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[00:01:09] All right. Welcome. Hey, Dalley Show. I got a packed show for you today on a Friday. And I also, you know, on that same note of that particular clip, you know, California is full of leftists.
[00:01:23] And so we're seeing what's happening in this fire situation. And we'll talk all about just about everything. Water administration.
[00:01:32] I don't even know if you could call them administration. The moronic imbeciles, but making super bad decisions that are resulting criminal decisions that are resulting in what we're seeing.
[00:01:42] And then also rumors and blowtorch guy and you name it. We're going to talk about it. I have John Knox here, formerly of the LAFD.
[00:01:50] And also you are boots on the ground in California. John, welcome to the show. How are you?
[00:01:57] I'm good, Kate. How are you?
[00:01:58] I'm good. I'm good. Tell us a little bit about what you do.
[00:02:04] Currently or currently?
[00:02:05] Yeah, yeah. Currently. Well, you have a long career in fire and and now you're working with this firm and your boots on the ground in L.A.
[00:02:16] So talk, talk, talk to everybody about that.
[00:02:20] Sure. So I was with the Los Angeles City Fire Department for 23 years as a firefighter paramedic.
[00:02:25] And then due to covid and the whole vaccine mandate issue, I was terminated for standing up for my civil rights.
[00:02:33] And we had you on the show for this. We had you on the show for this because it was huge.
[00:02:37] It was huge. You were on shows all over the country because they were trying to make you take the shots.
[00:02:43] And you said no. And I love you for it. I love you for it. Thank you.
[00:02:47] Thank you very much.
[00:02:48] So fast forward to where we are today. Currently, I work with an organization called Strategic Response Partners or SRP.
[00:02:58] And we are a disaster management company. We do disaster planning, disaster mitigation, primarily in wide area disasters like hurricanes, earthquakes, tornadoes.
[00:03:13] And we do wildfires as well. You know, we've been at Hurricane Ian, Florence.
[00:03:21] We were just at Helene doing humanitarian aid there in that aspect.
[00:03:27] We're a private company. We normally deal with private clients.
[00:03:31] Critical infrastructure is our primary thing.
[00:03:36] But in this in wildfire scenarios, you know, there are more, you know, we don't have a lot of critical infrastructure.
[00:03:45] Sometimes we do. But currently, like in this area right now, we have, you know, clients that are in the Pacific Palisades and Malibu area, you know,
[00:03:53] who own critical infrastructure and, you know, work with our company over the years.
[00:03:58] And they've reached out to us, whether dealing with, you know, some private fire protection issues, best practices on protecting their home, you know, removing brush removal and stuff like that.
[00:04:11] And then what we're doing now, you know, as the fire has moved through, because it happened so quickly, you know, so many people were caught off guard.
[00:04:22] And now if their home wasn't, you know, destroyed and is still standing, there's a lot of issues to deal with, with, you know, what people don't realize is they think it's just, you know, a brush fire.
[00:04:33] But it's really not. I mean, when you look at Pacific Palisades, what has happened is you have thousands of homes and businesses that have burned.
[00:04:42] And, you know, with the contents of all of these buildings, everything today is made out of, you know, petroleum products.
[00:04:49] And so you're not just dealing with wood burning, right? You're dealing with tons of carcinogens.
[00:04:55] And so even if your home was not destroyed, you know, being in that immediate area, now you've got a lot of issues to deal with.
[00:05:05] And there's a lot of right and wrong steps to take in getting your insurance company to step to the plate and do the right thing.
[00:05:12] And so, you know, we helped walk them through that process, you know, looking at their roofs, making sure there's not, you know, any burnt embers up there, going inside of the attics, dealing with, you know, how to remove all of the insulation, HEPA back, all of that, you know, have the walls wiped down, doing, you know, post-remediation testing to make sure that those carcinogens and those types of things are all gone.
[00:05:40] And keeping air scrubbers in the home for a period of time.
[00:05:44] So there's a right and a wrong way to do things.
[00:05:46] And we help those clients navigate that process.
[00:05:50] And then, you know, also at the same time, the home was completely destroyed.
[00:05:55] I mean, there's a lot of things that are going to happen in that aspect, you know.
[00:06:00] It's unfortunate, but a lot of people will never be able to rebuild their home.
[00:06:06] But in looking at, you know, so we can give advice on that in situations like this, you know, there's probably going to be a lot of third-party lawsuits going on.
[00:06:16] And when I say that, you know, you're looking at things like dry hydrants, water not being supplied properly, so on and so forth.
[00:06:23] And so, you know, we can help guide them through that process as well.
[00:06:26] I want to talk to you about the water thing because here is a one-minute clip of Gavin Grusom being confronted by a citizen about the water on the ground.
[00:06:37] Here we go.
[00:06:38] Grusom just makes me want to hurl.
[00:06:40] But here we go.
[00:06:41] Here we go.
[00:06:41] California Governor Gavin Newsom is being criticized by some for water mismanagement as hydrants ran dry while fires multiplied.
[00:06:50] Multiplied through.
[00:06:51] So I have to get self-service.
[00:06:52] So let's get it.
[00:06:53] Let's get it.
[00:06:53] I want to be here when you call the president.
[00:06:55] I appreciate it.
[00:06:56] I'm doing that right now.
[00:06:57] And it's to immediately get reimbursements, individual assistance, and to help young people.
[00:07:02] Devastating for me, I'm so sorry, especially for your daughter.
[00:07:06] I have four kids.
[00:07:07] Losing the school.
[00:07:08] Everyone who went to school there, they lost their homes.
[00:07:12] They lost two homes because they were living in one building another.
[00:07:15] Governor, please tell me, tell me, what are you going to do with the president right now?
[00:07:19] We're getting the resources to help rebuild.
[00:07:22] Why was there no water in the hydrants, Governor?
[00:07:25] That's all literally.
[00:07:26] Is it going to be different next time?
[00:07:28] It has to be.
[00:07:29] It has to be.
[00:07:30] Of course.
[00:07:31] What are you going to do?
[00:07:32] I'm doing everything.
[00:07:32] To fill the hydrants.
[00:07:33] I would fill them up personally.
[00:07:34] You know that.
[00:07:35] I literally have to.
[00:07:36] I would fill up the hydrants myself.
[00:07:38] I understand.
[00:07:39] But would you do that?
[00:07:40] I would do whatever I can.
[00:07:42] But you're not.
[00:07:43] Yeah.
[00:07:43] I see the skin.
[00:07:44] Yeah.
[00:07:45] Okay.
[00:07:45] So, interesting clip.
[00:07:47] And what is your take on the water?
[00:07:51] Because when they go into these water lines, it's my understanding that the reservoirs are
[00:07:58] full and that can be delivered to the fire hydrants under pressure.
[00:08:02] And then the lines to the neighborhoods are relatively small, like eight inches or more or
[00:08:07] less, right?
[00:08:08] Compared to transmission lines, which are double that, triple that.
[00:08:11] And so, fire trucks stress an entire system by sucking water out of just one hydrant.
[00:08:16] And then you've got air coming into the line.
[00:08:19] So, you're probably looking at broken lines, too, on top of this as the fallout.
[00:08:23] That's my understanding.
[00:08:24] What is your understanding of what's going on with the water there?
[00:08:27] Because you guys work under LA Water and Fire.
[00:08:31] Yeah.
[00:08:31] Or LA Water.
[00:08:32] Los Angeles City Department of Water and Power.
[00:08:35] So, it's not PG&E or anything like that.
[00:08:37] LA City has their own water and power company.
[00:08:40] Yeah.
[00:08:41] And, you know, that area is the San Ynez Reservoir, which holds 117 million gallons of water.
[00:08:48] And it's my understanding that they have four tanks that they can take out of that reservoir.
[00:08:55] Each one of those tanks holds a million gallons.
[00:08:58] Wow.
[00:08:58] So, you know, and they sit up high.
[00:09:02] So, a lot of them are gravity fed.
[00:09:06] And, you know, when you say a small line, I mean, an eight-inch line isn't a small line.
[00:09:13] Sure, your larger...
[00:09:15] Transmission lines are much bigger.
[00:09:17] Transmission lines, yeah.
[00:09:19] Those are, you know, those are much larger.
[00:09:20] But they're pushing massive amounts of water to fill the reservoirs and those types of things, right?
[00:09:25] And the tanks.
[00:09:27] So, having something that big going down to hydrants is just going to overpressure those.
[00:09:32] So, you know, there has to be certain amounts of pressure and they figure out those line sizes and so on and so forth.
[00:09:39] But it's my understanding that one of those tanks, million-gallon tanks, was offline, which was one of the reasons that caused, you know, the system to not operate at its full capacity.
[00:09:54] And they, in fire season.
[00:09:56] In the higher elevations, in the Palisades areas, they were having dry hydrants.
[00:10:00] They were having, you know, issues with that.
[00:10:04] So, you know...
[00:10:06] In fire season, one of them goes offline.
[00:10:08] That makes you, makes us a little suspicious that they would make such a horrible decision?
[00:10:14] Yeah, I don't understand.
[00:10:15] You know, you have the Department of Water and Power CEO.
[00:10:18] I think her name is Janice Quinones is how you say it.
[00:10:22] But why?
[00:10:24] During critical brush season, we know that every year, you know, from, say, September, October into January, February, we always have Santa Ana winds, right?
[00:10:36] And everything dries out.
[00:10:37] Humidity drops, you know, temperatures.
[00:10:41] It can be either hot or cold.
[00:10:42] It doesn't matter.
[00:10:43] But that decrease, you know, where your relative humidity is super low and then you have winds.
[00:10:48] I mean, we had a wind-driven event.
[00:10:50] That's what this fire was.
[00:10:51] And we knew in advance that there was going to be, you know, 80 to 100 mile-an-hour winds.
[00:10:57] Those are unheard of.
[00:10:58] Those are hurricane-force winds.
[00:11:00] And so to have a system offline during that period of time, to me, is just a complete lack of incompetence.
[00:11:10] You know, it's a lack of leadership.
[00:11:11] There's no foresight in saying, hey, you know, we should put off this maintenance until we're out of, you know, this Santa Ana, you know, or whatever.
[00:11:22] There's a lot of questions that need to be asked.
[00:11:24] And somebody needs to be held accountable for this inaction.
[00:11:29] You know, and listening to that clip of Newsom, you know, he talks about, you know, he's going to do whatever it takes to, you know, get water here.
[00:11:39] I mean, he's had that whole thing going on with water diversion because of the smelt.
[00:11:45] Oh, yes.
[00:11:47] Saving the smelt.
[00:11:48] Yeah.
[00:11:49] Saving the smelt.
[00:11:50] Mm-hmm.
[00:11:51] Right.
[00:11:51] You know, and so there's that issue of how much water is being diverted away from Southern California.
[00:11:57] You know, he talks about bringing resources to rebuild.
[00:12:00] Well, I mean, I was just in Helene.
[00:12:02] And, you know, FEMA was nonexistent.
[00:12:05] And they're talking about giving people $750.
[00:12:09] You know, that doesn't do anything.
[00:12:12] Yeah.
[00:12:12] When you're looking at the Palisades and the, you know, those are multimillion dollar homes.
[00:12:17] And then you move down to the coast to PCH and Malibu.
[00:12:21] And I mean, you're talking 20, 30 million dollar homes on the beach that literally there's no homes there.
[00:12:27] They're gone.
[00:12:28] And so, you know, I don't know what kind of resources they're going to bring to rebuild.
[00:12:34] You know, to me, those are just.
[00:12:35] We're going to come right back.
[00:12:37] I've got John Knox on.
[00:12:38] We're going to come right back.
[00:12:39] Boots on the ground.
[00:12:40] We'll hear more about what he sees happening.
[00:12:42] Maybe some of the rumors versus truth.
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[00:15:01] Anyway, welcome back.
[00:15:03] Kate Daly Show.
[00:15:04] And I'm talking with John Knox.
[00:15:06] And formerly of LAFD, LA Fire Department.
[00:15:09] And giving us a boots on the ground.
[00:15:11] Which is informative.
[00:15:12] I love it.
[00:15:13] And he was also on Jesse Waters last night.
[00:15:16] Along with the same gal from the clip we played.
[00:15:19] And I always wonder about those clips because I wonder if they're staged.
[00:15:24] I know that's just the me that's looking at being lied to so often and things so stagey that I'm always kind of wondering, you know, what's staged, what's not on that girl.
[00:15:35] She was wearing a mask and everything.
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[00:16:20] So, John, you know, and I hate to say things are staged.
[00:16:25] But to get in the proximity of Gavin Gruesome that easily, I'm like, oh.
[00:16:30] But you never know.
[00:16:31] And I hate questioning everything, questioning people sometimes.
[00:16:35] But you never know.
[00:16:36] So, with that, are you hearing rumors of things that you go, no, that's not true or this is true?
[00:16:43] Are we getting an accurate picture of what we're seeing on the ground, do you think?
[00:16:48] You know, I've been over there on the ground and my phone's been blowing up, you know, from media and stuff.
[00:16:57] And so, I really haven't gotten a good, you know, I've had horrible cell receptions, body texting.
[00:17:05] And so, I really haven't been following the media on this a whole lot.
[00:17:12] But what I have seen, you know, I mean, it's an absolute disaster.
[00:17:16] What about crime?
[00:17:17] What about crime?
[00:17:19] Are you seeing a lot of...
[00:17:20] Yeah.
[00:17:20] So, you know, between LAPD and the sheriff, you know, they're doing a great job.
[00:17:26] They're making arrests.
[00:17:27] Mm-hmm.
[00:17:28] We definitely, anytime you have a fire and there's evacuation zones or anything, even in a hurricane.
[00:17:33] Yeah.
[00:17:34] You have looters that move in, right?
[00:17:35] People that take advantage of these situations.
[00:17:37] So, that has happened.
[00:17:39] Right.
[00:17:40] But they definitely are doing their jobs and making arrests on those people.
[00:17:45] It's very difficult to get in and out of evacuation zones.
[00:17:49] Right.
[00:17:50] We have an ability to do that because of what we do.
[00:17:54] But even then, you know, it's still sometimes very difficult to get in there.
[00:18:00] Yeah.
[00:18:00] So, you know, you definitely, the video footage you are seeing is correct.
[00:18:07] You know, a lot of the information that you are getting about, you know, the mayor, the fire chief, the Department of Water and Power.
[00:18:14] I mean, you look at, I mean, I have a lot of stats.
[00:18:18] You know, I've got firefighters that are actually, you know, that I've worked with in the past that have called me and they're explaining to me, you know, what's going on.
[00:18:25] Mm-hmm.
[00:18:26] You know, that we can get into, you know, coming up here if you want as well.
[00:18:29] Sure, sure.
[00:18:29] Um, but as far as, you know, conspiracy theories and all of these other things, I don't know.
[00:18:36] Mm-hmm.
[00:18:36] That will come out later, you know.
[00:18:38] I mean, we could go down a million different rabbit holes.
[00:18:41] Right.
[00:18:41] What are the firemen saying?
[00:18:43] What are the firemen saying?
[00:18:45] What do they want people to do?
[00:18:46] They think that they want people to know that they're doing the best job that they can right now, you know, with limited resources.
[00:18:53] Yeah.
[00:18:53] Yeah.
[00:18:53] Um, you know, uh, because of budgetary cuts, um, that have happened recently.
[00:19:00] And now the mayor is pushing for another $50 million in budget cuts from the fire department alone.
[00:19:07] Jeez.
[00:19:07] Um, you know, they're, they're severely hamstringed in, in all of this.
[00:19:12] And, and we can definitely, uh, go into that.
[00:19:15] And, you know, I can tell you firsthand what has happened over the past three days in, you know, in the city of Los Angeles.
[00:19:23] And the mayor coming out on TV and saying that, you know, her taking that 17 to $20 million already from the fire department has not affected services or anything is a bold-faced lie.
[00:19:35] Yeah.
[00:19:35] You know, that is absolutely 100% incorrect.
[00:19:39] Right.
[00:19:39] And.
[00:19:40] Right.
[00:19:40] We're seeing evidence of that.
[00:19:41] Yeah, definitely.
[00:19:43] You know, we're going to, we're going to come back.
[00:19:44] We have a quick break, but I, I want to say that every year we're coming up against this and it's more and more and more.
[00:19:50] And if you go back to the 1950s, we had like two, two major wildfires.
[00:19:55] You go to today and it's multiple, right?
[00:19:57] And lots of money streams going into California, lots of money, but it's not being evidenced in what they actually say they're doing with the money.
[00:20:06] And so let's talk about that.
[00:20:08] When we come back, we'll talk about kind of what's behind this.
[00:20:11] What you feel is behind this.
[00:20:12] When we come back, I'll be right back with John Knox.
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[00:23:40] I have John Knox with me and, uh, boots on the ground and he has been in the Palisades
[00:23:46] Malibu.
[00:23:47] And, uh, let's talk a little bit about land grabs, which I think are, might be at the heart
[00:23:54] of this.
[00:23:54] A lot of people also, um, know that they're turning everything into a smart city for the
[00:23:58] 2028 Olympics.
[00:24:00] So that's been on people's minds too.
[00:24:02] Um, and then of course you have the agendas, you have the money stream that's coming in
[00:24:07] since 2021.
[00:24:08] It sure went up with legislation that allowed, uh, California to grab millions of dollars
[00:24:14] in a steady stream, uh, for fires, but it doesn't look like anything is being helped
[00:24:20] with fires.
[00:24:20] It just looks like a lot of money's coming in.
[00:24:22] So John, I'd love to get your take on any of that and all of it actually.
[00:24:29] Well, um, yeah, there's a lot to unpack there.
[00:24:33] Um, you know, Los Angeles is on the, is on, is on the, uh, the list of C40 cities, you
[00:24:41] know, where, uh, they want 15 minute cities, no meat, no carbon footprints, so on and so
[00:24:47] forth.
[00:24:47] You know, the mayors have signed onto that.
[00:24:49] So that's a giant red flag.
[00:24:51] Um, you know, how they plan on laying that out, uh, I, I couldn't exactly tell you, but
[00:24:58] when you look at things like, you know, this, where you have Pacific Palisades and you have,
[00:25:07] I mean, it, it literally, to me, there's so many similarities between this and Lahaina,
[00:25:12] right?
[00:25:12] Lahaina, the mayor was out of town at the time.
[00:25:15] Uh, they had no water.
[00:25:17] They had an extreme wind event.
[00:25:19] Uh, the town burnt to the ground, uh, things that, you know, we've never seen before.
[00:25:24] Right.
[00:25:24] And no one can give an excuse.
[00:25:26] And then you have, you know, uh, again, the governor, Josh Green going and speaking, uh,
[00:25:32] to the UN, uh, regarding 15 minute cities just after that.
[00:25:36] And it's come out that they've laid the groundwork for sustainable rebuilding of Lahaina and so
[00:25:44] on and so forth.
[00:25:44] So, you know, you look at that and then you come back to this same thing.
[00:25:48] Mayors out of the town, um, you know, in another country at inauguration for someone she's
[00:25:54] never met in Ghana.
[00:25:56] Um, you've got dry hydrants.
[00:25:59] You have a massive wind driven event.
[00:26:02] Uh, you, you have literally the towns look identical.
[00:26:07] I mean, it's literally burnt to the ground.
[00:26:09] Um, and so in California, then to top that off, you have several months ago, you know,
[00:26:16] pretty much everyone's fire insurance was canceled because the insurance companies moved out.
[00:26:20] State Farm primarily was one of the majors.
[00:26:23] And, uh, you know, so now you have basically like COBRA insurance for your medical.
[00:26:27] You have the same thing.
[00:26:28] It's called the California Fair Plan.
[00:26:30] And good luck with the state of California taking up the bill on this.
[00:26:34] Right.
[00:26:35] Um, you know, so there's a lot of red flags and similarities in these, um, you know, and
[00:26:42] then just prior, I think the 21st of January, the city council of Pacific Palisades is supposed
[00:26:48] to have, uh, the last time you can, uh, do commenting on their sustainable redevelopment
[00:26:56] program or something like that, you know, that they were supposed to be entertaining.
[00:27:00] So there's a lot of really weird things.
[00:27:02] Um, can I pinpoint it?
[00:27:03] No.
[00:27:04] Um, but when you look at that, I mean, if people go through this process, you know, and
[00:27:10] us dealing with disaster management and what that looks like on the backend as well, you
[00:27:15] know, these people right now are losing their minds because they lost their home.
[00:27:19] Um, what's going to happen when they start stepping into the permitting process, trying
[00:27:24] to deal with the coastal commission, um, zoning regulations, pulling permits, they're going
[00:27:31] to absolutely lose their minds.
[00:27:35] And, and depending on what the regulations look like, which in California we know is one
[00:27:40] of the most heavily regulated areas in the country, um, it's, you won't see a stick of lumber
[00:27:49] on the ground for three years before any rebuilding starts.
[00:27:52] So, you know, what are these people supposed to do in this interim?
[00:27:57] I don't know.
[00:27:59] Um, to me, it's no different than what we saw in Helene, right?
[00:28:06] In, in Helene, you have that, uh, hurricane that moved right up through there.
[00:28:14] I mean, that should have never happened.
[00:28:15] Right.
[00:28:15] We've never seen anything like that.
[00:28:17] And it moves up into that valley and, you know, all of FEMA's flood, you know, flood
[00:28:25] plans and everything.
[00:28:26] And now those people are left homeless with nothing.
[00:28:28] A lot of them have no flood insurance because they're not in a flood zone.
[00:28:32] And now you've got, you know, FEMA and the government and these other organizations coming
[00:28:37] in, trying to buy this land up for pennies on the dollar.
[00:28:39] And it's like, what's the underlying cause for all this?
[00:28:43] You know, why, where, I don't know.
[00:28:47] Um, it's, it's a travesty and, you know, people really need to wake up and start looking
[00:28:54] outside of the box.
[00:28:55] I think.
[00:28:55] Did anything look strange to you as far as weather warfare?
[00:28:59] We have blowtorch guy.
[00:29:00] I'm not sure if that is real or not.
[00:29:03] Um, uh, because the footage looked a little strange, to tell you the truth, but of, of
[00:29:08] the citizens kind of cornering him could be true.
[00:29:10] But I just wondered how much arson you feel like could be in this or weather warfare of,
[00:29:16] of whatever kind, just like, you know, Lahaina.
[00:29:18] Um, you know, I don't, I didn't see anything on this blowtorch guy.
[00:29:23] I don't know anything about that, but I do know that, um, you know, we had the sunset fire
[00:29:28] and I, it is my understanding, uh, the last that I heard that they had someone that they
[00:29:35] were either had, uh, picked up or were looking at for arson in that case.
[00:29:40] Um, down on Pico Boulevard in Santa Monica, there's plenty of video footage of groups of
[00:29:47] individuals starting fires.
[00:29:49] Um, I saw that, you know, so, uh, I would, you can't rule out arson, you know, you have
[00:29:55] to do those investigations.
[00:29:57] Um, yeah.
[00:29:59] And, and see where that goes.
[00:30:01] Um, you know, the Los Angeles fire department does have an arson counterterrorism investigation
[00:30:05] section, um, you know, that I used to work at at one point in my career.
[00:30:09] And, and so, you know, they'll be in charge of looking at what the cause of this is and
[00:30:14] hopefully they will come, you know, to a conclusion and can find something out.
[00:30:18] Right.
[00:30:19] Right.
[00:30:19] I hope we, I mean, the reason I've been concentrating on this for a couple of days is that I'm hoping
[00:30:25] we're all learning for what happens in cities across America and the fallout, because we're
[00:30:32] looking at woke mayors, woke city council members, woke county commissioners in, in most every
[00:30:39] single county now around the country.
[00:30:41] They can pretend to be conservatives, but truly at their heart, it's, it's, it's, um,
[00:30:46] nonsensical weird things that they do just like LA and you have weird decisions being made.
[00:30:52] And so if something happens in your local city, the fallout, what can we, what can we learn?
[00:30:57] I mean, what there, there has to be, you know, you're like you said, there's this, there's this
[00:31:03] weird similarity going on, right.
[00:31:05] To, to strange weather with all the pieces suddenly kind of merging into a storyline that I mean,
[00:31:13] is a little crazy, but it's happening kind of like what happened with the water.
[00:31:17] And at the same time, the mayor is out of town and I mean, it's just all these crazy pieces.
[00:31:21] And so I'm sure that we're all on alert because we don't want it happening in our city.
[00:31:25] We don't want to be the next.
[00:31:27] Yeah.
[00:31:28] And, and definitely.
[00:31:29] I mean, so you, you, you look at your list of, you know, uh, agenda 2030 and 40 cities
[00:31:36] and look to see if your city is on there for starters.
[00:31:38] Yeah.
[00:31:39] That should give you, you know, cause, you know, for, for pause and reflection, but, you
[00:31:45] know, you talk about DEI, um, you know, LA city is, is 100% DEI, you know?
[00:31:51] Um, yes.
[00:31:52] And the Los Angeles city fire department, uh, uh, last, uh, last year, the year before,
[00:31:58] um, spent, uh, between $801.2 million in creating a DEI bureau.
[00:32:05] Oh my gosh.
[00:32:06] And, you know, so lesbians, you know, and that's great.
[00:32:13] You, you have your, your preference, whatever.
[00:32:16] I'm not here to bash that, but when we're taking our government officials and we're taking
[00:32:23] individuals and agencies and we're basing our hiring practices and policies around, uh,
[00:32:29] you know, the DEI policies.
[00:32:32] Then we're in trouble.
[00:32:33] We're in trouble.
[00:32:34] Be right back.
[00:32:35] More with John Knox.
[00:32:36] We come back.
[00:32:37] Be right back.
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[00:35:12] So we have more fires on a scale of one to 10, John, where are we at with fire containment?
[00:35:17] Um, or as far as like where we're at with the fires, cause a lot of people think Palisades
[00:35:22] has burnt down.
[00:35:23] Now it's over.
[00:35:24] What, what's your, what's your thought?
[00:35:26] Yeah, no, Palisades fire is only 8% containment right now.
[00:35:29] Um, and it's over 20,000 acres.
[00:35:32] So it has Santa Monica to the South, which is really, you know, they're managing so far
[00:35:38] to keep it away from there, but it's spotting and moving North up into the Malibu area.
[00:35:42] So, you know, it's, there's a lot of brush up there, a lot of homes in those canyons.
[00:35:47] And, and so, you know, we're not out of the woods and we're still supposed to next no rain
[00:35:51] coming up at another wind event next week.
[00:35:54] Um, you know, there's, there's another fire, the Kenneth fire, uh, you know, a thousand acres,
[00:36:01] 30% containment.
[00:36:02] We have the Hayes fire going or the Hearst fire.
[00:36:06] I'm sorry, which is right.
[00:36:07] You know, uh, thousand acres and 30% containment.
[00:36:11] We just have another one that just popped off within 35 minutes ago.
[00:36:14] Um, and then we have the Eaton fire, which is, you know, another, uh, 15,000 acres with,
[00:36:21] uh, I believe it's a 3% containment right now.
[00:36:24] So, you know, these fires are going bananas.
[00:36:27] Yeah, they are.
[00:36:27] So you alluded to some things in the budget that are really strange care to expand on that.
[00:36:34] Yeah.
[00:36:34] You know, I mean, you've got, uh, the mayor that, you know, took about $20 million out of
[00:36:40] the budget and she said, you know, on the news that it didn't cause any effects, um,
[00:36:46] to fire suppression or, or any issues with the fire department.
[00:36:50] And, but yet now she's asking for another $50 million cut as of January 6th.
[00:36:55] Um, you know, so I, if we just look at some facts and some stats, the day the fire broke
[00:37:01] out, um, there was almost 4,000, there was 3,759 one, one calls that day to the city of
[00:37:08] Los Angeles.
[00:37:09] All the resources, engine companies and stuff were deployed to the Palisades fire.
[00:37:14] And it only left approximately 12 engines to cover the entire city, which is 476 square
[00:37:21] miles and 4 million people.
[00:37:23] What was happening from what I've been told is that all the structure fires that were going
[00:37:30] out in the city, because we had multiple structure fires going as well as these, uh, you know,
[00:37:35] brush fires were only getting a single engine and a truck by themselves.
[00:37:39] Um, and that they were having to leave large commercial buildings and apartment buildings
[00:37:44] and let them burn because there was no resources to put on it.
[00:37:48] Our dispatch protocol was in the degraded mode, which is D3, which means they took almost 4,000
[00:37:55] calls.
[00:37:56] But during that time, if they have, uh, one, two, three, and four on the levels.
[00:38:01] And so if you were in any one of the first three levels, you would not get a response.
[00:38:07] No one was coming to help you.
[00:38:09] They would tell them that on the phone.
[00:38:13] So either if you were having a cardiac arrest or there was a fire, they would dispatch to
[00:38:18] that.
[00:38:19] But pretty much for everything else, the city was tapped out.
[00:38:22] Then when the mayor says that, you know, it's not affecting anything, we do hydrant testing
[00:38:28] every year in January.
[00:38:29] Well, this year, hydrant testing was suspended.
[00:38:32] Why?
[00:38:33] I don't know because it does.
[00:38:35] There's no extra cost for it.
[00:38:37] We do it while we're on duty.
[00:38:38] So that shouldn't be a budgetary issue.
[00:38:41] In addition to that, there's variable hours, which is, is a, like an overtime salary portion
[00:38:49] that was cut from the budget.
[00:38:51] And we have a brush clearance unit and that normally has 12 inspectors and they cover 180 to 200,000
[00:38:58] parcels of land that need to be inspected every year for brush abatement.
[00:39:03] And so they hired an additional 36 inspectors for that, none of which were hired this year.
[00:39:09] And that's being put on hold.
[00:39:11] Wow.
[00:39:11] And now just this morning, I got an internal memo from the fire department that that $50 million that the mayor is asking to cut out of that.
[00:39:22] The only way the fire chief says that she will be able to do that is to close 16 fire stations.
[00:39:28] Oh, my gosh.
[00:39:29] Shutter them.
[00:39:31] Wow.
[00:39:32] So the, and that money is being diverted to the homeless issues.
[00:39:37] Of course.
[00:39:38] So the mayor has declared, you know, a homeless state of emergency, which allows her tons of federal funding.
[00:39:47] But that federal funding comes in and I can tell you firsthand, the homeless problem has only gotten worse.
[00:39:53] We have had an explosion because it's a sanctuary city in homelessness.
[00:39:59] And, you know, you have all of these NGOs and nonprofits that are coming in that are supposed to be taking care of this problem.
[00:40:06] And to me, I don't see anything happening.
[00:40:10] Nobody does.
[00:40:11] Yet, you know, all of the funds from the critical infrastructure that, you know, taxpayers are paying for are being subverted to these homeless initiatives.
[00:40:21] And here we sit with the mayor on television, you know, saying that, hey, guess what?
[00:40:29] It's not affecting.
[00:40:30] These budget cuts aren't affecting what's happening.
[00:40:32] Oh, my gosh.
[00:40:33] Well, I beg to differ.
[00:40:35] And so do the firemen in the boots on the ground.
[00:40:37] You know, they're stressed.
[00:40:38] They're trying to do their jobs.
[00:40:41] And they can't do what they're expected to do because they don't have the resources.
[00:40:46] You know, when this all went down, they recalled.
[00:40:50] We have one shift.
[00:40:51] We have three different shifts, A, B, and C shifts.
[00:40:53] And normally there's one shift on a day for a 24-hour period.
[00:40:57] Well, when something like this happens, they'll do a recall and call back another shift.
[00:41:02] Well, they started to do that, but then they realized they don't have the apparatus to put these people on because our shops where our mechanics work, we don't have mechanics because of budget cuts.
[00:41:15] And so they're just stripping parts off of things to try and get them back out.
[00:41:20] But our shops are full of apparatus that are just sitting there.
[00:41:24] So, you know, they've cut hiring, fire academies.
[00:41:28] There's so many things that are happening that are putting the general public at risk, and it's all due to 100% mismanagement and incapable leadership.
[00:41:39] And somebody needs to start holding these people accountable.
[00:41:42] Oh, amen.
[00:41:43] Amen.
[00:41:44] I'm just trying to digest everything you just said in the last five minutes because there are so many moving parts to make this disaster much worse and horrific.
[00:41:56] And it's not over yet, and it continues on.
[00:42:00] And so I'll probably have you back on the show next week if you can because we're going to want an update on some of these things for sure.
[00:42:09] Thank you so much for joining me.
[00:42:11] I really appreciate it, John Knox.
[00:42:13] I really appreciate it.
[00:42:14] You're welcome.
[00:42:15] Thank you so much.
[00:42:16] And, of course, I'll be right back.
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