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Speaker 3: You're listening to the John Cobelt Podcast on the iHeartRadio app. Welcome,

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Speaker 3: Oh man, what a weekend. I've got much to tell

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Speaker 3: you because I'm right in the middle of things now.

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Speaker 3: We're on from one till four, then after four o'clock

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Speaker 3: John Cobelt Show on demand on the iHeart app and

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Speaker 3: I'll get to what's been going on living on the

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Speaker 3: West Side these days, which is apparently there's apparently no

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Speaker 3: lawful entity in charge of anything anymore on the West

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Speaker 3: side of Los Angeles. I'll explain that in a moment.

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Speaker 3: We're gonna start off though, because everybody's trying to figure

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Speaker 3: out what started these fires, and one possibility in the

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Speaker 3: Eaton fire. Oh yeah, we went through this many times

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Speaker 3: over the years. A power company Southern California, Edison, its

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Speaker 3: own its parent company is Edison International. The CEO and

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Speaker 3: president is Pedro Pizarro, and he talked with ABC News

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Speaker 3: and we have Meg Christi, the ABC News investigative journalists

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Speaker 4: Now.

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Speaker 5: Meg, how are you well, Thanks for having me, good,

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Speaker 5: Thank you. How are you doing out there?

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Speaker 2: Not great?

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Great?

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Speaker 5: We are thinking about you guys NonStop.

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Speaker 2: Well, thank you. What did Pedro Pizzaro have to say?

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Speaker 5: So, Patron appeared on Good Morning America with George Defanopolis

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Speaker 5: today and it was the first time since the fire

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Speaker 5: the current status of their investigation. So what he told

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Speaker 5: us about, you know, the status of the Eton fire.

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Speaker 5: And now, just to set this up, we spoke with

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Speaker 5: a number of eyewitnesses who gave us videos and photos

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Speaker 5: that they believe appear to show the fire starting underneath

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Speaker 5: transmission lines that are owned by Edison, right, and you know,

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Speaker 5: we've confirmed, we've you've confirmed that investigators do have those

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Speaker 5: videos and they're part of their cause investigation. And Pedro

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Speaker 5: said that they've seen the videos, they know they're out there,

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Speaker 5: but that what their point of view is is that

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Speaker 5: they can't rule anything out until they're able to inspect

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Speaker 5: the equipment themselves. They still have not been able to

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Speaker 5: do that because the scene is too unsafe and it's

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Speaker 5: been courted off. But they do say that they've done

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Speaker 5: an initial examination of their data and that the electrical

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Speaker 5: anomaly they would typically see in a situation like this

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Speaker 5: they don't see. That's not to say that they're not

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Speaker 5: future future searches. But that's what they're telling us right now.

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Speaker 3: Have you seen there's already three lawsuits filed against Southern

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Speaker 3: California Edison prevent this moment.

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Speaker 5: Yes, I think just moments ago there was a yeah, and.

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Speaker 3: One of the attorneys is complaining that the fire was

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Speaker 3: ignited because of Southern California Edison's failure to de energize

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Speaker 3: its overhead wires which traverse Eating Canyon.

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Speaker 5: Right, so you know the public safety power shutoff programs, right,

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Speaker 5: I'm sure you guys in California there are no stranger

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Speaker 5: to these. So we don't yet know exactly how many

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Speaker 5: lines Edison de energized ahead of this. They have said

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Speaker 5: that they did deenergize some distribution lines to the west

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Speaker 5: know how many homes this pertain to, right, So you know,

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Speaker 5: this is definitely something investigators are looking at and we'll

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Speaker 5: be considering, and you know, they when Pedro appeared on

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Speaker 5: with these impending windstorms picking up right, that they've already

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Speaker 3: So the theory would be that the wires touched each

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Speaker 5: There are I do not believe that there are down

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Speaker 5: wires at that transmission power that we're talking about in

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Speaker 5: Eaton Canyon. Now what we've seen, there are so many

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Speaker 5: looking at as part of these ongoing investigations. But they,

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Speaker 5: you know, these investigations are also being hampered by the

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Speaker 5: Well, I know, it's really something I do just want

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Speaker 5: all want to figure out as soon as possible what

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Speaker 5: caused these But these these investigations do take time. If

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Speaker 5: we look back at Lahina, for example, the fire there

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Speaker 5: so well over a year to complete. So I know that,

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Speaker 5: you know, everyone, everyone really wants to know what possibly

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Speaker 3: All right, Meg, thanks for coming on. Meg Chrispy, ABC

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Speaker 3: News investigative journalists reporting here on KFI. Thanks Meg for

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Speaker 3: coming on. I think I think the best summation on this.

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Speaker 3: Michael Ware is director of Climate and Energy Police Program

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Speaker 3: at Stanford, and he said it looks bad for Edison,

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Speaker 3: but do we know. There's a difference between looking bad

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Speaker 3: a feeling they do know, because otherwise their CEO wouldn't

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Speaker 3: So it looks like they have a they have a

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Speaker 3: But there's already four lawsuits that have been filed on

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Speaker 3: behalf of people who lost their homes in the Eaton

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Speaker 3: Canyon area in Altadena. In Pasadena. All right, now, let

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Speaker 3: me let me tell you what's going on the west side.

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Speaker 3: And I'm gonna I'm gonna tell you, Uh, you know

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Speaker 3: Uh they're they're on video photographs. There's friends of ours

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Speaker 3: it happened there, happened there, and it's it's all over

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Speaker 3: starting fires on the West side. They're on video doing it,

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Speaker 2: It's crazy.

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Speaker 3: Every lunatic, mental patient, drug addict, criminal that George Gascon

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Speaker 2: They're doing their thing.

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Speaker 3: This is New Year's Eve and the Super Bowl and

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Speaker 3: But this is what we're living under, and you know,

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Speaker 3: Everybody has hired security services, double security services, and those

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Speaker 3: a sense of lawlessness. There's a sense that nobody in

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Speaker 3: The government has completely failed us, not a sense not

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Speaker 3: it appears, not allegedly. The government is in a state

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Speaker 3: progressive policies have finally crumbled. I talk about this all

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Speaker 3: today the had to happen. For all the times we

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Speaker 3: Garcetti was a disaster, Karen Vass's disaster. Gavin Newsom is

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Speaker 3: the fire department. Here's another caveat you got to put in.

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Speaker 3: I watched the firefighters perform over the weekend we didn't

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Speaker 3: And and they they are they these guys, I don't

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Speaker 3: no there's there's just nobody has any confidence in anything.

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Speaker 3: I've never felt a complete lack of confidence in the

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Speaker 3: Just an absolute, blatant idiotic lie. And when I'm going

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Speaker 3: to play a Tampa Denise Kenonez, this this dopey head

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Speaker 3: It's not providing water and it's not providing powder. Tell

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Speaker 3: you what that is coming up. But you know, it's

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Speaker 3: gotten to the point where the people who still support

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Speaker 3: Bass and Newsome it's either me or you. One of

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Speaker 3: us has to has to move. I don't want to

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Speaker 3: live with your government anymore. It's collapsed. I guess you

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Speaker 3: I'm going to tell talk a lot about the reservoir

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Speaker 3: right now, the San Santa Inez Reservoir. We let off

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Speaker 3: the show with this on Friday. This is a big deal,

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Speaker 3: So there were three million gallons available for the fire

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Speaker 3: but it was empty. It was empty. They closed it.

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Speaker 3: probably should have taken a month to fix. It's been

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Speaker 3: The head of the DWP is Denise Kenonas. Jenez Kenonas

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Speaker 2: They sought bids in April.

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Speaker 3: It was supposed to cost eighty nine thousand dollars in

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Speaker 2: Genie Keinonias did not sign off on a contract for

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Speaker 3: They didn't sign a contract until November for one hundred

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Speaker 3: status of the repairs as of this weekend is still unclear,

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Speaker 3: according to the La Times. Here's Gus Corona, the business

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Speaker 3: completely unacceptable that this reservoir was empty for almost a

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Speaker 3: maybe it wouldn't have made a difference. One hundred and

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Speaker 3: seventeen million gallons of water wouldn't have made a difference.

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Speaker 2: Tell me about tell me about how that works.

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Speaker 3: I see people in government saying the most absurd, most

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Speaker 2: Without even challenging them.

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Speaker 3: How could you say that one hundred and seventeen million

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Speaker 2: The problem was with water pressure.

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Speaker 3: If you have tens of millions of gallons more, that's

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Speaker 3: Amazon or watch some porn. So they know nobody's going

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Speaker 3: come back, we'll wait. Actually, first when we talk to

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Speaker 3: David Howard, he's up one of the Kafi sales managers

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Speaker 2: He lived in the Pacific Baalisades.

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Speaker 3: His house is gone from what I understand, and I

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Speaker 3: want to put him on, and I want to continue

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Speaker 3: about Ginny's Kenonyez because I mentioned before she had one

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Speaker 2: I guess that's two jobs.

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Speaker 3: It was too much for her going to play a

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Speaker 3: number one priority was, and it was not giving us

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Speaker 3: reservoir after eleven months, and Jenise Kinonias makes seven hundred

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Speaker 3: and fifty thousand dollars of your money if you're a

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Speaker 3: DWP customer. More coming out as the world crumbles.

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Speaker 6: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM

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Speaker 6: six forty.

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Speaker 3: When we entered the show on Friday, change dot org

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Speaker 3: had a petition signing going. The headline is demand the

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Speaker 3: immediate resignation of Mayor Karen Bass a change dot org.

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Speaker 3: And when I left it was at about forty thousand signatures.

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Speaker 3: It's tripled since then. It's now one hundred and twenty

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Speaker 3: three thousand and six fifty as if this print out,

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Speaker 3: it's probably higher than that. One hundred and twenty three

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Speaker 3: thousand plus. Demand the immediate resignation of Mayor Karen Bass.

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Speaker 3: Go to change dot org. This has no force of law.

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Speaker 3: This has to be a show of disgust to Karen

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Speaker 3: Bass's rain as mayor. Go to change dot orgon in

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Speaker 3: the search box, type Karen Bass and you'll get the

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Speaker 3: you'll get the petition and sign the thing online and

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Speaker 3: let's see if we can convince her to leave. All right,

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna I've got more. Oh, by the way, on

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Speaker 3: the reservoir, I just want to add one thing. Newsom

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Speaker 3: is called for an independent investigation as to why the

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Speaker 3: on fighting the fire. Everyone is talking about Rick Caruso

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Speaker 3: and how his Palisades shopping center survived because he had

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Speaker 3: crews do. They bring their own water. They were able

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Speaker 3: pays enough in taxes. He's entitled to some of that

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Speaker 3: that's the key. Water puts out the fires. You have

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Speaker 3: should have been one hundred and seventeen million gallons of

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Speaker 2: That's the truth.

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Speaker 3: That's why Newsom is having an investigation because he knows

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Speaker 3: he's not tarred by it, that this was entirely a

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Speaker 3: local botch and it had nothing to do with him.

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Speaker 3: That's why he's calling for an investigation to protect himself

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Speaker 3: in case somebody tries to link him to the dry reservoir.

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Speaker 3: All right, let's get to well David Howard, he works

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Speaker 3: here to KFI iHeart for many years as a sales manager,

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Speaker 4: Welcome, Hey, John, how you doing.

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Speaker 3: I'm really sorry what happened to you and your family? Yeah,

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Speaker 3: I guess the house is that the house is gone entirely.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's not just the house, John, it's the entire

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Speaker 4: don't think there's a resident in that neighborhood that wouldn't

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Speaker 4: It just nothing makes me more angry because I've lived

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Speaker 4: not to fight fires. They sign up to save homes

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Speaker 3: Yeah, something went wrong in the dispatch and in the

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Speaker 2: I'm sorry, no, no, no, that story is going to come out.

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Speaker 4: So I can speak to it personally. The fire was

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Speaker 4: next door neighbors that lost their house. No, there's no

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Speaker 4: It's blocks and blocks and blocks and blocks. And she

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Speaker 4: And his response was, there's nothing we can do. We

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Speaker 4: no matter where your home was in what section of

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Speaker 2: There was no water. And this was in the afternoon

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Speaker 4: This was on Tuesday afternoon. I was actually at my

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Speaker 2: That is it was.

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Speaker 4: It was insane. When I left the house, I couldn't

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Speaker 4: And I'm like, I just hop to get out of here.

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Speaker 4: That's how fast it was. But to not have any

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Speaker 4: the firefighter to be put in harm's way or to

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Speaker 4: But to not have anybody there prior and at that

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Speaker 3: The hot fire hydrants were broken and they're supposed to

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Speaker 3: The Santa Inez Reservoir was empty because they hadn't fixed

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Speaker 3: the cover for now eleven months.

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Speaker 2: That it all. That's their job.

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Speaker 3: Their job is to give us water and power and

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Speaker 3: to make sure that the infrastructure that carries the water

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Speaker 3: How can you go eleven months and not have a

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Speaker 2: How is that possible?

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Speaker 4: I know those reservoirs. I know those reservoirs very well.

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Speaker 4: We've we have friends that live around them. You can

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Speaker 4: time the fire department had night vision, and that reservoir

437
00:26:37,119 --> 00:26:41,359
Speaker 4: save that fire from dropping the Westerns line, which had

438
00:26:41,400 --> 00:26:43,440
Speaker 4: gone all the way back to bell Air and de Brentwood.

439
00:26:44,040 --> 00:26:47,240
Speaker 4: So when it's when it's filled, it works. When it's

440
00:26:47,280 --> 00:26:49,200
Speaker 4: not filled, it's not so fit, it's not so efficient.

441
00:26:49,280 --> 00:26:53,240
Speaker 3: Right, No, you know it's one if one thing. If

442
00:26:53,320 --> 00:26:58,159
Speaker 3: nature is so overwhelming that you suffer these kind of

443
00:26:58,200 --> 00:27:00,520
Speaker 3: losses and there's literally nothing you can do, right, the

444
00:27:00,800 --> 00:27:05,920
Speaker 3: power of nature is just too ferocious. But when when

445
00:27:05,920 --> 00:27:08,879
Speaker 3: they didn't even fill the reservoir with water, when the

446
00:27:08,920 --> 00:27:12,160
Speaker 3: firefighters were standing there saying we don't have any water,

447
00:27:12,440 --> 00:27:18,040
Speaker 3: that is inexcusable. Unforgivable criminal people who didn't fill a

448
00:27:18,119 --> 00:27:19,800
Speaker 3: reservoir to prison.

449
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Speaker 4: I agree with you. There was fire tricks on pch

450
00:27:23,920 --> 00:27:27,320
Speaker 4: that were heading towards Zoom the beach at the time

451
00:27:27,440 --> 00:27:32,159
Speaker 4: that the fire came into town. No, imagine this the

452
00:27:32,280 --> 00:27:35,080
Speaker 4: town for the people that don't know. The town is

453
00:27:35,119 --> 00:27:39,000
Speaker 4: not adjacent to brush. Okay, it's in the center of

454
00:27:39,080 --> 00:27:43,720
Speaker 4: town like any other town. It has buildings all around it.

455
00:27:43,720 --> 00:27:46,080
Speaker 4: It's not like a let's build a town in the forest.

456
00:27:46,200 --> 00:27:48,639
Speaker 4: The town is below the ridge line and below the mountain.

457
00:27:49,560 --> 00:27:52,760
Speaker 4: To not have the town itself saved, To not have

458
00:27:52,800 --> 00:27:59,120
Speaker 4: protection around Starbucks and buildings and banks and schools, it's

459
00:27:59,359 --> 00:28:02,720
Speaker 4: it's I don't even know what to say about that.

460
00:28:02,840 --> 00:28:07,160
Speaker 4: How can a town burn down? And I know there's embers,

461
00:28:07,200 --> 00:28:09,560
Speaker 4: I get it. I know embers can fly under eaves

462
00:28:09,560 --> 00:28:12,199
Speaker 4: and cause fires. But if and when that would have

463
00:28:12,240 --> 00:28:15,040
Speaker 4: happened and we had we had fire protection in town,

464
00:28:15,080 --> 00:28:17,959
Speaker 4: the town at least would have been saved and the

465
00:28:17,960 --> 00:28:21,399
Speaker 4: town was decimated. I mean, it looks like it literally

466
00:28:21,400 --> 00:28:24,040
Speaker 4: looks like a bomb was dropped. I got up there

467
00:28:24,640 --> 00:28:28,440
Speaker 4: on Tuesday night. I'm watching our cameras and I see,

468
00:28:28,600 --> 00:28:31,320
Speaker 4: you know what, looks like just it's almost look like

469
00:28:31,359 --> 00:28:33,640
Speaker 4: the Wizard of Oz were the winds, you know, hurling

470
00:28:33,680 --> 00:28:36,320
Speaker 4: and for debris flow is just in front of your camera.

471
00:28:36,320 --> 00:28:37,680
Speaker 4: And then it went dead, and I'm like, oh, maybe

472
00:28:37,720 --> 00:28:41,120
Speaker 4: it's just the internet. Maybe it's just the power line.

473
00:28:41,480 --> 00:28:44,920
Speaker 4: Wishful thinking. So the next so the next and I'm

474
00:28:44,960 --> 00:28:47,800
Speaker 4: sure that's when my house caught. Next morning, got up

475
00:28:47,800 --> 00:28:49,720
Speaker 4: with my younger son and my twenty four year old

476
00:28:50,440 --> 00:28:52,640
Speaker 4: We're staying at a friend's house in Chevy It. We

477
00:28:53,120 --> 00:28:56,040
Speaker 4: get through the barricades. I'm driving. I make a left

478
00:28:56,040 --> 00:28:58,880
Speaker 4: on a Malfie. I go through Santa Monical Canyon. There's

479
00:28:58,960 --> 00:29:02,960
Speaker 4: live fire on both sides of us Ember's blowing power

480
00:29:02,960 --> 00:29:07,040
Speaker 4: lines down, and we're like, where's the fire department? Where

481
00:29:07,080 --> 00:29:10,959
Speaker 4: is everybody? Homes are burning, burning and burning. I make

482
00:29:11,000 --> 00:29:13,640
Speaker 4: it right on Chautauqua to go to our neighborhood, and

483
00:29:13,680 --> 00:29:15,040
Speaker 4: I didn't know where I was because I had no

484
00:29:15,080 --> 00:29:17,880
Speaker 4: point of reference. I'm like, where are we? And then

485
00:29:18,440 --> 00:29:20,560
Speaker 4: it was like, you know, a two by two mile

486
00:29:21,480 --> 00:29:24,800
Speaker 4: square of utter devastation, and that was just one section

487
00:29:24,840 --> 00:29:26,840
Speaker 4: of the Palisades. Yeah, on section.

488
00:29:27,240 --> 00:29:29,400
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it's good that you point out how

489
00:29:29,440 --> 00:29:33,480
Speaker 3: the town is in the flatland down below the ridge,

490
00:29:33,800 --> 00:29:39,440
Speaker 3: because originally people saw everyone fleeing Pacific Highlands, which is

491
00:29:39,680 --> 00:29:44,080
Speaker 3: enclave up in the hills Island Pallisa or sorry, Palisades Highlands,

492
00:29:44,120 --> 00:29:46,680
Speaker 3: and everybody was trying to get down that boulevard.

493
00:29:47,120 --> 00:29:50,320
Speaker 4: After all, the cars were all people dis abandon their cars.

494
00:29:50,000 --> 00:29:53,479
Speaker 3: So yeah, that is a separate neighborhood up there. What

495
00:29:53,560 --> 00:29:58,959
Speaker 3: you're talking about is the main section of Pacific Palisades.

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00:29:59,480 --> 00:30:01,480
Speaker 4: The episode of the town right right.

497
00:30:01,560 --> 00:30:05,080
Speaker 3: And because I live in a similar situation where there

498
00:30:05,080 --> 00:30:09,080
Speaker 3: are mountains to the north of me, and I'm always figuring,

499
00:30:09,160 --> 00:30:12,320
Speaker 3: you know, Sunset Boulevard, that the fire department will be

500
00:30:12,360 --> 00:30:15,600
Speaker 3: able to make make a stand against the flames because

501
00:30:15,600 --> 00:30:19,160
Speaker 3: you have the big natural fire break, and uh, you know,

502
00:30:19,560 --> 00:30:21,440
Speaker 3: this is the first time I thought, well, maybe that's

503
00:30:21,480 --> 00:30:25,800
Speaker 3: not true, because I don't know who's who's who's directing

504
00:30:26,240 --> 00:30:28,560
Speaker 3: this strategy. I don't know why they showed up so late.

505
00:30:28,600 --> 00:30:32,520
Speaker 3: What you're saying, I have read in various reports all weekend.

506
00:30:33,720 --> 00:30:38,000
Speaker 3: Many people are quoted by name in the various news

507
00:30:38,040 --> 00:30:41,600
Speaker 3: outlets is saying nobody was showing up for hours.

508
00:30:42,880 --> 00:30:45,400
Speaker 4: So I don't know if I don't. I know, I

509
00:30:45,440 --> 00:30:48,880
Speaker 4: can't count the number of people that I'm that I

510
00:30:48,960 --> 00:30:51,240
Speaker 4: have been family with that and friends with that have

511
00:30:51,280 --> 00:30:55,680
Speaker 4: lost homes. Right, every single person that I know is

512
00:30:55,760 --> 00:30:58,520
Speaker 4: saying the same thing. I do want to just touch

513
00:30:58,560 --> 00:31:01,400
Speaker 4: on for a second that you know, through through tragedy

514
00:31:01,440 --> 00:31:04,640
Speaker 4: and through horrific events, there are some you know, the

515
00:31:04,720 --> 00:31:08,560
Speaker 4: humanity does rise. There's a ton of mobilization going on,

516
00:31:08,640 --> 00:31:11,960
Speaker 4: I think in both the Palisades and then hopefully in Altadena.

517
00:31:12,000 --> 00:31:17,400
Speaker 4: I can't speak to that specifically, but the amount of support,

518
00:31:17,520 --> 00:31:19,840
Speaker 4: you know, neighbor by neighbor, friend by friend. I mean,

519
00:31:19,840 --> 00:31:22,680
Speaker 4: I have a million stories which we could talk about forever,

520
00:31:22,760 --> 00:31:26,560
Speaker 4: of people saving there's you know, people think the Palisades

521
00:31:26,640 --> 00:31:29,280
Speaker 4: is everyone's you know, living in a fifteen dollars million

522
00:31:29,320 --> 00:31:31,880
Speaker 4: dollar mansion and is a movie start. It's not the case.

523
00:31:32,560 --> 00:31:35,080
Speaker 4: The majority of the families are hardworking to you know,

524
00:31:35,880 --> 00:31:38,440
Speaker 4: moms and dads that are trying to make a good,

525
00:31:38,560 --> 00:31:41,160
Speaker 4: nice life for themselves, and they do it all the

526
00:31:41,160 --> 00:31:43,600
Speaker 4: way up to the elderly. Like some of these people

527
00:31:44,040 --> 00:31:47,560
Speaker 4: were already canceled by their by their insurance companies pre fire.

528
00:31:48,560 --> 00:31:51,680
Speaker 4: These seniors who've been in the let's say community for

529
00:31:51,720 --> 00:31:55,560
Speaker 4: fifty sixty years, right, they didn't probably have fire insurance

530
00:31:55,560 --> 00:31:58,320
Speaker 4: because once there's no mortgage on your house, you're not

531
00:31:58,360 --> 00:32:02,920
Speaker 4: required to have insurance. And those seniors used money or

532
00:32:02,960 --> 00:32:04,920
Speaker 4: equity in their homes to give money for the kids

533
00:32:04,960 --> 00:32:08,400
Speaker 4: to buy homes. So those people are done like they

534
00:32:08,440 --> 00:32:11,360
Speaker 4: have nothing left. And that's tragic, all right.

535
00:32:11,440 --> 00:32:15,280
Speaker 3: That's the that's their major source of their.

536
00:32:14,480 --> 00:32:17,840
Speaker 4: Well set, and they're gonna some you know, someone's gonna

537
00:32:17,840 --> 00:32:19,920
Speaker 4: come in and try to raid them and give them

538
00:32:19,960 --> 00:32:22,680
Speaker 4: whatever they think that they can get. And most of

539
00:32:22,720 --> 00:32:24,560
Speaker 4: these people are going to, you know, take that little

540
00:32:25,280 --> 00:32:27,560
Speaker 4: that little amount of money. And what we're trying to

541
00:32:27,600 --> 00:32:30,320
Speaker 4: do is we're we're working behind the scenes right now

542
00:32:30,840 --> 00:32:34,080
Speaker 4: to protect as many people as we can. I was

543
00:32:34,120 --> 00:32:37,280
Speaker 4: at two meetings yesterday literally all day, not even taking

544
00:32:37,280 --> 00:32:39,720
Speaker 4: care of my own does get my own house in order,

545
00:32:40,360 --> 00:32:43,880
Speaker 4: but really trying to make sure that the community rallies.

546
00:32:43,920 --> 00:32:46,280
Speaker 4: There's a lot going on and a lot of things

547
00:32:46,320 --> 00:32:49,040
Speaker 4: are going to have to be discussed, and Tracy Park

548
00:32:49,280 --> 00:32:50,880
Speaker 4: is going to have to be a huge part of

549
00:32:50,880 --> 00:32:54,720
Speaker 4: that because she is an advocate. She's she's done so

550
00:32:54,760 --> 00:32:56,920
Speaker 4: far everything she said she was going to do. And

551
00:32:56,960 --> 00:33:00,120
Speaker 4: she's going to be fighting thirteen wherever many councilms.

552
00:32:59,560 --> 00:33:03,120
Speaker 3: There are no No, she's got voted fourteen to one.

553
00:33:04,360 --> 00:33:06,360
Speaker 2: Right, it's amazing.

554
00:33:06,360 --> 00:33:09,520
Speaker 4: And as you know, and as you know, this is

555
00:33:09,560 --> 00:33:12,160
Speaker 4: going to be a fight because you know that the

556
00:33:12,160 --> 00:33:14,480
Speaker 4: the ULA tax, all that money that was put in

557
00:33:14,560 --> 00:33:17,480
Speaker 4: for tax should be going back to the Palisades immediately,

558
00:33:18,040 --> 00:33:23,520
Speaker 4: immediately to give to the people. Yeah, that's right, that

559
00:33:23,560 --> 00:33:26,400
Speaker 4: has to go back to the Palisades.

560
00:33:26,800 --> 00:33:30,160
Speaker 2: You pay that tax and you don't get any fire protection.

561
00:33:31,040 --> 00:33:33,040
Speaker 4: Yeah, because guess what now we're homeless too.

562
00:33:33,240 --> 00:33:37,200
Speaker 3: Yeah, David, I gotta go. I have to cut you off.

563
00:33:37,240 --> 00:33:39,320
Speaker 3: I'm just running behind. We'll talk again soon.

564
00:33:39,920 --> 00:33:42,280
Speaker 1: Anything else I want, I want to give you a pick,

565
00:33:42,920 --> 00:33:45,320
Speaker 1: just one quick thing, if you don't mind the use

566
00:33:45,400 --> 00:33:48,080
Speaker 1: of the palisades are mobilizing and it's so beautiful to see,

567
00:33:48,080 --> 00:33:50,400
Speaker 1: and there's going to be a there's an active website

568
00:33:50,440 --> 00:33:52,680
Speaker 1: called Palisades Forever dot com.

569
00:33:52,880 --> 00:33:54,600
Speaker 4: It was built by a bunch of twenty five to

570
00:33:54,600 --> 00:33:57,840
Speaker 4: thirty year olds and it's merchandise and all that money

571
00:33:57,840 --> 00:33:59,479
Speaker 4: that they collect is going to be going to all

572
00:33:59,480 --> 00:34:02,000
Speaker 4: the five one threes inside the Palisades that help run

573
00:34:02,040 --> 00:34:05,920
Speaker 4: the town and donate their to civic organization. So if

574
00:34:05,920 --> 00:34:08,600
Speaker 4: maybe we can just share it again palistates forever dot com.

575
00:34:08,719 --> 00:34:10,120
Speaker 4: So then I'm happy to jump on with you when

576
00:34:10,120 --> 00:34:11,480
Speaker 4: it's convenient over the next few days.

577
00:34:11,520 --> 00:34:13,759
Speaker 2: Okay, very good, thank you for coming on.

578
00:34:13,880 --> 00:34:16,759
Speaker 3: I'm so sorry about all the payview what everyone else

579
00:34:16,840 --> 00:34:19,840
Speaker 3: is suffering through David Howard, one of the sales managers

580
00:34:19,840 --> 00:34:21,680
Speaker 3: here at KFI, and iHeart.

581
00:34:22,280 --> 00:34:26,600
Speaker 6: You're listening to John Cobel on demand from KFI. AM

582
00:34:26,640 --> 00:34:27,440
Speaker 6: six forty.

583
00:34:28,040 --> 00:34:33,239
Speaker 3: The petition demanding that Mayor Karen Bass immediately resign on

584
00:34:33,440 --> 00:34:35,560
Speaker 3: change dot org up to one hundred and twenty six

585
00:34:35,960 --> 00:34:40,080
Speaker 3: one hundred and twenty six seventeen signatures change dot org

586
00:34:40,520 --> 00:34:43,080
Speaker 3: search for Karen Bass sign the petition.

587
00:34:44,200 --> 00:34:45,840
Speaker 2: We need we need to have a new chapter.

588
00:34:46,880 --> 00:34:50,719
Speaker 3: Obviously, a complete failure is mayor Governor Gavin Us. I'm

589
00:34:50,760 --> 00:34:54,640
Speaker 3: a complete failure as governor, and I want to follow

590
00:34:54,719 --> 00:34:59,640
Speaker 3: up here on the reservoir issue because that is huge

591
00:34:59,680 --> 00:35:01,839
Speaker 3: and you you are going to hear people lie because

592
00:35:01,840 --> 00:35:04,640
Speaker 3: that's what they do. You're gonna people try to spin it,

593
00:35:04,680 --> 00:35:08,440
Speaker 3: which is a modern fancy word for a lie. People

594
00:35:08,480 --> 00:35:12,960
Speaker 3: try to give the other perspectives another sophisticated word for lie.

595
00:35:13,480 --> 00:35:16,280
Speaker 3: It's all lies. You cannot tell me that one hundred

596
00:35:16,280 --> 00:35:18,959
Speaker 3: and seventeen million gallons wouldn't make a difference in putting

597
00:35:19,000 --> 00:35:23,600
Speaker 3: out fires. I mean, that is so asinine and stupid

598
00:35:24,000 --> 00:35:27,640
Speaker 3: and absurd. I mean people will say anything in public,

599
00:35:27,719 --> 00:35:30,680
Speaker 3: no matter what their position, no matter what their title is,

600
00:35:31,280 --> 00:35:34,000
Speaker 3: no matter what their education level. When they're caught in

601
00:35:34,080 --> 00:35:39,640
Speaker 3: public screwing up and causing the destruction of thousands of homes,

602
00:35:40,239 --> 00:35:43,200
Speaker 3: they'll say anything to protect their ass. I'm going to

603
00:35:43,239 --> 00:35:45,400
Speaker 3: give you some facts, and I want to compliment. I

604
00:35:45,400 --> 00:35:48,040
Speaker 3: don't think I've done this in several years. The La

605
00:35:48,120 --> 00:35:49,840
Speaker 3: Times has actually done a really good job on this

606
00:35:50,040 --> 00:35:52,759
Speaker 3: reservoir story. They broke the original story. They had a

607
00:35:52,800 --> 00:35:54,759
Speaker 3: great follow up. This is the way it used to

608
00:35:54,840 --> 00:35:57,719
Speaker 3: be with the La Times. Maybe some sense has been

609
00:35:57,760 --> 00:36:01,680
Speaker 3: knocked into the staff by Patrick sun Chian the reservoir.

610
00:36:01,719 --> 00:36:03,960
Speaker 3: This is sent in as reservoir, and again I have

611
00:36:04,000 --> 00:36:07,600
Speaker 3: to stress if you're just tuning in, it was out

612
00:36:07,640 --> 00:36:11,319
Speaker 3: of service, closed for the last eleven months, one hundred

613
00:36:11,320 --> 00:36:14,279
Speaker 3: and seventeen million gallons because there was a tear in

614
00:36:14,320 --> 00:36:14,760
Speaker 3: the cover.

615
00:36:15,800 --> 00:36:18,480
Speaker 2: It should have taken a month to fix it in house.

616
00:36:18,520 --> 00:36:21,759
Speaker 3: According to one of the union leaders, they contracted out

617
00:36:21,840 --> 00:36:23,719
Speaker 3: and it was like only maybe one hundred and thirty

618
00:36:23,760 --> 00:36:27,040
Speaker 3: thousand dollars job at most, contracted it out. It's still

619
00:36:27,040 --> 00:36:29,880
Speaker 3: not fixed. It's eleven months later, it's still not fixed.

620
00:36:30,120 --> 00:36:33,919
Speaker 3: It's empty one hundred and seventeen million gallons. One hundred

621
00:36:33,960 --> 00:36:37,560
Speaker 3: and seventeen million. And again, remember the firefighters had three

622
00:36:37,600 --> 00:36:41,440
Speaker 3: million gallons available in their tanks and that ran out

623
00:36:41,440 --> 00:36:44,160
Speaker 3: in seventeen hours, so of course this would have a

624
00:36:44,200 --> 00:36:47,960
Speaker 3: huge effect. And yes, I'm utterly convinced that the fire

625
00:36:48,120 --> 00:36:51,760
Speaker 3: the firefighters were way late to putting it out. Again,

626
00:36:51,840 --> 00:36:54,000
Speaker 3: not the fault of the guys you see fighting it,

627
00:36:54,000 --> 00:36:57,640
Speaker 3: it's whoever is issuing the directives. Because I have read

628
00:36:57,760 --> 00:37:00,799
Speaker 3: and I've heard from too many people I know, read

629
00:37:00,840 --> 00:37:04,800
Speaker 3: too many quotes in the paper. Something went really wrong there.

630
00:37:05,360 --> 00:37:07,360
Speaker 3: And let me tell you, you ought to be listening

631
00:37:07,400 --> 00:37:11,480
Speaker 3: to us, because the way the media outlets are arranged,

632
00:37:11,520 --> 00:37:13,600
Speaker 3: most of the local TV stations are going to cover

633
00:37:13,719 --> 00:37:17,239
Speaker 3: the day to day drama. And you know, everybody's got

634
00:37:17,239 --> 00:37:19,520
Speaker 3: a different role in the media ecosystem. And if you

635
00:37:19,560 --> 00:37:21,759
Speaker 3: want to see what's happening visually, you know, you turn

636
00:37:21,840 --> 00:37:26,360
Speaker 3: on the television. But I'm going to be able to

637
00:37:26,520 --> 00:37:29,239
Speaker 3: go through, you know, dozens and dozens of sources and

638
00:37:29,719 --> 00:37:31,759
Speaker 3: go deep into the stories and find the stuff that

639
00:37:31,840 --> 00:37:36,640
Speaker 3: really matters, which sometimes is buried. Sometimes the significance is

640
00:37:36,760 --> 00:37:39,160
Speaker 3: overlooked by the headline writers because I know most people

641
00:37:39,440 --> 00:37:42,160
Speaker 3: just have time to glance at headlines and maybe two paragraphs.

642
00:37:42,560 --> 00:37:45,640
Speaker 3: This is really important to know about this sent Inez reservoir.

643
00:37:47,719 --> 00:37:51,280
Speaker 3: They have several across the city with a combined capacity

644
00:37:51,280 --> 00:37:53,040
Speaker 3: of more than four billion.

645
00:37:52,680 --> 00:37:53,439
Speaker 2: Gallons of water.

646
00:37:54,680 --> 00:37:58,440
Speaker 3: Including aqueduct reservoirs, the city can store more than ninety

647
00:37:58,480 --> 00:38:03,520
Speaker 3: one billion gallons across its infrastructure. The Santa Inez complex

648
00:38:03,600 --> 00:38:06,799
Speaker 3: is at one hundred and seventeen million gallons. It's one

649
00:38:06,840 --> 00:38:09,560
Speaker 3: of several sources of water in the area. There's a

650
00:38:09,719 --> 00:38:13,080
Speaker 3: large pipeline from Stone Canyon and a smaller site, the

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Speaker 3: palis Age Reservoir. In other words, there's plenty of water around.

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Speaker 3: We don't have a debilitating drought that has dried up

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Speaker 3: all the reservoirs. This is mismanagement. This is pure stupidity

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Speaker 3: on the part of Genisai kenon Yez and Karen Bass.

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Speaker 3: Karen Bass is in Ghana, What has Karen Bass been

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Speaker 3: doing for the last eleven months. Don't they have meetings

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Speaker 3: where Okay, fire seasons coming up?

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Speaker 2: Are we ready?

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Speaker 3: I kept hearing Newsom saying, well, you know, all our

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Speaker 3: resources are prepositioned.

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Speaker 2: I kept hearing that word preposition No, they weren't.

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Speaker 3: There's a limited number of towns that can be affected

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Speaker 3: by this kind of fire. It's the hounds at the

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Speaker 3: base of the Santa Monica Mountains here in La County.

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Speaker 3: It's not going to be Torrents, It's not going to

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Speaker 3: be her host Beach. It is going to be primarily

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Speaker 3: the town. And what did we have a few years ago?

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Speaker 3: We had a fire near the Getty Center, which was

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Speaker 3: over Brentwood got the Pacific Palisades Fire bel Air has

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Speaker 3: had historic fires. There was a fire in the Hollywood

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Speaker 3: Hills as part of this cluster last week. It's always

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Speaker 3: along that mountain range. So where were they prepositioned? Why

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Speaker 3: did it take hours to make it to Pacific Palisades?

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Speaker 3: Where were these prepositioned fire trucks and strike teams? Where

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Speaker 3: were they when they finally got going. They did a

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Speaker 3: hell of a job. I saw it with my own eyes.

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Speaker 3: But who is managing this, So did Karen Pass? Does

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Speaker 3: she have a monthly meeting? And she says, hey, Jenniese,

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Speaker 3: is that one hundred and seventeen million gallon reservoirs that

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Speaker 3: filled up?

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Speaker 2: Yet you fix the cover?

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Speaker 3: Do you need money? Need some help? Did they have

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Speaker 3: that meeting? Did they did con guys even know? This

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Speaker 3: is what's so crazy. This is not just some kind

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Speaker 3: of cheap political shot that she was in Africa. She

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Speaker 3: was in Africa, left for it after after extreme fire warnings.

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Speaker 3: What's the Weather Service supposed to do to alert a mayor?

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Speaker 3: They say extreme fire? What should they have said? Super

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Speaker 3: duper extreme fire, super duper colossal, enormous.

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Speaker 2: Gigantic fire risk. What do you want? What do you

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Speaker 2: need to know? What you need is water? Nobody checked.

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Speaker 3: Nobody checked to see if the biggest reservoir in the

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Speaker 3: Palisades was builled. Honest to god, I don't want to

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Speaker 3: hear what we're looking for. You know, we're gonna see

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Speaker 3: what works or what doesn't work. What doesn't work is

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Speaker 3: that people who currently run the government, and that includes

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Speaker 3: the infants and clowns on the city council outside of

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Speaker 3: Tracy Park and maybe one another guy. The rest of them,

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Speaker 3: all the socialists, you're all happy that the that the

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Speaker 3: wealthier side of town got burned to the ground. They're

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Speaker 3: probably doing a dance, aren't they. Do You probably just

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Speaker 3: wish Brentwood and bell Air got it too, don't you?

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Speaker 3: All the socialists Nitthia ram and Hugo Soda Martinez, Unice

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Speaker 3: Is Hernandez. There's another one too. They just elected another one.

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Speaker 3: His name I don't know. Oh my god. Notice how

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Speaker 3: quiet they are. All right, we come back. I'm gonna

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Speaker 3: play you. I'm gonna play you. Genisa Quinas, who is

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Speaker 3: on a radio show podcast uh recently, and she's the

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Speaker 3: one who let that reservoir one run dry, did not

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Speaker 3: fix in a month, and you saw what happened to Palisides.

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Speaker 3: You're going to see what her number one priority in

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Speaker 3: her job is. When we come back, Debor Mark is off.

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Speaker 3: We have Brigitta Diegostino live on KFI twenty four hour

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Speaker 3: CAFI News Center.