we expare the excruciating bureaucratic experience. Spare pretending

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Speaker 1: you're really doing this to protect the environment, and no

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Speaker 1: you're not. You just want the money and you like

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Speaker 1: controlling people's lives and making life difficult. That's what this

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Speaker 1: whole crowd lives for, warding over all of us. All Right,

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Speaker 1: we come back. Uh, we're gonna play you. Oh, it

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Speaker 1: looks like we have a retraction. We have an official

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Speaker 1: La Times retraction from the publisher regarding Karen Bass. You'll

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Speaker 1: like this.

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Speaker 5: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM

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Speaker 5: six forty.

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Speaker 1: Can't believe anything. What's going on here? I'm gonna play.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna play you the La Times retracting something about

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Speaker 1: Karen Bass in just a moment. But I have found

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Speaker 1: a companion to our Genice Kennez clip Deenise Kenonnez is

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Speaker 1: the CEO of the LADWP Department of Order and Power.

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Speaker 1: She was the one in charge of the entire agency.

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Speaker 1: And they drained that seventeen one hundred and seventeen million

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Speaker 1: gallon reservoir in Pacific Palisades and never refilled it. They

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Speaker 1: had to fix a tear in the cover. As I've

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Speaker 1: been telling you, and she told us that the number

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Speaker 1: one thing that attracted us to the job was equity.

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Speaker 1: Everything we do is with an equity lens for social justice.

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Speaker 1: All right, here's another one. Well, this is Los Angeles

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Speaker 1: Fire Department Assistant Chief Christine Larson, and she oversees the

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Speaker 1: Department of Equity in Human Resources Bureau AH Equity. Again.

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Speaker 1: You want to hear this clip. You're gonna think we

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Speaker 1: made this one up. Play it.

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Speaker 9: You want to see somebody that responds to your house,

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Speaker 9: your emergency, whether it's a medical call or a fire call,

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Speaker 9: that looks like you. It gives that person a little

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Speaker 9: bit more ease knowing that somebody might understand their situation better.

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Speaker 9: Is she strong enough to do this? Or you couldn't

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Speaker 9: carry my husband out of a fire? Which my response is,

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Speaker 9: he got himself in the wrong place. If I have

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Speaker 9: to carr him out of a fire.

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Speaker 1: She actually said that this was a video that ran

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Speaker 1: on television. Her quote is and she's addressing criticism that

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Speaker 1: women aren't strong enough to be firefighters, and she says

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Speaker 1: she's asked, am I able to carry your husband out

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Speaker 1: of a fire? He got himself in the wrong place.

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Speaker 1: If I have to carry him out. Does she still

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Speaker 1: have a job? Is she still working? She's been there

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Speaker 1: for thirty three years. First African American woman to serve

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Speaker 1: as the Deputy Chief of the LAFD Overseas Equity and

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Speaker 1: Human Resources Bureau. Her role includes championing diversity, equity and

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Speaker 1: inclusion initiatives. DEI, So if I'm trapped in a burning house,

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Speaker 1: my wife is screaming for someone to come in, and

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Speaker 1: Christine Larson shows up and she goes, I'm sorry, ma'am,

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Speaker 1: he's too heavy for me to carry. He must have

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Speaker 1: gotten himself in the wrong place. I guess we're gonna

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Speaker 1: have to let him die. Can you imagine? You imagine

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Speaker 1: your husband's trying to save your baby, your dog. He trips,

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Speaker 1: he falls, he can't get up, he needs somebody to

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Speaker 1: carry him out. And it's like, you got Christine Larson.

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Speaker 1: Well she's a woman. Are you strong enough to carry

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Speaker 1: him out? Well, your husband got himself in the wrong place.

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Speaker 1: Huh what do you tell me he tripped down the

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Speaker 1: stairs trying to save your baby. Uh, wrong place, wrong time,

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Speaker 1: Sorry about that. I'm not strong enough. So I guess

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Speaker 1: what is she saying that women aren't strong enough to

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Speaker 1: be firefighters saying it's your fault if you need a

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Speaker 1: woman to pick you up. What if you're an elderly

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Speaker 1: man in a wheelchair, I don't know, looks like you

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Speaker 1: got too old, buddy, Sorry, Christine Larson, play that again.

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Speaker 1: First of all, you.

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Speaker 9: Want to see somebody that responds to your house, your emergency,

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Speaker 9: whether it's a medical call or a fire call, that

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Speaker 9: looks like you. Against that person a little bit more ease,

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Speaker 9: knowing that somebody might understand their situation better. Is she

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Speaker 9: strong enough to do this? Or you couldn't carry my

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Speaker 9: husband out of a fire, which might responses he got

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Speaker 9: himself from the wrong place. If I have to carr

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Speaker 9: him out of.

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Speaker 1: A fire, your husband got himself from the wrong place

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Speaker 1: if Christine Larson has to carry him out, And that

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Speaker 1: first part, play a first part again.

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Speaker 9: You want to see somebody that responds to your house,

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Speaker 9: your emergency, whether it's a medical call or a fire call,

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Speaker 9: that looks like you.

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Speaker 1: Stop stop, no, I don't who's ever said that? Has

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Speaker 1: anyone ever thought that when your house is burning the

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Speaker 1: people in the palisades were they hoping somebody who looked

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Speaker 1: like them showed up? Are you nuts? She's actually spent

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Speaker 1: thirty three years in the fire department. She made it

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Speaker 1: to deputy chief. She thinks, when there's a fire, we

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Speaker 1: want somebody that looks like us to carry us out

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Speaker 1: of the house. She actually thinks that, I don't know

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Speaker 1: anybody that's ever occurred, that's ever occurred to I've seen

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Speaker 1: countless videos in my life of people rescued from fires

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Speaker 1: or whose homes were saved. We've talked to them. That's

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Speaker 1: never coming. What did he look like? Did he look

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Speaker 1: like you? What?

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Speaker 2: So?

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Speaker 1: If an eighty year old guy is stuck in a house,

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Speaker 1: he wants another eight year old guy to show up.

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Speaker 1: If a fifteen year old girl is trapped in a house,

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Speaker 1: does she want another fifteen year old fifteen year old

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Speaker 1: girl to come in? Are you serious? I'm worried about

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Speaker 1: the color of their skin. I'm worried about their ethnicity.

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Speaker 1: I'm worried about their sexual orientation. That's what I'm thinking

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Speaker 1: about as my house is burning. Do you think anybody

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Speaker 1: in the Pacific Palisades there must be at least ten

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Speaker 1: thousand people fifteen thousand people plus homeless in the Palisades,

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Speaker 1: do you think any of them worried about what the

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Speaker 1: firefighter looked like anybody that's insane. So she's deputy chief

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Speaker 1: of the fire department and this Kenonia's character is running

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Speaker 1: the DWP and she couldn't fill up the reservoir and

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Speaker 1: she's looking at everything through an equity landscape. Karen Dass

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Speaker 1: hired Kenon. Yes, Wow, let all this sinking, some moment

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Speaker 1: of silence. Let all this sinking. Don't wonder this happened.

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Speaker 1: It had to happen, right, You have people this absurd,

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Speaker 1: this ridiculous, this stupid running our city. Now when there's

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Speaker 1: finally the fire of the century. Of course this is

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Speaker 1: gonna happen. When we come back to my own state

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Speaker 1: representative from down in San Diego. He's asking news how

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Speaker 1: about a special session to slash the red tape. He

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Speaker 1: says the executive order is fake. Talk to him about it.

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Speaker 1: Coming up. Deborah Mark is off and we have Briginia

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Speaker 1: Degistino live in the KFI twenty four hour News Center. Hey,

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