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Speaker 2: iHeart app. Posted shortly after four o'clock, we have not

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Speaker 2: only the Palisades Fire, the Eating fire, but a number

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Speaker 2: of fires all over the place. It seems every few

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Speaker 2: minutes something else pops up. Michael Monks from KFI News

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Speaker 2: has run down of the latest information.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, this is every time you turn around, there's another

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Speaker 3: alert coming across with a different part of the county

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Speaker 3: that is burning. At this point, it's just a strange,

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Speaker 3: terrible day. The latest little ones, and I say little

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Speaker 3: with an asterisk because they're early, they are early started.

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Speaker 3: They blow up fast if they don't get them. So

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Speaker 3: this one we just heard mention the traffic report close

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Speaker 3: to act and it's been dubbed the Lydia fire. Right now,

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Speaker 3: it's about fifty acres right now, which is small potatoes

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Speaker 3: compared to these big ones we've been dealing with. But again,

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Speaker 3: the winds are still blowing a little bit out there,

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Speaker 3: so that could that could be a problem at some point.

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Speaker 3: They've they've stopped some service on MetroLink's Antelope Valley line.

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Speaker 3: If we're headed home from anywhere, that may be a problem.

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Speaker 3: We got one called the Freddie Fire, and that is

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Speaker 3: Freddy Fire.

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Speaker 1: Was that your band in the eighties were doing Freddie Fire?

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Speaker 1: Were Freddie Fire?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, this one is a small one that they've apparently

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Speaker 3: stopped the spread of in Malibu near the Ventura County line.

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Speaker 3: So Freddy is is deady, He's deady. They are well done. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: that's exactly right. And the Riverside County Fire Department and

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Speaker 3: Cruise there have deployed to a spot that's burning underneath

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Speaker 3: the Pomona sixty Freeway. That's at Ediwanda Avenue and Van

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Speaker 3: Buren Boulevard in Harupa Valley. So we're keeping an eye

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Speaker 3: on the Ediwandah as well. Now, the big ones, the

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Speaker 3: big one that we've been dealing with all that, that's

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Speaker 3: just the warm up there. That's the warm up act

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Speaker 3: right there. Freddie Fire is the opening act. The Palisades

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Speaker 3: fires clearly the most devastating one that we've dealt with today,

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Speaker 3: and it's just continued to grow. The latest estimate of

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Speaker 3: sixteen thousand acres set of burn. We see the images.

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Speaker 3: It's just tragic.

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Speaker 2: Twenty four hours ago. When it first started, it was

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Speaker 2: it was like two thousand.

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Speaker 3: It happens fast. Yeah, And I got off the air yesterday,

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Speaker 3: was filling in for Amy King. I finished at you know,

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Speaker 3: ten fifteen's the last time you do the news. Ten

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Speaker 3: thirty walking out the door. A little fire, a little

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Speaker 3: an eye on it because we've been talking, as you've

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Speaker 3: noted all so long, we had warnings that this stuff

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Speaker 3: was coming. So this little patch fire starts and like, okay,

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Speaker 3: well we'll be watching that. And here we are, what

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Speaker 3: twenty four thirty six, not even thirty hours later, and

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Speaker 3: that is zero percent contained. Last I heard it, it's

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Speaker 3: still zero percent contained. All of them are. For the

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Speaker 3: most part. This is just a big They don't have

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Speaker 3: their stretch thin. They're deploying firefighters from all over the

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Speaker 3: place to come in and help out. But the Palisades

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Speaker 3: is sixteen thousand acres at this point, and when you

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Speaker 3: see them, it's just, I mean, it's gone.

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Speaker 2: I know that area very well. I cannot because I

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Speaker 2: we piked there, take walks, go to all the stores,

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Speaker 2: the photos I'm seeing online completely flattened, total devastation, nothing left.

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Speaker 1: My brain can't even process that's going on.

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Speaker 2: I can't imagine what's going through, what these people are

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Speaker 3: You just talked to Rick Caruso, and he mentioned that

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Speaker 3: not everybody in the Palisades is wealthy, and that's something

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Speaker 3: that I learned firsthand today. I went to one of

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Speaker 3: been there for decades, loves living in the Palisades, and

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Speaker 3: she said, instead, as sort of a joke. But I mean,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, there's a lot of apartments, there's mobile homes, there's condos,

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Speaker 2: there's elderly people on service workers. Yeah, there's there's a

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Speaker 2: there's a whole mix of people, and everybody's gotten wiped

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Speaker 2: out though. It's just it's a it's I can't there's

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Speaker 2: no words to describe it because the description is emotional,

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Speaker 2: these emotions. And it goes deeper than the ordinary emotions

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Speaker 2: that you can experience and talk about.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you're absolutely right. I mean we you know, somebody's

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Speaker 3: What happens after that? How do you rebuild the Palisades?

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Speaker 3: Your neighbors are gone, your friends are gone, everything is gone. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: all the businesses you went to your kid's school. In

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Speaker 1: Just wipes off the fence.

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Speaker 2: So your entire life has been destroyed completely in a

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Speaker 1: But I guess having your life is the most important thing.

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Speaker 3: It looks like most people heated the warning to evacuate

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Speaker 3: some injuries and deaths in the what they've called the

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Speaker 3: eat and fire, the one in Altadena, Pasadena, in that area,

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Speaker 3: and that's the one close to here. And yeah, the windows,

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Speaker 3: window outside your studio here it looks like a beautiful

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Speaker 3: southern California winter day, ny skies and the mountains in

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Speaker 3: the newsroom and it's hell. I mean, the smoke is

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Speaker 3: a bad one too. It's it's now over ten thousand

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Speaker 3: Altadena last night. Zero percent contained they say right now

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Speaker 3: as well, so that one is still burning like crazy.

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Speaker 2: They've got evacuation and is that burning in all directions

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Speaker 2: or is it going I guess with the Santa Ana

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Speaker 3: No, I'm thinking that those winds are supposed to be

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Speaker 1: So they I mean, they've at least gotten some of

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Speaker 2: In the air. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: They were supposed to peak this.

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Speaker 2: Morning, Yeah, and then gradually subside tomorrow calm, and then

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Speaker 2: they kicked back up on Saturday, and then next week

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Speaker 2: there could be another round of an I just stepped outside.

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Speaker 3: It still feels quite windy and the wind is cold.

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Speaker 3: I mean it's a cold wind that you're feeling out

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Speaker 3: there as well. We also have the one in Silmar.

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Speaker 3: This has spread to about seven hundred acres. No containment

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Speaker 3: there as well. Started late last night, exploded to about

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Speaker 3: quickly these things can change. Twelve hours later it hit

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Speaker 3: that seven hundred acre mark. They got some evacuations going

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Speaker 3: on there as well. We'll continue to watch.

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Speaker 2: And war could pop up at any moments, all right.

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Speaker 2: Michael Monks, caff I News, thank you for all that.

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Speaker 2: We have lots of coverage to go on and we're

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Speaker 2: going to continue. Well, you know what I want to

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Speaker 2: get to next is Karen Bass, who started the day

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Speaker 2: in Ghana. Yeah, while Pacific Palisades was burning down a

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Speaker 2: thousand structures, Karen Bass partying in Ghana celebrating the inauguration

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Speaker 1: Can you believe this?

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Speaker 2: How many days a warning did we have about this firestorm?

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Speaker 2: This windstorm? And she went to Ghana and stayed in

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Speaker 2: Ghana and sent out a lot of tweets. And now

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Speaker 2: we've got some details about how much funding she cut

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Speaker 2: to the La Fire Department and how much money we've

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Speaker 2: decided to spend on homeless people instead of the fire department.

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Speaker 2: If you put up with this, don't complain when your

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Speaker 2: the fire, because you vote for people who would rather

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Speaker 2: fund the homeless who start the fires. If this doesn't

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Speaker 2: change people's voting habits, then it's totally a lost cause.

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Speaker 2: got Tracy Park coming up after Devers two thirty news.

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Speaker 2: Tracy Park, who's the councilwoman for the West side of

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Speaker 2: Los Angeles. Pacific Palisades is part of her territory, and

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Speaker 2: she's going to talk about the devastation of the fire

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Speaker 2: and the fire hydrants running out of water. Unbelievable in

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Speaker 2: about seventeen hours worth of water for one fire. Just overwhelming.

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Speaker 2: And at the time the mayor was in Ghana. Let's

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Speaker 2: pull this all together. The according to city budget documents,

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Speaker 2: Karen Bass And by the way, maybe she should go

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Speaker 2: it so fascinating to be there during a time of

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Speaker 2: fire department had their budget cut by seventeen million dollars.

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Speaker 2: Patrick soon Shiong, the owner of the La Times, put

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Speaker 2: out a tweet that it was twenty three million.

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Speaker 1: I don't know the reason for the discrepancy, but you

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Speaker 2: So somehow, so yeah, how many times Newsom said this yesterday?

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Speaker 1: It's not just fire month or fire season, it's fire year.

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Speaker 5: You know.

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Speaker 1: Now with climate change, you know where there's going to

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Speaker 1: be more fires and hotter fires and a logger.

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Speaker 2: Well, if that's true, if you really believe what you're saying,

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Speaker 2: why would you cut the fire department budget by seventeen million?

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Speaker 2: And she did. Politico dot Com has the story, quoting

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Speaker 2: the La Times owner. I also have a document from

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Speaker 2: the Board of Fire Commissioners from twenty twenty three, and.

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Speaker 1: Look at this comparison.

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Speaker 2: Here, Los Angeles allocated one point three billion dollars for

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Speaker 2: homelessness in twenty twenty four, one point three billion. In comparison,

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Speaker 2: the fire department received twenty five percent less funding than

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Speaker 2: the homelessness department. That we spend significantly more money on

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Speaker 2: homelessness than we do on the fire department. How is

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Speaker 2: it that the fire department gets twenty five percent less

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Speaker 2: funding than the homelessness bureaucrats, who, by the way, all

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Speaker 2: they do is increase homelessness with all their stupid, failed,

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Speaker 2: fake policies.

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Speaker 1: Homelessness goes up.

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Speaker 2: Hey, now we've got thousands of people homeless. How about that,

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Speaker 2: Now we've got thousands of more homeless people from Pacific

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Speaker 2: Palisades because they couldn't They couldn't keep the water supply

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Speaker 2: fully stocked. The money for homelessness. This has got to stop.

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Speaker 2: Newsom spend twenty four billion and has no idea where

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Speaker 2: the money went, has no idea if anything worked. We

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Speaker 2: And it looks like I couldn't defend anything. They were

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Speaker 1: I'm going to play that back as well. That's later

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Speaker 2: But first we're going to talk with Tracy Park and

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Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobel's on demand from KFI AM

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Speaker 2: Any minute now, we're going to get Tracy Park on.

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Speaker 2: She's the councilwoman for the eleventh District, the West side

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Speaker 2: Another story in the La Times this morning. Local fire

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Speaker 2: There are nine thousand firefighters in La County, according to

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Speaker 2: Local agencies and Maroney said it's not enough to address

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Speaker 2: The La Fire Department Chief Kristin Crowley said, together, these

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Speaker 2: We spend a tremendous amount of manpower and money putting

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Speaker 2: let's forget the words were supposed to use. Let's get

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Speaker 2: Tracy on Tracy.

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Speaker 5: Hi, John, how are.

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Speaker 1: You I'm good.

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Speaker 2: I feel like everybody else does about the fireires. I

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Speaker 1: That's just stunning here, you know, it's I.

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Speaker 5: Was pretty upset to learn that information myself this morning.

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Speaker 5: Apparently the demand on DWP services in the area was

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Speaker 5: not how you fight wildfire, but because of the dangerous

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Speaker 2: Rick Russoe was on last hour, said, this is a

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Speaker 2: these things are going to happen, They've happened many times

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Speaker 2: in the past. I really don't understand getting caught this

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Speaker 5: Well, and frankly, what has happened in many ways is predictable.

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Speaker 5: You know. I am standing right now at the corner

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Speaker 5: This is just absolute devastation, and it's still going to

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Speaker 5: the lot that John, you are right. This is about

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Speaker 5: years of chronic under investment in our critical infrastructure and

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Speaker 5: disinvestment in our public safety partners. Our own fire department

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Speaker 5: has had a budget cut by tens of millions of dollars,

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Speaker 5: We just recently received a standards of cover report that

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Speaker 5: in this City of Los Angeles, not twenty five sixty two.

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Speaker 5: And this is chronic under investment. They wiled out this

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Speaker 1: How did we end up.

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Speaker 2: In a city where we're spending one point three billion

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Speaker 2: that was cut by seventeen million.

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Speaker 1: I mean, man, what the hell is going on?

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Speaker 5: I wish I could make this make sense, but it absolutely.

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Speaker 1: And many the homeless part of you go ahead, Well,

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Speaker 5: Know, this is impartant left relaxed staffing from the financial

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Speaker 5: Our fire department has never been made a whole since

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Speaker 1: Are your signals your signals getting really messed up? Tracy?

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Speaker 5: You know what, John, I am so sorry, but the

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Speaker 5: I'm actually going to get out of here. But I

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, a call back later. We'll put you on

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Speaker 2: walking around and it's total devastation. But what we've got

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Speaker 2: I don't know, twelve thirteen years. You know, they go

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Speaker 2: it's one point three billion dollars on vagrants. These same

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Speaker 2: much of their time running around putting out bumpfires, right,

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Speaker 2: that's what they do. That's in reality, what they do

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Speaker 2: a lot of taxes. When the big fire comes for them,

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Speaker 2: they're out of water. They're out of water. They never

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Speaker 2: run out of water. When the homeless fires are blazing

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Speaker 2: and again, this is not a knock on the firefighters themselves,

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Speaker 2: who are just endangering themselves every day working impossible situations.

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Speaker 2: It's the management. It's the politicians and the bureaucrats. It

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Speaker 2: starts with Karen Bass and the collection of clowns and

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Speaker 1: And there just has to come a point where everybody says,

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Speaker 2: You run out of water seventeen hours into a fire

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Speaker 2: and stop it. We know that there's big fires in

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Speaker 1: Everybody knows what wildfires are like.

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Speaker 2: Everybody knows that the residents put on hoses and they

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Speaker 1: Of course they do.

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Speaker 2: They don't have any faith anyone's gonna come and wet

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Speaker 2: what are the land around their home, hoping it might

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Speaker 2: slow the fire down because they don't have any faith

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Speaker 2: this case they didn't because the fire department's out of water.

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Speaker 2: I don't care what their excuses are. Well, here's what happened.

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Speaker 2: We know what happened.

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Speaker 1: You screwed up.

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Speaker 2: You shouldn't have your job. These people should be fired,

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Speaker 2: starting with the mayor. They should all resign. They should

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Speaker 2: all resign. Just admit it. You don't know what you're doing.

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Speaker 2: You're in over your head. You botch this up. There's

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Speaker 2: you're gonna leave behind what seventy five eighty thousand vagrants

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Speaker 1: Go all of you out, Good lord.

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Speaker 2: This is the worst crew of politicians the world has

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Speaker 2: It's their fault, your fault for lifting them.

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Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobelt on Demand from KFI AM sixty.

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Speaker 2: And after four o'clock, John Cobelt's show on demand on

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Speaker 2: the iHeart app Coming up next hour, We're gonna tell

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Speaker 2: tell you what Trump wrote about Newsom's water policy in

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Speaker 2: the state of California, and play a clip of Trump

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Speaker 2: on our show talking about it. From October. We're also

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Speaker 2: going to replay our interview with Rick Caruso, who he

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Speaker 2: had earlier in the program, who talked about the incompetence

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Speaker 2: of the Los Angeles City government. He used to be

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Speaker 2: a commissioner for LEDWP. And now we have a seven

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Speaker 2: hundred and fifty thousand dollars named seven hundred and fifty

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Speaker 2: thousand dollars CEO named Genisa Canonez Seve hundred and fifty

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Speaker 2: thousand dollars, who got up at a press conference today to

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Speaker 2: tell us so it's like, yeah, we ran out of water.

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Speaker 1: We ran out of water.

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Speaker 2: Turns out that we spent about eight hundred million dollars

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Speaker 2: on a home on the LA City Fire Department, but

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Speaker 2: we spend one point three billion on the homeless department.

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Speaker 2: You got that, we spent one point three billion on

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Speaker 2: homeless and look at the dramatic increase, and we spent

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Speaker 2: only eight hundred million on the fire department. And now

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Speaker 2: thousands of people in the Palisades are homeless. And you know,

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Speaker 2: you know what many of the homeless do all day?

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Speaker 2: They start fires. You might think that's an exaggeration, hyperably, No,

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Speaker 2: listen to this. The Iteam on Channel four did a

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Speaker 2: story twenty twenty three. In twenty twenty three, there were

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Speaker 2: thirteen thousand, nine hundred and nine homeless fires in Los Angeles.

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Speaker 2: Thirteen thousand, nine hundred and nine in a single year.

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Speaker 1: This is what the fire department does all day.

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Speaker 2: Thirteen thousand, nine hundred and nine times a fire truck

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Speaker 2: went flying down the road to a fire started by

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Speaker 2: a bunch of bums, a bunch of vagrants that Karen

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Speaker 2: Bass allows to live out in the open, and they

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Speaker 2: start fires. And she cut the fire budget by seventeen

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Speaker 2: million dollars. She cut the fire budget, and much of

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Speaker 2: that money is spent on homeless fires. And then when

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Speaker 2: the big fire comes to the people who pay the

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Speaker 2: taxes and work for a living, we're.

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Speaker 1: Out of water.

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Speaker 2: And then you call the mayor up. Oh, I'm sorry,

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Speaker 2: she's not in Where is she Ghana? She's in Africa.

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Speaker 2: Somebody's being inaugurated in the Ghana, so she's there, not

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Speaker 2: here with all the I mean, I can't get over

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Speaker 2: this one. I can't get over this one. Karen Bass

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Speaker 2: ought to be removed from office. She ought to have

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Speaker 2: the decency to resign the head of the DWP. Get

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Speaker 2: her name right, jeniz Kinani resign gone. If you can't

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Speaker 2: get enough water for the first big fire of the year.

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Speaker 2: And by the way, that fire, you know, what they're

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Speaker 2: saying now is like, well, you know we got stretched then,

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Speaker 2: and there there were three.

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Speaker 1: Four fires at the same time.

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Speaker 2: No, that Pacific Palisades fire was the only fire going on.

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Speaker 1: At first. It wasn't like there were cruis at three

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Speaker 1: other fires. It was the first.

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Speaker 2: One and it got out of hand and they ran

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Speaker 2: out of water. Well, you know, we had three tanks,

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Speaker 2: but you didn't prepare. You had a bad plan. It failed.

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Speaker 2: No good. Go to the New York Post. Go to

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Speaker 2: the New York Post online. Look at the aerial photos

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Speaker 2: of what the Palisades looks like looks like now and

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Speaker 2: Altadena too. And I'm sorry to people in Altadena that

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Speaker 2: were focusing so much on the Palisades. But it's just

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Speaker 2: that we've got this incredible story of the mayor hiding

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Speaker 2: out in Africa, not coming back after she sends out

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Speaker 2: a tweet that a deadly storm is coming. Oh thanks

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Speaker 2: for the tweet. That tweet, yeah, twenty three tweets. There's

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Speaker 2: no excuse for this. You have to get to the

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Speaker 2: point where you say there is no excuse for any

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Speaker 2: of this none. You don't want to hear their explanations,

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Speaker 2: their reasons you failed out gone. There's got to be

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Speaker 2: somebody better to be there, somebody better to be run

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Speaker 2: the DWP. There's got to be somebody who secure is

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Speaker 2: an adequate water supply, somebody who's going to fund the

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Speaker 2: fire department. Why don't you take away, oh I don't know,

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Speaker 2: take away three quarters of the homeless money and give

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Speaker 2: it to the fire and police department out way under

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Speaker 2: staff You heard Tracy Park We have staffing levels from

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Speaker 2: fifty sixty years ago?

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Speaker 1: What the hell is going on for homeless?

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Speaker 2: Everything about homeless people and illegal aliens, criminals almost people,

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Speaker 2: legal aliens and criminals. That is the holy trinity of

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Speaker 2: the progressive movement. And you you had a bunch of

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Speaker 2: dumb clocks. You're busy working for a living and paying taxes. Well,

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Speaker 2: you know we used to have a fire department. Well

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Speaker 2: no they don't, I guess, huh. Or if the fire

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Speaker 2: department shows up, they weren't given any water?

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Speaker 1: Why? Well, you know we heard a plan. This is it,

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Speaker 1: This should be the it.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I don't want to hear from Karen Bass

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Speaker 2: unless she's saying I resign. If she's not saying I resign,

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Speaker 2: I don't want to hear from her. And everybody ought

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Speaker 2: to feel that way.

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Speaker 1: Stop voting for these people. Good lord, all right, we

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Speaker 1: come back.

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Speaker 2: But by the way, Trump, Biden was in town yesterday,

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Speaker 2: Newsom was in town yesterday. They were supposed to go

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Speaker 2: to some dopey ceremony and they got waylaid by the fire.

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Speaker 2: What have they done it since? What happened to all

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Speaker 2: the CalFire people? What happened to the state, Because the

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Speaker 2: threat of fires was all in southern California. They've had

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Speaker 2: plenty of rain in northern California, right, big sant Ana

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Speaker 2: wins were here. The ten months of drought is here.

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Speaker 2: So where were all the troops for cal fire? Where

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Speaker 2: was the federal help? Now you're bringing it. You had

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Speaker 2: days of warnings, You knew this was going to happen.

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Speaker 2: So we'll play you well, I'll read to you Trump's

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Speaker 2: ranting on social media about Newsom and his water policy,

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Speaker 2: and we'll play you a clip because Trump's right on this. Sorry,

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Speaker 2: we flushed billions of gallons into the Pacific Ocean and

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Speaker 2: it's all to save some stupid fish. And that's another

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Speaker 2: stupid thing that's got to end. Deborah Mark live in

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